It's Chinese New Year's Eve again, and every family is happy.

This year's Chengdu Mansion, the capital of Sichuan Province, is more lively than in previous years.

The bumper agricultural harvest in autumn has caused the market price of rice to stabilize at about two taels, and the face price does not exceed one or two or five, and a large number of relatively cheap grains such as baogu, red lettuce, and sorghum have entered the market, so that many poor families can also eat a full meal every day. Chengdu people like to eat well, and the advantages of eating quickly come into play in the cooking process of these grains.

The crushed grains are steamed into rice, and the sorghum rice is boiled into thin porridge. There are more ways to eat red lettuce, and the most common ones are steamed red molych and red porridge. Charcoal-grilled red potatoes are sold on the streets and alleys, and they have become children's favorites because they smell fragrant and taste sweet. The candied fruit made from red lettuce cakes and crisp slices made from red lettuce slices, together with other gag foods welcomed in the festival market, such as fried melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried beans, fried soybeans, and braised dried fragrant vegetables, entered many omnivorous shops and spread them on the street to sell to passers-by.

In addition to staple grains and miscellaneous grains, cash crops such as vegetable oil, cane sugar, and vegetables have also been harvested this year. As soon as the price of grain and vegetables fell, the price of meat also fell, and the market had an abundant supply of pork, chicken, duck, goose, fish, rabbit and other live meat. The only market with strong prices is the bull market outside the east city of Chengdu. Especially for cattle, the price is still rising.

The price of rice and vegetables has risen and fallen, which is the same in previous years, and the citizens have long been accustomed to it. However, there is a kind of daily necessities that are indispensable to the common people have been greatly reduced, but the people really feel the great benefits, that is, salt.

Before Chinese New Year's Eve, Chengdu Prefecture posted a notice announcing that it would be open to the supply of salt from now on. Anyone who is willing to go into the salt retail business can go to the salt wholesale store opened in the palace outside the city to buy it, and the minimum quantity is ten packs. Each bag of fifty catties, the wholesale price is only three taels and five yuan, which is equivalent to only seven cents of silver per catty of salt.

Seventy wen per catty! This price is two or three times cheaper than the original official salt price, and it is also much cheaper than the private salt price!

With such a big benefit, Chengdu citizens, who have suffered from high salt prices for a long time, quickly triggered a rush to buy and hoard goods. The government's policy has always been to change at the moment. The people were afraid that the boiled duck would fly and hurriedly acted. Many people, men, women, and children act in one family, one street, one square, and all the people, and they go in tandem to wholesale early in the morning, and then divide the goods from each family. But when I arrived at the salt shop at the pier, I found that I was too late. The dock is crowded with people, everyone is holding a bag and carrying a flat burden, where can they still get close?

The rush to salt started from the water wharves around Chengdu, and the news quickly spread to the surrounding states and counties, and there is a tendency to repeat the "five beetles". Fortunately, Liu Zhibo, the governor of Sichuan, and Wu Jishan, who was in charge of the Chengdu government, and other officials were on the Jinjiang salt boat. As soon as they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately ordered all salt ships in Jinjiang to dock immediately and sell them on the spot without restrictions, so as to disperse the flow of people as much as possible. The large amount of salt that had been hoarded on the ship in advance managed to control the situation and not kill anyone.

On the night of the outbreak of the salt rush, Fuxing Daily printed a special issue to introduce the salt reform in Shudi.

According to the special issue, in the future, the salt of the whole province will be included in the monopoly category of unified purchase and sales, and all the sources of salt can only come from the monopoly stores set up by the government salt department and the yamen in each salt factory, and the violators will be punished according to the sale of private salt. The stream is flowing, and the killing is killing.

Since it is a monopoly, all stores in the province implement a unified salt price - seven cents of silver per catty, with a minimum volume of ten packs, which is open to all individuals and businesses in the province. As for the retail sector, the government doesn't care.

The wholesale price is flat, and anyone can buy it. All retail can earn is the freight required for road transportation, the cost of distribution, and the reasonable profit of the retail store. In this way, how much can retail add per catty? When the people looked at the newspaper, it turned out to be so. Sure enough, when they easily carried the salt bag home, they found that the grocery store at the entrance of their house had also begun to sell salt, and the price was only a few dollars more expensive.

The idea of the people grabbing and hoarding goods was dispelled. Looking at the salt bags piled up in half a room, they regretted it, and they had many different thoughts.

