"Your Majesty, no."
Seeing that his plan had not been realized, some officials immediately hurriedly advised him.
"I have made up my mind. I will leave this matter to Wei Zhongxian."
Zhu Youjian refused directly.
"Your Majesty is holy."
Seeing this, all the officials shouted hurriedly.
Zhu Youjian is an emperor who holds real power and public opinion.
The previous attempts to make trouble against other emperors had no effect on Zhu Youjian.
After several years of getting along with each other, everyone already knows where His Majesty's bottom line lies.
If you continue to persist, you will inevitably fail to achieve your goal and may even be angered by His Majesty.
"Give Wei Zhongxian Shangfang a sword. Anyone who dares to obstruct the investigation can be killed first and then punished. ..."
Just in the morning, everyone was still discussing how to solve this matter.
Qiming Chamber of Commerce across the Ming Dynasty has already begun to take action.
Beijing.
Early in the morning, the shopkeepers of various departments of the Qiming Chamber of Commerce hurriedly took advantage of the dawn to rush to several larger salt shops in the capital.
"Boss, please give me 30 shi of salt."
As soon as he stepped into the Xujia Condiment Shop near Deshengmen, a waiter from the Qiming Chamber of Commerce shouted directly.
"30 stones of salt, a total of 60 silver coins." shouted the shopkeeper of Xu's condiment shop.
"Here you go, give me the salt and load it into the car quickly," the boy said.
The current salt policy of the Ming Dynasty was to be transported by the imperial court and distributed locally.
The imperial court used manpower to transport salt to various counties and store it in official warehouses everywhere. Afterwards, the salt was sold directly to merchants in various counties at the price of 1.8 silver coins per stone.
Then the merchants in each county sold them out at a price of 2 silver coins per stone.
As for why it's 2 silver coins per stone and not more, it's 7 because there's a lot of competition.
In addition, the Qiming Chamber of Commerce directly set the price of salt at 2 copper coins per pound (2 silver coins per stone), completely eliminating the possibility of those people joining together to disrupt the market.
After all, at any time, money is much more important than time for ordinary people.
Not to mention running for an extra hour or two, even if they run for an extra day, they can save 2 copper coins, which is considered a profit for them.
"Okay, please wait a moment.",
The shopkeeper of Xu's condiment shop said with a smile.
"You two go quickly and help this man deliver the salt to the car outside."
The boss shouted to the two boys.
Since the salt industry lost its monopoly, profits have been much lower than before.
But this time, 30 stones were sold at once, which is quite a profit.
Although he was also confused about the other party buying so much salt at once, the shopkeeper didn't think much about it or ask any questions.
After all, the buyer in front of you looks like a minion at first glance. He is just running errands. Talking about it is in vain, because the identity of the other party has already determined that the other party does not know a lot of things, and also determines that the other party is not qualified to decide whether he will be enough or not in the future. Come here to buy.
"Did you hear that the imperial salt ship was hijacked?"
In a small, inconspicuous teahouse, a man whispered to another man.
"Nonsense. The territory of Ming Dynasty is stable and the army of Ming Dynasty is invincible. Who dares to rob the shipping fleet in the territory of Ming Dynasty?"
Suddenly, a young man's angry voice came from nearby.
As soon as this sound came out, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.
"Even a strong army can't stand someone who betrays the country. The girl from the second uncle's family that my brother-in-law added is a treasury manager of the Qiming Chamber of Commerce."
"It is said that the imperial court has ordered the Qiming Chamber of Commerce to limit the price of salt sales. From today on, everyone who buys salt must bring their household registration certificate, and no one can buy more than 1 catty per month.
Don’t you think about it, if nothing happened, would Qiming Chamber of Commerce think it was too much money? "
"Let me just say, this morning I went to a Qiming store to buy salt. The store asked me to bring my household registration certificate. After I showed the certificate, I was only allowed to buy 5 kilograms of salt. It turns out that this is the problem."
At this time, a man drinking tea on the side responded.
"Impossible, impossible, I don't believe it. I'm going to Qiming Chamber of Commerce to have a look now."
After saying this, the angry young man dropped two copper coins and ran out quickly.
"No, he's still going to grab the salt."
After half a cup of tea, a man shouted directly, and then the people in the teahouse quickly rushed towards the Qiming Chamber of Commerce as if they had been enlightened.
