Chapter 80: Looking for new ways to make money!

With the use of kindness and power, Li Zhao successfully took office as a bad coach, but whether he can hold a firm position in this position is still unknown!

You know, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. The life of bad people is too hard. If you want them to do their best, you must first make them and their families have no worries about food and clothing, and there must be pocket money in your arms.

This yamen is too dilapidated and needs to be rebuilt, otherwise it will be impossible to work.

There are also bad people's clothing and weapons that need to be replaced. They are dressed almost like beggars, holding a broken iron ruler in their hands. How can they arrest thieves and maintain public order?

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The above problems are a problem in total: they need money, and they need a lot of money.

Where does the money come from?

Jingzhao Prefecture will definitely not allocate funds, and it is useless to apply.

Li Zhao himself has some money, but using his private money to work on the business is not a long-term solution!

Besides, the bad people organization will grow and grow in the future. There are hundreds of thousands of members and halls all over the country. At that time, my little money was not enough.

For the sake of the present, we will inevitably find a way to make a fortune and serve as the economic foundation for the development and growth of bad people's organizations!

To find a way to make a fortune, it is naturally the place where there are the most merchants... On the second day of taking office, Li Zhao took white buns, white sun rats, and four major guards to Xicheng.

There are two markets in Chang'an City, east and west. The East City is relatively close to Xingqing Palace, and there are many high-ranking officials living nearby, so most of them sell luxury goods, and all kinds of rare things are available. The West City is relatively down-to-earth, and most of them sell daily necessities such as tea, medicinal materials, cloth, salt, etc.

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"Look, take a look. The finest salt produced in Bashu is as white as snow and has no impurities. Come and buy it quickly, it will be gone if it is too late."

"The sea salt that Shandong just shipped is cheap, cheap!"

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After wandering around the West City, Li Zhao stopped in the salt area and became interested in the goods sold here.

It turned out that in feudal society, not only were people divided into three levels, but salt was generally divided into three levels according to the place of origin and quality:

First, fine salt, also known as "well salt", is mainly produced in the Bashu area. That is, by digging a vertical shaft, manually extracting brine deep underground to make salt. This method is very investment, not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also has very little output.

When digging a salt well, the shallow ones are used to make a thousand taels of silver, and the deep ones are used to make a thousand taels of silver, and even those who spend 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver without seeing any results. However, the salt of the well has very few impurities, white color, delicious taste, and contains various natural mineral elements. Long-term consumption is beneficial to human health.

The food is good and the quantity is small, so the price will naturally be expensive. A dou of fine salt is sold in Guanzhong area for about 4,000 cents. Only high-ranking officials and wealthy families can afford it.

The second is fine salt, that is, salt obtained from the sea or salt water lake through drying, and then purified by extremely complex methods!

The purity, color and taste of fine salt are far less than that of well salt, but the output is huge and the price is much cheaper, about 800 cents a dou.

The third is coarse salt, that is, sea salt that has not been purified, has coarse particles, a lot of impurities, and has a bitter taste. Long-term consumption is not conducive to human health and can only be used to feed livestock, pickle pickles, or prepare pigments!

However, the production of sea salt is the largest and the cheapest. A bucket of coarse salt costs only 200 cents, and the large amount can be even cheaper!

‘I really searched for everything without any effort. I found the way to make money so easily. God helped me... I was so stupid before, why didn’t I notice salt? If I noticed it, I would have made a fortune long ago. It’s more money than selling Erguotou. Salt is a necessity for daily life!’

For ordinary people, fine salt and coarse salt are very different, but in Li Zhao's eyes, the main ingredients of the two are exactly the same, and the latter is just a little more impurities.

As long as the impurities are removed, will the coarse salt become refined? The purification process is also easy. It only requires a few simple tools, a few simple materials, and a few simple chemical equations... the level of middle school students.

And these few simply add up to a total of twenty times the price difference... If you get rich, you will be rich!

I have found the way to make money, but I still need to plan carefully how to operate it in detail. After all, I am not familiar with the salt market and have no channels for purchasing and selling goods. I would have a partner.

I didn't think of the solution yet, but I met an acquaintance in the market.

"Isn't this Mr. Zhao? I don't want to meet him here. I heard that the young master has become a bad handsome man and has an official position at a young age. He will definitely have a bright future in the future!"

"You are so kind to the manager Zhou!"

"If Mr. Zhao doesn't dislike it, go to the shop for a cup of tea!"