For a family of five, even if you save salt, the salt cost a year will be at least two taels, which is equivalent to half a month's food for a family of five. It would be great if the price of salt could be cheaper and you could really live a good life.

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The unified purchase and sale of salt is Luo Yuhong's proud work.

After Luo Yuhong carried the court, he went to southern Sichuan for a big circle, and the key inspection area was the Furong Salt Factory. In Fu Rong, Luo Yuhong met with representatives of the salt merchants of the three major salt farms of Fu Rong, Nanfang and Qianwei to understand their thoughts and demands. The production process of well salt was inspected on the spot, and various data of production cost were mastered.

In the end, she finally agreed on a reasonable official purchase price with each salt: two and a half cents per catty of silver. Then add the salt tax levied by the royal government two cents per catty of silver, and the cost of storage and packaging one cent of silver, totaling five cents and a half cents of silver per catty. A bag of salt is fifty catties, and each bag is worth two taels and seven dollars and five cents of silver.

The shrewd salt merchants were ecstatic at this generous purchase price, because it meant that they had a profit of more than 130 percent for the upper well, 80 percent for the middle well, and 30 percent for the lower well. Even if the brine is as light as clear water, as long as you make careful calculations, you can barely save your capital.

The unified procurement price in the province also means that there is no cost of bribery at all. The cost of bribing the government used to account for the majority of the total cost.

In addition to giving a generous unified purchase price, Miss Luo also promised that in the next three years, the Shu Wangfu will openly purchase salt at this price, and buy as much as she wants.

The high profits and stable expectations prompted the salt merchants to make two guarantees to Miss Luo: one is not to sell illicit salt, otherwise they will be punished by the laws of the imperial court; The second is not to use those waste paper-like salt to disturb the government. The salt merchants also reached several agreements with Miss Luo, one of which was to form a new firm in the joint stock to drill new wells in the artesian and Gongjing areas; The other is that the salt merchants funded and asked the Sichuan Machinery Bureau to develop and manufacture new special equipment for salt well drilling.

During Luo Yuhong's inspection of the Furong Salt Factory, the new acting salt inspector Fang Yaoxiang and Rong County and Fushun Liangzhi County accompanied him throughout the whole process, and in accordance with Luo Yuhong's instructions, in the name of the government, a large area of the artesian well and Gongjing areas was expropriated to the feudal department at a fair price and became official land.

Of course, Luo Yuhong will buy these lands from the name of the government at an appropriate time and become the property of the Shu Wangfu. She knew that when the salt industry in the artesian and Gongjing areas flourished, the land here would become a valuable and unmarketable piece of gold. In the ancient legal system, the ownership and use of a piece of land went up from space to the center of the earth. The ownership and use rights of a piece of land means the right to explore and mine salt wells on that land.

In order to maximize the benefits, she has even turned her calculations into politics that she is not familiar with: merging the two counties of Furong into a new Zhili Prefecture: Zigong Prefecture. And the Rongxi River, where the artesian well is located, is the new city of Zigongzhou that she planned.

It's just that the sudden outbreak of the salt rush reminded her once again that this matter must be discussed by the two after Zhu Pingjin came back before it can be put into action.

Just one rush for salt caused such a big storm. Without Liu Zhibo and Wu Jishan's quick decision, I don't know how many people would have been trampled to death! Zhu Pingjin is working the front line, how much impact will such an incident have on the front line? It's scary to think about.

The rush for salt has finally passed. Last night, Luo Yuhong slept late, not because she was too busy with work, but because she was more excited.

The news of the great victories in Guang'an and Yuechi was transmitted back to Chengdu yesterday. The people spread that the prince killed tens of thousands of thieves in the two places, and the captives alone were tied with ropes for several miles, so some people spontaneously set off firecrackers at night.

Luo Yuhong and Zhu Pingjin maintained an information time difference of about two or three days, and of course knew that Zhu Pingjin's victory was not so exaggerated. But the news of the victory did help consolidate Zhu Pingjin's political position, so she didn't bother to refute the rumors.

The offensive of the official army in Bazhou, Luo Yuhong knows much less. But according to Liu Zhibo, it is also relatively smooth, and he is currently fighting with the local rioters in the cottage strongholds on the outskirts of Bazhou. When the Guang'an Protector Army frees up, these local thugs who are stubbornly defending Bazhou may retreat, so that the official troops who are bent on occupying Bazhou will take a big advantage.

