"Steward Li, I didn't expect that your general firm would be able to transport these precious salts to us! And these refined salts are much finer than the sea salt produced in our Qingzhou! The things produced by your general trading houses are truly extraordinary! Mutiva took the fine sea salt, tasted it, and said excitedly.

These refined salts were purified and purified by Zu Yuan according to the coarse salt purification method taught by Xiao Yao, and they were many times better than those coarse salts made directly from seawater in terms of appearance and taste.

"General Mu also knows that our general trading house has been in some trouble recently, and in the area of grain, it has been hit by the opponent, which has caused us heavy losses, and has led to the closure of a large number of workshops, and even the production of sugar has been affected! We have only taken the risk of smuggling these precious refined sea salts to the Qi country, and I hope you can help us! Steward Li said sincerely.

"Does Steward Li mean that he wants to exchange sea salt for food? Since ancient times, food has been the most important, and our Qi country also has a decree strictly prohibiting the sale of grain to other countries! You must know that the two countries are still in the stage of confrontation, and maybe one day the Northern Expedition will start again, how can we buy grain for you? Mu Ti Po put down the fine salt in his hand, looked at Steward Li and said vigilantly.

"General Mu has misunderstood! We don't buy food for military rations, but rations for ourselves! It is precisely because of the Northern Expedition that the grain of our Chen State has been strictly controlled, and the grain circulating in the market has been controlled by the Yinhai Commercial Bank, alas, our general commercial bank has no money to buy food, some time ago, we had to fire a large number of employees, just because of the lack of food! Qi has had a good year and accumulated a lot of grain, which is moldy in the granary, so our shopkeeper hopes that General Mu can raise his noble hand and sell us some grain, otherwise our general trading house will no longer be able to maintain production, and then we will not be able to transport sugar and various commodities to your country! Steward Li said with emotion.

"I see! We have also heard of the contradiction between your general trading house and Yinhai commercial bank, but we can't imagine that your current situation is so difficult! Your general firm is our friend, friends are in trouble, we can't see death without help. Murdeva glanced at the refined salt and sugar that had been given to him, and couldn't help but say with emotion.

"Over the years, we have had a bumper harvest every year, and the price of grain has fallen a lot, and there was a saying before that it was a pound of rice and salt, and you sold these sugars so expensively, we really have to find a way to cure you profiteers!" After speaking, Mu Tipo smiled treacherously at Steward Li.

"Haha, only General Mu can sell us grain, the price of this piece, the sugar is limited by raw materials, it is difficult to say, these refined salts, even if General Mu wants to fight rice and salt, we can sit down and discuss slowly!" Steward Li also laughed, these salts were purchased at a low price from Yinhai Commercial Bank, and they were used to exchange for food, and they didn't lose at all.

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On the edge of Dongting Lake, at the border between Chen Guo and Xiliang, Steward Xiao of the Xiao Family Commercial Bank in Xiliang was nervously counting the cargo boxes on the merchant ship, which were filled with shiny sea salt!

"I can't imagine that your general trading house is so bold, and you can transport so much sea salt at one time, there are dozens of boxes here, there are thousands of catties of sea salt, according to the previous salt dealers secretly transported over, I don't know what year and month it will take to finish transporting this ship of sea salt!" Steward Xiao said in surprise.

"Steward Xiao rest assured, our general trading house has His Royal Highness King Xing behind his back, and this place is so close to Jiangzhou, it is His Highness's territory, what do we want to transport here! No one dares to check! Steward Wang of General Commerce said with a smile.

"Now that the countries are fighting, the Bashu region has not tasted the taste of sea salt for a long time, your general business house is really timely rain, and you can buy your batch of sea salt at such a low price, haha, enough for our Xiao family firm to make a lot of money!" Steward Xiao smiled.

"Steward Xiao is polite, they have their wars, we do our business, and the coast of Chen Country is rich in sea salt, the price is not high, and your Xiao family firm has always been friendly trade with us, and you helped us get a lot of goods from the Western Regions, so our shopkeeper specially explained, we must be good friends with you!" Steward Wang also smiled.

After all, Xiao Yao is Xiao Feng's son, and now he has the advantage of taking care of his father, Jiangling is located at the mouth of Shu, and many products in Sichuan are sold to the Central Plains by the Xiao family firm, and at the same time, various daily necessities are transported by the Xiao family firm, so this time the general firm sold sea salt to the Xiao family firm, which is equivalent to opening up the salt market in the entire southwest region, so that the two firms can benefit at the same time!

