"Where does such high-quality salt come from?"

Hao Yongchang asked excitedly.

This time.

It was the turn of the rebel to be confused.

What?

Seems to be fine?

He opened his eyes and looked intently.

Hiss!

Is that salt?

How can there be such a delicate salt?

Several people surrounded them, twisted, licked, and then rejoiced!

Great, the quality of this salt is really "superb"!

That Ying Lu didn't do anything wrong.

This salt, the quality is several times that of other salts, and it is worth the purchase price of a penny of silver!

So not only are they fine, but they have made meritorious contributions?

The middle-aged rebel hurriedly smiled and leaned over: "This Ying Lu Tiju, who has been engaged in salt collection for decades, can tell the good from the bad at a glance, I will say, how could he do something wrong."

Hao Yongchang smiled: "Didn't you just say that he was a fool and had a problem with his brain?" ”

Yun Rebellion said with a smile: "Xiaguan just made a mistake, a mistake of the tongue"

"Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense, I'll find Ying Lu soon."

Hao Yongchang's face suddenly became joyful: "This time we can actually find such a salt maker, it is really happy that it fell from heaven." ”

"My lord, I will invite Ying Lu, and please wait in the middle hall."

As he spoke, the rebel invited the salt envoy out of the warehouse, so as not to see some salt of very poor quality collected by the warehouse, and nothing happened

Not much.

Ying Lu came from another department.

In the middle hall, Hao Yongchang asked, "You are Ying Lu?" ”

Ying Lu hurriedly arched his hand and said: "I have seen Lord Hao, the villain is Ying Lu, and he is the one who entered the salt department." ”

Hao Yongchang bowed his head and asked again: "Yesterday you received a batch of salt, the quality is excellent, but is there such a thing?" ”

Ying Lu hurriedly nodded and explained the events of last night.

Hao Yongchang knew it in his heart, shook the account book, and said, "But in your record, why didn't you record the name of this salt household?" ”

Speaking of this, Ying Lu's scalp was also numb, and said:

"Back to my lord, this is the villain's negligence, the registration information is Zhang Tiju's business, he was not there last night, and the lower officials forgot about it because they were too excited."

"Thinking about it today, the villain went to the side where Zhang Ti held the permit as soon as he came to the yamen to investigate"

No wonder I didn't find anyone just now. Hao Yongchang asked: "What are the results of the investigation?" ”

"Back to my lord."

Ying Lu said: "I didn't expect that the person yesterday came early, Zhang Tiju hadn't arrived at the yamen yet, he took the money in the treasury with the pass and left."

"What are you doing?"

Hao Yongchang frowned.

Ying Lu knelt on the ground and shivered.

Yun Rebellion hurriedly came out to play a round and arched his hand: "Lord Hao, it doesn't matter, this new salt household can't only sell so little, and it will definitely come in a few days." ”

"Okay, no sin will be taken care of today, and the merits and demerits will be compensated."

Hao Yongchang got up and left, "Remember to leave this person's information next time."

"Yes, my lord."

Yun Rebellion hurriedly sent Hao Yongchang, the big Buddha, out, and was relieved after sending it out.

He frowned, and said in his heart that this Lord Hao is really an old fox.

Isn't it just to take all the credit to yourself?

O old fox!

That's it.

Hao Yongchang was in a very good mood and went to the Beiping Mansion.

met with Governor Huang and reported the matter.

After a debriefing.

Huang Zhifu stood up directly excitedly, stared, and looked at the white salt in front of him incredulously.

"Great merit, Brother Hao, you really made a great contribution this time!"

Governor Huang said excitedly: "Report this matter to King Yan, King Yan will definitely look at you differently." ”

With this salt, it means that Shuntian opens the Chinese Dharma on its own, and it works.

Then the problem of the shortage of military rations has been solved!

For the salt was not distributed to the people, but was given to the merchants in exchange for grain.

Salt of this quality can definitely be sold at a good price.

That is to say, the same weight of salt can be exchanged for several times more grain than ordinary salt!

