There are poems: Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is saying that Yangzhou is very rich, but why is Yangzhou so rich? Land and water are one of them, but the most important is the salt industry.

Yangzhou prosperous to salt, the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Hui merchants, its "real body" is the salt merchants, many people do not understand why salt has such a huge profit, in fact, it is very simple, profit and total.

Generally speaking, the retail price of salt is not high, but salt is an indispensable material in daily life, so the demand is huge, even if the profit is low, small profits can still make a lot of money.

So how big is the difference between the cost price and the sales price of salt from the production area to the stores in various places?

In this era, the price of salt produced in Yancheng, Huainan, when the salt merchant purchased it from the stove household, was about 20 wen a bucket, and if such salt was not mixed with stone sand and soil, the price in Xiyang was not less than 300 wen a bucket.

Hu (stone) rice bucket salt, the price of a bucket of salt is worth the price of a bucket of rice, as for the profit, even according to the purchase price of 20 wen a bucket, the price of 300 wen a bucket, selling salt to Xiyang for sale, deducting the cost of at least seven times the profit.

Seven times the profit of the trade, anyone has to go crazy, such a profit, do sea trade can also be easily achieved, but the risk of sea trade is extremely high, if you set off from Panyu to the far west of Persia to take a trip, even if the exchange is safe, it will take more than half a year or even a year.

And to do salt trading, although we should also beware of cutting the path of strongmen, but it will not be as dangerous as navigation, caravans sell salt by land or waterway, in case of storms can be avoided, really not can also sell salt on the spot to return to the capital.

What's more, the time required to sell salt is shorter, you can run several times a year, which is the advantage of sea trade, even if the average profit of selling salt is only several times, but the advantage is large and the time interval is short, on the whole, the profit of selling salt is not lower than that of sea trade.

Such a lucrative trade, not everyone has the opportunity to do it, first of all, you have to be able to go to the salt-producing areas to buy salt, and the coastal salt farms, not just anyone can go to buy goods, even if they buy goods secretly, the team will evaporate before they go far.

Therefore, for the merchants of Huangzhou, selling salt is an industry that cannot be touched, and because it is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, there are salt producing areas at both ends, so Huangzhou is just a dumping ground for salt merchants.

The sea salt in the coastal area in the east has to be transported to Huangzhou, because it is by land, so the freight remains high, and the well salt in the upstream Shu land, after loading into the Yangtze River and down the river to Xiyang, is very convenient, the price is lower than that of sea salt, but not anywhere.

This is the case in Huangzhou, and it is also the case in Jiangzhou, but this situation is finally over now, because Huangzhou merchants can go to Lingbiao Guangzhou to buy salt, and sell it back to Huangzhou or even Shannan for sale.

The point is that no one competes with them, and no one dares to let them evaporate.

Lingbiao has always been the territory of the Southern Dynasties, until the Lingnan Road march took over the whole territory, and the jurisdiction of the Zhou State was extended to the south of Wuling, clearing the original official and commercial contexts, so that the Huangzhou merchants had room to show their strength.

"During the Yuan and Wei dynasties, the salt farms along the coast of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, were about 200,000 years of sea salt, so how much did the salt fields in Guangzhou produce last year? The number in the hands of the widow is about 40,000 years old. ”

"Of course, this is because the original government-run salt farm is not well managed, and the officials collude inside and outside to make black accounts, and exploit the stove households, so that everyone is like a flower child, everyone think about it, how much salt can be produced in such a salt farm?"

"Some people may know how sea salt comes from, but some people may not know, in fact, the reason is very simple, everyone has tasted sea water, and the saltiness is very strong, so you can get sea salt by boiling sea water dry, and this has been the case since ancient times."

In the salt field, a group of people were exposed to the scorching sun, listening to Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen explain the situation in the salt field, although the sun was very poisonous, no one dared to use an umbrella to shade it, because the same is true for the king of Xiyang.

Yuwen Wengui is the king of the county, high up, it is as simple as killing the businessmen present and pinching an ant to death, and he doesn't even need to use his hands, just say a word, so this person doesn't use an umbrella to shade, and others don't dare to shade.

Many people were sweating profusely, taking out handkerchiefs to wipe their sweat, Xiong Ji was one of them, but although he was sweating profusely, he was very excited, because not everyone was qualified to stand here today.

At the end of last year, the Zhou army attacked Jiangzhou in the south, and soon swept the whole territory, and then killed the heroes and powers in various places that they did not know.

Xiong Ji was one of the many proton troops, and he led his troops to cross the Great Yuling Mountains with the Zhou army, all the way to Panyu, Guangzhou.

I thought that I would be sent by the Zhou army to the front of the battle to consume, but it turned out that Xiong Ji and the others were only responsible for guarding the camp or coming out as scouts, which was not as unlucky as imagined.

Entering Panyu City, Xiong Ji opened his eyes, not only saw the legendary Panyu City where the sea trade was prosperous, but also saw the boldness of the Zhou army commander and Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen.

Actually spent money to invite everyone to "talk in detail" with Hu Ji, this kind of benefit is really unheard of, and what is even more exaggerated is that this commander is very good at fighting and doing business, and the businessmen who came with the army are doing business in Panyu City.

Not to mention all kinds of tricks to make money, the king of Xiyang walked around Lingbiao to appease all places, and slaughtered all the countries of Linyi, brought back countless gold and silver treasures, and even took Feng Xian's family, Ning's family, and Chen's family to make a fortune.

Today's Lingbiao chieftains and cave masters, when it comes to the King of Xiyang, they all nod frequently, everyone knows that following the King of Xiyang will have the opportunity to make a fortune, and Xiong Ji, the protons of families from all over Jiangzhou, also feel the same way.

Zhou Jun engaged in "consignment sales" in Panyu, Xiong Ji and others couldn't get off the "thief ship", the climate of the Lingbiao Smoke Miasma is not false, but the money earned is not fake, and the protons who followed Yuwen Wen to Lingbiao have earned a lot of money for their families.

And Xiong Ji, who performed the best, still has the opportunity to stand here and win a deal for his family that he never dared to think of: selling salt.

Xiong Ji heard his father say that selling salt is profitable, but Jiangzhou is not a salt-producing area, and the powerful clans in various places have no chance to sell salt at all.

Without salt, there is no way to sell salt, but now it is different!

The march of Lingnan Road was dominated by the Huangzhou army, and the king of Xiyang took care of his own people, but also took care of those who were willing to cooperate, so Xiong Ji and other protons who fought with the army used their performance on the battlefield to win a place in front of the king of Xiyang.

This is not enough, the family also has to do their best, to assist the official army to transport grain from Yuzhang over the Great Yuling, whoever contributes more, whose income will be greater, the more the King of Xiyang will take care of, and the Xiong family has been rewarded handsomely today.

"The salt factory has adopted a new salt-making process, and everyone has already seen it, and in the future, the government will continue to expand the amount of salt, so that everyone can open up the salt production!"

"Guangzhou salt farm, this year's output will reach more than 100,000 Hu, next year to 200,000, the year after next to 500,000!"

"The price of salt set by the government, when you leave the salt field, of course, the tax must be collected separately, as for what price you can sell after you get the salt, it depends on your own ability!"