Chapter 37: Luoyang Salt is Expensive

Time is money, in the Sangjia salt farm, the same day began to make pearl salt, these skilled workers, old salt households, when it comes to salt-making skills are much better than Huo Guang, the action is also fine, and the first batch of pearl salt was soon produced.

Huo Guang twisted the salt with his hand, put it to his mouth and tasted it, pursed his lips to feel the taste, and then slapped his palm to pat the salt off.

"It's pure, it's okay."

got Huo Guang's nod, and everyone was happy.

Sang Jin began to prepare to transport the salt out, the Sang family has its own way, but it can only transport the salt to a big city like Luoyang, Chang'an, like the small cities below are handed over to other salt gangs to do, and they can't look down on that little profit.

Now it is to transport the salt to Luoyang first, as the base camp of the Sang family, their family's share in Luoyang is higher, Chang'an is the capital, the competition is too fierce, so they plan to beat the reputation in Luoyang first, as for Chang'an, Sang Hongyang is planning to pay tribute directly to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to replace the original tribute salt.

The packaging process of this era is also very backward, this batch of transportation is made of wooden boxes, the sun and rain will also have a great impact on the quality of salt, if there are plastic bags can be a good solution to the problem of preservation, but now want plastic products is obviously thinking too much.

This time, a total of ten stone pearl salt was made, all of them were packed into boxes, and they began to prepare for transportation to Luoyang.

The transportation speed of the steam war horse is fast, the loss is small, but the cost is high, the transportation cost of taking the national highway is very high, the toll of 500 yuan can only be transported to Luoyang after the pearl salt of one stone, if the sales price of pearl salt is not high, it cannot be transported at all.

Looking at the pearl salt that was transported away, Huo Guang thought of another way, in the future, the salt factory can be placed on the edge of a big city like Luoyang, and when it is transported over, it is coarse salt, and the cost is very low.

The first batch of pearl salt entered Luoyang, and Sang Hongyang himself returned to Luoyang at the first time and arranged the pearl salt to all the Sangjia salt shops.

The brand of pearl salt was played with great fanfare and began to be sold.

It is almost dimensionally reduced to hit other salt shops, and at first glance, everyone's quality is not on the same level.

After the prosperity and development of the Han Dynasty over the years, a large number of rich people have been accumulated, as long as they can change the quality of life, they don't mind spending a little more.

This is the same as the fact that after the society has developed to a certain stage and the accumulation of wealth and labor, the high-end service industry can always make money.

Today's pearl salt is a high-end product.

How could a shrewd businessman like Sang Hongyang not take advantage of this time to raise the price, and suddenly raised the price of pearl salt to 10 yuan a tael, and one stone of salt was close to 20,000 yuan.

Even so, the officials and nobles in Luoyang still snatched up the first batch of pearl salt, and some nobles directly placed orders, afraid that they would not be able to distribute the goods next time.

Such a scene was something that Sang Hongyang himself did not expect, he knew that pearl salt would be popular, but he didn't expect it to be so popular.

In the next few days, pearl salt was continuously transported into Luoyang and transported to Chang'an, and ordinary salt could not be beaten in front of pearl salt, and it was thousands of times better than them by virtue of the fact that there was no bitterness.

For a time, Luoyang salt was expensive, and the nobles robbed it, and eating pearl salt became a trend.

A few days later, Sang Hongyang received a decree, and the emperor summoned him to the palace.

rushed to the palace as fast as possible, and came to the front of the main hall, but he didn't meet the emperor, only the eunuch Li Nian was waiting for him.

"Gonggong Li, I don't know when His Majesty will summon you."

Li Nian's eyes squinted at him slightly, Sang Hongyang understood the meaning, and immediately handed over a thin gift, and Li Nian checked the weight and hid it in his sleeve.

"Sang Shizhong, Your Majesty is busy with official business, I'm afraid I won't have time to see you this time."

"Huh? Your Majesty's edict to let me enter the palace is ......"

Li Nian pulled Sang Hongyang aside, looked around and said, "Sang Shizhong, I heard that you made some pearl salt in Luoyang this time, and the price is dozens of times the market price, but there is such a thing." ”

"Yes...... Yes. ”

"Sang Shizhong, you said let me say what is good about you, Your Majesty usually doesn't like businessmen to make indiscriminate prices, I was going to warn you, but yesterday Your Majesty also ate pearl salt, I think it's really good, plus I said a few kind words to escape the catastrophe."

"Yo Yo Yo, thank you Grandpa Li." Sang Hongyang stuffed another thin gift.

Li Nian likes a sensible person like Sang Hongyang, and said with a smile on his face: "I have to say that the pearl salt in Sang Shizhong is indeed good, and it is reasonable to sell it more expensively, but Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven and has to think about the people of the world. ”

Obviously, Li Nian's words were all the emperor's intentions, and if he didn't see Sang Hongyang, he didn't plan to punish him, but just warned him.

The emperor learned about Sang Hongyang's pearl salt, as the emperor he was worried about turmoil, but fortunately, Sang Hongyang was his own person, and he had always been obedient, just a warning.

Moreover, the emperor is keenly aware of how lethal pearl salt is to ordinary salt, and if it is allowed to develop, it will cultivate a rich businessman, which is a situation that the emperor does not want to see.

Sang Hongyang obviously had a countermeasure, and said with a smile: "Gonggong Li, you tell Your Majesty, I have something I want to tell Your Majesty." ”

"Your Majesty is worried about the next placement of the Huns, you better go back early."

Sang Hongyang grabbed Li Nian: "Father-in-law Li, this matter is really very important, I have also thought about it for a long time, it will definitely be of great benefit to Your Majesty." ”

Li Nian thought for a while and said, "Is it a good thing?" ”

"It's definitely a good thing, Your Majesty will like it."

The eunuchs have always liked to report good news, and there are rewards for happy events, and Li Nian got a lot of money from Sang Hongyang, so he said: "Wait a little longer, I'll go and tell you." ”

"Thank you, Grandpa Li."

Li Nian walked through the magnificent Weiyang Palace, entered the emperor's study, and after entering, he saw that the emperor was writing, so he told the matter of Sang Hongyang.

"Your Majesty, I persuaded Sang Shizhong, but Sang Shizhong still insisted on wanting to meet His Majesty......"

"What did he say?"

The emperor put down the pen in his hand, and on the desk was a magnificent martial character.

"When he said to meet His Majesty, he just said a word of official salt to his slave."

"Let him in."

……

At the same time, Huo Guang was still sparing no effort to put Sang Jin's words, wanting to get out the production method of the mechanical war horse from Sang Jin's mouth, but this woman's mouth was indeed the mouth of the yellow flower girl, which was really tight.