Chapter 203: Buy and sell

Liu Shunhua took the order handed over by the other party, and his hands were already trembling. Tongtian Grain Store is a large grain merchant with semicolons in Shandong and Nanzhili. However, such grain stores are everywhere in the world and cannot show any wealth. However, Liu Buzheng's face was full of faith.

After taking the document, I looked at it carefully for a few rudely. Then I carefully put it back in my arms, and held up the wine glass, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I have thanked Boss Huang here."

The words were very chaotic, and he did not have the awareness of being a provincial official at all, but the businessman who was called Boss Huang also had no awareness of being a businessman at all. According to common sense, such a high-level official took the initiative to toast, he should stand up with gratitude and be humble in his mouth.

Boss Huang raised his bloated body slightly, stretched his arms forward, raised his glasses with both hands and touched Liu Shunhua, but that's all, and he didn't do any other moves.

Tongtian Grain Bank is indeed not big, but the boss of this grain bank is also the largest salt merchant in Shandong. The grain bank may not be able to afford twenty-five stones of grain and grass, but as a salt merchant, he should be able to do it with abundant financial resources. Of course, twenty-five stones of grain is nearly 300,000 taels of silver. Even if Boss Huang is the largest salt merchant in Shandong, he probably does not have such terrifying financial resources.

Although Liu Shunhua was suspicious, he was unwilling to say that the boss Huang on the opposite side could be the largest grain merchant in Shandong, so he could not be just a white civilian. From the time he was a vassal king to now being the emperor in the capital, the closest eunuchs around him were Huang Jin, and the current eunuchs in the Sili Supervisor had an unparalleled power. Boss Huang, Huang Ping, was Huang Jin's cousin, and followed his cousin to reach today. This is still because Jiajing doesn't like the over-the-top authority of the internal officials. If such a relationship was in the previous generations, even if Huang Ping became the commander of the Jinyiwei in the capital, he would be able to be awarded a title.

However, Huang Jin is relatively low-key, and Huang Ping did not make money outside in a loud voice. Instead, he became a salt merchant in Shandong in a normal manner. However, his identity was placed there, in the local area, and everyone in the garage office had to sell him a little bit of face. Fortunately, Huang Ping was very good at grasping the position, so his business became bigger and bigger, but he did not have much momentum. It was also called making money in silence.

Liu Buzheng has been much more panicked recently and can't hide anything on his face. Boss Huang on the other side also saw Liu Buzheng's questions and said with a smile:

"Huang couldn't take it out at the moment, but Lord Liu, you really have a good son-in-law."

Huang Ping lives in Jining. At this time, Jining was one of the most prosperous places in Shandong. The main reason for its prosperity is that Jining is the hub of the Grand Canal. The grain ships and cargo traffic in the south and north of the Yangtze River, and the convenient geographical location of Jining makes this place the most prosperous and prosperous town in Shandong now.

Canal transportation is one is grain and the other is salt. The two largest goods happen to be goods handled by salt merchants. They can take grain to the border and get salt. This is the basic transaction process of salt merchants. Of course, starting from decades ago, salt merchants don’t have to really transport grain to the border. They just need to spend money to buy salt in the salt transportation yamen and then go to the salt yard to get salt. This is the so-called “salt in silver”.

On the fifth day after leaving Jinan, Jiang Feng found out who the largest salt merchant in Shandong was through the former green forest relationship of Weishan Island, or found out that the largest private salt merchant in Shandong was Huang Ping. Jiang Feng took his men to place this wealthy merchant, after all, the commander of the garrison came to visit.

Moreover, Huang Ping also knew the relationship between Jiang Feng and Zhang Yong, so he was considered an old friend, and he was polite to invite him to the mansion. He originally thought that Dengzhou Guards were short of money and wanted to borrow some silver to spend money. Huang Ping also thought in his mind that his salt caravan would inevitably pass by the ground under Jiang Feng's jurisdiction. Why not buy some money? Anyway, the Ming army was beggars, who were so poor that they were very easy to pass.

The meeting process made Huang Ping, who had seen the world, remember clearly after a long time. After both parties were polite, before Huang Ping could ask about Jiang Feng’s purpose, Jiang Feng asked Huang Ping directly:

"Would you like to make a net profit of 100,000 taels of silver?"

When Huang Ping thought that the commander of the guard opposite had his head burned, the guards beside Jiang Feng took out 50,000 taels of silver notes, and the silver notes that were exchanged from all over the country, and said lightly:

"These silvers are pledged here first..."

At this time, Huang Ping remembered the young general in front of him. When he was in the capital, he was said to have some skills in making stones into gold. The next agreement between the two sides was to deliver the message quickly.

Then Huang Ping's business in Shandong experienced an extremely strange situation. He tried his best to go out to the province, and the price was very low. As a result, the salt merchants between Shandong and Huaihe River cursed, but Huang Ping was very rich and did not dare to offend him, so he had to lower the price, and the price was much faster.

