Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 14, 3 taels of silver can marry my mother-in-law

"Guangzhu, why don't we arrest the two of them, as long as we know the origin of the snow salt from them, we will distribute it in the future."

On a small path between the high mountains, dozens of salt dealers carried their burdens and formed a long dragon. In the middle area, Zhang Tianyun, Zhang Tianhao's brother, said softly.

"I told you to use your brain more in everything, but you just haven't made any progress."

Zhang Tianhao looked at his younger brother. The Salt Gang he established was said to be the Salt Gang, but in fact they were all members of his own family. The scale was small. In ancient times, the most reliable relationship was this kind of clan relationship. Anything will involve the clan, such as moving three clans, destroying nine clans, and so on.

Zhang Tianhao started his business by secretly selling smuggled salt from the seaside to remote areas with a few people from his clan. After he grew up, he brought his own clan members to do this smuggled salt business together.

Because they are all members of the clan, everyone knows the basics, and they are all a family, so they are very reliable, and it is safer to do this kind of beheading business.

"There is never enough money in this world to be earned."

"We must learn to make more friends instead of making more enemies. If you have more friends, you will have a better way to go, but if you have more enemies, you will have nowhere to go."

"I can bring you to do this business, do you think it's really the ghost knife on the back?"

"It depends on Zhang Tianhao's loyalty, being friends, knowing how to measure, and knowing how to share benefits."

Zhang Tianhao has a kind of hatred that iron cannot be made of steel. This Zhang Tianyun is the son of his uncle's family. He is already in his 20s.

Originally, he was already familiar with Xiahetun, a village with a good cooperative relationship. Zhang Tianhao didn't need him to come forward in person. It was enough to send someone who was smarter to take charge.

But he was still worried, and would come here in person every time. He originally wanted to train Zhang Tianyun, so that he would be able to take care of himself in the future, so he would be much more relaxed, but now it seems that his efforts were in vain.

"This snow salt is to make money. We can earn almost 300 taels of silver by selling a catty of snow salt, and we can earn 100 taels of silver for this 20 catties of snow salt."

"However, this amount is still too small at present. 100 catties of salt is not enough even for tooth-making sacrifices. I guess that Liu Xiucai must have discovered some special brine to cook such snow salt."

"The output may not be too high. It is not bad to have a few hundred catties each time. At the top of the day, we will earn dozens of taels of silver each time."

"For this little money, we arrested these two people, and one of them is a scholar. Once the government investigates it, we will never even think about doing this business."

"Don't lose the big because of small things, think a few more steps when doing things, especially take a long-term view, and don't be fascinated by the small profits in front of you."

"What's more, even if the output of this snow salt is not bad, he only sells 200 Wen per catty of salt, and earns 200 Wen per catty. We earn 300 Wen per catty of salt, and we still earn the bulk."

"There's no need to figure out where the snow salt comes from. An'an can earn the money we should earn, understand?"

Zhang Tianhao sighed and said, this is the experience and lessons he has summed up in the private salt business for more than ten years. He should know what money can be made and what money cannot be made.

"I understand~"

Zhang Tianyun nodded and said, half understanding.

"This Liu Xiucai passed the examination as a scholar at a young age, maybe he will be able to make a fortune in the future, and now if we make friends with him, maybe we can climb a big tree, then we will have a good life."

Zhang Tianhao looked at Zhang Tianyun, knowing that he didn't take his words into his heart, so he thought about it again.

"I see, are you paving the way for the future?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Tianyun immediately said.

"What do you think, I spend thousands of taels of silver every year to support the children in the clan to study and test their achievements. What do you think I am doing?"

"It's not because our Zhang family can produce talents in the future, so that we have a backer, and we don't need to work so hard to sell some private salt secretly among the high mountains. At that time, we can compete with other big salt merchants." It’s the same, go to the salt field to get salt openly, and you can get tens of thousands of silver if you pass it casually.”

"Remember, you should be more polite to scholars. When you encounter difficulties, you can help them if you can. These scholars are Tian Shelang in the morning and Tianzitang in the evening. No one can tell what they will be like in the future. of."

Zhang Tianhao nodded and said.

"I see, what should we do with Tiger Tang?"

Zhang Tianyun nodded, thought for a while and said.

"Tang Huohu is just a country bully. In my opinion, he will be dealt with by this Liu Xiucai in a short time. This Liu Xiucai dares to sell salt to us. He has courage. I am afraid that this Tang Huohu is really not him. opponent."

Zhang Tianhao thought for a while and said with a smile.

……

"Brother Jin, we've made a fortune. This is silver. This is silver. I've never seen silver before."

On the other side, Zhao Erhu was very excited when he got the money, and when he looked carefully, it seemed that the money was worth something.

Xiahetun is really too poor. Even though everyone can cook salt and sell it, every time Zhang Tianhao trades, he always brings copper coins, because he clearly knows that these people in Xiahetun only like copper coins, not silver. It is too big, so it is never traded with silver, even if it is easy to carry.

This is like when everyone buys and sells things with pennies and pennies. If you buy things with 1000 yuan bills, others will not be able to find them at all, and these people have never seen how big the bills are. Afraid of being deceived, they will not accept it.

"Isn't it good to be a little promising? It will make you happy. Isn't it just a few taels of silver?"

Liu Jin looked at Zhao Erhu and said with a smile on his face.

In just ten days, by purifying coarse salt, I made a profit of more than 10 taels of silver.

You may think that these ten taels of silver are nothing, but if you consider the prices of this era and everyone's living standards, you will know that these ten taels of silver are definitely a huge sum of money.

At this time, the silver from the Americas had not flowed into the Ming Dynasty on a large scale. Silver was very valuable, but it was not as good as when it was concealed.

Now the main currency is copper coins, and silver is only used in large transactions, because only these businessmen and gentry can know the quality of silver, the level of purity, the exchange rate, etc. Ordinary people, many of them spend their whole lives I can't see a tael of silver.

"Silver is very valuable. My father said that as long as my family has three taels of silver, he can marry me a mother-in-law."

Zhao Erhu touched his head, blushing slightly and said.

"Haha, it seems that Huzi, you really want to marry your mother-in-law, so follow me well, and I will make sure that you marry a beautiful mother-in-law and go home to warm your bed before the Chinese New Year."

When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help laughing happily. He had to say that in this day and age, people at the bottom are really poor. You can marry a wife for 3 taels of silver, but even for 3 taels of silver, it is too expensive for many families. A lifetime thing.

(End of this chapter)