Chapter 70 Salt Prices
Not at all as good as how he helped her.
Zhang Hansan saw that Chen Xi had never touched the refreshments, so he beckoned her again to try it.
Chen Xi saw that he couldn't refuse, so he smiled and thanked him, and picked up a piece of pastry to eat.
The pastry is loose in the mouth and has a very sweet taste, which should be quite popular for people here.
Chen Xi felt a little sweet and lost her teeth, so she could only bite and eat slowly.
Listen to small talk.
may be because of his little daughter's affairs, Zhang Hansan usually talks to himself at home, so he develops the habit of nagging, and he is still talking about things in the city.
Chen Xi figured out the boundaries of Lijiang City, and the Huangfu was just stuck on the edge.
There is a stone pier not far from the pit where she fell, Zhang Hansan's home is outside the city, but she clearly remembers that the places she passed before entering the Huangfu were all downtown areas.
It can be seen how big the Huangfu is, the various courtyards in it are overlapped, and there are all kinds of gardens for enjoyment, and she guesses that there are few thousands of square meters in it.
Occupies such a large area.
Rich indeed.
Chen Xi heard from others that the ancestral business of the Chen family seems to have made a fortune by buying and selling cloth, and there are many farms growing mulberry leaves and silkworms, as well as many dyeing workshops.
Later, he opened his own cloth shop, and then opened other shops, and only after transporting cloth did he pick up many bits and pieces of other goods along the way.
That's how it grows.
Now that the cloth is exported to foreign countries, it can pass the customs so smoothly, and it is not the horse master, it can be said that the Huang family can go from a small family to the point of today's big tycoon, a large part of it is because of the relationship between the old lady and the horse master.
It's no wonder that everyone is so coaxing the old lady, and it's no wonder that the eldest lady is so taboo about the second room, after all, who doesn't worry about such a big family business?
In the past, the second room fell, and the third young master became the only seedling in the second room, and the old lady might not be spoiled to heaven, so she made the first move to completely block the situation.
Chen Xidu sighed that she was scheming, but obviously she had lost her guard over the years, and felt that the third young master could only let her play with it now, who knew that she would bite the gold with her.
Chen Xi doesn't want to be a slave all the time, if the salt mine is true, then he will have to instigate the third young master to take down this mountain forest in the future, this is a cash cow.
Thinking of this, she pretended to be unintentional and asked: "Hey, I heard that Uncle said last time that you still need a salt ticket to buy the salt here, so where did the salt come from?" Are the prices in the market expensive? What is the price in the ghost market? ”
Zhang Hansan was originally talking about the recent price swing, and things are getting more and more expensive.
I didn't feel strange when I heard Chen Xi ask this, and answered directly: "The price on the market is still good, a bucket of salt costs 20 yuan, the official salt is not expensive, and the common people can also buy it, but the amount is less." ”
Chen Xi heard that the unit of calculation was out of shape, after all, even if the measurement of each dynasty in her previous life was different, so she was not ashamed to ask.
Zhang Hansan just smiled heartily when he heard it, and then said: "What's this, I just came back from the city and brought back half a year's salt, just a bucket, I'll go get it for you." ”
Chen Xi was pleasantly surprised when he heard this: "This is the best, I can also estimate it." ”
Zhang Hansan went inside and took the bag of salt out, and the amount didn't look too big.
Chen Xiguang looked at it, and she felt that it was about the same weight as five catties of rice.
She often buys so much rice alone, so the size is very familiar.
Seeing this, Chen Xi asked if she could weigh it, Zhang Hansan handed it to her very happily, and she confirmed it when she got it, it was definitely about five catties.
Let's just think it's a bucket of five catties, then one pound is only four cents, which is really not expensive.
Seeing this, Chen Xi handed him the things again, and Zhang Hansan took them and hid them again.
"This official salt is really not expensive, is it? But it's bad in a limited amount, and I bought it with my household registration, and my daughter and I only had this bucket of salt for half a year. ”
After Zhang Hansan came out, he sat down again, Song Tao had already continued to play over there by himself, and he didn't bother her, just beckoned Chen Xi to continue drinking tea and eating snacks.
"Girl, you also know our business, so many prey to dispose of, how can there be less salt? The salt is usually barely enough to eat, sometimes the body feels weak when you eat less salt, and there is no taste in the mouth, what is the meaning of living? ”
That's why Zhang Hansan took the risk to try his luck in the ghost market, but he didn't expect to be really found by him, although the price is ten times that of official salt, but at least there is salt to eat.
Both father and daughter are heavy-mouthed, and there is no taste for anything to eat without the taste of salt.
How can you do it if you don't buy it?
Zhang Hansan drank a bowl of tea, and then sighed: "Don't talk about people like us, ordinary people don't have enough salt, so we have to find ways to get some." ”
After all, there are always a few months in a year when you can't continue to eat because of growing crops.
Mountain goods on the mountain are limited.
People don't dare to go into the mountains to fight for luck.
Therefore, you can only dry or pickle vegetables when they are available.
This is also a problem without salt.
Of course, everyone can only think of their own ideas.
Chen Xi remembered that in the Huang Mansion, her food at that time was almost no different from that of the previous life, it was delicious, and the edible salt was also fine and white.
Zhang Hansan's food here is actually a little bitter, she thought her mouth was bitter at first, but the next day she still felt that the taste was strange.
Chen Xi guessed that the salt he used might also be coarser grains, and the good ones were probably in the hands of the rich and noble, and it was not the turn of the common people to use them.
Class, class.
Alas.
Chen Xi thought of the salt mine he had discovered, if it was true, it would have been released.
A pound of salt is four yuan, ten times is forty yuan a pound, then ten pounds is four hundred dollars, and one hundred pounds is four thousand dollars, which is equal to four taels of silver.
And the price here, I heard that the lowest kind of miscellaneous grain noodles is only three or four yuan a catty, and the lowest kind of rice is also six or seven yuan a catty.
And you can also buy a large piece of multigrain steamed bread and a small piece of white flour steamed bread for a penny.
Chen Xi felt that the price was okay, and the money here was still quite valuable.
Compared to the price of her previous life, the price is really much better, when she wore it in her last life, she couldn't buy much for a hundred yuan, that is really terrible.
If you only rely on a salary of a few thousand yuan, you can really only live a tight and hard life.
Thankfully, she has the craft.
Chen Xi put aside the messy thoughts, and felt that the way to make money now was to refine the salt soil first, and if the salt could be produced, there would be a source of income.
Zhang Hansan almost didn't say enough to Chen Xi, and said everything he could tell.
Although Chen Xi was grateful, he didn't plan to tell the matter about the salt mine.
First, this kind of crime of selling illicit salt is very serious, Zhang Hansan relies on hunting and making some handmade weapons to sell, and his daughter usually works to supplement the family.