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Hu Guang saw that Liu Jun and Shen Man were more and more interesting, and his eyes were smiling together. Chen Man looked at Liu Jun and felt like he was dreaming. He couldn't tell whether he was deliberately playing or being a little confused. So he coughed dryly and interrupted Hu Guang's words of continued laughter, "Master Hu, look, are you putting the wine on?"

"Let's have some more tea." Hu Guang smiled while the atmosphere was good. He knew that the key to talking about things was to take advantage of Liu Jun's mood. He glanced at Liu Jun, who was smiling on his face and pointed to a guqin on one side. "I heard that Miss Chuchu played the piano well, but Li Fengjie danced very well."

"It's okay." Chen Man replied.

Hu Guang laughed and said, "Why would you like to invite Miss Chuchu to play the piano, Sister Feng dance with you, and the Third Lady sings a song?"

Chen Man nodded, and the three of them walked aside to prepare.

There were only two people left by the table. Hu Guang turned to Liu Jun and said, "Mr. Liu, today we are welcomed by the glory. Let's drink while listening to music and dancing, and talk about things by the way?"

Liu Jun looked casual, "Yes."

Chu Chu tried playing the piano a few times, and then began to play a melodious song. Li Fengjie also changed into a thin gauze and began to dance with the song. Chen Manyiyi started singing. Liu Jun listened to her singing for the first time, but unexpectedly she sang so well.

Hu Guang said carefully, "Mr. Liu, Mrs. Chen seems to have something to do with you."

Liu Jun picked up the tea and took a sip, saying, "In the joyful scene, it is about making scenes, and talking about feelings in brothels is about finding the wrong place."

"Wow!" Hu Guang praised, "Although Lord Liu is in a gentle hometown, he can still remain sober. He is really a real man."

"Manager Hu, I am a quick man and speak quickly. If you like to say something, please tell me now, what should I do to come to me today?"

Compared to the attitude he was joking just now, Liu Jun was completely different. Hu Guang admired Liu Jun even more at this time. He was so young, but he was not fascinated by wine and sex. He subconsciously looked up at the young General Manager Lian, and saw his two sharp eyes shooting at him.

Hu Guang flashed that gaze and smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Liu is really happy."

"I really don't like to go around in circles."

"I admire the reputation of my elders."

"No need to say more about the vain. Although I am a small official, I have many things to do, but I don't have much time to sit here and drink tea and mist." Liu Jun said lightly, but began to speed up the pace.

"Although I only met Lord Liu today, I have heard of Lord Liu for a long time." Hu Guangdao, "The son of the scholar, a student of Wu, was close to Mr. Jie Yuan, the nephew of the four ministers, Mr. Chunjiang, and established the Nine-headed Bird Horse Team together. Although the time was short, he made great contributions and won many great achievements in several battles. Not only were he appreciated by the uncle and nephew of the Li family, but he was also valued by Mr. Mei. Even Mr. Zhao of Bingxian also admired Mr. Liu very much."

These things are basically no secret in Macheng, and they can be found out by individuals. When Liu Jun heard Hu Guang say this, he didn't care, but just drank tea calmly.

Hu Guang continued, "I am working for the Prince of Andong, and I manage the official and salt transportation and sales of Qihuang's prefecture, eight counties and one prefecture. There are also King Jing, King Yi and other princes among them. I am just a errand running in front. Today I invite Lord Liu to the banquet, and I have something to ask for."

"If you have something to say, if I, Liu, can help me, naturally, I don't need to say it."

"Okay." Hu Guang nodded, "I know that Lord Liu is an ambitious person. Although he is just a training officer now, he is willing to do practical things. Other prefectures and counties are also doing group training, but they are basically errands. The name of group training is just to take the opportunity to pay money. The following training is gathered together, but it is just a look. But I have seen Lord Liu's Nine-Headed Bird Group, which is a real group training. It can be seen that Lord Liu is determined to do something. But in this world, although you have noble people to help, it is not cheap to maintain a group training of hundreds of people. You have to spend money, don't you think it is?"

"That's right." Liu Jun nodded, "Now, everything you do is inseparable from money."

"If you hold a group training like Mr. Liu, the little food and salary given by the county is probably a drop in the bucket. I heard that Mr. Liu has recently settled a marriage. The woman's Lu family is a wealthy family in Macheng, with a wealth of hundreds of thousands, but that is the money of her father-in-law after all, isn't it? A man can't use the money of a woman." At this point, Hu Guang paused and then said, "Mr. Liu, I know you need money now, but I need the help of Mr. Liu and your Nine-Headed Bird Group Training. We are willing to pay you a lot of money."

"I would like to hear it carefully!" Liu Jun said.

"There are actually many opportunities to make money. I now have a business that I want to invite Lord Liu to cooperate with."

