Early in the morning, the autumn weather was clear and the sky was cloudless.
Baijiang City was crowded and bustling, with guests from all directions pouring into the streets of Baijiang City.
Because today is the day when Baijiang City's salt is officially sold to the public, everyone wants to see the quality of Baijiang City's salt.
Previously, their salt was only sold to local people, and they did not announce that the salt was produced in Baijiang City.
The locals were a little curious as to why the quality of the salt was much better this time.
Everyone was very grateful and felt that the city lord had done a good thing for them.
It was not until today when people from all over came that the locals realized that all the salt was produced by themselves.
Now everyone was very happy, as they no longer had to worry about having salt.
In order to ensure that the preferential policies for local people would not be taken advantage of by those people, Zhang Hengkun stipulated that each household could purchase a maximum of five kilograms of salt per month, and any more would have to be purchased at market price.
In addition, anyone who purchases discounted salt must sign and seal their name each time. If they resell the salt to others for profit, they will be punished immediately and will never be able to enjoy local preferential policies again.
Through these measures, no local dared to sell the salt they bought to others.
This means that all outsiders have never seen the true appearance of Baijiang salt, so everyone is very curious.
After a while, the Baijiang salt selling ceremony officially began, and the venue was chosen at Lijia Salt Shop, the largest salt shop in Baijiang City.
Zhou Bin, Zhang Hengkun, managers from various fields in the city, and representatives of salt merchants all gathered in front of Li’s Salt Shop.
The surrounding area was already filled with fireworks and firecrackers, and the lion and dragon dance teams were ready.
Zhang Hengkun came forward and said, "Dear guests, dear fellow villagers, our Baijiang City's salt is officially on sale today! Our salt price is fair and reasonable, and the quality is excellent. Now, please let City Lord Zhou reveal the price of salt to us!"
As he was speaking, the sound of enthusiastic firecrackers rang out, the lion and dragon dance teams began to dance, and gongs and drums joined in the support. Zhou Bin personally unwrapped the price list covered with red cloth.
When everyone saw that salt cost twelve copper coins per pound, they immediately started to make a commotion.
This price is actually the same as that of Yulucheng! I don’t know what the quality of the salt is.
When Shangguan Qingping, the Lord of Yulu City, saw the price, he was shocked. Since the price was the same as his own, he would be in trouble in the future.
He couldn't help but feel worried, but he hadn't seen the salt yet, so he didn't know what the quality was like.
Therefore, he patiently waited for the next step. After a while, Zhang Hengkun continued to announce: "Now, please ask City Lord Zhou to open the red cloth and let everyone taste our salt!"
Zhou Bin reached out and untied the red cloth in front of him, and a pile of snow-white salt appeared in front of everyone.
Everyone would have been fine if they hadn't looked at it, but once they did, they were all stunned. This salt looked so good! It was so white, much better looking than the salt from Yulu City!
Shangguan Qingping was stunned when he saw it. He didn't expect that the quality of their salt was so good!
When other customers saw the pile of salt, their eyes lit up because the quality of the salt was so good!
Zhou Bin arranged for these merchants to start tasting the salt. After tasting it, everyone was excited. The taste of this salt was simply amazing, much better than the salt in Yulu City.
So everyone started to ask to buy salt. Zhang Hengkun told everyone that there were only 4,000 kilograms of salt available at present, and there were too many people who wanted to buy, so they could only draw lots.
When everyone heard this, they thought that there were only 4,000 kilograms of such good salt, which was really too little.
But since they had already said we should draw lots, I had no choice but to do it.
After a round of drawing lots, only four towns, Minghu City, Qianshan City, Beidi City and Yulu City, were qualified to purchase.
Each town can purchase one thousand kilograms, and the rest can only wait until the next opening time to buy.
The people from these four cities signed the documents and paid the money without hesitation, and then went to haul salt.
The others who didn’t buy were all very anxious and kept asking when they could come back to buy.
Zhang Hengkun didn't expect the demand to be so strong, and he didn't dare to confirm the time for a while.
Zhou Bin told everyone to come back to buy in half a month and he would guarantee that everyone would get at least 1,000 kilograms.
Now everyone was happy, and the merchants left one after another.
When Zhang Hengkun returned to the City Lord's Mansion, he was a little worried. They could only produce 6,000 kilograms of salt a month now. How could they make it in half a month?
Zhou Bin told him: "There is nothing to worry about. Find more people and build more stoves. Make all your efforts to make salt. Don't waste time. Also, increase everyone's wages by 50% to ensure that everyone is motivated."
When Zhang Hengkun heard this, he thought the city lord was a man of courage, so he immediately did as he was told.
Soon, more stoves and more people were added to the salt-making workshop, and everyone began to work busily.
This time alone, 4,000 kilograms of salt were sold for nearly 50,000 copper coins, which was a very considerable income.
If this continues, Baijiang City will soon have more income, and then we can do other things without worrying about money.
Zhou Bin was in a good mood and asked everyone to work at full capacity and speed up production so as not to miss the deadline.
Zhang Hengkun simply stayed in the workshop and supervised everyone working day and night.
Soon, half a month passed and the merchants came again, but this time Zhang Hengkun was more confident.
Because in the past half month, everyone worked day and night and produced 10,000 kilograms of salt, which definitely met the needs of customers.
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