"Bell~Bell~"

With the ringing of bells on the lookout, everyone's spirits were shaken.

"A fishing boat has returned to port~"

Soon, the lookout roared at the port with an iron horn, and suddenly there was another commotion at the port wharf, and the merchants of the sea fish shop looked at the fishing boats slowly approaching the port.

"Brother on the ship~ Is there any good goods?"

Before the ship was moored at the dock, the merchants shouted in the air.

"There are a lot of good goods, what do you want."

The crew on the ship responded with a smile on their faces, every time they go to sea, they can return with a full load, and the income of their crew members is naturally rising with the tide, and the crew has long been synonymous with the rich.

Soon, the fishing boat that arrived at the port slowly anchored, and boats and boats of sea fish continued to be transported down, and suddenly there were bursts of shouting in the whole port.

As the habit of eating seafood in Beijing and Tianjin slowly becomes popular, seafood is becoming more and more subdivided, such as grouper, tuna and other scarce goods, and the price is becoming more and more expensive.

As for all kinds of large and small yellow croaker, the price is very cheap, and because the on-site production is getting bigger and bigger, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and they have begun to be unsalable.

Here in the wharf, after a lively scene, the good goods are all picked up, and only a basket of ordinary fish such as big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker can not be sold.

"Alas~ This fish is getting harder and harder to sell, how good fish no one wants~"

Looking at the mountains of fish, the captain Lin Yang sighed, he was a crew member who graduated from Tianjin Maritime College, and he found a few crew members of the same period, and everyone paid for a fishing boat together, and the business was okay, but the fish was getting worse and harder to sell, which made him worried.

The price of a fishing boat was very expensive, more than 20,000 taels of silver, which was almost the entire value of the brothers, and now only half of it was recovered.

"If this continues, we can only change the ship and turn it into a cargo ship, and we will also go to the Japanese country and North Korea to do business, so that the money will come faster."

Next to Lin Yang, Deputy Captain Deng Yuqun also sighed.

"Let's look at it again, it's just that no one wants so many fish, it's a pity!"

Lin Yang said with a smile.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the production of marine fish is getting bigger and bigger, and there are often fishing boats that can't sell the fish, and the loss is not enough, but everyone makes less, and looking at a large number of fish no one wants, can only slowly stink, this feeling is really very bad.

"Two brothers, why doesn't anyone want these fish?"

Liu Jin silently looked at everything in front of him, he came to Tianjin this time to solve this matter, there were too many fish caught back, so that they could not be sold, which was very unfavorable to the emerging marine fishing industry, so Liu Jin had to solve this problem.

"There are too many fish~"

Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun looked at Liu Jin slightly, and saw that Liu Jin was dressed extraordinarily and dressed as a noble son, so they hurriedly bowed their hands to salute.

"Last year, there were only a few dozen fishing boats in Tianjin, and the fish caught every day were not sold at all.

"But now, there are hundreds of fishing boats here in the entire port of Tianjin, and that's not counting whaling ships, if you count whaling ships, there are even more, and there are dozens of fishing boats returning to the port every day."

"As soon as there are more fishing boats, there will be more fish caught, so naturally this fish will not be easy to sell, the price is lower than before, and there are still many fish that cannot be sold."

"Look at these big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker, how beautiful the fish, these are all caught at night, and now they are very fresh, but there are too many big yellow croakers and small yellow croaker, so common, no one wants them at all."

"And because these crabs have little meat, they are all shells, and no one wants them, and they are all money-losing jobs."

Lin Yang also pointed to a kind of seafood and sighed as he spoke.

"If this sea fish can't be sold, isn't it going to be a loss?"

Liu Jin listened carefully, thought about it and asked.

"It's not a loss, it's just a small profit."

"Of course, it's a pity, such a good fish can't be sold and can only stink, think about the disaster last year, everyone even ate the bark, but now such a good fish is going to stink, this is not a tyrannical thing."

Lin Yang smiled and shook his head, there is still money to be made from fishing.

"I see~"

"Are all the fishing boats out to sea like you?"

Liu Jin nodded, thought about it and asked.

"That's not it, some fishing boats are merchants, and their fish is shipped to the capital as soon as it arrives at the port, and they have their own sales channels, so they don't have to worry about selling at all."