"Okay, thank you!"

The acquaintance is Li Zhao's landlord, the uncle of the Wu sisters. His real name is Zhou Youren, who is honest and honest and polite to everyone, so he has the nickname: Zhou Laoshi!

The Zhou family had been glorious before, and several high-ranking officials were produced, but unfortunately they are now in decline, leaving only one ancestral home and a salt shop left. They worked hard to manage and barely survive.

Li Zhao was about to inquire about this information, and immediately brought Bai Mo and others into the shop. The shop of Zhou's family was not big, with only seven or eight young men taking over the business, and another girl was sitting at the counter to settle the score.

After a closer look, it was nothing but Xiao Wu. It turned out that she didn't want to stay at home and had a free meal, so she ran to her uncle's shop to help. The social status of women in the Tang Dynasty was very high, and it was not a big deal to show up in public.

"Love, have tea!"

"Yes, uncle!"

Xiao Wu cooked a pot of tea and sent it to everyone in turn. He glanced at Li Zhao again, ran back to the counter with a red face, and continued to settle the accounts, but the sound of fiddling with the calculation was obviously a bit messy...

To be fair, Xiao Wu, dressed in women's clothing, is very beautiful, with bright eyes and white teeth, skin like snow, a graceful figure, and a noble temperament!

Such a beauty, when a hundred men saw it, at least ninety-nine were moved, and Li Zhao was the one left.

Don't worry, Li Zhao is not a bent person, nor is he a saint who is not close to women. There are two reasons why he is not moved:

In a word, Li Zhao is a 16-year-old boy, but a 30-year-old adult, so he naturally will not be moved by a 14- or 15-year-old girl... This is a junior high school student in the future. If he makes a mistake, he will start in ten years and be at the highest death penalty.

The tall lady with a bulge in front and a raised back is Li Zhao’s dish!

Secondly, Xiao Wu seemed gentle and kind, but there was a sense of hostility lurking in his bones. Otherwise, he would not have bitten a piece of meat on the dock. This is somewhat similar to her aunt (Wu Zetian).

It would be fine if a person with such a personality is peaceful. Once he encounters a drastic change, it is definitely a very terrible thing to inspire the hostility in his bones... Li Zhao is deeply afraid of this!

Less gossip, and the book returns to the main story.

While chatting with Manager Zhou and asking about the salt business, Li Zhao looked at the shop. He was surprised to find that there was only coarse salt and fine salt for sale here, but no fine salt was found.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, why don't you have any fine salt here?"

"Alas, my son doesn't know that fine salt is mainly produced in the Bashu area. It must cross the Daba Mountains and the rugged plank roads in the Qinling Mountains to transport them to the Guanzhong area and then enter Chang'an City along the waterway. However, since April, heavy rain has been falling in the Bashu area, and it has not been sunny for more than a month, which has triggered mountain torrents and destroyed the plank roads. It is difficult for business travel, so fine salt will naturally not be transported out.

Nowadays, six out of ten salt shops in Chang'an City have been cut off, and the rest are just barely supporting them. Many people cannot buy fine salt and can only eat fine salt or even coarse salt. That thing is very unpalatable."

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"So that's it, I'll learn it!"

After exploring it, Li Zhao's eyes lit up, he pondered for a moment, and made up his mind!

"Shopkeeper Zhou, I have a friend who specializes in selling salt. He happened to have a batch of fine salt in his hand to take action. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Young Master is serious about this, but I don't know how much salt there is. What is the price?"

"There are a lot of fine salt, you can send it three or four hundred dou first. As for the price, what is the normal market price?"

"No problem, thank you Mr. Zhao. If you really have a salt-salt purchase channel, this little shop of Xiao Laoer will be saved. You are really a noble person in our family. Thank you, thank you so much."

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Manager Zhou stood up, bowed and bowed to Li Zhao, and said several words of thanks.

You should know that because the trade route is cut off, the prices of fine salt in the east and west markets have soared, and have more than doubled, and are still rising. If you purchase goods at the normal price, it is equivalent to making a fortune!

What he now doubted was that the young man in front of him could really get a lot of salt, don’t he make himself happy?

Li Zhao naturally saw the doubts of Manager Zhou, but did not explain anything. When the goods were delivered tomorrow, all doubts would be self-defeating.

As for the salt, I really don’t have it in my hands, but it can be refined!
Chapter completed!