The price war has always been the most cruel, after the major salt merchants invested, the price of salt quickly fell below a penny of silver, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Xuzhou and other places have appeared with copper coins to settle the salt, only eight dollars a catty. As for the more remote places such as Fengyang, there are only one or two.

The price of salt has fallen below the lowest price in many years, but the momentum has not abated in the slightest, and countless horse-drawn carts have suddenly appeared on the road, all loaded with table salt.

I don't know where so much salt came out of the market, in the past, people had to queue up to buy, but now they don't need to, they can pick and choose, who gives enough points, whose salt is white, in order to attract guests.

Every day, the price of salt, as well as the reaction of the market, will be sent to Tang Yi, as the real manipulator of this battle, Tang Yi is very satisfied,

Just the day before, the price of salt in Huai'an fell below six yuan a catty, and according to Tang Yi's judgment, this figure was almost to the limit.

Production costs and taxes must be paid, and freight is also a big head, and it also costs money to deal with the government, so the cost of a pound of salt should be four to five yuan, and if it is pressed down, it will lose money.

Tang Yi felt the need to communicate with Wang Wenxian, hand-to-hand combat, bayonet red, can they hold on?

"Please rest assured!"

Wang Wenxian led more than 20 wealthy stove households, patting their chests together.

"My lord, in the past, we couldn't sell salt by ourselves, and we had to sell as much as we needed to the big salt merchants, and they would sell it outside, and we would earn two cents for a pound of salt, which was not much different from now."

The others also said, "My lord, as long as you can cover it, we can hold it!" ”

"Good!"

Tang Yi showed a pleased smile, "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, and if we don't advance against the current, we will retreat, so let's join forces." Fight a beautiful counterattack! ”

Tang Yi's enthusiasm infected everyone, no one is a natural slave, and the longer the oppression, the more fierce the resistance. These guys from poor stove households all have a desperate head.

According to Tang Yi's deployment, the next stage is no longer to lower prices, but to seize the market. It is necessary to drive out the big salt merchants completely.

In addition to the price, there is also the quality, but also the service!

Tang Yi told the big guy, for the time being, suffer a little hardship, as long as the big salt merchant is defeated, the salt profit of the whole world is the big guy!

You produce salt, you work hard, why should you give the bulk of salt profits to others? You are willing to live and live. Do they all work for the big salt merchants? Don't you want to think about your children and grandchildren?

Wu Tiancheng listened to it next to him, and he felt his blood boiling. In a trance, it seems that Tang Yi faced the wonderful agitation of a group of refugees back then, and he instigated a traffic trip back then, and what will happen now, which is really exciting!

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The brutal price war lasted for a month, and Wang Lutai and others took stock of the accounts again and cried.

compared to the previous month. Sales have been cut in half again! At this rate, it doesn't take the end of the year. They got out of the salt market completely.

Wang Lu was too depressed and vomited blood, and he was puzzled, obviously the price had been lowered, why couldn't he sell it?

He asked his men to investigate the cause immediately and wait for the results to be delivered.

In the past, large salt merchants had a monopoly operation, and the quality of salt was very poor. A pound of salt has half a pound of sand, mixed with dirt, grass, and dirty, and the people have no choice. I can only endure the pain to buy the salt with low quality and high price.

As for their opponents, not only is the price low, but they are also clean and white table salt, without any impurities. For the same price, who will buy theirs.

Wang Lu was so angry that he stomped his feet, "We were fooled!" ”

At the top of the food chain, these big salt merchants disdained to run salt farms, and all they had to do was collect salt from the stove and sell it.

But now, some of the stove households have rebelled, and although the other part of the stove households did not follow suit, they also had a tendency to sell salt.

What was given to the big salt merchants was still the salt in the past, mixed with soil and sand, and the really high-quality salt fell into the hands of Wang Wenxian and others.

Of course, if you want good table salt, you can just increase the price.

But once the price is raised, the price of salt will go up again?

It makes you in a dilemma, you can't eat and vomit, like a fish in your throat, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

It is the typical Down's style.

Wang Wenxian once proposed to unite all stove households to stop the supply of salt. was forbidden by Tang Yi, firstly, there were too many stove households, and there was no way to form a fist, and secondly, he couldn't force the big salt merchant to a dead end all at once, and the fish died and the net was broken.

Tang Yi adopted the method of mixing sand, and the stove households that did not jump out also had their own abacus. They don't want to tear their faces with the big salt merchants, but if their companions really win, they can also drink the soup.

So it was only natural that these people gave good salt to their companions and played a logistical role in providing ammunition.

What a deliberate thought!

Wang Lutai finally understood Tang Yi's power, no wonder Wang Chonggu and they were all very jealous of this kid, he was really black!

But don't underestimate us too much, Wang Lu thought about it again and again, called his subordinates, prepared a carriage for him, and went directly to Yan Maoqing.

They talked all night, and from the next day, the official stove households under the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division started at full speed to produce salt and supply the big salt merchants.

The addition of the Salt Transportation Division made the big salt merchant have a good card in his hand.

At least they have a direct supply of salt, but the official stoves are inefficient, the quality of the salt produced is not high, and they are at a disadvantage in competition with their rivals.

