Listening to Qian Jiang's words, Qian Shun was overjoyed, several of his shops have been suppressed by several other merchants in Yiling in recent years, and they have long lost the glory of the past.

It's not that Qian Shun can't do business, but because the war has led to a decline in population, and the most direct effect of population decline is a decrease in aggregate demand.

In the past, when Yiling was at its peak, the population under its jurisdiction reached nearly 50,000, which is almost a quarter of the current population of Gangneung.

But the years of war have made some people choose to leave, and those who can never be separated from it, the current population of Yiling plus the garrison is less than 30,000.

The most intuitive manifestation of the reduction in demand is that the supply exceeds demand, and the competition between peers is more intense, and some merchants in order to ensure their own interests, they have joined forces and are ready to suppress some smaller merchants, and it is best to squeeze out Yiling, so that they can carve up the market again.

Unfortunately, in order to expand his own profits, Qian Shun used to have several shops under his name, including the markets for several important commodities such as grain, salt, and cloth, which had the greatest competition and profits.

Under such circumstances, the collapse of one Qian Shun is beneficial to several markets, so Qian Shun was almost simultaneously suppressed by grain merchants, salt merchants and cloth merchants.

Fortunately, Qian Shun's brother-in-law was a senior near Yiling City, and in this environment of low status of merchants, those merchants did not dare to blatantly attack the Qian family's shops, so they could only use the goods and capital in their hands to unite and squeeze with prices.

The Qian family's rice sells for 400 yuan a stone, and they sell the same rice for 395 yuan a stone, and when you also drop to 395 yuan a stone, they will drop it to 390 yuan a stone, in short, it is five copper coins less than you.

Although the difference is only five copper coins, these five copper coins are a lot of wealth for those ordinary people who are struggling on the line of life and death.

For the same thing, everyone is naturally willing to spend less money, but those grains do not fall from the sky, and the costs of purchase, transportation, and storage are all apportioned to the selling price of each stone, so the life of the Qian family's shops is getting more and more difficult.

If he, the son of a concubine who was inconspicuous before, could get a large amount of this kind of snow salt, which was a little better than tribute salt, at least the salt shop would face a different situation, because the price was about the same, and the fool knew how to buy better snow salt.

Moreover, this high-quality snow salt can also be sold to Jiangling, Jiangxia and even Changsha, maybe you can get to know some big families because of this, who cares about this small Yiling County.

Stopping the reverie in his heart, Qian Shun said to Qian Jiang with a pleasant face: "Jiang'er, our Qian family wants to monopolize this snow salt channel, and I don't know how much it costs. ”

When Qian Jiang heard this, his eyes widened, and he said, "Impossible, it is impossible for our Qian family to monopolize this snow salt channel." ”

"Why? This is our opportunity for the Qian family to rejuvenate, no matter how big the cost, I think it is worth it. ”

In Qian Shun's mind, the output of such fine snow salt would definitely not be very large, and from what Qian Jiang said that it only cost 30 copper coins, it was judged that the person who had mastered the salt making method that was more advanced than tribute salt was not familiar with the price of such good salt.

Because judging from the snow salt in these two bamboo tubes, there are at least eight taels, and after conversion, it only needs 1,200 copper coins and one stone.

Moreover, the snow salt in this bamboo tube is like sand, and it is clear that there is no dry salt that has not returned to the tide, which is almost impossible to do in the humid Yangtze River basin.

Such a stone of salt, even if it is not mixed with water, is placed in the courtyard, and with the night dew alone, it can at least gain 10% of the weight overnight.

Therefore, when converted in this way, it should probably be the actual price of 1,000 copper coins, although it is more expensive than the price of 800 copper coins a stone of green salt, but can those green salts with dirty colors be compared with this snow salt? They are not on a notch at all.

Qian Jiang looked at his father's firm eyes, and said helplessly: "Because of the snow salt there, we can't buy all the family property." ”

"All the property...... I can't buy it all...... "Qian Shun hasn't been angry for a long time, when did this snow salt have such a large output?"

Although his family property is not much, those properties and fields are worth at least two or three million yuan, and according to the price that Qian Jiang just said, he can also exchange for two or three thousand stone of snow salt.

I have been a salt merchant for so long, but I have never heard of when this kind of quality snow salt has reached the output of thousands of stones.

Qian Jiang had no choice but to tell Qian Shun what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and finally said: "According to the latest policy of Huaxia Kingdom, everyone can buy some goods that have been lifted through the online platform in Huaxia Villa.

Moreover, I heard from some people that it may not be long, at most a year, and the Li Family Farm outside the city will also be connected to the network of Huaxia Kingdom.

At that time, even in Yiling, you can buy those goods directly. ”

"Online platforms? What's that? ”

"This online platform is a unique thing in Huaxia Kingdom, it seems that their lord used the great divine power to conjure, and it contains the power of thunder and lightning, which can be thousands of miles in an instant.

Ordinary people don't know what to do if they put the platform in front of him, if it weren't for the fact that I studied in the Huaxia Villa for a few days, I didn't believe that there was such a magical thing in this world.

Since the purchase restrictions on the online platform have been relaxed, it has been like suddenly opening up another world for me, with a dazzling array of items, as long as you have enough Huaxia coins, you can buy them at will.

The most amazing thing is that it doesn't take long for the things you buy to be delivered to you by a dedicated person......"