Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 179
If people are unlucky, drink cold water and jam their teeth.

On the contrary, if people's luck improves, it is so good that you can't believe it.

When the fishing and whaling industries in Mingzhou were booming, the sun-dried salt workshop had been built for nearly two months, and it was fruitful.

"Lang Jun, I didn't expect it to happen. It's too unbelievable, too unbelievable."

Ma Zhou held a handful of coarse salt in his hand and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully.

Although it was a bit bitter, he was very sure that it was salt.

For the people of Tang Dynasty, salt is an indispensable thing.

Although the price is not cheap, it is worth buying.

Nowadays, the sun-dried salt workshop can obtain a large amount of salt so easily, and the meaning behind this is absolutely unapproved.

"There's nothing unbelievable. Seawater is salty, and it's not like you haven't tasted it before. Isn't it normal that such salty seawater can be refined into edible salt?

At present, only the first phase of the project has been completed, and the second and third phases can be continued in the future.

We can even consider other places along the coast that are suitable for drying salt, and build additional salt farms. "

All dynasties have attached great importance to the salt industry.

Since Qin Xiedao made it to the beach with great difficulty, he naturally wanted to produce all the things that should be produced, so as to save the trouble of going back and forth.

"For Mr. Lang, this is a normal thing. But for other Tang people, this is a great joy.

However, we produce so much salt at once, how to sell it is a problem.

Although Datang has a vast territory, the salt in each place is controlled by some fixed merchants. If we want to intervene rashly, it may not be that simple.

None of these salt merchants are easy to get along with. "

Although it can be predicted that the salt production of sun-dried salt workshops will reach a very considerable figure.

But Ma Zhou immediately realized another problem.

"Ma Zhou's worry is really not unreasonable. Although we are not afraid of anyone who will deal with us together, we don't have so many people who can be dispersed to various state capitals in a short period of time.

Brother Qin, how to sell this salt is really a problem. "

Cheng Chumo has a certain understanding of the monopoly of the noble family's salt industry in various places.

It is really because of understanding that, on the contrary, I am more aware of the difficulty of selling salt.

You are a new merchant, and you go directly to other states and counties to sell salt, and then you will not be able to trip you up?

In particular, there must be some institutions such as salt industry associations in the local area, and everyone controls the market together.

Now a new merchant pops up suddenly, and they will definitely join hands to suppress it.

"Or we can first transport the salt to Chang'an City for sale. We dare not talk about other places, but in Chang'an City, there should not be many people who dare to go against our family at the same time."

What Yu Chihuan said was quite confident.

After all, their fathers are now the Dukes of the dynasty.

Waiting for idle forces really can't afford to provoke them.

"This problem is not as complicated as you think. Isn't there a large number of seagoing ships going out to sea to fish every day at Mingzhou Wharf, and bringing back many large yellow croakers?
But because there is no way to keep fresh in time, some large yellow croakers are directly wasted.

This has also affected the pace of some families continuing to enter the fishing industry.

This time, we built a salted fish workshop next to the salt field, and bought all the excess large yellow croakers on the pier, and then made them into salted fish.

For these large yellow croakers, the cost of fishing is very low, and the cost of salt production in our sun-dried salt workshop is also very low.

Even if our salted fish is only sold for a few pennies a catty, it is still profitable. "

Just when Ma Zhou and the others were worried, Qin Xiedao actually had an idea.

It just so happens that this method can give full play to the local advantages of Mingzhou, allowing Mingzhou to achieve corner overtaking in a short period of time and become the leading state capital of Datang.

"Making salted fish? Sir, do you mean that we consume salt in the same way as making salted fish, and at the same time consume the excess large yellow croaker?"

Ma Zhou's eyes lit up, and he felt that Qin Xiedao's proposal seemed good.

"It is true that we make salted fish, but our essence is to sell salt. Now a catty of high-quality salt can be sold for more than ten yuan, and even ordinary salt can be sold for five or six yuan per catty.

If our salted fish only sells for three Wen per catty, does that mean it will become the most popular item in Chang'an City?

By then, the salt alone would weigh more than half of a pound of salted fish. "

Obviously, Qin Xiedao is following a curve to save the country.

It is not without confidence to fight directly with Datang's current salt merchants, and it is unlikely that they will lose.

But if everyone can live in harmony and develop together, that would be the best.

"It's not difficult to make salted fish at all, the temperature here is so high, I guess when Lang Jun returns to Chang'an, he can take the salted fish back with him.

At that time, we will regularly transport new salted fish to Chang'an City every month. "

After hearing Qin Xiedao's words, Ma Zhou already knew what his boss wanted to do.

Although he is not afraid of those honorable families, but if he can stop arguing about meaningless things, then he can save his worries.

"If we sell salted fish like this, I'm sure that no one in Chang'an City would want to go to the salt shop alone to buy salt.

How many people are willing to spend money to find discomfort? "

Yuchihuan added a wordless sentence from the side.

In his opinion, Qin Xiedao's actions are completely deceiving people.

Of course, it is the current salt merchants who are cheating.

"Salt shops in various states and counties of Datang, their salt mining costs are not necessarily much higher than ours.

It's just that their mining volume is not as much as ours, and they are unwilling to take the initiative to lower the price, which has led to the high price of salt in Datang.

This time we have successfully come up with a plan to dry salt in seawater, and it is estimated that it will be leaked soon.

At that time, the price of salt may drop directly to one penny or two pennies per catty.

It was rare to do something good for the people of Tang Dynasty, Qin Xiedao was in a good mood.

People need a sense of existence and honor to make their lives happier and more dignified.

Obviously, Ma Zhou felt joy now.

"In all dynasties, no one has been able to bring down the prices of corn and salt to a very low level.

If you can achieve this goal, Mr. Lang, you will definitely leave a strong mark in the history books. "

"What will be recorded in the history books, I don't care. I just hope that Datang will become stronger and the people will live more prosperously, so that I can enjoy life well."

(End of this chapter)