Wu Tiaoqing squinted a pair of small eyes, looked at Qin Chuan and said: "I don't know if the elder brother has thought about it, these people who have received the benefits of the elder brother naturally have nothing to say, but what will happen to those who have not received this benefit?" ”

Wu Tiaoqing's words made Qin Chuan not understand, people who didn't get Lao Tzu's benefits naturally have nothing to do with Lao Tzu's salt factory?

Wu Tiaoqing gently took a sip of the purple-red wine in the goblet, and a pair of small eyes stared at Qin Chuan with a sparkling light. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"The people who didn't get the benefit of my brother are not only a lot of people, but these people also weigh much heavier."

"For example, it's impossible for my brother to buy all the salt from the eight salt factories in Changlu, right? No matter how large the output of the elder brother salt factory is, I am afraid that it will not be able to wrap all the salt in these salt factories for a while. The younger brother bought salt in the early days, there will be more or less in these salt farms, and if you sell less salt to your brother, you will naturally get less benefits, let alone those who don't get it. ”

"Those big salt merchants, it's impossible for my brother to make a point one by one, and if they don't get it, how can they not be blushing?"

"Those shore merchants and transporters, even if they can buy salt from the elder brother's salt factory, I'm afraid there will be more or less, and the less will naturally make less money, how can they not be red-eyed?"

"Also, since ancient times, all dynasties have never cut off the sale of smuggled salt, is my brother's salt factory a monolith? Can't get a little bit of refined salt? Even if the door is tight, how can you control those shore merchants and transporters, brother, and you can't guarantee that someone will commit a case for profit. At that time, the red-eyed people attacked it in groups, brother He An? ”

"Many of those big salt merchants are characters with hands and eyes, and a small long reed salt envoy can't cover the old brother."

"Besides, I don't need to say it for my brother, I think my brother is also clear, Changlu salt has always been supplied to Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi and most of Mongolia outside the Northeast Pass and outside the mouth, how many people are here?"

"The people take food as the sky, and people have to eat salt, my brother's business is very big, and my brother's estimate is that the annual income of this salt factory will not be less than this amount."

Wu Tiaoqing said, stretching out a finger. Then he used his finger to draw a swastika on the table.

"Such a huge profit, don't say that those salt chambers of commerce are red, even those corrupt officials and cool officials will be red, even the imperial court is afraid of 。。。。。。"

Wu Tiaoqing laughed a few times and looked at Qin Chuan, who was sweating fine on his forehead.

"Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty, presumably my brother should know that he is an example of trouble due to wealth."

Wu Tiaoqing's words made Qin Chuan break out in a cold sweat.

The pair of glittering little eyes on Wu Tiaoqing's slightly chubby round face have been carefully observing Qin Chuan's expression, although Qin Chuan's expression changes are extremely subtle, but they can't escape Tang Tiaoqing's two gazes that seem to be able to see through everything in the shopping mall for decades.

Seeing that Qin Chuan was shocked by his words, Wu Tiaoqing couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, and said in his heart: "This young man is not only good at foreign affairs, but also can make things that foreigners can't do, and his business vision is extremely good, although such a talent dare not say that it is unprecedented, but at least such a genius is rare in the Qing Dynasty, and the achievements must be unlimited in time, if such a genius is not tightly grasped in front of him, his intestines will regret it in the future." The only drawback is that this young man is not sophisticated enough. But this is also giving myself a chance to catch him. ”

Although Wu Tiaoqing thought so in his heart, he still had an expression on his face that was deeply worried about Qin Chuan's recklessness.

Wu Tiaoqing decided to add another fire, and sighed slightly: "There is another thing, Brother Minghong probably didn't think of it." ”

Seeing that a trace of worry flashed in Qin Chuan's eyes, Wu Tiaoqing shook his head slightly.

"Brother Minghong, have you ever heard that the salt mound in the salt hall on the east bank of the Haihe River is piled up like a mountain?"

What is the salt hall? Qin Chuan had never heard of this name, but from a literal understanding, Qin Chuan felt that this should also be a yamen who managed salt affairs.

There was no need for Qin Chuan to answer, Wu Tiaoqing had already seen from Qin Chuan's expression that Qin Chuan had not thought of this matter in the salt hall at all.

Wu Tiaoqing took a shallow sip of the goblet, smacking the taste in his mouth, and became more and more proud.

Wu Tiaoqing put down the cup and said softly to Qin Chuan: "After the salt merchants buy salt from the salt farms, they must first transport the salt to the salt control hall on the east bank of the Haihe River for inspection, which is called the salt control. While waiting for the weighing and waiting for the delivery to the sales area after the weighing, the salt must be stacked and stored in the salt cutting hall, and it must not be moved. ”

"The method of stacking the place is to pack the salt with reed mats or sacks, each bag is a lead, each lead is three hundred catties, nine leads are a pile, each pile is called a port, ten ports are called a stack, and a row is called a salt lump. The salt mound is divided into old and new, the middle is bounded by the stone stele, and the south of the stone stele is the old mound, and the raw salt that has not been weighed is stored in the pile; To the north of the stele is a new mound, and the cooked salt that is waiting to be transported and sold is piled up and weighed. This is known as the two-lump system. Now the east bank of the Haihe River starts from the Jijialou in the south to the salt hall in the north, and there are salt mounds everywhere. ”

"To store salt in the salt bar, one is to buy the site yourself, and the other is to rent it."

Zhang Tao said in "Jinmen Miscellaneous Records" that the salt mound stacked in the salt hall: the salt bags are like mountains, calling for salt yards, covering an area of several miles, as far as the eye can see. In "Jinmen Hundred Songs", it is even said that this salt mound: piled up like mountains and seas and rivers, and there are salt mounds for miles east of the river. It can be seen that the number of salt mounds is huge. As far as my brother knows, there are no less than 500,000 bags of raw salt piled up in this salt cutting hall right now. ”

Wu Tiaoqing looked at Qin Chuan, whose face had changed a little color, and said: "The time for this salt to be weighed can be long or short, although some have already paid the money to buy salt and completed all the procedures, but the people in this salt hall have been delayed in handling the weighing, and the salt mounds waiting for the weighing, some of them have been stacked for a year, and the short ones have to be one or two months, just like that, the salt merchants have to spend a lot of money to dredge." ”

"Minghong, you think, even if those salt merchants buy salt from you, and then transport it to the salt cutting hall to wait for weighing, it will take several months at the earliest. Most of them do not have a lot of money, and most of them have not very much money, if they are all suppressed in the salt hall, where they still turn over, your refined salt is sold well, and it has to be backlogged in the warehouse in the factory. ”

Qin Chuan really didn't know that before this salt was sold to various places, it had to go through such a complicated and protracted procedure, if it was really what Wu Tiaoqing said, it would be a big problem, and the salt water was really deep for his grandmother.

But Qin Chuan thought about it again, that's not right, this salt is pressed in the salt hall waiting to be weighed, if it can't be transported out for a long time, then the salt of the people everywhere will be cut off, and if there is no salt to eat, then there will be no trouble?

However, don't say now, even in the future generations, whether in books or film and television dramas, he has never heard that the people there have no salt to eat and make trouble.

Didn't Wu Tiaoqing and Li Jingfang join forces and form a group to deceive me, the "turtle"?