Seven things for the people to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Salt is in fourth place, but in fact, many people can only afford to eat boiled vegetables, oil is not available, but salt is indispensable, without salt there is no strength, no work, no ability to support the family.

When they saw the price of salt dropping, many people were tempted to stop buying vegetables and hurry up to buy some salt.

A few days ago, the people who were frightened by the price of salt set off a rush to buy salt, and the big guys rushed to be the first, more and more people bought it, and the queue was long.

Seeing so many people coming, the officials were shocked, and said in their hearts, don't go up the price of salt again!

Hurriedly came to the store to take a look, but they were all frightened, white salt, everywhere, a penny of silver and a catty, not only did not increase the price because of the rush to buy, but hung out a sign, buy ten catties and get one catty.

Ooh!

It's really cheap, even these officials paid money and joined the ranks of rushing to buy.

The price of salt in the whole Lianghuai is like a roller coaster, from the original high point all the way down, generally dropped to one or two cents of silver, and the city closer to the sea even has an ultra-low price of two cents of silver and three catties of salt.

Half of the money used to buy enough salt for a year, and the rest of the money can be used to tear a piece of flower cloth for a child, make a dress, or add a hoe to the family......

Salt merchants, they never worry about the problem of salt, but they are very aware of the changes in business.

In front of Wang Lutai, there is a monthly income account, and in the first half of the month, due to the previous sharp rise in salt prices, the income has increased by 50%. Converted into silver, there are seven or eight hundred thousand taels of inflation.

There are also seven or eight thousand ingots cast into one hundred and one taels. can fill several rooms, silver treasures, hard-working Liba can't earn a single ingots in his life!

Money comes so easily!

Wang Lutai calculated to take out 200,000 taels and donate them to the temple to cast a golden bodhisattva. The old abbot privately promised that the Bodhisattva's facial features would be cast in the shape of Wang Lutai. The thought of sitting upright on top of the shrine. There were countless believers below who bowed and worshipped, and Wang Lutai's vanity was greatly satisfied.

That's right!

He is a god, a god who turns stones into gold! Turn decay into a miraculous god!

In the sky and on the ground, no matter what the vicissitudes of life, as long as he holds the salt, he is a well-deserved king!

After being dark for a long time, Mrs. Wang Lu cleaned up her mood and looked down, and there was less in the second half of the month. only earned 200,000 taels, Wang Lu frowned a little. Maybe the front is too fierce, and when they see the price of salt drop, those mud legs are watching again. It doesn't matter, as long as it goes back in a few days, it will rise again.

And Yan Maoqing has promised that it won't be long before the Wang family's industry will continue to expand. It's not just Nan Zhili, he even wants to control Henan. Salt in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places. In the eyes of Wang Lutai, the traffic line is just hard money, how can he live comfortably.

Listen to music and watch plays, and stagger. Casually, sitting at home and counting the silver, is there a more lucrative industry than a salt merchant!

Wang Lutai closed the account book, and was about to go to see the seventeenth concubine in Xinna, the moment he got up. He was suddenly stunned, and his eyes almost fell out.

He saw it, and there was a "negative" word in front of 200,000 taels!

What a joke, the salt seller will lose money!

I'm afraid it hasn't appeared since Guan Zhong, right?

It must be that the account book is wrong, Wang Lutai looked through it carefully from the beginning, and the faster he turned it, the more sweat on his forehead.

In the end, he even slammed the ledger and rushed into a rage.

The first half of the month is normal, but in the second half of the month, the sales of the salt shop under his name have plummeted by seventy, especially in the last ten days, and there are shops that have not sold a pound of salt.

The salt can't be sold, the hired guys have to spend money on the accounts, the rented warehouses have to cost money, the convoys under their hands have to be maintained, and they have to pay filial piety to the yamen...... It's no wonder if you don't lose money!

But why can't the salt be sold?

Don't those mud legs eat salt anymore! Wang Lu didn't believe it, he had seen with his own eyes that the poor ghost sprinkled a lot of salt into the pot in order to save a little food. The porters under his command worked every day, and the sweat on their clothes was layer after layer, and after drying, they all left white marks, which were all condensed by the salt in the sweat.

If you don't eat salt, you will kill these people!

The more Wang Lutai thought about it, the more wrong it became, could it be that his subordinates were deceiving me, and he hurriedly ordered to find all the stewards who were responsible for selling salt.

In fact, there is no need to look for it, these people saw the dismal performance, they were all frightened, and hurriedly ran to ask for guilt.

Wang Lu waved his hand, he didn't want to listen to useless nonsense, he just wanted to know, why couldn't the salt be sold!

"Master Qiyu, these days, there are a lot of shops selling salt, they have overwhelmed the price of salt by a penny, and what are they doing to buy ten get one free, people have gone to their shops, and there will be no one in our shop."

"What?" Wang Lutai raised his voice and roared angrily: "Nonsense, if you don't have a nest, why do you operate salt?" Do you dare to coax the master? ”

The steward was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and said tremblingly: "Master, they don't have a nest book, but they have a messenger." ”

"Chincha?"

"That's right, Lord Qincha said, the top priority is to reduce the price of salt, so as long as the salt that is taxed in the salt transportation department is all counted as official salt, you can sell it at will!"

The steward's voice became smaller and smaller, and Wang Lutai's face turned green!

