"Lord Cao, where are the thieves you caught?"

Cao Ming's men searched the entire Sun Mansion, but it was clear that he had not caught the thief. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After seeing this scene, Sun Ku was a little carried away, and then Zhou Wu and the others also set their eyes on Cao Ming.

"Lord Cao, where is the thief?"

"Yes, Lord Cao, you said there was a thief, but where is the thief now?"

"I wonder if this counts as a frame-up?"

These salt merchants were so proud that they had forgotten their identities a little between their words, Cao Ming looked at these people and showed a sneer, and then suddenly shouted: "You group of people are so bold, you have entangled the official so that you have delayed the time and let the thief run away, and now you are asking the official where the thief is?" I think it's clear that you're stalling for time to give the thief a chance to escape, Sun Ku, are you guilty? ”

After Cao Ming's words came out, Sun Ku and the others were dumbfounded, and at this time they realized that as businessmen, it seemed useless to talk to officials about this, they looked up to themselves too much, but in fact, Cao Ming didn't take them seriously at all, in fact, Cao Ming had already thought of prevaricating their words.

Merchants are rich, and their lives are richer than the lives of many officials, so sometimes they get carried away and forget that their identity is actually very underground, and they think that money is omnipotent, that it can solve everything, until an official comes along and breaks this unrealistic dream of theirs.

Now, Sun Ku's dream woke up, he couldn't help but shudder, and then hurriedly smiled at Cao Ming: "Lord Cao, misunderstanding, it's really a misunderstanding, we are innocent businessmen, how can we collude with thieves, adults have to be clear, and now we haven't found the thief, doesn't it just explain this?" ”

Cao Ming's words just now also frightened Sun Ku, seeing that Sun Ku was really scared at this time, he had no intention of staying any longer, waved his hand, led his subordinates and left.

And not long after Cao Ming left Sun's Mansion, the entire Luoyang Mayor suddenly came with a news, that is, there is still a lot of salt in Luoyang City, and there is no salt shortage at all, and this has been confirmed when the government officials went to catch the thieves and happened to see the warehouses of various salt merchants.

When this news spread, it was accompanied by the situation of the salt merchants in Luoyang City.

Therefore, after the news spread, the uneasiness of the people of Luoyang City has begun to slowly dissipate, and those who want to buy salt and hoard it so as not to be unable to eat salt have also begun to stop buying salt.

All of a sudden, the entire Luoyang City salt selling place became crowded.

Because of the previous rumors, the people of Luoyang City have hoarded a lot of salt, enough for them to eat for a few months, so when they know that there is a lot of salt, they will naturally not buy it again, so these salt merchants are only afraid that there will be no business in a few months.

After this situation, Sun Ku and others are very distressed, now they have a lot of salt piled up in the warehouse, but they can't sell it, what can I do, salt is not easy to survive the summer, seeing that summer is coming, if these salts are in the warehouse, it will be a little more than worth the loss.

And just when Sun Ku and the others were doing what to do for the next business, people from the government suddenly came to deliver a message, saying that Tang Zhou was going to meet them at the government.

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The weather in late spring already had a hint of lazy taste, and when Sun Ku and the others came to the mansion, Tang Zhou was sitting in the courtyard drinking tea, he seemed very leisurely, leisurely and a little selfless.

Sun Ku and the others stepped forward to salute, probably because of what happened before, and several of them looked a little embarrassed.

Tang Zhou glanced up at a few of them slightly, and suddenly asked, "I heard that there is still a lot of salt in the warehouses of several bosses, but is this so?" ”

Hearing this, several people's cheeks suddenly turned slightly red, and they didn't know how to answer Tang Zhou's words for a while, Tang Zhou didn't seem to have the intention of waiting for them to answer, and then said: "Doing business, it's not strange to hoard goods, it's just that things like salt that are related to people's livelihood are used by you to stir up, and this is also that there is no big chaos in Luoyang City, if it really happens, none of you will let go." ”

Sun Ku and the others were secretly frightened and silent.

At this time, Tang Zhou put a cup of tea on the table and said, "Now you should know how to do it, right?" ”

Everyone looked at Sun Ku, and Sun Ku hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Don't worry, little marquis, it was our fault before, and we will definitely learn a lesson in the future, and we won't dare to do this kind of thing again, after we go back, we will lower the price of salt, and it will be the same as before." ”

Tang Zhou was very satisfied with Sun Ku's attitude, but after Sun Ku said this, he showed a sad face: "Little Hou Ye, we can reduce the price, but after the price is reduced, we are afraid that our salt will not be sold, and now the people have no sense of crisis, and every household has salt storage, we are very embarrassed now." ”

Hearing Sun Ku's words, Tang Zhou's brows condensed slightly: "It's okay, after you lower the price, someone will buy salt, but you must remember not to do this kind of thing again, otherwise you won't want to get salt again in your life." ”

Tang Zhou's words have a threatening meaning, if you can't get salt, you can't get salt, and if you can't get salt, how can you sell it?

The salt is very profitable, and they don't want to lose the deal yet.

Several people's hearts sank, and they responded again and again.

Tang Zhou saw that these people had answered, so he nodded, waved them to leave, and since they came in, Tang Zhou didn't give them any good faces, and he didn't even mean to let them sit down and have a cup of tea.

After these people left, Tang Zhou took a sip of the teacup, and then called Xia Fan over and instructed him: "Inform Song Xiaoyu and let her buy a large number of salt after the salt prices of the salt merchants are reduced." ”

Speaking of this, Tang Zhou hesitated for a moment and said, "The price of salt may be even lower than the previous one, so that Song Xiaoyu is optimistic about the opportunity to make a move." ”

Xia Fan nodded, but he was a little puzzled: "Little Hou Ye, it is indeed beneficial for us to buy the price of salt, but we don't have to buy so much at once, although Cuiminglou needs a lot of salt, but it is about to be summer, and it is not easy to buy so much salt." ”

Tang Zhou smiled: "Who said that these salts are to be put in, Ben Hou wants to use these salts for experiments." ”

Hearing this, Xia Fan was even more puzzled, what kind of test can salt be used for?

"Little Hou Ye, don't be joking, what kind of test can you do with table salt?"

Tang Zhou shook his head, and didn't explain too much, just let Xia Fan do what he told him, in fact, the salt of the Tang Dynasty is not refined salt even if it is very good salt, there are many impurities in it, and the taste is not very pure, and even has a trace of bitterness, Tang Zhou has thought about developing refined salt before, but he has never had the opportunity, and although he was a chef in his previous life, he was perfect in the use of salt, but how to make refined salt, he only knew a little.

For various reasons, Tang Zhou only has the opportunity to make refined salt now.