Chapter 229: Crazy

After paying homage to Jia Rudao's birthday, he took the six thousand salt to lead Shi Bin and Jia Ling on the way back to Dingzhou with satisfaction, although Jia Rudao only promised to give it for nothing, and the rest had to work their own, at most it was just to pull the strings, but the two were still ecstatic.

The 6,000 salt in his hand is equivalent to 60,000 taels of silver, which is already a lot, which is equivalent to a quarter's income of Jingnan Firm.

Along the way, no one in the husband and wife has ever fallen asleep at night, all out of extreme excitement, although Shi Bin is already a high-ranking official, but after all, he has not really integrated into it, and he is still the consciousness of Shengdou Xiaomin, but no one will care about these if there is an entry.

As soon as he returned to Dingzhou, if he didn't know the truth that wealth is not exposed, Shi Bin couldn't wait to shout out on a loudspeaker that he had made another 60,000 taels of silver.

Knowing that Shi Bin was in a state of madness, in order to prevent him from leaking his mouth, Jia Ling immediately stopped him and said: "At most, tell Sai Xishi about this matter, and you should also tell her, even Wang San must hide it." If you want to go into the salt, you have to go to Sister Shih, and the salt must be transported with other goods, and other goods must be covered with other goods as a disguise, preferably something worthless, so that it is not conspicuous. The person who performs the escort task must be an absolutely reliable person, and the slave family thinks that Xu Feng is the most suitable. ”

Shi Bin could naturally think of these things, but he didn't expect Jia Ling to think so comprehensively, he could only say that he admired it, so he opened his mouth to praise Jia Ling.

It's always good to be praised by others, and Jia Ling, who is very comfortable, is also very happy.

Returning to the mansion from the side door, Shi Bin immediately took Jia Ling to Sai Xishi's room, without informing Xiaoqin. Seeing the two of them entering the room with happy faces, Sai Xishi also sneaked around as if he was afraid that others would know, and immediately understood the reason. He smiled softly and asked, "It's done?" ”

"It's finished."

"Looking at my sister's appearance, is it more than eight thousand?"

"Sister Xi Shi doesn't have it, there are only 6,000 sheets, but my father promised to match Shi Bin and discuss business with the salt supervisor..."

At first, I was a little disappointed to hear that there were only 6,000 salts to introduce Sai Shi, after all, Jia Yidao was also a feudal official, the highest governor of the Jinghu region, and he was so petty. But when she heard that Jia Rudao was pulling the strings between Shi Bin and the salt supervisor, she was immediately overjoyed, and almost laughed madly, knowing that this was an old hen that would lay golden eggs for Shi Bin.

If it weren't for Shi Bin's own experience, before Jia Ling finished speaking, he walked up to Sai Xishi and covered her mouth.

Although he hated Shi Bin's behavior a little, Sai Xishi didn't care, after all, this was a top secret, and no one could be alarmed, so Shi Bin did it right.

Sai Xishi even proposed to build a secret room in Shi Bin's study to facilitate talking about things, which was of course a good suggestion, and Shi Bin immediately agreed, saying that it was most appropriate for him to let his own guards do it.

Soon it returned to the topic, where to buy salt when there is salt? The price and quality of salt vary from place to place, as well as the safety and cost of transportation, so it is important to consider it carefully before acting.

"Jia Ling, you have been by your father's side for a long time, you should know where the salt in Da Song is good and cheap, which can make us profit the most."

Jia Ling smiled very proudly and said: "Of course, our Great Song Dynasty originally had a total of three Great Salt Areas, one was the Changlu Salt Area, mainly along the Bohai Sea; the second is the Laizhou Bay Salt Area, which is the coastal area of Shandong; The third is the Huai salt production area, which is the largest sea salt production area in the country, so the price is also the cheapest, which is very suitable for us to purchase.

But now there is only one Huai salt producing area left. The other is Zigong, Sichuan, where salt production is not large, but there is also salt. ”

It has always been difficult for Shu Road to go to the blue sky, since there is Huai Yan, who will have nothing to run Zigong to climb the mountain to play? So Shi Bin immediately said: "Forget about Zigong, let's go directly to Huaiyan District." However, since it is a salt district, there must be more than one city, which city has the best and cheapest salt? ”

"Of course, it is Yangzhou, Yangzhou salt merchants are famous all over the world, and the tax can reach seven million taels of silver in a year."

What the? A year's tax can be seven million taels of silver, or is it just Yangzhou? How much profit do you get?

This made Shi Bin, who thought that his capital was quite good, suffer a huge blow, but he was more popular than people! However, it strengthened his determination to enter the salt market.

People die for money, birds die for food, and they can't be delayed, so when it came to midnight curfew, he took Jia Ling and his three hundred guards to Yangzhou.

It seems that he was afraid that the silver would run away, Shi Bin led his men to move forward at full speed regardless of fatigue, walking three hundred miles a day, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't support it later, he would definitely continue to go crazy.

Finally arrived in Yangzhou, sure enough, it is a gathering place for rich merchants, the city wall and the city gate are all intact and very glamorous, there is no sense of decadence, and I feel its high-grade even more when I enter the city.

Every bluestone slab on the main street is very beautiful, polished exactly the same, and there is no flaw all the way down.

After finding an inn that was still of some grade, Shi Bin took Jia Ling to go shopping, and even Xu Feng was thrown at the inn.

Such a city is naturally very exciting, Shi Bin and Jia Ling are typical foodies, and the first thing they do on the street is to eat.

Shi Bin's deepest memory is Yangzhou fried rice, the eggs, ham, and shrimp fried in the rice are really delicious, so the first thing is to eat this fairy fried rice.

