Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 372, Salted Fish Industry

"Clang~clang~"

With the ringing of bells on the observation deck, everyone's spirits were shaken.

"A fishing boat has returned to port~"

Soon, the watchman yelled into the port with a tin horn, and there was another commotion at the port pier, and the merchants of the sea fish shop watched eagerly the fishing boats slowly approaching the port.

"Brother on the boat~ Do you have any good stuff?"

Before the ship was moored at the pier, the merchants shouted from the air.

"There are a lot of good products, you can get what you want."

The crew members on the ship responded with smiles on their faces. Every time they go to sea, they can return with full rewards. Naturally, the income of these crew members has also risen accordingly. The crew has long been synonymous with rich people.

Soon, the fishing boat that arrived at the port moored slowly, and the sea fishes were transported down one after another, and suddenly there was a burst of shouting in the entire port.

As the habit of eating seafood in the Beijing-Tianjin area gradually becomes popular, seafood is becoming more and more subdivided, such as grouper, tuna, etc., which are scarce and good, and the price is getting more and more expensive.

As for all kinds of large and small yellow croakers, the price is very cheap, and because the production on site is increasing and the weather is getting hotter, the sales have already begun to slow down.

Here at the wharf, after a lot of excitement, all the good products were picked out, leaving only baskets of common fish such as large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers that could not be sold.

"Hey~ this fish is getting harder and harder to sell, why is there no one wants a good fish~"

Looking at the fish piled up like a mountain, the captain Lin Yang sighed. He is a crew member who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy. It is getting harder and harder to sell, which makes him worried.

The price of a fishing boat is very expensive, more than [-] taels of silver, which is almost the entire worth of the brothers, and now only half of it has been recovered.

"If this continues, we can only change the ship and turn it into a cargo ship. Let's go to Japan and North Korea to do business. That way the money will come in faster."

Next to Lin Yang, the deputy captain Deng Yuqun also sighed.

"Let's take a look again, it's just that no one wants so many fish, it's a pity!"

Lin Yang said with a smile.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the production of sea fish is getting bigger and bigger. There are often fishing boats that can’t sell the fish, and it’s not too bad to lose money. It’s just that everyone earns less. Slow smelling, this feeling is really very bad.

"Brothers, how come no one wants these fish?"

Liu Jin silently saw everything in front of him. He came to Tianjin this time to solve this problem. The fish he caught were too much to be sold, which was very unfavorable to the newly emerging marine fishing industry. Yes, so Liu Jin must solve this problem.

“Too many fish~”

Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun sized up Liu Jin slightly, seeing that Liu Jin was dressed in extraordinary clothes, like a nobleman, they also hurriedly bowed their hands to pay tribute.

"Last year, there were only a few dozen fishing boats in Tianjin, and the sea fish caught every day were not worrying about selling. As soon as they were pulled back, people would ask for them, and the price was high."

"But now, there are hundreds of fishing boats in the entire port of Tianjin. This is not counting whaling boats. If you count whaling boats, there will be even more. Dozens of fishing boats return to the port every day."

"When there are more fishing boats, more fish will be caught. Naturally, the fish will not be easy to sell. The price is lower than before, and there are still many fish that cannot be sold."

"Look at these big yellow croakers and small yellow croakers, what beautiful fish, they are all caught at night, and they are very fresh now, but there are too many large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers, they are too common, no one wants them at all."

"And these crabs are all shells because of the lack of meat, and no one wants them. They are all losing money."

While speaking, Lin Yang pointed at various seafood and sighed.

"If this sea fish can't be sold, won't it be a loss?"

Liu Jin listened carefully, and asked after thinking about it.

"It's not that you lose money, it's just that you earn less."

"Of course I also feel that it's a pity that such a good fish can only stink if it can't be sold. Think about it when there was a famine last year, everyone even ate bark, but now such a good fish will stink. Isn't that What a waste of money."

Lin Yang smiled and shook his head, fishing is still profitable.

"That's it~"

"Are all the fishing boats out to sea the same as you?"

Liu Jin nodded, thought for a while and asked again.

"That's not true. Some fishing boats belong to merchants. Their fish are transported to the capital as soon as they arrive at the port. They have their own sales channels, so they don't have to worry about selling them at all."