Anyway, private salt is everywhere, so there is no need to worry about the supply of goods. Who knew that Shandong Fushan Salt Farm suddenly changed to a salt course to engage in it. Well, there are nearly ten salt farms in Shandong. If this one is not sold, we will buy other ones, and then the bandits suddenly emerged and began to harm the good market order of private salt trafficking.

It is difficult to purchase goods, and the salt I bought cannot be transported out. The annual salt quota is so much, and the salt price has gradually increased. However, the governor Liu Shunhua also issued a decree, saying that he would severely crack down on private salt. As a result, salt merchants in Shandong Province complained.

The salt merchants in Lianghuai and Tianjin wanted to enter Shandong to do business, and they suffered extremely prepared attacks from "horse bandits" and "robbers". They have been used for many years to transport salt secret channels, even when the white-clothed divine weapons rebelled, they were still operating normally. However, at this time, they stagnated one after another.

The Salt Transportation Office in Haizhou is the most profitable and well-off job in the world. Anyone who is in charge of the Salt Transportation Office is a very well-off person, but the face of a provincial governor still needs to be sold, because it is not an illusory prospect to join the cabinet and become the prime minister.

So Liu Shunhua, in accordance with Jiang Feng's opinion, sent a private message to the salt transport envoy, which was taken by Huang Ping's housekeeper, and there were 5,000 taels of silver notes along with the private message.

No matter where people in the world, they always need salt when they eat (the author is skeptical about this law when eating in Shanghai. He is more skeptical about this law. No matter what, it is sweet. It is said that putting sugar in Wuxi is even more powerful - off-topic). There are also some places in northern Zhili in Shanxi and Henan, which are always needed. However, in addition to official salt, the transaction of private salt has shrunk by nearly 70%. If you only eat official salt these days, you will probably die of indifference.

The transaction price of bulk salt has doubled, and the retail price has quietly increased by a few%. Old adults all know that if this continues for less than half a month, Shandong salt market will definitely collapse.

Five days after the private banquet between Huang Ping and Liu Shunhua, salt merchants from all over Shandong received such news. Huang Ping, a salt merchant from Jining, purchased a 100,000 taels of salt in the salt transportation office where he had not been out for half a month!

Then Fushan Salt Field released news on the underworld of private salt that the price of two thousand kilograms of private salt was not too much, and it was only 50% more expensive than two months ago. All the merchants involved in salt were cursing there, and they knew vaguely that the mysterious things that happened in the past two months may have a lot to do with Huang Ping and Fushan Salt Field.

But behind Huang Ping is the eunuch Huang Jin, and behind Fushan Salt Field is the tiger Jiangfeng. Everyone should recognize him with their noses. Anyway, they still have money to make when they go to the business.

Jining, which was originally prosperous, has been even more so recently. Now, the wealthy merchants in Shandong, Shanxi and Henan are flocking to the door of Huang Ping’s house, and there are also a large number of private salt dealers waiting around Fushan County. After the salt is led down, we can transport the salt out as soon as possible.

Everyone knew quite sure that there must be no bandits on the way this time, and it must be the fair luck of his wife.

Both the salt and private salt price increased by 50%, but no one cared. Some people in Lianghuai and Tianjin, who were already irritated by the price of salt in Shandong, also came to buy salt in Yanyan with money.

The profits are there, and the salt administration is cruel, so even the private salt dealers are bold and have some concerns. Moreover, everyone is afraid of fishing when they are dry, so they can attract 400 kilograms of salt, and 1,200 or 1,600 kilograms of salt are included.

However, what Fushan Salt Field privately released was that a single salt could bring out 4,000 kilograms of private salt, which means that the profits increased by five or six times out of thin air. If taxes were included and the various conveniences brought by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping, the profits were even greater. Of course, these profits were swallowed up by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping.

Of course, this method is fine once a while. If salt is produced like this for more than one month, the salt price will inevitably plummet, and there will be no such profit.

However, one month is enough. After this incident, the salt merchants from all over Shandong basically have to obey Huang Ping. The private salt salt owls in Jinan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, and Dengzhou Prefecture basically have to act according to Jiang Feng's expression. Other salt fields in Shandong are now staring at each other every day. If they secretly produce salt, they will immediately encounter bandits on the way.

As for the sea, there is a fleet of Xia family on the sea, of course it is now an existence as a Japanese pirate pirate...

"The owner, Huang Ping is already mobilized in Wuhu, and the grain reserves of Tongtian Grain Store have also begun to turn to Changping Store. It is estimated that all of them will be replenished in a month. However, since it is Huang Ping's guarantee, even if others have questions, they should consider Huang Jin in Beijing."
Chapter completed!