In the summer, Nan approached a salt trough, which had condensed a layer of white flower salt, which was crystal clear and very beautiful, and very delicate, looking like the refined salt made by a modern salt factory. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoSea salt was able to reach this level without a refining process, which was a big surprise to him.

He tapped some with his finger and put it in his mouth, it was much lighter than the fine salt he had eaten in the old time and space, and it melted in his mouth. But it was surprising that this place had been so poor before.

He showed the salt on his finger to Lin Weiye next to him, "The ancient working people really lived in dire straits, and they had to live a hard life guarding the gold mountains and silver seas. ”

Lin Weiye looked at the wide salt pan and said uncertainly, "Can we get them out of the sea of suffering?" ”

Xia Nan patted Lin Weiye on the shoulder angrily, "Letting them get rid of poverty and become rich is only the first step in the long march, and we still have a long way to go." Since God has brought us to this chaotic era, and we know the direction of history, and we have mastered the concepts and technologies that are hundreds of years ahead, we will surely make a great difference."

Lin Weiye looked at Tan Er, who was waiting in the distance, uneasily, "Be careful not to let people hear, in the Middle Ages, let the government know that we are travelers, and we must be burned to death as a heretic like Bruno."

For this murderous very calm and bold, usually cautious science and engineering otaku, Xia Nan was speechless for a while.

After the inspection of the salt works, the two returned to Ma Yuan Village. As soon as he entered the village, Tan Shan, the village head, greeted him and reported: "Master Xia, I went to contact the salt merchant, and there happened to be an acquaintance who had come to buy salt before, and he was in Lingao, so I invited him over." ”

Behind him, a middle-aged man in a satin gown, looking at his thirties, with a Chinese face and a calm demeanor, arched his hand to the two, "The contemptible surname is Zhang, the name is Mingli, I have bought salt in the Guiyan Farm, today I heard the village chief say that the salt farm has changed hands, I don't know what kind of charter this transaction is now?" ”

It turns out that the smugglers are not all as full of meat as in the novel, for the first customer, Xia Nan maintained due enthusiasm: "It's easy to say, contemptible Xia Nan, this is my partner Lin Weiye, dare to ask Brother Zhang, how much do you want to buy?"

Zhang Mingli has salt in his hands, and the main way to make money is to carry private salt in official salt.

In the past, he came to the salt field to buy salt, but each time he bought the salt mixed with too much sand, one or two dollars of silver and one stone to buy, shipped to Guangzhou to sell, because of too much sand, can only be sold to between four taels and six taels, compared with the official salt, it also occupies the advantage of low price, plus the cost of transportation, the profit is not high, Zhang Mingli began to hesitate whether to buy salt from other salt farms, but due to the cost and time required to get through the relationship, the transaction with the Ma Yuan salt field has not been cut off for the time being. This time I was found by the village chief, but I didn't plan to buy much salt, but I was asked by Xia Nanyi, and replied hesitantly: "I used to buy fifty stones, but this time it's better to ......do as usual."

Xia Nan saw his hesitation, so he took out the experience of negotiating business with customers in later generations and talked to him, and it didn't take long to understand the reason, and immediately said, "Brother Zhang, if you buy more, I promise that the salt will not be mixed with a grain of sand." ”

Zhang Mingli's eyes immediately became hot, "Is this true? ”

If you don't mix sand with good salt, you can sell it for 16 taels or even 20 taels per stone in the city of Guangzhou, and the profit is much higher, which has increased several times, and 50 stone salt can only earn 2 or 300 taels of silver in the past, but now it is estimated that you can earn nearly 1,000 taels, and if you buy it back and mix it with some sand, you can earn more.

"Words count, but the price has to be raised, five taels of silver per stone."

After a quick calculation in his heart, Zhang Mingli immediately came to the conclusion that even if the price increased, it was still very cost-effective. After estimating the silver taels he brought, Zhang Mingli stretched out a finger to Xia Nan, "I can buy a total of 100 stones." ”

"Good, deal." Xia Nan is very satisfied with this figure, the salt factory produces more than 2,000 stones of salt every year, and there are a few more big customers, and the salt can soon be turned into cash, and with silver, you can do what you want.

In order to increase the sales speed of salt faster, Xia Nan also proposed to Zhang Mingli that if he could bring other peers to buy salt, as long as it exceeded 100 stones, he would give one stone of salt. For Zhang Mingli, this was a windfall, and it didn't take much effort to readily agree.

The first customer after the two of them took control of the salt works left in high spirits. Lin Weiye raised his own question, "I heard the village chief say that Hu Gangsheng sells salt mixed with sand, and you don't mix anything, isn't it a lot shorter?" ”

In fact, this is also Tan Shan's question, but it is not good to question Xia Nan directly.

