Miss Yan lowered her head, but felt that it was quiet around her. She thought that when the man said porcelain just now, she was obviously a gentleman who knew porcelain. Why did she ask this question myself but didn't answer!

He looked up with courage, but found a tall young man opposite him looking at him blankly. The young man looked like a civilian, with a kind face and a bit stubble in his jaw. However, looking at this look, he could not get involved with the word "wena" and "elegant". The unmarried lady of the official family was bold enough to ask the man, which was already very unfair.

Seeing the young man about the same age as him staring at him so boldly, Li Meng was slightly stunned. He could see that the girl had turned red from her neck to her cheeks. Miss Yan screamed lightly, turned around and hurried into the inner courtyard.

The shopkeeper of the porcelain shop there kept twisting his neck until the lady left. He turned around. Seeing that Li Meng was still staring at the door of the inner courtyard, he sighed in his heart, "Inspector Li Erlang and the magistrate, I can't afford to offend anyone, so don't think so."

When Li Meng heard someone coughing behind her, she realized that she felt a little hot for a moment. Her behavior just now was indeed a little embarrassed, and she was embarrassed to be too lazy. She told the shopkeeper of the porcelain shop that she came here to get the goods in a month and turned to the store.

Jining Prefecture is the last hub before the Grand Canal entered Northern Zhili, and it is also the largest city near the intersection of Henan, Southern Zhili and Shandong provinces. It was the largest and most prosperous city in Shandong since the early Ming Dynasty, even surpassing Jinan Prefecture City, and the river governor's yamen was also located here.

There are many shops, warehouses, inns, brothels and restaurants in Jining. Cargo ships and merchants from south to south have brought endless business opportunities and wealth to the city.

Many Ming people’s notes mention: Jining’s wealth is not inferior to Jiangnan.

Senior officials who retired, wealthy merchants from all over the country, river yamen, and Shandong Salt Government yamen are all located in Jining City. These people are rich and rich people with rich wealth and luxurious life. Since they are rich people, all the details of their lives are extremely particular. Just as modern rich people pay attention to the origin and environmental protection and nature in everything, they are at a higher level than those used by ordinary people. These rich people in the Ming Dynasty also demand good results.

This is not only the habit of rich people in Jining, the north and south, the two capitals and cities in various provincial capitals, and the Songchang, Hangzhou, Jiahu, and the people in these places all brought huge wealth due to the huge prosperity of industry and commerce in the late Ming Dynasty, and their consumption habits became very close to modern times.

For example, the salt used for cleaning teeth is all about the fine salt produced in Qinghai, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai, and is called Qingshen. However, the eight camps of the King of Chuang and the General of Chuang are scattered between Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan. The imperial army either encircled or followed closely, fighting stainless. In this case, not to mention the merchants, there are not even pedestrians, and the specialties of Shaanxi and the Western Regions cannot enter the Central Plains.

Logistics were cut off, and the prices of goods coming over there were soaring, such as sheepskin, wool felt and green salt.

After the twelfth lunar month approached, the green salt on Jining had already risen to one tael of silver per kilogram. This can only be bought by powerful people in familiar warehouses. At the same time, the fine salt in various places with almost the same effect is also sold, but it just cannot be sold at a price.

I don’t know who said that rich people need a way to show their wealth. Starting from September of the sixth year of Chongzhen, when the rich people gathered together, people always mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, and they used green salt to rinse their mouths and said in a pretentious way:

"This green salt is the refreshing and refreshing Bilu salt!"

If you didn't use this salt to clean your mouth, you wouldn't dare to open your mouth. Of course, the real powerful and wealthy family would disdain to show off like this, but the housekeeper was very concerned about the purchasing family and must buy green salt.

In fact, it is simple to make a fake thing, but everyone who buys it is staring at each other. If anyone makes a fake, it will be shaken out by others. At that time, those who buy salt are faceless and those who sell salt are even more ruined. In fact, there is still a day left in the market, and everyone is planning clearly. Anyway, it will be a day to use it sooner or later.

This is a bad trend. The pharmacies and doctors in Jining City all regard this green salt as a necessary medicine to refresh the mind and calm the mind. When prescribing the medicine, they also specifically reminded the patient, "You must use green salt. If it is Huai salt or Lu salt, it will not work."

After the twelfth lunar month, news came from the shopkeeper Meng of Wenru Trading Company, Jining, saying that Henan Governor Xuan Mo and Shanxi Governor Dai Junen attacked the thieves in front and behind. In September, a batch of stolen goods of the thieves were intercepted, sold on the spot and sold them, and were bought by a merchant. They were transported to Shandong. Because they were not peaceful halfway, they changed the water route. They almost had to go to the wharf in Jining. It was said that it was a batch of green salt.

As soon as this news came out, the price of green salt in Jining City suddenly dropped by 30%. Everyone was convinced by the shopkeeper of this article. Although they didn’t know the background, they never made things difficult for the government. Moreover, many news can be obtained at the first time. I guess what is behind it is not simple.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the ship arrived at the wharf. Early in the morning, the shopkeepers of various warehouses in various stores were waiting for purchases. Jining is also a thoroughfare. The big merchants in the capital and southern Zhili all had semicolons here. Now the Central Plains are chaotic, and the green salt is also out of stock in other places. Moreover, whether it is Huai salt or Changlu salt, salt merchants are unwilling to spend more time to boil fine salt. They think it takes too much effort. Since there are not many substitutes, it is better to buy and sell these original green salt at a high price.

Therefore, this merchant includes both local and foreign merchant semicolons.

More than a dozen cargo ships slowly docked. Seeing such a large fleet, there was already a shopkeeper who asked his friend to run back to the store to reduce the price of the green salt in his store. With so many green salt and salt goods, the price on the market will definitely drop.

A tall man stood on the bow of the ship headed, wearing Qianmao's war jacket and uniform. The man saw that the shopkeeper Meng of Wenru Trading Company had not stopped yet, so he bowed and shouted loudly:

"Shopkeeper Meng, I will rely on your care this time!"
Chapter completed!