“The ancient world?
So what you are saying is that the new world connected to the treasure that Xiaoxiao bound is actually similar to the world we had dozens or hundreds of years ago, using copper coins and broken silver from earlier times!
The market is also different from now. Instead, it is the same as it was more than ten years ago. You don’t need tickets to buy things, just money.
That's pretty good.
But our family doesn’t have any money either. We did have a few silver dollars a few years ago, but they have already been used! "
The key point in Qu Jie's words.
Old Mrs. Huang obviously still didn't get it.
She only focused on the world where tickets were not required to buy things, and that although she had no tickets, she also had no money.
Regardless of whether it was money from this world or money that could be used in the ancient world, she didn't have it. Even if she bartered, she couldn't find anything valuable at home.
"No, Grandma Huang, you don't understand what I mean at all. You have to pay attention to the key points!
Have you never considered that even the salt in the kitchen was expensive in the ancient world? Although the salt here requires salt stamps, at least it is cheap and everyone can afford it. But it was different in ancient times. , even the coarse salt we use to pickle pickles today was not something that all people could afford in ancient times.
Although it is inappropriate and dangerous to sell private salt in ancient times, it is not a problem to sell a little bit and exchange a little starting capital. Then you can also sell glass beads, or other glass products, mirrors, etc., for dozens or hundreds of I can definitely get it for two taels of silver.
There is absolutely no risk in buying or selling small amounts.
If there is danger, I can bring you back in time. When the time comes, we will move to a new county at the worst possible time.
In ancient times, even if you had money, you couldn't buy bicycles, radios, sewing machines and the like, but you could definitely buy some food, chicken, duck, fish, pork and mutton. Look at how thin Xiaoxiao and Ping An are. He is seven or eight years old, and he looks like he is four or five years old.
The weight is estimated to be half that of future children of the same age.
This is obvious malnutrition, which may also affect growth. Ping An died too early, and there is a high probability of malnutrition in childhood. This is the fundamental reason for the loss.
Don’t you want to make up for them? "
Regardless of Qu Jie's soul state or the projection state of the holographic projection, there is no way to directly go to ancient times to trade and exchange food for them, and there is no way to dump supplies here. Pretending to be a ghost is more suitable for her.
So of course I can only try to persuade Mrs. Huang.
Let her do it.
After all, we can't expect Xiaoxiao and Ping An to carry supplies back and forth. That would undoubtedly be even more inappropriate.
After being reminded by Qu Jie, Mrs. Huang suddenly realized that she was already in her early fifties this year. When she was young, she had listened to the elders in her family talking about ancient times, and she had also experienced more difficult and difficult years. If Qu Jie had mentioned other things, She might not really be able to tell the difference between the items, but the price of salt was indeed quite impressive.
Thirty or forty years ago, salt was not only expensive.
It’s still hard to buy, it’s hard to buy good salt.
In the village or some nearby villages, there were even people who were poisoned to death by eating poisonous salt due to lack of salt.
Not to mention other aspects, at least the country has completely helped solve the salt problem. The price is so low that it was unimaginable in the past. Two eggs can be exchanged for a pound of salt.
In the past, forty eggs could not be exchanged.
Although the purchase is limited, at least everyone can afford it and can buy it. This is much better than in the past, not to mention that the quality of salt is also better than in the past. It is different from those who sold salt in the past. Compared with adding sand and gravel to it, and adding soil to it, the salt sold today is really salt that only officials can eat.
If you bought it decades ago and sold it, you would definitely make a profit.
Not to mention selling it to an earlier era.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Huang pondered for a while and then decided to do it. Anyway, she was not buying and selling here. It was not illegal no matter how she thought about it. Furthermore, her granddaughter had a daughter who could not be seen or touched, but she could indeed store a lot. The place where the things are, you can just put the exchanged things there, and you don’t have to worry about being discovered by others. You can even go to that ancient world to eat, so as not to be smelled by others if the stewed meat or fish is too fragrant. , in short the problem is definitely not big.
The biggest problem is that Xiaoxiao and Ping An must remember that they must not say this to the outside world.
But this point, Mrs. Huang also thinks there should be no problem. After all, the two children are quite obedient, and besides, she can treat them to delicious food later.
They certainly don't dare to talk nonsense.
Considering that it is daytime in that ancient world, by the time it becomes daytime here, it may already be night in that ancient world and no business can be done. In addition, there is still more than a pound of salt in the salt jar at home, which should be enough. Got it from the ancient world in exchange for some money.
So Mrs. Huang simply stopped sleeping, took the salt jar at home, and then went to the ancient world to sell salt again as a family of three.
I didn’t go to the county town to sell it, nor did I go to the market to sell it.
Instead, according to Qu Jie's guidance, he took the salt to the nearest village, and went straight to a family that Qu Jie used his soul to scan, and felt that he was kind-hearted, had a little food surplus at home, and could afford salt.
Knocking on doors and making up stories to sell salt.
The story is probably that these salts were bought when the old man in the family was here. The old man passed away and the funeral was too expensive, etc., and the family couldn't get rid of the problem.
So we can only exchange the salt for some grain.
After all, you won't die from lack of salt for a while, but if you don't have food for seven or eight days, you will starve to death.
And the price is even cheaper.
Only half a load of rice is needed, which is fifty kilograms of rice.
Although the official price of salt in ancient times was also very expensive, it was definitely not so expensive that it was simply unaffordable. It usually sold for forty or fifty cents per pound.
It is about eight to ten times the price of rice.
Normally, one pound of salt can only be exchanged for ten pounds of rice.
But the key point is that it is difficult for ordinary people to buy salt at this price. They can only buy salt that has been poured into countless hands. In many cases, the price of salt is no longer the original price, but has increased five or ten times. The most outrageous thing is that At that time, it could even reach three tons of rice and one pound of salt.
In other words, it takes three hundred kilograms of rice to exchange for one kilogram of salt.
The specific price depends on various factors such as local merchants and the court's control. The price Qu Jie asked Old Mrs. Huang to quote is basically the market price for people to buy salt.
It was just the market price for a pound, and the salt in her salt shaker was more than a pound, at least two or three taels more.
So after careful discussion, the family poured out all the salt in Mrs. Huang's salt jar and checked it. They made sure that there were no impurities in it and the quality was very good. The weight was even less than a kilogram. The young queen readily agreed to Mrs. Huang's deal.
Not only did he put fifty kilograms of rice in a basket.
They also took ten eggs and gave them to Old Mrs. Huang to show that their family would not take advantage of others and to let Old Mrs. Huang express her condolences.
It can be seen that Qu Jie is also good at reading faces.
People are really kind.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the price of salt seemed to be around 8 cents to 14 cents. There were differences in different places. Eggs were 10 cents for three, and later they rose to 10 cents for two. In some places, salt required a ticket, but in some You can go directly to the sales agency to exchange it. Small quantities can be exchanged. Large quantities cannot be purchased, and the village collective can only buy them with agricultural and animal husbandry salt.
