Lord of the Oasis Chapter 117: .Completion of special tasks

Kant also affirmed his solemn appearance.

Whether 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 Naron 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 Stone Pass can grow from an ordinary cavalryman from a foreign country to a baron of the Principality of Lions in just 20 years.

But Kant doesn't care.

He dared to unite with Baron Dylan, as if he was seeking skin with 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, Kant can survive in the early stage when the Sentinel Oasis is still weak, and eventually grow into enough self-protection power, the role of this shield is completed.

And at that time, even if Baron Dylan doesn't 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 Consulate and started to prepare for the work of boiling salt tonight.

Kant fully delegated authority.

The technique of boiling salt is not difficult. The Sarandians have taught Manid to them. They recruited a few strong peasants and peasant women. .

Farmers and peasant women are busy.

Coarse salt in sacks is stacked at the door.

The scale of nearly forty sacks is 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 up and stuffed with firewood and charcoal. They were drenched in grease and lit. The black smoke was emitted from the chimneys on the roof to the outside. It was cloudless. There was no wind for thousands of miles, and black smoke shot straight into the sky. It was quite conspicuous in this desert, and could be seen clearly after half a day's journey.

It's like a wolf smoke for warning, or a signal to mark the location of the sentry oasis.

There are gains and losses.

Large-scale boiling of salt or sugar, because the black smoke produced by the use of large amounts 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.

It will also let malicious people know the exact location of the Sentinel Oasis.

But it doesn't matter.

Anyone who wants to find the Sentinel Oasis is not a problem.

In the Principality of the Lion, there is still a map from the Stone Pass to the Sentinel Oasis. Otherwise, Kant wouldn't have dared to go deep into the Nalen Desert without preparation.

And the expeditions of Greymane Kingdom.

Maybe 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 and the sun, as well as many geographic details that ordinary people don't care about.

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

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

The boiling of 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. A draught horse and three carriages will return fully loaded with these supplies, easing the pressure on the sentry oasis and forming a virtuous circle brought about by trade exchanges.

In the sugar workshop, the speed of boiling salt is also increasing.

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

The firewood licks the bottom of the pot.

The salt water begins to bubble and boil, but a very ugly grey froth emerges from the boil.

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

The peasant women will handle this.

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

Charcoal has been neatly arranged inside.

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, whether it is the former soil or sand, or heavy metal residues, it is impossible to The impurities absorbed by the human body will naturally have the same result as those floating foam after sinking to the bottom, and will be poured into another wooden barrel waiting to be dumped later.

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

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

Salt is mostly consumed by nobles.

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

As for the peasants in the countryside, serfs without personal freedom are not among the consumers of salt.

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 the common people can eat will definitely become huge profits sweeping the whole 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 making profits by volume.

Kant will not take such a trade plan.

Or rather...

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

Although Kant controls the source of salt production.

But he is not a monopoly of salt production. The distant dwarven 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 will not let others intervene at all. This is why Kant will give most of the profits to Baron Dylan. .

Attract the firepower of these former vested interests and buy yourself time.

And completely break the rules of the salt industry.

Let salt become a condiment for both rural peasants and serfs alike, and it would completely detonate conflict.

No more business competition.

It is a complete subversion, and even seriousness, that will cause a huge reaction in the entire lion principality.

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

This is a social system with extremely rigid classes.

This is a hierarchy where blood is everything.

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

The consequences are not something he can afford now.

Here are his concerns.

But Kant naturally didn't want to subvert all of this, because the fine white salt of the first class, a cherished luxury item that only appeared in aristocratic banquets, was sold at a huge profit, which allowed him to quickly accumulate power.

Even giving Baron Dylan the majority of the profits, it still pays off handsomely!

Because he mastered the salt mines.

As it is 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 the crystalline white salt begins to precipitate, which adheres to the bottom of the pot and is as white as snow , looks wonderful.

The peasant women immediately hung the salt with wooden shovels and packed it 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.

Close to half the loss.

But thanks to the price difference, even if more than half of it is lost, 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 begins to pick up and the movements become more adept.

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 is relieved.

Now he has other important matters to deal with.

Fatis has returned with the team.

Behind the 50 Swadian heavy cavalry, there are hundreds of disgraced and bloodstained 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.

Urgent notification.

As long as Jocelyn completes the inspection and officially acquires the hundreds of Gnoll captives and makes 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 taken into Kant's arms.

Kant can't wait to think about the spree that he can get in the lottery.

"Lord Kant~IndoMTL.com~Fatis and Jocelyn entered the Consulate and saluted Kant respectfully.

"Well, well done."

Kant nods at Fatis with a smile on his face.

But he turned to look at the caravan leader, Jocelyn, and said directly: "Have you checked, I think these prisoners, plus the previous number, should be up to 500?"

"Yes, Lord Kant."

Jocelyn nodded and reported: "There are 103 prisoners this time, 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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