"Are you sure the king is not joking?"

Wang Qing glanced at Wang Lun with a little unhappiness, and secretly said that he was in this situation, and the other party still had the heart to ridicule himself, which was too unkind!

Although he has not been in this business for a few years, there are many people under him who are proficient in private salt, and even if it is himself, he can be regarded as a salt expert at the moment. Wang Lun said that the transportation is not a problem and it is not put down, but the price problem is simply a dead knot.

"It's a big night, I called the Lord of the Wang League here, is it just to joke with you?" Wang Lun asked rhetorically, seeing that although Wang Qing did not argue, he still looked disapproving, and said with a smile: "Wang Mengzhu has been away for so many years, he should know the price of salt in all parts of our Great Song Dynasty?" How about you? ”

"Senior brother, I also know about this, just let the foolish brother talk about it!" Li Zhu looked at Wang Qing, then at Wang Lun, and reconciled in the middle.

Wang Lun didn't urge Wang Qing either, and said to Li Zhu: "Senior brother, please say, I and Chai Daguan listen to you!" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Li Zhu smiled and said, "When it comes to the price of salt in the north, I have to mention the salt." Henan, Hebei, west of Caopu, and east of Qinfeng, all eat salt solution. The price of salt to officials and businessmen was eight guan and two hundred yuan for one seat of salt during the Yuan You period (about one hundred and sixteen catties and a half of Song Jin for one seat of salt), and now, although the price has changed, it is still relatively stable, and has been hovering between fifty and seventy wen per catty. Of course, there is also salt produced by the water conservancy superintendents of Bingzhou and Fenzhou in Hedong, and the quality of the salt is very poor, so the price is much lower than that of the salt, and the price issued to the merchants is only 36 wen per catty. ”

"In addition, there is an exception in the north, that is, there is a metropolitan salt temple in the city of Tokyo, and the control of the amount of salt in the market is controlled by guò, and when the price of salt is high, it is raised when the price of salt is low, and it has been maintained at the level of 45 wen per catty."

Li Zhu spoke in detail, and Wang Lun also listened carefully. He wants to do private salt business with Wang Qing. Naturally, he had an understanding of the market in advance, and Li Zhu said the official wholesale price, not the retail price he knew in advance. Although Li Jun is also a veteran salt smuggler, he is only confined to a corner of Jiangzhou, and it is impossible for him to have such a thorough understanding of the situation in the whole country.

"In addition to the north, there is the southeast sixth road and Jingdong, the original southeast sixth road issued to the merchants of the sea salt price, the lowest twenty wen, the highest forty-five wen, but Cai Jing in front of the official house yì price increase. The price of salt in the six roads is fixed, and the old price of more than 20 yuan is increased by 10 yuan, and the 45 price is the same as before, that is, except for the highest and lowest grade salt prices, the price of the rest of the intermediate grades is increased by 10 yuan. ”

"Finally, there is the Sichuan Shu Fourth Road, the Sichuan Shu Fourth Road mainly sells locally produced well salt, and its price seems to be hundreds of Wen a catty, but it is iron money. It's not the price of copper coins, but it's actually very low, if there are fools who sell sea salt and solve salt in the past, there is only a share of blood and no return. If someone wants to bring salt out of his well on a large scale. It's not easy. First, the output is limited, and it has to be sold to Dali, and secondly, it is difficult to go to Shu. So self-sufficiency is the biggest feature of this place, so there's nothing to say about here! ”

Li Zhu is worthy of being an expert in the sale of illicit salt. He spoke freely and explained the price of salt in most parts of the country, and he did not mention it. Either it is too remote, or the population base is small, and in his eyes, it naturally has no commercial value.

"The final salt of this quality in the hands of the junior brother, if it is in the hands of the imperial court, the price is at least higher than that of the salt solution! I don't know where the junior brother got it from? Is it inconvenient to disclose the price? ”

Li Zhu really wants to facilitate this deal, even if he doesn't buy it in the future, it would be good if he could buy this warehouse of sea salt this time. After all, both sides are their own people, and Wang Lun began to hoard salt because of his own mentions. Especially when he found that Wang Qing was a little interested, Li Zhu's desire was even more urgent, and he received a few pennies in his heart, so as not to affect the friendship between the two sides.