Seeing that Liu Jun was very calm, Hu Guang simply said, "I believe Lord Liu knows the profits of the official salt business. Qihuang counties are all the salt areas of our prince, but now many salt merchants and private salt dealers transport private salt in and sell them at low prices. This is a scramble for food in our bowls. The princes are very unhappy. I am here now, just to ask Lord Liu and your nine-headed bird to help me fight against private salt dealers."

"This is not unintentional. I am very happy to be able to do things for the princes, but the hundreds of brothers under my command are expensive. I don't know how to help me?"

"We give Lord Liu five hundred taels of silver every month, and each of your brothers is one tael per month. If you catch a private salt dealer, each person will be rewarded with 5 taels of silver. If you seize the private salt, you will be rewarded with one tael of silver for each person." Hu Guang offered a price. According to this price, you must pay at least 1,100 taels of silver per month to Liu Jun and Jiutou. If you have any rewards, you will also have another reward.

He thought the price was good, but Liu Jun disdained it.

This price is just looking for a thug. Although Liu Jun lacks money, he is not short of this amount of money.

"We are very busy recently. I believe Manager Hu also knows that the east has not been peaceful recently. We are brave enough to prepare for battle and defend against the bandits."

This is a rejection, but it is not a direct rejection. The key is that Hu Guang is willing to raise the price.

Hu Guang was surprised and unexpectedly Liu Jun directly rejected his price. After thinking for a while, he did not give up. Now that private salt is flooded, he will not be able to save his position if he doesn't deal with it. However, although the princes are the bosses behind the scenes, their own people do not have the ability to deal with private salt vendors.

Those who sell private salt, large-scale salt merchants, all of whom have armed guards and strong strength. Some of the smaller ones are all desperate people, and their subordinates are cunning and fierce. Hu Guang cannot rely on officers and soldiers. Although officers and soldiers are very full, they can only serve as a venting and informing.

However, a talented person like Mei Zhihuan's Baosheng Baoxiang Group was disdainful to help him.

It's not too low to be high, but in the end he aimed at Liu Jun. Liu Jun and the Nine-Headed Bird can fight but lack money, but now he feels that he underestimated Liu Jun, and the other party doesn't seem to care so much about this extra money.

"It's easy to say, Lord Liu, I wonder if you have a better way to cooperate?" Hu Guang asked with a smile.

Liu Jun put down the teacup in his hand and asked, "I wonder how much salt you have in your hands?"

Hu Guang heard a sound outside the string, "Several princes sold Qihuang, one prefecture, one prefecture, and eight counties, and ten thousand salt entries."

Liu Jun smiled. How many people were there in Qihuang in the late Ming Dynasty? More than one million. Qihuang was a relatively wealthy and developed place in Hubei, and it was close to Jiangxi, Henan, and Nanzhili, which were rich and populous provinces, so it had a large population. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country's population was about 200 million. In some provinces with large populations, there were 20 to 30 million people in one province. For example, Jiangxi accounted for one-nineth percentile in the world at that time, and even Jiangxi had a large population spread all over the world, and it was so popular that it was called Jiangxi people as rats.

Hubei's population is not as popular as Zhejiang and Jiangxi, but after the Zhongming Dynasty, Huguang was developed and its population also increased significantly. The Qihuang area in eastern Hubei has one prefecture, one prefecture and eight counties, with a population far exceeding one million, not including those migrant populations.

How much salt is needed for more than one million people?

It is said that on the average of each person consumes fifteen kilograms of salt per year, one million people are 15 million kilograms of salt. One 300 kilograms of salt will be at least fifty thousand kilograms of salt.

King Andong and his friends held the nest order and occupied this salt area, monopolizing the transportation and sales of official salt, but only 10,000 salt entries. This is obviously a problem. The problem is not that they have too little salt entries, but that after they monopolized such a region, they only received so little salt entries. But in fact, there is still a gap of at least 40,000 salt entries.

Liu Jun knew very well what they were playing. The salt led by salt had to be purchased from the official price of the salt farm, and at the same time he had to pay a tax. However, King Anton occupied the market of 50,000 inducing salt, but was only willing to buy 10,000 inducing salt. The purpose was obvious. They used more private salt to fill the blank market, and made more profits with lower costs and tax evasion.

50,000 yuan of salt is used. If you make one or two taels of salt, it will be at least 50,000 taels of silver. It doesn’t seem to be much, but this is the profit that comes every year. Basically, you don’t have any capital. Just control the capital and monopolize the market. Even if you make one or two taels of salt, it’s still the official salt price. If you sell private salt that is carried, it will be a five-fold profit.

Moreover, what Liu Jun calculated was the most conservative, for example, the population of Qihuang was definitely more than one million. Therefore, if you were to calculate it boldly, even if King Anton and others could earn 100,000 taels of silver from this salt a year, Liu Jun would not be surprised.

