Chapter 235 barter

The rare treasures brought by Han Sui this time are dazzling and valuable. Roughly estimated, they are almost equal to the one-year tax revenue of Fufeng County!

Fufeng County is not an ordinary county in the Han Dynasty. Under the operation of Ma Chao for more than a year, its tax revenue is more than three times that of the famous counties in the Han Dynasty. It can be said that the property brought by Han Sui this time should not be described as 'the treasure of things and the wealth of the enemy'.

And Yanpu's face was a little embarrassed at this time. He thought that the wealth brought by his master was very jealous of the princes. But I didn't expect that I didn't even have a chance to show my face in front of Han Sui. More harshly speaking, compared with Han Sui's meeting gift, Zhang Lu sent gifts and suspicion of slap in the face.

However, Ma Chao is not the kind of greedy person. Thinking that he only spent 200 million gold on urban sanitation and organized an army to make a show, he got such a reward of thousands of times. He had already liked it and smiled: This deal is really a deal!

Especially Zhang Lu, the cute guy, actually sent 200 cars of halogen salt. He really knew his mind and was so considerate! However, when Ma Chao untied a bag of halogen salt, his face became a little strange: these are the salts often eaten by the people of the Han Dynasty?

Ma Chao is indeed a rich son who doesn't know the value of firewood and rice. Before crossing, he was addicted to martial arts and didn't know what firewood, rice, oil and salt are at all. After crossing, his mind was full of fixed thinking in the 21st century. Therefore, when he looked at the bag of walnut-sized yellow-brown crystals appearing in front of him, he was a little dumbfounded. Even, he didn't believe it. He picked it up and tasted it together. In addition to salty, there were all kinds of strange smells that made him want to die. He picked up the water bag and rinsed his mouth several times before he felt that the strange smell faded.

And these unpurified brine blocks were sold for 800 yuan per stone during the Han Dynasty. Now that there are wars and disputes, this salt has naturally become a strategic material, and the price is as high as two dollars and one stone. Zhang Lu sent 200 trucks of halogen salt, which is worth at least 800 catties of gold!

Although he was shocked that Zhang Lu could make such a big deal, Ma Chao still called Han Feng to his son and whispered, "Is this what the people eat?"

Han Feng naturally knows why Ma Chao and other people ask such common sense questions. After all, these salts are dissolved in meals when cooking, and they are as high as Ma Chao. Naturally, they don't know what salt is, so he explained: "My lord doesn't know that such large pieces of refined salt are only the ability of the richest people to eat. . How can the people afford to eat this large piece of refined salt?

" refined salt?" Ma Chao stared at the halogen salts that were obviously rich in mineral impurities and was extremely surprised: how can this salt block be eaten, which is rougher than the coarse salt of later generations?

"It's indeed refined salt! The lord did not know that the people under the rule were much better than other counties in the Han Dynasty. Sometimes you can also buy some salt cubes to accompany the rice. It's good for people in other counties to be half full with wild vegetables and grain. As for salt, they don't even think about it. Ordinary people basically have no salt to eat or mineral salt seasoning. Their bodies are like a year. Even some people die prematurely because of eating mineral salt.

Ma Chao knows that the salt is simply unprocessed salt stone. The salt mine contains not only salt, but also contains impurities such as nitrate, phosphorus and potassium. People eat mineral salt directly, which is purely looking for death: if you eat nitrate, you may be able to survive for a while. It is strange that if you eat too much phosphorus and potassium, your whole body will not be purple.

Ma Chao didn't expect that he, who once thought he was close to people's livelihood, unconsciously went to the top of the luxurious and rotten aristocracy. I can't help but feel ashamed: in the dog's feudal society, simple food and clothing and health have become an unavoidable dream.

"That... Since the people can find mineral salt, why don't they purify it before eating it? Ma Chao was stupid, because he couldn't understand Han Feng's words: salt purification is not a big craft. In this era, is there no process of salt purification?

"Pure...purification?" Han Feng looked blank: Ma Chao couldn't understand his words, and he couldn't understand Ma Chao's words.

Seeing Han Feng's expression, Ma Chao suddenly understood: Sure enough, in the Han Dynasty, people did not eat salt at all!

Originally, in Ma Chao's conception, it only made the Hanzhong halogen salt industry bigger and stronger through the ability of Ma's business, so that the world... At least people in Yongzhou, Liangzhou and other similar states and counties eat salt. Unexpectedly, it turned out that it could be finely purified and processed to compete with other salt and stones that produce salt and land, and double the profits of the Ma family!

The profit of salt and stone was definitely a booming industry in ancient times. Its monopoly monopoly privilege made the major princes jealous. In the later period, Cao Cao accumulated a large army through the implementation of the farmland system and the salt management supervision of Hedong transportation, thus establishing more than half of China. The world only knows Cao Cao's farmland, but they don't know that the salt management supervisor has also provided great help to Cao Cao.

"Ven wonderful, very wonderful. Zhang Taishi is really too polite. Knowing that Yongzhou has little salt, he actually sent 200 carts of salt and stone. I am very grateful." After seeing the huge wealth hidden behind these two hundred salt stones, Ma Chao said to Yanpu with a smile.

But Yanpu was a little favored at this time: Han Sui's shocking wealth was piled up there, and Ma Chao's face was calm and seemed to be taken for granted. And I just sent some salt stones from Hanzhong specialties, which can make Ma Chao smile, which is really a surprise.

From this, Yanpu said almost without thinking, "If Yongzhou is short of salt, the general can buy it from Hanzhong, and the price will definitely be lower than the vendor price."

"No!" Ma Chao waved his hand and continued to say, "Fufeng specialty, must have been heard of Yan Gong Cao..."

Fufeng paper, Miaoxiang fried tea, Wei Danmo, distilled wine, smelting coal... Fufeng County's beautiful treasures, and the general has countless fantastic ideas and exquisite things, which are dreamed of in all states and counties..." Yanpu can use Fufeng, and naturally knows the flagship products of the Ma family like the palm of his hand. However, he doesn't know. Ma Chao suddenly asked what he did?

"If there is another Ma family firm like Hanqiang Trade Institute on the border between Wudu County and Guangwei County, I don't know if these items can be exchanged for Hanzhong salt stone?" Ma Chao smiled secretly and proudly, looking forward to Yanpu's answer.

And Yanpu also had an ecstatic expression. After reacting, he almost forgot the saint's doctrine and pinched himself fiercely before answering loudly, "So good, so good!"

Zhang Lu sent Yanpu to the Ma family at this time. The first is naturally to ask for the Ma family's understanding and resolve the misunderstanding of the last attack on Guangwei County; the second is to form an alliance with the Ma family if possible!

And Ma Chao did not mention the matter of Guangwei County at all, but talked about trade and commerce. Obviously, he didn't take the matter of Guangwei County to heart... And the two trades, doesn't that mean: a disguised alliance?

Before coming here, Yanpu had thought about countless possibilities, and even went to find Han Sui that night, but he was afraid that after the Ma family was punished, he could still attract a foreign aid... But he never thought of such a smooth possibility. Under the excitement, Yanpu looked at Ma Chao's strange and proud smile and found that there might be an identical smile on the corners of his mouth.

But when the two people laughed extremely obscenely*, Han Sui shouted bitterly and pulled both of them back to reality:

"Nephew! Previously, there was an agreement between the two trades. At this time, how can a wise nephew abandon pearls and jade and take sandstones!"