The Blessed Beauty Returns with a Dimension-Chapter 960 - 936: Striking It Rich

Lin Dawang was anxious, feeling as if something was scratching at his heart, itching like mad. How could he not see that Li Tieniu was calm and composed now, not at all in a hurry?

Their salt must have a sales channel, and must be selling very well.

Otherwise, how could he be as steady as a mountain? Who in their right mind isn’t hurrying to prepare silver to pay taxes now?

The more Li Tieniu acted this way, the more Lin Dawang’s heart itched to know what kind of business Li Tieniu and his group were doing.

Li Tieniu shook his head vigorously, and would never admit it even if beaten to death. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

How could he possibly tell Lin Dawang about this kind of business?

Lin Dawang was different from him. Although he was a loyal and righteous person, Lin Dawang had a lot of little schemes and was certainly smarter than him.

Once Lin Dawang found out about this, he would definitely pester Mr. Jiang for a slice of the pie.

Lin Dawang was not as straightforward as Li Tieniu, and who knows how much trouble he might cause in the future.

Li Tieniu couldn’t afford to bring trouble to Mr. Jiang.

Only he knew that Jiang Xiaoxiao was a woman. If Lin Dawang found out that Mr. Jiang was a woman, he definitely wouldn’t be able to suppress Lin Dawang.

This person was very ambitious; who knew what he might do?

Even if Lin Dawang talked until his mouth was dry, he wouldn’t get the information he wanted, instead, he was deflected by Li Tieniu’s skillful redirection.

The two of them chatted and laughed for half a day, but failed to learn anything useful from Li Tieniu.

After going back, Lin Dawang sent someone to secretly follow Li Tieniu and his group. He couldn’t believe they weren’t up to something. If he investigated, surely he could find some clues.

Three days later, the person he sent returned.

And brought back an exciting piece of news. They had followed Li Tieniu’s cart to the government city; Li Tieniu had gone into the city driving a cart to deliver goods.

Along the way there were five people delivering goods together, and they looked very serious.

Heavily guarded.

It should have been salt they were delivering, because it was all packed in gunny sacks. They didn’t think much of salt at first.

They have it too.

Who doesn’t know the details of their own background?

But they were still cautious, primarily because they thought the salt was being delivered to the prominent families in the city.

Rumor had it that the recipient was the most famous wealthy family of Yanmen Pass, the Wu family.

Could the Wu family casually eat the kind of private salt they had?

Could they really be delivering salt to the Wu family?

What’s more, it looked like the steward of the Wu family was being very careful when taking in the salt, instructing servants to handle it gingerly.

So precious?

Although the Wu family wasn’t in the salt business, the Wu family had a lot of connections. Rumor had it they did business with the tribes of the grasslands, and their business was extensive.

The kids they sent along were also smart and capable.

Taking advantage of a moment when no one was watching, they poked a hole in a sack and took a handful of salt.

This handful of salt in hand.

The child was so excited he nearly fainted.

Lin Dawang didn’t know what the child was so excited about until he saw the child tremblingly take out a handful of something from his pocket and lay it on the table.

One look and Lin Dawang was stunned.

It was actually flake salt.

My goodness!

Li Tieniu, impressive!

He actually managed to get flake salt!

But this can’t be right!

He and Li Tieniu went to the salt field together.

They came from the same salt field, and although they found different foremen, this salt field did not produce flake salt.

The private salt field they went to only produced the black salt common folk consumed.

This black salt was bitter and astringent, but now, pinching a bit of this flake salt and placing it delicately in the mouth.

A sweet and fragrant aftertaste with no bitterness; this salt was definitely the kind of flake salt sold in the government city.

Although he hadn’t tasted it before, you could tell from the color, quality, and taste that it was not on the same level as the private salt they sold.

Seeing this scene.

Lin Dawang immediately understood why Li Tieniu and his Li Family Village were so calm, with everyone living peacefully; naturally there was no need to worry unnecessarily.

If they were selling flake salt and directly selling to wealthy families, like the Wu family.

The salt needed by the Wu family would naturally need this flake salt to smooth dealings with the wealthy.

Flake salt wasn’t something readily available everywhere; not much flake salt circulated in the market. Didn’t you hear it was ten taels of silver for a jin of flake salt?

The value of flake salt was almost as much as flake silver.

He still couldn’t figure out how on earth they got this salt.

This time, he packed the salt into a small cloth bag, tucked it into his pocket, and with some people, drove the carriage to the Li Family Manor.

Li Tieniu was in Jiang Xiaoxiao’s room excitedly reporting accounts to Jiang Xiaoxiao.

The flake salt they had produced had already sold out completely.

After all, being able to sell it in one go to the big families in the government city was much better than selling it piece by piece to individuals, taking great risks and being unsure if they’d even get paid.

They had never done business so smoothly before, handing over the salt in a single transaction and being paid in full with silver notes in one go.

Taking those silver notes in hand, Li Tieniu’s hands trembled a little with excitement.

He had never seen so much silver; they had brought back a total of 2500 jin of salt.

This 2500 jin of salt, after filtering and selection, was reduced by 300 jin, but even so, they still had 2200 jin of salt left.

This flake salt was worth over 20,000 taels of silver; he had never seen so much silver in his life.

Not a single cent less, he laid all the silver notes in front of Jiang Xiaoxiao, without the slightest intention of keeping anything for himself, for this silver was earned solely through Jiang Xiaoxiao’s effort.

Otherwise, with their ability.

Being able to earn back a hundred taels of silver would have been considered great skill.

Li Tieniu felt that they must firmly believe in one thing: follow Miss Jiang, and always listen to Miss Jiang.

Miss Jiang was a capable person; see how she turned things around and earned over 20,000 taels of silver in no time.

She was in a completely different league from them, and Miss Jiang was generous and forthright.

Didn’t you hear Miss Jiang said clearly last time, after earning silver, it would be split half and half with the villagers of Li Family Village.

Miss Jiang treated them well, so naturally, they should perform their own duties well.

This sum of silver could not only pay the tax for the entire village; even if more people needed to pay tax, they could easily afford it.

This year, they could not only use silver to offset taxes, but the grain they collected, the taxes they owed, could be offset with silver.

In that case, they would have plenty of grain left to eat.

This year, the villagers could live contentedly, eating and drinking their fill, and have a prosperous year.

These ordinary folks had only ever been concerned with making sure their families were well-fed and warm, living peaceful lives; other concerns didn’t trouble them at all.

They had never cared about who would be emperor or who would rule the land; as long as everyone could live well, who was emperor didn’t concern them in the slightest.