Chapter 23: Prestige and Favor (II)

Shi'an Xie's people left, and they left with the "Yun's Salt Making Law" and a batch of Yunhua paper.

"Yun's Salt Making Method" is very important to Shi'an Xie's family, being able to get "Yun's Salt Making Law" from Yun's hands so easily is beyond the expectations of everyone in Xie's family, in addition, Xie Yang saw that the Yunhua paper that recorded "Yun's Salt Making Law" was very good, and by the way, he bought a batch of Yunhua paper from Yun's hands and went back, buying Yunhua paper is not a favor for Yun's.

The following means of obtaining the "Yun's Salt Making Law" from the Yun family and Yun's giving the "Yun's Salt Making Law" to others are completely two different concepts, the former can only use the "Yun's Salt Making Law" secretly after obtaining the "Yun's Salt Making Law", and if it is discovered, its reputation will have a great impact, but the latter can promote the "Yun's Salt Making Law" in their own territory openly.

After the Xie family, there were other people who went to Yunhua County to ask the Yun family for the "Yun Salt Making Law", Yun Yuankai did not mention any requirements, and directly gave them the "Yun Salt Making Law", and the Yun family gained a large wave of favors, which played a very big role in the future development of the Yun family, after all, many friends have many roads.

The Xie clan and some other forces inadvertently told the Yun clan that they did not want to keep the "Yun Clan's Salt Making Law" secret, and as long as everyone came to the door, the Yun clan would give the "Yun Salt Making Law".

After getting this news, those forces who secretly learned the "Yun's Salt Making Law" directly in Linhai County were speechless, and they worked hard to steal the "Yun's Salt Making Law" from the Yun family, and now they don't dare to promote it in the open, but they didn't expect that the Yun family didn't have the idea of keeping the "Yun's Salt Making Law" secret at all, it was really in vain, although they had already obtained the general "Yun's Salt Making Law", these forces sent important people to Yunhua County with gifts to ask the Yun family for the "Yun's Salt Making Law", and after getting the "Yun's Salt Making Law" given by the Yun family, Only then can the major forces promote the "Yun's Salt Making Law" in their own sphere of influence.

As a result, the Yun clan has gained a large wave of favors, and by the way, the Yun clan's reputation has also increased to a certain extent.

In the Dali Empire, the price of white salt is very expensive, a hundred times the price of grain of the same weight, but salt is an indispensable thing, if people lack salt, they will be weak in their limbs, if an army is short of salt, how can this army march and fight?

However, human consumption of salt is only an important use of salt, and there are other important uses of salt, and these uses are no less than the consumption of salt by humans.

As a modern person, you may only see salt used as a seasoning agent for daily cooking, in fact, the meaning of salt to the ancient people is more like the meaning of the refrigerator to modern people, salt is the most important preservative raw material for preserving vegetables, meat, fish, and milk, because these foods are easy to rot and deteriorate, unlike cereals that can be stored for a long time, but if they are salted into pickles (sauerkraut), ham, salted fish, and cheese products, they can be stored for months or even years.

In addition, it is not only people who need to eat salt, but also livestock, and if there is no salt for both people and livestock, there will be a big problem.

It's just that the price of salt is too expensive, a hundred times the price of grain of the same weight, that is to say, 10 silver can buy 100 catties of grain, if it is used to buy salt, you can only buy 1 catty, for most ordinary people, this price is too high, but people can't not eat salt, so the people's demand for salt has been maintained at the lowest level.

In this case, the amount of salt produced by boiling sea salt in an iron pot is far less than that of the "Yun's Salt Making Method", but it can meet the needs of everyone.

But now the "Yun's Salt Law" is widely promoted in the territory of the Dali Empire, and the salt production is about to increase greatly, which is more than several times the previous salt production, but the market has been saturated, and only the Yun family can say that the overall salt production has increased, and the extra salt is difficult to sell, because the people do not have much money in their hands, and they can't buy much expensive salt, as long as they can maintain the minimum needs of the human body.

Aside from the problem of expensive salt, the increase in salt production in the Dali Empire represents an increase in the overall national strength of the Dali Empire, you must know that there is not only one country in the Dali Empire, but also the Shengwu Dynasty, the Northern Hundred Kingdoms and other countries, the Dali Empire is not short of enemies, if there is a problem within the Dali Empire, the countries bordering the Dali Empire are likely to wage war against the Dali Empire.

Salt production has skyrocketed, white salt is piled up, but no one is going to buy it, white salt consumption is still the same as before, if a force wants to sell more white salt, there is only one way, that is, to reduce the wholesale price of white salt, and the same as Yun's method, this will attract more small salt merchants, increase the sales of white salt, and increase income.

In the past, there was no way to increase the production of white salt, but now the production of white salt can be increased, but it cannot be sold, and in the end, various forces will only reduce the production of white salt, so that the supply and demand can reach a balance, and the national strength of the Dali Empire cannot increase much at all.

The "Yun's Salt Making Law" has spread all over the Dali Empire as a result of the sharp increase in salt production, and the imperial capital Xinping is no exception.

Yes, it is to reduce the price of salt, and only this one method can really solve the problem, the price of white salt is too high, high ordinary people can not afford it, in the case of a sharp increase in white salt production, you can appropriately reduce the price of salt, with the same money, the people can buy more white salt, eat more salt, people will have strength, can do more things, such as land reclamation, mining, etc., the overall strength of the Dali Empire has increased, but the tax revenue of the Dali Empire has not been reduced.

Then the emperor of the Dali Empire officially issued an edict, ordering the price of salt across the country to be reduced to 5 silver a catty, this is only the first time to reduce the price, with the "Yun's Salt Law" officially replaced the iron pot boiling sea salt method, the price of salt will continue to decrease, the people of the Dali Empire because of the reduction of salt prices, have shouted "Long live!" "The Emperor is merciful! ”……

The people of the Great Li Empire were even more popular.

Thinking of such a scene, the emperor's old face showed a smile, and he did not forget the great hero who caused this incident, the Yunhua Yun clan.

So the emperor issued an edict: Feng Yun Yuankai was a second-class viscount, with a reward of 10,000 gold, 10 copies of 100 years of medicinal materials, 300 good horses, and 1,000 pieces of silk......

The total value of the items rewarded to the Yun clan was as high as tens of thousands of gold, which was equivalent to the net income of the Yun clan for several years.

The emperor learned about the Yun clan from the minister, so the emperor did not reward Yun Yi, but rewarded Yun Yuankai, who was in charge of the affairs of the Yun clan, and named Yun Yuankai as a second-class viscount, less than Yun Yi's first-class viscount, and the subsequent reward seemed to be given to Yun Yuankai, but it was actually given to the entire Yun clan, after all, Yun Yuankai was not the patriarch of the Yun clan, and could not fully represent the entire Yunhua Yun clan.

Yunhua Yun's family, who lives in a remote corner, has been valued by the emperor and received a huge reward, if the Yun family gets the news, the whole family will celebrate, and even because the Yun family has been valued by the emperor, a small trouble that the Yun family is having a headache at this time has also been successfully solved......