Chapter 298: First Cooperation Reached

"Old Bai, go get some of the good goods from the carriage!"

"Yes! Shopkeeper!"

Cui Wangshu took it for granted that the other party was going to bring Snowflake Salt, but she didn't expect it to be glazed glass and a very smooth object, in which she could see her own face clearly, unlike the blurriness of a bronze mirror.

Cui Wangshu held the mirror and couldn't put it down, while she had little interest in the glazed glass.

Seeing the other party's appearance, Jiang Jinshi knew the fish had taken the bait.

"This young lady, this is a good product produced by us. That Shopkeeper Yan comes to buy some every month. I presume you like it very much too, but as for the price..."

"It's definitely going to be more expensive!"

Cui Wangshu reluctantly put down the mirror. The Yan family had this thing too, but she had never seen it on the market, which was enough to explain some things.

Even for her, the first reaction to seeing this item wasn't to sell it, but to give it away!

Their family didn't lack silver, and the significance of this item for gift-giving was far greater than gold and silver. Perhaps the Yan family did the same!

Thinking of this, Cui Wangshu didn't hesitate anymore, "Young master, this thing too, the Cui family wants as many as you have!"

"Good!" Jiang Jinshi was overjoyed. No wonder everyone said business in the south was easy to do; this was just like picking up silver for free.

Hardly anyone in Beijiang could afford this mirror, but in the south, they wanted as many as he had; the gap was immediately obvious.

Of course, Jiang Jinshi didn't forget his own glazed glass, "What about this glazed glass? Do you need it, young lady?"

Cui Wangshu picked up the glazed glass and looked at it carefully. There were very few impurities, or even no impurities at all. It was of excellent quality among glazed glass, and it was a good choice for giving away or selling.

"I want this glazed glass too!"

"Good, good, good!" Jiang Jinshi said three "goods" in a row and shouted toward Bai Ting: "Old Bai, tell the brothers to pull all the goods over, unload!"

Cui Wangshu waited quietly for the other party to continue, but she didn't expect Jiang Jinshi to stop there.

After thinking about it, Cui Wangshu asked, "Young master, I heard the Yan family has that Snowflake Salt. I wonder if you have..."

"I don't have that here!" Jiang Jinshi shook his head helplessly.

Cui Wangshu thought the Yan family's Snowflake Salt wasn't purchased from this person, and just as she was feeling disappointed, Jiang Jinshi continued.

"That thing is all in Beijiang! It can't be brought down at all!"

She didn't expect it to be for this reason. Cui Wangshu then remembered that selling private salt was a serious crime.

But among the great families today, who followed the rules?

In the hands of the other party, it was private salt, but in the hands of the great families, it was solid official salt!

"If I go north, can you sell me the Snowflake Salt, young master?"

"Naturally, I will sell it! But you have to transport it yourself. Our caravan people can only transport it to outside Guansong Ridge at most!"

"Then it's settled. Where should I look for you when I go to Beijiang later?" Cui Wangshu wasn't joking; she had to do this business. She had already decided to report the situation to her father when she returned and have people organize a caravan to go north.

"Guangwu Jun, Beijiang, Xinyue Chamber of Commerce!"

Cui Wangshu didn't expect that even at this point, the other party hadn't revealed his name, so she could only ask herself: "I am Cui Wangshu. May I ask your name, young master?"

"So it's Miss Cui. I am Jiang Shi!"

"Young Master Jiang, then it's a deal!"

"Naturally! If Miss Cui has the channels, you can also pull some nanmu or sandalwood north. My Xinyue Chamber of Commerce will take all of those!"

Cui Wangshu didn't expect there to be such an easy business to do. The other party had even thought of the goods she should bring north, which reduced the cost of transportation on the road quite a bit.

"Good! I'll remember that!"

Afterward, Jiang Jinshi went downstairs to leave, directing his brothers to unload and count the goods. Cui Wangshu didn't go downstairs, but she cast her gaze through the window at this strange caravan.

After Jiang Jinshi and his party left, Huai Xia walked into the private room, her tone somewhat joyful: "Young lady, it really is a case of 'finding nothing after searching through iron shoes, only to find it without any effort'! Our luck is really good!"

"Huai Xia! Call someone to inquire about the other party's background!" Cui Wangshu fell into deep thought as she looked at the tea that the other party hadn't taken a single sip of.

Although Huai Xia didn't know the young lady's intention, she still respectfully agreed.

Cui Wangshu's expression was somewhat heavy. This caravan was unusual; at the moment of confrontation with her own guards, not a single one of them was afraid.

Their Cui family was not some soft persimmon; ordinary people would naturally be three parts wary when facing them.

Not to mention Jiang Shi, who was the leader, even the coachmen under his command didn't have the slightest bit of fear.

What did this explain?

Either the other party was a greenhorn who had just started out, or they simply didn't fear the Cui family. Cui Wangshu took it for granted that it was the latter.

And when they were unloading goods downstairs, Cui Wangshu carefully observed that everyone in this group had calluses on their hands. Those weren't calluses from farming by commoners, but were caused by frequently gripping knives.

If Jiang Shi had acted like a mature merchant, then his subordinates following him north and south, frequently gripping knives to prevent thieves and bandits, would be an explanation that could barely pass.

But the other party didn't act like a merchant at all, and the nuance in that was very intriguing.

"Jiang Shi? I'm afraid that's not your real name either!" Cui Wangshu muttered to herself. Logically speaking, both sides just needed to cooperate; inquiring too much wasn't suitable for long-term cooperation.

But Cui Wangshu had grown up in the Cui family since she was a child, and being a woman, she had concerns about everything she did. If she didn't have complete information, she would feel that the matter wasn't very reliable.

Jiang Jinshi took his brothers away, and after walking far away, he asked Shen San: "Who is that Miss Cui?"

"One of the scholar-gentry, the Cui clan! Currently the daughter of the head of the Cui family, Cui Wangshu!" Shen San didn't expect the commander to run into someone from the Cui family as soon as he arrived, so he hadn't explained too much when he took everyone to the market.

"Are there any surnamed Yan among the scholar-gentry?"

"Yes, the Longxi Yan clan! Their influence in the capital area is even greater than the Cui clan."

Jiang Jinshi couldn't imagine that Shopkeeper Yan, who had been cooperating for half a year, would be a member of the Yan family.

However, the fact that the other party could take the goods in the hands of the Xinyue Chamber of Commerce was enough to show their own financial strength. Moreover, purchasing steadily every month indicated that the other party had many sales channels, which had already far exceeded the scope of ordinary merchants.

The reason for equating Shopkeeper Yan with the Yan family wasn't just because both sides were surnamed Yan.

As one of the scholar-gentry, the people Cui Wangshu paid attention to had to be at least of the same level.

And the fact that Cui Wangshu kept inquiring about the Yan family's news, wanting to know how much goods they had taken from Jiang Jinshi, further indicated that the two sides were currently not in the same boat.

Jiang Jinshi was happy to see this situation. Anyway, as long as his goods could be sold, the friction between these scholar-gentry families had nothing to do with him.

That was why he deliberately told Cui Wangshu the news about the Yan family. As long as both sides started to snatch the market and clashed, his own things would sell even better, and he would earn more silver. ===== CHAPTER 299 =====