Chapter 56: The Tough Ding Family (1)
"Xiaolang, has the sheep been sold?"
"Well, it's not easy to become a teacher for Mr. Zhang. I'll sell it early and study with peace of mind and prepare for the final sprint."
"Yes, Xiaolang, I'll bring you something." Zhu Huan opened the bag behind, which contained thirty or forty kilograms of snow-white fine salt.
It is not a standard refined salt, and it is even toxic salt, but it looks good.
"It comes out, and you have the greatest contribution, so give up 20% of the shares to you." As he said that, Zhu Huan took out a hundred or two hundred scoops from his arms and placed them on the table.
Wang Ju stared at the stack of intercourses, with a dilemma in his eyes.
He had money in his hands, and if he didn't consider the risks in the village, his income this year was better than he thought. However, he was still short of money. When he entered the city, the family of three had to buy anything, and even had to pay rent for a house. But he also handed over all his sword skills. People continued to distribute dividends, and people were gone. If someone started to make trouble, would he come back to fight?
However, the Zhu family's money is very hot.
"If you have merits, you should be rewarded, if you have mistakes, you should be punished. If you have clear rewards and punishments, you are the principle of governing the country and the army. Xiaolang, you know this principle," Zhu Huan thought Wang Ju was showing off his backbone and didn't want to accept it.
"Dongweng, how many bills of salt did you buy?"
"Fifty banknotes."
These fifty banknotes mean that the salt removal is more than 30 cents per pound arrived in Yanzhou, and green salt will cost more than 30 cents per pound in Yanzhou. But how does the salt removal taste comparable to that of green salt?
Besides, why do you need to buy salt in Yanzhou? The market price of green salt in Yanzhou is more than 30 cents per catty, but the cost of private salt is only more than 20 cents.
If you really buy money and use salt to make refined salt, will your brain be damaged?
"Dongweng, I don't know how much the price of one salt is for your house?"
Zhu Huan wants to say it out.
Wang Ju waved his hand to stop him: "I don't want to know either, but I must know one thing. If two hundred guan is a 20% bonus, then Dongweng will have a profit of 1,000 guan from salt in the past two months, but no matter how much the price is, 50 guan will definitely not make a profit of nearly 1,000 guan."
Zhu Huan nodded.
"Dongweng, a gentleman is shameful, I think it's wrong. If it's shameful, why do all the country's salt, tea, wine and alum implement the law of deliberation, and there are so many official yard pits? The Zhu family is a merchant, and it is more reasonable to pursue profit. Moreover, this salt is different from other salts. It has a reprocessing process, which may cause more than 30% of the losses. According to the court system, if you buy a banknote, you have the right to sell a banknote. Only these 30% of the losses have unlimited operating space."
Zhu Huan nodded again.
He calculated this matter at home. It’s simple. I bought one thousand kilograms of salt, but after the preparation, there were only six or seven hundred kilograms of salt, so he had the right to sell another three hundred kilograms of private salt, and he legally sold these three hundred kilograms of private salt!
"But it is a unique business now, with amazing profits, and there are many people who are jealous. They cannot defeat the village at high places, but the target of public criticism is more dangerous than the village at high places."
"Xiaolang, then what do I do?" Zhu Huan asked. This was a very smart businessman. In fact, when Zhao Ding and other families started to grow, the Zhu family was just a small businessman, and the Zhu family gradually rose in Zhu Huan's hands. This may be Wang Ju's luck. If you replace other businessmen, you may not appreciate Wang Ju immediately. But it may also be the Zhu family's luck.
"Half of Yanzhou uses salt removal, and all other areas use salt removal, and the other half of Yanzhou's Qingyan Salt Zhu family is not allowed to participate in the private salt process, and they are all purchased from other wealthy families."
"this……"
"The court is not short of salt. Decades ago, Guangnan East Road was forced to close Guangdong's several salt fields together because it had accumulated sixty years of salt. In addition to a few areas with difficulty in transportation in the southwest, most areas of the Song Dynasty did not lack salt, but how to sell more salt and more official salt. For example, salt removal, as long as it is real official salt, the government can make a profit of at least one pound of money. Therefore, the more money Dongwen bought, the happier the court would. Dongwen bought half of the green salt from other wealthy families, then other wealthy families would get the benefits of private salt from this half of the green salt. Everyone was happy when they benefited, and they would not be jealous. Moreover, if the court pursued the investigation, the Zhu family would reprocess the salt they bought, and there would be loopholes in the government salt administration, which would not violate the court's salt law. This is the strategy for long-term peace."
"but……"
"I know that this will invisibly increase costs, and management is more troublesome. But people must have a long-term vision. Being good at scheming may not be a derogatory term. If you are short-sighted and greedy for small gains, you may be the way to perish yourself. However, if you are long-term vision and learn to give up, you will gain only by giving up, that is great wisdom. Dongweng, why not look farther and farther."
“Far further?”
"It doesn't have to be in Yanzhou. This kind of salt technology is simple and will be imitated sooner or later. But once it comes out, it will inevitably cause everyone's surprise and sensation."
Zhu Huan nodded again.
When the Zhu family sold this salt for the first time, they scared everyone together. Then the Zhu family servant asked the guests to dip them with their fingers and taste them, and they were quickly robbed.
"So you must seize more markets as quickly as possible, Yanzhou, Fuzhou, Fangzhou, Qingzhou, Fangzhou, Yaozhou, Tongzhou... until Chang'an, and make the most profits in a short period of time. Because the Zhu family used all the money salt from the court, and even used extra money salt, it was equivalent to making money for the court desperately. The government would be happy to see it, be happy to succeed, and even take the initiative to help your family. The boy thought this was the real art of merchants."
