The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 114
There are two salt divisions under the Dengwendu Transshipment Salt Envoy Division. The salt division ambassador in Dengzhou is called Zhou Hui, and his wife and brother are Wang Qiji.

Wang Qiji is also the salt inspector of another salt department.

Taking advantage of their positions, Zhou Hui and Wang Qiji control all the sales of salt near Dengwen, including Yantai, Weihai, and Rushan.

The Wang family also has a shop in Dengzhou City, which specializes in selling salt.

Do wholesale and retail.

When salt from other places comes in, only the Wang family can buy it. If he doesn't want it, you can't enter Dengzhou.

The local salt people, including the military households in the guards, produced illegal salt for their livelihood, and they could only sell it to the Wang family.

The salt miners sold it to Zhou Wang's family for only 3-4 yuan a load, but the common people bought it in shops for more than 1 tael a load.

If you dare to sell to other places, there are troops stationed under the inspectors (in the Jiajing period, according to the censor Qi Zongdao, the imperial court included some officers and soldiers into the salt system), and you will be arrested immediately, and you will be killed if you are caught.

So these years, Zhou Wang's family in Dengzhou, relying on the salt field and controlling the salt profit, I don't know how much money they have made.

According to Ding Yi's request, Lu Chao had checked out the hundreds of miles around Dengzhou last month. In his previous life, the salt profits in several cities in the west of Shandong Province were all in the hands of the Wang family.

According to Lu Chao's inquiring information, the Wang family can earn at least 2 taels a year, except for the money that is respected.

Ding Yijue's point may be to say less.

After all, the places that the Wang and Zhou families can control include seven or eight cities (districts) such as Yantai, Weihai, Rushan, Penglai, Qixia, and Longkou. The population in the previous life was several million to tens of millions. The Peasant Army has not affected here either, there should be a population of 100 million less.

Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing respectively recorded the consumption of the people in the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Guangqi said that each mouthful consumes 15 catties of salt per year.

Song Yingxing said that each Dingkou consumes 50 catties of salt every year.

Let's break it down, and each person uses 20 catties of salt per year, which is 2000 million catties.

If the population of these areas in the late Ming Dynasty is reduced by half, 50 people, that is 1000 million catties.

Counting one tael and one load, this is 10 taels.

What's more, they sell it outside.

This afternoon, a young man came to Wang's shop, the young man was very heroic, and he also looked like a young lady and a few servants.

This person is Ding Yi.

The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man named Wang Qiye, who is said to be Wang Qiji's elder brother.

He saw Ding Yi's imposing manner, but he didn't dare to neglect, and immediately stood up from the chair in the shop: "Does the guest officer need anything?"

When speaking, those mung bean eyes looked Ruan Wenyan up and down.

Now it's September, the weather is hot, Ruan Wenyan only wears a thin coat, and she likes to practice martial arts, so the clothes are more close-fitting.

The weather was hot, and when several people came here, they were all sweaty.

The dress is attached to the body, with exquisite curves, so graceful.

"How much is a load of salt?" Ding Yi said, lowering his head and grabbing a handful of salt from the shop.

This salt is very coarse, like Ding Yi's coarse salt that has not undergone secondary processing, and has a lot of sand.

Ordinary people eat this kind of salt for the most part, and after buying it back, they have to sieve it before eating it.

Ding Yi will now understand, why did Lao Xu and Lao Song explain that a person has to eat so much salt in a single mouth, and there is sand in it?

"Coarse salt is 20 Wen per catty, and it costs one tael per load." The price Wang Qiye said was similar to what Ruan Wenyan bought salt last time.

Retail is expensive, and a load of loads is slightly more appropriate.

Ding Yi looked puzzled, it turned out that Ruan Wenyan bought coarse salt before?

He grabbed another handful of refined salt beside him.

The quality of this salt is about the same as Ding Yi's, it is finer, and there is sand, but less.

"A catty of refined salt is 30 Wen, and each load is 2 taels."

Ding Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, so he tried to ask: "I have refined salt, which is of better quality than this, without sand, how much do you charge per load?"

"Ah——" Wang Qiye dragged out a long sound, his face became serious, and he looked at Ding Yi.

But soon, he said: "Is there any goods to see?"

Ding Yi waved his hand, and a soldier handed over a small item.

Wang Qiye took out the refined salt and looked at it. Sure enough, the quality was similar, but the key was that there was no sand.

In coarse salt, they are generally half and half, half salt and half sand, so the profit is very high.

For refined salt, the ratio is generally 4:1, that is, [-] catties of refined salt can be sold for [-] catties, and the profit is not small.

He glanced at it for a few moments, then chuckled: "Salt is okay, how much do you have? We all want it, five cents a load."

Swipe, Ruan Wenyan's face turned livid.

Hehe, Ding Yi laughed.

Ding Yi is very short of money now, and salt is one of the means he prefers. After all, he can make money now, and the only way to make quick money is to sell salt.

But at Wang Qiye's price, he simply didn't treat them as human beings.

There's no way, the Wang family is so awesome in Dengzhou.

Ding Yi didn't move, and Ruan Wenyan and the soldiers naturally didn't respond.

He touched his nose and said slowly: "The price of shopkeeper Wang is not fair."

"If my refined salt is sold in Dengzhou City, everyone will rush to ask for 2 taels per load."

Wang Qiye sneered directly: "You can try."

His tone and expression were arrogant.

No one from the Wang family would dare to buy Ding Yi's salt from the traders in Dengzhou City.

Even if I bought Ding Yi's salt, I couldn't ship it out, let alone sell it.

Wang Qiye has the confidence to be arrogant.

And as soon as he heard Ding Yi's accent, he knew it was a foreigner.

Do outsiders dare to be so crazy in our Dengzhou?
Grandpa, I can teach you how to be a man.

Ding Yi thought for a while, then took a step back: "We have a monthly supply of 1 tons, how about [-] tael for a load?"

He gave half of the profit, and Wang Qiye could make double the profit if he sold two taels.

Wang Qiye laughed loudly: "There are too many goods, but it is difficult to sell. I can pay 5 yuan a load."

Ruan Wenyan was furious.

Ding Yi didn't expect the Wang family to be so arrogant.

He stepped back, but the other party actually gave in?
Ding Yi didn't speak, just looked at Wang Qiye quietly.

Wang Qiye looked at him coldly, his eyes were a little provocative, as if he was saying, if there is something, you can sell it?
Ding Yi thought for a while, and then said again: "The two kings of Zhou have controlled the Dengzhou salt industry for ten years, made a lot of money, have the support of officers and soldiers, and have fierce gangsters on their hands—"

Wang Qiye's face changed slightly, and he looked at Ding Yi in surprise, but he still showed no sign of fear.

The whole Dengzhou knows about the Wang and Zhou families, so what?Do you know who is behind us?

"So you think that as long as you are powerful, you can do anything?"

Wang Qiye actually nodded, then laughed a few times, and finally his face sank: "So what? Outsiders, are you not convinced?"

All of Ding Yi's soldiers were furious, and someone was already quietly holding the knife handle at his waist.

Seeing that they had knives, Wang Qiye turned a blind eye to them.

Hmph, he snorted coldly.

"What are you doing?" A voice suddenly shouted in the store, and then a dozen shop assistants rushed out from the inside and outside, all of them fierce and armed with sharp weapons.

Everyone looked at Ding Yi and his party fiercely, full of murderous intent.

(End of this chapter)