Therefore, Zhu Zihong felt a hot heart, and he immediately said, "Mr. Liu, then Lao Zhu will go to the beach to pick a good place, and then go to the south to see if he can dig up a few stoves that can dry salt, and I will try my best to find a way to open a salt farm. It is really not enough. I will ask you a little more. Now I just want to ask you, Mr. Liu, you have to get some profits in this salt farm!"

Of course, Liu Peng was not only providing a way to make a fortune, but also providing Zhu Zihong with an umbrella. Without Liu Peng's support, I'm afraid that Zhu Zihong's salt field would be destroyed by the government or the big salt merchants before it opened.

And now Liu Peng is not polite: "Do you know Xu Zhen?"

"Mr. Liu, are you taking 50% of the profit?" This ratio made Zhu Zihong feel a little painful, but he also knew that this matter could not be done without Liu Peng's support. He immediately agreed: "No problem, if there is profit, we will share the profits."

Liu Peng said to Gu Mengyu: "You can't let Brother Zhu take risks in this matter for nothing. I will invest 500 taels of silver first. Sister Mengyu, let Brother Zhu get 50 taels of road fees first. If Brother Zhu wants to officially start construction, he will get 450 taels of silver."

Although it is said that it is "againing another 450 taels of silver", Zhu Zihong is probably not in charge of the use of this money, and it must be used directly on the construction of the salt farm. However, Zhu Zihong felt that with these 500 taels of silver, he would be 60 to 70% sure of doing this.

Although the money needed to build a salt farm is not a small number, maybe it is necessary to smash the mountains of gold and silver into it, Zhu Zihong immediately replied: "Mr. Liu, don't worry, I will try my best to find a way to find a way to pay for the money. If I can't raise it, I will borrow money from Mrs. Gu. Now I just want to ask Mr. Liu again, how many years can I occupy the patent on salt?"

Everyone knows that Liu Peng is a famous promised daughter. He said one is one, two is two, and he will definitely not regret what he promised. Therefore, Zhu Zihong would rather make things worse than that and ask Liu Peng to give a clear answer. Liu Peng immediately replied: "Nine years, Brother Zhu, I will give you a chance to occupy nine years!"

Speaking of this, Liu Peng said with his finger: "The first three years are three years of investing money. In the end, it is either a small profit or a guaranteed capital. The next three years are three years of collecting money. The salt farm must be successful. Although I took 50% of the profit, Brother Zhu will definitely be able to sit down and collect money. In the last three years, he has to invest and collect money. After all, he has spent so many years on the salt farm and has to spend some money to repair it. But if he continues to do it in this year, he can make a lot of money even if he is familiar with the path!"

Liu Peng said it very reasonably, and he finally added: "And not only will Brother Zhu make a lot of money in the past nine years, but even if the nine-year period is up, I want to take this path back and give Brother Zhu enough compensation, so that Brother Zhu will not suffer any losses!"

"Okay!" Zhu Zihong immediately said, "This matter is decided. I will go to find someone to choose a place tomorrow. In the past nine years, I will build a big house that will be built with a total of nine inches, and save up 900 taels of silver in cash and nine hundred stones of grain."

Liu Peng smiled, but he thought Zhu Zihong might have underestimated the profits in it.

In the warm pavilion in Linqingzhou, Zheng Qisheng was pulling his abacus with one hand, listening to the singer's singing softly, and gently swiping the account books of the semicolons everywhere. When he was happy to read the account books, he was still opening the window to praise the singer and giving him some silver.

Whenever others see his name, they will know that he is not a native of Shandong, but a Huizhou businessman living in Linqingzhou. The fact is not exactly this. Although his ancestral home is Ningguo Mansion, their family has developed in Shandong for four generations. Now they speak standard Shandong dialect at home.

However, in the business world, Zheng Qisheng was a standard Huizhou native. He didn't even mention that he was born in Ningguo Mansion. He could not speak Huizhou dialect so standard. From time to time, he would remind everyone of his luxurious ancestral home in Huizhou - although he had never returned to Ningguo Mansion in his life, nor had he been to Huizhou Mansion, and their family was a dilapidated house in Ningguo Mansion, and they officially made their fortune after they arrived in Shandong.

However, with this identity, Zheng Qisheng is now one of the most successful businessmen in Linqingzhou. He has made friends with countless great figures such as Grand Secretary, Jinshi, and the head of the Six Ministry. He is even the leader of the Huining Chamber of Commerce of the Linqing Qing Dynasty.

Today he is taking stock of today's gains. In a few months, the Zheng family's business has made new developments in Linqingzhou, and the great profits have made Zheng Qisheng very happy. He felt that the voice of the singer had never been so good.

Well, Linqingzhou is the most important town on the canal. You have to receive more juren from Nanzhili who went to Beijing to take the exam here, and invest more in them to make friends. It is best if they can have a great figure like a minister or a minister. The Zheng family's career will naturally be restless.

The abacus was pulled as if it was oiled. Zheng Qisheng became more and more beautiful when he thought about it, but suddenly he thought of something. He shouted to the side: "Call me to come and see me! I want to ask what happened that made him so anxious that he couldn't wait for half a day."

