"Think about it, brine is silver. Why would they need to refine it again and spend all this manpower and resources?"
"It's done. The output of fine salt is still very small."
"That's the nature of businessmen. Silver comes first."
Wu Santong nodded and understood this.
"Now that you've spent so much money, what are you going to do next? If you continue processing, how long will it take to earn back the money?"
Wu San Tong felt heartbroken when he thought about so much silver.
Liu Feng smiled and stretched out a finger.
"One year, or one month?"
"This is too slow."
Wu San Tong took a deep breath.
Wu Santong couldn't understand how he could make money even if he could recover the costs.
But think about it, salt is a necessity. Although the quantity sold each time is small, it is always sold.
There is so much salt that it would take a year or two to sell it all.
But Liu Feng shook his head silently.
"It'll only take three months."
Wu San Tong's expression eased a little now. If calculated this way, the investment would be recovered by April or May.
It takes about three months for the funds to flow back. This means that the funds flow back very quickly.
The escort agency's money-making speed is far slower than Liu Feng's.
Liu Feng still shook his head.
My father-in-law is good in every way.
“In fact, if sales really take off, it won’t take three months.”
"How long is that? A month?"
Wu San Tong hesitated for a moment and said this almost impossible number.
Liu Feng didn't want to keep the secret with his father-in-law any longer.
"It's very simple, just ten days."
The three months mentioned before include processing time.
Wu San Tong was stunned.
Ten days?
Is this true or false?
Wu San Tong obviously didn't believe it, ten days.
It took ten days to recover the investment and make a profit of one thousand taels, which means the daily income is more than four hundred taels.
How can you make money by selling goods here?
This is simply a money grab.
"This batch is just a test batch. Once this batch is processed, you can take the people from the escort agency to visit all the salt fields in Youzhou."
"When the time comes, you just have to stick to one principle: bring all the coarse salt to Siwa Village."
"Making money is a simple matter. The only thing that limits me is their output."
Liu Feng laughed heartily. He came from a new era and had a lot of knowledge in his head.
He is not like these salt merchants who have to depend on the weather to make fine salt.
It takes so much time from making the brine to drying it in the sun.
This cannot be blamed on them, because in this era, technology is limited and the quality of their purification is greatly restricted.
It is impossible to make particularly pure edible salt.
The main problem is that the salt will taste bitter.
This is a problem that current technology cannot solve.
Because both brine and rock salt contain various other impurities.
To further improve the purity of the salt, as long as it tastes salty, it needs to be boiled and filtered multiple times.
And the best way is to filter it with charcoal.
Then use soy milk or other alkaline substances to dilute and condense the impurities.
Even the largest salt merchant in Dali currently only knows how to purify the salt repeatedly and then expose it to the sun for crystallization.
As for other methods, they are not available in this era.
But no matter how well they do, it only sounds good.
As long as Liu Feng makes the fine salt, there will only be one kind of salt in the world, and that is the one he makes.
The returning team this time was huge, and Chen Buyi had done a very good job.
However, there were still some mistakes in command, and it felt like it was difficult to take care of both ends.
If Liu Lang or the others were here, this situation would not have happened.
The salt transport team was fine, after all, they were just driving the carts and returning normally. The most important thing was the families of those who had just joined the Tiger Roar Army, men, women, young and old.
So many people were walking together, and they were traveling at a high speed.
Some people started to fall behind.
We had only walked less than a third of the distance and had already rested three times.
It would take three days to get from Youzhou City to Siwa Village even with a forced march.
If we keep walking like this, it will be difficult to find a place to set up camp before dark.
"Brother, what should we do? They are too slow."
Wu San Tong was a little worried.
With such a large team and few guards, the most feared thing is encountering bandits.
What's more, the cars are full of these people's personal belongings, and there are dozens of cars of edible salt, all of which are worth a lot of money.
Once you are targeted by bandits, you will be in real trouble.
Chen Buyi rode forward and looked at the huge number of salt carts behind him.
"Master Liu, how about this? You and Wu Biaotou take the salt cart and go back first."
"These people are too slow. Don't delay what comes next."
Liu Feng thought that even if they encountered bandits along the way, there would be no big problems with the people of the Tiger Roar Army around, so he nodded in agreement.
Chen Buyi led the way and made way for the evacuation of these family members.
When they set out on this trip, because they carried a large amount of gold, silver and treasures, they chose the strategy of focusing on quality over quantity.
So there are very few people, and including the newly recruited Dazhuang, there are only nine people.
As for the drivers of these carriage companies, Liu Feng did not regard them as combat units at all.
With so much salt and so few guards, if it were under normal circumstances, or after the Northern Barbarian War, people would definitely be very worried. But now Liu Feng is not worried, because he is not afraid of the bandits coming.
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