As the caravan passed, a large group of other arrogant caravans followed! Although they all covered their mouths and noses, they were mentally relaxed! Because a large part of them witnessed that battle and knew what they were bragging about when they arrived in Yangzhou City!
Especially when I saw some people arriving one after another who looked ready to cause trouble, but when I saw several cars of people following me diligently, I felt even more superior! So everyone made up their mind to go to Yangzhou City and brag about the people in front of them!
Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, the caravan began to set up camp more than three hundred steps away from the city gate. And they openly placed several cars of heads on the roadside! However, they arranged the heads of these cars like a city gate, leaving a big gap in the middle.
The reason why they did not camp close to the city gate was because the imperial court stipulated that no one was allowed to build residential camps within a stone's throw of the city wall. The purpose of this was to prevent anyone from sneaking into the city gate and wall. The one-shot distance mentioned here refers to the distance from where one can shoot an arrow while standing on the city wall.
After the caravan stopped, Huang Guojun began to direct the soldiers to set up camp. While they were busy, someone appeared in the city, and they actually drove a big car! Huang Guojun went over to greet him, and it turned out to be someone from Lend Lease Bank! The car they brought contained nothing but lime!
It turned out that Huang Guojun had already arranged for people to go to the city in casual clothes and notified the people at Liansheng Bank to prepare things. They sent them not only lime, but also a lot of vegetables and food as supplies. There are even a dozen live pigs!
The two parties have completed the delivery, and the camp is almost complete. At this time, Huang Guojun asked people to raise the three flags sent by the bank high. Everyone looked up and saw several big characters written on the three vertical flags: "Salt for sale", "Ten cents per catty!" "Each person" Purchase limit is one pound!"
Not many people present were literate, but some were literate after all. When they subconsciously read these words, it immediately caused a great sensation!
Yangzhou City is extremely prosperous and close to the sea, so the price of salt is naturally not high! But even this was sold for thirty cents per catty! That’s why Huang Guojun caused a sensation when he showed off his ten cents per catty sign!
The twenty cents saved by the price reduction are of little use to the dignitaries, but it is a windfall for the common people! At that time, a trembling man came forward, far away from the camp gate, and bowed to the soldiers guarding the gate and said, "Sir, is what is written on this true?"
The soldier heard the words and said loudly: "Everyone has listened seriously. From tomorrow morning, salt will be sold here at ten cents per catty. Each person is limited to one catty! Welcome to buy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a violent noise rang out! Everyone asked if it was true? And they actually didn't even care about those terrifying heads, they all crowded in front of the camp gate to ask about the specific situation! Upon seeing this, the soldier guarding the gate took off his gun from his shoulder and held it in his hand to block the crowd. More than a dozen soldiers joined in and barely blocked the crowd!
Upon seeing this, Huang Guojun was afraid of causing a disturbance, so he jumped directly onto a vehicle filled with human heads, took out a short blunderbuss and fired it into the sky to make everyone quiet down! Just listen to Huang Guojun shouting loudly: "Now you all shut up and listen to what I am saying. No one is allowed to make noise! If we continue to make noise, we will not sell salt!"
Everyone immediately closed their mouths tightly, but stared at Huang Guojun, for fear that he would order not to sell salt! Although they know this is impossible, they don't want to make the other party unhappy because of this problem! Especially when there are several carloads of heads proving what they will do when they are unhappy, everyone is even more careful!
Just listen to Huang Guojun say loudly: "I say it again! Starting from tomorrow morning, we will sell salt here! It costs ten cents per catty, no matter how young or old! But each person is limited to one catty. Do you hear me clearly?"
This is when someone shouted loudly: "Master, what should I do if someone buys it twice?"
Huang Guojun laughed and said: "If you buy it again, just buy it again! To tell you the truth, there are ten ships parked at the mouth of the canal, and they are all filled with salt! I would like to see who is stupid enough to buy all this salt home. !」
Someone else shouted: "But you don't bring many cars. Even if no one buys them again, you probably won't have enough salt to sell!"
Huang Guojun responded loudly: "Of course we know this! But let me tell you clearly that there are two caravans taking turns to transport salt here. A batch of salt arrives every four days, and you can definitely buy it!"
Someone else asked: "Is this official salt or private salt?"
Huang Guojun said loudly: "We dare to sell it openly here, of course it is official salt!"
Someone asked: "But what is your identity? Do your words matter?"
Huang Guojun said loudly: "I am the commander of the Wu'an Army under the Jinyi Guards, which is equivalent to the official of Qianhu!"
Someone else said: "How come official salt is sold so cheaply? It's even cheaper than private salt!"
This was what Huang Guojun was waiting for. He immediately raised his hands in the direction of the capital and said, "This is all the grace of the Long Live Emperor! Under the order of the Long Live Emperor, Wu Ninghou contributed money, effort and talent to make cheap salt! From then on! From now on, the price of salt in Yangzhou will no longer be as expensive as before!"
His words immediately caused the people to cheer like a landslide and a tsunami! Everyone loudly praised Emperor Wanli as a good emperor who cared about the people! Praise Liu Haojia for being a good official who can get things done!
Huang Guojun then waved for everyone to quiet down and said loudly: "We are selling salt here tomorrow, and someone will definitely want to cause trouble! So everyone spread my words, and everyone must obey the rules when queuing up to buy salt tomorrow, and don't crowd around! At the same time, You have to watch those who cause trouble! If someone makes trouble, just take it down and let me cut off his head and give you a reward!"
In response to him, the people shouted loudly, saying that if someone caused trouble, he would not need to do anything, they could hammer them to death themselves!
Later, many people asked many strange questions, and Huang Guojun answered them one by one. The people present were delighted! Especially the ordinary people couldn't wait to ask to start selling salt now, but Huang Guojun sternly refused! In the end, the people had to disperse unhappy!
But the news spread throughout Yangzhou City like lightning! By nightfall, more than half of the villages in and around Yangzhou City had heard about the sale of cheap salt! Only the villages where no one went to the city today did not receive the news!
