Chapter 184: Winning the First Round
Soon, the judges announced the results of the salt identification competition.
"After our joint discussion and evaluation, the winner of the Yuheng Salt Mine's salt identification competition is the Nanhai Palace, followed by the Nanzhong Palace, the Hanlong Company ranked third, the Dongguan County ranked fourth, and the Houwu Kingdom ranked last."
When Chairman Qiu announced the results of the competition, McDull was very angry and was the first to raise objections.
"Dear judges, this princess has been walking around the salt fields since she was young and is familiar with salt mines and salt making. As far as this princess knows, the Nanhai Palace has no salt mines and no experience in salt making. And the Master Xie they invited has no experience in salt field making. This princess has doubts about her answer on identifying salt."
After hearing what she said, the other families all looked eager to see what answer the Nanhai Palace would submit.
Chairman Qiu was not angry, and said cheerfully: "Since everyone has doubts, we will publish all the answers from each school, and you can read them."
President Qiu was afraid that the only answer would be spoiled, so he asked everyone to make a copy and post it on the shadow wall of the Salt Temple.
Not only the parties involved in the competition, but even ordinary people can watch it at will.
Whoosh, a large group of people squeezed over.
It is said that ordinary people can watch it, but in fact, those who watch it are all salt merchants, salt fields, and salt gangs. Ordinary people are not interested in the composition of the game, they would rather know the result of the game.
McDull and Prince Mai both squeezed over to see Xie Yanyan's answer.
"How could someone be more detailed than me?" Mai Shizi was shocked. "She can see through barite and fluorite? She can see through something that is several times more detailed?"
"Contains two types of alkaline earth metals that are sufficient to strengthen bones and calm the nerves?"
"She's just making it up, isn't she?"
The brother and sister were discussing this, and the other parties in the competition were also confused.
The brother and sister could also think of the toxic substances, because they had been making salt for thousands of years and they had data to follow. However, Xie Yanyan said there were four types. How did she know that?
I don't agree, definitely not!
Qingshan also watched. When he saw Xie Yanyan's data and then looked at McDull's data, he said nothing.
This is not an order of magnitude and there is no comparison.
"This princess has doubts about the answer provided by the Nanhai Palace, which states that the salt mine contains barite, and the amount is five times higher. How could there be barite and fluorite in such a good salt mine? How did they determine that the content is five times higher than the normal tolerance of the human body?"
Chairman Qiu, Chairman Ji, Gang Leader Song and others actually also had doubts.
They don't know exactly what ingredients are contained in the salt mines, and they generally classify any ingredients that are not salty as "impurities."
In salt production, most impurities can be removed through "water washing".
After dissolution and evaporation, the white particles left behind are the salt on the table.
The purity of salt mostly depends on nature. If the brine in the salt well is of high purity, then the purity of the salt will be high, and most of it will end up on the tables of dignitaries.
If there are too many impurities and water cannot dissolve them, it can only be low-grade salt and end up on people’s tables.
"Since everyone disagrees with this answer, could Nanhai Palace please explain it?"
Chairman Qiu thought more carefully, "Each family has its own secret method of making salt. The Nanhai Palace only needs to mention it briefly and make it consistent."
Xie Yanyan responded with an "OK" and threw the leftover box into the trash can.
Zhou Xiaocheng didn't say anything, just stared at the box she threw away.
[This child is capable, but he doesn’t know how to live.]
Xie Yanyan:?
How come she doesn't know how to live?
After leaving the rest area, Xu Wenrong took down an iron can the size of a pottery jar from the carriage, with a long iron spout in front.
In full view of everyone, the tin can was carried to the venue.
Xie Yanyan said to President Qiu and other judges: "I have two ways to prove that the Yuheng Salt Mine contains excessive amounts of barite."
President Qiu said kindly: "You start!"
The King of Nanhai came over and said to the guards around him in a dignified manner: "Help Miss Xie drive all the people away, as far away as possible."
His personal guards came over and kept the man a few meters away, so that the judges, the other five families, and the people around could see him clearly.
"Please help me pick up a piece of salt at random and weigh it."
After she finished speaking, Zhou Tu randomly took mineral salt from the basket, weighed it on a small scale, added some more, and weighed it high.
"Everyone, please look, this is 2 kilograms of mineral salt."
Zhou Tu motioned for everyone to look, and there were also enthusiastic spectators around who came over to take a look and loudly confirmed that "it is 2 jin."
Xie Yanyan asked Zhou Tu to smash the mineral salt and place it on the stone slab in the middle.
"Barite burns with an intense green flame and produces a white powder," she told the judges.
The judges had never seen such a situation before, so they all came over from their seats to take a closer look.
[Stones can burn, but that requires very high temperatures, similar to an iron smelting furnace]
[It is impossible to cook salt in a stove]
McDull didn't know what Xie Yanyan was planning, she just watched at her leisure.
Xie Yanyan turned on the flamethrower, and with a "whoosh", the mineral salt blocks on the ground were instantly ignited. With "sizzling" and "crackling", bright green flames could be seen.
The combustion was complete and a layer of white powder fell on the stone slab.
Xie Yanyan pointed to the fine white powder and said, "This is the product of burning barite."
In fact, real barite is barium sulfate, which does not burn at all.
The barite she was talking about was just the element barium.
This white powder is just barium peroxide.
Prince Mai looked at the King of Nanhai and said, "Your Majesty, this white powder is just calcined salt, how can it be barite?"
"That's right. It's not transparent and it's not in blocks. How can it be barite? It's clearly table salt." McDull's guard said, "Mineral salt is mineral salt. Where does barite come from?"
Most of the people watching the salt field knew McDull, so they all chimed in: "If you can't make salt, just admit defeat. Why do you have to do all these gimmicks?"
"Showing off with a sword in front of Guan Gong is just a fake move."
There were also people watching who disagreed and made some comments.
"I think this young master is good. He said he can burn green light, and that green light is very bright!"
"Yes, he said that white powder would be produced after burning, and white powder was produced."
“Well, maybe it’s salt.”
Xu Wenrong remained silent, as he believed his cousin could do it.
Xie Yanyan glanced at McDull and Mai Shizi and said calmly, "What you said is exactly my second proof."
She first weighed the white substance using a small scale for weighing medicinal materials and found that it was a little more than one liang.
She motioned for a basin of clean water.
Soon a basin of clean water was brought over, and she took a glass beaker from the stage and filled it with clean water.
Ask Xu Wenrong to put all the white powder into the beaker and stir it with a glass rod.
Then hold it up for the judges, contestants and all the people to see.
I saw that there were clear layers in the beaker, water was water, and the powder was settled at the bottom.
"Baryte combustion products are not soluble in water, so they are not salt. Moreover, the maximum amount of barite that a person can ingest is 1 qian per jin. This salt contains more than 5 qian of barite per jin, so it exceeds the limit by 5 times."
Xie Yanyan said calmly: "Excuse me, can you prove my ability to identify salt?"
The judges, young and old, in office and in the opposition, had never seen such a miraculous experimental proof.
"Yes, absolutely!" Chairman Qiu took the lead and announced excitedly, "Nanhai Palace won the first round!"
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