Chapter 14, 3 taels of silver can marry my mother-in-law
"Gang leader, why don't we arrest these two people? As long as we know the origin of this snow salt from them, we will distribute it in the future."
On a trail between the lofty mountains, dozens of salt sellers carried burdens to form a long dragon. In the middle area, Zhang Tianyun, Zhang Tianhao's younger brother, said softly.
"I told you to use your brain in everything, but you just haven't made any progress."
Zhang Tianhao looked at his clan brother. The Salt Gang he established was said to be the Salt Gang, but in fact they were all members of his own family. The scale was not large. In ancient times, the most reliable relationship was this clan relationship. After all, once there was
Everything will affect the clan, such as moving three clans or destroying nine clans.
Zhang Tianhao started his business by secretly selling private salt from the seaside to remote areas with a few people in his clan. After it gradually became bigger, he brought people from his own clan to join in the private salt business.
Because they are all members of the clan, everyone knows everything about them, and they are all one family, so they are very reliable, and it is safer to engage in this kind of beheading business.
"You can never make enough money in this world."
"We must learn to make more friends instead of making more enemies. If we have many friends, we can find a better way to go. If we have more enemies, we will have nowhere to go."
"I can take you to do this business. Do you think it's the ghost-headed sword on the real back?"
"What I rely on is that I, Zhang Tianhao, am loyal, a good friend, know how to be measured, and know how to share interests."
Zhang Tianhao kind of hates the fact that iron cannot become steel. This Zhang Tianyun is the son of his uncle's family. He is already in his 20s. He has a long head and doesn't think about things. He knows how to fight and kill even though he has some level of martial arts training. This makes Zhang Tianhao very uneasy.
Originally, Zhang Tianhao didn't need Zhang Tianhao to personally come to a village like Xiahetun where he was already familiar with and had a good cooperative relationship. He could just send someone smarter to take charge.
But he was still worried. He would come here in person every time. He originally thought that he would be able to train Zhang Tianyun so that he would be able to take charge of his own affairs in the future, which would make him feel much more relaxed. But now it seems that all his efforts have been in vain.
"This snow salt is profitable. We can earn almost 300 taels of silver from selling one kilogram of snow salt. We can earn 20 taels of silver from 100 kilograms of snow salt."
"But this amount is still too small at present. 100 kilograms of salt is not even enough for a toothpaste. I guess Liu Xiucai must have discovered some special brine to cook such snow salt."
"The output may not be too high. A few hundred kilograms each time would be good. If it doesn't work, we will only earn dozens of taels of silver each time."
"For this little money, we arrested these two people, one of whom is a scholar. Once the government investigates, we will no longer want to do this business."
"Don't lose the big for the small, think a few more steps when doing things, especially take a long-term view, and don't be blinded by the small profits in front of you."
"What's more, even if the output of this snow salt is okay, he only sells a pound of salt for 200 Wen, and earns 200 Wen every day. We make 300 Wen per pound of salt, and we still make the majority of the profit."
"There is no need to figure out the origin of this snow salt. We can just make the money we deserve. Do you understand?"
Zhang Tianhao sighed and said, this is the experience and lessons he has accumulated from more than ten years of private salt business. He should know in his heart what money can be made and what money cannot be made.
"I understand~"
Zhang Tianyun nodded and said, seeming to understand.
"This Liu Xiucai passed the examination at a young age. He may be able to achieve great success in the future. Now if we become friends with him, we may be able to climb a big tree. Then we will have a good life."
Zhang Tianhao looked at Zhang Tianyun and knew that he had not completely taken his words to heart, so he thought about it again and said.
"I understand, are you paving the way for the future?"
When Zhang Tianyun heard this, he immediately said.
"What do you think? I spend thousands of taels of silver every year to support the children of the clan to study and take exams for merit. What do you think I do for that?"
"It's just so that our Zhang family can produce talents in the future, so that we have a backer, and we won't have to work so hard to sell private salt among the mountains. Then we can cooperate with other big salt merchants.
It’s the same. If you go to the salt field to get salt openly, you can easily get tens of thousands of silver in your hands.”
"Remember, you have to be more polite to the scholars. If you meet the scholars who are in trouble, help them if you can. These scholars will be farmhouse ministers in the morning and emperors in the evening. No one can tell what they will be like in the future.
of."
Zhang Tianhao nodded and said.
"I see, what should we do with Tang Laohu?"
Zhang Tianyun nodded, thought for a while and said.
"Tang Laohu is just a country bully. In my opinion, it won't be long before he is dealt with by Liu Xiucai. This Liu Xiucai dares to come to us to sell salt. He has the courage and courage. I'm afraid this Tang Laohu is really not him.
opponent."
Zhang Tianhao thought for a while and said with a smile.
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"Brother Jin, we have made a fortune. This is silver. This is silver. I have never seen silver before."
On the other side, Zhao Erhu looked very excited after getting the money. After looking at it carefully, it seemed that the money was worth something.
Xiahetun is really too poor. Even though everyone can boil salt and sell it, Zhang Tianhao always brings copper coins for every transaction because he knows very well that these people in Xiahetun only like copper coins and silver.
It's too big, so I never use silver for transactions, even though silver is easy to carry.
This is like when everyone is buying and selling things with one penny. If you buy something with a 1,000 yuan bill, others will not be able to find it. Moreover, these people have never seen how big a bill is.
If you are afraid of being deceived, you won't be willing to accept it.
"It's good to be a little promising. I'll make you happy, isn't it just a few taels of silver?"
Liu Jin looked at Zhao Erhu and said with a smile on his face.
In just ten days, he made a profit of more than 10 taels of silver by purifying coarse salt.
You may think that these ten taels of silver are nothing, but if you consider the prices of this era and everyone's living standards, you will know that these ten taels of silver are definitely a huge sum of money.
At this time, silver from the Americas had not flowed into the Ming Dynasty on a large scale. Silver was very valuable, but it was not as valuable as when it was concealed. Silver was often measured in thousands of taels, and ordinary people paid taxes in silver.
The main currency now is copper coins, and silver is only used for large-scale transactions, because only these businessmen, gentry and the like can know the quality of silver, its purity, exchange ratio, etc. Ordinary people, many of them spend their entire lives.
Not a single tael of silver could be seen.
"Silver is very valuable. My father said that as long as my family has three taels of silver, he can marry me a mother-in-law."
Zhao Erhu touched his head and said with a slight blush.
"Haha, it seems that Huzi you really want to marry your mother-in-law. Follow me and hang out. Before the Chinese New Year, I will ensure that you marry a beautiful mother-in-law and go home to warm your bed."
When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help laughing happily. It has to be said that in this era, the people at the bottom are really poor. They can marry a wife with 3 taels of silver, but even 3 taels of silver is still too much for many families.