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Yang Ruifeng explained that the Jimo battalion, which is located in the north of Jimo County, was originally a military camp for soldiers, and several hundred recruited soldiers were stationed there. When Kong Youde rebelled in Dengzhou, the soldiers of the Jimo battalion were transferred, and the Jimo battalion was temporarily empty. After Kong Youde surrendered to Houjin with his troops, the soldiers of the Jimo battalion did not come back to station, but were transferred to the Henan front line to confront the Shaanxi rebel army. As a result, the Jimo camp was vacant for a long time.

I don't know when the salt barons began to occupy Jimo Camp as a place for trading. Small salt lords from all over the country sell the private salt they have collected here. Some of the larger salt barons bought large sums of money here to buy private salt. If the private salt is sold directly to Jimo Camp, each catty of private salt can be sold for more than ten cents.

However, there are hundreds of miles from Fushan to Jimo Camp, and it takes two days to carry salt. Along the way, it's hard to say whether you will encounter other salt lords and have a scene of black eating black. This scene is indeed very common. When a load of salt arrives at Jimo Camp, it is one or two pieces of silver, which is enough to tempt the other salt lords.

In addition, you may even encounter the salt dices of the salt inspection department. When encountering salt barons, at most, the illegal salt was snatched away, and several people died. If you encounter salt, you will go bankrupt. The salt inspector's specialty is to catch a person, and then extort his relatives, and squeeze oil out of the stone. The ability of officials in the Ming Dynasty to extort money is absolutely not an exaggeration to describe it as perfect.

"I'll figure it out."

Zhang Zhun took over the difficulties without hesitation.

He immediately found Yang Zhiyuan and Hao Linyong to discuss the matter of transporting illicit salt to Jimo Camp.

Yang Zhiyuan said with some worry: "Captain, if you don't go, it will definitely not be safe on the road." But what if you go? ”

Hao Linyong also thinks so.

In fact, Zhang Zhun also has a headache.

The commander-in-chief should be with his own army!

Without an army, a commander-in-chief is nothing!

If he goes to the Jimo camp, he must take the main force of the escort with him!

Get the private salt to the Jimo camp, he is completely sure. There is nothing remarkable about the salt owl, everyone has met, and at most there is a fierce fight. Kill a few people on the other side, let the other party see their strength, and naturally they don't dare to provoke easily. If you do it more fiercely, simply go to the door and destroy all the other party to prevent future troubles.

The problem is that it takes at least four days to go back and forth. Four days was enough time for Wang Shixin to find the right opportunity to level Yangjiatun. The escort team can't be too far away from Yangjiatun, this is everyone's consensus. If it was because of the escort of illicit salt, the house was copied, and it was obviously worth the loss.

However, if Zhang Zhun doesn't go, relying on others, he really has no certainty.

Yang Zhiyuan, Hao Linyong and others did not have the strength to fight against the salt lord alone.

The doppelganger lacked skills, so Zhang Zhun had to temporarily suppress the matter.

A few days have passed, and the training results of the escort team are as good as they used to be, and the assassination skills of the recruits are already ready for battle. However, the backlog of private salt is also increasing. By the beginning of March, every household had a backlog of almost one load of salt, plus the last time Lei Laosan robbed, there were almost two loads of salt.

The families of the guards are all subsidized by boiling salt, and the tea, oil, sauce, vinegar and rice are all from private salt. Now there is no way to sell the private salt, the only source of money is cut off, and although there are still fish to eat every day, the people's hearts are inevitably a little fluctuating.

Zhang Zhun decided to use the silver seized from Lei Laosan to buy all the illicit salt. In total, it is 60 taels of private salt, about 6,000 catties, and according to the purchase price of 5 cents per catty, it is just more than 30 taels of silver. In this way, the silver seized from Lei Laosan was basically spent.

The private salt has been purchased, and the hearts of the guards have stabilized, and everyone continues to train with peace of mind. However, this time it was Zhang Zhun's turn. How to deal with these more than 60 loads of private salt is really a troublesome matter. And, over time, the military households will cook more private salt. If he can't sell it, he will have a backlog, and he won't have the money to buy these private salts.

Without income, the convoy will definitely be disbanded.

What to do?

The eyes of every military household were focused on Zhang Zhun.

Even Yang Kaide got up and walked around on crutches.

With so much illicit salt that can't be sold, he can't help but be in a hurry!

Yang Ruifeng went to Jimo County several times to find the salt merchant who bought the salt, but found that if there was no special relationship, no one would accept private salt at all. What he learned was that not only Yangjiatun, but also the private salt of other tuns was also difficult to sell.

The specific reason is not very clear, it seems that because of the war outside, there are many salt lords who cannot transport the private salt in their hands, and the funds cannot be turned, so it is naturally impossible to continue to purchase the illegal salt. I don't know where the gossip came from, saying that the Shaanxi rebel army was making a lot of trouble in Henan, and even big cities such as Luoyang and Kaifeng had to close their doors and prohibit people from entering and leaving.