"We have no way to sell it ourselves, so we can only sell it to merchants in marine fish shops. Sometimes we can sell it all, and sometimes there are too many fishing boats returning to Hong Kong, and it is difficult to sell cheap."

Lin Yang thought for a while and replied.

"So that's the case, thank you brother for telling me, I want all of your fish~"

Liu Jin cupped his hands to express his thanks.

"Really?"

When Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun heard this, they immediately asked happily.

"Of course it's true. Not only will I buy your current fish, but I will also buy all the fish that everyone can't sell in the future."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

It's time to start the salted fish industry. There are surplus cheap fish and unsold salt. The combination of the two becomes salted fish, which can be sold to every corner of Daming. earned salt money.

"Great."

When Lin Yang and Deng Yuqun heard this, they almost jumped up for joy.

If someone really comes to the bottom and buys all the fish that everyone can’t sell, then everyone will have no worries, and they can be more confident when negotiating prices with merchants, and they don’t have to sell them at a low price. of fish.

Soon, Liu Jin nodded to the people following him, and the other party immediately understood, and ran to call the steward of Tianjin Port to sell all the fish left by Lin Yang.

"Sir~"

Knowing that Liu Jin has come to Tianjin Port, Chen Mu, the general manager of Tianjin Port, also hurried to Liu Jin's side.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin nodded with a smile, then thought for a while and asked, "How are you preparing for the things I asked you to prepare?"

"My lord, everything has been prepared according to your instructions. The salted fish factory has already been built, and now I am waiting for your order, my lord. I can immediately recruit people to buy sea fish and make salted fish. "

Of course Chen Mu knew what Liu Jin ordered. Liu Jin had already explained this matter before returning to the capital last time, and he has never forgotten it.

"That's fine~"

"From now on, the salted fish factory will start to process all the surplus fish at the port into salted fish."

Liu Jin nodded in satisfaction, then thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the salted fish factory."

"Okay, son, this way please~"

Chen Mu hurriedly led the way.

The salted fish factory is right next to the port of Tianjin. It used to be a piece of saline-alkali land. The site was built with a factory and a huge cement field made of cement, which can be used to dry salted fish.

Liu Jin inspected the salted fish factory. At this time, the salted fish factory had not yet opened, and there were not many people in it. Only a few people were taking care of everything inside and outside the factory.

"My lord, this is the slaughtering area, a place specially used to remove fish viscera and gills~"

"This is the upper salt area, used to salt the salted fish~"

“The huge field outside is used to dry fish~”

The factory is very simple, and the processing of salted fish is not difficult. The key is to solve the problem of salt, because salt is too expensive in this era, so few people use salt to pickle food.

When Liu Jin came to the huge venue, he saw that some salted fish were already drying, so he hurried over, picked up a salted fish and observed it carefully.

This salted fish is similar to that of later generations. The fish is disemboweled, opened with a bamboo stick, then salted for pickling, and then taken out to dry. The salted fish made in this way can be preserved for a very long time, even There is a saying that pickled salted fish is similar to bacon, the longer it is preserved, the more fragrant it will be.

Of course, for Liu Jin, the role of salted fish is to solve the problem of excess production capacity, and it can also preserve food so that more people can taste the deliciousness from the sea.

"My lord, a lot of salt is needed to marinate salted fish, this salt?"

Chen Mu followed Liu Jin, thought for a while and raised his own question.

"You don't need to worry about the salt. I've already given an order to Changlu Salt Farm. From now on, I'll use the salt from Changlu Salt Farm. You can talk to Li Jiye about the price yourself."

"Although they are all my industries, you are all operating independently, so I don't care about this aspect. You can just talk about it."

Liu Jin thought for a while and replied.

"Yes~ I'll go to the Changlu Salt Field when I turn around and talk to Li Jiye."

Chen Mu nodded hastily, as long as he has salt, he can do things easily, and the most worrying thing is the problem of salt.

While the two were talking, Li Jiye also hurried over.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here~"

Seeing Li Jiye who hurried over, Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Sir~"

Li Jiye came to Liu Jin's side, replied respectfully, and then bowed his hands to pay tribute to Chen Mu.

"Chen Mu and I just talked about you. The salted fish industry here is about to start. You and Chen Mu have discussed the matter of salt, and you will send salt every day from now on."

Liu Jin nodded and ordered.

