Chapter 362: Refining

362 refining

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"Do the people in our house eat this kind of coarse salt on weekdays?" Li Zixiao asked Lin Yuluo.

In later generations, he was accustomed to eating refined salt, but at first glance he was really not used to such coarse salt.

Li Zixiao has always eaten refined salt, but two years ago, when he just escaped from Yangzhou and fell into the grass, he ate coarse salt for a period of time.

It's just that that's the matter of Li Zixiao, since Li Zixiao crossed over, how many big landlords he has swept away.

From those big landlords, a lot of refined salt can always be copied, so that even after Li Zixiao traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he has always eaten refined salt.

"Master, the price of refined salt and green salt is too expensive, only rich families can eat it, like those ordinary people, how can they afford it!"

Lin Yuluo glanced at Li Zixiao helplessly, and continued: "The refined salt sold outside now costs more than 100 yuan per catty.

If even the ordinary people are ** salt, they have to eat our house poorly, and now ninety percent of the people in the Ming Dynasty eat coarse salt every day. ”

"What! Refined salt costs more than 100 yuan per catty? ”

Li Zixiao was taken aback at this time, more than 100 yuan at this time is equivalent to more than 100 yuan in later generations!

For more than 100 yuan, you can buy a pound of salt, which is simply a fantasy for future generations!

"How much is a pound of coarse salt?" Li Zixiao continued to ask.

"Coarse salt is much cheaper, and a pound is only a few pennies."

"Coarse salt, refined salt, I see." Li Zixiao's mouth muttered.

Then, Li Zixiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly jumped up and shouted loudly: "There is, I think of a way to make money!" ”

Li Zixiao looked ecstatic, turned his face to the two girls and said, "The rain falls, tomorrow evening, we want money!" ”

After speaking, Li Zixiao snatched the coarse salt in Guan Mingxi's hand, and then kissed the two women's cherry lips like lightning, making the two women's faces flush.

After Li Zixiao came to Xuzhou, his first priority was to control Xuzhou's defense and make it his own territory.

The second priority is to start his money-making plan.

After all, whether it is to feed the nearly 10,000 horses he has at this time, or to expand the troops in the future, build armor, and even build warships, artillery, etc.

All this is inseparable from silver.

At this time, Li Zixiao still has nearly two million cash in his hands, but he can't sit back and eat, he needs to come up with a channel to make money as soon as possible.

Before taking over the civil rights of Xuzhou, Li Zixiao could not collect taxes, and with the little silver allocated by the imperial court, he had to drink the northwest wind.

As for selling salt to make money, Li Zixiao had thought about it before, but the salt sales in various prefectures and counties in the Jiangbei region had long been divided between King De and those salt merchants.

In the hands of King De and those salt merchants, there is a source of salt and a channel to control, and Li Zixiao wants to grab food, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

Until this time, Li Zixiao learned from Lin Yuluo's mouth that most of the salt sold by those salt merchants in these years was coarse salt.

The real refined salt, because of the production, is extremely expensive, and only those wealthy families can afford to eat it.

This made Li Zixiao see the huge profit space, because he knew how to easily turn those coarse salts into refined salt, which was too simple in later generations.

Once coarse salt becomes refined salt, it will be a few pennies, and it will become a hundred pennies, a whole dozens of times the huge profit!

"Master, are you mistaken, just a bag of coarse salt, how can you make money?" Guan Mingxi asked with a puzzled expression, and Lin Yuluo next to him also nodded.

"Master Ben didn't talk nonsense, that's it!"

Li Zixiao held up the package of coarse salt in his hand and said excitedly: "The difference between the price of coarse salt and refined salt on the market is usually about dozens of times, you all know this!" ”

"Well, yes, at this time, the coarse salt in Xuzhou is only a few pennies per catty, but the price of refined salt or green salt is as high as 13 to 150 wen.

Compared with coarse salt, the price difference between them is dozens of times, which is naturally very different, but the output of refined salt is far less high than that of coarse salt, and it is rare and expensive. ”

Lin Yuluo stood aside and nodded.

"Is the master going to learn from those salt dealers, and prepare to sell salt?" Guan Mingxi looked at Li Zixiao and said.

But then, Guan Mingxi continued: "Master, private salt is indeed lucrative, and the concubine has long heard from her father and eldest brother.

In the Jiangnan area, there are many big salt merchants, with a net worth of millions or even tens of millions.

But according to the slave family, this private salt trade is not easy to do, those salt merchants are all people with hands and eyes, and there are a large number of court officials behind them, speaking for them in the court.