Wang Lun obviously saw Li Zhu's intentions, and immediately glanced back at Chai Jin, Chai Jin understood, smiled, and said, "Thirty dollars!" ”

Hearing this average price, Li Zhu nodded secretly, feeling that Wang Lun's salt price was still a little cheap, and even if these refined salts were wholesaled to Jingdong's merchants at a price of forty-five yuan, there would still be many people who would rush to it. After all, the Great Song Dynasty has been founded for more than 100 years, and there are not a few people who are honest among the people, and the high-end market cannot be underestimated.

However, as a second-class dealer, the price after getting Liangshan Galli has no advantage. After all, he can sell it on the spot for forty or fifty dollars, even if he only adds ten dollars to himself, he still doesn't have much profit margin, after all, this is thousands of miles away from Fangshan, and there are many checkpoints along the way.

Thinking of this, Li Zhu felt that his idea of adding a few dollars was not realistic, he was tired and tired, and he also hindered his junior brother from making a fortune, which was a lose-lose method, of course, there was also a way, that is, all the salt here should be inherited, and as soon as he got to Liangshan, he began to sell it along the way, but this method was too scoundrel, and Li Zhu vetoed it without even thinking about it. He was talking about this matter in his heart, but at this time, Wang Qing had already opened his mouth:

"Leader Wang, it's not that Wang is unwilling to make this deal with you, but at this price, I will add a few pennies to take it back, it is better for you to sell it on the spot, and you can make more money. I see that you have tens of thousands of stone refined salt here, and it's really no problem to make fifty or seventy thousand yuan from changing hands! ”

Li Zhu heard Wang Qingxian say this, sighed, and said, "Senior brother, the alliance leader is really thinking about you!" ”

Chai Jin saw that both of them had expressed their positions, and suddenly smiled: "Both of them have misunderstood, what we mean is to ship the goods to the lord of the Wang League at the rate of thirty yuan a catty!" ”

Li Zhu turned his head suddenly, looked at Wang Qing eagerly, and said, "Alliance leader, the Chai officials said that thirty yuan is the price for us!" ”

Wang Qing was also surprised, and said in his heart, could it be that these salts were robbed by the imperial court, otherwise why did Liangshan sell them so low? But if it is robbed by the imperial court, how dare you guarantee that there will be goods every time in the future? At the moment, he tentatively said: "Every time there is such a color? ”

Chai Jin didn't know anything about the source of the goods, so he had to hand over this issue to Wang Lun at this time, but Wang Lun smiled and promised: "There will definitely be slight differences in the fineness of each batch, but it will definitely not become a two-grade product!" If the condition is really too bad in the future, let's negotiate the price, please rest assured! Moreover, on the source. You don't have to worry! ”

Wang Qing's brain cells were activated by Wang Lun's words at this time, and now they are running rapidly, the quality of these refined salts in Liangshanbo is only sold at the price of ordinary goods, what a huge prospect it is, which is equivalent to the audience that can buy these salts has expanded many times, even if it makes a few less money per catty, as long as there are more people who buy it, the profits are not rolling in!?

At this time, Wang Qing's blackened Yin Tang suddenly moistened. The whole person regained his vitality again, and he winked at Li Zhu again and again, Li Zhu didn't understand what Wang Qing meant, and wanted to pretend not to see it, but when he thought of his miserable appearance before, he couldn't bear it, so he had to grit his teeth. Suddenly, he saw this rare swordsman in the world rubbing his hands and muttering: "Chai Daguan, can you have a little less?" ”

Chai Jin smiled heartily, hugged his fists and said, "The Taoist chief asked for the wrong person." It's not something I can do with such a big thing! The implication could not be clearer.

