Chapter 22: Prestige and Favor I
The reputation of Yunhua paper is gradually flourishing in Zezhou, but it has not yet been spread how far Zezhou is, and few people outside Zezhou know the name "Yunhua paper", but Yunhua salt is different, and the reputation of Yunhua salt has almost spread throughout the Dali Empire.
People who have something to do with the salt industry already know that Yunhua Yun's use of the new salt-making method "Yun's Salt Method" replaces the previous iron pot boiling sea salt making method, so that under the same manpower, the output of white salt has increased dramatically, and countless small salt merchants in Zezhou have rushed to Yunhua County to buy low-cost salt with their men in horse-drawn carriages, if the wholesale price of Yun's white salt continues to decrease, even small salt merchants outside Zezhou will go to Yunhua County to buy low-cost salt.
Because of this incident, the prestige of the Yun clan has increased greatly, before that, although the Yun clan is a first-class nobleman of the Dali Empire, a hereditary first-class viscount, and a county of land as a fief, but the reputation of the Yunhua Yun clan is at most in Zezhou can be louder, outside Zezhou, there are few people who know Yunhua Yun's family, and now there are more and more people who know Yunhua Yun's family.
The sharp increase in the production of white salt has also caused Yun's net income to increase sharply, and even Yun's net income in a month has exceeded that of Dingxiang Shangguan.
Shangguan's fief Dingxiang County and Yun's fief Yunhua County are not the same, Yunhua County is sparsely populated, the land is barren, and the income of the salt industry accounts for more than eighty percent of the total income of the Yun family, and Dingxiang County is different, although the area of Dingxiang County is smaller than Yunhua County, but Dingxiang County is rich in land, rich in grain, grain industry, livestock industry, brewing industry and other industries go hand in hand, bringing huge benefits to Shangguan, Shangguan's annual net income is far more than Yun's.
However, now it is different, Yun's salt production has increased sharply, which has doubled Yun's net income, as long as there are no accidents, it is a matter of time before Yun's annual net income exceeds that of Shangguan.
In the face of the changes in the Yun family, the other families are envious, jealous and hateful, there is no way, their family is not near the sea, they can't operate the salt industry, if they get the "Yun Salt Making Law", their family's income will also increase dramatically.
However, there are still first-class nobles who operate the salt industry in the Dali Empire, their family's fiefs are all close to the sea, and the official of the Dali Empire also operates the salt industry, these forces all want to obtain the "Yun's Salt Making Law", as long as the "Yun's Salt Making Law", don't they have a skyrocketing income?
"The Yun family will definitely keep the "Yun's Salt Making Law" strictly confidential, how to get the "Yun's Salt Making Law"?" That's what most people think.
The various forces sent people to Yunhua County to get the "Yun Clan's Salt Making Law" as much as possible, the Yun clan is the nobles of the Dali Empire, and some of the methods used to deal with ordinary people cannot be used to deal with the Yun clan, but they are not violent. On the premise of revealing yourself, you can use all methods to get the "Yun's Salt Making Law" in your hands.
So people from all walks of life gathered in Linhai County, Yunhua County, and Linhai County was about to surge.
The people of various forces did not think that the Yun clan would not hide the "Yun Clan's Salt Making Law", as long as others came to ask, they would directly tell that after the people of various forces arrived in Linhai County, the first thing they did was to sneak to the beach to observe the salt fields.
Looking at the salt pans and the mountains of white salt piled up in the open space, people of all forces were excited.
"If I can get my hands on the Yun's Salt Making Method, the family (Lord) will definitely reward me heavily." Thinking of this, some people's eyes were fiery, and they couldn't wait to get the "Yun's Salt Making Method" now and send it back.
However, they took a look at how the salt workers made salt, but found that the salt workers' method of making salt seemed to be very simple, mainly two steps, the first step is to put the seawater into the salt pond, the second step is to sit and wait, waiting for the sun to bask the sea water, the principle is similar to the iron pot to boil the sea to make salt, but one is to use firewood to burn, the other uses the sun, the iron pot is more limited, the iron pot is so small, how much salt can be made at a time, and the salt pond can be built as much as you want, and the sun can shine.
"It's too easy, isn't it?" The spies of some forces sighed in their hearts.
Yes, the "Yun's Salt Making Law" is indeed very simple, as long as you look at the process of salt making, you can basically learn the "Yun's Salt Making Method", which is why Yun Yi told Yun Hao that there is no need to keep the "Yun's Salt Making Law" secret, and the "Yun's Salt Making Law" cannot be kept secret at all.
Such a simple "Yun's Salt Making Method" made some spies feel very strange, and thought that the Yun family deliberately misled them, but after reading it for a few days, they found that this was the "Yun's Salt Making Method", and the salt workers used the "Yun's Salt Making Method" to continuously produce a large amount of white salt, so the spies left Linhai County and left Yunhua County with the "Yun's Salt Making Law" they understood in their hearts.
Unlike these forces who wanted to steal the "Yun Clan's Salt Making Law", the people of the Shi'an Xie clan, who had a good relationship with the Yun clan, did not go directly to Linhai County, but stopped at Yunhua County and entered Yunhua County to visit the Yun clan.
Shi'an Xie knew that Yun Yuankai's affairs were handled by Yun Yuankai, and Xie Shi's people did not visit Yun Mansion, but directly visited Yun Yuankai's Mansion, wanting to meet Yun Yuankai in person.
Knowing that the Xie family's people came to visit, Yun Yuankai threw down the things in his hands that had not been dealt with and met the people of the Xie family, the middle-aged man who was the leader of the Xie family was named Xie Yang, and he was the younger brother of the head of the Xie family, and his status in the Xie family was relatively high.
After a period of exchange between the two sides, Xie Yang said the purpose of his trip.
The Xie family's fiefdom was Shi'an County, which was near the sea, and the salt industry was also one of the main sources of income for the Xie family, and the Xie family wanted to obtain the "Yun's Salt Making Law" from the Yun family.
In fact, Yun Yuankai knew that when Xie's people came to visit, he knew that they were here for the "Yun's Salt Making Method", and when Xie Yang opened his mouth, Yun Yuankai directly handed Xie a piece of Yunhua paper with "Yun's Salt Making Law" written on it.
Seeing the paper in his hand that recorded the content of the "Yun's Salt Making Law", Xie Yang was stunned, he didn't expect to get the "Yun's Salt Making Method" so easily, the Yun family didn't even ask Xie what conditions he used to obtain the "Yun's Salt Making Law", and directly gave him the "Yun's Salt Making Law".
Xie Yang did not suspect that the content of the "Yun's Salt Making Law" was false, and with the relationship between the Xie family and the Yun family, the Yun family would not make a fake "Yun's Salt Making Law" to the Yun family, so simply "Yun's Salt Making Law", which was an incredible thing in Xie Yang's opinion.
Yun did not put forward any requirements to give the "Yun Salt Law" to the Xie family, on the surface Xie did not have to pay any price, in fact Xie has to bear a huge favor, although the content of the "Yun Salt Law" is simple, but the importance of the "Yun Salt Law" has not been reduced at all, Xie owes the Yun family a favor equal to the "Yun Salt Law".
Favors are a good thing.
[Depressed, the cover is heavy with other books, so it's good to change it, fortunately there are two covers]