Unlimited Supplies: Custody Minister with Space Supermarket

Chapter 524

Author: Meitong

Although Mrs. Kou did not reach an agreement with Su Jingchen, she was not discouraged and did not return to Huizhou.

It's not her style to back off.

For a junior, as long as she rubs him back and forth a few times, using both soft and hard tactics, she won't believe that he won't surrender.

Mrs. Kou settled in Yangzhou, but in order to avoid suspicion, she did not live in the Prince's Mansion. Instead, she lived in the courtyard opposite Su Jingchen's house.

Yes, this courtyard belongs to the Kou family. The Kou family had already bought it when Lord Yin was still the salt transport envoy.

Just like Lord Yin, there is a cave in this courtyard. There are many more secret passages and secret rooms underground than in Lord Yin's mansion.

Mrs. Kou originally wanted to take a two-pronged approach and get some advice from Su Jingchen's wife.

After all, the status of the descendants of the Hou family is much better than that of the sons of businessmen. Su Jingchen's bones are hard and difficult to chew, but this is not necessarily the case for Yu Xiaolian.

What woman doesn’t want her husband’s family to be more respectable?

Mrs. Kou was confident that she could persuade and soften Yu Xiaolian, so she could ask Yu Xiaolian to give Su Jingchen a pillow blow, which would probably be more effective than ten times of lobbying.

I just wanted to meet my grandson's daughter-in-law as my grandmother, but I didn't want to be told by the servants of the Su Mansion that Mrs. Su had gone to Yuzhou half a month ago. When I asked when she would be back, the servant said vaguely, not sure, maybe in the summer.

Maybe by the end of the year.

"Our wife hasn't been back to her parents' home in three years. She misses her so much. In addition, my wife still has a business in Yuzhou and hasn't been back for several years. Even doing an accounting will take some time!"

Mrs. Kou was rejected and felt very unhappy.

She cursed Su Jingchen in her heart for being cunning.

Before the man could establish a foothold in Yangzhou, the woman left for her parents' home. This...

This is hiding out!

Yu Xiaolian, who had escaped, was now having a big meal with the whole family.

When she came back this time, it took more cars than when she went from the north to Yangzhou, a total of nine carriages.

The cars were filled with things, including gifts, Su Yuntong and her personal belongings, and most of all, purified salt.

Of course, she didn't steal the salt to enrich herself. As a salt merchant, she set up a salt introduction and wholesaled it from public to public.

As for the salt that Mr. Yin had pre-sold before his retirement, Su Jingchen also thought of a way to resolve it.

Although the pre-sale money did not go into Su Jingchen's pocket, those salt merchants spent real money, and they could not let others spend their money in vain without giving salt.

But the quantity pre-sold by Mr. Yin is too large. If all are cashed out, the salt industry will be monopolized by these people again.

Su Jingchen had no other ambitions, he just wanted to make salt accessible to everyone.

Although it is impossible to make salt affordable, it can still be achieved without selling it at a high price.

A certain salt merchant has three thousand kilograms of sea salt.

I don’t have three thousand kilograms of sea salt, do you want purified salt?

Yes, purified salt is more expensive. It used to cost three thousand catties, but now you can only buy one thousand catties.

What? Disagree?

If you don’t agree, go ahead and queue up. I’ll cash it in for you when sea salt is available.

Su Jingchen used this method to get rid of the salt merchants who bought pre-sale salt from Mr. Yin.

"This sea salt is already expensive, and purified salt is even more expensive. Isn't the price of salt rising instead of falling?" Ten-year-old Yu Ziqian tilted his head and asked Yu Xiaolian with a puzzled look on his face.

After Yu Ziqian has been tempered in school over the past few years, he is no longer the naughty kid who only knew how to do silly things a few years ago.

Seeing that he had grasped the key point immediately, Yu Xiaolian gave him an appreciative look, and then started talking to everyone to clarify their doubts.

Although the imperial court now allows salt merchants to sell salt, there are requirements for the price of salt. The maximum selling price of each kilogram of salt cannot exceed 300 Wen.

Therefore, although these salt merchants redeemed their salt notes as expected, their actual profit margins shrank severely.

In particular, most salt merchants transport salt to remote salt-free places for sale. The transportation and city fees, plus labor and other expenses, are also a large expense.

"Then if the salt dealer secretly sells it at a high price, we don't know about it either?" Yu Zixuan innocently interjected.

Yu Xiaolian touched her sister's head and said gently, "They don't dare. If the government finds out, it won't be a matter of losing their job as a salt merchant. Otherwise, they may lose their heads."

Salt is as important as grain and is the foundation of the people. The court does not allow anyone to exercise power over it.

Of course, in years of disaster and war, many businessmen took the opportunity to drive up prices, and grain and salt prices were once sky-high. However, the law does not hold everyone accountable, and this is something that is uncontrollable and impossible to do.

But now is the year of peace, I believe no one dares to be the first to touch this taboo.

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Yu Xiaolian and Su Yuntong stayed in Yuzhou for half a year. Until news of the flood in Huainan reached Yuzhou, Yu Xiaolian couldn't sit still.