Crossing Wu Dalang starts from selling cakes

Chapter 139: Jiang Menshen Incident!Three more!

Wu Zhi purchased the secret salt recipe in the system.

As a modern person, he also knows a little about salt making, but he can learn more by purchasing the secret recipe.

He didn't hesitate to spend thirty points to buy the secret recipe.

After comprehending, it was indeed more comprehensive than what he understood.

To put it bluntly, the Song Dynasty was very strict with salt, hoping to reduce the cost of intermediate sales through the monopoly of salt, thereby increasing the revenue of the treasury.

In fact, this system not only did not improve the financial situation of the Song Dynasty, but on the contrary led to the continuous rise of private salt.

The consequence of monopoly operation is that the price of official salt is too high for ordinary people to afford, and the quality of salt is poor.

In order to enhance everyone's purchase demand and compete with official salt, private salt sellers often have cheaper prices and better quality.

To a certain extent, it satisfies the people's demand for salt, especially some people living in poverty, can spend a small amount of silver to buy high-quality salt.

In addition, there are restrictions on where the official salt can be sold.

Most of them are located in densely populated downtown areas.

In this way, it is extremely inconvenient for people in remote areas or those with insufficient production in salt producing areas to buy salt.

Private salt dealers often peddle along the street to meet the needs of the people and make it easier for the people to buy salt.

And Wu Zhi wants to produce a kind of salt that is both good and not too expensive, and seek violence from it.

Next.

Wu Zhi asked Zhao San to take a few people to the foot of a nearby mountain to pick up some salt ore and come back.

Then I bought some more things.

After all the materials are ready, Wu Zhi starts to make.

He temporarily rented an independent house, used an iron pot in it, and filled the pot with water after lighting firewood.

Boil the ore on high heat.

However, it contains some poisonous gas when cooked.

It also needs to be analyzed and evaporated. Even so, it cannot be used directly. It also needs to be filtered through a process, and the brine is used to continue to evaporate to obtain the refined salt inside.

In addition to the distillation operation and analysis of refined salt.

If you can't master the technology, it's very difficult.

It is not difficult to master the technology.

When the sky darkened, Wu Zhi was ready.

About ten catties.

These salts are not worth much, and Wu Zhi is mainly testing the results. After looking at Wu Zhi, he felt that there was no problem, so he started mass production.

A deserted mountain near Mengzhou is full of salt rocks, and no one cares about these waste rocks.

Wu Zhi had inquired that the mountain was in the name of a big businessman nearby, and they wouldn't know how to deal with these things, so it was of little value to them.

However, there are many salt-making materials in Mengzhou, and the ore in that place is not very good. If you want to extract salt like Wuzhi, you don't have the technology, so it doesn't work much, and it belongs to the abandoned mine.

In the past few days, Wu Zhi has produced thousands of catties.

A catty is close to four cents, worth at least 400 taels.

That's a lot.

If mass production is thousands of taels, it can even reach tens of thousands of taels.

Salt is a necessity of life. In the Song Dynasty, there were also many private salt dealers colluding with salt officials to make money.

Wu Zhi's behavior also took some risks, but the salt he produced was refined salt, and it was easy to sell even if the price was slightly higher.

After the experiment, Wu Zhi asked Zhao San to find a private salt merchant in Mengzhou.

When the private salt merchant saw the salt made by Wu Zhi, he didn't take it seriously at first, but it seemed to be good. After taking another sip, the dealer's eyes were full of shock.

Private salt dealer: "How is this kind of salt made? Well, this is several times better than the salt on the market in Mengzhou!"

The last batch of salt was purchased directly.

The private salt dealer also told Zhao San that he can cooperate for a long time, and he can offer a price that is two cents higher than the market price.

Money is a trivial matter, but it allows Wu Zhi to see that there is indeed money to be made.

If it is produced in large quantities, it is also a way to make a fortune.

However, Wu Zhi didn't dare to make his movements too big. If he made it too big, people would find out the clues. This would inevitably be a trick, or he would be caught by Cai Jing.

But a way has been found, and the accumulation of a year of good salt production is astronomical, comparable to the revenue of the national treasury.

Wu Zhi: "Now my position is not stable, and Cai Jing is still watching from above. The road of Yan will definitely go through in the future. As long as I get rid of Cai Jing first, I will be rich like an enemy!"

Wu Zhi thought for a while and prepared to go back.

Regarding the matter of salt, after Cai Jing is eliminated, he will expand in a large area.Build a salt caravan of his own.

