"After three days of driving, we will take a good rest in the city. We don't have to worry too much when we have arrived in Hangzhou City, today we will go to Hangzhou City to see, ask about the price of salt in the city, and wait to understand the market before talking about it! Su Ming said.

The eight of them came to the north gate of the city, but a group of soldiers blocked their way.

Su Qingping was worried that the other party would check the identity card, so he hurriedly stepped forward to negotiate with the money, but he didn't expect that the other party just asked them to get off the horse, except for the generals and officials above the seventh rank in Hangzhou, everyone was not allowed to ride horses.

Entering Hangzhou City like this, the eight people were stunned by the prosperous scene in front of them.

The streets of Hangzhou City are full of merchants, some beautifully dressed girls wander around the streets surrounded by maid guards, all kinds of cries are endless, Su Ming entered Hangzhou City, only to feel the breath of the city for the first time.

The inn in the east of the city was almost full, and Su Ming finally found a small courtyard with a guest room, but it was a single-family courtyard, which cost two taels of silver a day.

"Let's just live in this small courtyard! Eight people live easily, the horse feed here still does not cost money, if you go to other places to find it, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a place to live after dark.

This is not far from Fengming Lane, and everyone will put down their things later, wash their faces and go to Fengming Lane separately, and pay attention to the price of salt. After asking clearly, we will go to Ronglin Port tomorrow morning, where is suitable for sale, where we will trade, and we will buy grain and go home as soon as we have money. Su Ming entered the courtyard, closed the courtyard door and said to everyone.

"This yard is too expensive! Two taels of silver, we are enough to buy a big fat pig! Su Zhe was still distressed about Su Ming's choice to live in a single hospital.

"We traveled for three days, and there was hot water at all times when we stayed here. As long as salt can be sold, this bit of silver is nothing.

If we go to some small inns, where there are many rangers now, we may be in trouble. If you have already lived here, don't think too much, now we divide the task, someone will go to Fengming Lane, and someone will inevitably stay at home...... "Su Ming is the person in charge, he assigns tasks to everyone, and everyone is obedient."

There is only one tael left from the five taels of silver given by Su Ren, and if they can't sell salt tomorrow, they won't have money to live here, and it will cost eight people to eat at the inn.

Therefore, everyone didn't dare to waste time, and after putting a salute in the small courtyard of the inn, Su Ming took the fifth brother and the others out of the inn.

This Fengming Lane is not as prosperous as Su Ming imagined, but it looks very dilapidated. Many of the shops were low-slung wooden houses, where people of all kinds of costumes came and went, and many of the customers dressed in coarse cloth and short sleeves with large knives in their hands knew at first glance that they were not ordinary characters, but the patrolmen did not pay attention to them when they saw him.

Su Ming and the others scattered and asked about the price of salt here, which was about forty percent higher than that of Jinshanwei Town, while the price of cloth and grain was more than three percent cheaper than that of Jinshanwei.

"Starling, I asked about 3 salt shops that sell snowflake salt, and they are all sold by two, and one or two costs about 230 yuan. I asked them the purchase price, but they only bid 800 wen for one catty, which is really black-hearted! "It's getting dark, the shops in Fengming Lane have begun to close one after another, Su Ming and Su Qing are in a round, Su Zhe saw Su Ming couldn't help but speak directly.

"People must make money doing business, but the few I asked are similar, and the power of those who can open salt shops here is very large, and the salt they produce in March and April every year is more than what we produce in Weizhuangbao in a year.

Wang Zhi, a shipwhart in Fuzhou, was known as the owner of Wufu and was very powerful. Every year, we buy more than 10,000 stones of salt from Hangzhou, and the price of salt shops here is about the same, so we can only sell our salt at this price. Su Qingping said.

"That shows that these salt shops must have something to do with the two major salt farms in Zhejiang, and the strength of being able to trade private salt on a large scale in Hangzhou and control the price of salt in the market is definitely not something we can imagine.

Although we don't have a lot of snowflake salt, there are very few in this Fengming Lane, and it is best to sell them separately when we sell them, so that we can attract less attention. A few people said and returned to the inn, and after dinner, Su Ming called everyone together.

Smuggling salt is a big crime, although no one will blame them here, but if people remember that Erweibao is involved, the eldest brother may be in trouble at that time, so it will either be sold separately in Fengming Lane, or it will be sold in Ronglin Harbor early tomorrow morning.