Now although the lord is alleged, you are the commander of a government, and he is also in charge of the defense of Jiangbei.

But if the old man really sells illegal salt, he will inevitably be in a difficult situation, and those salt merchants will let your private salt definitely not sell it in Jiangbei.

Because you don't have the way that other people have worked hard to manage for hundreds of years, and now that private salt is rampant, it is estimated that you can't make much money. ”

I have to say that Guan Mingxi will not be born in a merchant family, he whispered in the Guan family in his early years, and he is also very smart about business, and the head of analysis is the Tao.

Of course, Li Zixiao knew at this time that he wanted to sell illicit salt for profit, and it was not very likely at all.

Last time, when he was in Yangzhou, Li Zixiao was hired by King De to crack down on illicit salt trafficking.

Compared with those salt merchants who have been in business for hundreds of years, he has no advantage at all in selling illegal salt, so at the beginning, selling illegal salt was given up by Li Zixiao.

However, at this time, Li Zixiao was mysterious, and said with a smile: "You say, if I can turn this bag of coarse salt in my hand into refined salt, can I make money?" ”

"What?"

Now it was Guan Mingxi and Lin Yuluo's turn to exclaim.

Guan Mingxi's face showed a look of disbelief, and he shook his head again and again: "This is impossible, isn't the master deceiving the concubine and turning coarse salt into refined salt, which is simply unheard of?"

Those big salt merchants don't have this ability, this is no different from turning stones into gold, coarse salt becomes refined salt, then wouldn't a few pennies become more than a hundred wen! It's an exaggeration. ”

"Yes, what Ming Xi said is right, and the concubine doesn't believe it." Lin Yuluo echoed.

It's no wonder that the two girls don't believe that if coarse salt can really be turned into refined salt, how could those salt merchants let go of such a lucrative business.

I saw the disbelieving expressions of the two women. Li Zixiao laughed again and said mysteriously: "You come with me, now your master will let you witness a miracle!" ”

The financial plan that Li Zixiao thought of just now is to refine refined salt and use coarse salt to refine refined salt!

Since it is not profitable to sell coarse salt, then he sells rare refined salt, anyway, he knows the way to produce refined salt on a large scale.

As long as he has a large amount of refined salt in his hands, he will not worry about not being able to regain the market, and he will fight a price war if it is a big deal, and if other people's refined salt is sold for more than 100 wen a catty, I will buy 50 or 60 wen a catty, and I will see whose people buy.

Moreover, Li Zixiao has an army in his hands, which means that he is not afraid that those salt merchants will play tricks with him and play hard, so he can only compete with him normally.

But who is he afraid of in normal competition, it must be those salt merchants who will lose at that time, and in the end, those salt merchants want to make money from Li Zixiao's hand with refined salt, and they will definitely come to kneel and lick him obediently.

As for the method of refining refined salt with coarse salt, for Li Zixiao, it can be said to be very simple.

Li Zixiao learned this knowledge when he was in middle school in the later world.

In ancient times, there were generally three types of salt, namely well salt, lake salt and sea salt.

Among them, the quality of well salt is the best, also commonly known as refined salt, but due to its long mining cycle and high cost, the output has not been able to increase.

Therefore, the price of well salt is also unusually expensive.

Although the quality of lake salt is also unsatisfactory, the production areas of lake salt are mainly in Qinghai and Xinjiang.

Not only is the road long and the transportation inconvenient, but the risk on this road is also extremely high, especially in recent years, Shaanxi has become the base camp of the chaotic army, and almost no caravans dare to go to Shaanxi.

However, taking the road of Shaanxi is the nearest route for Qinghai salt sellers to enter the Central Plains and the coast, and now many salt merchants are worth taking the Shu Road, which is really difficult to walk.

The worst quality is sea salt, which is made by people using sunlight to expose to seawater or baking it over fire.

Not to mention the poor quality, some black-hearted salt dealers even have to mix mud and sand in these coarse salts to make profits.

However, because sea salt is easy to produce and cheap, it is also the salt used by the vast majority of ordinary people, that is, the coarse salt that Li Zixiao saw.

Li Zixiao trotted all the way to the kitchen, and in a small kitchen in the inner courtyard, the two girls were also late.

After arriving at the kitchen, Li Zixiao immediately kicked out the two old mothers who were working in the kitchen, and strictly ordered that no one would be allowed to come in without his order.

After driving the people away, Li Zixiao immediately got busy.

He first found a small pot, poured a small half pot of water, and then poured the packet of coarse salt in his hand into the pot, and kept stirring it with chopsticks.

