Xuecheng Lu Mansion is still in the last study. When Lu Zhennan was quietly admiring a calligraphy and painting, Lu Guoxing quickly walked in and said with a hint of impatience, "Father, should we do something?"

After pausing, he said again, "Can't wait any longer. The Xu family and the Li family started a war on the price of the salt farm. The one who suffered the most was the Lu family. This was too scammed. They fought for the past two or three days. Although they were all blooming in all aspects, the salt price was the most dynamic!"

In the feudal era, the characteristics of the historical heritage of China were characterized by a dynasty. Only after the salt and iron were franchise were franchise, can the imperial dynasty be continuously conveyed to the imperial dynasty.

If it is a specialty, there will naturally be a court department that governs the salt farm. The salt merchants will pick up goods from the imperial salt farm and then transport them out for sale. In this link, the court only earns a small amount, which is far less than that of the salt merchants of all sizes and sizes, and is not more than that of the officials who work together.

But Lu State is not a salt and iron franchise... Because Lu State is too weak, the weak royal family even lost the franchise project of franchise.

The gentry and wealthy families of the salt farms along the coast directly control the salt farm. You are responsible for one piece, I am responsible for one piece, and then the merchants who take goods from the salt farm and sell them don’t make much money.

Let’s talk about the location of Xuecheng, the salt field controlled by the three families of Li, Xu and Lu, and the market scope radiates is one of Xuecheng, one of the three counties, and invade more to the two counties in another surrounding prefecture.

Further apart, there are salt farms controlled by gentry in other areas that are operating.

Then even if the salt merchants get salt, they only make a small difference, such as a pound of salt for more than ten cents of copper coins. When the salt merchants got the goods and left the market, the price of salt was more than ten cents. The salt merchants sold them to multiple counties, and a pound of salt earned at most two cents of copper coins and triple cents of copper coins.

Don’t think that the price is not expensive. As a person or an ordinary person in the unscrupulous era, who can leave salt?

It was every household, and almost every day everyone was consuming it. Xuecheng City had one prefecture and three counties, plus two other neighboring counties, a population of 300,000 to 400,000 people, and caravans and various crew members traveling to and from every day. This is an iron rice bowl passed down from generation to generation.

Now the Xu family and Li’s mansion compete for the market, which is a drop of one or two cents a day, and so much drop of it a day? In the coastal areas, the normal salt price around Xuecheng is only about ten cents a pound. In this case, the business there is really hot, and the Lu Mansion is deserted.

Therefore, Lu Guoxing couldn't sit still anymore. He really wanted his father to express his opinion immediately. Whether he chose to support the Li family or to be an intermediary, he could not just sit there and wait.

But during Lu Guoxing's anxious inquiries, Lu Zhennan still focused on his calligraphy and paintings, as if he hadn't heard it. When Lu Guoxing shouted again, Lu Zhennan calmly said, "Your skill in qi cultivation is too far behind."

"It's not possible compared to your friend. In this matter, we don't need to do anything, and their price war will soon end. Even when the price war cannot continue, our Lu family will be the one who reaps profits."

Lu Guoxing was stunned for a moment before speaking, "What my father meant is that the Li family and the Xu family would not drop to ten cents, and they were almost bottoming out?"

He is actually not stupid either, otherwise he would not have become the next generation successor under training.

But suddenly the fight between the two sides made the Lu family stunned, making him a little messy.

"You are not too stupid." Lu Zhennan glared at this son speechlessly. He is 29 years old and still so short-sighted. I really don't know where the big talk he talks about revitalizing the country of Lu every day over the years come from.

"Tenwen is a bottom line. Once the salt price is lower than tenwen, the next state capital will be the next state capital. Salt merchants who pick up goods in other salt fields controlled by gentry like us will also flock to them, because the price difference is already greater than the transportation cost. At that time, the Li and Xu family will not only be resisted and rejected by the gentry of other state capitals. Too many merchants will also emptied the inventory of their salt field."

"Once they lose their inventory, they will not be able to afford a price war. The entire Xuecheng salt market is my Lu family. Not to mention that the original price is not a worry, it is easy to raise a few quotas."

Lu Zhennan analyzed calmly that what he said was also true.

Xuecheng is a port city with developed sea transportation, both in the ocean and near the sea.

Sea freight is not as good as land freight, and it is very convenient.

Even if you run hundreds or thousands of miles, and once the big ship sails, it is much easier than land transportation. If Li and Xu's mansions dare to drop to ten cents, there will definitely be salt merchants from other prefectures to pick up the goods, which will definitely arouse hostility from more gentry and wealthy families.

Apart from hostility, it is profit!

So what if you have a salt farm? Is it impossible to have unlimited inventory and unlimited output? The salt in the salt farm has quantity. If you sell it all and want to re-made salt, it will take time. Where can the salt making methods in the feudal era be advanced? Otherwise, there will be no salt panic in the historical dynasty at all.

According to geographical location and other differences, salt is more than ten cents per catty in coastal areas such as Xuecheng, but in inland prefectures such as Da Shang, Da Tang, and Rome, it is not uncommon for one catty to twenty or thirty or thirty or thirty or thirty or thirty or forty.

When the Xu Li family is out of stock for the time being and the inventory is full, it is the ones that cannot be sold in the Lu Mansion. In the market around Xuecheng, it is a temporary monopoly price.

The loss? The Xu family and the Li family started a war, but the Lu family was beaten to death? Don’t be funny, the Lu family will only enjoy profits and laugh to the end.

He believed that he would give Lu Guoxing a certain amount of time to slowly sort out each link. This son should be able to figure it out, but he was too impatient. Seeing the salt merchants who had originally bought salt from the Lu family running around the two sides, he became anxious. When people were anxious, they would easily make mistakes and make mistakes in advance and retreat.

After a few words, Lu Guoxing indeed stabilized, and the expression on his face was extremely embarrassed.

"Did you go to visit that noble person these three days?"

After Lu Zhennan spoke again, Lu Guoxing then said, "I visit you once a day, I don't say much, and I don't have deep friendship."

"The main reason is that Yuan Shu reported all the recent situations to him. The one who made a statement on the first day was OK. The one who said Yuan Shu was okay the next day, but today... the one who smiled and said that Yuan Shu had barely passed the qualification."

Speaking of this, Lu Guoxing couldn't help but complain, "I really can't think of what kind of identity that person is so that he can stand and speak without a pain in his back. The Li family has already paid a lot of benefits. How much resources and connections have been paid to appease the prefect? ​​"

"Since the war started, how much has the loss of wealth and goods in all aspects? The reputation has begun to collapse, but it just barely passed the exam?"

"I don't know how noble he is, but this attitude and tone is already beyond our class!"

Li Yuanshu's original intention was to protect dozens or hundreds of neighbors near Wang Han's house, the direct murderer who killed the Xu family, and not to be extorted or exploited, bankrupt or sell his children. So far, what he has paid far exceeds the total value of those dozens or hundreds of civilian families!

Even if he is kind, in Lu Guoxing's opinion, it is really worse. He allows the yamen runners sent by the Xu family and Yu Tongzhi to blackmail them at will to blackmail them. At worst, Li Yuanshu can take some money from his family to help them pay the blackmail, which is much easier than it is now.

Lu Zhennan was also shocked. It’s okay, but it’s okay, and he barely passed the exam?
Chapter completed!