Boss Qian led Su Xiaolou and his team into the warehouse. Rows of shelves were filled with salt bags. He opened a bag at random and found white salt inside. Su Xiaolou picked it up and saw that the grains were fine. White and crystal clear, it is indeed all refined salt.
Boss Qian was a little arrogant: "Master Jia, what do you think? Every time I open a bag of salt, it looks like this."
"How much salt you have in your hand, I want it all."
"Mr. Jia is so cheerful. Qian is willing to sell it to Mr. Jia at a price as low as 10% of the market price. You also know that the salt business is not easy to do now. The salt on the market will only rise and not fall. If you buy it back, you will definitely make a profit." "
Su Xiaolou frowned, with anger on his face and said disdainfully: "Boss Qian looks down on our Jia family? Our Jia family is a bit poor and has nothing but a lot of money! Buying up today Don’t buy or sell! It’s only a penny cheaper and I’m so worried about you! It’s really bad luck! It affects my fortune!” Su Xiaolou’s tricks shocked Boss Qian. What kind of stupid son of a landlord let him touch this? Okay, hesitating for even one second on such a reasonable request is disrespectful to Yin Zi.
Boss Qian immediately slapped himself hard: "Ouch! Young Master! It's the villain who is ignorant. Look at the villain's foul mouth and he really can't speak! He really deserves a beating!" Boss Qian said, "Pah!" 'Give yourself another mouthful.
"Master, you decide the price. You have the final say. Whichever number you like, you set the price!"
Su Xiaolou felt that Lu Datong next to him rolled his eyes almost out of his head, but this did not affect his performance: "Let's talk about the price. It's just that you are still a little short of salt. Can you get more? ?”
Boss Qian quickly came over and asked, "How much do you want?"
"Tsk!" Su Xiaolou said angrily, "Boss Qian looks down on me again, right?"
Boss Qian quickly bowed his hands and apologized: "I understand! I understand! Don't worry, I will make arrangements!"
Boss Qian was so happy that he grinned down to his molars. He finally found his enemy and took over the salt. At the same time, he could also make a lot of money from this rich young man. His life suddenly reached a climax, and he would marry a few more beautiful women. The jade-like concubine is so beautiful!
At noon, Boss Qian, grinning from ear to ear with joy, booked one of the most expensive private rooms in the most famous restaurant in Yangzhou City. On the banquet, a table full of fine wines and dishes was laid out, including lobsters and abalones, which were both beautiful and fragrant. , delicious, and there are musicians playing elegant music behind the screen. There is a row of maids next to it to help you pick up food and pour wine. This row of noodles is enough.
Su Xiaolou sat on the main seat, and a maid immediately served him with wine and food. Su Xiaolou took a sneak peek, and saw that this little guy was very smart, he could only be fifteen years old at most. Qian Guiming was always observing this gentleman. The expression on his face is to see if he has served this master well.
"Master Jia, are the dishes in this elegant room to your liking?"
Su Xiaolou quickly regained his heart that had drifted away. The character of this young master cannot be destroyed. This young master is a person who has seen the big world. After some self-hypnosis, Su Xiaolou looked indifferent: "It's okay!"
Qian Guiming breathed a sigh of relief. If this didn't work, he was willing to perform a striptease to cheer up this man!
Su Xiaolou glanced around and saw Xiucai and Lu Datong. One was staring at the girl with heart-wrenching eyes, and the other was looking at the dishes on the table! Fortunately, Qian Guiming's attention was not on them.
During the dinner, Su Xiao raised his wine glass and said, "Boss Qian, if the cooperation goes well this time, our salt will come from your boss Qian in the future."
Qian Guiming immediately picked up the wine glass and happily accompanied him: "Thank you very much, Mr. Jia, for your appreciation!"
After a glass of wine, Su Xiaolou suddenly asked: "Boss Qian, you said your salt can be supplied stably, so I have to know where your salt comes from! How can I explain this to my old man? "
"This..." Jia Guiming was quite cautious.
Seeing how embarrassed he looked, Su Xiaolou sneered: "I understand! If there are places where the sun shines, there must be dark places. Boss Qian probably forgot that I said that my father is an official. , can naturally wash away this batch of salt, but where do we start washing the salt that comes from erroneous sources?"
Su Xiaolou gave Qian Guiming an indifferent look: "If Boss Qian is unwilling to disclose, then..."
"I said!" The duck he got couldn't just fly away. Qian Guiming hurriedly tried to save it: "Actually, a scholar sold it to me. We have an agreement not to ask about the origin of this batch of salt, nor to mention it to anyone. Otherwise, he would sell the salt to others. He supplies salt to me every month, and the quality of the salt is no different from official salt, so I agreed. As long as Mr. Jia doesn’t talk nonsense, he will not run out of stock. of."
Where did the scholar get the salt? Su Xiaolou became more and more curious: "Then how did you know this scholar?"
"It was this scholar who came to me on his own initiative. At that time, I was still a small shopkeeper of a tooth shop. I couldn't get salt from the big salt farm, so I was planning to close down. This scholar came to me on the last day."
Without salt, private transactions are illegal, and you will be jailed if found out. No wonder Qian Guiming didn't dare to say anything.
"That's the case. That's easy to handle. Don't worry, if something happens, my Jia family will naturally protect you. I'll come to pick up the salt in three days. We'll pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other."
Qian Guiming happily toasted Su Xiaolou with several glasses of wine. He was a little confused after drinking. During the dinner, he and Su Xiaolou talked about salt affairs. Only then did Su Xiaolou realize that there were so many salt merchants doing business. Qian Guiming had two large salt warehouses and made a lot of money, but he could still be regarded as a small and medium-sized salt merchant.
Many powerful gentry in the court focused on the salt affairs, and extracted a large amount of refined salt through methods such as slander, petition, entrapment, occupying nests, and irregular distribution of salt.
Listen to what you said, the annual sales of salt in Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers is 705,180 yuan. The big salt merchants have rich financial resources. By bribing the salt officials, they secretly increased the kilograms, and then bribed the batch inspection personnel. A large amount of refined salt can be disbursed from the salt field, so there will be almost no salt left. Naturally, small salt merchants will not be able to disburse the salt. In other words, if you wait for a year and a half to wait at the salt field, it will not be your turn to disburse the salt. The market was naturally in the hands of the big salt merchants and powerful gentry. The small salt merchants almost always struggled to survive. They bought grain and grass according to the requirements of the court and worked hard to transport them all the way to the border, but in the end they had to fetch water from bamboo baskets. All in vain.
If these small salt merchants continue to stay in the salt field to sell salt, they will increase their additional expenses such as accommodation, meals, transportation expenses, etc. They can only sell their salt at a low price to big salt merchants with strong capital. Some big salt merchants recycle small salt merchants at low prices. Salt merchants hoard salt and wait until the date of salt distribution is approaching, then sell it to small salt merchants at a high price, making a huge difference in price.
There are also some large salt merchants with strong capital who are hoarding a large amount of salt on the market. As time goes by, there is a shortage of salt on the market and the price of salt is soaring. They then buy the backlog of salt in their hands, or sell their own salt at a high price. , making huge profits.
