The horse they chose was also good. Although it was not as good as the horses of Jiang Hexi and Jiang's second brother, it was considered to have chosen a good horse.
Life on the grassland is busy, and soon it is spring.
It's time to sow.
The villagers also began to reclaim land and plant cotton.
Jiang Hexi really spent all the money in his hands this time, and it was urgent to get some money to buy animal bait in the system store, which became the most urgent task.
So, Jiang Hexi started mining.
The salt ore in the west is a good thing, but no one knows the purpose.
Jiang Hexi and Da Ya came back secretly picked a lot of salt ore and started to refine salt at home.
She knew that she could not hide it from her family, so she gave her some advice to her family, and no one could disclose the news.
Everyone in the family nodded vigorously, ensuring that they would not leak out.
Even the youngest brother Jiang San promised that he would not leak it.
The salt refining journey at Jiang Hexi's family began.
Put the salt ore in a large pot and melt it. After it melts, boil water and boil salt.
At first, the family didn't believe that they could use salt ore to cook salt. After all, salt is controlled by the government, and civilians could not get in contact with precious things like salt. In this year, they could eat pickled lumps.
They are all rich families.
After a while, snow-white crystals gradually appeared in the pot.
At this time, people used coarse salt and didn't believe that the pile of snow-white things in front of them were salt.
Jiang Hexi asked Da Ya, Jiang Dadi and others to take a little to taste. The next moment, their faces showed a look of surprise.
"Salt, salt, really salt."
"This salt is really good. It's much better than the salt I used to eat. The salt used to have a bitter taste."
They eat coarse salt that has not been refined, so they don’t have any good taste. And if they eat too much, they will easily get big neck diseases.
Brother Jiang said, "Sister, this salt is so good, I'm afraid that only high-ranking officials and nobles can afford it. If this salt is sold outside, it will definitely be sold at a good price."
Jiang Hexi nodded with a smile and said, "In the afternoon, you will follow me to pick up salt ore. Sister Du, you will cook salt at home as I told you."
"well!"
Sister Du answered repeatedly.
Anyway, they are outside the Great Wall now and are not worried about the court's problems. Moreover, the private salt is so good that if it is sold in the Central Plains, it will definitely be sold at a good price.
The next days, the whole family became busy.
Every day, they secretly went to the wilderness to pick up salt ore.
These salt ores were thrown to the ground at will, and no one looked at them again. Now it is cheaper.
The villagers were very surprised when they saw them picking up stones. Brother Jiang asked him to repair the horse farm and dealt with it.
As time passed day by day, the salt that was boiled every day quickly filled a lot of baskets.
However, Jiang Hexi wanted to make a big splash, but this salt was not enough.
So, they still picked up stones and cooked salt day and night.
In order not to arouse suspicion, Mu Xiaoyue said to everyone, "Let's go into the mountain to pick some mountain goods, and when the road is waiting, take them to the border town to sell them. You can definitely sell them at a good price."
Now the emperor of the Central Plains is fighting with foreign tribes. Those cities that have been cut off and want to dry must require a lot of salt.
If you bring it at this time, it will definitely be welcomed.
In addition to cooking salt, I have prepared mountain products.
This mountain product is ginseng.
Everyone has picked a lot of ginseng from the Goddess Mountain, and it is so old that it is so popular that it will definitely be able to sell it to the city for sale.
After Jiang Hexi told everyone about it, everyone became more and more active in walking around the outskirts of the Goddess Mountains.
Some of them picked Ganoderma lucidum, some picked ginseng, etc., and they all gained their own results.
After everyone prepared a lot, they prepared to go to a nearby border town to trade.
After everyone was ready, Uncle Jiang San was the leader, and the guy set out to the east with big bags.
After three days of trekking, the small town on the border is far away.
After the Goddess Mountains settled, we hadn't seen a stranger for a long time. At this time, we couldn't help but be excited when we saw the guards at the city gate.
The guards at the city gate looked at a group of people dressed like savages, full of vigilance.
"Who are you?"
"Sir, we are the people of the Central Plains. This is our guide. We have avoided the war before and then hid into the deep mountains."
As he spoke, he carefully handed over the road signs and household registration documents.
The soldier looked at it and after a moment, he said lazily, "What are you going to do when you go to the city?"
Uncle Jiang San hurriedly stuffed a piece of silver and said, "Everyone has no food or clothing in the mountains, and wants to get some mountain goods to the city to exchange for some things."
As he spoke, he caught a pheasant for the guard.
"Okay, go in."
The guard took the pheasant and then released the person.
After successfully entering the city, Jiang Hexi and others showed bright smiles.
