Chapter 203: Buying and Selling

Liu Shunhua took the list handed over by the other party, and his hands were already a little trembling. Tongtian Grain Bank is a large-scale grain merchant, with semicolons in Shandong and Nanzhili, but such grain stores are everywhere in the world, and they don't show any wealth, but Liu Buzheng has a confident expression on his face.

After taking the paperwork, he looked at it carefully and politely, and then carefully put it back in his arms, and while holding up the wine glass, he said in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"This official has thanked Boss Huang here."

The words were very confusing with etiquette, and he didn't have the slightest awareness that he was a provincial official, but the businessman who was called Boss Huang also didn't have the slightest awareness of being a businessman, according to common sense, such a high-ranking official took the initiative to toast, he should stand up with gratitude and be humble in his mouth.

Boss Huang's bloated body was slightly raised, his arms stretched forward, and he raised his glass with both hands and touched Liu Shunhua, but the etiquette was nothing more, and he didn't do anything else.

Tongtian Grain Store is indeed not big, but the owner of this grain store is also the largest salt merchant in Shandong, and the grain store may not have the ability to afford 25 stone grain and grass, but as a salt merchant, the abundant financial resources should be able to do it. Of course, twenty-five stones of grain is nearly 300,000 taels of silver, even if Boss Huang is the largest salt merchant in Shandong, I am afraid he does not have such terrifying financial resources.

Although Liu Shunhua was skeptical in his heart, he was reluctant to say it, the Boss Huang on the other side could be the largest grain merchant in Shandong, so naturally he couldn't be just a white civilian. From the time when Jiajing was the king of the vassal to the present as the son of heaven in Beijing, the closest eunuch around him is Huang Jin, and the current celebrant is a great eunuch with unparalleled weight. Boss Huang, Huang Ping, is Huang Jin's cousin, and he has followed his cousin step by step to reach today. This can be regarded as Jiajing's dislike of the excessive authority of internal officials, if such a relationship was in the previous generations, even if Huang Ping was the commander of the Jingshi Jinyi Guard, it would be possible to be knighted.

However, Huang Jin is relatively low-key, and Huang Ping did not make money outside, but started a salt merchant in Shandong in a decent manner, but his identity was put there, and in the locality, everyone in the guard had to sell him a little face, fortunately, Huang Ping was also very good at grasping the proportions, so the business was getting bigger and bigger, but there was no big momentum, and the so-called muffled fortune was also.

Political envoy Liu Bu has been flustered a lot recently, and he can't hide things on his face, and Boss Huang over there also saw Liu Bu's question, and said with a smile:

"Huang can't take it out for a while, but Lord Liu, you really have a good son-in-law."

Huang Ping lives in Jining, Jining at this time is a number of prosperous places in Shandong, the main reason for the prosperity is that Jining is the hub of the Grand Canal, the grain ships and goods in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, coupled with the convenient geographical location of Jining, so that this place has become the most prosperous and rich town in Shandong now.

Canal transportation, one is grain, the other is salt, the two largest goods happen to be the goods handled by salt merchants, pay grain border customs, in exchange for salt introduction, with the introduction of salt, this is the basic transaction process of salt merchants, of course, from a few decades ago, salt merchants can not really transport grain to the border customs, only need to spend money in the salt transportation yamen to buy salt, and then go to the salt field to get salt, this is the so-called "silver salt".

On the fifth day after leaving Jinan, Jiang Feng found out who the largest salt merchant in Shandong was through the former green forest relationship on Weishan Island, or that the biggest smuggler of salt in Shandong was Huang Ping.

Moreover, Huang Ping also knew the relationship between Jiang Feng and Zhang Yong, and he was barely considered an old man, so he politely invited him to the mansion, originally thinking that Dengzhou Wei was short of money and wanted to borrow some money to spend. Huang Ping also thought about it in his heart, his salt caravan would inevitably pass by on the ground under the jurisdiction of Jiang Feng, why not spend some money to buy a convenience, anyway, the army of the Ming Dynasty is called Huazi, poor and fatal, easy to send away.

The process of meeting made Huang Ping, who had seen the world, remember clearly after a long time, after the politeness of the two parties, before Huang Ping asked Jiang Feng's intention, Jiang Feng asked Huang Ping directly:

"Would you like to make a net profit of 100,000 taels of silver?"

When Huang Ping thought that the commander of the guard post on the other side had his head burned, the guards beside Jiang Feng took out 50,000 taels of silver tickets, which were exchanged from the north and south of the river, and said lightly:

"This silver is pledged here first......"

At this time, Huang Ping remembered that the general in front of him, who still looked quite young, was rumored to have a little ability to turn stone into gold when he was in the capital. Next, the two parties agreed that the fast horse would deliver the message.

Then Huang Ping's business in Shandong had a very strange situation, desperately to the province out of salt, and the price is very low, he did this, the salt merchants between the two Huai in Shandong have scolded the mother, but Huang Ping's wealth is strong, but he did not dare to offend, so he had to lower the price one after another, but it was also sold much faster.

