Chapter 132: Real Profiteering!
Although the plan is very comprehensive, no one can say whether Ninghaiyan can still achieve the effect of being in Dengzhou Mansion in other places.
After discussing for a long time, Wang Zheng finally decided to send someone to transport Ninghai salt to Pingdu Prefecture first, and try the water there first, if the price is not bad, Wang Zheng will personally take people and things to Jining to open up the salt road.
However, it is difficult to say who this person is, Dong Youyin and Huang Yang and other generals take the initiative for military merit, but they don't know anything about salt goods, if they go, eighty percent will be slaughtered by the salt lords in Pingdu Prefecture.
In the end, everyone's eyes converged on one person, and that was Fan Ruohai.
This guy is now the representative of the salt lords in Ninghai and other places, not only knows everything about salt goods, but also involves firearms, so it is only appropriate to send him.
Fan Ruohai was full of reluctance after hearing this, too, Pingdu Prefecture is not as peaceful as Dengzhou Mansion, there are many bandits and bandits, and Yan Ding and officers and soldiers are also a different kind of thieves, with so many salt goods, they may be robbed wherever they go.
In the end, Wang Zheng forcibly ordered, I will let you go, but you can't go if you don't go.
Of course, it was so dangerous that Fan Ruohai couldn't be allowed to go alone, so Changyou was ordered to take more than 30 salt rods to protect Fan Ruohai.
Although Changyou was not a naturalized soldier after the last incident, he entered the Inspection Division to become a salt ding, and with his courage and outstanding skills, he quickly became a small leader with dozens of salt dings, and he was a good mix.
Changyou's life at home was not affected at all, and only now did he realize Wang Zheng's good intentions that day, and the reason why he reprimanded himself so harshly was entirely because he was protecting himself.
Wang Zheng's last sentence has become the driving force for Changyou to move forward now, because he knows that the general did not give up on him because of this, but gave him a chance to start again.
Changyou took the salt ladies to dress up as salt merchants, carried a steel knife at his waist, and carried the small box containing Ninghai salt behind him in a cloth bag, which looked like it was watertight.
Wang Zheng nodded, with this appearance, I believe that no one will notice them, as long as they are careful on the road, there should be no problems.
Fan Ruohai was still a little reluctant, but the matter had come to this point, and if he shirked it, he couldn't get over the fight with the king, and he didn't dare to provoke the king to fight, so he had to follow him out of the city with a bitter face.
Last time, Wang Zheng went to Ye County to ride a horse back and forth for four or five days, Fan Ruohai and Changyou can ride horses in Dengzhou Mansion, but when they enter the boundary of Laizhou Mansion, they must walk cautiously, and the schedule is naturally a few more days.
During this period, Wang Zheng went to the shopkeeper Peng again, and told him that in the future, the work of the porcelain jar and wooden box would be handed over to them, and he transferred a lot of workers from the nearby Zhuangzi to help, and even asked several teams of salt to set up checkpoints around to 'protect'.
This can make the shopkeeper Peng both excited and frightened, excited that after contracting the porcelain box business of the General's Mansion, he almost does not need to take other people's business, and the silver he earns is more than ten times that of before.
And after taking over this business, there is Wang Zheng, a big backer, how can other porcelain shops still have the ability and courage to compete with themselves.
However, Shopkeeper Peng also saw that General Wang Shen obviously attached great importance to this matter, and the salters who patrolled around all day also let Shopkeeper Peng know that these things must not be done sloppily, in case of stubble, his net worth and life may be lost.
In this way, the shopkeeper Peng is soaking in the magnetic kiln all day long to supervise the production, and those who feel that the quality is not up to par are reworked and redone, and if it is not good, he will go out in person.
Time came to the beginning of August in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and Fan Ruohai and Changyou and his party came back.
"Good news!"
"General, a great price!"
Changyou had already taken the salters home to reunite with his relatives, and Fan Ruohai shouted excitedly as soon as he entered the main hall.
Wang Zheng also put down the things in his hand and asked carefully.
Fan Ruohai and Changyou arrived all the way to Laiyang, crossed the Daizan River, dismounted and walked, and soon arrived at the boundary of Pingdu Prefecture, and at first they did not go directly into the city.
Fan Ruohai took people to inquire about the small counties and villages around, and even personally bought some Lingshan salt and carefully observed it by hand, Lingshan salt is currently the most widely circulated sea salt in Denglai and the two prefectures.
But Fan Ruohai was very relieved after reading it, he could see at a glance that there were too many doped particles in this Lingshan salt, and the color was too poor, obviously the workmanship was not fine, and the quality was not even as good as Ninghai's coarse salt.
After learning about the local price of salt and the quality of the salt, Fan Ruohai took people to several salt merchants in a row, asked about the price of local refined salt, and bought a few catties back by the way.
There is very little refined salt in Laizhou Mansion, and the quality is slightly stronger than Ninghai's coarse salt, which cannot be compared with Ninghai salt at all, but the price has always been high, and Fan Ruohai is completely relieved.
It took two days to understand the process of local salt goods, and on the third day after arriving in Pingdu Prefecture, Fan Ruohai took Ninghai salt into the state city.
I have to say that Fan Ruohai is indeed a good hand in the trade of salt goods, and he has been dealing with those salt barons in the state city for more than a day.
In the end, a salt lord was surprised after personally testing the goods, this is simply the level of Lu salt and Huai salt, the color and quality are excellent!
The salt owl's concubine looked at the exquisite wooden box and liked it very much, even if she carried it on her body, it looked high-end, and the salt owl waved her hand and pushed the boat down the river to the highest price.
Each small box of Ninghai salt was one or four dollars of silver, Fan Ruohai couldn't believe such a result, his heart was excited like a fire, and he immediately agreed.
The two hundred boxes of Ninghai salt that Changyou and they carried, if they were sold according to the traditional method of selling each load, that is, a few dozen taels of silver at most, but this time they sold a total of more than two hundred taels of silver.
I can't imagine how profitable this small box of Ninghai salt would be if it was circulated to the whole of Shandong!
A few hundred taels? A few thousand taels? Tens of thousands of taels!?
Fan Ruohai didn't dare to think about it anymore, for the sake of safety, he hurried back after selling the Ninghai salt he carried.
On the way back, Fan Ruohai couldn't suppress his excitement, he got rich, he really wanted to get rich this time!
The general is really a god, I didn't think of such a simple method before!
Fan Ruohai almost rushed back all the way, the soles of his feet were excited as if he was stepping on cotton balls, and he walked up and flew like he didn't feel tired at all.
Changyou and Yanding were both puzzled, why they were sad when they came, but when they went back, they were as excited as if they had found their father.
The only thing I regret is that I only brought two hundred boxes of Ninghai salt this time, if two or three thousand boxes are transported, Fan Ruohai will be willing to come a few more times.
"A box of silver for one or two or four coins!"
Everyone present had their eyes shining, this was simply too profitable, and the eyes that looked at Wang Zheng were full of awe, feeling as if he knew everything.
The same refined salt, packed in a small box, the price has increased dozens of times!
Now the price of Ninghai salt is dozens of times that of coarse salt before, and this price difference is too big, it is really unimaginable!