Chapter 189: Salt Affair (2)

In ancient times, salt was expensive.

Expensive in transport and speculative traders.

According to Xiang Tianxiao's understanding, Wu Dynasty's penny is equivalent to 01 yuan in the modern society of his previous life, and it has always been equal to 1,000 yuan.

One tael of silver is equal to about 80 yuan.

One tael of gold is equal to about 4,000 yuan, or 50 taels of silver.

(Non-Hu editor: according to the April 2019 price, 100 grams of gold, 2 grams of silver, 002 grams of brass)

Wu Dynasty salt, a weight of 400 catties, is basically the load of a mule cart.

Taking Cangzhou in the north of Xiping Prefecture as an example, the Cangxian Sea produces salt, and the factory is 8 runs and one citation, that is, 20 Wen a catty.

The official system is 40 quotes, that is, 100 wen a catty.

Out of Cangzhou, by land, it is 200 runs, that is, 500 Wen a catty.

Taking the waterway is 150 guan and one lead, that is, 375 wen a catty.

In the Xiping market, it costs almost a catty, which is already a sky-high price.

If you have to pass through two states, the land route will be doubled again if there is no waterway.

Therefore, Cangzhou salt is eaten in the northwest, and sea salt is eaten in the southeast and northeast, all because of the proximity.

However, if it is smuggled from Xiping Prefecture to the Western Regions, it becomes 8,000 guan yiyin, that is, 20,000 wen a catty.

Replaced by Xiang Tianxiao, the current price is 2,000 yuan a catty.

That is, one tael of gold and two catties of salt.

Therefore, salt is outside the customs, and there is a saying of salt gold.

(The current market price is 5 jiao a catty, cherish a happy life, start by watching "The Strongest Kunlun Head".) ）

Xiang Tian smiled and finished what he knew.

The banquet also came up.

The wine is diluted 100 times with Kunwu Pai's 'Ice Crystal Jade Dew', not mixed with water.

It's not that Xiang Tian is stingy, although 'Ice Crystal Jade Dew' is not as fire poisonous as 'Fire Spirit Spirit', but only women who practice martial arts can drink it, and men drink it at their own risk.

However, diluting a hundredfold is no problem.

Tang Dianyang drank it, and without saying a word, he dried it as soon as he came.

Baili Changkong saw it, and hurriedly took a sip of 'good wine', and his expression suddenly changed, and he immediately dried up.

Danyangzi couldn't sit still for a while, and he also took a sip, opened his round eyes, sucked it all in one gulp, and praised: "Qiong Jelly and Jade Dew are nothing more than that." ”

Baili Changkong even poured wine while praising it: "Yes, this wine should only be in the sky." ”

Tang Dianyang grabbed the wine jug and said: "This wine has the effect of Pei Yuan consolidating the foundation, and it is very beneficial to my martial arts practitioners, and I was also surprised when I tasted it for the first time." ”

Danyangzi immediately smiled at Xiang Tian and said, "Brother Xian has such good wine, why didn't you say it earlier?"

pursed his lips and said with a smile to the sky: "This is made of ice mulberry fruit, my junior sister and the weaver girls are not enough to drink, otherwise I would have taken it out and sold it." ’

Thinking about it, he still said: "Brother, tell me about the salt, it's easy to talk about the wine." ”

After doing it for half a while, Danyangzi said: "Let the second son talk first." ”

Baili Changkong reluctantly put down the wine cup and said:

"This matter is in charge of the Wuhou Mansion of Nanping Prefecture, escorted by the Qinglian Sect, and after it is transported to Gyeongju, it will be taken care of by my Xiping Wuhou Mansion. ”

The salt goods are precious, and they are escorted safely by the Wulin faction, and when they arrive in Gyeongju, they are naturally escorted by the Danxia faction. In this regard, it is not surprising that Xiang Tian smiled.

Danyangzi only then answered: "Taking a quote as an example, the ex-factory price of Bazhou tribute salt is 10 guan, and it is 20 guan a quote to me." ”

Tang Dianyang hurriedly added: "This matter is confidential, and the Hou Mansion will come forward, and the passes will be unimpeded, so there will be no exploitation, and the cost of 10 guan will be deducted, and the Qinglian Sect and Nanping Wuhou Mansion will each deduct 5 yuan of hard work." ”

Hearing this, Xiang Tianxiao was a little deflated, and said flatly: "In this way, it is voluntary labor." ”

Tang, Baili, and Danyangzi smiled mysteriously, and picked up the wine cup and touched the glass.