Anyway, the private salt is everywhere, the supply is not worried, who knows that the next Shandong Fushan salt field suddenly changed the salt class to engage, well, there are nearly ten salt farms in Shandong, if this one is not sold, we will buy the others, and then the bandits who suddenly appeared began to plague the good market order of illegal salt trafficking.

It is difficult to purchase, and the salt bought cannot be transported, and the annual salt quota is so much, and the price of salt has begun to rise slowly. However, the political envoy Liu Shunhua also issued a decree, saying that he wanted to strictly rectify private salt. As a result, the salt merchants in Shandong Province are full of complaints.

The salt merchants of Lianghuai and Tianjin wanted to enter Shandong to do business, and they were hit by the "horse bandits" and "robbers" who were extremely prepared, and they were already the hidden channels for transporting salt that had been used for many years, even when the white-clothed soldiers rebelled. But at this time, they all came to a standstill.

Haizhou's Salt Transportation Division is the most oily errand in the world, and all the salt transportation envoys who are in charge of the Salt Transportation Division are people with great backgrounds, but the face of a province's government still has to be sold, because to achieve the position of the government, it is no longer an illusory prospect to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister.

Therefore, according to Jiang Feng's opinion, Liu Shunhua sent a private letter to the salt transport envoy, which was brought by Huang Ping's housekeeper, along with the private letter was a silver ticket of 5,000 taels.

No matter where people in the world are, salt is always indispensable for eating (the author eats in Shanghai, and is more skeptical of this law, no matter what is sweet, it is said that sugar is more powerful in Wuxi - digression), Shanxi and Henan still have a part of the place of Beizhili, which is needed all the time, but now in addition to official salt, the trade of private salt has shrunk by nearly seventy percent.

The transaction price of bulk salt has tripled, and the retail price has also quietly risen by several percent.

Five days after Huang Ping and Liu Shunhua's private banquet ended, the salt merchants of all sizes in Shandong got the news that Huang Ping, a salt merchant in Jining, bought 100,000 taels of salt in the salt transportation yamen, which had not been out of salt for half a month!

Then the Fushan Salt Farm released a message on the underworld of private salt, and the price of 2,000 catties of private salt was not excessive, and it was only 50% more expensive than two months ago. All the merchants involved in salt, the salt lords, were there to scold, and they all vaguely knew in their hearts that the inexplicable things that had happened in the past two months might have a lot to do with Huangping and Fushan Salt Farm.

But behind Huang Ping is the great eunuch Huang Jin, and behind the Fushan Salt Farm is Tiger Jiangfeng, everyone is pinching their noses and admitting it, anyway, there is still money to be made by buying and selling now.

Jining, which was originally prosperous, has been even more so recently, and now wealthy merchants from all over Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan are flocking to the door of Huang Ping's mansion, and there are a large number of illegal salt dealers, waiting around Fushan County. Just wait until the salt is brought down, so that the salt can be transported as soon as possible.

Everyone knows with certainty in their hearts that there must be no bandits on the road this time, and it must be the arrival of Mrs. Pingping.

Salt and private salt are both increased by fifty percent, but no one cares, and there are already people in Lianghuai and Tianjin, who are already impetuous, who are made by the price of salt in Shandong, to buy salt with money.

The profit is there, it is on this entrainment, the salt government is cruel, so even the smuggler is bold, but he also has scruples, and everyone is afraid of drying up and fishing, so a lead salt is 400 catties, and the entrainment of illicit salt is 1,200 or 1,600 catties.

However, what the Fushan Salt Farm privately released was that a guide of salt could bring out 4,000 catties of private salt, which means that the profit rose five or six times out of thin air, and if you count the taxes and all kinds of conveniences brought by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping's identities, the profits obtained are even greater. Of course, these profits were swallowed by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping.

Of course, this method is fine once in a while, if the salt is produced in this way for more than a month, the price of salt will inevitably fall sharply, and there will be no such profits.

But a month is enough, this time the matter is tossed, the salt merchants up and down Shandong basically have to bow down to Huang Ping, Jinan Mansion, Dongchang Mansion, Laizhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion's private salt lord basically depends on Jiang Feng's face to act, other salt farms in Shandong, now every day is closely watched, if you don't produce salt privately, you will immediately encounter bandits on the way.

As for the sea, there is the Xia family's fleet on the sea, and of course it is now as a pirate of the Japanese Invaders......

"The owner, Huang Ping is already Wuhu to mobilize grain, and the grain stock of Tongtian Grain Bank has also begun to turn around towards the regular liquidation, and it is estimated that after a month, all of them will be replenished, but since it is Huang Ping's guarantee, even if others have doubts, they should also consider Huang Jin in Beijing."

After Zhao Xiucai finished speaking, Jiang Feng closed his eyes and silently calculated the account: 50,000 taels of silver tickets plus the proceeds from this coaxing and reselling salt were all converted into grain, and after deducting various expenses, he had to pay more than 10,000 taels. However, counting the 80,000 taels in Zhou Yu's family, it can be regarded as a net profit of 70,000.