A group of people entered the city and were wondering how to find it. They saw a large group of people queuing up under torches from a distance, so they walked along curiously.
After asking around, I heard that the young man was exchanging salt for the whole city and wanted to dry out the caravan for ten days.
Everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Fortunately, they saved their dignity, otherwise it would have been terrible to sleep outside for ten days.
The caravan members walked along the long queue for a long time before arriving at the door of Yamazaki's house, right under the lantern.
A circle of helpers helped, and Yamazaki was there changing the salt.
One person piles a bag of peanuts on the ground, and then takes a bowl to catch the salt.
Yamazaki used a large wooden spoon to dig out a spoonful of salt, flattened it and poured it into a bowl.
A spoonful is flattened, which is exactly one or two.
Then, the next one.
Everyone was happy because instead of coarse sea salt, it was white salt.
Although it is not as good as fine white salt, it is good enough for ordinary people like them.
The businessman looked at the team and felt a headache. When did this happen?
Yamazaki saw them, but didn't care. Now that they seemed to have something to do, he just called a helper to share the salt and see what happened to them.
In full view of the public, no one can show favoritism without fear of making a mistake.
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Yamazaki held up his hands and said, "Everyone, come back, is there anything important here?"
The middle-aged man in silk clothes with a goatee handed over his hand and said, "I, Zhu Yingjie, am the manager of the caravan. I have offended you many times before. Please forgive me."
"You're welcome. Business cannot be done without mercy. If you have anything to say, just say it."
"I want to go back as soon as possible, so I have the nerve to come and talk about the price."
Yamazaki handed over his hand, "Let me tell you the truth. Although the purchase price of the goods is one-third of the normal price, everyone can accept it. After all, it is not easy for you to come here."
"It's just that the price of sea salt is too expensive. It's better to pay the normal price."
Shopkeeper Zhu stroked his beard and asked for a price, "If you can pay for two hundred carts and four hundred stones, that's fine."
Yamazaki shook his head, "The city doesn't need so much sea salt. If Shopkeeper Zhu insists, I want to wait and see if there are other caravans coming before and after the autumn harvest."
An impatient martial artist couldn't help shouting, "You kid, don't push yourself too far!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone around them immediately looked over, and the caravan suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
Shopkeeper Zhu quickly bowed his hands to apologize, and Yamazaki waved his hand to indicate that nothing was going on here, they were just discussing business and testing each other.
When everyone stopped paying attention, Yamazaki said: "Shopkeeper Zhu, please give me a sincere price."
Shopkeeper Zhu pondered and asked, "So, if I want to trade everything now, what price can you offer?"
Yamazaki thought, "Four thousand dou, normally it's 40,000 taels of silver, but you only have 200 carts to carry the goods back. The city can borrow your carts, but with your manpower, you can only collect another 200 carts and 800 taels of silver at most."
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"A cart can stack twenty-five pieces of cloth. I will give you five thousand pieces of cloth first. According to your purchase price, it will be ten thousand taels of silver."
"The sheep are easy to drive. I will give you four hundred sheep and six thousand taels of silver."
"Then comes the fine grain. You are here early, and the fine grain in the city has not been harvested yet. I still have a thousand bushels of fine grain, which I can sell to you at your purchase price, three thousand taels."
"Three thousand buckets of coarse grain feed, according to your purchase price is one thousand taels."
"In other words, with a half discount of 20,000 taels, you can trade tonight."
The impatient martial artist wanted to speak, but someone stopped him. They figured it out clearly, and they were able to carry it back.
Shopkeeper Zhu handed over his hand and asked, "Can we have more fine grains?"
"Really not. There may be a lot of cloth, but that much cloth is enough for you."
"Where are the pigs and sheep?"
"There are pigs and sheep, but you can't drive away so many. It will cause trouble on the road, especially the pigs will run around, and to be honest, I don't want to sell these."
Shopkeeper Zhu shook his head, "Twenty thousand taels is too little, how about adding another ten thousand taels in cash?"
Yamazaki held up his hand and said, "The shopkeeper probably doesn't know that the people who stay in the city are all people without money, and everyone who has money has left."
Shopkeeper Zhu hesitated, "Let me think about it again."
Yamazaki smiled and said: "I would like to advise you not to think about it, take it back and sell it three times, and hire people to come back. It is better than waiting here."
"Besides, who knows how many caravans will come to sell salt and receive goods, and the price will be different immediately."
Shopkeeper Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then he started to sweat.
I really didn’t expect that at this level, with everyone’s hard work, the delivery price would only be higher, not lower.
"Well, it's only twenty thousand taels, please help me organize it."
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Yamazaki asked them to push the car in, and he announced loudly to everyone that anyone who was willing to sell could exchange the goods.
If you don't have it, don't worry. You can exchange it for other things from him in the future, and the price is still five taels per dou.
Having said that, everyone is still anxious.
Many people stopped queuing and just jumped out.
Tiger leaps.
It happened to be night, and he disappeared in an instant.
Something felt wrong over there at the caravan, and I heard numerous noises breaking through the air, so I jumped to the wall and looked out.
I could vaguely see the jumping figures all over the city, and it felt incredible.
In such a ruined city, are the martial arts of these people too high?
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There was a lot of goods, so everyone clamored to trade first.
Yamazaki had a headache when he heard it, and he shouted loudly that he would use the fine grains in the field as a guarantee to ensure that they were all in stock, and he could exchange them with him at the normal price.
A dou of fine grains costs ten taels, a pig costs two hundred taels, and a sheep costs one hundred taels.
Everyone stopped arguing immediately, and fewer people were willing to change, as long as it was enough.
After struggling until the morning, except for one thousand bushels of fine grain, three thousand bushels of coarse grain, cloth and sheep, there was no complete quantity.
While we were discussing this, another caravan came over.
The goods received are similar to those sold, and the prices are also similar.
The people in the city booed. When Yamazaki quoted the price, they immediately increased the price to half the normal price. Only then did people become interested.
A dou of fine grains is sold for five taels, a pig is sold for one hundred taels, a sheep is fifty taels, and a dou of sea salt is sold for five taels.
Shopkeeper Zhu asked Yamazaki to discuss it, and Yamazaki suggested that he leave first, go to the transaction quickly, sell the goods, and talk about anything else after getting the money.
As for the lack of goods, it had nothing to do with him. It was because they were unlucky and a caravan came.
Now the goods can be sold for nearly 50,000 taels, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?
If you don't leave, you won't even get the 200 trucks, you'll have to pay for them.
Shopkeeper Zhu hesitated and gritted his teeth and left, while Yamazaki continued what he had to do today.
Inspect the fields and change the salt.
Let Shandai practice with peanuts, break the peanut shells, but keep the peanuts.
Twenty thousand kilograms of large-shell peanuts can almost produce ten thousand kilograms of peanuts.
The peanuts were boiled into oil, and then poured into the square together with the crushed peanut shells to burn all the charred remains that were not completely burned.
This time it will be completely burned to ashes and the square will be cleared.
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The caravans arriving one after another make Soaring Snake City full of vitality.
Sea salt will no longer be sold soon, but there is still some market for salted fish.
The price of purchasing things has been rising all the way, reaching 60-70% of the normal price, and then falling all the way to 30-40% of the normal price.
The reason is that all the anxious businessmen have left, and the remaining businessmen are all those who are not in a hurry. They came here just to take a detour, and the goal is not here.
At the same time, people in the city stopped selling their goods and used them to trade with Yamazaki.