"Private salt? You, you, you..." Yang Jiang's face was pale for a moment, and he closed his mouth abruptly, looking left and right.
When he found that there was no one around, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Are you crazy? This is the death penalty of beheading!"
Everyone will buy private salt, but the idea of selling private salt...
"I know." Jiang Zhen said: "So I want to know the situation from you." Jiang Zhen still has some understanding of ancient private salt.
No matter which dynasty or generation, private salt is rampant, there is no way, official salt is too expensive.
Their side is on the coast, and the official salt is sold for forty cents a pound, and the quality of the salt is not good... What about the inland
Jiang Zhen had read history books before, and he had seen records of one tael of silver and one pound of official salt in some localities... This simply means that the common people are not allowed to eat salt, and it is no wonder that everyone buys private salt.
Of course, although he had the idea of selling illicit salt, he didn't plan to do it right away, or he would go to the dark side of this road. He knew very well that with his own ability, it would be fine to make a little money and earn some starting capital. , It is impossible to become big in the business of selling illicit salt.
After all, he has no background at all, and today's private salt dealer...
Such a big profit, I am afraid that all those private salt dealers have a lot of background.
Yang Jiang looked at Jiang Zhen a few times, and saw Jiang Zhen talking about such a beheading as if he was just talking about what to eat later. He couldn't help but admire, and suddenly a thought came up - does he want to encourage Jiang Zhen to sell for smuggling? Salt, so he'd be beheaded
As soon as Yang Jiang thought of this, he was suppressed by him again.
Even if Jiang Zhen was selling illicit salt, those salt miners might not be able to catch him... Maybe he would be even more vicious in the future.
Yang Jiang pondered so much, but said all the things he knew about the illicit salt: "I have also caught this illicit salt dealer, so I know a little bit about the situation inside..."
Just on the seashore to the east of Hecheng County, there is a Hongjiang salt field. The salt field is owned by the imperial court, and all the nearby official salts come from there.
A brief explanation is that after the salt farm produces salt, some of it is sold as official salt, and the other part is sold to private salt dealers, and even more salt is sold to the latter.
As Jiang Zhen thought, no one would be tempted by such a large profit. But those ordinary people, even if they are tempted, only dare to boil some salt and sell it secretly. Those who really dare to make a fortune are all big figures with backgrounds.
They have money and people. They drive big boats and go to the salt farm to buy salt and send it to various places. They are very arrogant, but no one dares to investigate.
"Boss, I'm not going to lie to you. We usually arrest illicit salt dealers, and we arrest those who secretly sell dozens or hundreds of kilograms of salt. If they are really big people, they don't dare to touch them, even those under the hands of big people. People, we will also avoid them, they are also very good, and they will also pay tolls when they come to sell salt." Yang Jiang said: "The Hongjiang Salt Farm is more powerful than us in catching private salt dealers, and only those who are caught will be caught. A peddler who sells 180 catties of salt will be killed immediately if he catches it, and those who arrest people and kill... In fact, many of them are directly the subordinates of those big private salt dealers."
What Yang Jiang said, country people like Boss Jiang knew nothing about it, but in fact, all the people in the yamen here are clear.
Speaking of which, why is official salt so expensive? Isn't it just to make the private salt sell well? This official salt and private salt are actually handled by the whole family here.
The Hongjiang Salt Field is someone else's territory, and no one else is allowed to touch it, so there are hawkers who dare to go to the seaside to sell smuggled salt.
"Before the imperial court rectified the salt industry, an imperial envoy came to work for several years, and in the end, it was only found that some abandoned sons or offline." Yang Jiang said again. Those top-level smugglers who control countless salts in their hands will sell the salt in their hands to the next family. Just find them.
Of course, just by finding them, the money copied out will satisfy the imperial court, and it is conceivable how much profit there is.
Hearing what Yang Jiang said, Jiang Zhen knew that this official salt and private salt might have formed a big net of interests, and all the officials here were caught in the net.
Actually this is not surprising.
These days, the common people are all poor, and the officials are secretly raising taxes and trying to fish the common people, but they can't make much money. If they want to make a lot of money, they still have to rely on those special things that make money, such as the salt industry.
And since they want to make money here, naturally no one is allowed to dig their corners, so the crackdown on the petty peddlers is particularly severe.
In this way, it is very difficult for him to get a few hundred catties of salt to make some money.
Jiang Zhen wanted to make money, but he really didn't plan to lose his life... After thinking for a while, he asked again, "I see there are also seafood for sale in the market. Where do you get all these seafood?"
Hecheng County sells seafood, mainly marinated fish and dried kelp. These two things are not expensive, so people here like it quite a bit. For example, when banqueting guests, they like stewing A bowl of kelp came out.
"Boss, if you want to do this business, it's not difficult, just hire a boat to go to the seaside to buy goods. But if you don't have a special way, you will be regarded as selling private salt..." Yang Jiang laughed twice, then said: " In short, when you go there, you have to be careful not to get salt on it, of course, if you carry three or five pounds, they won't bother to care."
"Do you have a way?" Jiang Zhen asked again.
"I know a few people who sell seafood. If you want to go, you can go with them." Yang Jiang said, those who sell seafood are small traders. They are still happy to go with a few more people, so it's safe.