"We can't sell it ourselves, so we can only sell it to the merchants of the sea fish business, sometimes we can sell it all, and sometimes there are too many fishing boats back to Hong Kong, and it is difficult to sell it cheaply."

Lin Yang thought for a while and replied.

"I see, thank you brother Tai for informing me, I want all these fish of yours~"

Liu Jin thanked him after listening.

"Really?"

When Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun heard this, they immediately asked happily.

"Of course it's true, not only do you buy your current fish, but I want all the fish that everyone can't sell in the future."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

It's time for the salted fish industry to start, there is a surplus of cheap fish, and there is an endless amount of salt, the two are combined, and they become salted fish, which can be sold to every corner of the Ming Dynasty, making both fish money and salt money.

"Great."

When Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun heard this, they almost jumped up with joy.

If someone really comes to buy all the fish that everyone can't sell, then everyone will have no worries, and they can be more confident when negotiating with businessmen, and they don't have to sell the fish they have worked so hard to catch at a low price.

Soon, Liu Jin nodded to the people who followed him, and the other party immediately understood, and ran to call the steward here in Tianjin Port to sell all the fish that Lin Yang had left.

"Childe~"

Knowing that Liu Jin had come to Tianjin Port, Chen Mu, the chief steward of Tianjin Port, also came to Liu Jin in a hurry.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin smiled and nodded, then thought about it and asked, "How are the things I asked you to prepare?" ”

"Childe, everything has been prepared according to your orders, the salted fish factory has already been built, and now I am waiting for your order, and I can immediately recruit people to buy sea fish to make salted fish."

Of course, Chen Mu knew what Liu Jin had ordered, and Liu Jin had already explained this matter before returning to the capital last time, and he had never forgotten it.

"That's good~"

"From now on, the salted fish factory will be opened, and all the surplus fish from the port will be processed into salted fish."

Liu Jin nodded with satisfaction, then thought about it and said, "Let's go, go to the salted fish factory and have a look." ”

"Okay, Childe, please here~"

Chen Mu hurriedly led the way.

The salted fish factory is located next to the port of Tianjin, which was originally a saline-alkali land, and the site has been built into a factory and a huge cement site made of cement, which can be used exclusively to dry salted fish.

Liu Jin inspected the salted fish factory, which had not yet started, and there were not many people inside, only a few people were taking care of everything inside and outside the factory.

"Childe, this is the slaughtering area, a place dedicated to removing fish guts and gills~"

"This is the salt area, which is used to salt salted fish~"

"The huge field outside is used for fish drying~"

The factory is very simple, the processing of salted fish is not difficult, the key is to solve the problem of salt, because salt is too expensive in this era, so few people will use salt to marinate food.

Liu Jin came to the huge venue and saw that there were already some salted fish drying, so he hurriedly walked over, picked up a salted fish and observed it carefully.

This salted fish is similar to that of later generations, the fish is disemboweled, propped up with bamboo skewers, and then salted with salt, and then taken out to dry, so that the salted fish can be preserved for a very long time, and there is even a saying that the salted fish and bacon are about the same, the longer it is preserved, the more fragrant it is.

Of course, for Liu Jin, the role of salted fish is to solve the problem of excess capacity, and it can also preserve food, so that more people can taste the delicious taste from the sea.

"Childe, it takes a lot of salt to marinate salted fish, this salt?"

Chen Mu followed Liu Jin and thought about it, and brought up the problem on his side.

"You don't have to worry about the salt, I have already instructed the Changlu Salt Farm, and you will use the salt from the Changlu Salt Farm in the future, and you can negotiate with Li Jiye yourself in terms of price."

"Although it's all my industry, you each operate independently, so I don't care about this aspect, you just need to negotiate."

Liu Jin thought about it and replied.

"Yes~ I'll go to Changlu Salt Farm when I turn around and talk to Li Jiye."

Chen Mu nodded hurriedly, it is easy to do things with salt, but the most worrying thing is the problem of salt.

Just as the two were talking, Li Jiye also hurriedly walked over.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive~"

Seeing Li Jiye who came over in a hurry, Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Childe~"

Li Jiye came to Liu Jin's side, replied respectfully, and then paid tribute to Chen Mu.

"I just talked to Chen Mu about you, the salted fish industry here is about to start, you and Chen Mu discuss the matter of salt, and you will send salt every day in the future."

