Chapter 2984

Ning Yushi looked at his expression and thought he was a fool, but he ate and lived next door with Zhou Liwei. He knew how hard he worked in charge of the salt farm. It seemed that he should have this future.

But such an opportunity is not available to everyone. He reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "you have a good aunt and uncle."

Then he turned and left laughing.

Zhou Liwei scratched his head and felt that these scholars liked to leave half of their words. He shook his head and looked at the carriage. After it went away, he turned back and continued to write down his account book.

Ning Yushi returned to Beihai County Yamen with salt. Bai Shan met him in the County Yamen and invited him to a working meal: "the crown prince went to Dengzhou."

That's a long way to go. Laizhou has to go east. It's the easternmost place in Dajin.

Ning Yushi thought for a while and didn't hurry to leave. "Then I'll stay here and wait for the prince."

Bai Shan:... Although he is not afraid of the censor, censor Ning is still somewhat uncomfortable here. For example, if he finishes his official business in advance every day, will he leave home early or continue to spend time in the county government?

But he didn't show it on his face. He still smiled and said, "I'll take Lord Ning to the post station."

The post station in Beihai county is not far from the county government, but it is not on the main street, but beside a relatively small street into the main street.

It is also very small. There are two floors up and down, two courtyards in front and back, and post Cheng and his family live in the back.

The cook and waiter in the post station are all part-time jobs of his family.

It is free for officials on business to stay in the post station, but Beihai county is too poor. Except that officials from Qingzhou City occasionally come to deliver official documents for one night, the post station can't receive officials most of the time.

So they will receive foreign guests, and in order to compete with the better hotels on the main street, they keep the price very low.

The attraction is to visit relatives in Beihai county or businessmen who don't have much money.

When Bai Shan sent Ning Yushi to the post station, a group of people were swearing out of the post station, and his expression seemed very angry. "Entrapment? When we came last year, it was five Wen a kilo, and this year it was six Wen? Our purchase price is six Wen, and it costs at least twelve Wen to sell. If people are willing to take twelve Wen, why don't they buy fresh fish and have to buy this smelly salted fish? "

"Yes, twelve Wen. You can even buy pork and chicken. Why eat fish?

"Let's air it again. There's not much else here, that is, there are many sea fish. In another two months, if their fish can't be sold, they will know the price reduction."

Bai Shan frowned and glanced at the faces of those people. Ning Yushi also looked up at each other and passed by them when he entered the door.

The post Cheng is holding a pen and keeping accounts carefully on the counter. He doesn't dare to write wrong, otherwise waste paper and paper are also very expensive.

A yamen servant took the lead in knocking on the table. The post Cheng said without lifting his head: "our shop only accepts guests who stay in the hotel. If you don't stay in the hotel, you have to eat. Go out and turn left to the street."

Yamen servant: "... Yi Cheng, it's the adult who's coming."

The post Cheng lifted his eyelids and saw Bai Shan in civilian clothes. He immediately put down his pen, "it's the county magistrate. Please come in, please come in."

Bai Shan asked Ning Yushi to go first, looked up at the back of his building and said, "this is Ning Yushi, an official from the capital. Arrange a quiet, spacious and ventilated room for Ning Yushi."

"Yes, please come upstairs, Mr. Ning."

Although the post station accepts foreign guests, he will reserve two good rooms to avoid officials complaining about the lack of a good room.

He took people to the second floor, went to the innermost room, opened the door and invited several people to go in and see the room.

The room is very spacious, in which a bed and a round table account for more than half. There is a wooden couch near the window, and on the other side is a screen separated bathroom. There are wooden barrels and shelves, wooden basins on the shelves, and the space is not small.

The window opened and was facing an alley. It seemed that few people walked, but from a distance, the main street was through the alley. It was really quiet.

It's still quiet.

Bai Shan turned to Ning Yushi and asked with a smile, "what do you think?"

Ning Yushi was very satisfied and settled the room. Ning's long entourage brought in his luggage, and the guards turned to choose their own room. The small post station filled up all the empty rooms.

The post Cheng quickly hung out the full sign.

Ning Yushi looked at him busy and turned to ask Bai Shan, "is salted fish so cheap?"

During his time in the salt farm, he occasionally chatted with the long-term workers in the salt farm. Knowing that they were fishing, he often sent the good fish to Beihai county and Qingzhou City for purchase at variable prices.

Some sea fish are cheap. They can buy a kilo for ten Wen, while others are very expensive. They need hundreds of Wen a kilo.

The most common thing that the long-term workers say is who caught a particularly rare fish when he went to sea. He soaked it in seawater all night and sent it outside Qingzhou City. He sent it to the city at dawn the next day. One kilogram can sell 200 Wen, and that one fish is not big. It can sell nearly 500 Wen for more than two kilos, which is equivalent to their drying 100 kilos of salted fish.

He thought it was just an exaggeration to set off the rarity of the fish, but it was not that the fish was too precious, but that the salted fish was too cheap?

Now it is the season to start fishing. Bai Shan is also having a headache. Even if Qingzhou City is included, the consumption of fish is actually limited. Therefore, more fishermen still sell their fish to customers who come to buy them.

But they kept the price too low.

Fishermen should not only fish, but also air dry after fishing

So hard, a kilo of fish is only a few Wen.

"At present, the road is difficult and the cost of transportation is very high. When merchants receive the goods, they must at least double the price to make money." Bai Shan is not a person who doesn't know the fireworks in the world. Naturally, he knows that merchants also have difficulties. Therefore, he said: "so I want to wait until Longchi ferry is repaired. At that time, the official road leading to the outside of Beihai county will also be repaired. The price of salted fish should be raised."

Ning Yushi sat at the table and asked, "what else?"

Bai Shan smiled and sat opposite him. "It's worthy of being governor Ning. The lower official really has other plans. I always thought, why can't salted fish be more valuable than other fish? It's not just meat, it also has salt. "

"There is a salted fish in a dish. You don't even need to put salt, so it's more expensive. Isn't it taken for granted?"

Ning Yushi: "the poor family has no chance to eat salted fish. I can't think of this method for the time being. They will take risks to buy salted fish. The people who want to taste the fish in the sea are not very short of money. They don't lack that salt."

"So it's also very particular about who to sell salted fish and where to sell it," Bai Shan said. "The lower official is looking for such merchants now."

Ning Yushi smiled and said, "don't you have an uncle who often travels to the grassland in the western regions? Maybe he can help you. "