And if King Andyon also sold salt to the salt area of ​​other salt merchants, they would definitely make more money.

Liu Jun knew that this was a piece of fat, so he wanted to take a bite.

"I want three thousand salt intakes and sell them to Macheng alone. In addition, every time Jiutou Bird helps you to attack private salt vendors, you need to pay 500 taels of food and salary. For every 10 taels of salt vendors, the leader of the salt vendor is 100 taels, and the private salt obtained belongs to me, you can also buy it at half the official price."

Liu Jun also spoke up.

Macheng County has at least 200,000 permanent residents, and if the mobility is added, there will be 300,000. This is a market with 4.5 million kilograms of salt a year. If it can be monopolized, it will have at least 10,000 silver dollars a year, and it is a continuous long-term investment.

Hu Guang, the boss who was wearing a mouth, did not expect that Liu Jun's requirements were so high. He had to go to Macheng County to sell it alone, and he also had to buy a 3,000-yuan tent. You should know that the tent of salt tent is not easy to get. Although the court now also issued new tents, it must be people with old tents. In fact, the tent of the tents is issued every year, and the tents issued far more salt than the salt field. In this way, the tents of salt are constantly accumulated. Many salt merchants have tents, but they cannot get salt and can only wait. Sometimes they have to wait for a while or even ten years later.

So now, the new salt intake must be those with old salt intake.

With such a bond of new and old, the court can keep sending new salt inspirations, and then keep binding of new and old, and keep rolling.

So now salt merchants are fixed among the old salt merchants, so it is difficult for new salt merchants to join.

Not to mention, the salt areas have been divided long ago. Salt merchants divided the salt areas of each salt field one by one, and each monopolized a piece of salt area. There is no new salt area at all. Salt attractions are important, but they are not as important as monopoly salt areas.

Now Liu Jun not only wants salt to attract, but also wants to monopolize salt transportation and sales in Macheng County. This is really a big appetite.

"Manager Hu met me for the first time, and it was reasonable to believe me." Liu Jun smiled leisurely and continued, "Although the price I offered seemed to be very high, it was worth it, and I got what I paid for. If I dare to offer this price, I would guarantee that I could help you get things done. It seems that you will give me a considerable income, but if you can really curb the current flood of private salt, you will earn more than you pay me."

"Is that true?" Hu Guang moved his body and said hesitantly.

"It's just a simple account. I don't believe that Manager Hu can't figure it out. Now the private salt in Qihuang is very powerful. How many percent of the entire market can you account for? I believe that half of it may not be possible. And if we join forces, as long as we can curb and crack down on those private salt dealers, how much market share can we restore?"

"Can Lord Liu really curb those private salt dealers?"

"As long as you cooperate, there is no problem with the Nine-Headed Bird." Liu Jun said confidently. Although he knew that this matter was definitely not as simple as it seemed, since he wanted to tear off the benefits of tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, he must be prepared to pull out his teeth.

"I can't make the decision on this matter, I have to go back and ask for instructions."

Liu Jun smiled, "Of course, I can wait for your reply."

When the matter was talked about, Hu Guang knew Liu Jun's attitude and couldn't sit still at the moment. He rushed back to Qizhou to meet King Andong. Although Liu Jun had high conditions, he felt that Liu Jun really wanted to cooperate, and he really felt that Liu Jun had the strength to cooperate.

After drinking two more glasses of wine, Hu Guang said goodbye and left.

Before leaving, he called Shen Man aside, called his coachman in, and brought in a gift box.

"Thank you for Shen Sanniang's reception tonight, just a little gift, and I'll express my gratitude. I'll take a step ahead. I hope Shen Sanniang will help me take good care of Lord Liu. I will be back in one or two days at the earliest."

The gift box is opened, and there are two hundred taels of snowflakes and silver, and a set of jade jewelry, a pair of jade bracelets, earrings and a necklace. The green and shiny light are all excellent jade, which is of great value.

Shen Man was a little surprised, "I dare not accept such an expensive gift, and I haven't done it yet."

"You have done a good job. Liu Jiye is very happy today. You have made great contributions. Okay, I'll take the lead. Now you go with him."

After accepting the silver and jade jewelry, Chen Man returned to Yaduo, thinking about how to take Liu Jun down in one fell swoop and keep him overnight, but only Chuchu and Li Fengjie were seen in the room.

"Where is Lord Liu?"

"It's gone." The two girls said a little depressed. They both wanted to stay Liu Jun just now, and even thought that it would be better to spend the whole night with them, but they left with a smile without looking back, saying that there was business.

Chen Man looked at the empty seat, and the joy just now swept away, feeling a little melancholy and sorrow!
Chapter completed!