But as we all know, there are many special foods in China people's recipes, such as sausages and idle fish, which are all related to edible salt. Let's take idle fish as an example. The only seasoning needed by idle fish is edible salt. Fish wrapped in edible salt can be preserved for a long time by airing and drying. Why in ancient times, people could not sell illicit salt, but they could sell idle fish?
In fact, on the stage of China, someone really exploited this loophole and sold salted fish. Isn't that equivalent to selling salt? Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, senior officials of the Qing Dynasty clearly stipulated that all the salt needed by fishermen to pickle salted fish must be official salt. But the price of official salt is very expensive, and people who eat seafood are from the sea. We can all master seafood and make little money at all. Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, idle fish was a rare and expensive special food.
At that time, in many remote areas of China, it was a luxury not only to eat salted fish, salted ham, but even to eat Dongtai by yourself. Official salt is expensive. Usually everyone can only eat light food. During the Chinese New Year holidays, or when there are happy events at home, the money saved in one year is used to buy official salt. Or cook a table with official salt, or save the official salt, dip some other ingredients and let your mouth taste a little.
Even in Panzhihua, Sichuan province, where salt is produced, you can't eat it all you want. If the income of salt miners in those days is compared with that of most workers at the bottom now, the price of a kilo of salt should be 70 yuan money, which is unimaginable. When curing salted fish, 5 kg of fish must be cured with 7 kg of edible salt. This kind of fish is cheap, and with official salt, it is expensive, and only nobles can afford it.
However, the extraction of edible salt is not a difficult problem. As we all know, salt exists in life. It can be extracted from Yanjing Town, from seawater, and some people can extract mineral salts from minerals. Therefore, people have been secretly making illicit salt. Fishermen pickled salted fish, can't they use this private salt?
Fishermen naturally don't do this. Because idle fish is one of the ingredients that fishermen depend on to survive, in order to safeguard the interests of fishermen, the Qing Dynasty made a more humane management decision, that is, fishermen could buy "fishing salt" at a very favorable price. However, people at that time had realized that fishermen were likely to cheat. Therefore, when fishermen go out to sea to fish, they should first inform them of the total number of fish they have caught, and then get the salt with the relevant certificates issued by official website.
If you dare to say it secretly, you can't draw a conclusion. Because "those who commit smuggling salt to drown fish, shrimp, bamboo shoots and other goods, buy them, or take them themselves, and absorb other things, and take precautions according to the law of smuggling salt." Whether it's idle fish, salted shrimp, pickled bamboo shoots or other ingredients, whether you eat them yourself, trade them or give them to others, you can be severely punished.
Therefore, we should be glad that we are in the contemporary era. After all, in contemporary society, edible salt has become an affordable seasoning for every household. The price is low and everyone can afford it. Without edible salt, the ingredients will be difficult to swallow. Without edible salt, you can't make all kinds of pickled foods. Without edible salt, my physical and mental health will definitely be affected. Edible salt is very important