Although Jia Ling is Jia Yidao's daughter, she has never been to Yangzhou, so she naturally doesn't know how delicious this fried rice is, but when she sees Shi Bin's appearance, she can naturally guess a few points, and immediately follow along.

When I arrived at the door of a very ordinary store, I saw Yangzhou fried rice on sale, so I naturally rushed in and sat down without hesitation. This fried rice is naturally extremely delicious, but when it came time to check out, Shi Bin was not happy, and two bowls of rice actually cost him one hundred and fifty yuan. Even Jia Ling was surprised when she heard this price.

The people around looked at the couple with disdain, and some even laughed at them for being dirt buns and ignorant.

When he was about to go crazy, Jia Ling held down Shi Bin and persuaded him not to care, he came here to do business, and it would not be good if he offended the relatives and friends of a big salt merchant.

A few guys who laughed at Shi Bin and his wife left soon after eating, and the rest were a few guys who seemed to be ruffians sitting in the store chatting. After eating, Shi Bin and Jia Ling, who had nothing to do, didn't bother to leave and sit down to rest.

"Do you know, Boss Liu's subordinates told me something recently." The fat man said

"What's the matter?"

"Skinny monkey, do you know how much Boss Liu usually costs a bowl of Yangzhou fried rice? You can't even guess if you kill it. ”

"Dead fat pig, don't look down on people, it's only five taels of silver at most."

"If you say that you don't know it, you still don't admit it, don't be jealous when I say it, it's fifty taels of silver, fifty taels!"

"Dead fat pig, you didn't lie to me? How can it be? Our annual expenses are only more than 30 taels, which is not worth a bowl of Yangzhou fried rice from Boss Liu? ”

"Of course, who he is, what we are

Person! His requirements for this fried rice are frighteningly high, every grain of rice in this bowl of egg fried rice must be absolutely complete, each grain of rice must be completely separated, and every grain of rice must be soaked in egg juice; Eggs are produced from hens that are fed with ginseng, astragalus, atractylodes, jujubes, etc. every day; The soup is a hundred fish soup, including crucian carp tongue, carp white, silver carp brain, grouper liver, yellow croaker fat, shark fin, turtle skirt, eel blood, bream paddling, mullet fillet...

Listening, Shi Bin and Jia Ling couldn't stand it anymore, got up and left angrily.

"Xiaoling, now that the country is in crisis, these bastards don't want to serve the country, they are so extravagant, and when it comes to taxation, they cry poor and ask for tax reductions and exemptions, which is really shameless!" Shi Bin roared viciously.

Knowing that it wasn't aimed at her, Jia Ling didn't care, just smiled: "What are you yelling at on the street, what's the use of being angry?" It's just that we're angry with ourselves, let's strengthen our strength as soon as possible is the right way, and it's good to ask them to pay back when the time comes. ”

Nodding his head, he accepted Jia Ling's opinion, and then said, "Do you think there will be any difficulties for us to pick up the goods this time?" ”

"Probably not, after all, you are the transfer envoy of Jinghu South Road, and my father is still the highest governor of the Jinghu region, it shouldn't be a big deal to get a few thousand salt introductions, it depends on whether you can really enter this market and continue to do business." After all, the market is so big, and our business will definitely be affected, although we will not try our best to oppose it, but there will definitely be dissatisfaction, I just hope that there will be little resistance. ”

"I hope so, fortunately we came out today to eat this bowl of Yangzhou fried rice, otherwise it would be a big joke to pick up the goods, and those officials in charge of salt may think that we look down on them because the gifts we prepared are too light, and think that we are bullying others. When the time comes, it will be difficult to expand the business," Shi Bin said with a sense of relief.

"Indeed, no one would have thought that Boss Liu's bowl of Yangzhou fried rice would cost fifty taels of silver, which is really luxurious."

After the two learned this, they immediately went back to the inn and took a lot of money to go to the antique market to look for antiques. Shi Bin originally planned to bring eight hundred taels, but after thinking about the Yangzhou fried rice, he finally took a thousand taels.

What makes Shi Bin and Jia Ling happy is that although the price of this Yangzhou antique market is more expensive than that in Tanzhou, Dingzhou, Ezhou and other places, it is not ridiculously expensive, and it is within the range they can afford.

Picking left and right, the two turned around for an afternoon, and finally spent seven hundred and fifty taels of silver to buy a self-warming cup of the Han Dynasty. Since this cup warmer is made of metal, it reassures Shi Bin and the others a lot, so that they will not tremble all the way.

When he arrived at the Yamen of the salt field, Shi Bin took this self-warming cup in. With such a good stepping stone, the captain of Yanfu naturally agreed to pick up the goods without the slightest hesitation. Soon a small official came out to help him take care of the pick-up procedures.

I have always known that even if I agree to do things, there are good things to do and bad things to do, and the salt introduction is actually a bag, but the bags have a size, so Shi Bin can't offend this little official, and he has to be treated.

On the way to the salt farm, Shi Bin gritted his teeth, took out a twenty taels of silver from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the little official.

The little official thought that Shi Bin would look down on him and not give him a little benefit fee, but he didn't expect Shi Bin to be so generous and give so much, so naturally he couldn't stop laughing, and immediately 'reciprocated' and taught Shi Bin a way to get more salt - use the largest pocket to fill salt. Originally, there were only about 300 catties of salt, but Shi Bin's salt was 500 catties.

This kind of oversized salt lure made Shi Bin very surprised, and immediately gave the little official five taels of silver from him to the address of the captain of Yanfu's house

The little official who took enough benefits immediately told the address of the lieutenant of Yanfu and said that he would come directly to him for salt in the future, and soon the two immediately became friends who talked about everything. (https:)

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