When the coarse salt was completely dissolved into the water, he took another piece of cotton cloth, put it on a large bowl, and then poured the water from the pot into the large bowl and filtered it.

After Li Zixiao poured the salt water into a large bowl and filtered it, many impurities immediately appeared on the cotton cloth.

Then, Li Zixiao poured the filtered brine into the small pot again, put it on the stove and began to use the fierce fire.

He took a wooden stick that came from nowhere, and stirred it vigorously in the pot.

As the water gradually steamed, the brine became dense after a while, and a layer of snow-white salt flowers formed on the edge of the pot.

Later, the brine turned into a paste, and when the water in the pot was completely boiled, the brine turned into white salt as fine and white as fine sand.

Li Zixiao, who had been busy for a long time, didn't care about wiping the fine sweat from his forehead, reached out and grabbed a handful of snow-white and uniform fine salt from the pot, and put it in front of the two girls who were already dumbfounded.

Li Zixiao was a little proud, and asked: "The rain falls, tomorrow evening, what is the difference between the refined salt that I made and the refined salt we eat on weekdays?" ”

The two women endured the shock in their hearts, stretched out their jade fingers, dipped some refined salt into their mouths, and slowly tasted the taste.

In particular, Lin Yuluo has always been in charge of the kitchen, often cooking, and can distinguish the quality of these salts.

She slowly closed her beautiful eyes, and it took a long time to open them again, and then she said to Li Zixiao with a smile: "Congratulations, master, you have indeed found a good way to make money!" ”

Lin Yuluo's words can be regarded as indirect proof that the quality of these refined salts refined by Li Zixiao is no worse than the refined salt sold by those salt merchants outside.

"In this ......, those refined salts have been turned into refined salt by the master in a blink of an eye, although the amount has decreased, but the value has increased dozens of times, which is enough to increase profits dozens of times!"

As the daughter of a businessman, Guan Mingxi knew that due to the war in the imperial court in recent years, it was difficult for Shaanxi and Sichuan well salt to be transported to the south of the Yangtze River.

Look at the price of refined salt in the Jiangnan area at this time, how expensive it is, you can know.

If she hadn't seen Li Zixiao refine a bag of cheap coarse salt into refined salt in front of her, she wouldn't have believed that there would be such a miraculous thing in the world.

Guan Mingxi solemnly said to Li Zixiao at this time: "Master, the concubine didn't expect you to be able to use such a magical skill to transform coarse salt into refined salt."

However, although the technique of contemplating the concubine's body is magical, it is extremely simple, and anyone can learn it after looking at it.

Therefore, the concubine thought that if we wanted to produce refined salt on a large scale, we had to choose a secret place and produce secretly, and at the same time, the master sent officers and soldiers to garrison it to prevent outsiders from finding out the secret.

Otherwise, if this method is leaked out, the master's money-making plan will fall short. ”

"Of course, your master has already thought of a countermeasure for this!"

Li Zixiao approvingly, glanced at Guan Mingxi, it was worthy of the family history, and he saw the essence of the problem at once.

Li Zixiao nodded and said: "Twenty miles south of Xuzhou, there is a Yunlong Mountain, which is close to the Yellow River, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Originally, my husband had planned to set up another barracks there, but now I have changed my mind, and I want to build a large factory for refining refined salt there.

Moreover, we must send a battalion of heavy troops to guard it firmly, and no one will be allowed to come out without permission, as long as we can give us a few years, we can earn a lot of money! ”

Li Zixiao didn't expect that this simple method of refining refined salt would be kept secret forever, and sooner or later it would be known to outsiders.

But during the period of time that was not leaked out, it was enough for Li Zixiao to make a lot of money, and even when the time came, Li Zixiao could use this simple technique to trade with those big salt merchants.

"Don't be careless, sir."

Guan Mingxi continued to remind: "Master, you know that those salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River all have great magical powers.

If the amount of refined salt we sell is not much, it will be fine, and if the amount of refined salt sold is too much, it will affect his interests.

They will inevitably perceive it, and in the end, they will find out about the master's head, so that they will inevitably deal with you, and when the time comes, we will cooperate with them, and we will invest in technology......"

"Haha! Mingxi really inherited your father's business acumen, and your master also thought of this, but don't worry, let's make a lot of money first.

When those Jiangnan salt merchants know, they will come to me when the time comes, and if they want to play hard with the master, the master will teach them to be human beings at that time.

In the end, these salt merchants have to be obedient and come to the master and me to cooperate. ”

Li Zixiao was in a good mood and said excitedly.

(End of chapter)

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