Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 172 Some things plummeted, some things skyrocketed

"Brother Qin, it turns out that doing good deeds makes people feel so happy."

Near Mingzhou Governor's Mansion, Qin Xiedao, Fang Yiai and his party lived in a large courtyard, chatting while eating delicious large yellow croakers.

For three days in a row, I used the same method to fish, and I returned with a full load each time.

Now the people of Mingzhou City look at Qin Xiedao and the people sent by the imperial court to relieve the disaster, as if they are looking at gods.

Fang Yiai had never enjoyed that kind of gratitude, that kind of worship.

As one of the four evils in Chang'an City, Fang Yiai used to be lucky if people didn't roll their eyes.

"Now that we have a sufficient supply of large yellow croakers, the people in the city no longer have to worry about starvation.

Even the common people living outside the city have heard the news now, they set off from their homes early, and arrived at the Mingzhou Wharf at noon, and after buying two large yellow croakers, they can rush back for dinner.

Although the famine problem in Mingzhou City cannot be said to be solved immediately, it is almost there. "

Ma Zhou looked at Qin Xiedao now with something different.

He really didn't expect that this trip to Mingzhou would start like this.

Even if the court allocates a lot of money, it is impossible to do better than this.

"What Manager Ma said makes sense. I went for a walk on the street this afternoon. I heard that many grain stores said they had no grain in stock, but now they are open for sale. The price has dropped by two times compared to the previous few days. become."

Cheng Chumo also showed his observation skills in a rare way.

"Food prices have indeed started to drop, but I heard that the price of salt is rising, which has a great impact on the lives of the people."

Yu Chihuan went out with Cheng Chumo today, but his focus is obviously different from Cheng Chumo's.

"How can the price of salt rise? People's daily demand for salt is basically relatively stable.

I haven't heard of any big fluctuations in the price of salt in Mingzhou before. "

Fang Yiai looked at everyone a little puzzled.

"It should be caused by the sea fish we caught. With such a cheap large yellow croaker, there must be some people who want to make some dried or salted fish after buying it back.

But no matter what you do, you need to use salt to some extent.As a result, the original salt supply in Mingzhou City immediately became tense. "

After Qin Xiedao thought about it for a while, he had the answer.

"What Mr. Lang said should be right, not to mention the common people, even we organized some people to build a salted fish workshop, bought a batch of salt, and planned to make some of the large yellow croakers we caught into salted fish. "

Ma Zhou added.

But this is the situation where the salt is in short supply, and it is fully displayed.

"Ma Zhou, fishing is slowly getting on the right track now, you are going to the governor's mansion to buy a piece of land by the sea.

Then I prepared a blueprint, organized craftsmen and recruited thousands of people to help with the work, and we built a salt drying field by ourselves. "

Thanks to his hard work at the Xuanwu Gate every day to sign in, he now has a lot of skills and is not afraid of any difficulties.

There is no decent shipbuilding workshop in Mingzhou, what should we do?
Make it!

The price of salt in Mingzhou has risen, and the supply of salt is insufficient. What should I do?
Salt yourself!
Soon, the people in Mingzhou had cheap fish to eat, and their lives were better than before the disaster, and the situation immediately stabilized.

Then the recruitment of shipbuilding workshops and salt drying workshops made full use of the idle labor force in Mingzhou.

Having a job for these people means having a stable job.

Although it only takes care of more than 1000 people, it does mean that more than 1000 families have a stable source of income.

In this way, the situation in Mingzhou became even more stable.

……

"Boss, the price of salt in the shop has doubled, and I think it may have to go up with this momentum. This is a windfall."

In the Zhang Family Courtyard, Zhang Sai was in a very good mood to ask for credit in front of his owner.

"Then Qin Xiedao has arranged for people to build a salt farm. Once the construction is successful, the price of salt will definitely drop sharply. Taking advantage of this period of time, let's raise the price of salt again. We will earn the money first and then talk about it." .”

As a salt merchant, Zhang Fan's heart has always been dark.

How could he miss such a good opportunity to make money now?

"The salt farm can't be built in a day or two. We still have enough time to hype up the price of salt, and we can even directly arrange people to destroy the construction of the salt farm."

In front of money, Zhang Sai is obviously willing to do anything.

"No! That Qin Xiedao is not so easy to mess with. We earn money openly, even if he has opinions, he can't do anything to us, but if we have any outrageous means, once we are caught by others , then the Zhang family will be finished."

Zhang Fan obviously still has some brains and knows what not to do.

"That's true, the Zhu family just hoarded a batch of grain, and now it's in big trouble.

Not only is the governor looking for trouble for him, but their grain store can't sell a few catties of grain, and the price has been falling.

According to this rhythm, it will fall to last year's normal level in a few days. "

The Zhu family's grain store is next to the Zhang family's salt store, and everyone can be said to be acquaintances.

But the more this is the case, the more vigilant people can be raised.

"We just need to take care of our own affairs, and don't have to worry about other things so much."

……

"Boss, there are more than a dozen ships going out to sea every day in the past two days, and the number of large yellow croakers transported back is even more than before.

Now in the evening, those unsold large yellow croakers can be bought for a penny.

If things go on like this, we won't have to sell our food at all. "

Zhu Zhengfeng's anxious mouth had several blisters.

But nothing works.

The price of food in the shop is still falling.

"Did they really tie bamboo to the side of the boat, and then tap the bamboo to catch a large number of large yellow croakers?"

Zhu Hongping's face was no longer as rosy as before.

Although the loss this time would not seriously hurt the vitality of the Zhu family, but all the benefits that had been calculated were gone, which was enough for him to feel distressed for a long time.

"Yes! I spent a lot of money and asked several people, and they all said the same thing.

I don't know how Qin Xiedao could come up with such a strange fishing method, but those big yellow croakers foolishly drilled into their fishing nets. "

How happy Zhu Zhengfeng was before, how painful he is now.

"Transport the grain to nearby counties and counties for sale as soon as possible. Then use the money to buy boats in various places, and we will also go fishing!"

"what?"

(End of this chapter)