The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 727 Selling Salt
She plans to let one of her puppets go out to do business, and plans to make a series of salt, and the best one is intended to be used by those nobles.

In order to make the nobles fancy, the best salt has to be processed many times to remove the excess color, and most of the excess minerals, which belong to the most advanced kind of salt.

In terms of appearance and taste, the salt is much higher than ordinary coarse salt, at least comparable to that of green salt, which is the most profitable salt.

Since Ling Xiao intends to make these salts the most high-end in a series of salts, even if those salts are not as white as snowflakes, they must still be very white, and other aspects must be comparable to the green salt used by nobles .

In addition, Ling Xiao also intends to specially design some outer packaging to make the salt look very tall, which will make his salt more competitive.

Ling Xiao didn't have the extravagant hope that the salt he produced would definitely be able to replace the green salt. That was unlikely. After all, those noble people had feelings for the green salt that they had used for so long.

Big families generally have their own purchase channels, that is to say, they are old customers for many years, and ordinary people can't get in at all.Ling Xiao has been prepared for this for a long time, and he doesn't expect to be able to break into the top big family.

Green salt does play a pivotal role, even the use of green salt by the nobles of rich families represents a kind of coercion, just like in the later world, many people think that using luxury goods is coercive.

Although green salt is a consumable item, it also represents a kind of luxury, and it will be a kind of favorite in the eyes of the nobleman. She has no idea of ​​​​replacing it immediately.

Now Ling Xiao wants to be a new luxury brand, and it takes a long, long way to see the brand effect, so she only wants to be a small supplier.

It is good for others to earn the money later on. With enough profit, maybe those people can accelerate the promotion of snow salt, so a lower price can also be paid.

It is also not necessary to make all the salts of this level. This kind of salt is completely used to enter the high-end market, and these salts may not be effective immediately, just a small amount.

The second-class salt can be used by people with some money, and there is also ordinary salt. The overall appearance is similar to official salt, and of course there will be no stones or gravel.

This kind of coarse-looking large-grain salt can be sold to ordinary people, and the price is a little higher than official salt, but it is very clean and tidy on the whole.

After purification, at least it can't be so yellow, and some bitter ingredients are removed, which makes it much more delicious.It seems that the seller spent some extra copper coins and felt a little disadvantaged. In fact, after careful calculation of the deterioration, it will be found that the seller did not suffer at all.

After confirming the product, Ling Xiao thought about what he should do to open up the salt market?Later, when I thought about it, it was naturally a price war. In this regard, she completely defeated other salt manufacturers.

You must know that the coarse salt that has been sun-dried is not used by people, but puppets. Naturally, there is no need to pay any wages. Seawater does not need to be paid. The labor is free, plus some packaging fees, but on the whole The cost is very low.

This also led to the fact that the salt produced by the puppet can completely compete with any family on price, and can definitely get money, completely improve the life of the He family, and definitely have money in case they need to hoard some things.

After Ling Xiao thought it over, he planned to ask the puppet to find the most suitable place to build a salt field. The place he chose was not inhabited at all.In ancient times, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and some places were not inhabited at all.

Why do most people dare not go?That's because there were many wild animals in ancient times, and wolves, tigers and leopards could appear. One person or a few families couldn't resist at all, and most people lived together to build courage.

If a family lives scattered outside, they will find that they lack a lot of things in their lives, so they must go to places with many people to buy things. Everything shows that people need to live in groups.

And puppets are not real people, they don't need to eat, they don't need to sleep, they don't feel lonely, they don't provoke wild beasts, and they don't fear wild beasts, so they can find a place where there is no one to do things.

Even if there is a large-scale fishing village by the sea, far away from this kind of fishing village, no one will know about the salt pan after it is built, so a lot of salt will be produced.

In doing so, Ling Xiao directly ignored that the two acts of privately making salt and selling illegal salt are serious crimes, and she has no choice but to do so. She wanted to make money reasonably and legally, but she didn't have this opportunity.

There is another reason: the world is in chaos now, the laws and regulations of the new dynasty have all become waste paper piles, official salt has become less, and the price has also increased. Many poor people cannot buy salt at all.

So Ling Xiao decided to do it, and most of the salt will be given to ordinary people.No one really came to the place she found, and just in case, the surrounding area was made like a ecstasy array, so that outsiders would never be able to enter, and there was no way to find the salt field, so naturally, the secrets would not be leaked.

When she was doing these things, she didn't think about making a fortune. She just wanted to give the original owner, the siblings enough money to use, so that if the He family had something to do or got sick, they would go bankrupt.

There were many such situations in ancient times, Ling Xiao naturally would not be willing to let the original owner's siblings live like this, she hoped that the siblings would live better and constantly improve themselves.

