Chapter Ninety-Seven: Above the Palm
"What are you looking at me for? Your master is asking you something. ”
Sun Quan got up in Sun Jian's arms, went to Pang Degong's side, filled a bowl of lacquer wine from the wine urn and said: "Pan'en Shi's teachings are like nectar for a long drought." ”
"Hahahaha!"
Pang Degong laughed, stretched out his hand to stop Sun Quan and said, "Good apprentice, sit on the side of the teacher." ”
As soon as this sentence came out, Kuai Liang took the lead in saying: "Congratulations to Pang Gong and accept a unicorn as a closed disciple." ”
His words instantly gave Sun Quan a special identity, and Sun Jian smiled and cast an appreciative look.
Pang Degong said: "I also have to congratulate the Kuai family, and there are two masters." ”
At the banquet, you say a word to him, anyway, Cai Mao is the most embarrassed.
"Huh?"
Pang Degong put a chopstick dish into his mouth, smacked it twice, and immediately looked at Sun Jian: "Wu Chenghou, this dish is different from the last time, not to mention the exquisite taste, even the sourness in the salt has been cleared, and the chef's skills in the house have been refined again." ”
Sun Jian responded: "It has nothing to do with the chef, this is a child who figured out the way of salt refining." ”
"Ce'er, take the refined salt from the house and take a look at it with everyone."
"No."
Sun Ce retreated, returned in a moment, and placed a bowl of white salt on the table, and suddenly, the whole hall was shocked.
"Wu Chenghou!"
Pang Degong pointed to the salt and said, "This is salt?" ”
In surprise, he reached out and dipped a little in his mouth, and under a taste, he asked himself: "It's salt!" ”
"This salt, white as snow, clean as ice, not sour or astringent, salty and pure, how to get it?"
Sun Quan had already prepared a speech: "The little apprentice happened to know the Taoist of Huang Lao's sect, Huqiu Hugangzi, he heard that Quan'er had seen Yu Ji Patriarch, and he came to the house to look for it, and in order to learn what Yu Ji Patriarch and the apprentice said, he took out a treasured salt refining method to exchange. ”
This time, even Pang Degong was stunned: "Could it be that Yu Ji's patriarch matter, seriously?" ”
These days, Pang Degong's ears are filled with the name of the second prince Sun Quan, and even some people have to come to Changsha by boat from Xiangyang to have a stick of incense. He originally thought that everything was nonsense, just like Zhang Jiao at the beginning, just a rumor. I didn't expect to encounter such a strange thing today......
You say that Pang Degong doesn't believe in these Huang Lao Doctrines, the father of the family took out the ice, and when the son's refined the pure white salt like snow, you can believe it, after so many years of sage books, it can be regarded as reading the dog's stomach.
After all, no one has ever seen the mud bodhisattva open his mouth and the stone Buddha preaching.
Kuai Yue hurriedly said: "Pang Gong, whether it is true or not, it is all your apprentice, I will slowly understand it in the future, and it is imperative to ...... it" He pointed to the bowl of salt: "Lord ......" The title of Sun Jian has changed: "This thing, but do you want us to help sell it?" ”
"Exactly."
Sun Jian said in a deep voice: "But this time, I want more." ”
"Eighty percent of the profits."
Sun Jian knows what kind of virtue these scholars are, what kind of monarchs and ministers, they are all nonsense in front of interests, and nine out of ten of the world's wealth is in the hands of the scholars, these people are not like those brothers who live and die together in the military camp.
"Lord, we all transported the ice crystals to the Central Plains before, and we made a small profit, this salt ...... Isn't the lord going to sell cheaply in Jingzhou again? ”
Meager? Sun Ce glanced at Kuai Liang.
Sun Jian sighed and said: "This expedition to the Central Plains has made Jian see the suffering of the people, do you know what the price of salt is in the Central Plains?" ”
Kuai Liang said in a deep voice: "I heard that a stone of salt is worth eight hundred." ”
"That was when the princes of the Eighteenth Route begged Dong Gang to arrive in the Central Plains, and by the time our army withdrew, the price of salt had soared to four thousand eight hundred yuan!"
"Coupled with the melee in the Central Plains, the price of salt will only rise and not fall, and now the price of salt may be as high as 6,000!!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, Jingzhou is our home, can you bear to let the people not afford to eat salt?"
Kuai Liang frowned and said: "Lord, in this way, you are not afraid that Jingzhou is full of salt sellers, and everyone borrows boats to sell salt into the Central Plains?" ”
"Let them sell, let them sell generously!"
"If you don't have a boat, you can go to Cai's house to rent it, for fear of being robbed, in Jingzhou, my Sun family sergeant escorts along the river."
Sun Jian looked at Kuai Liang and said, "Could it be that if the price of salt is evenly apportioned, there will be no one to sell salt to the Central Plains?" ”
Sun Jian turned his head to look at Cai Mao and said, "De Jue, your private soldiers can't all start by selling cement, right?" ”
Everyone knows that cement is Sun Jian's favor to Cai Mao, so that their family has a boat. But this is also a matter of recent months, what about before?
Cai Mao stopped talking.
He couldn't say this anyway, but he completely understood that this Sun Jian was equivalent to adding some compensation to the Cai family's official position.
Selling salt, in fact, no one said that these people in front of them can also understand, as long as this snow-white salt appears, there will be salt dealers everywhere in Jingzhou, in this chaotic era, people who take risks abound, and the ban can't be banned, so it's better to let it go. The official family put salt to the salt dealers at a low price, and severely cracked down on the sale of salt in Jingzhou, as for outside Jingzhou, they can't do anything even if they want to manage it, as long as you have the ability, you are not afraid of being slaughtered when you leave Jingzhou, then you will boldly break through, maybe you will break out of a famous general, and then Sun Jian will just take it for his own use.
Pang Degong shook his head: "It's just that the people of the world are suffering." ”
Sun Jian said again: "Pang Gong, it is not easy to protect Jingzhou, and I really can't take care of the world." In fact, what he wants to say is that if one day he can dominate the country, then this will definitely be tightened, and now, it is just a heavy tax on salt sales.
Once the salt is released, the Cai family will be the first to get rich, and when the time comes, Cai Mao will be the Taishou in Jiangxia, and the entire Cai family will be under the supervision of Cheng Pu, and then Cai Mao will be paired with someone like Zhou Yu and Huang Zhong as deputy generals, so that he can't move if he wants to, how much money he makes, isn't it all in the library?
You have to be talented in governing the world, and you have to use your brains to govern people, which is probably the source of Cao Cao's headache. Sun Quan thought so.
Cai Mao silently raised the lacquer cup, took a sip alone, and wondered how to go back and organize the salt sale quickly, and when the first bite of the bonus was delicious, a line of fire went down......
"Shhh
The taste is right!
Cai Mao lowered his head: "This wine!" ”
Sun Jian raised his glass and said, "This is the second thing I told you, wine!" ”
"Come, drink this cup together."
Sun Jian raised his hand and half a bowl of belly.
He really wanted to take a sip of the dry clouds, but today the wine was too strong, and after drinking half of the bowl, he already felt like an explosion in his mouth, and he didn't swallow the remaining half of the mouthful.
"Uh...... This wine ......" Sun Jian continued: "It is made of the closed tribute kettle of the head of the Fox Gangzi Dao, and it is the only one in the world, but this wine, the Kuai family, the Cai family, and the Ma family don't have to think about it. ”
"Pang Gong, can the Pang family have the ability to run alone?"