"Okay, you Tang Yi, you dare to smash Lao Tzu's job, I'm not done with you!" Wang Lutai walked around the ground twice, and said angrily: "Prepare the car, I want to see Tang Yi!" ”

……

"The lower official meets Lord Qincha." Wang Lutai bowed deeply to Tang Yi and did not kneel down and kowtow.

Tang Yi smiled faintly, "Isn't Mr. Wang a businessman?" When did you become an official? ”

"Ah, Lord Huiyu, Xia Guan has been in Jiajing for 20 years, because he has made meritorious contributions to the opening of the border, he has donated the Zhi Yin, he has a five-grade crown belt, and the officials have completed the examination twice, and he is excellent, and Xia Guan can already be released to a mansion." Wang Lutai's tone was full of pride, although the Ming Dynasty was not like the Qing Dynasty, where you could buy and sell officials at will, but it also opened an opening for the rich.

As long as you spend money to sell the status of an official, after passing the assessment of the ministry, you will have the qualifications to act as an official, and you can serve as an official position such as a county clerk and a chief bookkeeper.

Note that it's just okay, it's almost the same as buying a lottery ticket to win the lottery, the number is pitiful, but there are still people who rush to it, after all, with an official uniform, it's much easier to do things, at least you don't have to kowtow to Tang Yi.

"Hehe, so we are also ministers in the same palace?" Tang Yiyun said lightly.

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Wang Lutai hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Xia Guan is just a businessman, how dare he compare with the champion prince." ”

"You're welcome, Lord Wang just has to say anything about it." Tang Yi accentuated his tone on the word "adult", a donor dared to fill half of the garlic in front of him, these salt merchants are really used to being uncles, and there is no one in their eyes!

Wang Lutai also felt Tang Yi's dissatisfaction, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Lord Qiqi Qincha, the lower officials heard that there are many shops in the market, selling private salt under the banner of adults, and the lower officials are afraid of damaging the reputation of the adults, so they specially came to report to the adults. ”

"Illicit salt?" Tang Yi stood up in shock, "How can this be reasonable, who dares to sell illicit salt, it is a sin to lose his head, and he is still under the banner of his own official!" Lord Wang, you're not lying about the military, are you? ”

"How dare you!" Wang Lutai hurriedly said: "My lord stabilized the price of salt before, and now the price of salt on the market has dropped, but there are still treacherous people who continue to sell salt and disrupt the market, which is really a crime that cannot be punished, and please punish your lord severely." ”

"So that's what happened!" Tang Yi smiled slightly, "Lord Wang, what you said is wrong, there are people who do the business of killing heads, and no one doing the business of losing money." Since they sell a lot of salt, it means that it is profitable. It shows that there is a problem with the price of salt! The official was ordered to stabilize the price of salt, and he must not see any results, so he hastily stopped, in case someone makes a fuss about the price of salt again, and the court investigates it, how should the official explain? ”

Don't look at Tang Yi's youth, but it's really scary to start a fire.

Wang Lutai sweated on his forehead, "Your Excellency, just rest assured, there will be no next time." ”

"Won't?" Tang Yi couldn't help but laugh and said, "Lord Wang, why do you guarantee this official?" Could it be that you made up the price of salt not long ago? All right! The official has never been able to find out the ill-intentioned villain, but he didn't expect it to be automatically sent to the door. ”

Wang Lu is crying too much, this one is too good at climbing the pole, how did the basin buckle on my head. He couldn't pretend to be up, so he fell to his knees in fright.

"My lord, the lower official swears to the heavens that he has absolutely not manipulated the price of salt?" Wang Lu swore too much, Tang Yi thought for a long time, and sighed, "Lord Wang, this official will believe you once, but the order to sell salt, this official will not take it back, and if the price of salt is really lowered, this official will never give up!" Stand down! ”

……

was pushed and shoved by Tang Yi's subordinates, and drove out of the line, Wang Lu is so angry, how can he ever be treated like this, it is too deceitful!

Don't think that you can bully Lao Tzu by relying on the prestige of Qincha, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, over the years, Lao Tzu has killed not one or two, not one Tang champion.

After Wang Lutai went back, he pondered carefully. The pass is still through the current crisis, the salt cannot be sold, there is no income, there is no silver, nothing can be played.

If you can sell it, so can I!

Wang Lutai immediately contacted several large salt merchants who were suffering from the same illness as him, and sold salt at a reduced price.

"Master, Wang Lu is too moving!" Wu Tianchengxing said hurriedly.

Tang Yi showed a happy smile, Wang Lutai, and the big salt merchant who stood with him, as long as he moved, he fell into his trap.

"Mr. Wang, how are you preparing?"

Wang Wenxian's face was flushed, and he said excitedly: "Don't worry, my lord, we have been preparing for this day for decades, and there is nothing else, how much salt and how many people we want!" As long as I can defeat Wang Lutai and these people, my old life is worth it even if I am tired to death! ”

"Hehe, it doesn't have to be this way." Tang Yi said with a smile: "You tell the big guy, don't be in a hurry, work steadily, the more critical the time, the more you can't make mistakes." ”

"Please rest assured, the small ones will be arranged."

Wang Wenxian strode away from Xingyuan, and a price war kicked off...... (To be continued.) )

PS: Yesterday I conceived this plot, and I finally thought it through, and there was an outbreak today, so let the adults read it in one go!