And why does Ling Xiao think so?That's because she knew very well: In ancient times, it was useless to have money alone, because the more money you have, the more likely you are to be a pig waiting to be slaughtered. Money comes and goes quickly.

Only if the younger brother of the original owner is able to do it himself, otherwise what's the use of being rich?Being too rich will attract people's hatred. Even if you have the power to protect you, you may not be able to keep yourself, because power is not static, ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi.

The most famous example is that of Shi Chong. Shi Chong was the son of the founding hero of the Western Jin Dynasty. He belonged to the second generation of Quan, which gave him the opportunity to become an official.

When he became an official below, he was very arrogant and domineering. He always felt that he had a backer, and he searched for money everywhere, and even sent people to rob those rich people. In the end, he became a rich man by those shady methods.

During this process, he also exchanged ten pearls for a beautiful concubine, and she was the famous Green Pearl in later generations. Later, she was specially placed in the Golden Valley Garden, and every time a guest came, she had to let the green pearl show off.

Shi Chong is rich and powerful, he does things more domineeringly, and he also likes to compete with others for wealth. All kinds of actions have made him secretly have many enemies, but because there are people behind Shi Chong who temporarily let Shi Chong go.

Later, when the prince Shi Chong was attached to was defeated in the power struggle, he began to suffer repeated blows. Some people even asked him for green beads, but when Shi Chong refused, the other party became furious and brought soldiers to the door.

Seeing this scene, Shi Chong said to Luzhu: I am doing this for you!In the end, the so-called confidante and green bead fell to her death in order to repay Shi Chong's love.

Afterwards, the matter of Luzhu was always praised by people, saying that Luzhu was affectionate and righteous, and she was very affectionate with Shi Chong, and called the man who forced Luzhu to be a jerk.

But Ling Xiao feels that Shi Chong is not a jerk!It's a scum!In the whole incident, Ling Xiao believed that the most innocent person was none other than the beauty Luzhu, and what happened to her completely reflected the tragic life of a beautiful woman in ancient times.

She had the prettiest beauty a woman could dream of, but she didn't have the ability to protect herself, so beauty became a sin, and she was sold for ten pearls.

At that time, she was not necessarily willing to become a concubine, but even if her family was unwilling to sell their daughter, they did not dare to defy Shi Chong who was patrolling everywhere.

Luzhu's family didn't want their daughter to be a concubine, and the whole family would be wiped out, and Luzhu was still Shi Chong's concubine after being made a sin slave, so she chose to become Shi Chong's concubine.

Ah!Some people said that after Lu Zhu died, she and Shi Chong had a deep relationship, ha ha!To love her is to make her a concubine!is it possible?In order to show his love for her, Shi Chong gave her rich clothes and food, and also gave her a lot of benefits. It can be said that he loves her very much.

But do you really like green beads?You must know that once Shi Chong came with her friends after Luzhu arrived in Jingu Garden, she was required to dress up carefully, and play the flute for fun when Shi Chong and his friends arrived.

It seems that Lvzhu is loved by Shi Chong, and has been boasted by Shi Chong in many ways.In fact, Shi Chong didn't have any green pearls in his heart. In the final analysis, he still regarded her as a good-looking plaything.

It's just that because Luzhu is beautiful, she hasn't gotten tired of playing for the time being.Just like when the person begging for the green bead came, although Shi Chong didn't intend to hand over the green bead, he let the other concubines dress up beautifully for the candidate.

Then one day Lvzhu will be tired of playing, or she will be given away one day after she gets old and fading. It's just that she died at the most beautiful moment, so there will be a legend of Shi Chong and Lvzhu's love.

After Shi Chong's side was defeated, he knew very well that he might be punished by the victor.And the opponent thinks that the best and most offensive way is to take away his favorite things, and the green bead is one of the very important benchmarks.

In the final analysis, neither Shi Chong nor the man who insisted on snatching the green bead didn't care about the life and death of the green bead. will not end well.

Shi Chong was satisfied with Luzhu's choice, after all, at some point a man still wants his own face, and her death finally ended the so-called competition and fulfilled Shi Chong's self-esteem.

Believe that Luzhu felt relieved when he died!As a beautiful woman, she lived well at home, but for the sake of her family, she finally had to obey the person who forced her family. She did not dare to die easily, so as not to harm her family.

And when she finally had the chance to live without having to linger on, she would naturally not be afraid of the coming of death.

This is also the reason why Ling Xiao was very satisfied after knowing that the original owner was handsome and not a peerless beauty. In ancient times, if beauty had no protective power, it would be better to look ordinary.

