Chapter 8: Refined Salt!

After two days of inquiry, Ji Yan has a certain understanding of the world's coin system.

The world uses a gold, silver, and copper coin system, with 1 gold coin = 100 silver coins = 10,000 copper coins, and an exchange rate of one hundred. The three coins are about the same size as the one-dollar coin of the main plane Zhao State.

To his surprise, even the copper coins were beautifully crafted - the front side showed the head of the first king of the Kingdom of Kang En Choi and the year of birth and death, and the back side showed the kingdom's highest peak, Mount Rokenf, which was quite realistic, and there was a twill network pattern on the edges.

The copper coins are so exquisite that they look like works of art, which makes Ji Yan can't help but want to know the design of the silver and gold coins, but unfortunately, the villagers of Milap Village are too poor to use such "high-end" currency on weekdays, and even if there are a few, most of them are well hidden at home as heirlooms.

As for purchasing power?

Ji Yan saw with his own eyes that a copper coin could buy a black bread stick in Milap Village, a slightly better yellow bread (dry bread) with two coins and a large piece of coins, and a glass of ale wine (an oak wine glass with a capacity of about 500 ml) was also two copper coins. As for the more high-end mead and fruit wine, although there are also shops in the white bread village, the stock is very small, after all, few people can afford it.

Compared with the prices in the second-tier cities of Zhao State, the purchasing power of copper coins here is very good.

Combined with the information he found, Ji Yan set a price for his goods.

A small packet of sugar, 5 copper coins!

A bottle (600m*l) of beer is priced at 40 copper coins!

The price of one cup (200m*l) is 15 copper coins!

The price spread, and the hustle and bustle suddenly came to a moment's pause, as if the pause button had been pressed.

For ordinary villagers, 15 copper coins is already two or three days of living expenses, just for a small glass of wine...... It seems a bit of a no-deal.

Seeing this, Ji Yan gently fanned the mouth of the bottle with his hand, so that the aroma of the wine spread even more.

A red-nosed drunkard couldn't bear it anymore, stepped out, pointed to a sign beside Ji Yan and shouted, "Give Lao Tzu a cup of this!" Limited to language problems, Ji Yan made three signs in advance, showing the prices of the three goods in the form of pictures.

Ji Yan grinned, raised his glass in one hand and held the wine bottle in the other, and slowly poured the wine.

The crystal liquor, the peculiar aroma of wine, the others could not sit still anymore, and both eyes were about to erupt with fire.

You know, for these lowest-level villagers, home-brewed ale is an everyday drink (basically the only drink), but due to technology, their ale wine is quite cloudy and tastes very bad!

The half-hung drunkard meets the wine, and Ji Yan teases him repeatedly, where can they still bear it?!

"I want a drink too!"

"Give me a drink, too!"

............

The scene became lively again, with shouts for * to buy one after another, with occasional "bring me a bottle" shouts. For these people, Ji Yan did not hesitate to give his thumb, which also made the latter proud, and gained a lot of envy, jealousy and hatred.

"Good wine!" "It's so good!" "It's so delicious!"

"I've never drunk such good wine in my life!"

"Alas, how can I drink the wine at home in the future!"

......

After taking the beer from Ji Yan's hand, the drunkards who had been impatient for a long time started one after another, either drinking it all in one gulp or taking a small sip, and then showed intoxicated expressions one after another, and the words of praise were spit out one after another.

A glass of wine is very small, even if it is a small sip, it is not drunk, and it will bottom out immediately.

Woo coo~~Woo coo~~

The drunkards stared at the rest of the wine with red eyes, struggling fiercely inwardly.

Although Ji Yan's backpack is large, it can't hold much beer, and this time he only took out a dozen bottles, and after some panic buying, there are only five or six bottles left at this time, and the shriveled backpack also shows that this is the last stock.

"Give me another drink!!" shouted the red-nosed villager, who was very addicted to alcohol, and after some inner struggle, he finally couldn't bear the noise of the wine worm in his belly. "Damn, it's a big deal to nibble on wild vegetables for a while!"

With the leader, some people broke free from their wives' barriers one after another and opened their mouths to buy.

Ahem, ahem!

A few heavy coughs sounded, and Old Vicion appeared surrounded by a dozen young men and walked to Ji Yan's stall.

"Everyone, let's disperse, I'll buy the rest!!" declared Old Virgin rather domineeringly. It can be seen that his prestige is very high, although many drunkards are unhappy when these words come out, they don't dare to say anything, turn around in three steps, and walk away with a chatter.

The surroundings suddenly became empty.

Ji Yan glanced at the young villagers who surrounded him, and his eyes fell on Old Vicion, his face calm, waiting for the latter's explanation.

"These, all, I bought. Old Vigien gestured a few times, and then motioned for Ji Yan to follow him. He did think about killing Ji Yan and swallowing things in his heart, but the latter made a lot of noise, and he didn't want to ruin his reputation for a lifetime for this little profit.