The battle was won, but Zhu Pingjin wrote again that he could not leave northern Sichuan and return to Chengdu to spend the Spring Festival together, and it was uncertain when he would be able to come back. For this reason, he made a sincere apology to Luo Yuhong and asked his wife for understanding and support.

The husband is in northern Sichuan and leads more than 10,000 troops. Whether you understand or don't understand, what can Luo Yuhong do, do you want to go to northern Sichuan to get him back?

Since the situation is very good in all aspects, Luo Yuhong decided to give out red envelopes on vacation today, so that the officials, eunuchs, and palace maids of the palace can be happy and relaxed for a few days, and by the way, they will pull down their emotions.

The rules for the distribution of red envelopes Cao Sanbao and Zheng Anmin, the two internal and external ministers, have already been discussed, just waiting for Miss Luo's words. Luo Yuhong nodded, and the palace was immediately filled with a happy and peaceful festive atmosphere, and those eunuchs and palace maids walked and talked with laughter. Some people are busy taking leave, and then find a good friend to move a large number of condolences from the palace out of the palace and rent a car to transport them away; I had no choice but to stay in the palace, and asked someone to take those good things to the market and sell them, exchange them for a few silver bills, and then wait for Miss Luo's festival to be arranged, to see if I could find a chance to go out of the house for a day.

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Luo Yuhong gave others a holiday, and the premise was naturally that she gave herself a holiday first.

On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, she slept lazily and drank red porridge with eggs. When she was refreshed, she asked Xiaohong, Tan Fang, who also had no boyfriend by her side, and Wu Suqi, the new secretary and Wu Jishan's daughter, to change their clothes and makeup together, and prepare to go out to the nearest temple, Daci Temple, to carry out the old program once a year - entering the incense and asking for a child.

"Miss, do you still not wear a conical hat veil when you go out today?" Xiaohong asked while combing Luo Yuhong's hair.

"Don't wear it!" Luo Yuhong found a new reason to answer, "Isn't a woman's makeup just for men?" ”

"That's just as well!" Xiaohong tilted her head thoughtfully. However, the little palace maid immediately thought of the next question: "It's just that those bad men see our faces and have evil thoughts, what should we do?" ”

"Normal men will have evil thoughts, but those who don't have evil thoughts are eunuchs!" It was not Xiaohong who spoke, but Wu Suqi who was standing aside. She is fifteen years old, with a round face and big eyes, and she has the shadow of a father. At first glance, she looks like a lively and cute girl, but when she speaks, she is sharp and sharp-toothed, and she doesn't look like his father's sleek and sinister at all.

Tan Fang quietly gave Wu Suqi a look and reminded her that there was a eunuch Qin Yi standing at the door of the main hall. Since Cao Sanbao returned to the palace, he specially called Qin Yi to talk about it once. Since then, there have been more times when he appeared at Miss Luo's door. Even if he wasn't there, there must have been other eunuchs guarding him. Luo Yuhong knew from Zhu Pingjin's secret letter that it was her husband's arrangement, and she felt that her husband was a little suspicious, so she simply ignored it and let them stand if they wanted to.

"What's wrong? It was meant to be! ”

was reminded, but Wu Suqi pursed her lips and defended unconvinced:

"I heard from the people who came back from Jiangnan that those women in Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou specialize in learning to work men! What kind of poems, paintings, elegant houses, fine rooms, and men's costumes, coaxing those talented people to think that they are suave, throwing a lot of silver at them, and lighting a candle costs dozens of taels! Those few idle old things in the Nanjing Donglin Party also held an Oiran contest and rated 'Qin Huai Bayan'!

Hey, do you know who is in these eight yans? I heard that there are Ma Xianglan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, Kou Baimen, Gu Hengbo, Liu Rushi and Chen Yuanyuan. You know, that Liu Ru married Mr. Yu Shan earlier this year (Note 1). In addition to marrying Liu Ru into the mansion according to the wife ceremony, Mr. Yu Shan also specially named her a house, called 'My Wen Room'. Any idea why it's called that? It turned out that Liu Ru first had a little bit of that meaning with Chen Zilong, a genius in Songjiang......"

Wu Suqi suddenly stopped talking and didn't say anything, this is a bad person.

Note 1: Qian Qianyi

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