Wu Jiugong looked at Lin Jin's tightly knit brows as he was holding the account book of the Chamber of Commerce, and couldn't help but say: "I know that your Lin family is rich, but according to your usual words and deeds, I don't think that although you don't take money very seriously, you haven't reached the realm of treating silver money like dung."

And the business of the Chamber of Commerce is now thriving, it can be said that it is making money every day, why do you see that the Chamber of Commerce is making money, not happy, but put on such a ghostly look? Could it be that this account is wrong, and there is a cat in it? ”

Lin Jin shook his head and said, "There is nothing wrong with this account, at least I don't see the problem." The reason why I am worried is that in the various businesses of the Chamber of Commerce, the salt trade accounts for the majority, and it is gradually increasing. You shouldn't know the news that the officials on the Yangzhou Salt Transport side were reprimanded, right? ”

sighed, "My father, as a salt patrol, is naturally also being reprimanded. As for why they were reprimanded? She waved the ledger in her hand and said, "The account above it says it all." You say live, I have said several times before about controlling the sale of illicit salt, but in the end it was all in vain, and now it has attracted the attention of the imperial court, so you are not worried? ”

"What is there to worry about." Wu Jiugong said disapprerovantly: "Our salt farm is not in Daqin, so the imperial court can't seal it if it wants to."

As for the private salt trade, in fact, we don't specialize in this, but when we do maritime trade transactions, we use salt as ballast stone when transporting goods, so what we sell is only ballast stone, not salt.

Therefore, it is sold cheaply, two or three pennies a catty, and the price can not be lower. In fact, it doesn't matter if we do this business or not, you know, the price of high-end wood in Datan's timber market is very expensive, such as red sandalwood, ironwood or something, and Luzon happens to have this kind of wood, if the ballast stone is replaced with wood and transported to sell, it is actually much more profitable than transporting salt......

Lin Jin interrupted him in confusion: "Since this is the case, then sell the wood." ”

With a suspicious look on his face, he looked at Wu Jiugong, "That's not right." Since the timber business makes more money than salt, there is no reason for the chamber of commerce to put a more profitable business and continue to sell salt, I only see in the account book that the income from selling salt is gradually rising, but the income from the timber business has been very stable, are you fooling me? ”

Wu Jiugong glanced at her, a little disgusted, and a little puzzled: "Sometimes your brain is very smart, even what I didn't think of, you can think of it, but how can you be so stupid sometimes."

Although doing business and making money is the goal, but at the point of our chamber of commerce, money is no longer the most important, but the most important thing is to spread the network.

The salt produced by our chamber of commerce is used to open up relationships, from peddlers and pawns to high-ranking officials and princes. And after they accept it, they don't have to worry about it being difficult to make a move, which is really a big weapon. ”

Lin Jin glanced at him with slanted eyes, then looked at the account book in his hand, and said, "You still said that you didn't fool me, don't you count it when I can't settle the account?" If it is given away, then why is the income from the sale of salt increasing? ”

Wu Jiugong smiled and sighed: "To tell the truth, I have known you for so many years, I have always felt that you are a particularly down-to-earth Yanei, and even a little bit like the Lin family, who was born in a scholarly family and has been an official eunuch for generations. But now you've finally made me feel like you're finally from a big family. ”

"What do you mean?"

"This officialdom gives gifts, like our merchants give gifts to officials, in order to prevent officials from taking bribes, so when giving gifts, many times it is not that they do not collect money, but although they collect money, they are discounted......"

"Needless to say, I see." Although Lin Jin has never given a gift in this life, in later generations, she has not only heard of it,