Zhou Bin was very surprised: "Huh? Why can't it be solved?"

Zhang Hengkun replied: "City Lord, do you know where our salt comes from?"

Zhou Bin shook his head, and Zhang Hengkun told him that the salt was imported from the neighboring Yulu City, and that they did not produce salt locally.

Yulu City has recently significantly increased the price of salt, causing the cost of salt to soar, so it is very difficult for them to buy salt there.

In addition, there are several surrounding cities competing with them, which leads to further increase in the price of salt in Yulu City.

Therefore, he is almost unable to get salt from there. Not to mention lowering the price, even whether it can be supplied normally is still a problem.

After listening to Zhang Hengkun, Zhou Bin was very surprised: "Oh? Really? Salt is in short supply here?"

"Yes, salt is indeed twelve copper coins per pound now, but if you lower the price, you can only reduce it to ten copper coins per pound at most. There is nothing you can do to reduce it further." Zhang Hengkun said in embarrassment.

Zhou Bin shook his head after hearing this: "Reduced to ten copper coins? That won't be very useful! Look at those people, even five copper coins are hard for them to afford, let alone ten copper coins."

Zhang Hengkun sighed, "City Lord, our Baijiang City is located in a remote area, and we are poor and economically depressed. We can't compare with other wealthy towns, so we are in a difficult situation now!"

Zhou Bin knew that what Zhang Hengkun said was probably true. He had heard a long time ago that their Baijiang City was the most remote county town in the entire Wulong City, with a very backward economy and everyone's life was extremely hard.

But he didn't expect that even the salt he eats has become a problem now. This is obviously a bit exaggerated.

Thinking of this, Zhou Bin asked, "How much salt do we have left?"

Zhang Hengkun immediately replied: "We only have 3,000 kilograms of salt in stock now."

Zhou Bin nodded: "Okay, I'll sell these 3,000 kilograms of salt to everyone at one copper coin per kilogram."

Zhang Hengkun was stunned when he heard this: "What? You said you want to sell it to them for one copper coin per pound? We bought it for ten copper coins per pound. Isn't this a big loss?"

Zhou Bin knew that Zhang Hengkun was a businessman who liked to do the math. He smiled and said, "You just like to do the math. Don't you see that everyone is going to have trouble surviving? Think long-term."

"But, but if we do this, we will continue to lose money, and the hole will become bigger and bigger." Zhang Hengkun still tried to persuade Zhou Bin.

Zhou Bin glared at him and said, "I have my own way to deal with the rest. Go and do it!"

When Zhang Hengkun saw that Zhou Bin was angry, he was so scared that he dared not say anything and hurried to handle it.

He secretly sighed in his heart, this new city lord is really young! He wanted to be a good person, but this was not the way to be one.

If this continues, their Baijiang City will go bankrupt sooner or later.

But he dared not disobey the city lord's words, so he had to convey the city lord's wishes to everyone.

Those poor people and Old Man Chen were kneeling outside anxiously, when suddenly the Deputy City Lord Zhang Hengkun came out.

He glanced at everyone and announced loudly: "Fellow villagers, our new city owner sympathizes with your difficult life and has decided to sell salt to you at the price of one copper coin per pound!"

When Old Man Chen heard this, he was startled and asked, "Sir, are you telling the truth?"

Zhang Hengkun said loudly: "Of course it's true, you can go to the salt shop to buy salt tomorrow."

When Old Man Chen heard this, he shouted with joy on the spot, and everyone cheered along with him.

"Thank you, sir, we are saved!"

"Sir, you are our savior!"

"Sir, you are a living Bodhisattva. We thank you!"

Everyone's cheers almost shook the door down. Zhang Hengkun hurriedly said, "Don't thank me. This is all thanks to the city lord. You should thank him."

Everyone turned to look for the city lord, and Zhou Bin happened to come out.

Everyone then swarmed over to thank Zhou Bin again. Zhou Bin comforted everyone with a few words and let them go back first.

He then arranged for Zhang Hengkun to issue a notice to inform everyone that the price of salt had become one copper coin per pound.

Zhang Hengkun said a little worriedly: "City Lord, there is something I am not sure whether I should tell you or not."

Zhou Bin smiled and said, "If you have any questions, just ask.

Zhang Hengkun said, "City Lord, we only have 3,000 kilograms of salt at the moment. If the price is so low, I'm afraid some people will take the opportunity to stock up, and some people won't be able to buy it. Isn't that bad?"

Zhou Bin smiled and said, "You are right. It is clearly written on the notice that we only have 3,000 kilograms of salt at the moment. Each person is only allowed to buy half a kilogram of salt. We will not sell more than that. And we must make it clear that our salt is limited and it is on a first-come, first-served basis until it is sold out."

When Zhang Hengkun heard this, he thought it was the same as what he thought, so he immediately went to do it.

After Zhang Hengkun left, Zhou Bin returned to the City Lord's Mansion.

He was actually thinking in his mind that he could temporarily solve everyone’s needs this time, but what should he do in the future?

After all, eating salt is not a matter of one or two days. If the price in Yulu City continues to rise, they will not be able to hold on.

In the end, aren’t we all still facing this problem?

This matter is really difficult to handle. Even though he has some private money, it is not enough even if all these treasures are taken out.

Zhou Bin thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with any good solution, so he had to go back to his room to rest.

The next day, Zhou Bin had something on his mind, so he went out for a walk alone.

Since not many people knew him, Zhou Bin was able to wander around freely and happily.

He quickly left the city and arrived outside Baijiang City.

Suddenly, a big river in the distance caught Zhou Bin's attention. This river should be the Baijiang River that everyone is talking about.

As for why it was called Bai Jiang, he didn't know either.

Zhou Bin walked to the front of Baijiang River and saw the wide water surface rushing down, which was very spectacular.

When he arrived at the shore, he found a strange phenomenon: both sides of the river were bare, with almost no plants growing.

Zhou Bin thought this was very strange. Generally speaking, there would be lush aquatic plants on the river bank, but why were there only bare mud on both sides of this river?

Zhou Bin came over and took a closer look, and found that there were some tiny white residues all over the soil, which seemed to be shining in the sun.