Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 7 Substitutes for Salt
When you can say these words calmly, the other party has no back-up?Even if Shen Kuohai thinks with his toes, he can think that the result must be negative!

Is it my former enemy?Or is that aristocratic family wanting to meddle in this Lingnan land?

Countless thoughts filled his brain in an instant, and his brain started to run at a high speed. If he couldn't figure out these problems, not only he, but even the entire Shen family might be facing ruin!

Zhang Yi paced and picked up the wine jar that Shen Kuohai had just unsealed in one hand, poured himself a bowl of wine and took a sip before asking with some doubts: "I don't understand, my little brother. It’s not unique to Lingnan. There are actually a lot of these things in the mainland.

But the advantage is that the distance is short. Compared with your income from traveling thousands of miles from Lingnan to Chang'an, I am afraid it is not as good as the mainland!Besides, all the ethnic groups in Baiyue, the land of Lingnan, are rebellious and unruly. It is a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. "

Zhang Yi didn't continue talking, Shen Kuohai naturally knew the way of intelligent people.

The sum of the robbery, loss, and money spent by officials from all sides is definitely a huge sum!

Is it just that the mainland is so easy to mess with?
But isn't any good business that can make money being dominated by aristocratic families and upstarts?If the Shen family had a stable place to do business, why would Shen Kuohai risk his life to come to this barren place?
Shen Kuohai found that he was speechless, could it be that you people came to this deep mountain and wild forest because of the fact that you have occupied the four wildernesses?
Naturally, this cannot be said, so the whole hall fell silent, apart from Lao Zhong's violent snoring, there was silence around him, and even the voices of the Baiyue people outside the yard handling the mountain goods could be heard.

Seeing that Shen Kuohai stopped talking, Zhang Yi continued: "Even if you have your own reasons and have no choice but to come to this land of Lingnan to look for business opportunities, but I found out that this series of actions by Brother Shen is so different from the old story of buying a box and returning the pearl." I don’t think it’s your way to enter Baoshan and return empty-handed!”

As soon as Zhang Yi finished speaking, Shen Kuohai's squinted eyes rolled quickly.

If he still doesn't understand that Zhang Yi wants to cooperate with him, then his business for so many years can be considered as a dog.

It's just that he didn't understand, could there be something more valuable than mountain goods in Lingnan?
Is it bananas all over the floor or an elephant wandering around with its tail flapping its ass?Or is it a monkey that throws wild fruits when it sees people all over the mountains and plains?
After thinking about it for a long time, he really can't think of anything in this vast land that is more profitable than mountain goods!If there is, he is even willing to accept all the unequal conditions that are coming, as long as the income is higher than Shanhuo, then it can be negotiated.

"Brother Zhang, please teach me!" Shen Kuohai stood up straight, first tidied up his clothes, and then walked in front of Zhang Yi, holding his hands at [-] degrees in front of his chest, bending his whole upper body with his thumbs down in an indescribable way Curved down and bowed deeply.

The etiquette is impeccable, even perfect to the point that it cannot be more perfect. Judging from his slightly distorted face, Zhang Yi knows that this guy may not perform this movement as easily as he appears.

Now that people are not ashamed to ask, as a future partner, Zhang Yi naturally can't show off anymore. He smiled slightly and quickly stretched out his hands to support Shen Kuohai's arms so that they could not tilt down any more. He was even thinking what if If he doesn't step forward, will this guy come to him like a vicious dog?
Of course, this was just thinking about it. After struggling to straighten Shen Kuohai's body, Zhang Yi asked: "Brother Shen, you can be considered a big merchant. What kind of goods do you think are the most profitable in my Tang Dynasty?"

"Naturally, it's the salt and iron trade!" Shen Kuohai immediately gave the answer without even thinking about it.

However, although salt and iron make money, in fact, except for those top giants, everyone else is stuck to whoever dies!

Needless to say, salt is the foundation of the people, this thing is indispensable for all people!

And iron, as the raw material of weapons, is an important strategic material of the country, because of the uniqueness of this technology, this is one of the important reasons why the Han people have been able to occupy the Central Plains!

But no matter whether it is salt or iron, both of them can be said to be the inverse scales of the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to mix them in!
Of course, in fact there is food besides salt and iron!However, although the food is always not enough and the demand is great, no one dares to pay attention to it. If there is a slight carelessness, when public grievances arise, even princes and ministers will inevitably suffer such a knife at the entrance of the vegetable market.

Shen Kuohai didn't understand, could it be that Zhang Yi wanted to do salt and iron business?

As soon as he thought of the vast sea, he focused his attention on Zhang Yi's face.

If Zhang Yi really has such an idea, then he thinks it must be salt, but the salt boiled from seawater cannot be eaten directly, because the seawater is not only bitter but also poisonous, after eating it, the whole body will turn purple and have diarrhea. There is immediate danger to life.

Thinking of this, Shen Kuohai felt a chill in his heart. If Zhang Yi really planned to boil such salt for sale in Lingnan, he might not have many choices, but when he thought of the hundreds of heads of the entire Shen family, he felt like A sigh.

It is a blessing, not a curse, but a curse that cannot be avoided!
It's obvious that the other party has already set their sights on me, and I am so smart that I want to seek benefits from the other party
"My lord, are you going to do the salt business?" Shen Kuohai asked with difficulty, as for the title of brother, he didn't dare to call him anymore, who knew that this seemingly frail boy was actually the son of that aristocratic family?
"Sea salt is poisonous!" Zhang Yi seemed to understand Shen Kuohai's thoughts very well, and said with a smile: "I think Brother Shen may have misunderstood Zhang Yi!"

"That's it?" Shen Kuohai just felt like he was riding a roller coaster, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the constant repetition of his heart was almost to the limit of what he could bear.

"Sea salt is indeed poisonous, but the amount used is not large enough to cause symptoms of poisoning. The most important thing is that Datang is very short of salt now, isn't it? And look at the sea crabs we eat are very delicious!" Zhang Yi said gracefully Put a fat crab leg into your mouth and gently bite the crab shell, then suck the crab meat inside, looked at Shen Kuohai and continued: "Brother Shen, do you think that if you dry the sea fish, of course it will be dried. After adding a certain proportion of clear seawater, do you think that such a pound of dried fish will be snapped up in places like Longyou or Hanzhong where there is a lack of salt?”

Suddenly Shen Kuohai's eyes lit up!

Although dried fish from sea fish cannot replace salt, it is definitely a good substitute!In the past few years in Lingnan, he has tasted this kind of food more than once, and the taste is very bad. The salty taste always has a strong fishy smell, but I have to say that this thing is indeed much better than vinegar cloth.

It's just that the Baiyue people are not good at fishing, and the catch is difficult to scale. In addition, many tribes simply don't do business with merchants like them, so that even though Zhang Yi's idea is good, it is difficult to implement it. ascend to heaven.He didn't think that the dried fish produced in this place could meet the consumption of even a county town, it was too little, not even enough to fit between the teeth!
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