The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 479 Yangzhou Sensation
What is the cost price of a pound of salt?Less than ten texts at most.

Because sun salt is very cheap, there is basically no cost except labor.

One stone salt is 120 catties, calculated according to ten Wen per catty, one stone salt is about one or two yuan.

Thirty-five thousand stones of official salt, the total cost is 4 taels of silver.

However, Yangzhou salt merchants, as wholesalers and the main sellers of private salt, naturally want to make huge profits, so they often increase their sales by five or eight times.

Even if it is five times, that is 21 taels of silver.

But this patrol inspector Chen was even more ruthless, abruptly increasing the price of salt, which cost only one or two yuan, by twenty times.

A full 84 million taels of silver.

You must know that this batch of private salt originally belonged to Liu Qingyun, but Chen Zhao intercepted it, and he has lost 4 taels.

According to the businessman's urine calculation, it was because he did not sell it that he lost 21 taels of silver.

Now I have to buy it back with 84 taels of silver.

Even if he is selling it himself, he can only sell it out at the price of [-] taels, [-] taels a stone.

If the selling price is too high, those retailers from all over the place, that is, local snakes everywhere, will not pay a single penny.

There are so many salt merchants in Yangzhou, why only buy from your Liu family?
In other words, as long as he repurchases this batch of salt, no matter how he handles it, he will lose several 10 taels of silver.

This is hundreds of thousands, not tens of taels.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingyun looked at Chen Zhao like a murderous hungry wolf.

As the saying goes, cutting off someone's money is like killing one's parents.

At this moment, Liu Qingyun wished to cut Chen Zhao into pieces.

"What's the matter? The price offered by the official is so fair and reasonable. Does Patriarch Liu not like it?" Chen Zhao snorted lightly, with a half-smile on his face.

"Don't dare." Liu Qingyun was so shocked that he didn't dare to speak.

He was not a fool. Since he had seen with his own eyes, Chen Zhao lifted a thousand-jin stone lion with his own hands, and then smashed the door of his Liu family into pieces with a wave of his hand. How could Liu Qingyun dare to refuse this kind of terrifying force?
He had already heard last night that this guy named Chen Zhao rushed into the private salt team and killed countless brave people with a single swing. They were directly terrified.

Facing such a murderous demon king, what else could he, Liu Qingyun, do besides lying down and being a small boy?
Forget it, isn't it a loss of several 10 taels of silver?
He can afford to lose.

As long as he doesn't provoke the old man in front of him to get angry and tear down his house into a mess, he will be Amitabha.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingyun's waist became even lower: "Master Chen's sale price is too reasonable, and the little old man only sighs that it is fair and reasonable. But 84 taels of silver is not really a small amount, and wait for the little old man to give it a few days to raise money." How about it?"

"Are you kidding me?" Chen Zhao's complexion sank slightly: "It is said that the salt merchants in Yangzhou are as rich as a country, with a mere 80 silver, which is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for you! Besides, if you give you a few days, the people in the north and south of the river will lose money." If you have delayed eating salt for a few days, what if the people have something good or bad?"

"Yes yes yes! What Master Chen said is that the little old man will immediately raise money." Liu Qingyun didn't dare to show any strength.

"Well, I'll be waiting at the Yamen."

After finishing speaking, Chen Zhao waved his hand, jumped on the horse, and rode away.

Looking at his back going away, Liu Qingyun's complexion turned red and turned pale, gnashed his teeth for a while, showed fear in his eyes for a while, and remained silent for a while.

One of his sons quietly came up to him and whispered: "Dad, this Chen Zhao is so arrogant. We can't follow his wishes. Why don't we spend some money and find someone to do it for him... Oops!"

"Snapped!"

Before his son finished speaking, Liu Qingyun slapped his son across the face, staggered his son, and shouted angrily: "Are you letting our family be ruined earlier? This is a demon, can you afford it? Hurry up!" Go and get the wrong taels!"

After finishing speaking, he walked into the door angrily.

It has to be said that Yangzhou salt merchants are as rich as a country, and that is true.

More than 80 taels of silver were placed on the princes and ministers in the capital, and they might not be able to get it out all at once.