Hao Yongchang also gave his hand modestly: "Thanks to the prefect's point, it is not in vain that the officials have been guarding the yamen day and night, so that the clouds can open and see the moon." ”

He directly took the credit for himself, saying that it was the result of his day and night guarding the yamen.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Huang Zhifu smiled: "Let's go to meet His Royal Highness King Yan?" ”

"Let's go, let's go together."

Hao Yongchang said excitedly.

Not much.

The two came to the Yanwang Mansion in person.

After the guards made a report, they quickly entered the mansion.

"His Royal Highness King Yan, His Royal Highness King Yan, good news! Great news! ”

As soon as he entered the door, Governor Huang shouted excitedly.

Hearing this, Zhu Di hurriedly waved them to sit down, and said with a smile: "But you found salt?" ”

During this time, Zhu Di was very worried about this matter.

If the problem of the shortage of military rations is not solved, the 17 guards and horses are on the side, with a total of 100,000 soldiers, and the soldiers must not be allowed to go hungry, right?

"Your Highness is really like a god, you guessed it before the official spoke."

Governor Huang said with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhu Di was overjoyed: "Come on!" ”

Huang Zhifu said: "Speaking of which, it is still His Highness's clever move, this notice has really attracted people from the people." ”

Zhu Di laughed and said: "It's not worth mentioning, this plan is the princess's proposal." ”

"I heard that the princess is full of poetry and books, and her wisdom is very high, and she is really a virtuous helper of His Royal Highness."

After patting the sycophants, Governor Huang's eyes fell on Hao Yongchang's body and said, "Lord Hao, you can talk to Your Highness about it." ”

"Yes, sir."

Hao Yongchang stood up excitedly.

This is a good opportunity that is rare in a thousand years, and as a salt transport envoy, he has almost no chance to deal with His Royal Highness King Yan.

Now is the time to perform.

"Xiaguan has seen His Royal Highness King Yan."

Hao Yongchang gave up his hand excitedly, and then began to talk eloquently, telling what had happened.

The content of the speech is naturally entrained with some private goods.

Euphemistically boasting about how responsible, how worried, balabala.

When he had finished speaking, he dug into his pocket and took out a packet of salt.

"Your Highness, please see, this is the excellent quality white salt that I talked about below."

Zhu Di took the white salt and was stunned.

Is this white salt?

He licked it, and it was indeed white salt.

There is only a pure salty taste, extremely salty, and there is no bitter taste of impurities.

There is no other thing in the world, this salt is actually produced in Beiping!

Although Beiping can also produce salt, it is indeed far worse than Liaodong and Lianghuai.

It is a great thing that such high-quality salt can be produced now, or in Beiping!

"Good! Good! I can't imagine that I have such salt in Beiping, the blessing of Beiping! ”

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows, rubbed the snowflake white salt, and asked, "This salt. If it is the method of opening up, how many times the profit is that of ordinary salt? ”

"Return to the prince."

Hao Yongchang arched his hand and said: "The law of the middle of the line, the salt collected by our court for twenty wen, the tax is two yuan, and the court makes a profit of one dollar and eight cents." The merchant exchanged the grain equivalent to one and a half cents for salt and sold it to the people for one dollar and nine cents, plus the cost of carriages and horses during the period, and the loss of transportation, the profit was almost three cents. ”

The imperial court's profit was reduced by 30 wen in exchange for the merchant's profit of 10 wen.

In fact, this is equivalent to giving the profits of the court to the merchants, which is not equal.

For the imperial court, it is actually a loss.

Because the people bought salt from the salt merchants, they would not buy salt from the imperial court in the coming year.

It is equivalent to the tax on the salt behind the overdraft.

In fact, it is somewhat similar to Yin eating grain.

However, there was a shortage of military food, and it was also a helpless move to replace it with food in advance.

Hao Yongchang went on to say:

"But the quality of salt is good and bad, and good salt makes more money."

"But this kind of high-quality salt can be sold for a high price."

"Sell it to rich people, and a pound of salt can definitely sell for two, three, two, two.

"Let's make profits, let businessmen make more money."

"I'm afraid there are countless merchants who come to exchange salt."

"This kind of salt continues to be purchased at the purchase price of one pound and one penny, in exchange for grain equivalent to one tael of silver for salt merchants."

"The amount of food I got in exchange for was eight times as much as before!! There could be more! ”

(End of chapter)