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The changes on Liuqiu Island soon spread to the mouths of those maritime merchants who started to make money.

For those who eat by the sea, the saying that gods are coming on the island is far less than the four large ports standing on the reefs, which are nearly two hundred meters high, and are more important to the lighthouses that point out the direction for ships sailing on the sea at night.

Especially Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, and Chaozhou, four sea-facing cities. Because of the two lighthouses erected on the port on the west and north of Liuqiu Island, someone soon broke the custom of not going out to sea at night because they are prone to lose their direction.

It’s okay for those fishermen to arrive, but they can only fish in the offshore areas with the lights that can be seen far away from the lighthouse. But for those maritime merchants who see that the port of Liuqiu Island can bring huge benefits to themselves, this is the guiding light for making a lot of money.

What's more, the four ports on Liuqiu Island are still responsible for receiving the maritime merchants who entered the port overnight at night. Moreover, the street lights emitting bright lights illuminate the port like daytime.

It is precisely because of this that with more and more maritime merchants running night boats, first, the two ports on Liuqiu Island, the west and north, there were also maritime merchants entering the port for trading at night, and then the two ports on the east and south became lively.

More and more maritime merchants began to flock to the four ports of Liuqiu Island regardless of day or night, with a large number of slaves, craftsmen and various resources and commodities gathering. Soon, these four ports became four large trading markets.

As for the official materials of Liuqiu Island, that is, the Port Authority can take out, except for a small part of them from the main time and space, most of them come from resource points spread throughout the continents and regions on the time and space earth of the Tang Dynasty.

What surprised Li Anran was that among all the goods sold on the island, sea salt is the best seller. Almost every day, you can see many sea merchants bringing the goods purchased by the Port Authority and then exchange them for ships of sea salt.

At first, Li Anran felt that everyone was afraid that they could not buy salt by relying on the sea. But later, he suddenly realized that he had made an empiricist mistake. Although this ocean does have inexhaustible salt, it must be able to process it.

The manufacturing process of sea salt in ancient times was quite simple. Generally, fishing fish that relied on the sea were boiled in a large pot to make salt. This method was not only extremely efficient, but also the produced sea salt would be of poor quality due to impurities in the sea water.

But for Anran Li, the work of making salt is quite simple. The sea salt manufacturing equipment that integrates a series of functions such as extraction, filtration, and distillation. As long as there is enough energy, it can produce sea salt continuously for 24 hours.

However, after discovering that the sales of sea salt were quite amazing, and those sea salt manufacturing machines that were originally intended to be used were gradually inadequate. Li Anran had to send someone to find a suitable area and opened up several large salt fields.

Naturally, this kind of salt field cannot use any high-tech technology. It just takes advantage of the daily high tide to automatically pour sea water into the salt field divided into squares, and then through the improved process, sea salt can be mass-produced.

Although the quality of this kind of sea salt is definitely not comparable to that of sea salt produced using high-tech equipment, for those marine merchants, the price of top-quality sea salt is the price of top-quality sea salt, and ordinary sea salt is the price of ordinary sea salt.

What's more, after the Yantian process was improved, the mass-produced sea salt was enough to instantly defeat similar products from the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the price was at least 20% lower than the market price, which was strange that it was not popular with those maritime merchants.

Although the large salt field opened in the bay is not considered high-tech technology, the sea salt that can be produced every day is not only very large in quantity, but also the quality has been improved due to process improvements.

In addition to sea salt, Li Anran was speechless. Originally, it was just to prevent the seafood salvaged from the sea from being damaged by endless food. Therefore, the salted fish and bacon that were pickled into salty products have become "short-term" products.

After investigating it, Li Anran realized that the key reason why these salty goods are so easy to sell is the word salty.

You should know that in ancient times, although the salt industry could not be completely controlled by the government, it was not something that ordinary people could contact at will. As a human being, it doesn’t matter if you don’t eat sugar, but if you don’t eat salt, you can easily get sick or even die.

Due to the backwardness of ancient salt making technology and the troubles in transportation, the price of salt is not expensive but not cheap. If the year is bad or natural disasters, the price of salt will soar a lot.

In addition to being rich in salt, these salted fish are also meat-eating, and the combination of the two is different. In addition, direct sales of sea salt not only requires corresponding qualifications, but also requires clearing the relationship. This salty product has become a "edge ball".

As for the question of why ordinary people in the mainland do not pickle salted fish, bacon, and salt chicken by themselves, it is actually very simple, because the mainland does not produce salt and the salt price is relatively high. If you do this, the cost is too high, and the price is not competitive when sold, so it is not cost-effective at all.

After Li Anran's inquiries, he found out through the reports from the following people that the popularity of this salty business is also a coincidence. At the beginning, no one saw the business opportunities for these salty fish and bacon that tasted "weird".

It was just that the storage time of these things was longer than most food, so some maritime merchants bought some and threw them on the boat as food for boatmen. Later, they were accidentally taken back to their homes by several boatmen.

Although this salted fish does smell a bit strange, especially salted fish, because the fishy smell is too heavy, it will give people a stinky feeling. But for most people who can only barely eat their stomachs, this is not a problem at all.

What's more, although the salted fish smells smelly, it's not bad as long as it can be processed and cooked. In addition, the rich and salty flavor you can get without adding salt, it became popular in the village where the boatmen were.

After several boatmen took the salted goods one after another, a maritime merchant saw the business opportunities inside. In addition, the price of these salted fish was very cheap because of their unique environmental advantages, so they tried to purchase a batch from the port and brought it back to Datang.

Because salty goods are not salt after all, they save the cost of obtaining sales qualifications and managing all aspects. In addition, the purchase price is low and it is a test of the waters. The price of this batch of salted fish will naturally not be high, and it will become popular if you accidentally.

Although it is rare for those ordinary people at the bottom of society to read and write, it does not prevent these people from having their own wisdom. When they found that they only need to put a few pieces of salted fish into ordinary vegetarian dishes, they can enhance freshness and taste and use it as a meat and improve food. The most important thing is that the price is not expensive, so there are naturally more people who buy it.

As the saying goes, there is a market if there is demand.

After the first test of the waters was a success, the maritime merchant naturally would not miss such a good opportunity to make money. So a large amount of salty goods began to flow into the mainland through the docks and ports of four sea-line cities, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou.

No matter in any era, there may not be many people with vision, but there is never a shortage of followers.

As the salted goods business became more and more popular, other maritime merchants naturally followed suit, and as a result, the salted fish on Liuqiu Island actually became in short supply.

As for whether there will be any problems with so many salted fish flowing into the mainland, although there are many sales of salted goods on the island, compared with the huge market within the Tang Dynasty, it is just a "drizzle" at all.

Seeing that the business of this salty product was so popular, after seeing the application that Su Xiaomei had specially found for the people below to increase the production of salty products, Li Anran waved his pen to approve it, and also pushed the matter again because the foodie attributes suddenly exploded.
Chapter completed!