Chapter Seventy-One: I Bring Salt for Myself
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Soon after Lin Chong and his entourage arrived at the camp, the Flying Tiger Hu Chengcheng brought more than a dozen Zhuang guests and came to ask for a plea of guilt. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Originally, before he came, Hu Cheng was extremely frightened.
The Liangshan army was too powerful, and on the way, he heard that the Yunzhou soldiers and horses who were known as having the courage of ten thousand people, and the four battalions of soldiers and horses under his command were completely vulnerable in front of the Liangshan army.
In less than half a cup of tea, more than 1,500 soldiers and horses in the four battalions collapsed on the whole front, and Dong Ping, a double-speared general with ten thousand unworthy bravery, was also beaten by an unknown general of the Liangshan Army!
For a while, Hu Chengcheng was frightened and scared, and regretted.
Originally, he and Hu Taigong both wanted to protect their lives and not help each other, because after all, the military master of Liangshan had promised that as long as Hujiazhuang did not help Zhujiazhuang, he would never be an enemy of Hujiazhuang.
But yesterday, Zhu Biao brought someone to brag about how brave Dong Ping was, and Sanniang also begged each other bitterly.
The two of them were soft-hearted, and out of awe of the imperial army, they were a little afraid to offend the forces of Zhujiazhuang;
I thought to myself, after all, Cao Kou is a grass Kou, how much ability can he have? Now that Dong Ping, the twin generals of Yunzhou, are here, the Liangshan army will definitely be defeated, so they agree to help.
How do you know that the imperial army is useless, and the Liangshan army is strong!
Now that Liang Shanjun has arrested the little sister, he must be very angry that Hujiazhuang despises Liang Shanjun, and he doesn't know how to make it difficult and put forward conditions?
In case this group of Liangshan thieves gets angry, and by the way, even Hujiazhuang has to be leveled, what can be done?
But as soon as he arrived at the Liangshan military camp, Hu Cheng found that no matter the scouts on the road, or the sergeants on duty in the camp and leading the way, after hearing that he was Hu Cheng of Hujiazhuang, they were all very respectful and polite.
Several sergeants saw that the villagers behind Hu Cheng were working hard to carry the wine, so they had to grab it and bear it themselves, and told these villagers not to be nervous and afraid.
Hu Cheng was a little stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this is still a thief who kills people without blinking?
Soon he saw Lin Bao, the commander of the Liangshan Army, and Sanniang, the little sister who was not tied up and had not lost her freedom, but he was even more confused.
This Lin Leopard not only did not ask the teacher for his guilt, but took the opportunity to put forward conditions, but was very enthusiastic and polite to talk about cooperation with him.
“…… I wanted to visit Hujiazhuang for a long time, but I didn't want such a thing to happen...... In fact, our Liangshan army has no hostility towards the three Zhuangzi of Dulonggang, and this matter is all caused by Zhujiazhuang's bullying of my Liangshan army, and treacherously releasing cold arrows and sneaking attacks at night......"
“…… I Lin Leopard will practice what he says, Zhujiazhuang is sure to break through the level, but this matter has nothing to do with your Hujiazhuang, now Hu Sanniang is willing to gamble and lose has promised not to help each other, Hujiazhuang is a friend and not an enemy, Hu Sanniang can go back with you later......"
“…… In fact, I called Brother Hu this time, not for anything else, but to run some industries with Hujiazhuang, and to do maritime trading. Listening to the third lady, the business of the Hu family is now managed by the Hu brothers, I don't know what the Hu brothers want? ”
Hu Cheng had a completely black question mark face, but seeing that "Lin Leopard" looked very sincere, and the little sister Hu Sanniang also nodded slightly, although Hu Cheng didn't quite understand what this "Lin Leopard" meant, he still said cautiously: "I don't know what King Lin wants to run with Xiaozhuang?" ”
"Food, alcohol, and all kinds of daily necessities, in short, make money."
As he spoke, Lin Chong clapped his hands, and immediately two soldiers outside the tent came in with a lot of things and placed them in front of Hu Cheng.
Lin Chong picked up a bundle of vermicelli and said: "This is called vermicelli, a bit like soup cakes (noodles), you can cook it as a staple food, or you can make it into a dish to eat. ”
Hu Cheng and Hu Sanniang looked at the bundle of yellow-white translucent items, and had some doubts in their hearts about how delicious this thing could be.
At this time, Lin Chong picked up another clay pot, opened the seal, and a rich sweet smell wafted out.
"Brother Hu is often out and about, so sometimes he doesn't meet the hotel, so it's not so convenient to eat, right? This is called canned food, also called convenience food.
Cooked food is tightly covered in a special clay pot while it is hot, and then sealed with plaster, so that it will not spoil for a year, even in summer. This is the canned Dongpo meat produced by my Liang Shanjun, you can taste it......"
The two brothers and sisters hesitated slightly, but they still sandwiched a piece by themselves, and then Meiyu stretched out, and Hu Sanniang couldn't help but clip another piece, and even said that it was delicious.
"And this one, called Thirteen Spices, is used for cooking, and it tastes great...... There are all kinds of other good things, such as salt, and our Liangshan Army has the best salt in the whole Great Song Dynasty, but the price is extremely low. ”
Lin Chong picked up a bag of salt, tore open a big hole and handed it to Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng took it suspiciously, poured a little into his palm, and then his two eyes widened, and he was stunned.
This salt is too fine, too white, too pure!
Hu Cheng subconsciously twisted a small pinch of fine salt and put it in his mouth, and found that there was no miscellaneous smell, Rao was so salty that his mouth twitched, but his face was full of enjoyment.
"Sure enough, it's the best salt, there is no smell at all, how can King Lin have such good salt?"
Lin Chong smiled, and said in his heart, is this a product in the system more than a thousand years later, do you want to tell you?
"Brother Hu also thinks this salt is good?"
"Naturally, I haven't seen better salt than this!"
"How much does Brother Hu think such a good salt can be sold?"
If you want to talk about the price of salt in the Great Song Dynasty, it's all tears if you talk too much!
The salt of the Great Song Dynasty generally has three kinds of green salt, anti-salt, and sea salt, the price is changeable, and it is different from place to place, but in general, it is one word, expensive!
However, even so, in the time of Taizu Taizong, no matter how expensive the salt was, it was also within the acceptable range of the people, and it is said that at that time, the salt was divided into three grades, and the price was between 34 and 44 wen per catty;
Sea salt, on the other hand, is divided into 31 grades, with a price of between 8 and 47 wen per catty.
Over the past 100 years, the price of official salt has risen and fallen, and generally has risen slowly.
But since the current official family became the emperor and appointed Cai Jing as the prime minister, the price of official salt has risen to the sky like wings.
Now the official salt that can be imported in Jingdong is at least more than 100 wen per catty, and it is not so pure.
And the best official salt, the price is at least more than 200 Wen.
Therefore, now people everywhere can only eat lightly, or they will buy more or less private salt.
Hu Cheng thinks that such a good salt, even if it is a private salt bought from Liao, and then processed by Liang Shanjun for the second time, the price per catty will be at least hundreds of Wen.
Lin Chong shook his head with a smile and said, "I am going to sell it at a price of forty wen per bag, such a bag of salt is about twelve taels and a half (in the late Northern Song Dynasty, one catty was almost 640 grams, divided into sixteen taels), that is, almost less than thirty-four wen per catty." ”
Hu Cheng was speechless in shock again.