Chapter 44: Fine Salt
While discussing Jia Han's performance, several people walked towards the inside of the Nazhi Courtyard. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Hearing everyone praise his younger brother, he felt a little uncomfortable somehow. What does the future hold for my brother? He couldn't imagine it, but he heard that the court decided that it had nothing to do with the original clan, so he felt more at ease. Otherwise, with the current momentum of Jia Han, if he returns to the clan, nine times out of ten he will take over the position of leader in the future.
After talking about Jia Han for a while, Zhang Xiang'er asked Ah Duo: "Did you hear that Jia Han was given a name, so he had to send Brother Yao to Nazhi Hospital?" The current Nazhi Courtyard is good, but after entering, it has nothing to do with the original tribe. You have always asked Brother Yao to take your seat, and when he enters the Naqin Hospital, don't you have to choose someone else? ”
Ah Duo smiled and said: "I have already inquired, and it is not that I can't return to my own clan after entering the Nazhi Courtyard, but I must welcome the clan and return to the whole clan." At that time, our medicine family welcomed him back and said, what can others say? ”
Hearing this, the blind father hurriedly turned around and asked, "Is there such a thing?" Wouldn't our clan be able to welcome Jia Han back? I don't know if the court said that after returning to the clan, you can not be the leader. ”
"If you don't become a leader, what are you going to do when you welcome back? He works in the imperial court and has a good grade, isn't it better? ”
"That's right." The old man nodded, lowered his head to think about his thoughts, and stopped talking.
The blind priest's heart beat violently, and suddenly there was an ominous premonition. What do the words of the father mean? Do you want to welcome your brother back to the clan? What if Jia Han really goes back to himself? Will you be able to take over the position of leader smoothly?
The others did not pay attention to the change in the expression of the blind priest, and still discussed with great interest the performance of their respective sons in Nazin. Because the Zhang family's Shunai is not Zhang Xiang'er's own son, it is impossible to be welcomed back, but he is more free. Anyway, Qin Zhou didn't pursue him for using his righteous son to pretend to be his son, and now he is better for Shu Nai, and it will be good for his own clan if he really has a chance in the future.
These protons don't say that they will be big officials in the future, even if they are a public official in Qinzhou, they will be of great benefit to their own clan. If you have someone in the government, you can get more care than other tribes, whether it is rewards or trade, you can get the best benefits from the government at will, and you will be inexhaustible.
Seeing that when she was about to walk to the house, Zhang Xiang'er suddenly said, "Hey, there are still salt sellers here?" This salt is so fine, why is it as white as snow, and it is different from the salt sold in Qinzhou before! ”
Salt is a very sensitive material, and a few people stepped forward and looked around the boxes of table salt.
These boxes are samples, and if you really want to buy them, you have to go to the other side of the pile, so they don't crowd them here.
After looking at it again and again, the blind priest looked at his father and asked the servant standing on the side, "I don't know what the price of this salt is?" ”
The official looked at a few people and said, "This is the best refined salt, no mud and no sand, the most salty taste, one pound and ten dollars are enough." ”
Hearing this, the blind priest's face suddenly turned pale, and he quietly pulled his father's sleeve and whispered: "The fine salt sold here is ten pounds and ten wen." If this continues, who else will buy the salt from the salt pond in our clan? ”
Previously, the salt of the army along the border states of Shaanxi Province was introduced into the Chinese law, and the price of salt was different in different places according to the distance of the road to transport grain and grass materials. Qinfeng Road is higher than Yanyan, Huanqing, and Jingyuan Zhulu, and the price to merchants is 18 Wen per catty. However, this is the preferential wholesale price given by the government to merchants, and the market price for the real salt solution is more than 30 wen for attracting merchants. The green salt from Guwei Salt Pond, Dangxiang and Tubo is generally sold at 15 wen per catty, so most of the residents of Qinfeng Road actually eat smuggled green salt.
In order to crack down on smuggling, the imperial court forcibly distributed salt according to households. For example, in the Yongxing Army in the middle and east of Shaanxi Road, Tongzhou, Huazhou, and other places, the price of salt forcibly apportioned to households was nearly 50 wen. The logic of this matter is this: there is no price advantage over smuggled green and white salt, and the imperial court wants salt profits and cracks down on smuggling, which cannot be done by economic means alone. If you forcibly distribute the salt, you will have high-priced salt anyway, and you will never buy smuggled salt again, killing two birds with one stone. The implementation of the forced apportionment system of salt has actually become a tax, a disguised poll tax.
In the border areas, because of the need to fight and appease the people in the war zone, salt distribution was not implemented, but only smuggling was severely cracked down. Therefore, the official price of salt in Qinzhou is more than 30 wen, and the smuggled salt sold privately is basically 15 wen.
Xu Ping set the price of salt at 10 wen per catty, making the smuggled salt transported by the party completely unprofitable, and their freight was more than 10 wen. It is still difficult to make money by selling Shiwen for ten wen around the nearby Guwei and the private salt in the two prefectures of Die, but compared with the fine salt sold by the Sansi shop, the quality is much worse, and it also loses its competitiveness.
The biggest source of wealth of the Shangding clan is the salt pond, compared with it, the grazing cattle, sheep and horses are not important, just because I heard that Qinzhou began to allow the Fan Department to sell horses a little happy, at this time the blind Duoxin father and son heart is cold.
Seeing that the blind Duo's heart was pale, and he was about to do something, his father patted his hand and said in a low voice: "Let's go back and discuss this matter, this is Qinzhou City, don't cause trouble!" ”
Zhang Xiang'er and Ah Duoduo stood aside and watched coldly, there was no salt pond in their clan, and they were usually hot for the Shangding clan to make a fortune by eating salt, and there were no fewer conflicts. Qinzhou sells fine salt at a low price, and they are optimistic about it. They also want to buy salt, and the practice of the three divisions is only good for them, and there is no harm to them.
Seeing the blind Duoxin father and son standing aside silently, Zhang Xiang'er said to Ah Duo: "This is good fine salt, only ten cents a catty, this time I have to send someone to buy a few hundred catties back, don't come too late." ”
Ah Duo said: "How can a few hundred catties be enough? We all have a lot of family accounts, and we have to buy at least a few thousand catties! Or even tens of thousands of catties! Now that Qinzhou City is allowed to sell horses privately, the price must be much better than before, and it is enough to buy salt by selling a few horses. ”
Zhang Xiang'er said yes again and again, and walked around the place where salt was sold with Ah Duo.
The blind father had mixed feelings in his heart, and he was grateful that the court gave his son's name, and he only thought that he would repay the court's grace no matter what, but he didn't expect to usher in this first blow. The biggest source of wealth in the clan is the salt pool, and ordinary clansmen can say that it has nothing to do with them if the salt pond makes money, but for the leader and these important clansmen, this is to cut off their financial resources. Occupying the salt pond, this money is simply the same as the white picking, how many cattle and sheep can be grazing to compare?