Chapter 182 Salt Mine Competition: Can you identify salt?
The woman was short and had a cold expression on her face.
acquaintance!
The female thief who broke into her room at the Caowa Town Inn!
But now she only has one left arm, and her right arm is gone.
Xie Yanyan's gaze did not linger on her for long. She and Qingshan were both Brother Chu's men. Now she had met all four personal guards of "Shanhe Jinxiu".
They all went to Princess Xiyue's competition stage and Hanlong Trading Company's competition stage.
Hanlong Company belongs to Chu Xiwang, and those who steal from her again and again are all Chu Xiwang's people.
In other words, Chu Xiwang had been looking for something on her side.
What could she have worth searching for?
It's that treasure map.
At Tuguyi Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, the man in black who was being hunted slipped her a parchment scroll while it was still dark, which contained half of a treasure map with "Green Poplars and White Sand Dike in the East of the Lake" written on it.
So the man in black who escaped was also Chu Xiwang's man.
She looked behind these people and found that Chu Xiwang did not appear with them.
Princess Xiyue could have gone directly to stage five, but she made a special trip to Xie Yanyan's stage.
Xu Wenrong immediately stood up and stood in front of her.
"Tsk, so scared? Are you afraid that I will kill her?" McDull laughed, "Xie Yanyan, Boluo County, that's my sister-in-law's hometown. We have a long way to go."
"Princess Xiyue, Prince Mai's father-in-law and uncle are both dead!"
"It's all because of you, a jinx!"
"How ridiculous! Prince Mai's father-in-law died. Was it some random person who killed him? And your sister-in-law is gone too. Who killed her? You?"
"You..." McDull was about to attack, but suddenly he smiled, "You want to irritate me? I won't argue with you. I'll teach you how high the sky is and how deep the earth is."
"Then I'll wait and see."
Qingshan didn't come over. He was standing in front of the Hanlong Trading Company's competition stage, with his head down and his brows frowned.
McDull walked back and wanted to say something, but he shut up.
The judges came on stage one after another. In order to ensure fairness, in addition to the Salt Gang Leader Song, the City Lord of Chencheng, the Salt Industry Chairman Ji, the Salt Industry Chairman Qiu, the owners of the four major salt fields, there were six official personnel.
However, these six officials came from different courts.
The one in the middle is Prince Chu Yan of Western Chen State, next to him are Cui Gao, the Inspector of Salt of Former Qin State, and Zhang Kaige, the Salt Transport Commissioner. The other two are Satrado, the Salt Official of the Jiduo Dynasty, and the Salt Commissioner of Dali State.
The judges arrived and a gong sounded, signaling the start of the competition.
Five large baskets were filled with mineral salt dug out from the Yuheng Salt Mine. Unlike last time, this time it was a completely primary salt mine.
Therefore, the processing will be more complicated and time-consuming.
In order to be fair, five salt baskets that looked exactly the same were randomly selected from the crowd watching the fun and asked to move the salt baskets at will.
In the end, no one knew which basket was originally in which position.
Randomly insert five small flags in red, yellow, blue, green and purple on the five frames.
The five groups draw lots, and whichever basket they draw gets the prize.
After each group drew lots, Chairman Qiu said, "Originally, everyone only refined the salt mines, and the winner was the one who had the highest salt yield and the most refined salt production. Lord Duan from Dali suggested that a good salt production expert should know salt, and we agree with that."
"So today's competition has added a new part, which is salt identification. The contestants report the composition of the salt mine by looking, smelling, tasting and touching it, and different points are added according to the accuracy of the report."
The competition consists of three parts: 1. Salt identification 2. Salt output 3. Fineness.
In the first round, you will identify salt, observe the composition of salt mines, and predict the salt yield.
Xie Yanyan did nothing, but sat there expressionless, as if in a daze.
McDull was very proud.
Reporting the composition, this was proposed by her after she bribed Mr. Duan, the Salt Administration Commissioner of Dali State.
