Fty-fourth Crazy Salt Price

Stir-frying salt is a very simple thing, especially in winter.

With the arrival of the severe cold, the salt production of Jianghuai salt farms and Zhejiang salt farms will quickly drop to a very low level. The decline of Fujian salt farms is not small, and winter is the time of the largest salt consumption. To this end, salt merchants must start hoarding a large amount of salt in autumn to ensure the supply in winter.

The annual salt consumption in the five provinces of Jiangnan is about 400 million catties to 450 million catties, and the supply in winter is relatively high, about 140 million catties.

In order to ensure the supply of salt, Jiangnan Commercial Bank hoarded 150 million catties of salt in advance in accordance with the regulations, which is enough to cope with the sales of three months in winter.

If you want to stir-fry salt, you only need to buy the 15 million catties of salt in the merchant's hands, and the price of salt in the market will be completely up to the speculators, because more new salt will not appear until tomorrow in March.

If you buy this 15 million catty of salt, Jiangnan Commercial Bank can only wait to die.

Unified sales monopolized salt sales in five provinces, but they sat by and waited until the salt price in the five provinces rose to 200 yuan, 300 yuan. Then the Hu family is waiting to investigate!

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Shanghai, Yu Garden.

Tang Yanshu invited a troupe to invite all the rich businessmen in Shanghai to watch the play together. Everyone gathered together and greeted each other.

When everyone was almost there, Tang Yanshu came in late. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and arched his hand to the rich businessmen: "Boss, how offended you are. Tang talked with a friend about the price of salt, so he came late!"

"Master Tang, don't hide it with us. Just say, can Jiangnan Shanghang still hold up?" Someone has a bad laugh.

Tang Yanshu also sneered and said, "The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce is the official firm of the imperial court. Of course, it can hold on. Unfortunately, Hu Chuyuan can't stand it. Everyone, you can rest assured that as long as he dares to sell, you can sell it. I checked clearly in advance that the salt hoarded by Jiangnan Commercial Bank this time is only 140 million catties of salt, plus the salt stored in various places, the total amount will not exceed 160 million catties. As long as we buy all this salt, he will only have the end of dismissal and investigation.

At this point, he became more and more proud and said with a humming smile, "What about us? We are both rich and angry. As soon as he dies, Jiangnan Commercial Bank will definitely fall into the hands of Li Zhongtang. At that time, all the bosses will have the opportunity to invest in shares, and we will still make a fortune in the salt market!"

"Master Tang, then please!"

"Yes, Master Tang, we are all counting on you now!"

Tang Yanshu laughed and said, "Everyone, everyone, let's watch the play at ease. When the scene is over, you will continue to go back to buy salt. We will buy as much as Hu Chuyuan dares to sell. In addition, invite a few hooligans to rob and smash. Let me see how long he can last!"

"That's easy to say. Master Jin of Hongmen and I have already said that this time I still have to ask him to come forward and smash the facades of the little squeline. Let's see how he can clean it up!"

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The madness of salt prices is shocking enough.

The price of salt in Shanghai has risen the most fiercely. A catty of salt was quickly speculated to 600 yuan, ten times higher than the original market price, but even so, the price of salt is still soaring sharply.

Similarly, Tang Yanshu's first expectation soon failed.

Two factions soon appeared in the court. One faction was mainly the officials of the Ministry of Household and the imperial historians. They believed that the rise in salt prices was due to the unified marketing law, and the unified marketing law should be abolished and the Hu family should be investigated. The other was Prince Gong and Wan Qinglin and others. They believed that it was the speculation of merchants, and people should be sent to inspect these speculative merchants first.

The two sides are arguing endlessly.

At least a large number of Beijing officials are under control, and the court does not dare to cancel the unified marketing law, which is even less suitable for investigating the Hu family.

Suzhou, Humble Administrator's Garden.

Hu Rong hurriedly ran into the Fucui Pavilion. When he saw Hu Chuyuan, he said, "My master, Lord Tan is here!"

"Oh...please come in!"

Hu Chuyuan immediately stood up from his desk and quickly stepped out to meet him. At this time, Tan Zhonglin, who was wearing a second-grade official uniform, had come in.

"Lord Tan!"

Hu Chuyuan arched his hand and then invited Tan Zhonglin to sit down.

Tan Zhonglin nodded his head calmly and sat down and said, "Chu Yuan, how much salt do you have in your hand?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Not much. I used to have 160 million catties in my hand, but recently it has been restricted. It retails 135,000 catties of salt every day and sells more than 20 million catties in half a month. According to common sense, this sales volume is enough to support the amount of salt in the five provinces of Jiangnan. In addition, I sold nearly 40 million catties of salt through middlemen, and the price is calculated according to the market price.

Tan Zhonglin was a little puzzled and asked, "Why do you sell so much through middlemen?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Your Excellency, others deliberately want to empty me this time. They must have calculated how much salt I have stored. If I don't sell this salt, they won't give up. Therefore, I deliberately shipped goods at a high price through middlemen. On the surface, I wanted to make huge profits, but in fact, I wanted them to expose it quickly.

"It's true!" Tan Zhonglin nodded and said to Hu Chuyuan, "I hoarded 30 million catties of salt for you in Suzhou, Haizhou and Yancheng. This is my limit. The output of Jianghuai salt farm in winter is very low. I forced the local salt to grab salt for me, so I barely scraped out so much. But I'm afraid that those salt merchants also know it!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "Lord Mei, the governor of Zhejiang Province, has hoarded almost 30 million catties for me."

Tan Zhonglin suddenly said, "Do you remember that we gave you more than 10 million catties of salt when we checked the salt merchant?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Remember, Lord Zhongtang sold those salts to the merchants at the average price as a stepping stone for the merchants to enter the salt industry."

Tan Zhonglin said in a low voice, "In fact, there are still 26 million catties of salt hidden on Chongming Island. I have been detained in the granary of the county government, which can be transported into Shanghai at any time. However, this salt has been cancelled by me, and there is no origin.

"Oh...!" Hu Chuyuan understood that this salt had become private salt, and no one knew their existence except Tan Zhonglin.

Tan Zhonglin said again: "I originally planned to slowly sell this salt through the commercial bank, exchange it into money, and hide it in the discount stocks of the commercial bank. The profits obtained will continue to roll down. Sooner or later, Lord Zhongtang and Xiangjun will be in urgent use. Now, you have to find a way to pull them out!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "It's easy to pull it out."

The so-called "pulling out" is to sell these illegal private salts with legal labels.

"discounted shares" is another concept. The total share capital of Jiangnan Commercial Bank is 10 million taels of silver, and the court accounts for 24% of the share capital. The official share earnings are managed by the governor of Liangjiang and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

In addition to the 10 million taels of silver, the firm also has 2 million taels of silver dividend shares. These shares have no shareholder rights and are collected once a year and distributed according to the ratio of 2/12.

These are discount stocks, the main function is to let the big shopkeepers, shopkeepers and jans share dividends, and the other role is to bribe those officials in charge of salt affairs to take shares.