Of course, if this is the case, Wang Ju's dividend will not be too hot.
"Where is the enlightenment?"
"But Dongweng, the word "moderate" is the real standard for doing things. Although the boy has made contributions, the two components have too much dividends. It is better to follow the Taoxi sword in the village, and I still draw two percent of the profits from it." As he said that, Wang Ju picked up the twenty-tenth knot of Jiaozi and pushed all the remaining eyes firmly to Zhu Huan.
This is also a kind of willingness.
Without his inspiration, this kind of fine salt would probably take another eight or nine hundred years to appear. Of course, the fine essence at that time was much more qualified than this quality.
But Wang Ju's so-called contribution was nothing more than just a touch of his mouth and did not even participate in R&D. All the operating costs were done by the Zhu family. Although the Zhu family wanted to win him over, if he really made 20% of the profit, there would be someone in the Zhu family unhappy in the long run. But if only two% of the profit was taken, Wang Ju would feel at ease. In fact, if Zhu Huan opened up the roads of the provinces, it would be a 2% profit, which would probably be a big figure for Wang Ju.
Zhu Huan sighed long.
In fact, he really wanted to say that Cheng Kan said that although Wang Ju was young, he was actually not far from the title of this master.
"What are the trends in the Ding family?"
"It's in the shell."
"Yeah!" Wang Ju cheered.
Although the beautiful prospects gradually diluted the sadness of the village.
Although similar incidents occurred during the founding of the Song Dynasty, some unworthy Han people on the border of Shaanxi colluded with Qiang people, framed their own tribes, and committed crimes, forcing Zhao Kuangyin to send many important generals to guard Shaanxi.
But those were dozens of living lives, all of whom were familiar to Wang Ju. Some even treated Wang Ju very well, because the Ding family was all buried in the nine springs.
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"Zhu Huan, what's wrong with you when you see me?" Cheng Kan said with some disgust.
Although the battle of Wangjiazhai was a great victory, Cheng Kan lost his face. He also affirmed that the villagers of Wangjiazhai were the mules of the Zhu family before. However, the lawless boy invented a new method of making swords, so the people of Wangjiazhai did not do the job of carrying mules. Moreover, he also affirmed that the battle of the mountain road was probably initiated by the manager of the Zhu family and the people of Wangjiazhai.
In fact, the court also knew the following messy situations, and no one wanted to pursue them. This was troublesome. Could it be that a military and discipline campaign was launched? Then, all the private salt actors in the northwest border were beheaded together, how many people would have to be killed? Yanzhou alone would have to kill at least 10,000 people!
Moreover, that incident brought opportunities to Cheng Kan, and he took the opportunity to rectify various ills of Qingjiancheng Yingtian, which just intimidated the merchants in Yanzhou to reduce the scale of private salt, and coerced them to donate money, build many roads, and improve the traffic conditions of more than a dozen villages and forts.
However, can Cheng Kan be happy when the Zhu family, the boy and a group of villagers play him in their hands? Even if the Zhu family brings more than 100 real Xixia horses to the court a year, even if it successfully sets up a nail in the Hengshan area, even if the young man takes the initiative to hand over the new steel smelting technology.
"Mr. Cheng, Caomin came to pay homage to Mr. Cheng, so he wanted to help. Caomin wanted to send someone to the capital to buy five thousand salt bills."
"Five thousand banknotes and salt banknotes?" Cheng Kan stood up suddenly.
The proportion of salt administration income in the court is quite large, but private salt is also flooded. Not only in the northwest, but the entire Song Dynasty was flowing a lot of private salt, and even one or two official salts in some salt-producing areas could not be sold. The court was angry and forced to pay the people a taxi to buy one pound of official salt one month, and it was impossible not to buy it. But that was in an inland area, and Yanzhou did not dare to do this.
Therefore, Yanyan became the biggest shortcoming of Yanzhou's political achievements.
Five thousand banknotes of salt, ten thousand stones, and more than 20,000 guan. It can be said that this order alone will make up for the Yanzhou Salt Administration.
But Cheng Kan didn't believe it much. Has Zhu Huan become a good person?
"But I need to ask Mr. Cheng to help."
"Say, sit down," Cheng Kan said, "I'm not a small political achievement, so I asked Zhu Huan to sit in, and my tone immediately became as warm as the spring breeze...
"Mr. Cheng also knew that Caomin's family had that kind of fine salt, but was restricted by the salt law and was restricted by many restrictions. Caomin had to sell it only in Yanzhou. He also asked Chenggong to write a recommendation post to let the goods service clearly allow Caomin to sell it in other prefectures in Shaanxi. If the sales are appropriate, the 5,000-billed salt may be just the beginning."
"This is OK, Zhu Huan, why is he so conscious?" Cheng Kan said immediately. According to Fan Xiang's new salt law, as long as he gets the salt decomposition bill, he can be sold in all areas of Shaanxi and even in northern Sichuan. Of course, if it is sold in another state, it may be a little trouble, but the trouble will not be too great. In fact, only the Zhu family is willing to spend some money. Even in another state, private salt can be used instead of salt decomposition.
"A young man told the grass people that he would be willing to give up, and there would be gains. In fact, this salt was also developed by him to teach the grass people."
Who is the boy?
Cheng Kan shook his head. He didn't know whether it was a good or a bad thing under his control, and he didn't want to ask.
"The Cao people come to see Cheng Gong, and there is one thing to report. The people of Yanzhou are very miserable, so the Cao people are willing to give 12,000 guan to the government to help the widows and the elderly."
Cheng Kan stood up again and then looked at Zhu Huan carefully.
Chapter completed!