Wang Ling is the patriarch of the Wang family in Pei County, and is as famous as the Yong family. He is extremely bold, but he doesn't like to read, and he speaks straightforwardly. When Liu Ji was young, he also regarded Wang Ling as his eldest brother and respected him extremely much.

Such people naturally have to be wooed.

The Wang family is one of the four wealthy families in Pei County.

In terms of family lineage, he ranks third, and there are also people in the clan who are officials.

At the same time, the Wang family was engaged in the trading of copper and iron. Cao Xiu had long considered that the future uprising would definitely need weapons. You can't really chop wood as a soldier and uncover a pole as a flag, right?

Besides, multiple friends have many paths. Friendship with the Wang family is naturally a win-win situation. The first is to solve Cao Xiu's shortage of manpower, the second is to make friends with the Wang family to prepare for the future, and the third is to make money.

Cao Xiu won Ma directly!

Of course, this royal tomb is not in vain. The money earned, Cao Xiu shared it equally with him. Earn more than 100,000 yuan a year, easily. The important thing is that they get the relationship through. From now on, he will be a person on the same boat, what is the good deal, can Cao Xiu forget his Wang family?

……

Cao Xiu took the clay pot, which was filled with fine salt that had been repeatedly purified, white in color, and almost without any impurities. Take out a little and taste it with the tip of your tongue.

"Well, that's good. There is no bitterness, the color quality is excellent, and it will definitely sell for a good price. ”

"Hahaha!"

Wang Ling laughed heartily.

Coarse salt is already cheap, and what Qin Jia smuggled is even cheaper, only thirty yuan per stone, which is comparable to the price of corn. And they have to sell a bucket for thirty, and it has more than ten times directly. Removing all kinds of costs, you can earn fifty dollars for one stone.

No way, the cost of transportation is just too high.

Otherwise, they earn more!

Qin Shi Huang's face was pale, and he stared at it.

thief!!

You even dare to buy and sell illicit salt?!

If you don't kill him, I'm sorry for Qin Lu!

"You're a private salt?"

"Fart, this is official salt."

"This is official salt?!"

"What, there's a problem?"

Cao Xiu also opened his eyes and said nonsense.

Whether it is official salt or private salt is nothing more than a matter of a sentence from the county order. As long as the relationship is dredged, it's just a small thing. In addition to Qin Jia, there will also be official salt from the East China Sea transported to Pei County every three or five days, and the person in charge is Cao Shen.

Cao Shen used his identity to hand over all the official salt money sold, and then make the accounts look better. As for the rest of the money earned, it is naturally theirs.

The purified sea salt is of excellent quality.

So, you don't have to worry about sales at all.

Wang Jian glared angrily and jumped up to snatch the clay pot. They are not blind, this is obviously private salt. It's just that the quality of the private salt here is quite high, even comparable to the pool salt eaten in Guanzhong.

"Is this really sea salt?!"

"Of course."

"Why is sea salt comparable to fine salt?"

"Because Love ......"

“？？？”

Cao Xiu smiled and said, "Ask less and look more, you will naturally understand later." Brother Yi, I'll leave it to the two of them here. If you want to settle accounts, just talk to them. ”

"Can these two children do it?"

"I'll watch."

"Done!"

Ah Zheng and Xiao Wang are both civil and military, and they are also proficient in arithmetic. Cao Xiu's abacus was only taught to them for two days, and Ah Zheng was able to master it proficiently, and his calculations were even faster than Cao Xiu's.

As for arithmetic?

There are always some traversers who claim to be smart, and they run in front of the ancients with the ninety-nine multiplication table. Actually, this thing was available during the Warring States period.

Cao Xiu got the volume of "The Arithmetic Book", and some of the math problems in it even gave him a headache. There is also an abacus for quick calculations, which can quickly calculate the multiplication and division of two arbitrary integers up to 100, and can also calculate two-digit multiplication with fractions of 1/2!

Ah Zheng always looks like a sub-nobleman, and he likes to be lazy and slippery in his work, so he lets Xiao Wang do it. It's just that Xiao Wang is also a slave, so he was stunned to take them all. Cao Xiu asked him not to do it, this kid still didn't listen, and said that Cao Xiu wasn't helping him and was hurting him!

Cao Xiu: ???

Kindly asked him to stand up, but he preferred to kneel.

Okay, what a licking dog!

So Cao Xiu thought of this job and asked Ah Zheng to help settle accounts and do some clerical work. Although his words are ugly, as long as the accounts are accurate, he can make a living. Everyone in Surabaya Pavilion knows that he never keeps idlers in his house.

"Ah Zheng, you come to count the goods. Entering and leaving must be recorded and sorted out for me. In addition, you have to calculate your daily expenses, and you have to record each one. ”

"Good!"

Isn't this self-defeating?

I'm going to get it right!

Qin Shi Huang was not idle, and immediately found someone to reconcile. He wrote down everything he wrote, and when he found trouble with Cao Xiu in the future, he would see what he could do.

At the same time as the reconciliation, Qin Shi Huang was also observing. There are quite a few workers among them, and many of them have been punished. Some are tortured, others are tortured, and it is obvious that they are all sinners. Listen to them, there is still a daily salary?

In addition, this method of purifying sea salt is not too complicated.

First, smash all the sea salt, and then cook it in water. The turbid brine is then poured into a special clay pot filled with coarse sand. The pot is hung by a rope with openings at the top and bottom, except that the bottom is wrapped in gauze.

As the brine is poured into it, it is simply filtered, and then the brine is sent to the clay pot underneath. The second layer of clay pots is filled with fine sand, and the third layer is filled with charcoal. After three layers of filtered brine, it will automatically flow into the basin.

"Kind of a missed moment?"

The leakage engraving is now a tool used for timekeeping, consisting of two parts: a leaky pot and a ruler. The leaky pot is used to drain water or hold water, the former is called the drain type leaky pot, and the latter is called the water type leaky pot. The ruler is used to mark the time and is placed in the pot when in use, and it moves up and down as the water level in the pot changes, so as to read the time.

Naturally, the accuracy is not very high.

Qin Shi Huang watched the drops of salt water fall and nodded thoughtfully. It seems that the principle is not very complicated, mainly because the impurities in the sea salt are removed after this layer of filtration, so that the sea salt can be as white as snow?

Actually, it's just what it looks like. The sea salt made by Cao Xiu still can't be eaten often, after all, the procedure to go through is far more complicated than imagined, and there is no such condition at all. Now it's slightly stronger than coarse salt, and the taste is far worse than pool salt.

Qin Shi Huang kept writing records.

From time to time, I have to plan for it, and the speed of calculation is quite fast.

The more he counted, the worse his face became!

Okay, well, Cao Xiu is really a traitor who is greedy for money!

This workshop alone can produce 20 stone of salt a day. Even if you have 300 yuan for one stone, you can get almost 6,000 yuan. Remove all kinds of costs, let alone make a thousand profits!

thief!!

Qin Shi Huang was extremely sad and indignant.

He can't wait to kill Cao Xiu with a sword now!

If you have this recipe, why don't you hand it over to the state?!