That's great. Half a year has passed and I finally entered the city again.
Uncle Jiang San and others were still wearing leather clothes at this time. When they entered the city, people nearby looked at it and showed strange eyes.
Someone said, "Oh, where did the country bumpkin come from? It looks so rustic."
Jiang Hexi said, "Will we find an inn first to stay?"
"I have to do this first, find accommodation and then find customers."
No one who came out then went into the city, and some of them were left outside to guard the goods.
The Lin family is a business family. It has been going on business for several generations. The goods are also complete because his family can get goods that other families cannot get, and they are also very prestigious in the city.
However, recently, Lin Shengmao, the head of the Lin family, was very distressed.
Lin Shengmao told the housekeeper, "How long can our salt be sold for?"
The butler whispered, "Master, our family is about to lose salt. It can last for two days, and it has to be limited to supply."
Lin Shengmao's face looked a little bad after hearing this. His father married his sister to a high-ranking official in the capital and became a concubine. The family gave him a lot of money, so he got the job of a salt merchant in this small border town.
qualifications.
Salt merchants make money almost every day.
But now, their family can't even sell it.
Everything was just because the Liao people and Nasala tribes gathered together in the Jibei Plain to attack Fuzhou, and the trade routes were blocked and no goods could be transported in.
Other grains can still be purchased around the country, and there is food storage for a while, but there is no rush. It is just a thing like salt, which is not good without salt. If people don’t eat salt, they will not be able to exert their strength.
This small border town has a total of about 5,000 troops stationed. Yesterday, the county magistrate sent a notice to Lin Maosheng to collect salt as soon as possible. Otherwise, I was afraid that the city would be in chaos and even the salt of the garrison was almost used up.
It's only five days away.
Lin Maosheng's face was so anxious that he looked very ugly after hearing the butler's words.
"What should I do? Once I can't get the salt, if something happens in the future, a small salt merchant like us will definitely be the first to be used as a scapegoat."
"Master, why don't we go to the market and check it out? See if any other merchants have salt?"
"If other merchants had salt, they would have sold it at this time, and the price of salt had increased tenfold. Who wouldn't want to make money?"
Speaking of this, Lin Maosheng's face became more and more pale.
It's over, I can't get out the salt anymore. After the chaos starts, in order to comfort these civilians, the government will definitely take his family as the first scapegoat.
However, he is just a small salt merchant.
In the end, Lin Maosheng decided to look for it in the market. Although he knew that the hope was unlikely, what if it was true?
After Jiang Hexi and his friends stayed in the inn, they had a good rest that day. Early the next morning, they went to the market in the city to sell mountain goods.
Early the next morning, each of them carried a small bag of animal skins and set off like this.
In the inn, the guests who came and went to see that they were not much, as if they had just entered the city from the deep mountains and forests, and they all laughed a little.
Hey, I don’t know where the rustic guys came from.
But they didn't know that these local tycoons had the salt they were most scarce!
In times of war, salt is as expensive as gold.
After Mu Xiaoyue and the others arrived at the market, they looked at the dazzling variety of goods, and their eyes were a little straightened. Hey, that flower cloth is so beautiful, and that fruit snack was transported from Suzhou and Hangzhou, right?
I haven't eaten it for a long time, that candy, that meat, that clay man...
Anyway, after living in the cold winter for so long, looking at the fresh goods in the city, I really want to buy everything.
Unfortunately, after escaping, their pockets were empty.
Now, they are just relying on the mountain goods in the animal skin bags to change some essential daily necessities to go home.
Along the way, Jiang Dahu was a little nervous and said, "Uncle San, He Xi, can we really sell these things? What if we can't sell them?"
This is all the mountain goods collected by everyone in the village. Everyone relies on these things to exchange for food, clothes and other supplies. What if they can't be sold?
Jiang Hexi said, "Don't worry, you can definitely sell it."
As everyone talked, they came to a medicinal shop.
Jiang Hexi and everyone walked into the medicinal materials shop.
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man in his early forties. When he saw someone coming in, he said, "Customer, what medicine do you want to buy?"
Jiang Hexi said, "Shopkeeper, do you collect old ginseng here?"
"Old ginseng? Received, collected!"
Jiang Hexi took out a ginseng that was about fifty years old and said, "Shopkeeper, how much does this ginseng cost?"
The shopkeeper saw the scattered animal skin bag, and took out a ginseng that had been around for about fifty years, and his eyes widened.
He took the ginseng over, looked carefully, and said, "This ginseng has been around for about fifty years and is worth about fifty taels of silver."
After hearing this, Jiang Hexi knew that this was a fair price, so he immediately took out five.
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up after seeing these ginsengs.