Zhang Hengkun agreed immediately, and Zhou Bin announced a rule: "Listen, you are not allowed to tell anyone about today's salt-making method, otherwise, don't blame me for turning my back on you!"
All the servants and boys said they dared not reveal it, so Zhou Bin let everyone go back to their work.
The reason why Zhou Bin did this was that he was afraid that if the news got outside, it would immediately attract the covetousness of outsiders, which would be bad.
In this way, after three days of preparation, a secret salt-making workshop was built.
Zhou Bin asked the city defense army to form a guard team to personally protect the safety of the salt workshop. Anyone working inside was paid high wages and was protected.
In this way, even if their Baijiang City has a money-making machine, the future income will be continuous.
At the same time, Zhou Bin ordered that for local people, the salt they produced themselves would be sold at one copper coin per kilogram, and for outsiders, it would be sold according to market prices.
A month later, their workshop produced 3,000 kilograms of salt, which immediately met the needs of ordinary people in the entire Baijiang City.
Seeing that the quality of the salt was so good, Zhang Hengkun hurried to find Zhou Bin.
Zhou Bin was getting a little bored living in the City Lord's Mansion, so he planned to go back to Lao Miao Town and live for a while.
Zhang Hengkun came over and asked for more manpower and expansion of the scale.
Zhou Bin smiled and said, "Old Zhang, didn't I say that from now on, you will be in charge of Baijiang City's affairs. As for me, I'm used to a lazy life. You can decide for yourself."
Zhang Hengkun was very excited. He didn't expect the city lord to trust him so much. He went back immediately to start preparing.
Zhou Bin settled the affairs of the city defense army, then turned around and returned to Lao Miao Town.
In fact, over the past month, everyone in Lao Miao Town knew about Zhou Bin's affairs.
But Zhou Bin hasn't come back yet, and everyone is looking forward to his return.
As soon as Zhou Bin arrived at the town entrance that day, he saw that all the men, women, young and old in the town had arrived.
Everyone was in high spirits and stood on the roadside to welcome Zhou Bin.
As soon as Zhou Bin appeared, everyone knelt on the ground and congratulated Zhou Bin on becoming the lord of Baijiang City.
Han Jinshu, in particular, led everyone in shouting, "Congratulations to the commander-in-chief for being promoted to the Lord of Baijiang City! Welcome home, Lord!"
Zhou Bin felt a warm feeling in his heart, and hurried forward to help Han Jinshu up, and asked everyone else to get up, saying there was no need to be so polite.
Everyone surrounded Zhou Bin and came to the restaurant, where they held a grand welcoming banquet for him.
After dinner, Zhou Bin returned to his own residence.
The servants in the mansion were all very happy to see Zhou Bin come back. The room where he lived had already been cleaned and everything was prepared.
As soon as Zhou Bin returned to the Commander's Mansion, he felt relaxed and comfortable.
I don’t know why, but he still likes living here. It feels like home.
Not long after he sat down on the chair, Han Ruyun came over with the lotus seed soup she had prepared.
He came specially to deliver lotus seed soup to Brother Zhou. After not seeing each other for more than a month, Han Ruyun's face had a light blush, making her look even more shy and beautiful.
Zhou Bin took the lotus seed soup from her, and Han Ruyun asked him about his situation over the past month.
Zhou Bin gave a brief answer, and Han Ruyun was very happy to hear it.
In her heart, Brother Zhou became even more powerful and had actually become the master of Baijiang City.
Zhou Bin always treated her with courtesy, which made Han Ruyun happy and a little disappointed.
After coming out of the Commander's Mansion, Han Ruyun's two little faces turned red like apples.
In fact, her longing for Zhou Bin had reached an unbearable level, so she ran to see him before Zhou Bin had a rest.
Although Zhou Bin was quite enthusiastic towards her, he was never that close to her, which made Han Ruyun feel a little disappointed.
But she was still very happy in her heart. She finally saw Brother Zhou again, which made her feel better immediately.
Han Ruyun had actually been feeling a little depressed recently, but now it had finally eased.
After Han Ruyun left, Zhou Bin actually had some feelings in his heart. He felt that Han Ruyun seemed more enthusiastic this time, and the look in her eyes when she looked at him was more passionate.
Zhou Bin was a little scared. What would happen if this continued?
But he didn't have any good solution, he could only take it one step at a time.
In this way, Zhou Bin returned to Lao Miao Town and lived there for a month.
Zhou Bin lived a relaxed and comfortable life during this month.
On this day, Zhou Bin was resting in the commander's mansion when suddenly a soldier from the city defense army came to report, holding a letter in his hand.
Zhou Bin unfolded it and found that it was written by Zhang Hengkun. He told Zhou Bin that they had produced 6,000 kilograms of refined salt and would start selling it soon.
He hoped that Zhou Bin could personally attend their sales ceremony to increase the momentum of Baijiang City.
After reading the letter, Zhou Bin told the soldiers that he would be there the next day.
The next day, Zhou Bin set out and returned to Baijiang City.
As soon as he arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, Zhang Hengkun was already waiting for him with several salt shop owners.
Seeing him coming, everyone bowed hurriedly.
Zhou Bin smiled and said, "No need to be polite, everyone. Tell me what you are going to do about this matter."
Zhang Hengkun then introduced their plan. They planned to open all the salt shops in the city early tomorrow morning and sell salt to other towns.
The current price is twelve copper coins per catty, which is the same as the price of salt in Yulu City.
Zhou Bin nodded and said, "Okay, let's do as you say. I'll go and cheer you on tomorrow."
Several people left happily, and the next day, the salt from Baijiang City was officially opened to the outside cities.
After breakfast early in the morning, people from all walks of life came into the city in an endless stream.
In fact, half a month ago, Zhang Hengkun and his team had sent people out to inform the surrounding towns of the news.
At first they didn't believe it because they had never heard that Baijiang City produced salt.
However, word spread among the surrounding towns that the quality of salt from Baijiang City was excellent, much better than that from Yulu City.
So many people rushed over, intending to take a look at the real appearance of Baijiang City's salt.
Especially when Shangguan Qingping, the mayor of Yulu City, heard the news, he was stunned. He couldn't believe that someone was actually stealing his business!
You know, their Yulu City makes a lot of money from the mineral salt they dig. It would be terrible if their business was really taken away by someone.
So he led his men and rushed over early. He wanted to see what the salt in Baijiang City looked like.
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