In the same way, if a person has money but has not learned how to live a good life, it is better to have some money but not be able to reach the rich and live a normal life. Instead, he can live a stable and stable life until old age.

Therefore, Ling Xiao didn't intend to give all the things he earned to the original owner's siblings, why did he say things?That's because there is not much money at this time.

The precious metal gold is rarely used as currency, and the amount of silver is still small. It is more used to make jewelry and other valuables, and it is not used as currency for exchange. At this time, goods are mostly bartered.

For a long period of time, grain and cloth were the most common equivalents, that is to say, after selling salt, you may not receive any gold bars or silver ingots, but grain or cloth, and cloth is more likely.

Ling Xiao was also a little helpless when she knew about it. She was more optimistic about gold and silver, but the current conditions can only be cloth and food, which is fine, and a small amount of gold cakes.

Later, the people in charge of buying and selling were more optimistic about the most expensive salt, because the green salt was not available during this period, and those noble people urgently needed suitable substitutes, and it happened that Ling Xiao's salt arrived, which would allow them to earn more money.

Just ask the puppet if there is more snow salt?If there is more snow salt, you can give some gold ornaments and the like, and decide to satisfy her.

But Ling Xiao felt bad instead. In the end, she didn't want those gold ornaments, and they couldn't spend them, and they would expose her position. She still wanted cloth, food, or gold cakes.

The other party seemed to have nothing happened, and still asked the puppet to give more snow salt, but Ling Xiao planned not to come back within half a year after finishing this, because she had already saved a lot of property, so she should put her own things first. deal with it.

She insisted on those cloths, and went to someone to have a look, and found that there were no traces left on the cloths, so she handed over the things in her hand to buy land. These are all issues that must be paid attention to.

This is because Ling Xiao knows one thing very well: don't look at the people in the government who don't have much ability against gangsters, but they are quite powerful against ordinary people, and it will be very troublesome if they are remembered by others.

Ling Xiao didn't want to be a stabbing head, so she paid all the taxes that should be paid. She didn't want others to think that Master Liu's granddaughter was too unique, so she had to pay special attention to this.

She is very clear that she is different from ordinary women in this world in many places. Of course, she also knows that some indigenous women are more deviant. They have their own background and background, so they can leave home.

And Ling Xiao naturally has the confidence to deviate from the orthodoxy. The reason why she is not very willing to do so is because she thinks of the original owner. She is unwilling to cheat the original owner. In many cases, she still has to put herself in the cloak of a decent little lady.

Although I don't know what kind of person the original owner will grow into, but if the previous situation is similar to Ling Xiao's education, the original owner should be a talented girl, but she will definitely not have any force value.

In Ling Xiao's opinion, talented women are good, but in the scene of chaos in the world, it is better to have force value, so Ling Xiao thought for a while, in order to survive, he didn't care about the problem of whether to collapse or not. If it's going to collapse, it should be the original owner's collapse.

Although Ling Xiao, who has traveled through so many worlds, still cares about the future of the original owner, he also feels that he shouldn't just wrong himself, and don't think of the original owner everywhere.

Because she knows very well that after the troubled times come, it is really impossible to be a talented woman. She can learn knowledge along with her, but she will definitely not practice kung fu and entrust her life to others?
Pull it!When the chaos came, women and children were the first to be abandoned, because the old, the young, and women were weaker than men.

She is often left behind in the process of escaping. She is not willing to put her life in the hands of others. Even if she is not abandoned, she may become a meal in the mouth of others.

The moral bottom line in ancient times has always been very low. Once there is a famine, some people will be cannibalized. The DNA of later generations has genes that specifically resist prions.

There are also some people who sell themselves to murderous butchers, just want their family members to live. This kind of people are willing to be two-legged sheep, but they don’t know if they will regret it when they are cut off from their bodies alive?
There are also some people who are directly tied up and sold by their family members. Of course, there is no shortage of situations where other people are caught and eaten, so Ling Xiao feels that they must have force value to be able to live well.

I believe that the main reason is that the original owner will be considerate of Ling Xiao's thoughts after knowing it, and will not object to what Ling Xiao has done.

Ling Xiao made up her mind not to care about the other party's thoughts. She thought she was trying her best to be considerate of the original owner. If the original owner was not satisfied, there was really nothing she could do.

Even if the original owner comes back and finds that everything has changed, and wants to talk to Huan Lang, I'm afraid Huan Lang cares more about Ling Xiao, and the original owner may be very sad when he finds out.

But there was no other way, if she didn't go to escort the food, why would Yang Dalang become more polite?This is because Yang Dalang saw that Ling Xiao had real skills.

(End of this chapter)