Xie Yanyan knows how to refine salt, but she has no practical experience and her understanding of salt mines is far less than that of McDull.
If she beat Xie Yanyan in the salt identification segment, then if they tied in the refined salt segment, she would definitely win.
Knowing salt is the strong point of the Prince of Nanzhong.
And, they’ve cheated.
The brother and sister joined forces, and the Nanzhong Palace and Hanlong Trading Company reached a consensus that the two companies jointly own the Yuheng Salt Mine.
As long as it’s not Xie Yanyan who wins, as long as it’s not the King of the South China Sea who wins, McDull doesn’t care who wins. She can’t swallow her anger. She can’t let Xie Yanyan win, and she can’t let the King of the South China Sea team win.
Although McDull and the Prince of Nanzhong were on two different competition stages, the siblings agreed to cheat with special gestures.
The Prince of Nanzhong had already sent people to get the salt from the Yuheng Salt Mine and conducted multi-angle analysis in the mansion.
The two of them had already come up with a numerical value for the salt content after actual refining operations.
As for the ingredients, they also have a reference data, such as what the impurities are and what their proportion is.
Neither Dongguan Commandery nor Houwu Kingdom took any action. Except for the Prince of Nanzhong and Princess Xiyue, the other contestants were unaware of the temporary event of reporting composition.
Even Chu Xiwang didn't know.
The first part involves looking, smelling, tasting and touching. President Qiu and other judges have discussed and given everyone half an hour.
McDull and the Prince of Nanzhong also pretended to look, smell, taste and touch, and soon their eyes smiled and they held up signs to indicate that they had confirmed.
Xie Yanyan just sat there in a daze.
Several other contestants had no time to evaluate. They weighed half a pound of mineral salt, dissolved it in water, and were analyzing the composition based on impurities.
"Dang~"
The thinking and discussion time is over and the judges ask each participant to report the results.
In order to prevent those who answer first from suffering a disadvantage, the judges asked them to write down the answers on paper.
The paper is white writing paper provided by Hanlong Trading Company.
The four treasures of the study were brought up, and McDull glanced at Xie Yanyan, watching her pondering with the pen, and his heart was filled with joy.
McDull wrote the character without hesitation.
The Prince of Nanzhong was also calm and composed.
Xie Yanyan thought for a while and asked Xu Wenrong: "Cousin, do you know about barite?"
Xu Wenrong asked in surprise: "What do you mean?"
He didn't say it, fearing that the wall might have ears. Is my sister saying that these mineral salts contain barite?
Xie Yanyan nodded.
"I know. It will be very bright when lit, and the gas it emits is poisonous," said Xu Wenrong.
Xie Yanyan was relieved. It was enough for people nowadays to understand what barite was.
She was not in a daze just now, but was handing the mineral salt to Xiaomei, waiting for the analysis results of its composition.
[The barium content in the salt mine sample exceeded the standard by 5 times]
Barium, under the eye is called barite.
[This specimen contains impurities such as barium, chloride, magnesium, lead, arsenic, zinc, and sulfate]
[Excessive fluoride content may cause poisoning to consumers]
Xie Yanyan remained silent, just listening to Xiaomei's analysis, thinking about how to tell the judges in a language they could understand.
Chemical composition and the like are terms that were only coined after 1500, and people today simply don’t understand them.
After checking the information for a while, I found out that barium under the eye is called barite and fluorine under the eye is called fluorite.
As for chloride, magnesium, lead, arsenic, zinc, and sulfate, she didn't intend to talk about it because no one would understand even if she did.
Having the two biggest pieces of evidence is enough to win.
She doesn't want to be a professor, just winning the competition is enough.
Her motionlessness made McDull ecstatic. Could she be salty? Was she dumbfounded?
He looked at her provocatively and said with a smile: "Master Xie is good at making salt, so it must be easy for you to know salt."
Prince Mai also smiled and said, "Sister, you worry too much. It's just a small matter, it's not difficult for Master Xie to handle it. God of Salt, he is the Salt Saint in the world!"
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