Looking at the three people who ate and drank, they were all unprofitable and could not afford to be early, and they would definitely not just earn a hard fee, Xiang Tianxiao began to calculate in his heart.

Suddenly! Xiang Tianxiao snatched the wine jug that was hundreds of miles in the air, and said:

"You want to resell it on the spot?"

"Brother Xian is really smart, and he thought of the key at once" Danyangzi praised with a smile, and then said while picking up the dishes:

"To the east of Gyeongju is Hexi Prefecture, the price of salt is 400 guan a citation, the price of tribute salt is 600 guan a citation, and I ship it at 550 guan, and it can be clean in an instant. ”

Baili Changkong snatched back the wine jug and said happily: "With this 550 guan, in the name of the Hou Mansion, I can exchange it for 22 quotes at a price of 25 guan in the Cangxian Sea in Cangzhou." ”

Tang Dianyang clipped a lion's head to Xiang Tianxiao, and said with a smile:

"In the end, we will transport one of the salts to the Great White Country for trading, and we will have twenty-one more. ”

grabbed Tang Dianyang's wrist violently, smiled to the sky and said in a deep voice:

"If you sell all the 21 citations outside the customs, 8,000 yuan is 168,000 yuan. ”

"No!" The three of them denied in unison, and Tang Dianyang said with a smile:

"I know that Tianxiao has always had a national consciousness, and now there has been a shortage of salt outside the border for three years...... Hey, you know. ”

Xiang Tian smiled startled, and asked in a slightly weak voice, "How much are you going to sell?"

Baili Changkong put the wine cup down, gritted his teeth and said:

"One tael of gold and one pound!"

'I'll drop a mother!' Xiang Tian smiled and shouted in his heart, and the person almost rolled off the table.

At this price, twenty-one salt is 8,400 catties, that is, 8,400 taels of yellow catties.

Converted into 10,000 yuan.

"Are you sure you're selling salt, not drugs??" Xiang Tianxiao screamed in his heart.

Danyangzi saw Xiang Tianxiao's surprised look, and said kindly:

"I have always known that a virtuous brother has a good heart, but if he is not of my race, his heart will be different, so there is no need to have a troubled conscience. ”

Tang Dianyang said: "Tianxiao knows how much the Great White Country War Horse sold to us?"

The Kunwu faction has its own horse farm, and Xiang Tianxiao naturally knows it.

The war horses of the Western Regions usually cost 1 gold, and the best war horses are as high as 100 gold.

According to 1 gold per horse, 8400 gold is only 8400 war horses, and even 10,000 horses are not enough, which shows how much money the cavalry spends.

This is also the reason why the Western Regions and Northern Hu are strong.

Raising cavalry is simply too expensive.

Xiang Tianxiao knew that they had misunderstood, and he didn't say anything, so he deliberately pretended to be pure and said:

"In this way, I feel better. ”

Suddenly, Xiang Tianxiao remembered a question and asked:

"How many citations did the official family bring this time?"

Xuanzhen Taoism is not taboo, Danyangzi tore off a chicken leg and put it in his mouth, and said casually:

"The Blue Lotus Sect has brought ten leads. ”

"Smack!" Xiang Tianxiao fell to the ground.

Ten citations!!

In other words, by reversing hands, two hundred and ten smuggled salt can be exchanged.

This is 84,000 catties, that is, 84,000 taels of gold.

RB is $336 million.

"Your sister, you don't make money from smuggling arms," Xiang Tianxiao thought to himself as he gritted his teeth and got up from the ground.

At this moment, Baili Changkong sighed and said:

"Actually, there are not so many, I used the lack of salt in Xiping Prefecture as an excuse to purchase from the Cangqing Sea, and I have to allocate a hundred quotes to sell in Xiping Prefecture, otherwise it will not be good to be found by the imperial court. ”

Xiang Tianxiao understands in seconds, one hundred leads into the market, saying that it is two hundred leads, and it is generally impossible to find out, which is the art of deception.

However, even one hundred and ten citations are quite a lot.

Try to keep yourself calm and ask Tianxiao a key question:

"Three, with all due respect, it is customary to find the strongest sect in the state, why don't you find the Shuanghe Hall? or the Nine Banners Sect?"

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