But this is a big deal, so be careful.

He has solved the food problem in Mengzhou. This is a credit, and he can receive a reward when he returns.

Then Wu Zhi took Zhao San and the people from the court to pack up and leave.

On the way, many people came to see Wu Zhi off.

"Master Wu, go all the way!"

"Master Wu has worked hard!"

Many people are grateful to Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi also greeted everyone with a smile, looking very upright.

At this moment, suddenly a man rushed out.

With a plop, he knelt down in front of Wu Zhi.

"My lord... My lord, I have been wronged!"

This person knelt in front of Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi was taken aback.

As a minister sent by the imperial court to provide disaster relief, he is also the No. [-] martial arts scholar, and he is a bachelor's student. Now he is leading a group of officers and soldiers, so he does have certain rights.

But this is the first time someone has been wronged in this way.

Wu Zhi took a closer look, and found that this man was over six feet tall, aged 24 or [-], with fair skin and a three-willow moustache.

This scene aroused the onlookers of the people.

"This is Shi En!"

"That's right, it's Shi En, why is he still wronged?"

"You guys don't know, Shi En Happy Forest Hotel was robbed, of course he has been wronged!"

"Hehe, they are not good people!"

The people present were whispering, Wu Zhi heard it keenly, but his expression froze, "Grace?"

Isn't this the one who made Wu Song drunk and beat Jiang Menshen in the Water Margin?
The benefactor is called Xiaoguanying, the son of Mengzhou Prison Guanying.

He has no official position, but brought some death row prisoners to occupy Happy Forest.

Relying on his father's power, everyone who runs a business here must make a confession to Shi Enna, even prostitutes. Apart from expenses, he can get hundreds of taels of silver every month.

So Shi En is a typical bully-level character.

The Shi family and his son make a lot of money from Happy Lin every month, but Zhang Tuanlian is jealous.

Jiang Zhong, a martial arts master, was invited from other places, nicknamed Jiang Menshen.

This man is nine feet long and has good skills, making a good spear and stick.

With just three punches and two kicks, Shi En was put on the ground, occupied the Shi family's hotel, and thus cut off the Shi family's monthly offerings.

Shi En was injured and lost a lot of money. Although he was unwilling, he had nothing to do. He was not good at martial arts and could not beat others.

This kind of bully depends on whose fist is hard against the bully.

Just when Shi En was depressed, Wu Song came.

Because of committing a crime, he is a prisoner, but he is a tiger-fighting hero. Shi En suddenly has eyesight and wants to make friends.

This is not going to prison, it is clearly a vacation, Wu Song was completely moved.

Wu Song is a hero, he always eats the weak but not the hard, and has the mentality of hoeing the strong and supporting the weak.

Facts have proved that Shi En bet on the right treasure, and Wu Song, who was persuaded, became a pawn for him to regain the Happy Forest Hotel.

Or acted as a thug.

Wu Song drunk and beat Jiang's door god, Shi En dominated Happy Forest, and since then reorganized the store and opened a restaurant.

The white money flowed into the account again, with an increase of [-]% interest compared to usual.

In each store, there are gambling houses and exchanging houses, and Jiali double gives spare money to benevolent, and respects Wu Song like a mother-in-law.

As for Jiang Menshen and Shi En, according to Wu Zhi's understanding, these two are not good people.

But at present, Shi En is indeed wronged.

His hotel has been robbed.

Hearing that the imperial court came to Master Wu, he couldn't beat Jiang Menshen, so he ran to Master Wu to complain after thinking about it.

Wu Zhi: "If you really have wronged, I will avenge it for you!"

Shi En knelt in front of Wu Zhi and kowtowed: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"

The reason why Wu Zhi made a move was first to file a complaint in the street. He is also an official after all, so he has to ask.

Second, Wu Zhi thought that these people could be regarded as harming Wu Song, and they were regarded as pawns.

For my younger brother.

Wu Zhi still has to care.

Although the latter things will not happen, it would be better if Wu Zhi solved it.

"My lord, I used to have a hotel, but now it has been snatched away by Jiang Menshen..."

Shi En cried out her grievances.

Everything is clear before and after.

Well, a person who is not a good person in himself acts like a wronged ordinary person in front of Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi: "Since this is the case, I will give you justice, come and bring Jiang Menshen, Zhang Dujian, and Zhang Tuanlian over here!"

"Yes!"

The officers and soldiers next to him were dispatched immediately.

Under the leadership of Shi En, arrest people.

(End of this chapter)