The rare treasures brought by Han Sui this time are dazzling and of great value, and a rough estimate is almost worth a year's tax income of Fufeng County!

Fufeng County is now not an ordinary county in Dahan, under Ma Chao's operation for more than a year, its tax income is more than three times that of the famous county in Dahan. It can be said that the wealth brought by Han Sui this time is not an exaggeration to describe it as 'the treasure of the material and the wealth of the enemy country'.

And Yan Pu's face was a little embarrassed at this time, he thought that the wealth brought by his lord was very popular with the princes of one side. But I don't want to, in front of Han Sui, I don't even have a chance to show my face. To put it more harshly, in comparison with Han Sui's meeting gift, the gift sent by Zhang Lu is also suspected of being slapped in the face.

However, Ma Chao is not the kind of person who is insatiable, thinking that he only spent 200 spills of gold to engage in town sanitation and organized the army to do a show, in exchange for such a thousand-fold return, he already liked it so much that he smiled on his face: This deal is really fucking cost-effective!

Especially Zhang Lu's lovely guy, he actually sent two hundred carts of brine over, he really knows his mind too well and is too considerate! It's just that when Ma Chao untied a package of brine salt, his face became a little strange: These are the salts often eaten by the people of the Han Dynasty?

Ma Chao does belong to the kind of rich children who don't know the cost of firewood and rice, before crossing, he was obsessed with martial arts, and he didn't know what firewood, rice, oil and salt were. And after crossing over, his mind is full of fixed thinking in the 21st century. So, when he watched the bag of walnut-sized yellow-brown crystals appear in front of him, he was a little dumbfounded. Even, he didn't believe in evil, picked up a piece and tasted it, in addition to salty, there were all kinds of strange smells that made him want to die, picked up the water bladder, rinsed his mouth several times, and felt that the strange smell faded.

And these brine salt blocks, which have not been purified at all, were sold for 800 yuan a stone during the peace period of the Han Dynasty. Now that there are wars and strife and strife, this salt has naturally become a strategic material, and the price is as high as two dollars and one stone. Zhang Lu sent two hundred carts of brine salt, to say the least, it was worth 800 catties of gold!

Although shocked that Zhang Lu could make such a big move, Ma Chao still called Han Feng to him and asked quietly: "What the people eat under his rule is such a thing?" ”

Han Feng naturally knew why characters like Ma Chao would ask such a common-sense question, after all, these salts were dissolved in the food when cooking, and they were as high as Ma Chao, so they naturally didn't know what salt was, so he explained: "The lord doesn't know that such a large piece of refined salt is only capable of being eaten by the wealthy. Under the rule of the people, how can they afford to eat this large piece of refined salt? ”

"Refined salt?" Ma Chao stared at the brine salts that were obviously rich in mineral impurities, and was extremely surprised: how could this kind of salt be coarser than the coarse-grained salt of later generations?

"Refined salt indeed! The lord didn't know that the people under his rule were much better than other counties in the Han Dynasty. Sometimes, you can buy some salt cubes to accompany your meal. As for salt, it is even more important not to think about it, ordinary people basically eat without salt or use mineral salt condiments, and their bodies are like a year of loss, and even, some people die prematurely because of eating mineral salt. ”

Mineral salt Ma Chao knows, that is, salt stone that has not been processed at all, salt ore not only contains salt, but also contains impurities such as nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium. People eat mineral salt directly, it is purely looking for death: if you eat nitrate, you may be able to survive for a while, and it is strange that you eat too much phosphorus and potassium and your whole body does not turn purple.

Ma Chao couldn't have imagined that he, who once thought he was close to the people's livelihood, unknowingly walked to the top of the luxurious and erosive aristocracy. I can't help but feel embarrassed in my heart: in the feudal society of dog days, simple food, clothing and health have become an unattainable dream.

"That...... Since the people can find mineral salt, why don't they purify it and eat it? Ma Chao was stupid, because of Han Feng's words, he couldn't understand it: salt purification is not a big process. Could it be that in this era, there is not even a process for salt purification?

