Is this salt?

The mention of this surnamed Ying was stunned.

He has grown so big, he has eaten more salt than he has eaten in this life.

But it was the first time he had seen salt so white, like flour.

Isn't it the flour that fooled me?

Lifting Ying Lu held doubts, rubbed it with his fingers, there was a grainy feeling, although it was very delicate, but it was not the touch of flour.

He dipped the salt again, then licked it.

Hiss.

Ying Lu gasped and looked at this batch of salt incredulously.

It's exaggerated, it's incredible!

This is really salt, extremely pure salt, without a trace of impurities, without a trace of bitterness!

More than all the salt ever before!

"This is the salt ??? you made."

Ying Lu's voice trembled a little as he spoke, pointing to this batch of salt roads.

"Yes." Li Xiao nodded.

Ying Lu said excitedly: "How did this come about??" What kind of salt production method is used? Mine method or salt drying method?? ”

He has been in this business for a long time and knows all kinds of salt making methods well.

But I have never heard of a salt making method that can produce such high-quality salt!!

How can you not excite him?

"This." Li Xiao smiled: "This salt making method shouldn't need to be revealed, right?" ”

"Ah, yes, yes, yes. I'm sorry."

Ying Lu smiled apologetically, realizing that he had made a mistake.

Each salt maker has its own technology and secrets, and it is hidden as a treasure.

This salt production method can produce such high-quality salt, how can it be casually revealed to others?

"Excuse me, how much do you produce?"

Ying Lu asked excitedly.

The official level crushes people to death, the time is tight, and the task is heavy.

The prefect above didn't know why, and suddenly became ill.

He even asked them to collect 5,000 stone of salt in a short period of time in addition to the usual purchases.

Isn't that embarrassing?

The output of salt in the entire Shuntianfu is so much, where can I find so much salt?

I don't know which high-ranking official, patting his head, came up with a way to put up a notice.

Even if you put up a notice, it's useless, how can salt production be so simple?

It is true that there are new salt farmers who bring salt, but the quality of the salt is unsightly.

If it had been in the past, it would never have been accepted.

But these are extraordinary times.

It can only be collected as a combination of good salt and mixed together to make up the number.

Therefore, they have no good way to do anything other than force the previous salt farmers to increase their production.

But the young man in front of him not only sent salt, but the quality of the salt was too good!

This gave Ying Lu a glimmer of hope.

"Current Production"

Li Xiao calculated for a moment: "It can produce 500 stone of salt a month. ”

Five hundred stone salt is almost 50,000 catties.

"500 stone is a little less."

Ying Lu secretly said that it was a pity, but it could be regarded as a solution to the urgent need.

"The quality of your salt is too good. I can't even price it."

Ying Lu frowned, thought for a long time, and discussed: "How about seventy wen a catty?" ”

They collected 20 yuan of silver for salt, and 70 yuan was almost tripled.

It's equivalent to paying for quality.

Generally speaking, the salt collected for 20 cents can be sold for 2 coins and 2 silver, and the profit is still very large.

The best salt collected was given to the dignitaries and dignitaries.

The rest can also be divided into some rich merchants, in addition to the salt tax, good quality salt is charged an additional half a tael of silver, or even one tael and a catty.

Pick the rest of the ordinary salt, that is, distribute it to the common people.

The silver taels earned were naturally handed over to the treasury.

But the salt operated in the inner box, the salt transportation division can produce a lot more silver taels, and the people of the entire yamen will share the account together.

Therefore, the Salt Transportation Division is a yamen with a lot of oil and water, and ordinary people can't get in at all.

Of course, these things are unknown to outsiders.

And Li Xiao's salt is of very high quality, if it is exclusively for the rich, it can at least be sold for two taels or even three taels, which is estimated to be in short supply.

Therefore, it is still very profitable to collect seventy pieces of silver.

However, Li Xiao didn't know the doorway at all.

He only knows that the purchase price of one pound of ordinary salt is forty wen, and seventy wen should be fair, right?

"Okay, that's it."

Li Xiao nodded.

He didn't bother to bargain or something, after all, the mine would be given to his father-in-law in a few days.

"However, the notice says that the price has been increased by 30% in the near future, so it's a penny, right?"

Li Xiao glanced at the white salt.

"That's natural."

Ying Lu nodded, and asked again: "Your batch of salt, purchased for a pound and a penny, how many catties do you have?" ”

"Five thousand catties, the next batch will be sent in three days, and it will take time to make salt."

"Okay, then you wait a minute."

That's it.

Ying Lu immediately arranged for the official who was on duty and began to weigh him.

After weighing, a total of 50,200 catties of white salt.

Then I made a registration and issued a pass for 5200 taels.

"Today's treasury is gone, and you will receive cash tomorrow with this pass."

"In addition, you can ask the official on duty to help you issue a permit tomorrow."

Ying Lu handed the pass to Li Xiao.

"Okay, the money and goods are cleared, farewell."

Li Xiao took the pass.

The two left the palace.

In the blink of an eye, five hundred taels of silver arrived!

Five hundred taels is not a small amount!

In the Ming Dynasty, the official of Zhengyipin, the largest official position, the monthly salary is 87 stones, which is equivalent to 43 taels of silver, and the total annual salary is only 500 taels.

Of course, this is on the surface,

Secretly, the first-class officials also have fields, additional income from knighthoods.

But even so, five hundred taels is a lot.

Ordinary people may not be able to earn so much silver taels in their lifetime.

Li Xiao directly handed the pass to Li Xiongzhi and instructed: "Tomorrow, you can exchange the silver yourself, and you can also go back and exchange the silver for a silver ticket." ”

Li Xiongzhi's hands trembled a little and took the pass worth five hundred and twenty taels.

I didn't expect Li Xiao to value and trust him so much, he would give him five hundred taels if he said to him, and he was not afraid that he would change the money and run away.

However, Li Xiongzhi will not do this, and he has long been dead to Li Xiao.

"Brother Xiao, you command, I promise to do it well."

Li Xiongzhi carefully put the pass in front of his chest for personal protection, for fear of losing it.

"Brother Xiao, our business is too profitable, and we have earned five hundred taels of silver in just a few days!"

Li Xiongzhi said excitedly: "I also went to inquire during this time, and I heard about the venues, labor, and materials of other salt households. The cost is very high, and the efficiency is far less than ours. ”

Li Xiao smiled: "That's nature, my salt-making method is not comparable to those shabby methods." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

Li Xiongzhi was completely convinced by Li Xiao.

It has to be Brother Xiao!

That's it.

Li Xiao returned to the Yanwang Mansion.

The next day, Li Xiongzhi went to the treasury of the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division early in the morning, exchanged the pass for silver taels, and exchanged the five hundred taels of silver tickets directly.

When he had put it away, he hurried back to the salt pan and carefully put away the silver ticket.

Later, in the salt factory, the workers worked overtime to continue making salt

Meanwhile.

The salt transport envoy of the Salt Transportation Division, that is, the highest official of this yamen, came to inspect the work.

soon

He found a batch of white salt like snowflakes.

(End of chapter)