"Is there no other way to sell?" Zhang Zhun asked.

"Nope." Yang Ruifeng replied.

Yang Ruifeng said that the current problem can no longer be solved by Brigadier Zhang sending private salt to Jimo Camp. Even if the private salt is sent to the Jimo camp, there will be no big salt lord to take over. Moreover, such a problem is not unique to Yangjiatun.

There must be another market for the illicit salt.

This is Zhang Zhun's idea.

On March 15, the weather was not very good, the sky was gray and the clouds were very thick, as if it was going to rain, but it never came. The air was very dull, as if it was breathless.

When he got up in the morning, Zhang Zhun saw the salt bars placed in the middle of the open space, and found that Yang Ruifeng had uncovered the covers of several salt bars, probably to check whether the salt was damp. If the salt gets wet, it will spoil, and the salt merchants will be even more reluctant to buy it.

Seeing Zhang Zhun come out, Yang Ruifeng said with emotion: "What a good salt, it's a pity that no one buys it." ”

Zhang Zhun walked over slowly and glanced at the salt in the basket.

He hadn't noticed the quality of the salt before, because all the salt loads were covered so as not to absorb the water and get wet. Now, Yang Ruifeng took the mask away, and Zhang Zhun really saw the true face of these sea salts. He stood beside the salt san for a moment, looking a little puzzled.

"Is this good salt?"

Zhang Zhun asked to himself.

There is no doubt that in Zhang Zhun's eyes, these sea salts are just the most primitive salt, containing a lot of impurities, and the surface has a yellow color, which is very ugly. Reach out and grab a handful of sea salt, astringent, large and uneven. Such sea salt, which is used for stir-frying, is obviously a bit reluctant, and I don't know what it is used for.

His heart suddenly moved slightly, he remembered something, and asked, "Brother Feng, is all the private salt like this?" ”

Yang Ruifeng said: "No. Some people like to mix some soil or something into the salt, either by mixing some fine sand, or by hiding a big stone under the salt burden to increase the weight, but we Yangjiatun are honest people and never do this. ”

“……”

Such sea salt has to be mixed with mud, Zhang Zhun is really speechless.

Why don't you make the quality of this sea salt better?

The salt of later generations is powdered, fine, and white, and it looks and feels good!

The salt in front of you, if you put it in the future generations, don't say that it sells for three pennies a catty, even if it is upside down, I'm afraid no one will take a look at it head-on, and the appearance is really bad.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Zhun said: "If there is better quality salt, will it sell a little better?" ”

Yang Ruifeng said: "The only salt with better quality is refined salt and green salt. However, they are all available in the mainland, not in Shandong. ”

He briefly explained that refined salt is only used by rich and noble people, the color is white, powdery, very uniform, it feels good to the touch, and the taste of the dishes is also uniform. The more high-end restaurants or something are also made of refined salt. The market retail price of refined salt per catty is at least fifty or sixty yuan, and the quantity supplied is not very large.

As for the green salt, he has never seen it, it is said that it is from the far northwest, very precious, the amount of green salt transported to Shandong, the quantity is very small, resulting in the price of each catty of green salt is more than 100 Wen, which is definitely an unattainable sky-high price. In Shandong, only the rich and noble have the money to buy green salt. It is a well-known fact that a load of sea salt is not as good as a few catties of green salt.

Zhang Zhun said: "What if I could turn these coarse salts into refined salts? ”

Yang Ruifeng looked at him in surprise.

Turning sea salt into refined salt?

Tricks?

Zhang Zhun ignored his surprise and said to himself: "Can you sell it?" ”

Yang Ruifeng nodded and said, "Of course you can...... Shandong's refined salt and green salt are all transported from Shaanxi, and now the people in Shaanxi are in turmoil, and Henan is also in turmoil, the roads are blocked, and the refined salt and private salt cannot be transported, and the price has increased several times......"

He explained in detail that Shandong's salt is not ranked at all in the country, both in terms of output and quality. In the north of Shandong, there is the Changlu Salt Field, and in the south of Shandong, there is the Jianghuai Salt Field, the output is very large, and the salt output is also relatively good. However, the best salt in the country still comes from Yanchi City, Hui'an Fort, and Huamachi in Ningxia Town, Shaanxi, as well as the salt around Xihai (i.e., Qinghai Lake) in Xingdusi, Shaanxi. Because these salt belts are slightly green, they are called green salt.

For a long time, green salt has medicinal functions such as salty, cold, cold blood, and name. In the Ming Dynasty, the greatest use of green salt was not for seasoning, but for gargling. The first thing the rich and noble do when they get up in the morning is to rinse their mouths with green salt. Therefore, for some groups of people, green salt is indispensable. Now the road is blocked, the good salt from outside cannot be transported in, and the coarse salt produced by itself cannot be sold, resulting in two problems: one is that good salt is more expensive; One is that kosher salt is cheaper.

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