Write down the shops with the highest prices, and after the eight people closed the door of the small courtyard at night, and after allocating the room, everyone went to rest.

Su Ming slept soundly, but was woken up by Su Qingping in the middle of the night.

They carried their packages out of Hangzhou City in the dark and came to Ronglin Port, where they saw that there were already a lot of people.

"Starling, where are those people setting up stalls, should we also set up stalls?" Su Zhe came to Ronglin Port, looked at many people setting up stalls in the dark night, and asked Su Ming.

There was no one to care about here, some ships arrived in the port, and some ships left, and Su Ming saw that there were many ships transporting grain here. Many of the big deals are on the dock ships, and some ships are even exchanging goods, and Su Ming saw this and walked towards the dock.

The most traded in this wharf is cloth, porcelain, tea, wood, livestock, and ironware, Su Ming also saw that there were armor sellers, and the seal on it should be the armor issued by the imperial court, and there were all sold here.

Su Ming asked the seller about the price of the armor, but the owner said that he would not sell it, this was someone else's order, and someone had already bought it.

Seeing a big ship that seemed to be selling salt, Su Ming and Su Qingping walked over, the guards on the boat were busy, and saw them come A middle-aged man in brocade walked over.

"The owner of the ship is in the salt business, I have some salt here that I want to sell, I don't know if you can accept it here?" Doing business with these people is much safer than those salt shops in the city, Su Ming stepped forward to ask.

"You want to sell salt? How much is there? The fat man looked at Su Ming and asked.

"Snowflake salt, do you want it?" Su Ming didn't say how much.

"Snowflake salt? What about the quality? The fat man asked. Many salt sellers say that their salt is snowflake salt, but its quality is still much worse than snowflake salt, even if it looks snow-white and tastes a little impurity, it is not snowflake salt.

Su Ming took out a paper bag from his pocket, opened the fat man and brought the torch next to him closer, he took some salt grains and put them in his mouth to taste them carefully, and then carefully checked the color of the salt.

"The quality of your salt is very good, I can give you a pound... 920 Wen, what do you think? The fat man looked at Su Ming and asked.

"I have more than 100 catties here, can the price be higher?" Su Ming asked.

"Snowflake salt is at most 900 wen per catty in the city, my price is already high, I will give you 95 taels of silver for a hundred catties, what do you think?" The fat man asked.

Su Ming thought about it for a while and nodded in agreement, although he knew that the price of his salt must be more than that, but Su Ming had no channel to sell salt, so he could only hand over the salt to them, selling salt in the city was risky, and it was the key to quickly take the money to buy grain and go home.

Su Ming told the fifth brother the price of snowflake salt here, Su Qingping took the five people to the inn in the city to get salt, this time the city gate of Hangzhou was half open at night, and after a while, everyone took all the salt.

The fat man pie took it and carefully inspected all the snowflake salt, and saw that there was no problem with the quality of the salt, so he passed the scale. 124 catties of snowflake salt were sold for 118 taels of silver, and Su Ming saw that the quality of these silvers was not bad, all of them were 10 taels of silver-white big silver ingots, this fat man was not bad.

"Brother, you came out to do business at such a young age, you are really young and promising! I am from Guanhaiwei, surnamed Ding, the third in the family, and I can afford to give the name of Ding Sanye on the road.

I don't know where you got this snowflake salt, little brother, if there is still one in the future, I will definitely give you a satisfactory price. Ding Laosan looked at Su Ming's fat face and trembled with a smile.

Guanhaiwei belongs to Ningbo Mansion, there are many islands in the east, among which the famous Chaolie Harbor is in Dinghaiwei in the east of Guanhaiwei, where the Ming sailors dare not easily provoke the place, this fat man is Guanhaiwei, and it must be inseparable from Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants.

People who do business at sea in the Ming Dynasty know that every businessman is loyal to the country in front of him, and the actions behind him are all for profit. Going to sea is a business or a bandit, completely in a thought.

Hangzhou City can be so prosperous, not thanks to those maritime merchants, otherwise how could those famous buildings be fired at sky-high prices.

In TV, the children of the family went to the Qinglou to spend a lot of money for the woman they loved, and the reality is basically very rare, most of the people who often visit those places are merchants and rangers, and they make money to have fun outside when they leave their hometown, and who will be so messy in their hometown when they go home.

