In Huo Hai's mind, he always believed that rice and flour should be food, and the rest were all miscellaneous grains and non-staple foods.

Therefore, after the hundreds of stones of wheat that he got from the Sun family was ground into fine flour, it was only for him to eat it personally. He said that when to eat it, Chu Yu and Baoer, he would give him some of it.

There were dozens of people coming with Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang today, including several large steamed buns, a few fish hotpots, and a pig-killing dish, which were all the food at Huo Hai’s banquet.

As landlords, Huo Hai, Chu Yan, Wang Dang and Du Chang held a seat in the center with Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang. It was a cold weather, and it was enough to have enough food and drink and warm body to discuss things.

"I know that the two families often go to Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Qiang tribes to do business. I want to know some of the situation there." Huo Hai spoke to Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang after everyone had almost finished eating and drinking.

In fact, it only takes about a quarter of an hour to eat, because the wine and food are good, and everyone eats and drinks faster.

"What aspect?" Su Shuang asked Huo Hai.

"It's mainly about production." Huo Hai replied.

"In terms of production? Where can the Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qiang people produce? They are useless except grazing. Take the simplest farming as an example. Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qiang people, and tribes near the border of our Han Dynasty all want to plant and plant them. However, the grain harvested in the fields is less than half of what we Han people have cultivated. The grain harvested can be guaranteed to be harvested as the grain seeds of the following year. Most of the time, they just leave some platycodon and feed cattle and sheep during the winter." Zhang Shiping, who was half drunk, looked down on the tone of these Hu people.

Of course, looking down on the Hu people is the mainstream ideology of this era. As a Han Chinese, even Han Chinese who are slaves feel that they are one step ahead of Hu people.

Su Shuang, whose face was even more redder than Zhang Shiping, also added, "It's not just that farming is not good, but they are even worse in smelting and tool manufacturing. You may not believe it. You can change a sheep to a pottery that is not worth much in our Central Plains, because most of them can't cook pots.

As for iron tools, it is even more expensive, because only the Chanyu who mastered the smelting technology on their side, and most small and medium-sized tribes have no one who can smel, so they can only sell the best iron ore to us at a cheap price. When we smel and create good iron tools, we can sell them at a high price. A short knife for slaughtering lamb and cutting meat is only 30 or 50 yuan for us, but on their side, we can exchange it for an adult ram."

"We sell things to them, but they are cheap to buy things to them. Those Hu people can't settle the accounts at all. For many tribes, you only need to give them two stones of coarse salt to take away their mature horses. How much does two stones of coarse salt cost? Even if it will lose a little during transportation, it will only cost two or three thousand yuan. And a mature horse that is trained will start at least 30,000 yuan on our side, and most of the time, it can be sold for 50,000 yuan." Zhang Shiping continued.

"And, there are cows..."

After listening to their successive narratives, Huo Haisuan had a basic understanding of the trade between merchants and Hu tribes in the Central Plains. Excluding some human investment and risk factors, it started at least ten times as much as possible in terms of profits.

Moreover, like them, the merchant families who opened up the prefects of the border counties had to pay very little taxes. Giving some gifts to the prefects would make it easy to travel back and forth. After all, in this era, there was no such thing as taxation based on transaction volume.

Huo Hai took advantage of their consciousness being quite clear and talked deeply, and asked, "What do you think is the thing they are most in short supply, or what restricts their development?"

"Two kinds, salt, medicine." Zhang Shiping raised his fingers and said.

“Yes, salt, medicine.”

Su Shuang slapped the table and agreed with Zhang Shiping, and then gave a detailed speech, "The cattle and sheep on the grassland want to strengthen the ethnic group, but those who want to control cattle and sheep cannot do without salt.

Because livestock consume insufficient salt, they are prone to illness, and the salt content is very rare. In the hands of the Shanyu and some large tribes, small and medium-sized tribes want to replenish enough salt for the livestock they breed, it is not enough to rely on small-scale transactions with us. After all, salt is an item controlled by our court, so they either pay taxes to the leaders of the large tribes or grab grasslands from the large tribes.

In fact, in our opinion, fighting around is useless.

Because the places with salt are occupied by large tribes, but the large tribes feed more livestock and more livestock, so there will naturally be fewer grass. After adding salt, there is no good enough forage. The cattle and sheep of these large tribes do not grow fat and have low desire to reproduce.

Therefore, those grassland tribes have relatively high liquidity and Feng Shui turns to take turns to win, and the tribes that have won will be prosperous for a while. After three or five years, they may be depressed and depressed again because of unbalanced supply, or they may be swallowed up by others.

As for the medicine, that's even more amazing.

They believe in witch doctors, but in fact, those witch doctors cannot cure many diseases. Most people, after they get sick and injured, can only rely on hardship to survive.

If you can get some medicines that can cure colds and colds there, all tribes will regard you as guests of honor. Our two families have opened their doors in Zhuhu tribes by relying on this set."

What Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping said are basically open secrets of this era. However, not many people can smuggle salt, iron and drugs to the Hu tribe.

Because, not only official restrictions are available, but the people of the border counties spontaneously restrict these things from the past because of their prejudice with the Hu people, and they do not allow the Hu people to grow stronger. If a Han doctor goes to the Hu tribe to practice medicine and sell medicine, he will be despised by all Han people.

However, Huo Hai did not think so. In his eyes, the surrounding Hus are actually from the same country as the Han people, but they are just different in ethnic groups.

From a strategic perspective, trade with them can not only solve their production problems, make their lives richer, reduce border frictions, but also benefit themselves greatly. Why not solve many of their own problems?

"Bang!"

Huo Hai snapped his fingers at Chu Yu and a salt jar, and she quickly picked it up.

"This is?"

"Salt, the best snowflake salt, is more pure than the saltiness of green salt. How many horses can be exchanged for a single stone from the Hu tribe? How many cattle and sheep can be exchanged for this thing? "Huo Hai pushed the salt jar to the two of them and signaled to taste it.

"Salt better than green salt?"

Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang stretched out their fingers and dipped them in the jar a little, put them in their mouth and smashed them with a little bit. They immediately felt that salty water flowed in their mouths. I am afraid that only the essence in salt will have such a pure and rich salty taste!

When they tasted salt, Huo Hai said, "This salt only takes a small spoon to make such a large pot of food salt, and to supplement the salt we need for so many people. Compared with the coarse salt you shipped before, whether in volume, weight, or salt content, it is several times better.

Moreover, I will supply you directly, so you don’t need to raise salt everywhere every time you go to Zhuhu’s territory, or even go to the government’s way to buy official salt at a high price.”

"Mr. Huo's words are serious?" Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang woke up instantly, looking at Huo Haidao with serious expressions.

"Of course it's true. One stone of snowflakes like this can at least offset the three stones you had before. This is equivalent to expanding your transportation capacity by three times. You used to transport ten stones of coarse salt in one truck, but you could only exchange for ten horses.

Now, one truck of ten stones of salt can be exchanged for at least thirty horses.

And I don’t care how many horses you exchanged for in each tribe, I only charge you one horse for one stone of salt, so that you can earn at least two horses in net profit. Of course, it is also possible to settle with cattle and sheep. One horse is worth two cows, and one cattle is worth ten sheep. Just convert it according to this price.” Huo Hai gave the two of them an accurate price.

"In this way, this business can be done. However, when we transport a truck of salt to trade, we will get a profit of twenty horses for vain. It's really a bit too much. We can't get so much with shame. Why not, according to the amount we used to share the accounts, you four, and we two of us three! In this way, we can feel more at ease." Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who were shocked to realize that they made a profit in Huo Hai's investment in an instant, quickly communicated with each other with their eyes, and Zhang Shiping spoke.

These two people are both talented and know what is truly valuable. Huo Hai cooperated with them for the first time and all he brought out was snowflake salt better than green salt. Maybe there are some good things in the future. Properly sharing the profits is more conducive to long-term cooperation and development.

After all, their location is in northern Jizhou, not far from the territory of Xianbei and Xiongnu, just one or two thousand miles away. The horse team pulled a cart and could walk back and forth within a month.

In addition, don't think that they could buy a truck of salt for ten thousand yuan before, and then exchange it for ten horses from each tribe, with a return on investment of tens of dozens, but not many actually fell into their pockets.

Because if you get salt in large quantities in the whole vehicle, you have to find connections. The money you spend may be several times more than the money you buy salt. For example, before, they got ten trucks of salt at a time and went to the grassland to exchange for a hundred horses, and they had to sell at least fifty horses for the money they sold, and the cost of manual travel expenses, and they could only make a net profit of fifty horses.

Now, ten carts of salt can exchange for three hundred horses, take one hundred horses to make costs for Huo Hai, take the money sold by twenty-thirty horses, open up the joints of border counties, and use them as labor travel expenses, and make more than one hundred and seventy horses, which is more than three times higher than the previous profit.

After Zhang Shiping spoke, Su Shuang spoke again and added, "Su Shi, not to mention that it is in Zhuhu, even in the Central Plains, it can be sold at a high price. The benefits here are very huge, Mr. Huo..."

"The two brothers don't need to be so polite. I said I only took this number, just take this number. In addition, I have negotiated with the Zhen family and the Guo family to handle the right to sell the salt in the Central Plains. They will handle it. You are only responsible for the sales in the Zhuhu area." Huo Hai stopped Su Shuang's words and said.

It turns out that Huo Hai asked him to buy the lower shops, not to sell salt. Moreover, his business was not just about cooperating with his two families, but also the Zhen family and the Guo family. Maybe there would be other families. The two people who understood this only felt that Huo Hai was bottomless. After nodding and agreed, they asked Huo Hai again what other aspects of business to do.

Not to mention, there are really many, after all, the shop is not a waste of money.
Chapter completed!