Go back to ancient times to be a royal merchant

The impact of the drop in the price of salt is far greater than the punishment of the Left Prime Minister. The common people talk about the price of salt. Some people went to the place where the salt was sold to buy salt and found that the price of salt had not changed. Asked why he didn't lower the price, the shopkeeper of the shop had a tough attitude, and the price of salt was only this price, whether he wanted to buy it or not.The imperial court set a price, go to the imperial court.The people were so angry that they ran to the yamen to find the yamen servants if they had something good to do, saying that the shopkeeper in the shop was going to rebel.After hearing this, the yamen servant immediately followed, and after arriving at the shop to ask the ins and outs of the matter, he took the shopkeeper away.He also told the people that the court's priced salt was sold in grocery stores.

The shopkeeper is also unlucky. People who encounter good things run away to report to the officials. In a feudal society, this is Chi Guoguo's rebellion.This is not just one case, but there are not many people who do good things, and this is the only one who was arrested.After learning that there is no cheap salt for sale, everyone spread the word to ten or ten, and soon everyone knew that there was no cheap salt for sale, and everyone rushed to the grocery store, fearing that it would be too late and they would not be able to buy it. to cheap salt.

The clerk in the grocery store has been very busy these days, talking dryly every day, constantly saying that the price of salt in their store will not rise, but no one believes it, and they still buy a lot of salt.The number of people queuing up every day, from the east of the city to the west of the city, is an exaggeration, but it is absolute that they can line up a whole street.However, in just a few days, people found that after more than ten days, the price of salt remained unchanged, and there were fewer people queuing up to buy salt.

At first, the salt merchants didn’t pay much attention to the imperial government’s setting of salt prices. Even when cheap salt was released, the salt merchants just thought that the imperial court was hoarding salt, and wanted to force them to lower the price. Several big salt merchants got together , the conclusion is that the price will not be lowered. The salt hoarded by the imperial court is likely to be saved when it was sent to the south to deliver salt. There will not be too much. When the stored salt is gone, the salt price is not what they say. When the matter of sending salt to the south was brought up, the salt merchants who had just settled down for a few days began to pinch each other, accusing each other of selling salt to the imperial court. Several people sat together to criticize, no one admitted that they gave salt to the imperial court, but no one believed it. This statement is true.

As the introduction of low-priced salt takes longer and longer, the salt merchants who could sit still and wait for the salt to be sold out have the confidence to say "the price of salt is what they say" before, and they are all anxious. How much salt did you store up?Several salt merchants have ordered the shopkeepers in various shops to lower the price of salt appropriately. It is impossible for them to lower the price of salt to match the imperial court's price.Although the cost of salt is not as high as the price, they earn too little at that price.The salt merchants thought that as long as they lowered the price, the imperial court would stop selling low-priced salt. They had a good idea, but the salt sent by the imperial court had already covered the entire girder.

In the first month after the imperial court set the salt price, the salt merchants could not lower the price, but as time went on, the salt merchants could no longer resist. From guessing that the imperial court hoarded salt, to whether the imperial court found out The new salt well, and the person who discovered the salt well is probably very close to the royal family, and may even be someone in the royal family, otherwise no one would foolishly give it to the royal family after discovering the salt well, even if they want to give it away. It may not be possible to find a way.The salt merchants who were connected with each other sat together again. This time, no one accused each other of selling salt to the court, but only discussed how to deal with the impact of the court's release of salt.

In Wang Xiujin's view, the tossing of the salt merchants was just a tossing, and they had to surrender in the end, otherwise their salt would not be sold. Salt can be stored for a long time, but in this era, from the well to the finished product The cost of running water required is not small. If the work is stopped, the losses will be even greater. In order to prevent the losses from expanding, the salt merchants can only cut prices everywhere.

Food prices have dropped, salt prices have dropped, housing prices in the capital are rising, but the prices of cloth products have not changed at all. The things that ordinary people care about are nothing more than basic necessities of life.Daliang made the people worry about food, and paved roads to major cities to make travel more convenient. The people praised the current emperor very well. If anyone said that the emperor was not good, the people would be able to Spray each other to death.A certain salt merchant had a literati before, and wrote an article that the emperor wanted to force the salt merchant to death. He didn’t know how to translate the article into vernacular and spread it. After hearing about it, the local people went to the door of the salt merchant to shout and scold. At that time, the salt merchant had some friendship with the local parents and officials. The yamen servants found him and wanted to take the people away, but they were scolded by the people.When this matter spread to the capital, the emperor directly assigned the parent official, and the salt merchant's family was also imprisoned for treason, but no blood was seen on the assigned one.

When Wang Xiujin heard Li Sushan mentioning this matter, he said with emotion that the people don't ask for much at all, a stable life, an emperor who loves the people, and a clear and fair parent official.Then he said that those yamen servants who wanted to take away the people "eat the king's salary, but did not relieve the king's worries, but became some people's lackeys."

