If you want to find one word to describe Yancheng now.
That is dryness.
Yancheng is now a piece of land that has dried up due to lack of salt.
Therefore, after the news about salt, it spread throughout Yancheng in an instant - Yancheng, the largest private salt gang in Yancheng, now has news about private salt.
People are happy.
The Admiral's people and the Jin Yiwei people all breathed a sigh of relief.
They had been holding their hands with salt for a long time, just waiting for Lu Bai to play his cards.
There is no other reason. The White Wolf Gang is now the gang with the most private salt in the entire Yancheng. His every move is almost related to the salt affairs of the entire Yancheng.
The people were also happy.
They were worried about the harsh salt tax, but now that private salt has come out, they can finally make preparations and breathe a sigh of relief.
However, when they heard the exact news released by the White Wolf Gang, almost everyone was dumbfounded, without exception.
pre order?
"pre order!"
Almost every teahouse and every restaurant is talking about the strange new gadgets produced by the White Wolf Gang.
"What does this mean?" The commentator didn't understand.
Some people believe that the White Wolf Gang made this move because there is less salt this time, and they are afraid that there will be a rush when it goes on sale and some people will not be able to buy it, so they started pre-ordering in advance to facilitate some people to buy salt in advance.
Some people are well-informed and know that the White Wolf Gang has a lot of salt. They think this is the White Wolf Gang's way of pre-purchasing, binding many people to the White Wolf Gang's ships in advance, so that they have to buy the White Wolf Gang's salt.
This opinion is mainstream.
Some people think that it is true that the White Wolf Gang wants to bind people to the ship in advance, but it is not to sell salt, but to take the opportunity to blackmail the people.
Because next year it will be Xichang who will be in charge of the salt affairs.
As a higher institution than the East Factory, the West Factory will be more strict.
The White Wolf Gang's smuggling of salt has come to an end and they won't be able to do it next year, so they took the opportunity to come up with a bad idea and make a big fortune.
"You paid the deposit then, and the salt price at his store is much higher than that at other stores. Do you buy the more expensive one, or do you let the deposit go down the drain?"
There are not a few people who hold this opinion.
Most of them are pretty smart people.
But there are still many people who choose to believe in the White Wolf Gang. "When the plague broke out, it was the White Wolf Gang who came forward and sealed off the deer park. This prevented the plague from spreading over a large area. For this reason, I will
Believe in the White Wolf Gang."
Most of those who choose to believe in the White Wolf Gang are ordinary people, especially the people in Luyuan. Some of them actively paid pre-order money to the White Wolf Gang.
There are also some people who were originally very close to the White Wolf Gang, but later, under the temptation of five-cent salt, they chose to pay a deposit and order salt from the White Wolf Gang.
"What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd named Lu?" When the admiral heard the news, he pondered for a long time.
"The time has not yet been determined, and the price of salt has not been determined. It is only five cents of salt. I don't think anyone will go to the White Wolf Gang to pre-purchase salt for this, right?" The Admiral's adopted sons discussed endlessly behind the Admiral's back.
They have long forgotten the days when their families were poor and only ate salt once during the holidays.
In the end, with the admiral's mind turning over and over again, he came up with another answer to Lu Bai's pre-order: "We haven't sold salt for a long time because we are waiting to see, wait and see their salt price, and wait and see their sales time."
, I am deeply afraid that one party’s salt price will be different, causing an unbalanced situation. The person named Lu probably has the same idea as us, and is waiting for someone to play a card so that we can deal with it."
The situation was therefore at a standstill.
And Lu Bai's wave of pre-orders is undoubtedly a good way to break the situation: because those who have salt in their hands are reluctant to sell it, the people in the city are quite short of salt. It doesn't matter that they are short of salt, what they are afraid of is not being able to pay the salt tax, so
And go to jail. Therefore, although the White Wolf Gang is only pre-ordering now, as long as the people pre-order the salt and know that a portion of the salt will be theirs, they should feel more at ease. Otherwise, when the salt is sold, what if there is too little salt?
Or because there are too many people selling salt, you can't get it, and you delay paying the salt tax, so you go to jail, which is not worth the gain.
