Fan Xian immediately prepared to set off for Shudi, and on the way, Liu Ping also asked a captain of the Danyang Army to lead two hundred soldiers to pretend to be a unit to protect Fan Xian.

After all, this road is not smooth, in case Lao Fan lets the thief rob him, it will be more than worth the loss.

However, every Danyang military captain is the Marquis of Guannei, which makes Fan Xian speechless, and he even asked a Hou Ye to be his entourage, which was unthinkable before.

Lao Fan has been gone for more than ten days, and when he came back and saw Liu Ping in the study, his eyes were shining with gold.

"King, the salt wells in Shu have really been washed away, and now the price of salt in the entire Bashu is soaring, and all merchants are hoarding Juqi and refusing to sell it.

When the Wu family heard that the king had salt in his hand, they were overjoyed, they had prepared the grain and put it at the border, as long as the king's salt arrived, they would hand over the grain with one hand and the salt with the other. ”

"How's the price?" Liu Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, and sure enough, even God was helping, he wanted to sell salt, and God sent a flood to wash away the salt well in Shudi, which made people feel embarrassed.

However, his face did not show much excitement, according to the exchange ratio of salt and grain in the Han Dynasty, it should be about one to eight.

That is to say, one pound of salt can be exchanged for eight pounds of grain, since Shuzhong is so short of salt, it must at least be doubled, one pound of salt can be exchanged for sixteen pounds of grain, or even twenty pounds.

"King, fifty catties, fifty catties of grain for one catty of salt, and as many as you want," Fan Xian excitedly stretched out his five fingers and shouted loudly.

"Fifty pounds?" Liu Ping's face was not so indifferent, and he couldn't help but gasp, how many times has this increased compared to usual?

But it's reasonable to think about it, doing business in the later Han Dynasty is no different from that of later generations, as long as the price of scarce things soars, it is inevitable, not to mention that salt, which can be put and is a necessary product for the human body, is suitable for hoarding.

At the same time, it can be seen that I am afraid that the salt wells in Shunan are very strong, and they will not recover well for a while, so the Wu family dares to collect salt at a high price so reassuringly.

"Okay, it's decided, I'll immediately send someone to transport salt, and you, Lao Fan, will be in charge of the trade."

"Tut, the king is really blessed, he has been doing business all his life, and I have never seen anyone take the initiative to increase the price and pick up the goods." Fan Xian smashed his mouth again and again.

Liu Ping couldn't help but think of the hunger marketing methods of later generations, and said with a smile: "If you can contact a few more, I can make a queue to pick up the goods and auction them at a high price." ”

Fan Xian said worriedly: "There are a lot of businessmen in Shuzhong, but there are not many officials and businessmen like the Wu family, I'm afraid no one dares to compete with the Wu family, with the next experience, it's enough to earn so much, if the price is raised again, I'm afraid the Wu family won't be able to stand it." ”

Liu Ping just thinks about it, he himself is a business without capital, if he messes up the Shuzhong market, cultivates a few competitors, and starts to smash each other's prices, it will be of no benefit to him, the holder of the supply.

In the final analysis, salt is not a core technology, and the Wu family's ability to import salt from him is completely glued to the light of geographical advantages.

If the price of salt is outrageously high, with the wisdom of the merchants, it is completely possible to sell illicit salt into Shu through other channels.

Immediately after that, the two parties entered the actual transaction.

The over-weighing, inspection, and receipt of these things that Fan Xian is familiar with can no longer be cooked, and he is completely in charge of it, and Liu Ping didn't have any snacks at all, so he collected the grain.

For this reason, he secretly sent people to repair the old site of the Chang'an granary and put the grain into it in a steady stream.

These are carried out in the utmost secrecy, and very few people handle them.

After all the salt was delivered, Liu Ping looked at the mountains of grain in the cabin, and calculated that there were 30,000 stones, and there was still a lot left to pay off the arrears of Wei's grain with interest.

The current crisis has been overcome, but it is not a long-term solution.

What he urgently needs to do now is how to attract the people back and use the Guanzhong Plain to grow grain and farmland, which is the long-term solution.

As long as there is a population, there will be a steady stream of soldiers, food and grass.

It's a pity that even now his subordinates are all soldiers, and he doesn't even have a civilian official, let alone the people.

……

During this period, Wei Su has been working hard to clean up the entire yard, and he hasn't even taken a step out of the gate.

After all, she has been in this palace for more than a month.

On this day, a soldier at the door suddenly came to report that her family had sent someone to visit her.

Now that Liu Ping and Lu Qi are not there, she is the only one left in this huge Qin Palace, except for the soldiers guarding the periphery, so the soldiers at the door have to ask her for instructions.

There has been no news of her mother for such a long time, and Wei Su is also very worried in her heart, so she confirmed with the soldier that after she can call the shots, she asked the soldier to let the person in.

When he saw the person clearly, Wei Su suddenly felt as disgusting as eating a dead fly.

It turned out that the woman was a servant brought by Mrs. Wei's mother's family, and she was Wei's absolute confidant.

Who is this to visit her? It was clear that in the past month or so, Wei Su had not sent any useful news back to the Wei family, and the Wei family couldn't sit still, so they took the initiative to send someone to ask Wei Su about the situation here.

"Little lady, Madame sent a slave to greet you," the servant woman surnamed Li said in a cold tone.

In the back house of the Wei family, she is the personal attendant of the master's mother, and her power is far greater than that of Wei Su, the concubine.

Even if Wei Su has arrived at the Qin Palace, looking at Wei Su's troubled face and this outfit, he doesn't look like a favored person.

Even the hair is a little disheveled, and it is even more embarrassing than before.

"What do I have to say hello to, how dare I work for you?" Wei Su's temper was also quite stubborn, and he immediately replied coldly.

"You're afraid you've forgotten your mission, haven't you? It's been more than a month, and Madame asked me to ask you, I wonder if the king has any plans to return our food. ”

"If he doesn't pay it back, that's his business, how can I be a little girl?"

"What are you talking about? Madame naturally knows that you can't be the master, but didn't she let you come to inquire about the news? The servant woman Li frowned and said, "Is there any food in the hands of that king to return to the Wei family?" ”

"I didn't see it!" What Wei Su said is indeed the truth.

In the past month, she has just cleaned up the courtyard in the house and washed Liu Ping, just like a maid, how can she know what happened outside?

"Since there is no food, so the so-called two-month period of food repayment by the king is a lie at all?"

"I just haven't seen the grain, and as for whether the king returns it or not, it's not something that a little girl like me should know."

"What are you talking about? He has no food, what will he take? The servant woman was angry and sneered: "Before I came, your mother asked me to bring you a message, so that you would forget about it." ”

"What did my mother say?" Wei Su's face changed suddenly, and he walked around to the servant woman Li and looked at the woman.

She didn't care about anything else, but she wanted to hear her mother's words.

"That sentence doesn't matter, if you want your mother to live well, just go and inquire about the news, otherwise, you know how many means Madame has to deal with your mother."