Li Sushan only listened to what Wang Xiujin had to say, the yamen servants had followed the orders of the superiors, and if the superiors were clear, the yamen servants would not dare to act recklessly, they could only say that those yamen servants did not meet good officials.However, Li Sushan still told his grandfather what Wang Xiujin said the people wanted. Old General Li sighed after hearing the words. The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes can lead a good life.It's just that the simpler things are, the harder it is to do. The government orders, the government and businessmen interact, and the people suffer.

Wang Xiujin would not have thought of a casual sentence of emotion, which was relayed by Li Sushan to the old general, and then passed on from the old general to the ears of the emperor. It didn't take long for inspectors to appear in various places.Of course, Wang Xiujin didn't know about this. When this order was handed down, Wang Xiujin was in Liangzhou, busy checking and accepting the output of crabs and crab fields this year.As more and more crabs are farmed, the sales of crabs have also spread from the former capital to more places, and the price has not only not dropped, but has also risen a little.The price of crab rice is still very stable. The output is not as good as that of ordinary rice, but the price is much higher than that of ordinary rice.

I stayed in Liangzhou until the crab fields were harvested, and then I received a letter from the shopkeeper. This year, the crab rice is still a good harvest, and the budgeted rice will be kept. The remaining crab rice will be sent to the capital together with the crab rice sent to the palace.Looking at the time on the letter, Wang Xiujin calculated that Liangzhou was approaching, so he asked the shopkeeper of the Liangzhou Grain Shop to quickly count the rice that needed to be reserved, and the rest was loaded to the capital.

The food delivery team from Xiangcheng was escorted by the escort team specially formed by the shopkeeper. The escort team was just established this year. The shopkeeper invited some veterans from the oil workshop to help train. After Wang Xiujin learned about it, he specially gave these escorts a special Made a few clothes, and the treatment was far more than ordinary guys.The escort convoy is now not only transporting grain, but also peanut oil.Shopkeeper Yu was also praised by Wang Xiujin for escorting the convoy, rewarded him with a certain amount of money, and spread the matter to all Wang's grain stores.Shopkeeper Yu got the reward and became more motivated, and both the shopkeeper and the shopkeepers of his shop began to think of ideas on how to make the shop better.

After returning to the capital from Liangzhou and summarizing the grain in the three places, Wang Xiujin still felt that the grain was scarce and the speed of opening branch shops had to be slowed down.

After finishing the autumn harvest and making plans for next year, Wang Xiujin started to prepare to return to his hometown for the New Year.When Wang Xiujin was preparing things, he was summoned by the shopkeeper Mi.After a year of busy work, Wang Xiujin had already forgotten about the fact that shopkeeper Mi was going to Wangcun after passing by, and it was only when shopkeeper Mi mentioned it that he suddenly remembered that there was such a thing.Shopkeeper Mi called Wang Xiujin to come, mainly to set a time to go to Wangcun. You can’t travel far in the first month. Shopkeeper Mi is planning to go in February, and he is worried that it will delay the Wang family’s spring plowing when the farming season is busy.

Coming out of Shopkeeper Mi, Wang Xiujin felt that he was drifting when he walked. When he returned to Wangcun, Wang Xiujin hadn't decided whether he would stay until Shopkeeper Mi visited and return to Beijing with Shopkeeper Mi, or return to Beijing in advance.

After returning home, Wang Xiujin first mentioned to his parents about Shopkeeper Mi’s visit. Mrs. Wang looked at her son, feeling unhappy that his son would soon become someone else’s family. Still reluctant. "It's not that there are still several years."

Master Wang was not happy in his heart, but he knew that the emperor's fate was difficult. Since the emperor took the former emperor's joke of giving the marriage seriously, they could only obey, saying that the emperor trusted him, but in fact they were still afraid of the Li family. "It's better to make an order first."

Mrs. Wang glared at her husband, Mr. Wang said nothing, but let Mrs. Wang know that the matter has been settled.Mrs. Wang was talking about the shopkeeper Mi coming over, but there was no official invitation or anything like that.Wang Xiujin could only follow his mother's words. He knew that his mother had always felt that this marriage had caused him great grievances, and thought that if it could be delayed for a year, it would be a year.He can understand his mother's feelings. He also wants to tell his mother that marriage is not wronged. He likes men more, but he can't say that. After all, this is ancient times. Even if male wives are allowed, not everyone can accepted.

When the Li family gave the New Year's gift a year ago, a formal greeting card was handed to Mrs. Wang.Because shopkeeper Mi is coming to talk about the engagement, the Wang family has not been so happy this year, and the two children in the family dared to feel the atmosphere in the family. Wang Zhiyuan didn't pester his uncle like in previous years, and he was already able to leave. Wang Zhizhuo was very shy when facing his uncle, and he didn't want to get close to him.

When the first lunar month was about to leave, Wang Xiujin asked his mother if he needed to stay at home and wait for the rice shopkeeper.Mrs. Wang looked at her youngest son, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt distressed. What will happen to her youngest son when he grows old and has no descendants. "I want to be at home." Mrs. Wang spoke with a slightly trembling voice, and Wang Xiujin quickly squatted beside his mother, "Mother, don't do this. This is a good thing for me."