Salt is a hugely lucrative business.
While he was in Dongtai County, Zhao An had informally gathered that salt merchants bought salt from local salt producers for two copper cash per jin. Yet once that salt was transported out, it could fetch a tenfold profit even within Jiangsu itself. Furthermore, the primary markets for Huai salt were not the Liangjiang region, but Hubei and Hunan.
In those two provinces, the price of Huai salt skyrocketed to over sixty copper cash per jin—a profit margin exceeding thirtyfold!
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