The rare treasures Han Sui brought this time were dazzling and of great value.
A rough estimate is that they are almost equal to the annual tax revenue of Fufeng County.
Fufeng County is no longer an ordinary county in the Han Dynasty.
Under Ma Chao's management for more than a year, its tax revenue is more than three times that of famous counties in the Han Dynasty.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the property Han Sui brought this time can be described as a treasure of wealth and the wealth of the enemy's country.
Yan Pu looked a little embarrassed at this time.
He thought that the wealth brought by his lord would make the princes jealous.
But he didn't expect that he wouldn't even have a chance to show his face in front of Han Sui.
To put it more harshly, compared with Han Sui's meeting gift, the gift sent by Zhang Lu was also suspected of being a slap in the face.
However, Ma Chao is not the kind of person who is insatiable.
Thinking that he only spent two hundred gold to carry out urban sanitation and organized an army to put on a show, in exchange for such a thousand-fold return, he was already happy with his face.
I laughed so hard: This deal is such a damn good deal.
Especially the guy Zhang Lu loves, he actually sent two hundred carts of salted salt.
He really understands his thoughts and is too considerate.
However, when Ma Chao unwrapped a pack of salted salt, he His face became a little strange: These are the salts that people in the Han Dynasty often consumed.
Ma Chao is indeed one of those rich kids who doesn't know how valuable firewood, rice, oil, and salt are.
Before time travel, he was so obsessed with martial arts that he didn't even know what firewood, rice, oil, and salt were.
After traveling through time, his mind was filled with the fixed thinking of the 21st century.
Therefore, when he saw the pack of walnut-sized yellow-brown crystals appearing in front of him, he was a little dumbfounded.
He even didn't believe it, so he picked up a piece and tasted it.
In addition to the saltiness, there were all kinds of strange smells that made him ecstasy, so he picked up the water bag.
After rinsing my mouth vigorously several times, I felt that the strange smell had subsided.
And these brine salt blocks that have not been purified at all, during the peaceful period of the Han Dynasty.
It will be sold for eight hundred yuan per stone.
Now that there are wars and disputes, this salt has naturally become a strategic material.
The price is as high as two dollars per stone.
Zhang Lu sent two hundred carts of brine salt, which was worth at least eight hundred kilograms of gold.
Although he was shocked that Zhang Lu could do such a big thing, Ma Chao still called Han Feng to him and asked quietly: "This is what the people under the rule eat."
Han Feng naturally knew why people like Ma Chao would ask such common sense questions.
After all, these salts.
They are all dissolved in the food during cooking.
A person as high as Ma Chao would naturally not know what salt is, so he explained: "My lord, I don't know.
Such large pieces of refined salt can only be eaten by the richest families." .How can the people under the rule afford to eat such large pieces of refined salt?”
"Refined salt" Ma Chao stared at the brine salt that was obviously rich in mineral impurities, and was extremely surprised: this kind of salt lump was rougher than the coarse salt of later generations.
How can it be eaten?
"It is indeed refined salt.
Lord, I don't know.
The people under the rule are much better than other counties in the Han Dynasty.
Sometimes I even buy some salt blocks to go with the rice.
But the people in other counties can usually eat half full with wild vegetables and grain."
As for salt, don’t even think about it.
Ordinary people basically eat without salt or use mineral salt as seasoning.
Their health deteriorates every year.
Some people even die prematurely because of eating mineral salt. ” Mineral salt Ma Chao knows that it is salt rock that has not been processed at all.
Salt mines not only contain salt, but also contain nitrate, phosphorus, potassium and other impurities.
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If people eat mineral salt directly, they are simply seeking death: if they eat saltpeter, they may be able to survive for a while, but if they eat too much phosphorus and potassium, it is strange that the whole body will not turn purple.
Ma Chao could not have imagined that he who once thought he was close to the people's livelihood would unknowingly rise to the top of a luxurious and decadent aristocracy.
I couldn't help but feel extremely ashamed: in such a hellish feudal society, simple food, clothing and health had become an unattainable dream.
