Looking at his expression, Ning Yushi felt that he was a fool, but he lived next door to Zhou Liwei during this time, knowing how hard it was for him to work in the saltworks, it seems that he should have this future.
But such an opportunity is not available to everyone, he reached out and patted his shoulder, "You have a good aunt and uncle."
After saying that, he turned around and left laughing.
Zhou Liwei scratched his head, feeling that these scholars like to keep half of their speech, he shook his head, and after watching the carriage go far away, he turned back and went back to keep his account books.
Ning Yushi brought the salt back to the Beihai county office first, Bai Shan met him in the county office, and invited him to a working meal by the way: "The prince has gone to Dengzhou."
That's a long way to go, and Laizhou has to go further east, which is the easternmost place in Dajin.
Ning Yushi thought for a while, and decided not to leave in a hurry, "Then I will stay here and wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Bai Shan: ...Although he is not afraid of the censor, Ning censor still feels somewhat uncomfortable here. For example, if he finished his official duties ahead of schedule every day, would he leave early and go home, or would he continue to waste time in the county office
But he didn't show it on his face, he still responded with a smile, and said: "I'll send Lord Ning to the post."
The post station in Beihai County is not very far from the county government, but it is not on the main street, but beside a relatively small street inside the main street.
It is also very small, with two floors above and below, and two courtyards at the front and back, with Yicheng and his family living in the back.
The cooks and clerks of the inn are all part-time jobs of his family members.
It is free for officials who come and go on business to live in the post station, but Beihai County is too poor, except for occasional officials from Qingzhou City who come to pass official documents and stay for one night, most of the time the post station cannot receive officials.
So they took outsiders, and they kept their prices low to compete with the better taverns on Main Street.
It attracts businessmen who come to Beihai County to visit relatives or not very rich.
When Bai Shan sent Ning Yushi to the post station, a group of people came out cursing, their expressions seemed very angry, "It's a scam, this is, when we came last year, it was five yuan a catty, and this year it was only six yuan. Is it? We bought it for six renminbi, and sold it for at least twelve renminbi. If people are willing to spend twelve renminbi, why don’t they buy fresh fish instead of this stinky salted fish?”
"That's right, you can buy pork and chicken at twelve coins, so why eat fish
"Let's hang it out again. There are not many other things here, but there are a lot of sea fish. After two months, if their fish can't be sold, they will know that the price will be reduced."
Bai Shan frowned, his eyes swept over those people's faces, Ning Yushi also looked up at them, and passed them by when he entered the door.
Yi Cheng was carefully keeping accounts on the counter with a pen, he didn't dare to make a mistake, otherwise waste paper, paper would be very expensive.
A yamen servant took the lead and knocked on the table, and Yicheng said without raising his head, "This shop only accepts guests staying at the shop. If you don't stay at the shop, you have to go out to eat and turn left to the street."
Yamen servant: "...Yi Cheng, it is your lord who has come."
Yicheng raised his eyelids to look, and seeing Bai Shan in casual clothes, he immediately put down his pen, "So it's the county magistrate, please come in, please come in."
Bai Shan asked Ning Yushi to go first, looked up at his building and said: "This is Ning Yushi, the officials from the capital, arranged for Ning Yushi a quiet, spacious and airy room."
"Yes, yes, Ning Yushi upstairs please."
Although the inn accepts foreign guests, he will reserve two good rooms, so as not to encounter officials who come to complain that there are no good rooms.
He led people up to the second floor, walked to the innermost room and opened the door, and invited a few people in to look at the room.
The room is very spacious, with a bed and a round table occupying more than half of it. There is a wooden couch near the window, and the bathroom is separated by a screen on the other side. There are wooden barrels and shelves inside. Basin, space is not small.
The window was opened, facing an alley, and few people seemed to walk there, but looking from a distance, the main street across the alley was indeed quiet.
Or take a break from the noise.
Bai Shan turned his head to look at Ning Yushi, and asked with a smile, "What do you think, my lord?"
Ning Yushi was very satisfied, so he booked this room. Ning Yushi's chief entourage carried his luggage in, and the guards also turned to choose their own rooms, and the small post station filled up all the empty rooms in one go.
Yi Cheng hurriedly hung up the full sign.
Ning Yushi watched him busy, turned his head and asked Bai Shan, "Salted fish is so cheap?"
He was in the saltworks during this period, and occasionally chatted with the long-term laborers in the saltworks. Knowing that they were fishing, they would often send the good fish they killed to Beihai County and Qingzhou City to buy, and the price was variable.
Some sea fish are cheap, and you can buy a catty for ten yuan, while others are very expensive, and you need hundreds of yuan for a catty.
What the long-term workers talked about most was that someone caught a very rare fish when they went out to sea, soaked it in sea water overnight and sent it outside Qingzhou City, and sent it to the city at dawn the next day. It can sell for two hundred per catty. Wen, that fish is not big, just over two catties, and it can sell for nearly five hundred Wen, which is worth a hundred catties of salted fish.
He thought it was just an exaggeration to set off the preciousness of the fish, but it turned out that it wasn't that the fish was too precious, but that the salted fish was too cheap
Now is the season to start fishing, and Bai Shan is also having a headache. Even including Qingzhou City, the consumption of fish is actually limited, so more fishermen still dry the fish and sell it to merchants who come to buy it.
But they pushed the price down too low.
Fishermen not only have to catch fish, but also have to dry them in the sun after catching them...
With such hard work, a catty of fish costs only a few pennies.
"The current roads are difficult, and the cost of transportation is very high. Merchants have to at least double the price to make money after receiving the goods." Bai Shan is not a person who does not know the fireworks in the world. He naturally knows that merchants also have difficulties. Therefore, he said: "So I think it will be good to wait for the Longchi Ferry to be built. At that time, the official road leading to the outside of Beihai County will also be repaired. The price of salted fish should be raised."
Ning Yushi sat down at the table and asked, "What else?"
Bai Shan smiled and sat opposite him, "As expected of Yushi Ning, I do have other plans. I kept thinking, why shouldn't salted fish be more valuable than other fish? It's not just meat. And with salt."
"There is a dish of salted fish, which doesn't even need to add salt, so it's natural that it's more expensive?"
Ning Yushi: "Impoverished families have no chance to eat salted fish. I can't think of this method for the time being. People who will take the risk to buy salted fish and want to taste the fish in the sea are not very short of money. They don't lack that little salt."
"That's why it's very important to know who to sell the salted fish to and where to sell it." Bai Shan said, "The lower officials are now looking for such merchants."
Ning Yushi smiled and said, "Don't you have an uncle who often travels to the grasslands of the Western Regions? Maybe he can help you."