Helpless, Wang Lutai could only take out a lot of silver from his pocket to subsidize the official stove households. At the same time, Yan Maoqing was also desperate to forcibly requisition households, act as stove households, and supplement production.

Throughout August, the big salt merchants finally managed to hold their feet.

Before they could catch their breath, the other party made another move.

This time, Tang Yi launched a door-to-door delivery activity, and anyone who buys more than 50 catties can have it delivered to their door.

In addition, Tang Yi also threw out another killer feature, that is, the rural market.

For many poor rural areas, there is not even a grocery store, and if there is anything missing, they have to go to the city to buy it, and the family has to buy it. Dozens of catties, hundreds of catties of salt, walking dozens of miles on your back, is not easy at all.

Wang Wenxian and others' subordinates, there are not many others, one is a lot of salt. And then there are a lot of people! Many of the stove households have young and strong men who have nothing to do. Okay, this time, let's all be in charge of delivering salt!

Each of them wore neat blue cloth vests, walked the streets, delivered salt to the hotel restaurants, and some drove horse-drawn carriages to the countryside to deliver salt.

What is called hitting the snake seven inches, this trick can hit the key point of the salt merchants, what can they do? No follow-up. No one wants your salt. Follow-up, where can you find so many people?

And in the past two months, under the command of Tang Yi, Wang Wenxian's group has become more and more courageous, and their momentum has become more and more vigorous.

The stove households that were originally neutral and wait-and-see also followed, and a surprising number of small and medium-sized salt merchants have defected.

Most of these small and medium-sized salt merchants are dependent on the big salt merchants, and they do not have the ability to purchase salt independently, so they can only rely on the big salt merchants. Buy some salt from them and sell it.

It's good to say when the price is high. People eat meat, they drink soup.

But now the price is outrageously low, and they are not profitable, and even have to operate at a loss.

What to do?

Someone has thrown an olive branch to them, and if you join us, you will be given the lowest price of salt. Business difficulties, and money bank loans to help you tide over the difficulties.

What small and medium-sized salt merchants are pursuing is just to survive, and they have no capital to refuse.

Dominoes, down one. That's followed by a long list.

In late August, the entire Lianghuai Salt City, ninety percent fell into Tang Yi's control, and he clearly pushed Wang Wenxian and others to charge into battle, secretly using traffic to win over small and medium-sized salt merchants, and divide and disintegrate.

Among them, the vertical and horizontal shut, the antelope hangs its horns, and the immortals fly outside the sky...... All kinds of tricks dazzled Wu Tiancheng, and he knelt down directly to the master. Compared with Tang Yi, his previous methods are the difference between kindergarten and postdoctoral fellowship.

In the end, the big salt merchants had already found that they had no hope of winning the opponent head-on.

Only the sword went sideways, they instigated the local officials, as well as the imperial historians, to impeach Tang Yi, as long as he was driven away, the world would be peaceful.

Wang Lutai also has a few big salt merchants, anxiously waiting for Tang Yi's holy decree to be transferred back, waiting left and right, waiting for Tang Yi's will to add Tang Yi as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, undoubtedly, this is the imperial court's strong affirmation of Tang Yi's achievements in stabilizing salt prices.

All of a sudden, the salt merchants were confused, how could the tried and tested tricks fail?

It turned out that Tang Yi had grown up in the same year, coupled with the Xinxue people, and the salt merchants monopolized the world's profits, from Jiajing to those officials who ate expensive salt, they were all dissatisfied with the salt merchants, and they responded to the sentence: The people of the world have been bitter for a long time!

Especially Tang Yi, who overwhelmed the salt for six cents in one go, and the surrounding salt prices fell a lot.

As soon as the salt law was moved, the price of salt skyrocketed, the people's grievances boiled, and the officials took the people to talk about things, and no one dared to refute them.

But this time it was different, Tang Yi used the salt method, and the result was that the price of salt dropped sharply. How dare you say that the price of salt is not good, it is good to rise?

A sentence of competing with the people for profit can make you speechless.

Moreover, the price of salt has fallen off a cliff, which really makes people all over the world see how much windfall profits there are from salt, even if they are strict in the party, they are envious, jealous and hateful.

In front of Jiajing, Yan Song could only say that he wanted to kill the majesty.

Moreover, Tang Yi is more mature than before, he wrote to Jiajing before he acted, and he proposed to Jiajing that the fluctuation of salt prices endangers the community, and that those who manipulate salt prices will not be punished, and the chaos will continue one after another, and the slightest carelessness will provoke a popular uprising.

In the end, Tang Yi shouted even louder: "The people have been suffering from salt for a long time, the price of salt is expensive, the crime is not in the imperial court, and they can no longer carry the black pot for the small people!" ”

It was this sentence that touched Jiajing's sensitive nerves, yes, the salt merchant made a lot of money, let me be scolded, I am not a fool!

Jiajing accepted Tang Yi's suggestion without hesitation, agreed with his idea of maintaining low-cost salt for half a year, and added the post of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and handed over the power of the criminal name to Tang Yi. With the dog's head in hand, I have it in the world! (To be continued.) )

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