The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 122 Salt Merchant
On September 9, in a large restaurant in Dengzhou.

Today Ding Yi took care of the whole audience, no guests upstairs or downstairs, they were specially used to entertain his guests.

Before ten o'clock in the morning, more than 100 people came one after another, more than half of them were stopped outside the restaurant, and finally more than 40 people entered the restaurant.

These more than 40 people were all former salt distributors in Denglai and the shopkeepers in various counties and towns. Their salt was all taken by Wang Zhouzhou, and then distributed to counties, towns, and even towns in Denglai. village.

Knowing that something happened to Wang and Zhou's family, Ding Yi called everyone together. All the shopkeepers and salt merchants were on their way in the starry night, and they came to worship the new wharf non-stop.

In this way, there were still many people who did not come. Afterwards, Ding Yi found out that some of the shopkeepers were far away.

Seeing this lively scene, Ding Yi knew that the Wang and Zhou families had made a lot of money in the past two years.

At this moment, he was sitting quietly in the back, with Ruan Siqing standing behind him, and the bosses of the salt merchants all around looked at the two of them, not daring to breathe.

These people are all well-known and powerful figures in their respective counties and towns. After all, they didn't have any manpower under their hands and didn't kill a few people, so they didn't dare to do it.

But as soon as Ding Yi came and wiped out Wang and Zhou's family, and seized the ones that had a good relationship with Wang and Zhou, everyone was very scared now.

Someone brought seven or eight men over, but now they are all stopped by Ding Yi's troops.

Wei Jiye, it's useless for you to bring seven or eight people here, we want to mess with you, can you run away?
It made sense for them to think about it, so they could only bite the bullet and come up alone.

Ding Yi was very friendly on the surface, let the shopkeepers and salt merchants who came over introduce themselves one by one and get to know each other.

Everyone looked at the smiling and friendly Ding Yi, and couldn't believe that he killed so many people a few days ago.

At about eleven o'clock in the morning, Ding Yi looked around and said, "Who else hasn't arrived?"

Everyone looked around, and someone whispered, "Old Jimo Liu hasn't come yet."

"He is far away." Someone immediately reminded: "Maybe I haven't received the news yet."

"Qixia Manager Zhao is not here either."

Those who didn't show up at the scene were basically far away, and some of them might not have received the news. After all, in this day and age, it takes a long time for the news to spread.

Ding Yi nodded: "It doesn't matter, I'll talk about it first, and when they come later, I will explain it after Ruan inspector."

Everyone hurriedly took a deep look at Ruan Siqing, remembering this young man first.

"From now on, when you come to fetch salt, you will pay one or two five for each load." Ding Yi said slowly at this time.

"What?" The scene exploded in an instant.

so expensive?
When Wang Zhou was around, they paid eight qian a load for salt.

Now it has nearly doubled.

Everyone was shocked, angry, and afraid.

"Don't make noise, let's talk after listening." Ruan Siqing patted the table and said.

The surroundings quickly quieted down, and some salt merchants were already considering whether to go to Songjiang and other places to find a solution.

But every place has its own circle, and it is not so easy for outsiders to go to buy salt.

And even if there is salt, there is no salt to attract, and I dare not sell it when I come back. At that time, the surname Ding just found an excuse and was arrested.

"Can you listen to me?" Ding Yi looked around in dissatisfaction, and everyone was shocked by his momentum and fell silent.

"Our salt is not mixed with sand." Ding Yi said.

"Ah!" There was an explosion at the scene, and everyone was in disbelief.

Ding Yi sells salt without sand, but whether you mix it or not is none of my business.

Ding Yi is not yet conceited enough to care whether others get involved or not. As Zhou Hui said, the entire Ming Dynasty did this. You can't do it alone in Dengzhou?

They were shocked that Ding Yi didn't mix the salt, and after they bought the salt from Wang Zhou's men, some people wanted to add some more to increase the profit.

"But one-two-five, will it be—?" someone cautiously suggested that even if no sand is mixed, one-two-five would not make much profit.

"I'm talking about refined salt, and this is the price of refined salt." Ding Yi said: "In the future, I will not produce coarse salt."

Everyone was shocked again, but soon someone pointed out that there are ordinary people who can't afford refined salt, and there is no need to buy salt.

Everyone is used to coarse salt, so it’s not good if you suddenly only sell refined salt.

Ding Yi then turned his head to discuss with Xu Gui, Liu Yuan's confidant, the new ambassador of the salt department, but he himself did not know much about this.

Xu Gui quickly said: "Each load of coarse salt is one or two, but the supply will be reduced by half compared to before, and no sand will be added."

Everyone nodded, this is acceptable.

Everyone can see that Ding Yi wants to take the route of refined salt and sell it at a high price.

In fact, refined salt is difficult to produce, and the annual output of military households and ordinary people on the seaside is not high, unless there are professional salt farms.

Of course they didn't know that Ding Yi had a professional saltworks in Lushun.

Someone asked: "Can the production of refined salt be increased in the future? I often have to transport it to other places."

Xu Gui was afraid that Ding Yi would forget, so he quickly reminded him that this man was the younger brother of a hundred households in Weihaiwei near Wendeng. sell everywhere.

"As much as you want, just clear the money and goods." Ding Yi said immediately.

"Okay." The man was overjoyed.

Then Ding Yi asked Ruan Siqing to make statistics on the spot, how much crude salt and refined salt each of them needed per month, and counted the needs of everyone. Only when Ding Yi went back could Ruan Siqing control the production.

Otherwise, if the output is too high, it will be embarrassing if it cannot be sold.

Right now, he has three places where he produces salt, one is his own salt field in Lushun, the other is the salt field of the government's Salt Division, and the third is the salt produced by nearby military households and common people.

The military households and common people made it themselves, and they were bought by the salt department at a low price. When Wang Zhou was there, they were not allowed to sell it privately, and whoever sold it would arrest him, so no one dared to sell it privately.

The scale of this wave of people is small, and no one wants to make a fortune from this, just earn some money to subsidize the family, enough is enough, so this wave of people Ding Yi is not going to move them, keep it as it is, and he will not raise the price to prevent someone Jealous, if they want to spread more salt, it will affect Ding Yi Lushun's output.

Ding Yi can copy Wang and Zhou's family, but he can't let the people of Yanmin live.

However, Yantian under the name of the Salt Division will only produce coarse salt and not refined salt. The refined salt will be provided by Lushun, and they will try to make as much money as possible.

Ruan Siqing finished counting quickly, and it was already noon, so Ding Yi invited the shopkeepers to drink and eat in the restaurant.

Everyone didn't expect Ding Yi to be so polite, so naturally they readily agreed.

After drinking for a long time, Ding Yi almost got drunk. During the banquet, Ding Yi said again: "Everyone can leave a day later. There is a store opening in Dengzhou tomorrow. I hope everyone can take a look at it."

Everyone was puzzled, but since Dante Yi said so, everyone should give face.

So all the shopkeepers and salt merchants lived in Dengzhou for a few days.

In fact, many people plan to stay for only one day, to see what the store he is talking about, but after looking at it, they find that staying for one day is not enough, and staying for only one day may not be able to enter.

(End of this chapter)