Chapter 028: Sweeping the streets

The old man saw that the guest officer took out the wooden cylinder first. ”

The shopkeeper pulled Yang Tieniu and said, "It seems that there are other colors of salt treasures?"

"Give it to him!"

Bai Yuqi next to him heard this, and secretly said to Yang Tieniu.

The main currencies circulating in this western market are, after all, Kaiyuan Tongbao and silk cloth.

Being able to sell more salt coins in the same house and exchange them for copper coins and silk silk can also appropriately reduce the risk of exposure.

"Yes, red salt is more expensive than big salt, and green salt is more expensive than red salt, so the shopkeeper should know, right?"

"You have Mobao here, one is fifty dollars, one is one hundred, and Qingbao is three hundred!"

Yang Tieniu took out the coin cylinder that was specially used to display the salt coins, poured out the salt coins of different colors and spread them on his hand, and the lion opened his mouth and said: "There is also this snow-white jade treasure, a thousand dollars!"

The shopkeeper gasped.

Bai Yuqi, who was lying behind the dog, also gasped.

According to this algorithm, isn't that one pure salt (130g) equivalent to 100,000 yuan?

Can't afford to eat!

The shopkeeper who runs a ready-to-wear shop can be regarded as a wealthy family, but when he heard the price, he was almost scared.

In the end, he could only take out the cloth and copper coins worth fifty yuan Tongbao with a smile, and exchanged 1,000 brown salt coins from Yang Tieniu's hand.

Yang Tieniu, who had changed into new clothes, carried a horse of cloth on his shoulders and bags of copper coins in his hand, and threw down the clothes shopkeeper with a painful face with a smile on his face.

Bai Yuqi inexplicably had a feeling of weakness that he had become a black-hearted salt merchant, because all they paid was 1,300 grams of brown salt.

If this is placed in the future generations, if you dare to sell this kind of black-hearted salt, it is estimated that you will be dragged to the shooting range if you find out, and you will be angry with the people for half an hour of shooting!

Out of the clothing store, Bai Yuqi said to Yang Tieniu: "Go to the mule and horse shop, buy some livestock first to carry the goods!"

Yang Tieniu and others were overjoyed when they heard this!

If you want to say what the ancients liked the most, it may be these large animals that can replace labor.

You can travel while riding, you can grind flour, you can plough the fields when you go to the ground, and you can skin and eat meat when you die, so the lives of the ancients are inseparable from these animals.

With these big animals, they will not have to plough the fields on their backs in the future, and they will be able to open up some wasteland to produce a variety of grains, and the days will definitely get better and better under the leadership of the great master with boundless power of wisdom and martial arts!

A group of people were so happy that they were almost about to take off on the spot, and a group of old men walked up, eager to jump up and down like a little girl to be comfortable, grinning to the bottom of their ears, and the smirk on their faces did not stop.

Breaking into the roaring mule and horse stalls, a group of people scattered, and their eyes lit up with green light and pounced on the herds of livestock.

It is necessary for each person to have a mount that can travel first, and there is no need to count on a good horse that can go to the battlefield, but they do not dislike the inferior horses used to pull the cart, mules, donkeys, etc.

Cattle used to plough the fields should be bought as much as possible.

There are also flocks of sheep, herds of pigs, and poultry chickens, ducks and geese.

As long as people are willing to accept salt coins as payment, they are all buying, buying, buying.

Fortunately, at present, in the area of Guanzhong Jingshi, the food shortage and salt shortage are very fierce, and salt and grain are hard currency, so there is no one who is unwilling to ask for salt.

Even if a very small number of people are reluctant to accept the high price of salt coins, they also have a large number of Kaiyuan Tongbao and silk cloth in exchange for other people, which is not bad money!

Although these salt coins refined by Bai Yuqi are suspected of selling high-priced salt.

If the Equalization Bureau in the West City knew about it, they would have to be charged with hoarding and disturbing prices.

But the problem is that the people don't sue and the officials don't hold them accountable.

Although the low price of "20 Wen a bucket of salt" is clearly marked in the leveling department, there is no salt for sale in the salt shop, and the empty salt barrel can run a mouse.

The common people can't buy salt, so naturally they can only find their own way to buy some expensive and shoddy black salt to save their lives, and the government salt shops can only turn a blind eye to these foreign salt dealers.

After all, in the early Tang Dynasty, there was no monopoly on salt and iron, and the management of salt mines was not strict, and the government and the people were allowed to mine together, so people could not be regarded as smuggling smuggled salt.

The government's Standing Position and Clearance Administration have lost the ability to regulate and control grain and salt prices, which shows how serious the situation of grain and salt shortages has become.

Moreover, the trade route to Shandong had been cut off by the Turks.

Those salt dealers also gambled their lives to take a small amount of salt and break through the siege of the Turks and intercept them to Chang'an.

It's better to buy high-priced salt than to buy without salt, right?

If this blows hard, and people are not even willing to transport high-priced salt, then it is called bad.

Therefore, Yang Tieniu has salt coins in their hands, although the price is higher than the current market price.

But compared to those who have to use a sieve to sift away the mud and sand before eating, those who are particular about it have to melt it with water, re-boil it through the sedimentation and filter it to remove the dregs, it smells a fishy and smelly strange smell, and the bitter and astringent black salt is much stronger to eat.

Just like Yang Tieniu showed off to the shopkeeper of the clothing store, it is not bitter, astringent, fishy or smelly, although a hundred brown salt coins cost 5,000 yuan, it is much more cost-effective than the black salt worth 3,200 yuan.

Not to mention that it looks clean, it tastes saltier than black salt, and it tastes good, and the delicate coin cylinder containing salt alone is worth the ticket price.

Therefore, in addition to gladly accepting Yang Tieniu, many traders paid their bills with salt coins, and many people also exchanged copper coins and cloth from their hands.

While the most popular is the brown salt coin, the expensive red salt coins, green salt coins, and even snow salt coins are also very popular...... The people are poor, those high-ranking officials and nobles are not bad for money, and many traders are supported by big people behind them, so they naturally buy them at any cost and take them to honor their masters.

So much so that when Yang Tieniu and the others came out of the mule and horse shop, they followed a large group of livestock like a biological migration behind them, and in the mule and horse shop alone, they spent more than half of the salt coins they brought.

Next, Bai Yuqi first asked most of the villagers to wait outside the city with pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock and poultry that were not easy to take care of.

Then he and a few people such as Yang Tieniu took cattle, horses, donkeys, mules and other large animals from the first store in the West Market to start sweeping the streets, all kinds of items that he saw and found useful, so that the villagers went to buy them in large quantities and piled them on the backs of the animals.

In the end, the salt coins that he would bring were almost squandered before he left the city.

It's not that they don't want to continue buying, it's that the animals they bought are playing the lute with all four legs crushed.

And Yang Tieniu was carrying it on their shoulders, in their hands, hanging around their necks, and chewing in their mouths, but they really couldn't take it, so they could only leave.