But the Liu family has been a salt merchant in Yangzhou for many years, and the money they have saved is even more invaluable. In the afternoon, when they applied for time, they managed to scrape together more than 80 taels of silver.

There are nearly 200 horse-drawn carriages, and the main street of Xunyan Yushi Yamen is completely blocked.

Carloads and crates of silver were sent to the government treasury, and the white flowers sparkled everyone's eyes.

Even Lin Ruhai, the official censor, put down his body and came to watch in person. Seeing this scene, he twitched his beard for a long time without saying a word, turned around and left with a sigh.

It wasn't just the Xunyan Yushi Yamen that caused a sensation, but the entire city of Yangzhou was also sensationalized.

In the afternoon, countless people were stuck at the intersection, pointing and saying everything.

That night, a group of Yangzhou salt merchants were sitting in a lobby of a deep house two streets away from Yushi Yamen, all of whom were speechless.

The decoration in the lobby is extravagant, resplendent in gold and jade, carved beams and painted buildings are just waiting for you.

Gold traces silver, water grinds and carves finely.

They all show their kung fu in the corners that are not eye-catching.

Perhaps it is just like this that people will discover the amazing things inadvertently.

And such a luxury, without dozens or even hundreds of years of accumulated management, I'm afraid it can't be done.

It's just that everyone in the hall doesn't seem to care about these things, or they've gotten used to them.

Because these people are the real masters of Yangzhou City.

They are the top ten salt merchants in Yangzhou.

The prosperity of Yangzhou City stems from the salt industry.

From paving roads and building bridges to supporting the widowed and lonely elderly, almost all salt merchants are involved.

These salt merchants in Yangzhou City have won the hearts of the citizens by doing good deeds in the city, and they are indeed good people.

But compared to the people all over the world, they mixed sand, gravel and soil into the salt to raise the price and sell private salt.But it harms the interests of the people all over the world.

The fact is like this, I dare not say the whole world, but at least the people in Yangzhou know that those big salt merchants in the Salt Merchant Guild are all the top private salt dealers in private.

In the eyes of the people in Yangzhou City, the Salt Industry Guild is the sky of Yangzhou City.

The meeting here today is the top ten salt merchants.

At this time, the representatives of the top ten salt merchants were all unhappy.

But in fact, most of the people are pretending. The only one who is really unhappy is the Liu family who is at the bottom of the list, that is, Liu Qingyun.

Even Zhao Haonan's father, Zhao Shanhe, the head of the salt merchant who had contact with Chen Zhao, seemed unhappy, but in fact he didn't care at all.

I only heard Liu Qingyun say: "Little brother killed a big somersault this time, and the strong men under him were scared out of their wits, unable to fight back at all, so I want to discuss with everyone present how to deal with this situation."

It was Liu Qingyun who spoke.

This big salt merchant who acted resolutely in front of his own family and bent himself down in front of Chen Zhao could only sit at the bottom in front of this group of salt merchants.

"Everyone, the so-called cold lips and cold teeth, the Yangzhou Yushi Yamen took me as a target today, and tomorrow they will raise their knives at you. If everyone doesn't work together to find a way to get through this situation, I'm afraid we will end up badly!"

Liu Qingyun continued.

The others remained silent.

Nonsense, over the years, the prices of salt merchants in Yangzhou have fluctuated one after another, will there be some salt merchants who bet on the wrong treasure?

After all, the profit of salt merchants is too great, and there are too many people staring at them. If they do something wrong, they will be surrounded by all directions.

Who knows if you, Liu Qingyun, offended that terrific big shot and were targeted by Lin Ruhai?
Maybe someone kills your family and supports another family?
In this case, why should we help you?
What if you annoy the boss behind and implicate us?
Just when Liu Qingyun was speechless, Zhao Shanhe spoke:

"Everyone, Qingyun is right, the so-called dead lips and teeth are so cold! The Liu family suffered such a big loss this time, and the entire Yangzhou city was shocked. If the Liu family collapsed, Lin Ruhai and Chen Zhao's eyes would not know who they were staring at. We can't Sitting still, we must find a way to get rid of this Chen Zhao!"

(End of this chapter)