Ji Yan silently put away his belongings, followed him with his bag, and came to Old Vicion's residence under the "escort" of a large group of people.

In fact, during this period, Ji Yan directly approached Old Virgin to show him the goods to seek some kind of "cooperation" opportunity, but he was rejected, and the latter did not want to see him for some reason.

Entering the old Virgin's "mansion" for the first time, Ji Yan was really shocked by the decoration inside like a modern villa. He never imagined that in such a remote village similar to medieval Europe, he could still see such high-grade buildings and decorations.

"You may be seated. "In the living room, old Virgin was courteous and thoughtful, and the owner was imposing.

"Everything, take it all out, give you money. ”

Ji Yan understood what he meant, and took out the rest of the goods, a total of 30 packs of sugar, four and a half bottles of beer.

Old Vigien pulled out his money bag, expertly counted out 4 copper coins, and then took out 3 shiny silver coins!

Ji Yan's eyes couldn't help but light up, and the blazing ** in his eyes erupted unabashedly!

To him, copper coins are worthless, and only gold and silver are the targets of this otherworldly trip!!

Old Virgin was very satisfied with his performance, and happily pushed a small pile of coins in front of Ji Yan.

The silver coin is more elaborate than the copper coin, with the same portrait of the Founding King on the obverse and an unknown bird on the reverse.

"Do you have any other goods?" Seeing Ji Yan playing with the silver coins lovingly, Old Virgin secretly smiled proudly, coughed lightly to wake him up, and asked with a gesture.

Ji Yan pretended to groan, but actually laughed in his heart: Old fox, I don't believe that you don't take the bait!

After "tangling" for a while, he "made up his mind", stretched out his hand and fumbled in the backpack for a while, and took out a paper bag.

Ji Yan's cautious movements infected Old Vician, and he couldn't help but hold his breath and come up.

The paper bag opened, and in front of him was a bag of fine sand-like particles, as white as snow.

It's the refined salt!!

Ji Yan used to make a lot of money.

At Ji Yan's suggestion, Old Vicion carefully dipped a little and put it on his tongue.

In the next moment, his half-squinted eyes suddenly widened, and the blazing light shot out from the deep pupils, scorching!

Refined table salt!something that only the nobles of the kingdom can afford!!

The experience of his youth made him fortunate to enter the circle of high-class people several times, and also let him know the existence of refined table salt, which is expensive and scarce, and it is not within the reach of ordinary people!

In this world, salt exists in the state of mineral crystals, and it is quite stable, and cannot be refined by physical means on the earth, and special means must be used to refine and purify, these "special means" are only in the hands of certain groups, not to mention the small number of groups, and the cost of refining is not cheap, which leads to the high price of refined salt.

In fact, refined salt is divided into three grades, and old Virgien has tasted only one or two levels of refined salt, purified to the extreme, which only the real upper echelons of the kingdom can afford, where is the thing he can touch!

But, even so, the refined salt brought by Ji Yan was enough to shock him to the extreme!!

Old Virgin seemed to be performing his facial expressions, his facial expressions changed rapidly, accompanied by the light in his eyes that appeared and disappeared, which was extremely terrifying.

"Kill him, kill him, this precious bag of refined salt is yours!!" Old Virgin seemed to have a demon whispering in his ear, arousing the greedy evil thoughts in his heart, which turned into a strong killing intent on his face.

His cold and strange gaze swept towards Ji Yan.

The latter was calm, with a smile on his lips and a sparkle of sarcasm in his eyes.

Old Virgin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, just now, a strong feeling welled up in his heart, it was a life and death crisis that had been lost for many years, and it would only arise in the face of extreme danger!

The killing intent in Old Virgin's heart collapsed, the expression on his face became kind again, and the atmosphere in the room became gentle.

He poured a cup of treasured honey wine for Ji Yan, motioned for the latter to wait, and left first.

Ji Yan's expression remained unchanged, and he silently took out something from the space, something that could ensure that even if Old Virgin had bad intentions, he could get out of the way and impress the other party.

A short time later, old Virgin returned, with an antique box in the crook of his arm.

In front of Ji Yan, he opened the wooden box.

Ji Yan's slightly narrowed eyes widened suddenly, his nose was open, and his breath was heavy and hot.

Inside the chest, gold and silver are intertwined, and there are a lot of gold and silver coins!

It took a long time for Ji Yan to calm down his restless mood.

"What do you want?" asked Ji Yan.

"Refined salt, all of it! all of it!" said old Virgin to his feet, dancing with his hands, revealing his ambition.

Syllable!

Ji Yan closed the box and slowly moved it in front of him, while his other hand grabbed a few times in the air, and the next moment dozens of packets of salt appeared out of thin air and piled up on the table into a small mountain.

"Fortunately, I didn't do it......," old Virgin was secretly afraid, and rejoiced.

Emotions are fleeting, and the next moment is drowned out by a torrent of madness!

I developed!