Your Majesty, please beg for mercy. The prince's rebellion was successful.

fine salt!

When the water in the pot was boiled dry and the bottom of the pot was covered with white crystals, Zhou Ping became excited.

Even Gong Tan and Su Xun'er couldn't care less about losing their composure, their eyes widened and their expressions were completely incredulous.

"Fortunately, it's not embarrassing."

Seeing the formed fine salt, Zhou Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"You give it a try."

Pretending to be calm, Zhou Zheng stared at Zhou Ping and ordered in a deep voice.

Judging from the quality, although the refined salt is still a bit rough, it is no worse than the salt eaten by ordinary noble families, and the color is even comparable to royal refined salt.

After all, although the quicklime, sulfur, alum, soybeans, plant ash, etc. that Zhou Zheng added at the end are relatively primitive, they can interact with each other when dissolved in water to form chemical reactions such as sodium chloride, calcium hydroxide, and calcium carbonate.

These things are enough to remove impurities and other toxic substances from the poisonous salt.

Of course, the most important thing right now is to try the fine salt to see if there is any problem.

However, Zhou Zheng is not willing to try this kind of thing that may contain hidden dangers, even if it is only 1%.

As for Gong Tan, she is Zhou Zheng's woman. The two of them have not yet had a wedding night, so naturally they cannot take risks.

Mu Yun is Zhou Zheng's teacher, Gu Jiang is the mainstay in governing Xiang County, Lei Tong, Gan Mo and others have to protect their own safety, so nothing can happen to these people.

After much selection, the most suitable candidate was Zhou Ping.

"Boss, can I change this to someone else?"

After hearing Zhou Zheng's words, the smile on Zhou Ping's face instantly faded, with a look of resistance.

He is a little naive, but he is not stupid!

After noticing Zhou Zheng's determined expression, Zhou Ping's heart sank to the bottom. It seemed that he could not escape.

Cursing a few times in my mind, I could only reluctantly dip a few crystals on the bottom of the pot with my fingers.

"Blessed by Bodhisattva, don't let anything go wrong."

"I still want to be filial to my father and loyal to my country..."

Praying secretly, Zhou Ping brought the fine salt crystals on his fingertips to his mouth.

Um! ?

It melts in your mouth, no bitterness or unpleasant taste, just a pure hint of saltiness.

"Boss, it's successful!"

"This is good salt, better than ordinary salt!"

Zhou Ping's eyes widened. The moment he entered, he knew that this was high-end product, no longer the poisonous salt from before!

Others were also very excited when they saw this. Seeing that Zhou Ping had no adverse reactions, they quickly tried it like Zhou Ping.

“It’s really pure fine salt!”

"Your Highness, you are amazing."

This is not a magic trick, it is simply a holy act that will benefit the people for thousands of years!

The problem that Zizai Dazhou went back thousands of years and puzzled countless people was actually easily solved by Zhou Zheng!

"Boss, this is a great achievement!"

"The virtues of all people are admired by the world!"

Zhou Ping forcibly recovered from the shock and surprise. After taking a deep breath, he knelt down directly towards Zhou Zheng.

This time, Zhou Ping was not trying to flatter him, but he admired Zhou Zheng from the bottom of his heart!

The others did the same and involuntarily knelt down towards Zhou Zheng.

Because Zhou Zheng deserves to kneel down like this!

Seeing everyone's posture, Zhou Zheng was also a little confused.

He quickly helped everyone up.

"They say that if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will be able to travel all over the world without fear."

"Now it seems that it is indeed the case."

With a pouty mouth, it was just a place where salt was made, but Zhou Zheng hadn't taken it into consideration yet.

Is this what it is called a favor for all things?

"I will go back and sort out this method of refining salt, so that we can produce salt in batches."

Everyone was happy when they heard that Zhou Zheng could produce salt in batches. In this way, the biggest problem that troubled Xiang County was solved.

"Please remember, this is a top secret!"

"If anyone dares to leak it out, don't blame me for not remembering the old relationship!"

Mu Yun looked serious, glanced at everyone present, and spoke in a deep voice.

Those present were all Zhou Zhengxin's friends, but even so, Mu Yun still wanted to emphasize it.

Because he knows the value of this salt very well!

Once the news is leaked, it will probably cause great uproar in the world, and countless people will try their best to get the method of refining salt from here.

Even the imperial court can't help but take action!

"Don't worry, Mr. Mu, if anyone dares to tell anyone, I, Zhou Ping, will definitely kill him even if I don't want to take this life!"

Zhou Ping rarely became serious.

This is a serious matter, who dares to relax! ?

"I have another idea."

Zhou Zheng frowned slightly and continued to speak.

"In the future, the government will be responsible for making and selling salt."

Nowadays, all the salt in the world is in the hands of wealthy gentry. They use the method of reselling to drive up the price of salt and hoard the goods. The people are miserable but there is nothing they can do.

If this continues, the country will be unstable.

Now that poisonous salt can be refined into fine salt, Zhou Zheng will naturally not give this piece of cake to those five major aristocratic families and salt merchants.

"Return the salt industry to the government?"

Hearing these words, everyone was even more shocked.

Since ancient times, although salt was valuable, the method of refining it was not controlled by the imperial court, and the channels for selling salt were also in the hands of salt merchants and gentry.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was preceded by the Great Han Dynasty, which was extremely determined to bring salt back to the court and even resorted to forceful use of troops, but in the end all failed.

The salt industry is violent, and various forces are intertwined. If the salt industry is taken back, it will inevitably cause unrest.

Today's Emperor Tianjing has also thought about taking back the salt, but he found that this problem involves many things and cannot be completed overnight.

In the end, you can only give up.

Everyone's words made Zhou Zheng frown slightly. Things related to people's livelihood can only be monopolized by the imperial court, otherwise there will be problems.

This is thousands of years of experience.

"Now the five major families in Xiang County have been eliminated, and the landlords and gentry have also been suppressed."

"Who else dares to jump out?!"

"If there are really people who are not afraid of death, I don't mind giving them a ride."

His eyes were like torches, flashing with cold light.

Zhou Zheng is not a kindhearted woman.

This Xiang County is his next foundation, and it is Zhou Zheng's trump card when he wants to conquer the world. He will definitely not allow those hidden threats to exist.

"Not only salt, but also grain and oil and other supplies will be coordinated by the Yamen in the future."

Zhou Zheng didn't give everyone a chance to think.

People's livelihood issues are fundamental issues.

No one can shake Zhou Zheng's determination!

"Then, Prince, how do you plan to price it?!"

Seeing that Zhou Zheng had made up his mind, Gu Jiang looked at Zhou Zheng again and asked in a deep voice.

This question made everyone focus on Zhou Zheng again.

Mastering the method of refining table salt and controlling the sales channels of table salt means that Zhou Zheng now fully has the pricing power of table salt.

Not to mention that the price is the same as before, even if it is a little cheaper, it is an absolute huge profit for them!

"Master Gu, we will calculate the cost price when the time comes."

"The price of salt can be increased by one-tenth of the cost price."

After thinking for a while, Zhou Zheng spoke.

what! ?

This time, not only Gu Jiang, but everyone present had their eyes widened with disbelief on their faces.

"Everyone, Xiangjun still has many places to spend money. This is also a temporary measure for me."

"When everything in Xiang County is running in an orderly manner, I will lower the price."

After coughing, Zhou Zheng thought that everyone thought the price was too high, so he quickly explained.

"Prince, you are Xiangjun's reborn parents!"

At this moment, Gu Jiang could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart. He knelt in front of Zhou Zheng and kept kowtowing!

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