Shoufu's favored wife is sweet and sassy

Chapter 610, Business

Prefect Qian unceremoniously stretched out his hand and squeezed a handful, and put it in his mouth, Xiaoqing was amazed to see: Do you want to eat it all in one bite or something?Salt is not the way to eat it!
"Cough, cough, cough!"

Sure enough, Zhifu Qian coughed so hard that even his son felt he didn't notice, so he turned his head and handed his father a cup of tea.

But Zhifu Qian didn't answer it. Although he was so stunned that tears almost came out, he still pondered it carefully in his mouth. The tangled expression on his face was both painful and intoxicated. Xiaoqing almost thought that what she handed over was white powder.

It took a long time before Qian Zhifu regained his composure, and greedily looked at the small cup of refined salt,

"The nobles in the capital will also eat this salt after purification. The color is similar, but the taste is different. Their salt is between coarse salt and your refined salt. It is slightly better, but the bitterness is still there. , of course, the common people can only afford the cheapest coarse salt."

After the salty taste in his mouth faded, Qian Zhifu took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and the eyes of the little beans were bulged, revealing such a cunning taste.

"It's just that, from this kind of coarse salt, to the original level of purification, in fact, only two catties of salt are needed for one catty, but for some reason, when it comes to Madam, one hundred catties of salt is required for one catty?"

The old fox!
Xiaoqing was shocked inwardly, but her face remained unchanged, and she smiled at the old fox:
"Prefect Qian is right. When I did the first step, I did get one catty out of two catties of salt. If it is finished, I can even get more. It's just that the subsequent steps are very complicated, as you know. The refined salt after the first step of purification looks almost the same, just like this small pure white particles, it is not difficult to pick out the salt from the sand, but it is easy to pick out the bitter part from the same particles. It's like picking a double-yolk egg out of thousands of eggs. It's obviously the same shell, and it can't be seen or touched before it's opened, so there's such a big loss. Jin, but it is indeed a great loss."

"Ahem, hey, the cost is so expensive, not many people can afford it, and so much crude salt is wasted to make refined salt, a large amount of coarse salt is consumed, which will lead to a reduction in salt production and an increase in the price, and the common people can't bear it .”

Although Qian Zhifu is an old fritter, he is indeed a good official, and he only thinks about the common people when he talks about it.

"Indeed, a family eats almost a catty of salt a month, so it is one tael of silver, and 12 taels a year. The salary of ordinary officials is more than ten taels or dozens of taels a year. It is really not an ordinary family. You can afford it, but if some people know that they can make salt that is not bitter, they will buy it even if the price is ten times higher?"

"Oh, that's right, the wine and meat of the wealthy family stinks, and the road is frozen to death. How can those people care about this little money? It's all people's fat and people's anointing."

Qian Zhifu looked disdainful, not to mention others, even if his family used this refined salt, he would feel sorry for it. It is a good thing, but it can't be promoted, and he dare not promote it. In the end, it is the people who suffer.

"Master Qian, if you can improve the saltworks according to the method I said, will it increase the production? If you can give me the part of the increase, I will help you to make refined salt. As for selling it, I am a woman and I don't know anyone in the capital. High-ranking officials, I can only rely on you, my lord. As for how much silver I sold, I can’t control it. However, my Dongxing Building will always use this refined salt, and it will be sold at a price of one tael of silver. It’s limited to the Northland, and we don’t care if we go out of the Northland.”

There are four regions in the southeast and northwest, the southeast is rich, and the northwest is poor. If people can afford this salt, then of course go to the south. By doing this, Xiaoqing can be said to have given away the entire refined salt market.

(End of this chapter)