Lord of the Oasis

Kant also affirmed his solemn appearance.

Whether or not we can use the boiled fine white salt to open the market of the Principality of Lions depends on the first transaction between Manid and Baron Dylan. As long as it is successful, the future will be smooth.

This solid stone pass connecting the Principality of Lions and the Narun Desert will become a shield for the sentry oasis.

Naturally, Kant would not believe that this shield is permanent and secure.

On the contrary, if he shows signs of weakness, this shield will not hesitate to fight back.

Baron Dylan of the Stone Pass can grow from an ordinary cavalry from a foreign country to a baron of the Principality of Lions in just 20 years. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on military exploits without brains.

But Kant doesn't care.

He dared to unite with Baron Dylan, as if seeking skin from a tiger, he had his own confidence.

As long as it can help him block most of the attention and malice in the early stage, and can let Kant survive in the early stage of the Sentinel Oasis, which is still weak, and eventually grow into enough self-protection power, the role of this shield is completed.

At that time, even if Baron Dylan does not want to continue to be a shield, the decision is not in his hands.

There are currently no urgent matters pending.

Manid got up, walked out of the Consular Hall and started to prepare for the work of boiling salt tonight.

Kant is completely delegating.

The technique of boiling salt is not difficult. The Sarandians have taught Manid that they have recruited a few strong peasants and peasant women, and the sugar factory close to the city wall has been temporarily used as a salt factory.

Farmers and peasant women are busy.

Coarse salt in sacks was piled up by the door.

The scale of nearly forty sacks was built into a half-meter-high wall, occupying a small half of the street.

There are also things like charcoal, firewood, and grease for the fire, all ready.

The two stoves in the sugar workshop were also cleaned and stuffed with firewood and charcoal. They were drenched in grease and ignited. The black smoke was expelled outside along the chimneys on the roof. There were no clouds and no wind. , a black smoke shot straight into the sky, which is quite conspicuous in this Nalen desert, and can be seen clearly after half a day's journey.

Just like the wolf smoke used for warning, or the signal marking the location of the sentry oasis.

There are gains and losses.

Large-scale boiling of salt or sugar, because the black smoke produced by using a lot of charcoal and firewood is thick and long, which is equivalent to telling anyone that this is the sentry oasis for sugar and salt production.

At the same time, it will also let malicious people know the specific location of the sentry oasis.

But it doesn't matter.

Anyone who wants to find the sentry oasis is not a problem.

In the male lion dukedom, there is still a map from the Stone Pass to the Sentinel Oasis. Otherwise, Kant would not have dared to go deep into the Nalen Desert without preparation.

And the expedition of Greymane Kingdom.

Perhaps by catching a few low-level gnolls in the Naron Desert, you can find these real natives to lead the way.

Although there is no GPS in this world, the experienced leaders in the army can still find the right way through the stars, the sun, and many geographic details that ordinary people don't care about.

Kant is one of the beginners, and he naturally understands the reasoning.

Compared with the rewards and benefits of boiling salt, these are small issues that can be ignored.

Boil the salt continues.

If it weren't for the limitations of charcoal and firewood, Kant would even increase the scale of boiling salt.

But in the early morning of tomorrow, the boiled fine white salt will enter the stone pass. On the return journey, through the relationship of Baron Dylan, he will buy a large amount of grain, charcoal and iron tools, and the six draught horses that Kant had prepared when he came. Together with the three carriages, they will return fully loaded with these materials, relieve the pressure on the sentry oasis, and form a virtuous circle brought about by trade exchanges.

In the sugar workshop, the speed of boiling salt has also accelerated.

Bags of coarse salt are poured into the iron pot, and then poured into spring water, which quickly dissolves into brine as the temperature rises.

Firewood licks the bottom of the pot.

The salt water was bubbling and boiling, but a very ugly gray foam appeared in the boiling.

These are impurities in coarse salt, and various other substances left behind when the saline-alkali land naturally dries up. They are also the main reasons for these coarse salts to be too bitter to swallow, and even poisonous to cause diarrhea.

The peasant women will deal with this.

Carefully use a spoon to scoop off the floating foam, and when the brine is slightly clear, pour it into a wooden bucket.

Inside has been neatly arranged charcoal.

The salt water with extremely high salt content is poured into it, leaving only the last bit of bottom, which is all gray and sticky to the touch. It is not the former soil or sand, or heavy metal residues, which cannot be absorbed by the human body. The impurities, which are naturally the same as those floating foam after sinking to the bottom, are poured into other wooden barrels to be poured out later.

Then brush clean the wok and continue to repeat the above steps.