The Admiral nodded suddenly, "The man named Lu has a good plan. In this way, he can sell salt even if he doesn't disclose the price and sale time."
He sincerely admired him, "He is really wily and resourceful."
If he hadn't come out of the palace and was used to intrigues and intrigues, he might not have thought of this level.
He then shook his head, "No, this idea is definitely not someone named Lu Chu. He is still young, so he may not have thought so deeply. This idea was most likely the idea of the fourth lady of the Gu family - she was in the capital back then.
At that time, he was famous in Beijing, so it is not too unusual to come up with such a wonderful idea."
Even so, the admiral was still shaken in his heart and truly understood the power of the fourth young lady of the Gu family.
This kind of strategy was beyond his imagination.
However, just because something is unexpected does not mean that it is impossible to cope with it - the admiral rushed his adopted sons and asked them to spread the word, and their private stores also accepted pre-orders.
The preferential conditions are the same as those of the White Wolf Gang.
One of the adopted sons flattered the admiral, gave him a thumbs up and said, "Godfather, your idea is really lofty and unattainable."
They have Dongchang as their endorsement, so their trust is different - are there more people who believe in gangs than those who trust Dongchang in the imperial court?
Absolutely not.
Dongchang is the Dongchang of the imperial court and will not be dishonest.
At least that's what the admiral and his adopted son think.
So when Lu Bai made another stipulation: accepting deposit refunds at any time, the admiral immediately raised this point.
He made up his mind to follow Lu Bai's lead, and then use Dongchang as an endorsement to surpass the White Wolf Gang.
For this reason, the admiral also asked his adopted sons to say hello to those who usually fawned over them.
Many of these people are wealthy businessmen, or people with money and power who are in need of buying salt.
These people generally want more salt.
After all, their family has a big business and their needs are even greater.
There are even some people who have no need at all, but in order to curry favor with the admiral and create demand, they order a batch of salt from the East Factory.
As a result, many people suddenly ordered large quantities of private salt from the admiral's place, allowing the admiral to withdraw a lot of money.
"Tsk, tsk."
The admiral once again admired Gu Qinghuan for coming up with the idea.
Miss Gu Si's reputation is well-deserved. With this move, the money has already started to come in before the salt is spread.
When they made a fuss, Jin Yiwei couldn't sit still.
Jin Yiwei said that they also have a lot of private salt in their hands. Since you don't set the price or say when to sell it, and then everyone starts selling it, then I will start selling it too.
Therefore, the forces behind Jinyiwei also began to accept pre-orders.
Jin Yiwei also felt that with the imperial court's endorsement, their pre-orders would exceed Lu Bai's.
Jinyiwei also has people who support them. Most of them are respectable people, or they are the heads of some big families or country squires.
This is great. All the powerful forces in Yancheng started to pre-order, which suddenly made the people in the city panic. The wealthy businessmen pre-ordered, and the country gentry pre-ordered. If they don't pre-order, they won't be able to buy it in the future.
For private salt, you can only buy limited-sale official salt.
The people thought, this is not possible.
As a result, they also rushed to pre-order.
The difference emerged. At least half of these people chose to pre-order from the White Wolf Gang.
For nothing else.
The people in Dongchang and Jinyiwei still think too highly of the people below them.
When did the people below them treat the common people as human beings?
What they are best at is using their power to extort money, bully the weak, and even rape women, or fail to repay debts.
The common people entrust them to do things, and sometimes the money is spent, and the things are not done, and the money is still not available - who dares to ask the officials for money.
They can't afford to offend the official.
But they can afford to offend the White Wolf Gang.
Even though the White Wolf Gang is the largest gang in Yancheng besides the Beggar Gang, their gang members are friendly and friendly outside, and they have gang rules and regulations to restrict them, and they pay attention to being harmonious and making money.
If someone in the White Wolf Gang fails to pay back money, they can also file a lawsuit with the Beggar Gang and have the Beggar Gang pass it on to the upper echelons of the White Wolf Gang.
People from the Beggar Gang said that they still have a time limit and must accept and investigate complaints against the White Wolf Gang, and respond to the complainant within three days.