Wang Lun knows that it is normal to bargain in business, you say a price, and people will pay a price. Then the deal was made, and everyone was happy. It was not the bottom line in his heart that this price was not the bottom line, and seeing Li Zhu's extremely rare face, he said, "Chai Daguan." The lord of the Wang League is a guest from afar, so don't let the two of them go unpunished! ”

Chai Jin was ridiculed by Wang Lun. But he felt very faced, his heart was very happy, and Wang Qing, who was about to admit his eyes, suddenly thought of something inadvertently, and then played on the spot: "As the saying goes, good things come in pairs!" The leader of the alliance cuts the Ma brothers, our cottage can't help but return the favor, just let two pennies, twenty-eight wen a catty, how about it? ”

Wang Qing was overjoyed, the original price of 30 Wen made him feel like a cat scratching in his heart, and then let Liang Shanbo send money, this is a real favor! Immediately couldn't help but be overjoyed, swept away his sadness, and thanked Wang Lun again and again, but he didn't dare to slack off Chai Jin. It's just that everyone present didn't expect that in the near future, because of Chai Jin's on-the-spot performance at this time, Ma Xun and Ma Jin were very distressed by outsiders and imposed a nickname, known as "rich and rivaling the country's penny".

The business was negotiated, the two parties were naturally happy, Wang Qing took the initiative to pull Wang Lun to go back to drink, saying that he wanted to toast in person, Wang Lun was afraid that Wang Qingle would be very sad, so he hung up, of course, Li Zhu and Chai Jin also persuaded each other, Wang Qing gave up, and patted his head again: "Leader Wang, you just said that the price is not a problem, but now I look at it, it is really not a problem!" But the little brother forgot for a while, you said that it is not a problem to transport all the way, I want to hear your high opinion! ”

Seeing that everyone was looking at him eagerly, Wang Lun didn't make a detour, after all, Wang Qing came to his senses and could figure it out, and said two words at the moment: "Yellow River!" ”

Sure enough, Wang Qing slapped his palm on the head again and said, "Why don't you say I'm not enlightened?" It's a good Cotai Strip to forget! ”

Everyone laughed, and Wang Lun couldn't help but laugh, at this time, Li Zhu's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Walking by water, it doesn't matter how much salt you have!" Let's transport 10,000 stones by land and scare people to death, but in the Yellow River, it's just a matter of a few big boats! This time, we really have the blessing of my junior brother, as long as the supply of goods in Liangshan is enough, then the foolish brother can sell the illicit salt to the imperial dining room of Zhao Guan's family! ”

"The Taoist chief said very much, but I still want to see what Tian Hu's reaction will be when he eats the illicit salt we sell!" Wang Qing sneered. His angry words contained his ambitions for the Hedong private salt market. He is confident that in Hedong, where the salt is overflowing, he will take advantage of the advantages (price and quality) of the last salt provided by Liangshanbo. In addition, there are Jingnan Southwest, North Road, Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion, Jinghu South and North Road, and other vast lands, all of which can allow him to show his talents, and he even had the idea of selling sea salt to Dali country, which is short of salt, in an instant.

"Nine times out of ten, this can't help but pull the flag, I think in the future, in his 'imperial dining room', he will also enter some of our refined salt!" Chai Jin joked, and everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, but Wang Qing was the only one who laughed with his throat.

When everyone laughed enough, Wang Lun got down to business, and said: "From the Yellow River to my Liangshanbo, we must first enter the sea, and then turn into the Beiqing River, but the draft of the Beiqing River is not deep, and it is difficult for large ships with more than 2,000 materials to pass through guò, and the risk of the river boat entering the sea is very high. ”

Wang Lun's mention is very reasonable, Wang Qing and Li Zhu did not agree, and responded again and again, Wang Lun said: "In the future, my salt here will continue to be exported here, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of the government and people in the rivers and lakes, my cottage is a radish and a pit, and I can't get rid of people, so it's best to ask Wang Mengzhu to send a fierce general to garrison!" ”

"Don't worry, this king leader, some small things will naturally be handled by the junior brother! The leader of the king will also send a leader to stay there at that time! Wang Qing didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "The village jointly organized by our two families, which one of those who doesn't have long eyes dares to come to death?" ”

Life is like a roller coaster, it was still at the bottom just now, and now it is ready to rush to the peak of life, Wang Qing only feels that the ups and downs in a short period of time are too exciting.

At this time, he no longer thought about where Wang Lun got so much platinum, to exaggerate a little, the current situation has become as long as Wang Lun dares to speak, Wang Qing dares to believe it. (To be continued......)