Moreover, the trade between Chen and Zhou, because the Central Plains was cut off by Qi, could only go north to Xiangyang through Jiangling and reach Chang'an through Wuguan, plus now that Xiliang belonged to the vassal state of Zhou, the Xiao family firm could more easily transport these salts to those places in the Zhou State where salt was more needed, so Zu Yuan did not hesitate to join forces with the Xiao family firm to deal with these sea salt purchased from Yinhai firm at a low price, and then make a lot of money.

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"Young master, I can't imagine that smuggling salt is really so profitable! Ha ha! We spent less than 1,000 taels on the sea salt we recovered from the Silver Sea Trading Company, but after purifying and selling it to other countries, we made a full 5,000 taels of silver in less than two months! In addition, the country of Qi is exchanging food with us, and now we are not afraid of running out of food! Zu Yuan laughed.

"Now the social production capacity is low, and the goods are always in short supply, they Yinhai Commercial Bank just set their eyes on Jinling, of course, they will think that as long as a large amount of salt can reduce the price of salt, and then crush us, ignorance! He didn't know how much salt was scarce in those remote mountainous areas, as long as he transported the salt, he wouldn't worry about no one buying it! Xiao Yao also smiled disdainfully.

"It's no wonder that Zhang Dai is short-sighted, the matter of Haiyan County has made him dare not use smuggling this crooked brain, and Chen Guo's decree also strictly prohibits the sale of salt to other countries, there is Xingwang Chen Shuling behind our general firm, no one would have thought that his Royal Highness the dignified Xingwang would dare to start this salt smuggling business, and smuggling is from other countries, if it is poked out, this is a capital crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason! He, Chen Shuling, even if he is a prince, has to fall to the ground! Zu Yuan said coldly.

"Hmph, who has the proof? The sea salt bought from Yinhai Commercial Bank has been processed and purified by us, who can tell if the refined salt is still the original coarse salt? Moreover, the workshops are all located in the border areas, and our men are heavily guarded, even if they find out that we sell salt to other countries without a license or evidence, they will have nothing to do! Xiao Yao sneered.

"It's still the young master's clever plan, and with one move, the grass boat borrowed arrows to resolve the Yinhai Commercial Bank's desire to lower the price of salt to hit us, hmph, this time let them lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot!" Zu Yuan also sneered.

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"What? Those who line up at your firm every day to buy salt are all from the general firm? What are they selling so much salt for? Don't they already have Haiyan County to supply them with salt? Zhang Dai asked in surprise.

"Yes! We have investigated, and these people took advantage of our low price to sell salt, bought it back in large quantities, and then shipped it to the border! The servant continued to report.

"Shipped to the border? Are they trying to sell this salt to other countries? Are they so bold? This is a capital crime of treason with the enemy! Zhang Dai was even more shocked and said.

"They definitely sold the salt to other countries, but we couldn't find any evidence! When they brought salt into the border town, they were immediately heavily guarded, saying that we could not get into the military land! And we know from other countries that they get not the coarse salt we produce, but the fine table salt! After speaking, he handed over the refined salt he got from other countries to Zhang Dai for inspection.

"This refined salt is made from coarse salt that we buy? Well, the quality is better than ours, and I can't guess that these are our coarse salts if you don't say it! Zhang Dai looked at the fine salt in his hand, tasted it again, shook his head and said.

"Shopkeeper, what now? We have sold tens of thousands of catties of sea salt in the past two months, and the price is much lower than the market price, and we almost sold them at cost price. Shall we report this to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and let His Highness expose their capital crimes to the Emperor? ”

"If there is no basis for oral statements, without evidence, the emperor will not believe it! And until you have collected evidence on this matter, you must not disclose the slightest bit of information to others, including His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Of course Zhang Dai didn't dare to let Chen Shubao know that he had made another mistake, he had to rely on grain to fight the general trading house to win back the prince's trust in him, but now he actually sold salt to his opponent at a low price, making the opponent make a lot of money!

"Damn, I can't imagine that they would dare to be so bold and sell salt directly to other countries, but we can't find any evidence! Starting tomorrow, the price will increase immediately! Zhang Dai said fiercely.