Chapter 135: The Tide Begins

Before dark, some well-informed families already knew that Jining City had newly arrived a batch of high-quality green salt and refined salt, and immediately inquired everywhere and contacted familiar salt stores to buy it.

Rare things are expensive, and now if you rinse your mouth with green salt, you will have a lot of face when you say it.

The rumors on the side of the wharf have already spread, and many people who have rushed to buy it have seen this antique porcelain jar and green salt are all like it tightly.

The salt merchants were so happy that they sold more than 2,000 cans of goods that they had bought from Wang Zheng in the morning, and when it was dark and closing.

Even the Ninghai salt, which flowed into Jining for the first time, sold more than 1,000 boxes, and in addition, there were many people who got the news late, and they had to book the next day's salt goods when it was dark.

When Wang Zheng sold salt, it was not all sold to the salt lords and salt merchants in Jining City, if that was the case, it would cause a local monopoly, and the gains outweighed the losses, so about sixty percent of the salt goods were bought at high prices by merchants from other places.

That night, the salt lords of Jining City all came to the mansion of the shopkeeper of Yongchang Hao to discuss, the quality of green salt and Ninghai salt was excellent, and they sighed that this transaction was worth it.

However, some people have raised doubts that Qingyan and Ninghai salt are not both in the hands of local merchants, and many people want to raise the price here to make a profit before raising the price in other places.

As a large owner of a local commercial bank, Mr. Hao is naturally not easy to say.

However, this shopkeeper Hao is an old fritter, and he understands everything in his heart, so he just coughs a few times and doesn't say anything, which is naturally acquiescing in the eyes of those merchants.

In this way, five or six days passed, and the first batch of salt goods brought by Wang Zheng to Jining City a few days ago, including ten ships of Ninghai salt, had been snatched up by merchants from all over the country, and the first batch sold had even been shipped north and south with cargo ships and caravans.

After hearing this news, Wang Zheng was very happy, this can be in his own hands, the windfall profits of Qingyan can only last for a while, the main thing is to let Ninghai Salt take advantage of the momentum of Qingyan to enter Shandong Salt Road, and now the goal of the first stage has been completed.

According to the usual practice, the first household to buy the new salt goods to make a reputation, this task naturally fell on the head of the Jining Yongchang.

This review is more like the manual of a modern product, and it is also similar to the Yuedan review of the Three Kingdoms period, which is mostly simple and easy to understand.

Shopkeeper Hao didn't care, anyway, he had personally tested both Qingyan and Ninghai salt, and the color and quality were excellent, so he wrote it truthfully.

So the Hao family hired a few broken literati in Jining City, and wrote this wind commentary with a pen.

Wang Zheng sat in the cabin, holding this commentary in his hand and reading it carefully, there was indeed no gorgeous rhetorical embellishment, and there was no neat sentence pattern common at this time, and the general meaning could be understood at a glance.

It is mainly said that this batch of green salt came from Ninghai, which was seized from the Japanese and pirates after the official army recovered Yangma Island, and was transported to Jining to sell this time.

This is a pure texture of green salt, after a period of cellaring not only has the effect of concentrating and calming, but also can dispel poison and maintain health, and the unique aroma can be comparable to the general sachet, which is really a rare good product.

However, what Wang Zheng cares about most is Ninghai Yan's comments, compared with Qingyan's large comments, Ninghai Yan's is a bit of a cut corners, according to Fan Ruohai, these words are almost all copied from Huaiyan and Lu Yan.

However, for Wang Zheng, this kind of wind comment is completely enough, and even has the effect of contributing to the circulation of Ninghai salt.

Because the salt goods of Huai Salt and Lu Salt are still less due to the war in the Central Plains, the situation is still improving.

Compared with these refined salts, which are difficult to transport, Ninghai salt, which is close and has the same good quality, has an advantage, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes the first choice of large households.

Of course, there are not no people who doubt it, but the majority of people who believe in it still account for the majority, after all, it has only been five or six days since the arrival of green salt, and the price of each can has increased by four taels of silver, and Ninghai salt has also risen.

The salt merchants only spent five taels and eight dollars for the first time to buy from Wang Zheng, and the net income of four taels of silver was sold with their backhands, and the profits were still rising.

Wang Zheng's play is so perfect that even those who doubt it have nothing to say.

Some shrewd businessmen thought that a few days before the freight arrived in Jining City, there were suddenly rumors of green salt, so carefully considered, the rumors did not seem to be groundless, it was estimated that Wang Zheng was building momentum.

After thinking about it, people don't dare to look at Wang Zheng as an ordinary general, this mind is too shrewd, one link is linked to another, and when the people here don't see where the goods are, they have already built enough momentum for purchasing.

In the end, it was shipped to the dock and the price was raised, which was perfect.

Other businessmen take the green salt in their hands and naturally want to build momentum and then sell it, at this time there are different opinions, some businessmen find out some old Taoists, saying that this green salt is a fairy aura, and it can be used to prolong life.

There are also businessmen who invite miracle doctors from other places to give false testimony, saying that the young lady of a certain big family used to be riddled with strange diseases, and she has been better in a few days since she used this green salt, and even her head is much brighter than before.

The story of the three people becoming tigers is applicable everywhere, and there are many things to say, others have to believe it even if they don't want to believe it, and after half a month, the price of green salt has soared to nearly twenty taels of silver per jar, and the price of Ninghai salt has also risen a lot.

By September, the news that there was green salt in Jining City had spread all over the north and south of the river, and many merchants from Nanzhili either came by horse or arrived by boat, and the first time they arrived was to collect and buy at a high price.

The merchants in the area of Nanzhili are more affluent, and they naturally pay more attention to the enjoyment of life, and the green salt has been out of stock in Shandong, not to mention Nanzhili, so the merchants who come to buy from other places are very active.

There is a saying in the people of the time, Jiangnan businessmen are the best in the world.

With this wave, local merchants in Jining and Shandong understand the truth, and the real and false are speculated, anyway, the higher the price is raised, the better.

Wang Zheng had already sent the word back, and now the three big salt farms in Chishan, Yangma Island, and Hot Spring Town are all making Ninghai salt at full capacity.

Similarly, the magnetic kiln of the shopkeeper Peng in the state city is also working day and night, and even the shopkeeper Peng can't get out, and batches of porcelain jars and wooden boxes are transported to the salt yard for loading.

After all, the quantity of green salt is limited, so there are only 1,000 cans of green salt in each batch, but the quantity of Ninghai salt is sufficient, and there are thousands of boxes in each batch.

Now that he is really rich, in order to facilitate Wang Zheng, he directly used more than 2,000 taels of silver to buy a small boat in Gaomi for transporting salt goods, and built a Zhuangzi around it to house the salt and soldiers who escorted it.

After each batch of salt was shipped to Jining, a thousand cans of green salt were immediately bought out by the red-eyed merchants, and they were bought by the rest of the merchants at a high price.

After more than a month of intensive preparations, Wang Zheng successfully drove a wave of green salt, not to mention making a lot of money, Ninghai salt was also circulated in Shandong in just one month, and now it is gradually being recognized by local large households in Shandong.

More than a dozen large ships moored outside the wharf of Jining City for more than a month pulled up the cables again, but they did not return to Ninghai, but continued to go down the river.

At this moment, Wang Zheng had a confident smile on his face, standing at the bow of the boat with his hands in his hands, very proud.