"Since ordinary people can find mineral salt, why don't they purify it before eating it?"
Ma Chao was stupid, because he couldn't understand what Han Feng said: Purifying salt is not a big process.
Is it possible that in this era, we don’t even have the technology to purify table salt?
"Purify" Han Feng looked confused: Ma Chao couldn't understand him, and he couldn't understand Ma Chao's words.
Seeing Han Feng's expression, Ma Chao understood immediately: Sure enough, during the Han Dynasty, people didn't know how to purify salt at all.
Ma Chao's original idea was to use the capabilities of Ma's Trading Company to make Hanzhong's brine salt industry bigger and stronger, so that people in at least Yongzhou, Liangzhou and other nearby counties could eat salt.
Unexpectedly, it turns out that fine purification and processing can be carried out here to compete with the salt rocks from other salt-producing lands, doubling the profits of the Ma family.
The profits from salt and stone were definitely a huge industry in ancient times.
Its monopoly privileges made all the princes jealous.
In the later period, Cao Cao was able to amass a large army under his command through the implementation of the farming system and the supervision of salt transportation in the east of the river, thus ruling most of China.
The world only knows that Cao Cao farmed, but they don't know that the salt transportation supervisor also provided great assistance to Cao Cao.
"It's wonderful, it's wonderful.
Grand Master Zhang is so polite.
Knowing that Yongzhou is a little salty, he actually gave two hundred carts of salt stones as a gift.
I'm so grateful."
After seeing the huge wealth hidden behind these two hundred carts of salt stones, Ma Chao He said to Yan Pu with a smile.
But Yan Pu was a little flattered at this time: Han Sui's astonishing wealth was piled there, and Ma Chao's face was calm, as if it was a matter of course.
And I just gave him some salt stones, a specialty of Hanzhong, but it actually made Ma Chao smile.
It was an unexpected surprise.
From this, Yan Pu said almost without thinking: "If Yongzhou is short of salt, the general will buy it from Hanzhong, and the price will definitely be lower than the merchant's price."
"No."
Ma Chao waved his hand, and when Yan Pu showed surprise, he continued: "Fufeng specialty, Yan Gongcao must have heard about it."
"Fufeng paper, Miaoxiang fried tea, Wei Dan ink, distilled liquor, smelting coal, Fufeng County's natural treasures, the general also has countless fantastic ideas, and produces exquisite things that every state and county dreams of."
Yan Pu was able to send an envoy to Fufeng, Naturally, he knew the Ma family's flagship products well, but he didn't know that Ma Chao suddenly asked what he was doing.
"If there is another Ma's trading house like the Han and Qiang Trading House on the border between Wudu County and Guangwei County, I don't know if these items can be exchanged for Hanzhong salt stones."
Ma Chao smiled secretly and proudly, looking forward to Yan Pu's answer.
Yan Pu also had an ecstatic expression.
After reacting, he almost forgot the saint's teachings.
After pinching himself hard, he replied loudly: "That's very good, that's very good."
Zhang Lu sent Yan Pu to the Ma family at this time.
The first thing was to ask for the Ma family's forgiveness and resolve the misunderstanding about the last attack on Guangwei County.
The second thing was to form an alliance with the Ma family if possible.
Ma Chao did not mention anything about Guangwei County, but instead talked about trade.
It is obvious that he did not take the affairs of Guangwei County to heart and started to trade between the two countries.
Doesn't that mean that they formed an alliance in disguise?
Before coming here, Yan Pu had thought about countless things, and even went to see Han Sui that night, just because he was afraid that after the Ma family was convicted, he would try to bring in foreign aid.
But this was the only thing that went so smoothly, but how could he Never thought about it.
In his excitement, Yan Pu looked at Ma Chao's weird and proud smile, and felt that the same smile appeared on the corner of his own mouth.
Just when the two of them were laughing in an extremely lewd and lewd way, Han Sui shouted in pain and brought both of them back to reality: "The good nephew has already agreed on the trade between the two families.
At this time, how can the good nephew give up the pearls and jade and take sand and stones?"
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