In fact, the brine produced by these steps can be eaten after being boiled. Although the taste is still slightly bitter, ordinary people will never care.

Most of the things like salt are consumed by the nobles.

And again, in the cities, wealthy citizens with decent jobs will reluctantly consume and eat them on certain festivals.

As for the rural peasants, serfs without personal freedom are not among the salt consumers.

If Kant is willing to sell these slightly bitter, but absolutely cheap salts, they will definitely be welcomed by the vast majority of people, because these salts that even rural commoners can eat will definitely become huge profits sweeping the entire country.

Although the price is low, the quantity is large.

Just like the salt industry in an ancient country was arbitrary, monopolizing the price, allowing ordinary people to eat salt and at the same time making profits with volume.

Kant will not take such a trade plan.

Or…

Why did he turn expensive salt, a luxury that only aristocrats could eat, and a precious commodity comparable to spices, into a popular condiment that even ordinary people could afford and eat?

Of course Kant mastered the source of salt production.

But he is not a monopoly place for salt production. The distant dwarf kingdom also produces salt.

The Principality of Lions already has businessmen who use this as a means of making a fortune. This is their fundamental interest, and they will not let others interfere at all. This is why Kant will give most of the profits to Baron Dylan.

Grab the firepower of these once vested interests and buy yourself time.

And completely broke the rules of the salt industry.

Turning salt into a condiment for rural farmers and serfs alike would detonate conflict.

It is no longer a business competition.

But a complete subversion, even seriousness, will cause a huge reaction in the entire lion Principality.

Those high-ranking nobles are absolutely not allowed, and humble peasants are qualified to eat the same salt as themselves, even if it looks similar, but actually tastes bitter, it is absolutely not acceptable.

This is an extremely rigid social system.

This is the idea of ​​hierarchy where blood is everything.

If Kant really subverts all this, even if only one of the symbolic foundations is moved.

The consequences are not something he can bear now.

This is his concern.

But Kant naturally didn't want to subvert all of this, because the fine white salt of the first class was only a cherished luxury item that appeared in noble banquets.

Even if most of the profits are distributed to Baron Dylan, it can still bring huge returns!

Because he mastered the salt mine.

Just like now.

After the impurities have been filtered out by the charcoal, the remaining brine is poured into another iron pot.

As the firewood burns and licks the bottom of the pot, the water evaporates rapidly, and the salt solution that remains becomes thicker and thicker, until finally crystalline white salt begins to precipitate, which adheres to the bottom of the pot, and looks white like snow. Incredibly wonderful.

The peasant women immediately hung the salt with wooden shovels and put them in specially prepared sacks.

However, the amount of finished white salt is much less.

Often a bag of coarse salt is dissolved and filtered, and then white salt is precipitated, and only half of the bag is left in the end.

nearly half of the loss.

But thanks to the fundamentally different prices, even if the loss is more than half, the price of the remaining half bag of white salt is enough to top the current 40 bags of coarse salt, which is hundreds of times the huge profit!

The appearance of the first finished product inspired these peasant women and farmers.

The speed began to increase, and the movements became more and more skilled.

Looking at their excited and enthusiastic appearance, the next morning, these 40 bags of coarse salt can definitely be boiled successfully, turning them into fine white salt that is expensive but loved by nobles.

With Manid's supervision, the efficiency cannot be lowered.

Kant was relieved.

Now he has to deal with other important things.

Fatis has led the team back.

Behind the 50 Swadian heavy cavalry, there are hundreds of disgraced and bloodied Gnoll captives following them. You can tell by the look of fear that they have experienced the horror of heavy cavalry.

Without hesitation, Kant asked Fatis and the caravan leader Jocelyn to quickly reach the Consulate.

emegency notice.

As long as Jocelyn completed the inspection and officially acquired the hundreds of Gnoll captives and made up the number of 500, then the special mission from the Kingdom of Vikya will be announced as complete.

And the 5 points of honor will also be officially brought into Kant's arms.

Thinking of the spree that can be obtained by lottery, Kant can't wait.

"Lord Kant."

Fatis and Jocelyn walked into the consulate and saluted Kant respectfully.

"Well, well done."

Kant nodded to Fatis with a smile on his face.

However, he turned his head to look at the caravan leader Jocelyn, and said directly: "Have you checked it, I think these prisoners, plus the previous number, should be able to reach 500 people?"

"Yes, Lord Kant."

Jocelyn nodded and reported: "There are 103 prisoners this time, which is equivalent to 3,090 dinars." After a pause, he continued: "The total number of people is 572, which fully meets the requirements."

"That's good." Kant chuckled.

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