World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 169 - 169 One Two Three Gold Coin an astronomical number of Gold Coins!

169: One Two Three: Gold Coin, an astronomical number of Gold Coins!

169: One Two Three: Gold Coin, an astronomical number of Gold Coins!

Shockingly, shockingly, it surpassed ten thousand catties directly.

This, this is still just the first batch from the five hundred mu of salt fields, and more brine will continuously flow into the crystallization ponds.

Given the current weather, the brine can crystallize within two to three days after entering the crystallization pond, which means that different salt fields can harvest salt every day.

Moreover, once these five hundred mu of salt fields enter a routine, at most tens of people can manage them.

Previously, more than a thousand salt slaves toiled day and night, and they could only produce several hundred thousand catties of salt in a year.

Yet now, dozens of people, in less than a month, can produce several hundred thousand catties of salt.

Master Suo Lun was right, the yield really has increased by dozens of times!

He, once again, created an unparalleled miracle!

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Following that, the entire Chaos Stone Island entered a frantic construction period.

Whether they were the family’s samurais or all the salt workers, they seemed to know no fatigue and worked almost crazily.

And these salt workers could only drink porridge every day, but compared to the previous wild vegetable rough rice, drinking thick porridge every day was already like living in heaven.

Not to mention, when a mule fell sick, Suo Lun ordered it to be killed, and then ground into mince and added to the porridge.

When everyone got to drink meat porridge, their gratitude toward Master Suo Lun grew even more profound.

Although this lord, Suo Lun, seemed very aloof, spending most of the time in the castle avoiding the harsh sun outside,

In fact, Suo Lun was just recovering the tendons in his arms.

His right arm’s tendons were severely injured by Ling Ao and could hardly be lifted; at most, he could gently caress Suo Ningbing’s buttocks, and even that was difficult if he used a bit more force.

His left arm was also injured from forcibly completing the first move of the Calamity Nine Swords, but the situation was much better.

Writing and drawing were fine, but holding a sword was difficult.

Time passed day by day, and Suo Lun spent his days recuperating in the castle, occasionally coming out to inspect the salt fields and check on their progress.

More often, he would listen to reports from the family’s samurais and the leaders of the salt workers.

After the salt workers understood the principle of salt production, they became even more professional.

In many aspects, they no longer needed Suo Lun’s guidance and explored even more thoroughly on their own.

They dug new salt fields while producing salt, advancing both tasks without delay.

This Chaos Stone Island, truly a god-given salt production ground, had incredibly scarce rainfall and excellent sunbathing conditions.

The daily salt production kept rising, and the rate of increase excited and even scared everyone.

Time flowed like water, and months flew by like a spinning wheel.

Two months passed.

Now, with Yao Xing’s help, Suo Lun’s left arm had fully recovered, and his right arm had also mostly healed.

And within these two months, through the desperate efforts of over a thousand people, they had crazily developed more than four thousand mu of salt fields.

And the salt stored in the warehouse had piled up like a mountain, to the point it no longer fit.

They had no choice but to store the salt in other houses.

In the end, when the family samurai leader Suo Mu came to report, his voice trembled.

Because in just over two months, the developed salt fields had produced an astonishing 1.5 million catties of salt.

Upon hearing this quantity, the Suo Family’s samurais and the salt workers almost fainted.

This, this is just two months, and also just a small portion of the salt fields, yet they produced 1.5 million catties of salt.

Previously, three thousand salt slaves worked day and night for a year to produce just over a million catties.

Moreover, the current salt production keeps rising every day, and the rate of increase is utterly dizzying.

The latest daily production has already exceeded sixty thousand catties.

Is Lord Suo Lun really a divine being?

Looking at the salt field where salt piled up like mountains, all the salt workers were almost filled with the urge to kneel in worship.

Not only that, but Suo Lun also allocated some women to purify a portion of the salt and recrystalize it, using primitive materials like plant ashes to refine coarse salt.

After countless attempts, they finally produced fine salt as white and delicate as snow.

And the appearance of this fine salt left Suo Ning and Ye Jingyu in awe.

The quality of this fine salt surpassed that used by the Earl’s house and looked clean and bright like blossoming flowers, seemingly without any impurities.

Therefore, Suo Ning and Jingyu used this fine salt every day for brushing their teeth.

And they told Suo Lun a nearly dizzying price, that this fine salt could fetch around three hundred eighty copper coins per catty, four times that of normal coarse salt.

And this snow-like fine salt faced no worries about market demand.

The entire kingdom’s nobles and wealthy merchants all used this fine salt, not only for cooking but also for cleaning and washing.

As for three hundred eighty copper coins, it might be a sky-high price for commoners, but it was nothing for the wealthy nobility.

In the past month or so, Suo Lun had people purify and recrystalize two or three tens of thousands catties of snow-white fine salt, and every day they had an additional three thousand catties of new production.

All this was pure profit.

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However, after the ecstatic joy, the leaders of the Suo Family’s samurais began to feel a faint sense of concern.

One day, unable to hold back, Suo Mu came to Suo Lun and said, “Master, because of your miracles and wisdom, if we keep going like this, once the existing salt fields all enter production, we could produce over ten million catties of salt within half a year, which is an enormous windfall.”