The second brother Zheng Qisheng mentioned was actually not Zheng Qisheng's biological brother, but his business partner Zheng Jiaji. However, the relationship between Zheng Jiaji and Zheng Qisheng is not just a simple partner. The two are not only of the same clan but also distant cousins. Zheng Jiaji's family was once in a loss. It was Zheng Qisheng who brought Zheng Jiaji and Zheng Jiaji's current situation.

Therefore, Zheng Jiaji acted like a business partner in front of Zheng Qisheng, but rather like Zheng Qisheng's butler: "Brother, you should let me in early in the morning. Dongsi's affairs are so urgent!"

There has always been a customary agreement among the Zheng family about the raw silk and silk cocoons produced in the East Three Mansions, called "Dongsi". Zheng Qisheng immediately said: "What's the hurry? I'm ready for the money. This year, those from the Hengwang Mansion must do some good work. They have helped us for so many years, so we can't let others work in vain!"

Every year, the Zheng family manages the Heng Prince’s Mansion in a large amount of money. Even if there are not tens of thousands of taels of silver, there are still thousands of taels. However, Zheng Jiaji’s face is a little ugly now: “Brother, they don’t need to manage the amount this year. Our Dongsi will probably be in big trouble this year!”

"What trouble?" Zheng Qisheng's mood suddenly became worse, and the singing of the singer outside the door became unbearable: "Jia Ji, you have to be careful about this matter. This is the lifeblood of our Zheng family."

Dongsi is a big deal with profitable profits. Even if Zheng Qisheng said it a little exaggeratedly, the raw silk business cannot be regarded as the lifeblood of the Zheng family, but Dongsi trading occupies a crucial position in the Zheng family's business.

The Zheng family's industry is not limited to Linqing. As for the semicolons in other places, they have dozens of industries, including tea shops, mule and horse shops, inns, oil shops, and grain shops. They hired seven or eight hundred shopkeepers, buddies, hired workers, and apprentices. As long as Zheng Qisheng is willing to work hard, he can dispatch a position of 100,000 taels at any time. However, the core of the Zheng family's industry is the raw silk business that has lasted for several years. The core competitiveness of the Zheng family's raw silk business lies in the free Dongsanfu raw silk.

It is said that it is raw silk, but most of them are mulberry silk cocoons and mountain silk cocoons. The raw silk is collected very little, but the Hengwang Mansion is responsible for sending all the silk cocoons to Linqingzhou, and the acquisition price is at least 20% or 30% or even 40% lower than that of the peers. In some years, the Zheng family has collected a load of mountain silk cocoons and even one tael of silver. Over the years, the Zheng family has of course been rich.

Apart from the transportation costs and losses in the middle, the money that ended up falling into the silkworm farmers was probably very small, but Zheng Qisheng always thought that this was the issue that only Prince Heng’s Mansion needed to pay attention to. He just needed to sit and collect the cocoon and recycle the silk. Anyway, the profit of this business is not lost.

Over the years, the Zheng family has built a series of upstream and downstream industries around the Dongsi business, including leaf shops, silk shops, cocoon shops, weaving farms, silk shops, cloth shops, and even tooth shops and boat shops that specialize in silk shops for waiters. In short, every year when the silk is collected, at least five or six hundred people in the Zheng family have to work hard, and this is not the case with the hired workers who are temporarily hired from outside.

To be honest, even if the raw silk produced by the Zheng family cannot be called the third-class in Linqingzhou, it can only be regarded as the second-class. Not only can it not be compared with the raw silk from Jiangnan, but the raw silk produced in Zhoucun and even the local raw silk produced in Linqing are much stronger than the raw silk from Zheng family. However, the cost of collecting cocoons in the Zheng family is too low and competitive, so everyone recognizes that Zheng Qisheng is the number one in the Linqing silk industry.

Therefore, when I heard that Dongsi might have a big problem this year, Zheng Qisheng became particularly sensitive: "Jisheng, the same thing, don't be afraid of death, don't be afraid of spending money. The raw silk in the Dongsanfu is the meat in our bowls, and outsiders are not allowed to come to the tiger's mouth to seize food! Or is it the painful history of Dengzhou falling into the fall of Dengzhou?"

The history of the fall of Dengzhou is now famous in Shandong Province. Even Zheng Qisheng found a copy of it, but his business relies on the Heng Palace. Therefore, after reading it, he cursed three times "nonsense" and was so angry that he didn't eat much for two days.

But no matter how much Zheng Qisheng didn't like this story of the Death of Dengzhou, this story of the Death of Dengzhou is still popular in the three east prefectures, and even produced a variety of "The Death of Laizhou" and "The Death of Qingzhou" that greatly affected the Zheng family's business.

But Zheng Qisheng never expected that the few pages of paper had such great energy, and it still affected the harvest of Dongshi until now. Zheng Jiaji gave an unexpected answer: "It was someone from the Three East Governments who were preparing to buy raw silk. They have already said that at least one more cent to our price."
Chapter completed!