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Chapter 82 Selling Salt?The quality of this salt is too good!

This is salt?
The mention of the surname Ying was stunned.

He has grown so big, he has spent more salt in his life than he has eaten.

But it was the first time he had seen such white salt, just like flour.

Could it be that you used flour to fool me?
Lifting Ying Lu was puzzled, and rubbed it with his fingers. It felt grainy, although it was very delicate, but it was not like flour.

He dipped in the salt again, then licked his mouth.

hiss.
Ying Lu gasped, looking at the batch of salt in disbelief.

It's too exaggerated, it's incredible!
This is really salt, salt with extremely high purity, without a trace of impurities, without a trace of bitterness!
More than any salt ever!
"This is the salt you made???"

Ying Lu's voice trembled a little as he pointed at the batch of salt.

"Yes." Li Xiao nodded.

Ying Lu excitedly said loudly: "How did you make this?? What kind of salt production method was used? Well mining method or sun-dried salt method??"

He has been in this business for a long time and knows all kinds of salt making methods like the back of his hand.

But I have never heard of any salt-making method that can produce such high-quality salt! !
How can you not make him excited?
"This." Li Xiao smiled and said, "Shouldn't the method of making salt need to be disclosed?"

"Ah, yes, yes. Sorry."

Ying Lu smiled apologetically, realizing that he was rash.

Each salt-making household has its own technology and secrets, which are kept as treasures.

How could such high-quality salt be produced by this salt-making method, so how could it be revealed to others casually?

"May I ask, how much do you produce?"

Ying Lu asked excitedly.

The first level of the official rank crushes people to death, time is tight, and the task is heavy.

The prefect did not know why, but suddenly fell ill.

They actually asked the Salt Transportation Department to collect another five thousand shi of salt in a short period of time in addition to the usual purchases.

Isn't this embarrassing?
The entire Shuntian Prefecture produces so much salt, where can I find so much salt?
I don't know which senior official, patted his head, and proposed the method of posting notices.

Even posting a notice is useless. How can making salt be so simple?
It is true that some new salt households sent salt, but the quality of the salt was unsightly.

If it was in the past, it would definitely not be accepted.

But now is an extraordinary time.

It can only be collected as a good mix of salt and mixed together to make up the number.

Therefore, their Salt Transportation Department has no other way except to force the former salt households to increase their production.

But the young man in front of him not only sent salt, but the quality of the salt was unbelievably good!
This gave Ying Lu a glimmer of hope.

"Current Production"

Li Xiao made some calculations: "It can produce [-] halite a month."

Five hundred rock salt is almost fifty thousand catties.

"Five hundred stones are a bit small"

Ying Lu secretly thought it was a pity, but it could be regarded as a solution to the urgent need.

"The quality of your salt is too good. I can't even put a price on it"

Ying Lu frowned, thought for a long time, and discussed, "How about seventy coins a catty?"

They collect salt at [-] Wen a catty of silver, and the [-] Wen is almost tripled.

It's like paying for quality.

Generally speaking, the salt collected from twenty Wen coins can be sold for two coins and two silvers, and the profit is still very large.

A batch of the high-quality salt collected was given to dignitaries.

The rest can be distributed to some rich merchants. In addition to the salt tax, good-quality salt will be charged an additional half a tael of silver, or even a tael a catty.

Pick the remaining ordinary salt, which is distributed to ordinary people.

The silver taels earned are naturally turned over to the state treasury.

But for the salt handled in the inner box, the Salt Transport Department can get a lot of silver taels, and the whole yamen will share the account together.
Therefore, the Department of Salt Transport is a very lucrative yamen, and ordinary people can't get in at all.

Of course, outsiders do not know these things.

The quality of Li Xiao's salt is very high. If it is exclusively for the rich, it can be sold at a high price of two taels, or even three taels. It is estimated that the supply is in short supply.

Therefore, it is still very profitable to collect seventy Wen silver.

However, Li Xiao didn't know the doorway at all.

He only knows that the purchase price of a catty of ordinary salt is [-] Wen, so [-] Wen should be fair, right?
"Okay, that's it."

Li Xiao nodded.

He didn't bother to bargain or anything like that, after all, the mine would be given to his father-in-law in a few days.

"However, the notice says that the price has been increased by [-]% in the near future, so it counts as a penny?"

Li Xiao glanced at Bai Yan.

"That's natural."

Ying Lu nodded, and asked again: "You bought this batch of salt for a catty of silver, how many catties do you have?"

"Five thousand catties, the next batch will be delivered in three days. It takes time to make salt."

"Okay, then wait a moment."

That's it.

Ying Lu immediately arranged for the yamen servant who was on duty to start weighing.

After weighing, there are a total of five hundred and twenty hundred catties of white salt.

Afterwards, the registration was done, and another pass of 520 taels was issued.

"Today the storeroom has been depreciated, and tomorrow you can get cash with this pass."

"In addition, tomorrow you can ask the officer on duty to issue a permit for you."

Ying Lu handed the pass to Li Xiao.

"Okay, the money and goods are cleared, and I will leave."

Li Xiao accepted the pass.

The two left the government office.

In a blink of an eye, 500 taels of silver were in hand!
500 taels is not a small amount!

In the Ming Dynasty, a high-ranking official with the highest official position had a monthly salary of 87 shi, equivalent to 43 taels of silver, and the total annual salary was only 500 taels.

Of course this is on the surface,

Secretly, first-rank officials still have land and extra income from titles.

But even so, 500 taels is a lot.

Ordinary people may not earn so much silver taels in their lifetime.

Li Xiao directly handed the pass to Li Xiongzhi, and ordered: "Tomorrow, you can exchange the silver by yourself, and you will come later to exchange the silver into a bank note."

Li Xiongzhi took the pass worth 520 taels with trembling hands.

I didn't expect Li Xiao to value and trust him so much, and I would give him 500 taels if I said so, and I wasn't afraid that he would change the money and run away.
But Li Xiongzhi wouldn't do this either, he had already given up on Li Xiao.

"Brother Xiao, you order, I promise to do it well."

Li Xiongzhi carefully put the pass on his chest for personal protection, for fear of losing it.

"Brother Xiao, our business is too profitable. We have made 500 taels of silver in just a few days!"

Li Xiongzhi said excitedly: "I also went to inquire about it during this period of time. I heard that the site, labor, materials, etc. of other salt households are very expensive, and the efficiency is far less than ours."

Li Xiao smiled and said, "That's natural, my salt-making method is not comparable to those outdated methods."

"Yes Yes Yes."

Li Xiongzhi was completely convinced by Li Xiao.

It has to be Brother Xiao!
That's it.

Li Xiao returned to Yan Wangfu.

The next day, Li Xiongzhi went to the warehouse of the Salt Transportation Department early in the morning, exchanged the pass for silver taels, and directly exchanged 500 taels of silver bills.

After he collected it, he hurried back to the saltworks, carefully collecting the bank notes.

Then in the salt field, let the workers work overtime and continue to make salt
at the same time.

The Salt Transport Envoy of the Salt Transport Department, the highest official of the Yamen, came to inspect the work.

quickly,

He found a batch of white salt like snowflakes.

(End of this chapter)