The Salt Merchant's Profits! Extremely domineering!
"One tael of coarse salt! Five hundred!"
"One tael of fine salt! Five strings of coins!"
When the people of Chang 'an woke up in the morning, they found that all the salt merchants in the city had increased their prices.
For a time, complaints filled the air.
"I couldn't afford salt to begin with, but now the price is actually increasing.”
"What are you doing? Do we poor people not deserve to eat salt?”
"Sigh, it's really infuriating. These salt merchants can raise the price if they want to. If this continues, we'll all starve to death.”
It turned out that one tael of coarse salt was only a hundred dollars.
Now, it had directly increased by five times.
No wonder the commoners in the city were complaining.
In fact, it was not only the ordinary people who were complaining. Even the wealthy families could not take it anymore.
Her eldest grandson Xue 'er was still in a bad mood.
Although he knew that the Crown Prince was unwilling to get married, he had his own difficulties. However, her pride made her hate the Crown Prince.
Zhangsun Chong brought his sister out early in the morning to relax.
In the West Market.
Zhangsun Xue 'er also saw the signboard outside the salt merchant's shop. Zhangsun Xue' er liked to calculate accounts and would usually stay with the accountant at home, so she was quite familiar with the price of goods.
The Qi Public House bought refined salt. However, refined salt was only worth one yuan.
Now, the refined salt had actually doubled!
"Brother, is refined salt so expensive now?”Zhangsun Xue 'er was a little surprised.
"Humph! This group of salt sellers had maliciously raised the price, but unfortunately, the Ministry of Revenue could not control them.”Zhangsun Chong glared at the salt merchant's shop.
"Even Father can't control them?" Zhangsun Xue 'er looked at the people who were complaining and was a little stunned.
"Of course not. These salt merchants were all the people of His Highness the King of Wei. Father was only from the Ministry of Official Personnel Affairs, so how could he dare to interfere?
Even the people from the Ministry of Revenue had to give face to the King of Wei. He could only turn a blind eye to these malicious price increases!”Zhangsun Chong shook his head helplessly.
However, Zhangsun Xue 'er had the slightest temper." How can we just sit by and do nothing? Salt was so expensive that there were definitely many commoners who could not afford it.”
Zhangsun Chong looked at the commoners beside him." The commoners who are able to live in the capital are considered to be slightly well-off. They could still afford it, but they could only taste it a little.
The most pitiful ones were the people outside Chang 'an. They couldn't even buy salt. Buying one tael of salt could cost one year of living. Usually, he would rub salt cloth, come and taste the fresh taste!”
He heard that the lives of ordinary people were so miserable.
This made Zhangsun Xue 'er even angrier at these salt merchants!
The salt merchants enjoyed the convenience of the empire, but they came to harm the ordinary people in order to obtain huge profits! Truly despicable!
From her anger towards the salt merchants, Zhangsun Xue 'er quickly transferred her anger to the King of Wei, Li Tai!
She felt even more ashamed of that fat prince!
"Can you afford it? If you can't afford it, get lost!" Just as Zhangsun Xue 'er and the others were about to leave the salt merchant's shop, a few thugs walked out from inside. As they pushed and shoved, they pushed an old man to the ground.
It turned out that when the old man was looking at the salt, he actually reached into the salt bag and touched it.
This was a taboo for the salt merchants!
After the old man fell to the ground, he crawled backward.
However, the thugs didn't care about this. They stretched out their hands and called out to the old man.
"Brother!"
Zhangsun Xue 'er shouted.
Zhangsun Chong was originally a righteous youth who would shout when he saw injustice. He immediately rushed forward and pushed those thugs away.
"Beneath the Son of Heaven, what are you doing? Is there still law?"
Zhangsun Chong shouted angrily!
When the thugs saw that Zhangsun Chong was dressed in brocade, they did not dare to retaliate.
She only muttered,
"Who are you? How dare you meddle in our affairs?"
"This old man broke the rules of our salt merchants, so he should chop off his hand!”
Zhangsun Xue 'er was not convinced.
"You guys are so impressive! The law of the Great Tang states that if you touch your salt, you should chop off your hand!
Besides, your salt is so expensive, and there are so many impurities in it. Can't they just touch it?”
Zhangsun Xue 'er moved closer and saw that there were too many impurities in the coarse salt. How was this coarse salt? It was not even salt at all. It was almost all sand!
This made Zhangsun Xue 'er even more disgusted!
These salt merchants not only maliciously raised the price, but they also forced the seller to buy and sell, and plotted to fake it!
"Well said, young lady!"
Another young man walked out of the shop. He held a fan in his left hand and pretended to be a gentleman. However, the birthmark on his cheek was too eye-catching!
"But that's how our salt merchants sell their salt! If you're not convinced, you can report it to the authorities!”
The young man looked at Zhangsun Xue 'er and said with a smile.
It was quite a shameless smell!
"Do you really think we don't dare to report this to the authorities?" Zhangsun Xue 'er was toot. They must have lost their minds to be so impudent with their Zhangsun Clan in Chang 'an Fortress!
"Of course, you can report it to the authorities!" The young man made an inviting gesture." However, our salt merchant's surname is Wang! It came from the Langya Wang family! His Highness the King of Wei has always been on good terms with us!
If you dare to report this to the authorities today! Today, I will force this old man to buy all the ten taels of salt he touched!”
Hearing this, the old man was immediately afraid.
Ten taels of coarse salt was a total of five strings of money!
How could he have so much money!
Seeing the old man waving his hands in fear, the young man seemed to be very happy." If he can't afford it, then break all his bones and muscles as a punishment!”
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