Jiang Zhen nodded and immediately settled the matter with Yang Jiang.
After the matter was finalized, Jiang Zhen went to the pharmacy again.
Wang Haisheng was still taking care of Sun Xiaoshan, and the 22 taels of silver he gave before was enough for Sun Xiaoshan to cure his illness. Jiang Zhen greeted him and planned to go home first.
He didn't hurriedly get Wang Haisheng's boat home because he had already given Wang Haisheng money. He still believed in Wang Haisheng's character, and believed that after he took Yang Jiang there, Wang Haisheng would not dare to run away with his money.
Wang Haisheng really didn't have that thought. After learning that Jiang Zhen was willing to hire himself to do business in the future, he was very grateful to Jiang Zhen, and he didn't want to run away at all. Jiang Zhen made some fish.
These fish are not big. It is said that they were caught by Wang Haisheng's two children in the past two days. They have grown up on fishing boats since they were young, and they have already been able to fish.
Jiang Zhen naturally wouldn't refuse, he took the fish and went home.
It rained for several days, and the road was very muddy and difficult to walk. Jiang Zhen walked all the way, and the cloth shoes were not only wet, but also covered with mud, which was very heavy.
As a result, it took Jiang Zhen a lot more time than usual to walk home, and when he got home, it was almost dark.
He scooped water and washed his feet. Jiang Zhen took care of the small fish outside the house. He scraped the scales and dug out the intestines of the fish. While he was working hard, he saw five little ducks swaying not far away. Buttocks waving small wings to drill around in Zhao's vegetable field.
It hasn't rained at the moment, probably Zhao Liu let them out for the wind.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen turned his eyes and saw that not far away, Zhao Liu was digging earthworms with a bamboo that was still a cylinder on one side and a bamboo that had been cut in half on the other.
People who keep chickens and ducks in the village often send their children out to dig earthworms, because chickens and ducks eat earthworms and grow faster and lay more eggs, but people of Zhao Liu's age generally do not do such things.
Jiang Zhen looked at Zhao Liushi, who was digging earthworms, a little funny, and then chopped the fish intestines on his hand into small pieces with a knife.
Jiang Zhen took those fish intestines and walked to Zhao's house, ignoring Zhao Liu's terrified eyes, and threw the fish intestines on the ground.
Zhao Liu was afraid of Jiang Zhen, and was very afraid, but those little ducks were not afraid of Jiang Zhen. They chirped and quickly gathered around Jiang Zhen to eat those fish intestines.
Jiang Zhen came back late, but Zhao Jinge came back even later.
The reason why Zhao Dahu is called Zhao Dahu is that his family is rich and has a lot of land. In their family, Zhao Jinge is a long-term worker.
When the farming season is slack, Zhao Jinge can still have free time, but when the farming season is busy, he can only be busy all the time. Of course, because of his low requirements for work hard work, the big family Zhao will also give him something when the farming season is busy. Gave him some eggs.
After handing the eggs to Zhao Liushi, Zhao Jinge went to the patio to wash the mud on his body, and when he came out of the bath, Zhao Liushi had prepared food for him.
When the farming is busy, the Zhao family also eats dry rice, otherwise the body can't support it, and in addition to the dry rice, Zhao Liu also uses the dry rice brought back by Zhao Jinge to make egg drop soup.
"Mother, you can eat egg soup." Brother Zhao Jin said, Jiang Zhen brought him food at noon, and he ate all the meat...
"I don't do anything at home, what kind of egg soup do I eat?" Zhao Liushi said, but Zhao Jinge insisted on leaving half a bowl of egg soup for Zhao Liushi.
As for Zhao Fugui, he is a part-time worker in a distant place, and he won't go home and live these days.
Brother Zhao Jin doesn't like to talk much, but Mrs Zhao Liu likes to talk a lot. While watching Brother Zhao Jin eat, she started talking about things at home. Of course, she also talked about Jiang Zhen, their current neighbor.
"That Jiang Zhen used fish intestines to feed our ducks today. What do you think he thinks? After our ducks grow up, shouldn't he steal them to eat them?" Zhao Liushi said more and more worried. .
Mrs. Jiang is a very strong combatant. What Jiang Zhen has done in Jiang's family, she told the villagers with all her might.
Speaking of which, all the people in the village are now afraid of Jiang Zhen and feel that Jiang Zhen is wrong, which is also related to Mrs. Jiang's behavior.
Boss Jiang never said a word when he was wronged before. Even if everyone knew that Mrs. Jiang was not good to him, they didn't know how bad it was. Mrs. Jiang shouted so much, but it made them clearly know what Jiang Zhen had done." evil".
Zhao Liushi was so worried when he heard about Jiang Zhen's robbing chickens.
"Mother, have you seen him steal other people's chickens?" Zhao Jin said.
Zhao Liu thought the same thing. Although Jiang Zhen was looking for food everywhere, she had never seen him steal other people's chickens...
Thinking of this, Zhao Liushi remembered another thing: "Brother Jin, Jiang Zhen didn't grow vegetables himself, and he didn't come to our house to steal it for two days. What kind of vegetables do you think he eats?"
She was worried about Jiang Zhen again.