Although there will be many women in the Qinglou of the Ming Dynasty who are very famous, and even related to many famous historical figures. But this is also the reason for the promotion of the status of businessmen and the close relationship between officials and businessmen, most of the children of the family do not dare to enter the Qinglou at will, and most of the romantic stories of historical celebrities in the Qinglou are passed down by the people.

"Ding Sanye! There are very few good salt wells in the south of our Yangtze River, this snowflake salt is our brother from Sichuan, we can't do a big deal with less capital, and I don't know when I will go next time.

This time I came out to sell salt, mainly because our health center was about to run out of food, and I don't know if Ding Sanye knows where there is a ship that can go by sea, and we plan to buy some food and send it back. Su Ming knew that this kind of person had a good face, and it was not bad for him to have a good relationship with the other party, and the sea ships he could find were definitely more reliable than himself.

"Where do you want to buy food, where do you go by water?" Ding San asked.

"Songjiang Mansion, Jinshanwei, Salt Factory!" Su Ming said.

Ding San glanced at Su Ming when he heard this, he was in the private salt business, how could he not know about the Jinshanwei Salt Factory, so it was also very important for him to have a relationship with Su Ming.

"It turns out that brother, you are from Jinshanwei, brother and I are also in the salt business, the green salt in your salt factory is really good, and I will invite you to drink when I have time to go to Guanhaiwei Longshan in the future."

Brother, you want to buy food, ask my brother I can be considered the right person. You walk east along the river bank and look for a boat with the [Yu] flag, and say that you were introduced by my Ding Sanye, and you will definitely be given a good price to buy grain. Ding San patted his chest and said.

After selling the salt and taking the silver, Su Qingping and the others were very happy, so much silver was almost enough for Erweibao for a year, and this time they could definitely buy enough food to go back.

Su Ming walked east to find the [Yu] flag fleet that Ding San said, he stepped forward and saw that these many workers were carrying grain down from the ship, Su Ming stepped forward to ask the workers to find their shipowner.

"I'm introduced by Ding Sanye, I want to buy some grain and send it to Jinshanwei, I don't know what the price of your grain is?" Su Ming found a tall man, his dark skin didn't look like he was from a big family, and said to him.

"Third Master Ding? It's Ding San Fat! If you want to buy food, how much will you buy? The man sat casually on the grain bag and looked at Su Mingdao.

"Five hundred stones! We also have eight horses to go back by boat. Su Ming said.

"Eighth brother, you should go back by boat with the thirteenth brother! Horses can't get into the grass at sea, so I'll definitely be faster than you when I take three people and two horses back! At this time, Su Qingping said.

The boat is so big and crowded with people this horse is more expensive than human life in Erweibao Su Ming knew that the fifth brother was afraid that the horse would be born on the ship, so he thought about it and nodded.

"Just four more people! The ship had just arrived in port, and it was loaded with 340 stone of coarse grain, 200 stone of wheat, and 100 stone of rice. The sea can be slower, but at this time, the East China Sea division will not look for trouble at sea. If you want it, you can give 640 stone of grain, and you will give 52 taels of silver, and I will send you the grain to Jinshanwei. The man said.

This price is already very good, 640 stone grain is only 52 taels of silver, and it is delivered to the doorstep, and the price is much cheaper than buying it in Jinshanwei Town.

"How long will it take for this ship to get to the Jinshanwei Salt Factory?" Su Ming asked.

"About ten days! If nothing else, it could be a day or two sooner! The man replied.

"Then it may be too late, can you change to a faster ship?" Su Ming asked.

"Hurry up! That big ship is fast, it takes about three or four days to get to Jinshanwei, and it is difficult for the officers and soldiers of the sailor division to catch up, but these days are the time to use the boat... Since it was introduced by Ding Sanpang, 75 taels of silver! At this time, there is no wind on the sea, and if you are willing to help you step on the oars, I will let the boat go. Normally, at this time, my ship does not go to sea. The man thought for a moment and said.

Su Ming looked at the fast wearing head, which was more than twice as big as the Canghai boat just now, and there should be a lot of rowers, and we can go back 6 days earlier with an extra 23 taels of silver, and the road will be much safer.

"Okay, I want this boat!" Su Ming said.