Chapter 196: Closing the Deal
For the businessmen of Hongyang County, it is naturally impossible for Zhang Tie to be unguarded, and there is a way to be careful to drive the ship of ten thousand years.
Do anything, you have to deal with it carefully, Zhang Tie has never seen the overturned boat in the gutter, if it wasn't for the carelessness of returning to the sea, the person who died might be Zhang Tie.
Accompanied by the guards, many merchants came to the disciples of the Wudang Sect and watched the contents of the box.
The small boxes are specially made with many compartments made of small wooden boards, which allows each small box to store at least two items, which is specially designed to hold samples.
Among the thirteen small boxes, only three small boxes contained the goods brought by Zhang Tie, and the others were medicinal materials brought by Deng Wei.
Zhang Tie's goods were arranged at the end, after all, Deng Wei's goods were the protagonists.
Ten merchants, including grocery store merchants, all put on the gloves given by the Wudang disciples, gently pinched the medicinal materials in the small box, and carefully examined the medicinal materials.
These gloves were prepared by Deng Wei and made of a fine cloth, which is basically available in shops.
Some medicinal herbs have a peculiar smell in themselves, and if you are bare-handed, you will more or less get this peculiar smell on your hands.
The merchants all carefully observed the medicinal materials in the small box, and after looking at each other, they all nodded with satisfaction.
While the seven pharmacists were observing the medicinal materials, the remaining three merchants were also led by Zhang Tie to the end and observed the samples of the goods brought by Zhang Tie.
This time, there were not many types of goods that Zhang Tie brought to trade, and there were only refined salt, air-dried meat, wine, etc., all of which were things from system stores and grocery stores.
The two salt merchants came directly to the small box containing refined salt, looked at the white particles lying in the small box in disbelief, turned around, and asked Zhang Tie suspiciously: "Your Excellency, is this what you said about refined salt?" ”
As for the probability of refined salt, in their knowledge, the lump is a little finer than coarse salt, and the color is only a little lighter than coarse salt, not as fine and white as it seems.
They thought it was just some kind of special white sand, not edible table salt.
"This is table salt, Hon Hai."
Zhang Tie affirmed that the contents of the small box were table salt, and then called Hon Hai, who was following him.
Zhang Tie's voice became very metallic under the iron mask, if it weren't for Hon Hai being next to Zhang Tie, I really didn't know that this voice was Zhang Tie's.
"Ah, I see."
Hon Hai answered, knowing what Zhang Tie told him to do, so he immediately came to the small box, pinched a little refined salt, put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully.
Licking his fingers, Hon Hai winked at the two businessmen and blinked his lips, the meaning was obvious, that is, it meant that this thing could be eaten, it was not poisonous, and it could be tried.
Seeing that the other party had done this, the two merchants also relaxed a little and nodded to one of the guards beside them.
The guard, who understood the meaning, lifted his trouser belt, walked in front of the Wudang disciple with a golden sword, followed the example of Hon Hai, pinched a little refined salt, and put it in his mouth.
"Yes!"
The guard's eyes widened, and he sucked the finger that had pinched the refined salt just now, blinking his lips and looking at the refined salt in the small box in disbelief.
"Official! This...... This salt ...... ”
The guard pointed to the refined salt in the small box and said in a smug manner, making the two merchants on the side have painful expressions on their faces.
"Hurry up and say, what about this salt?"
The owner of the guard was a little anxious, and seeing that his guard couldn't speak clearly, he walked forward impatiently, grabbed a little refined salt and stuffed it into his mouth.
From what Hon Hai did just now, whether it was Hon Hai's behavior or the performance of his own guards, he let this businessman know that this thing is at least not poisonous.
"Hmm!"
The merchant looked at the white particles in the small box with a shocked expression, and he finally understood why his guards had such expressions.
It is common to sell salt for so long, and it is common to travel from south to north, but he has never seen this kind of table salt, not only is it snow-white in color, but it also has no bitter taste when eaten.
"This is worthy of the title of refined salt, and other refined salts cannot be compared with it at all."
After muttering to himself for a while, the businessman shouted to Li Guangxun, another businessman on the side: "Brother Li, you can also taste it, this is definitely a taste you can't imagine." ”
Li Guangxun came to the small box suspiciously, picked up a little refined salt with his hand, and put it in his mouth.
When the refined salt fell into Li Kwangxun's mouth, a simple salty taste bloomed in his mouth.
"This! ...... This is! ”
"How is it, Brother Li, this smells."
Li Guangxun carefully commented and nodded, "Well, this taste is very pure, only salty, no bitter taste, and there is no grinning feeling, it melts in my mouth, it is the best refined salt I have ever tasted in my life." ”
After Li Guangxun finished speaking, he turned around and looked at Zhang Tie with a mask in surprise, he really didn't expect that the other party would have such a good table salt.
However, as a businessman, he can't ask more about the origin of the goods, Li Guangxun looked for the doubts in his heart, hugged Zhang Tie, and asked:
"Your Excellency, you refined salt, I don't know how much it is, buy geometry."
Another salt merchant looked at Zhang Tie with an eager face, wanting to know the situation of such a good refined salt.
Regarding the reaction of the two, Zhang Tie has always looked at it in his eyes, "Sure enough, this refined salt is really a fine product in this industrially underdeveloped place." ’
Stretching out two fingers, Zhang Tie said slowly: "Two coins and a pound of silver, as much as you want." ”
The price of this refined salt was twice as high as the price when it was given to Li Donggua, a merchant of Zhao State, mainly because Zhang Tie was not very clear about the effect of refined salt at that time.
After nearly a year and the operation of the grocery store in Biancheng County, Zhang Tie knew how good the refined salt of the system was, and the price of two coins of silver was definitely not very high.
Of course, the refined salt sold in the border counties has not reached the level of a penny of silver, and it only costs 500 copper coins to buy a catty.
However, in the border counties, if you want to buy refined salt, you must bring your household registration, and no family can only buy one catty of refined salt a week.
This is a clause stipulated by Zhang Tie and others when they decided to trade, and they are afraid that someone will come to buy a large amount of refined salt in the future.
The first is to make the inventory of the trade itself smaller, and the second is to let other businessmen come to high commerce, so that there is refined salt circulating in the market, so that when the refined salt is sold, the price will be lower, which Zhang Tie and others do not want to see.
"Two dollars and one pound!"
"As much as you want!"
Li Guangxun and the two salt merchants were stunned for a moment, although two dollars and one pound were expensive, but this refined salt was definitely worth this price, but when Zhang Tie said how much they wanted, they were a little shocked.
"Okay, I want four hundred pounds."
"I want five hundred pounds."
Li Guangxun and the two salt merchants looked at each other and reported their own needs.