With a "click" sound.
After Sun Ren recovered, he carefully locked the warehouse door.
After locking the door, he reached out and pulled the lock twice, fearing that it was not locked.
Looking at the small lock hanging on the huge warehouse door, he always felt insecure.
Thinking of Shen Yong asking him to hand over the warehouse key to Zhang Wenyuan, Sun Ren hurriedly ran towards the accounting office.
If he didn't give the key to Zhang Wenyuan, he would be unable to sleep or eat, fearing that he might accidentally lose everything in the warehouse...
......
"What!!?"
Zhang Wenyuan stood up in shock, staring at Sun Ren with wide eyes.
"3 million kilograms of salt and 300,000 kilograms of sugar?"
"Are you kidding me?"
This was really exciting. He was just wondering whether he should go to the Fire Phoenix Country to get some salt, and then he got such surprising news.
You know, if merchants from the Great Celestial Empire go to the Fire Phoenix Kingdom to buy salt, they will really be ripped off.
The price of salt sold to them by the Fire Phoenix Nation was three times higher than the price paid by the Great Celestial Empire.
That's not just eating salt, it's eating gold.
It was just 3 million kilograms of salt, he still found it hard to believe.
This is too much. Who in the whole great country can produce so much salt at once?
It exploded, it really exploded.
"How can I lie to you about this?" Sun Ren glanced at Zhang Wenyuan.
"Here's the key to the warehouse. Here you are."
Zhang Wenyuan looked at the keys spread out in Sun Ren's hand and hurriedly ran out from the desk.
"Ouch~"
Running too fast, Zhang Wenyuan's thigh was hit by the corner of the table, and he shuddered in pain.
He ignored the pain in his thigh and ran towards Sun Ren with a painful and excited expression.
"Where is the warehouse? Take me there quickly."
Zhang Wenyuan grabbed the key from Sun Ren's hand and urged him.
Just as Zhang Wenyuan was pulling Sun Ren out, Wang Tongzhi and Li Shiye came in with sad faces.
"Master Zhang~"
Master Li looked at Zhang Wenyuan and frowned slightly.
It looked like Zhang Wenyuan was about to go out, luckily they arrived in time.
Otherwise you will be empty-handed.
It means that the three of them jointly manage the accounts of the entire city, but the accounts of silver and money are all managed by Zhang Wenyuan alone, while the other miscellaneous accounts are all handed over to them.
Anyone who wanted to withdraw a copper coin had to get Zhang Wenyuan's approval.
This guy is very careful with the money, and no one can cheat him.
When Zhang Wenyuan saw the two people who suddenly came back, he immediately suppressed his excitement and looked at them calmly.
"Master Li, Wang Notice, what happened?"
As soon as he saw the expressions of the two men, he knew that something bad was going to happen.
But now, no matter what bad news he hears, it will not affect his mood.
What news can surpass the great event of 3 million kilograms of salt?
Even if the king of heaven comes, the 3 million kilograms of salt are more important.
This is almost the same as 3 million taels of gold, especially here at the border, where salt is even more valuable.
Wang Tongzhi pursed his lips and looked at Master Li.
Master Li sighed deeply.
"We must arrange for someone to bring back some illegal salt with two silver coins."
"With so many people in the city, even if we save the salt, it can only last for another half a month."
"In half a month, the whole city will face a situation where there is no salt to eat. If this continues for a long time, it will cause trouble."
"Without salt, the people have no strength at all. The construction of the city wall has obviously slowed down in the past few days."
"Yeah." Wang Tongzhi frowned and agreed, "I've been feeling listless these past few days, and I sometimes feel dizzy. It's probably because I haven't smoked."
He initially thought there was something wrong with his body, but after walking around the city, he discovered that many people had the same symptoms as him.
Is there any need to ask? There's no need to see a doctor. It must be because he didn't eat salt.
When Zhang Wenyuan heard that the two were talking about salt, his expression suddenly relaxed and he couldn't help laughing.
Master Li and Wang Tongzhi were both stunned when they saw Zhang Wenyuan suddenly laughing.
Why did he suddenly burst into laughter?
Could it be that there's something wrong with my brain because I haven't eaten much salt for a long time?
Master Li frowned and looked at Zhang Wenyuan who kept laughing, and asked carefully,
"Master Zhang, are you alright?"
Everything was fine just now, but as soon as the salt and silver were mentioned, it became like this.
Don't you want to give them money?
Lord Zhang is indeed careful with his finances, but he wouldn't go crazy if he withdrew 10,000 taels of silver.
Besides, this silver is used to buy salt, and you can't actually buy much private salt.
“Three dan of rice and one jin of salt” is not just talk.
Three dan (about 300 kilograms) of rice can only be exchanged for one kilogram of salt. This has happened before in places like theirs that are far away from salt-producing areas.
Three dan of rice usually costs one or two taels of silver. Now that the drought is so severe, if the price doubles, it is considered that the merchants have a conscience. The unscrupulous ones will increase the price four or five times.
If rice is expensive, salt will only be more expensive.
If you can buy 3,000 kilograms of salt with 10,000 taels of silver, it would be considered a profit.
They discussed and decided to arrange more people to go out and buy salt in batches.
This saves you from buying 3,000 kilograms of salt at once and being targeted by others.
"No...it's okay."
Zhang Wenyuan smiled and waved his hand gently, then took a deep breath and tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were about to rise.
"Speaking of salt, you don't need to spend money to buy it. After all, silver is needed everywhere now, and the few silver coins in the treasury can no longer cover daily expenses."
King Qianhuang actually sent so much salt this time. It would be a shame if we don’t take advantage of this opportunity to sell some of it to enrich the treasury!
A full 3 million kilograms, enough to feed the entire city's residents for two years.
Selling a little to replenish the treasury shouldn't have much of an impact.
Master Li, who was standing aside, stared at Zhang Wenyuan with a puzzled look on his face and asked in confusion,
"Why not?"
In his opinion, how could he buy these precious salt without using silver?
Do we have to use tough measures to snatch it away directly?
Well...that doesn't seem to be a problem.
Anyway, King Qianhuang has already started a rebellion, so stealing some salt from other cities is not a big deal.
However, if you think about it carefully, the place where they are is extremely far away from the salt production area, and they have to pass through many cities and checkpoints on the way. Even if they really succeed in robbing the salt, it would probably be difficult to bring it back safely.
Besides, there is no need to consider going to nearby cities to steal salt.
Because they are extremely short of salt resources, and the two cities adjacent to Bailong City are not much better, and are also facing a serious salt shortage.
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