Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 464 Yancheng

Jinzhou City was able to gain the reputation of "Salt City" in less than half a year, which shows how much repercussions the salt in Jinzhou has attracted.

However, in order to prevent someone from profiting from it, Tian Yi also took corresponding measures.

Such as purchase restrictions.

It takes almost two months for an ordinary family in Datang to buy a catty of salt, so Tian Yi limits one person to only five catties of salt.

People who buy salt need to take their household registration, a thing called "shoushi", to the salt sales office in Jinzhou to pay for the seal, and then they can buy this low-priced salt that is only [-]% of the market price.

And if a businessman wants to buy more for sale, he needs to report to Chang'an or Jinzhou's Datang Royal Alliance one week in advance.

The reason for doing this was mainly because Tian Yi was afraid that they would use the salt to make huge profits, so he set a series of rules for them.

These merchants must pass the audit and pay a deposit before they can be qualified to buy salt in large quantities.

For example, according to the selling price in Jinzhou, the price of a dan of salt is ten guan qian, but if a merchant wants to buy a dan of salt, he has to pay a deposit of ten guan qian.

However, the price Tian Yi gave to the merchants was cheaper than buying it for the common people. A catty of salt only cost eight Wen, but this was not unconditional. These salt merchants could not sell more than twelve Wen per catty.

In other words, they have a profit of four pennies.

However, if they violate this condition and the selling price exceeds this price, once they are discovered, not only will they no longer be able to buy salt from Jinzhou, but even their escorts in the Jinzhou Chamber of Commerce will be deducted.

For businessmen, this punishment is not insignificant.

However, even so, many businessmen still took the risk, and then the following hundred knights caught them in good shape.

After the initial chaos, the merchants also began to get down to the rules slowly, and the profit of Siwenqian is already very large. They only need to transport the salt from Jinzhou out, and then they can easily earn it out of hand. This money can be said to be basically risk-free.

Some discerning businessmen also began to realize that this was the price of salt that the Tang court was planning to suppress.

To be precise, the prince of the Tang Dynasty is preparing to suppress the price of salt in various places.

The merchants in Jinzhou are very united. They know who gave them their status today, and many of them have children who are still studying in the Datang Royal Academy. For themselves and their children, these merchants are selling salt All aspects are very conscientious.

Moreover, most of them took the salt from Jinzhou Bawen, and transported it to Luoyang and the surrounding counties of Chang'an. In some places, only twelve coins are sold.

Under such circumstances, the merchants of Jinzhou became famous. Officials and people from other places called them "Shanxi merchants". Because they were labeled as Jinzhou and princes, few people dared to embarrass them.

The success of Shanxi merchants has made many merchants from other places very envious, and they also want to join the Jinzhou circle.

However, if you want to join this circle, you must first have a house in Jinju. Under such circumstances, housing prices in Jinju once again ushered in a sharp rise.

As the saying goes, it depends on the economic environment of a place, just look at the housing prices in this place.

Nowadays, the house price in Jinzhou can be said to be the highest in the Tang Dynasty. Even some bigwigs in the court joked that when they retire and return to their hometowns, they hope that Li Shimin can give them a house in Jinzhou. In and three out, a small courtyard will do.

This shows how high the rooms in Jinju are.

Li Godan is now in a good position, and the Wang family in Taiyuan also valued him very much, and even sent a daughter of a concubine from the Wang family, a distant cousin of Li Shimin's wife, to Li Godan as a concubine.

It can be seen that they intend to tie Li Goudan firmly to the big ship of the Wang family.

However, although Li Goudan was very proud, he was not dizzy.

He is very clear that he is very ordinary in terms of ability, and the reason why he can achieve today's glory is all relying on Gao Ming's trust.

In order to live up to Gao Ming's trust, Li Goudan has always been conscientious in his work and dare not relax in the slightest.

Once he is free, he will go to Datang Royal Academy to pay attention to Li Xiang's recent situation, and then write a letter carefully and send it to Chang'an, and have someone hand it over to Gao Ming's residence.

As the saying goes, good and bad, as the top spot in Jinzhou, Li Goudan's serious style has set a good example for many people, so even if Gao Ming rarely comes to Jinzhou, everything in Jinzhou is still in order Not fluffy.

It can even be said that Gao Ming's ideas accounted for half of Jinzhou City's success today, and Li Goudan's hard work accounted for half.

Gao Ming also knew this very well, so when he arrived at the governor's mansion, Gao Ming called Li Goudan to him, and then patted him on the shoulder with a smile on his face.

"God, you've done a good job, I'm very satisfied. I'll be back in Beijing in two days, and I'll get you a title. It's too tall to say. A county man is fine!"

As soon as Gao Ming finished speaking, Li Goudan immediately knelt down with a "plop".

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"

Now Li Goudan is not considered a newcomer in the officialdom, so he also understands how rare the title of Datang is. Although he is now a fourth-rank official, but when he meets those nobles with titles, even if the other party is only a ninth-rank sesame official, Still don't give him face.

But now Gao Ming promised to at least give him the title of Founding County Male, how could he be unhappy?How can you not be excited?
Seeing Li Goudan's face flushed with excitement, Gao Ming immediately smiled and waved to him.

"Okay, go find Tian Yi, I have something to tell him."

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Goudan quickly stood up, and then ran to find Tian Yi himself.

When Tian Yi saw Gao Ming, he was quite excited and knelt down towards Gao Ming from a long distance away.

"Xiaguan Tianyi, pay homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.

"What's the matter with you two? Well, get up quickly, Tian Yi, come closer, I'm not used to being so far away."

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Tian Yi quickly stood up, and then cautiously came to Gao Ming's side.

Looking at him, he was still a little cautious, but Gao Ming didn't get entangled in this issue, but smiled and nodded to him directly.

"Tian Yi, I did not misread you. I heard that Jinzhou is now called Yancheng. I am very happy. You are very wrong!"

For Tian Yi, Gao Ming's words were what he wanted to hear in his dreams, so as soon as Gao Ming's words fell, he was so excited that tears filled his eyes.

"Weichen... Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Seeing that he was about to kneel down again, Gao Ming quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him up.

"Okay, I've already said that you don't need to be too polite. I came to you today to tell you something."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming stared closely at Tian Yi's eyes.

"I want you to give all the profits to the merchants. If their salt is transported to the vicinity of Chang'an, you can sell it to them for seven yuan. Then in the future, it will be calculated according to this distance. If it is transported to Shannan East Road and Shannan West Road, you will be charged five yuan." Give them a catty of money."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately smiled at Tian Yi.

"If they can transport salt to Jiannan Road and Qianzhong Road, I can give them two renminbi. My purpose is only one, that is, to make salt affordable for all people in the Tang Dynasty, and to eat salt." Cheap salt, understand?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Tian Yi suddenly showed seriousness.

"Yes, I understand!"

(End of this chapter)