"Hu Gangsheng does this is indeed a common practice of selling salt, which is ostensibly cheap, but in fact it cannot be sold at a high price, and it cannot attract salt merchants, and the salt cannot be sold and piled up here in the wind and sun and there is loss." Xia Nan explained, "Not mixed with sand, first of all, it is very attractive to those small and medium-sized salt merchants, who originally went to other salt farms to buy salt will come to us, and the salt farms can produce 250,000 catties of salt every year, totaling more than 2,100 stones. Secondly, I raised the price of salt per stone to five taels to make up for the vacancy of this catty tael, besides, how many catties can be added to mixed sand, and can one catty become two catties? Add a catty to more than one and a half catties, you calculate, more than 2,000 stone salt, one or two or two dollars a stone, even if there are 3,000 stones mixed with sand, it can only be sold for about 3,000 taels of silver, deducting the loss and paying the annual discount is not enough. Without mixing sand, it can be sold for more than 10,000 taels, which is cost-effective? ”

Lin Weiye felt very reasonable, nodded, and Tan Shan on the side was stunned. This old man Xia is so good at arithmetic, it is beyond the reach of Tan Shan, who only knows a few words, in ancient times, he only read the articles of the sages, even if most of the people who show their talents do not know how to count, and Mr. Accounts can only plan to plate, it is impossible to be so smooth in mental arithmetic.

This is not what surprised Tan Shan the most, what he didn't expect was that salt could still be sold like this - his ancestors had been mixing sand to sell salt for generations, and he never thought that he could sell it for more money without mixing sand with less catties and taels, so looking at a simple truth, several generations of people in the salt farm had never thought of it, including Master Hu, who exploited the villagers and knocked on the marrow and sucked blood.

Tan Shan couldn't help but look up at Xia Nan, could it be that God saw the suffering of Ma Yuan Village, and sent such a savior who could fight and calculate to save the villagers from fire and water?

Not to mention the inner activities of the old village chief, after the first business was negotiated, Zhang Mingli brought people to pay for the salt on the second day, and by the way, he also brought two guests, both of whom were his fellow villagers, who bought 100 and 200 stones respectively. In the summer, Nan did not break his promise, did not mix anything with the salt, and also gave Zhang Mingli three stones of salt. As soon as these three businesses were done, they were two thousand taels of silver.

Xia Nan fulfilled his promise and gave 400 taels to the villagers first, more than 400 households in the village, and each household shared a tael of silver, in what he said to Lin Weiye afterwards, this is called buying people's hearts.

The villagers have been poor for many years, and even the silver has rarely been seen, and if they are frugal, one or two pieces of silver are enough for a family for a month, and they suddenly get so much money, they are all crying with joy.

Tan Shan was sober and knew where the money came from, and led the villagers to kneel down and thank Xia Nan and the others: "Thank you two masters!"

Lin Weiye was very unaccustomed to the etiquette of kneeling, and he was uncomfortable, but he went south in the summer to follow the customs of the villagers and happily accepted the villagers' salute.

With the stimulus of dividends, all the villagers of Mayuan Village fell into the frenzy of large-scale production, men, women and children took turns to work, and devoted themselves to the great work of drying salt day and night, which brought the direct benefit that the production of salt was not only completely restored, but also slightly increased in output compared with previous years. Tan Shan, the village head, roughly estimated that according to the current production speed, the annual output could exceed 300,000 catties, which was 50,000 or 60,000 catties more than the usual best years.

The results of sales are also very gratifying, throughout the ages, the businessman's sense of smell is always the keenest, the news of the sale of salt without sand in the Mayuan salt field soon spread among the small and medium-sized salt merchants, even if it is more expensive than other salt farms, it can not stop the salt merchants from coming. Moreover, the Mayuan salt field that broke out with enthusiasm for production is not comparable to other lifeless salt farms, the amount of salt is guaranteed, and there is no need for any dotted expenses, one hand to pay the other hand to pay the salt, fair trade Tong Su is not bullied.

For a time, the Ma Yuan Salt Farm became the most prosperous salt field in Qiongzhou, and the other salt farm managers wanted to follow suit, but they couldn't make up their minds not to mix the sand, and they were reluctant to give the cheap salt Ding silver, so they could only watch the salt merchants run here, and they were unwilling to secretly hand over a note to the lifting division, hoping to restrain the crazy Ma Yuan Salt Field, but these were not known to Xia Nan and Lin Weiye.

Although some villagers think that the Hu family has stopped running away, and it is meaningless for fifty strong laborers not to go to the salt field, and it is meaningless to stab around with spears every day, but in view of the respect for Master Xia, no one dares to question it in person.

One day after lunch, Yang Youji came to report that it was a suspicious thing that he found outside the village in recent days during training.

As soon as Xia Nan heard this, he immediately announced that the escort team had entered a state of alert, and the guns would not leave him, and the other villagers working in the salt works would remain vigilant, and they must enter and exit in groups, and they must not be left alone.

Lin Weiye said: "Could it be that the Hu family is not dead and wants to take revenge? ”

Xia Nan sneered: "I'm afraid it's not just revenge, but also want to recapture the salt field by the way, now that the salt field is booming, people will be hot." And this time I'm afraid that the people who come are not good, and the good ones don't come, and I suffered a loss last time, and I'm afraid that I came prepared this time. ”

Yang Youji and Huang Hansheng glanced at each other and nodded. Huang Hansheng opened his mouth and said: "Master Yuxia, the two of us are from Orion and can shoot arrows, hoping to contribute to the master."

"Oh? This is good news, where did you get your bows and arrows? "Xia Nan knows the importance of bows and arrows in this era, bows and arrows are forbidden to be possessed by the government, and long-range strike forces are needed at all times.

Huang Hansheng and Yang Youji glanced at each other and said: "Don't hide it from the master, the bow was made by us hunting, and we also brought it with us when we fled to Qiongzhou. Now that the lord is leading us to live a good life, we can't let the villain destroy it, it's time to take out this bow. ”