Liu Jin nodded and ordered.

"Yes~"

"This time, I have already brought dozens of truckloads of salt when I came to Tianjin, and I know that Gongzi must have come to Tianjin for salted fish."

Li Jiye nodded hurriedly, then thought about it and said, "Childe, they have a new reaction." ”

"Oh, what's the trick again?"

As soon as Liu Jin heard this, he immediately came to his senses, the salt merchants were defeated in the northern market, and now the northern market has basically belonged to the Changlu Salt Farm.

But these salt merchants will definitely not give up so well, their wealth is robbed, they will definitely fight with Liu Jin, and Liu Jin did not dare to ignore their strength from the beginning.

These salt merchants are rich in the world, some are silver, and more importantly, there are many, many of their spokesmen in the court, and they have a great right to speak.

If it weren't for Liu Jin having been pulling Zhu Houzhao to do business with him, Liu Jin estimated that he would have been killed by these people a long time ago, and the impeachment of himself would definitely float on Emperor Hongzhi's desk like snowflakes.

"In the last few days, I have found that some people have started to buy our salt on a large scale, in very large quantities, and the amount of money is very amazing, and in many places, our salt has begun to run out of stock."

Li Jiye replied.

Snow salt is selling very well, after beating other salts, sales have also begun to rise, but the salt production of Changlu Salt Farm is also increasing day by day, not only to meet the demand of the market, but also a large amount of excess salt is used to transport to Tianjin to make salted fish.

But recently, dealers in many regions have said that the salt is out of stock, and a large number of mysterious big buyers have appeared, and the demand is very large.

"Somebody buying our salt on a large scale?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately pondered.

"There should be no reason for anyone other than them to buy our salt on a large scale."

"What is the purpose of their large-scale salt purchases?"

"Is it because after hoarding it, use this salt to make a fuss?"

Immediately, Liu Jin came up with all kinds of possibilities in his mind.

Hoarding the opponent's goods, and then using the opponent's goods to make a fuss, this trick is also a rotten method in the later generations, the other party has strong capital, and it is completely possible to use the salt of the Changlu Salt Farm to destroy the signboard of the Changlu Salt Farm, so as to finally slowly defeat the Changlu Salt Farm.

"Childe, should we restrict them from buying salt?"

Li Jiye thought about it and suggested.

The Changlu Salt Farm has enough control at the end of the day, and it can completely control the terminal sales, and when selling salt, restrictive sales policies can be implemented, such as a person can only buy a few catties of salt at a time, and other methods can restrict them from buying their own salt on a large scale.

"Now it's important to figure out what they're trying to do, and if we can figure out why they're buying our salt on a large scale, then we'll be able to strategize accordingly."

"What we have is salt, and we can't sell it anyway, so there's no reason not to sell it to them."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said.

"Childe, they must have a purpose in buying our salt, and with such a large-scale purchase, there must be a big article behind, maybe they will deliberately use our salt to frame us later, we must be on guard, it is better to restrict sales."

Li Jiye said worriedly.

"Well, let's take our time step by step, and send someone to find out their intentions, I suspect now that they think that our cost is very high, and that we are making money at the current price, so they want to buy our salt on a large scale, because they think that in this case, we will lose a lot of money as much salt they buy."

Liu Jin pondered carefully, constantly walking back and forth to think.

"Childe, if that's really the case, we can tell if it's the case, we can raise the price a little first, so that we can better confuse them, and then see how they react."

When Li Jiye heard this, he immediately nodded, not ruling out this possibility.

He has conducted in-depth research and investigation on the salt industry, and he is very clear about the cost of salt, and what the cost of salt in Changlu Salt Farm is.

Paying two million taels of silver a day, sharing profits with sellers, and making money yourself, the cost of salt in Changlu Salt Farm must be very high, almost everyone thinks so.

We still don't have a clear understanding of the yield of the salt drying method, the location of the Changlu salt field is the best salt drying area in the whole Ming Dynasty, the high yield is scary, and the cost is actually very low and very low.

"Just do as you say, try it first, if they really think that our cost is high, and they want to eat our goods to eat us, then this time I will kill them and let them vomit all the things they ate in their stomachs before."

Liu Jin nodded, and then a smile appeared on his face, if these salt merchants really wanted to get the Changlu Salt Farm through such a method, then they would really be finished this time.