It’s so damn expensive! Liu Feng was secretly shocked.
One and a half taels of silver, if you add 40% tax, the cost will be one tael and nine cents of silver.
Manpower is required during the transportation process, and people are needed to sell the goods when they return.
According to the court's lowest price, there is basically no profit.
If the price goes higher, ordinary people will simply not be able to afford it.
What's more, the quality of this salt is extremely poor.
"Boss, with so many impurities, I'm afraid this can only be used as a snack for livestock."
Liu Feng grabbed a handful and looked at it carefully, trying to lower the price.
Liu Feng now has a lot of silver. He took out more than 5,000 from Tingyu Pavilion, and there is also a reward of 1,500 vehicles for suppressing bandits.
After paying for his expenses before going out, he still had more than 6,000 silver coins.
This amount of silver can't buy much coarse salt.
"Can humans eat it?"
"Young man, look at the world we live in. Humans and animals are no different. Sometimes, humans are even worse than animals."
“There’s not much difference between what humans eat and what livestock eat.”
"Young man, don't think that just because you're a salt merchant you can be compassionate."
"In this world, it's good enough to be able to get out of it."
The shopkeeper chuckled, his eyes full of contempt.
"So, what if I took this entire mountain of salt?"
"Could you give me a discount, boss?"
"The whole mountain, young man, that's no joke."
"Boss, tell me the price."
"The coarse salt here can be 1 liang 4 qian for a single order of more than 2,000 dan."
The shopkeeper was not lying, because he had more than 2,000 stones of coarse salt stored in the salt fields and had not yet sold them.
The boss is worried.
With such a great guy taking over, why not do it?
Of course, Liu Feng didn't really want the entire salt field, that was unrealistic.
He calculated his mother's funds.
It will be enough if you can come up with more than three thousand taels of silver.
The rest of the money has to feed so many mouths.
Now he finally understood why those heroes in ancient times always worried about food and supplies when fighting for the world.
They even resorted to digging up people's ancestral graves to raise food and fodder.
It is really difficult. The current size of the army has reached about 1,500 people. The amount of grains and rice consumed every day is not a small amount, and there is also material for horses.
If Mu Wanqing hadn't checked the account book every day, it would have been difficult to ensure it.
Liu Feng thought about it carefully.
"Well, let me take 2,500 stones of coarse salt first."
The shopkeeper looked at Liu Feng with disbelief.
This is more than three thousand taels of silver, which is not a small amount for a small salt merchant who has just obtained the documents.
Did I misjudge this person?
Yantian doesn't owe any debts.
Such a large amount of silver is not a fixed asset, but completely liquid capital.
"Okay, okay..."
Seeing that Liu Feng already had the banknote in his hand, the shopkeeper immediately became excited. This was a big deal.
The boss didn't even send her a girl to reward him. This one deal is equivalent to the total shipment of crude salt in previous years.
"Boss, please forgive my poor eyesight. If you don't want the business, we will go and write the contract right away."
How could he not be excited?
With a population of tens of millions, the annual salt consumption of Dali is an astronomical figure, most of which is sea salt.
Youzhou's production is negligible in the overall environment.
Take their salt fields for example, the annual output is between 6,000 and 8,000. Even if all the salt fields in Youzhou are added together, the annual output will not be 70,000.
These data were all heard from Zhou Wanggui, the Salt and Iron Commissioner.
Take this salt field for example. There are about 2,000 tons of fine salt in it, and the rest is coarse salt. However, even for the coarse salt, the people are frugal and the annual consumption is less than the output.
Therefore, there is always inventory of crude salt from the salt fields every year.
So what Liu Feng took away at once was equivalent to the amount of salt used by the entire Youzhou people.
However, even though the price is a little cheaper, Yantian does not invest much in the entire production and shipping process, so Yantian is still the most profitable.
If all of them are sold at a price of more than two taels of silver, the profit from selling all of the more than 2,000 stones is about one thousand taels.
But this is just the gross profit. If we ignore other costs...
Now we can understand why the shopkeeper was so surprised when Liu Feng bought so much coarse salt.
That’s because other salt merchants wouldn’t dare to take salt this way.
However, the shopkeeper would never have imagined that once these salts fell into Liu Feng's hands, he would eventually make an immeasurable amount of money.
Liu Feng has figured out how fine salt comes from, and whether it is made from coarse salt. How can the salt field's purification technology compare with his?
After returning, with his high technology, he could reprocess the salt and divide it into four categories: first-class, second-class, and third-class salt for people to eat. The worst fourth-class salt could also be used to feed livestock.
While Liu Feng was packing up the contracts, he arranged for Wu Santong to go to the city to hire an ox cart. When the horse-drawn carriages came, Chen Buyi took the family members' belongings and took them back.
More than two thousand stones of edible salt is not a small amount, and it requires too many vehicles.
With the joint efforts of the salt field workers and the escorts, Liu Feng took several hours to load all the edible salt into the truck.
At this time, the Tiger Roar Army had just finished packing up. After the two groups met, they returned to the base camp in Siwa Village in a mighty manner.
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