The official looked at the grains. Although they were fine, white and clean, he still said indifferently: "Actually, I don't think we need to go to such trouble. Although the current salt grains are large and have impurities, the sales volume has always been
The supply exceeds the demand. If we want to say it is fine, we can just grind it into fine pieces. This will consume more firewood and waste manpower. It is more practical to use these to boil seawater to make salt."
Another official nodded repeatedly: "That's right, Fifth Prince Concubine, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. After all this trouble, the cost of the salt will be higher. Then we will price it more expensively. Then we can eat it."
It’s still those people who can afford it, and those who can’t afford it are still those who can’t afford it, so why waste these things.”
While they were talking, Ye Yibai stared at the salt in the pot thoughtfully, stretched out his fingers to twist two fine salts in his mouth, and then his eyes lit up: "It's so salty."
Hua Yanxi stretched out her hand and pulled him: "Be careful, the temperature hasn't gone down yet."
The official smiled and said: "Fifth Prince, aren't you talking nonsense? This is salt, of course it is salty."
Ye Yi rolled his eyes at him: "You know nothing, try it yourself."
The official was helpless, shaking his head and saying: "Fifth Prince, I have been staying in this salt field for more than ten years. I still don't know what salt tastes like. I don't need to taste it. I can think of it just by seeing it."
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Ye Juechen said nothing, and put some salt into his mouth. His brows subconsciously wrinkled: "Why is it so salty?"
As he said that, he looked at Hua Yanxi with doubts in his eyes.
When the two officials saw the seventh prince saying this, they murmured in their hearts, these royal grandsons couldn't afford to eat salt, why were they making such a fuss?
But in order not to offend anyone, I started to grab it with my hands in a decent manner.
They have been in the salt field all year round and eat a lot of salt, which has a strong taste, so they don't just twist two pills like them, but just grab a handful and stuff it into their mouths.
The salt melts as soon as it hits the saliva, and the salty taste immediately rushes to the tip of the tongue, even starting to taste bitter.
The two of them turned around in a hurry: "Bah, bah, bah, why is it so salty?"
Ye Yibai clicked his tongue and said, "Thankfully you guys are guarding the salt field, you can't stand the saltiness."
The official smiled apologetically and said, "I've been careless."
Ye Juechen looked at Hua Yanxi aside: "How did you do it?"
"Didn't you all see it?"
"Just such a simple step can make the salt so salty?" The two officials were a little unbelievable, but they were present from beginning to end just now.
It's just a matter of boiling it with water, filtering it, and then boiling it to dryness. It's not that complicated. How could it be like this?
Hua Yanxi did not answer their questions, but asked: "How about this salt?"
The two officials immediately started blowing rainbow farts.
"Good, quite good. The salt is as fine as snow and melts in your mouth. Judging from the amount of evaporation, the weight will not be affected at all, but the saltiness is much greater than before."
"Yes, the process of this salt is not complicated, but the quality is very high. Even if it costs a little more money, the dignitaries will buy it."
Hua Yanxi looked at them: "Who said I'm going to raise prices?"
The two officials looked at each other, and then said doubtfully: "Not raising the price? Then, why..."
Although the next words were not spoken, everyone knew them well.
Since the price is not going up, why bother making it so meticulous?
Ye Juechen didn't understand its meaning either.
Hua Yanxi and her father had signed an agreement. To increase the output value of the official salt, increasing the output was certainly useful, but to achieve this amount, increasing the output was far from enough.
Even if it is useful in the short term, there will always be a saturation period.
This thing will not be used up in a short time. After reaching the saturator, it is impossible to realize the large output in a short time.
Hua Yanxi saw that they still didn't understand, so she couldn't help but remind you: "Let me ask you, will ordinary people buy salt?"
"Yes, I do, but because salt is relatively expensive, I just put it down when cooking. The poorer people don't even buy salt, they mostly boil it with water."
"That's it," Hua Yanxi said, "the weight of these salts is still the same, and the price is still the same, but the usable quantity is only half of what it used to be, which is equivalent to half cheaper than before. People who can afford it can't afford it.
That’s a lot.”
"Is this possible? People who don't want to spend money are still unwilling to spend money. Besides, most of the buyers of this salt are dignitaries and some big restaurants. After all, the people buying it are in the minority." The official said.
, shook his head in disapproval.
Ye Juechen and Ye Yibai didn't speak, but they obviously agreed with what he said.
Hua Yanxi shook her head: "You all have noble status and have never experienced hardship. How can you understand what the people are thinking? When doing business, you should not focus on the existing market, but on discovering the vast market. Do you think
, the audience of this salt is only the nobles, but even the nobles are in the minority, and the majority are the poor people. Although they do not have much money, once this salt becomes popular, they will become a group of powerful consumers.
"
"What we have to do is not to exclude them, but to find ways to bring them together. After all, our ultimate goal is to make the country rich and the people strong. Do you think it is a good thing that the people are poor and cannot afford to buy things?