"Yes~"

"This time I have brought dozens of carts of salt when I came to Tianjin, and I know that the son must have come to Tianjin for the salted fish."

Li Jiye nodded quickly, then thought for a while and said, "My lord, they have a new reaction."

"Oh, what happened again?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately regained his energy. The salt merchants had suffered a crushing defeat in the northern market. Now the northern market has basically belonged to the Changlu Salt Farm.

But these salt merchants will definitely not give up so easily. If their money is robbed, they will definitely fight Liu Jin desperately, and Liu Jin dare not ignore their strength from the beginning.

These salt merchants are rich in the world, some are rich in silver, and more importantly, they have many, many spokesmen for them in the court, and they have a great voice.

If Liu Jin hadn't been pulling Zhu Houzhao to do business together, Liu Jin estimated that he would have been killed by these people a long time ago, and the memorial to impeach him would definitely float on Emperor Hongzhi's desk like snowflakes.

"In the past few days, I found that some people have started to buy our salt on a large scale. The amount is very large, and the amount is very amazing. In many places, our salt has begun to run out of stock."

Li Jiye replied.

Snow salt is very popular. After defeating other salts, the sales have also started to rise continuously. However, the salt production of Changlu Salt Farm is also increasing day by day. Not only can it meet the market demand, but also there is a large amount of excess salt to transport Come to Tianjin to make salted fish.

But recently, dealers in many regions have said that the salt is out of stock, and there are a large number of mysterious big buyers, and the demand is very large.

"Someone buys our salt on a large scale?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately became thoughtful.

"There should be no reason for anyone other than them to buy our salt on a large scale."

"What's the purpose of buying salt on a large scale?"

"Could it be that after hoarding, use these salts to make a fuss?"

Immediately, various possibilities came up in Liu Jin's mind.

Hoarding the opponent's goods, and then using the opponent's goods to make a fuss, this trick is also a rotten method in later generations. The opponent's capital is strong, and they can use the salt of the Changlu Salt Field to destroy the signboard of the Changlu Salt Field. Slowly defeat the Changlu Salt Field.

"Young master, should we restrict them from buying salt?"

Li Jiye thought for a while and suggested.

The Changlu Salt Farm has enough control over the terminal, and can completely control the terminal sales. When selling salt, restrictive sales policies can be implemented. For example, a person can only buy a few catties of salt at a time, which can limit their size. The scale buys its own salt.

"The key now is to figure out their purpose. If we can figure out why they want to buy our salt on a large scale, we can formulate corresponding strategies."

"We have plenty of salt, and we can't sell it anyway, so there's no reason not to sell it to them."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said.

"My lord, they must have a purpose in buying our salt, and such a large-scale purchase, there must be a big article behind it, maybe they will deliberately use our salt to frame us later, we have to guard against it, or restrict sales It's better."

Li Jiye said very worriedly.

"Well, first step by step to restrict slowly, send people to figure out their intentions, I suspect now that they think our cost is high, and they feel that we are making money at a loss at the current price, so they think about large-scale Buy our salt, because they think that if they do so, we will lose as much salt as they buy.”

Liu Jin pondered carefully, walking back and forth constantly thinking.

"Young Master, if this is the case, we can judge whether it is the case. We can increase the price first, so that we can better confuse them, and then we can see their reaction."

When Li Jiye heard this, he nodded immediately, not ruling out this possibility.

He has conducted in-depth research and investigation on the salt industry, and he is very clear about the cost of salt. Only a few people inside himself know the cost of salt in Changlu Salt Field. If outsiders come to see it, they will definitely know Misjudged.

To pay two million taels of silver every day, and to share the profits with the sellers, and to make money by myself, the cost of salt in the Changlu Salt Field must be high, and almost everyone thinks so.

Everyone still does not have a clear understanding of the yield of sun-dried salt. The location of Changlu Salt Farm is the best sun-dried salt area in Daming. The yield is frighteningly high, but the cost is actually very low.

"Just do as you said, try it first, if they really think that our cost is high, and want to eat our products to eat us up, then this time I will support them to death and let them I spit out everything I ate in my stomach before."

Liu Jin nodded, and then a smile appeared on his face. If these salt merchants really want to use this method to get the Changlu Salt Field, then they are really finished this time.

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