Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 932 Jia Rong: Happy to hear and see

"Damn, what's going on?"

As the Cao Gang wanted to sell cheap sea salt along the canal, it naturally impacted the local private salt interests.

Although the sea salt produced in Jinmen, the shipping price is quite low.

But when the Caobang was selling it, it was still mixed with about half of the sand and grass roots, but the price was lower than the private salt from the Lianghuai River.

Because of this, the Cao Gang sold more and more sea salt, and easily seized the market share that originally belonged to private salt in Lianghuai.

No way, people vote with their feet. When the quality is similar, the lower the price, the more popular it is.

Then, the Lianghuai salt merchants were quickly dumbfounded.

The private salt in their hands could not be sold after crossing the Yellow River.

This is the first time they have encountered such a situation.

Immediately launched the energy to investigate the details, and soon figured out the reason, and was so angry that he almost exploded.

The Cao Gang, who had always cooperated closely, betrayed them.

I don't know where the Cao Gang got a large amount of cheap sea salt suddenly, and they directly distributed the goods in the towns along the canal north of the Yellow River.

All of a sudden, the Lianghuai salt merchants suffered heavy losses.

Such a situation is absolutely unacceptable for Lianghuai salt merchants.

Afterwards, things will be simple. It is natural to negotiate at the beginning. I hope that the Cao Gang can continue the old practice and not easily destroy the previous tacit understanding.

If drastic actions can be avoided, it is better not to take them.

After all, the cooperation between the Lianghuai salt merchants and the Cao Gang is really quite deep.

Most of the private salt of Huaihuai salt merchants is underwritten by the Cao Gang. Who said that the Cao Gang is so powerful on the canal?

Wherever there is a canal wharf, the relationship between the Cao Gang and the local snakes and local tyrants is quite close.

The private salt obtained from the Lianghuai salt merchants can be distributed to the local tycoons at will, and a whole private salt underwriting system has been established in this way.

The local tyrants naturally have strength, and they also have the energy to sell the distributed private salt to the lowest level of the common people.

If the Lianghuai salt merchants need to open up local relationship channels, it will cost a lot, and it is really not worth the candle.

In addition, taking the canal waterway is the most convenient and cheapest means of transportation. If it is really replaced by land, the cost will not increase by a single star.

In any case, with or without the cooperation of the Cao Gang, it has a huge impact on the Lianghuai salt merchants.

Unfortunately, the results of the negotiations were far from satisfactory.

The Cao Gang was full of confidence and directly asked the Lianghuai salt merchants to abandon the private salt market north of the Yellow River.

Lianghuai salt merchants are stupid to agree to such a rude request.

Then there is nothing to talk about, we can only solve it in the most direct and brutal way, and see whose fist is bigger.

For a while, the atmosphere in the rivers and lakes in the Huanghuai area was tense, and the thugs under the Lianghuai salt merchants frequently clashed with members of the Cao Gang.

This time, the Cao Gang's attitude was quite tough, and they didn't intend to give in at all. No one would take the initiative to push out the white money.

The main reason is that Jinmen has shown enough energy that no matter how much sea salt Caobang needs, it can be prepared in the evening.

That was dozens of boats of sea salt, and the shipping price alone was thousands of taels of silver.

The Cao Gang processed the sea salt and distributed it within a day, earning more than double the profit.

Jinmen may earn thousands of pieces of silver a day, while Caobang earns even more.

On the contrary, the cost from Lianghuai salt merchants is higher than Caobang’s purchase price of sea salt from Jinmen, is it still playing like this?
As for the market lost by the Lianghuai salt merchants, what happened to the Guancao Gang?

I can't, let the Cao Gang have money and not make money, and work for Lianghuai salt merchants, right?
The joke is not like this, anyway, Cao Gang has some ruthless people who dare to fight and fight hard, and they are not afraid of disputes in the rivers and lakes at all.

The Cao Gang is a real behemoth, and the number of interested parties involved will only be more than that of the Lianghuai salt merchants.

Playing the tricks of private fighting in the rivers and lakes, the Lianghuai salt merchants are not even worthy of carrying shoes for the Cao Gang.

As for the use of government power, the Cao Gang is not just for nothing, at worst, they can just spit at each other in the court.

In fact, since the failure of the negotiations between the two parties, the war of words in the court has begun, but the intensity is not too great.

The Lianghuai salt merchants are destined to suffer heavy losses this time.

Don't look at just losing the share of private salt in the north of the Yellow River, look at the scale of operation of the Cao Gang, the annual profit of private salt is only hundreds of millions.

But that's not how it works!

If the Lianghuai salt merchants could put all the profits from private salt in their pockets, they would have been rich beyond compare.

The problem is that the Lianghuai salt merchants have to take out the bulk of their annual profits to manage them.

The rich and powerful who have been dealt with don't care how much profit you make this year, anyway, the benefits you should have are definitely indispensable.

This is the main reason why Lianghuai salt merchants are so crazy about private salt.

If they can't make enough profits, Lianghuai salt merchants have to use their own assets to make up for the huge amount of money spent on management.

Otherwise, even if it is just trading official salt, although the profit is extremely low, it is not without profit. How could there be a family of big salt merchants going bankrupt?

Lianghuai salt merchants will have a major reshuffle every few decades. Isn't it because of the huge change in private salt profits?

Otherwise, with the riches of the salt merchant family, they would not be mixed up to the point of bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy in the era of feudal ethics requires unlimited liability, there is no room for recovery, and competitors will not give the opportunity.

In short, the Lianghuai salt merchants did not immediately confront the four major Jinling families, but instead confronted their original partner, the Cao Gang.

They really wanted to know where the huge amount of sea salt in Cao Gang's hands came from.

It's a pity that without the help of the Cao Gang, he didn't have the energy and time to send people to investigate the reality of the Jinmen Salt Field.

Not to mention Wang Ziteng and Shi Ding who are in Jinmen, or Jia Rong who is in the capital, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief seeing this situation.

The current situation can be said to be the best situation that was expected in advance.

For the time being, he doesn't have to bear the anger and crazy revenge of the Lianghuai Salt Merchants Group, no matter what, the pressure in his heart is much less.

In addition, I was surprised by the strong official strength of the Cao Gang.

In the imperial court, because of the conflict between the interests of the two families, the official power behind the Cao Gang was able to fight evenly with the power behind the Lianghuai salt merchants.

Taking a closer look, all the officials behind the family who have interests in the canal, more or less have interest connections with the Cao Gang, and it is quite normal to help speak in the court.

I just don't know how I feel when I see the sudden disputes in the court today.

It is estimated that it will not be too good, whether it is the power of the Cao Gang or the Lianghuai salt merchants, they are too strong...

(End of this chapter)