"Mention... Purification? Han Feng looked dazed: Ma Chao couldn't understand his words, and he couldn't understand Ma Chao's words.

Seeing Han Feng's expression, Ma Chao suddenly understood: Sure enough, during the Han Dynasty, people didn't know how to purify salt at all!

Originally, in Ma Chao's concept, it was only through the ability of the Ma family firm to make the Hanzhong brine industry bigger and stronger, so that the world could ...... At least the people of Yongzhou, Liangzhou and other nearby states and counties eat salt. But I don't want to, it turns out that there can be fine purification and processing here, compete with other salt-producing land salt stones, and double the profits of the Ma family!

The profits of salt stone, in ancient times, were definitely an industry that exploded against the sky. Its monopoly privilege made the major princes jealous. In the later period, Cao Cao accumulated a large army through the implementation of the tuntian system and the supervision of salt transportation in Hedong, thus establishing most of China. The world only knows Cao Cao's tuntian, but they don't know that this salt transportation supervisor also provided Cao Cao with great help.

"Very wonderful, very wonderful, Taishi Zhang is too polite, knowing that Yongzhou has little salt, he actually sent two hundred carts of salt and stones, and he is very grateful." After seeing the huge wealth hidden behind these two hundred carts of salt stones, Ma Chao said to Yan Pu with a smile.

And Yan Pu was a little flattered at this time: Han Sui's shocking wealth was piled up there, and Ma Chao's face was calm, as if it should be done. And he just sent some Hanzhong specialty salt stones, which can make Ma Chao smile, which is really unexpected.

As a result, Yan Pu said almost without thinking: "If Yongzhou is short of salt, the general can buy it from Hanzhong, and its price will definitely be lower than the price of the merchants." ”

"No!" Ma Chao waved his hand, and when Yan Pu was surprised, he continued to speak: "Fufeng specialty, presumably Yan Gongcao has also heard of it......"

"Fufeng paper, Miaoxiang fried tea, Wei Dan ink, distilled spirits, smelting coal...... Fufeng County has many treasures, and the general has countless whimsical ideas, and the exquisite things issued by the state and counties are coveted by all states and counties...... "Yan Pu can send an envoy to Fufeng, and naturally knows everything about the Ma family's fist products, but he doesn't know, Ma Chao suddenly asked what is this doing?"

"If it is on the border between Wudu County and Guangwei County, and another Majia trading house like the Hanqiang Trading House is set up, I don't know if these items can be exchanged for Hanzhong salt stones?" Ma Chao smiled secretly and proudly, looking forward to Yan Pu's answer.

And Yan Pu also had an ecstatic expression, and after reacting, he almost forgot the sage's teachings, and pinched himself fiercely before he replied loudly: "So very good, so very good!" ”

Zhang Lu sent Yan Pu to the Ma family at this time, and the first thing was naturally to ask for the Ma family's understanding and resolve the misunderstanding of the last attack on Guangwei County; The second is to form an alliance with the Ma family if possible!

And Ma Chao didn't mention the matter of Guangwei County at all, but talked about trade and commerce. Obviously, he didn't take the matter of Guangwei County to heart...... And the two trade traders, doesn't that say: an alliance in disguise?

Before coming here, Yan Pu had thought of countless possibilities, and even went to Han Sui that night, just because he was afraid that after the Ma family was guilty, he could also bring in a foreign aid...... But he never thought of this possibility of such a smooth plan. Under the agitation of the mood, Yan Pu looked at Ma Chao's weird and smug smile, and realized that the same smile might appear on the corner of his mouth.

But just when the two of them were laughing extremely obscene and lewd, Han Sui pulled both of them back to reality with a painful cry:

"Virtuous nephew! Previously, the two companies had already agreed on trade and commerce. At this time, the virtuous nephew can abandon the pearl and jade and take the sand and stone! ”