Seeing that she had made up her mind, Li Yao was itching and unbearable, so she had to endure it. She stood up solemnly and bowed, "Thank you, princess, for your kind words. I entered the palace alone, and I was fortunate to meet the princess, and I thought about me everywhere, and I was grateful to my heart. I just hope that the princess can stay in the palace for a longer time, I heard that the king intends to marry the Qi country this autumn, at that time, this huge harem, even if I have grievances, who can I talk to?"

A look of sadness and helplessness appeared on Bo Ji's delicate face: "My sister just said that a woman's fate is involuntary, why shouldn't I? When I heard that the new Marquis of Qi was the son, he was dissatisfied with this marriage, and repeatedly insulted me as "Kefu is ominous". Now that I have a favored party girl, my life may not be as good as my sister in the future!" ap.

In early summer, the dusty Rong Yi finally arrived at Jimo, an important business town in the east of Qi State. Along the way, he did not pay homage to any monarchs and ministers, even if he entered the Qi realm, he was greeted by his disciple Yigong, who had always relied on him the most in business.

Offshore Jimo, it is the largest sea salt distribution center in Qi country. Most of the shops in the city are salt shops, and most of the salt shops are private shops. At this time, the unified official market system has not yet been implemented, and although the state has tax control over the salt market, there are few government businesses, and the market is still dominated by private salt.

The advantage of this is that the private business travel of Qi flourished, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi led the world to become a big country rich in business, and also laid a material foundation for Qi Huan Gong to become the first hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Period.

In the era of King Zhou Li, well salt has not been mined in large quantities, the sea salt shipments of Liaodong and Wuyue of Yan Kingdom are very small, there is no salt industry on the Lingnan coast, and pond salt and rock salt are even more unheard of. Under such a general trend, Jimo sea salt accounts for almost seven-or eight-tenths of the world's salt production, and Jimo salt city has naturally become the first salt market in the world.

If you only look at it from the salt industry, Qi is the lifeblood of the world. If Qi prohibits Haiyan from leaving the country, I am afraid that a bird will fade out of the world. However, Qi did not dare, because Qi lacked copper and iron. At that time, copper and iron were the order of the country, and the quantity of copper and iron determined the strength of the national army. This is also the origin of the ownership of a copper green mountain, which has attracted the Zhou royal family and the two countries to wrestle with Hubei for many years.

Although the country of Qi is large and rich, the lack of copper and iron is a fatal flaw. The rest of the countries saw the fatal flaw of Qi and reached a tacit agreement to restrain Qi in fact: if Qi banned salt, all countries would ban copper and iron, especially Suiguo, which owns Tonglu Mountain, and E, which guards the passage of Suijube.

It is precisely because of the general trend that the state of Qi has always been semi-governmental, semi-private - the official store is internal, and the private store is external. Nine times out of ten, the so-called private salt shops are foreign salt merchants. More than half of the foreign salt merchants were private officials and merchants, that is, the government was stationed in Qi in the name of private merchants to protect the salt roads for the country.

Yigong has been in Jimo for more than half a year, and when he first entered the market, he also stepped on many sides, and after the number of roads in the salt market was bottomed, he compared the salt prices of all parties, and then opened the first salt store, with his own purchase channel - a seaside salt farm with a large area.

Speaking of which, the salt market is quite particular. In the words of a salt merchant, it is "three grades of price, and five colors of goods".

The so-called price is divided into three grades, that is, the official and private merchants who open salt factories on the seashore to dry salt at one price, those who buy salt directly from the seashore salt farmers at one price, and those who buy salt in large quantities in Jimo Salt Market and ship it to other countries at one price. If only in terms of local prices, the salt price in the salt field is the lowest, the salt farmers are slightly higher, and the salt market is the most expensive. However, no matter how salt is purchased, if the profit is small, the three are ultimately comparable.

The reason for this is that although the shipping price of the salt field is low, the volume is very large; The shipping price of salt households is slightly higher, but most of them are small farms of refined salt, and the price increase will be large when the buyer sells again; The price of salt is the highest, but it saves the cost of shipping goods from the seaside to Jimo.

The so-called five colors of goods are three colors of dried salt in particle size: large particles are called refined salt, bean salt is called coarse salt, and powder salt is called the bottom salt of the field. The workshop salt is divided into two colors: printing salt and flower salt. Seal salt is a salt block refined by multiple processes, which is square, crystal clear, like a white jade official seal. Flower salt is to spread the salt on the stone roof, add an appropriate amount of water to the hot sun, the salt juice hangs down like the luster of stalactites, because of the different shapes and is called flower salt. This specially made Indian salt flower salt has the highest price, and most of it is covered by the Zhou royal family, various princes, nobles and wealthy merchants.

In addition to the consideration of price and color, there is also the attention to money.

In the era of loose separation

The richness and complexity of business warfare are far from being comparable to later generations. The most direct reason for this is that there are multiple currencies, multiple prices, many passes, many customs, and many laws. All these things are combined, and every business of every merchant may end differently due to various factors.

In terms of the sale of sea salt in the current Yigong shop, on the one hand, there is a difference in the price of goods, and on the other hand, there is a difference in currency system. In other words, the results of the business will vary in many ways depending on the type of money used for the business.

It is difficult for the currency of small countries to pass through the world, so the bulk salt industry of the Jianghan countries mostly uses cake gold. Most of them are round gold plates like cakes, and people call them gold cakes at the time. Generally, there are one or more circular marks on the top, and the seal is engraved with the font number of the country or the suzerain. Applicable to large trades of salt merchants.

Qi uses knife coins locally. There are two types of sword coins in the Qi Kingdom. The so-called two, one is the Qi knife, and the other is the ink knife. The so-called two-style, Qi knife is a knife coin minted in the early days of the founding of the country, and the inscription is "Qi Jianbang made law". Jimo knife is a knife coin specially minted by Qi in this important salt industry town, and the inscription is "Jimo Zhihua".

The law is also the legal standard. The one who turns into a person takes the head of the "goods", and the goods are also. "Legalization" means "legal goods", and the legal standard currency is also. The Qi State has always only used knife coins, and the value of the currency has rarely changed for hundreds of years, and it has a very high reputation in the world and a strong purchasing power. In the year of peace, a Jimo knife can buy 22 catties of sea salt and more than 250 catties of millet.

Jimo is a major trade market, and the currencies of various countries can be used. Ordinary business travelers are all in place, but to do business with more than 100 cars, the final plan is to pay for gold coins. One gold coin has a large value, is easy to carry, and the settlement is quick and easy, and the other can save the trouble of exchange.

But when Yi Gong first arrived, there was no fixed channel, so he could only go straight to the seaside salt farm to buy salt from the salt households, which must be a small business that accumulated a lot, if you use gold coins, not only are you ashamed to lower the price, but also have to inexplicably flow to many heads, and a parcel of land leaks down, and the price will be close to the Jimo market. After thinking about it like this, he found a Tang Salt Society, the largest in Qi State, and according to the other party's offer, he exchanged 300 gold coins into 60,000 Jimo knives in one fell swoop.

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