Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 125

When the first salt well in Xiazhou was opened, Zhang Zongxian added another profiteering commodity to his business map.

Although the salt in the Ming Dynasty was much cheaper than that in the Song Dynasty, it was still a monopoly commodity.

In Shaanxi, one hundred catties of salt costs eight qian, which is eight hundred Wen qian.

An adult normally eats two catties of salt a year.Heavy work requires salt supplementation.

The salt in Shaanxi generally comes from two places, one is Zigong in Sichuan, and the other is the salt lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi.

The distance is not close, and the salt in Xiazhou is mined from rock salt and can be eaten directly.

In terms of cost, it is basically equal to nothing.

Selling it to the people of Shaanxi only cost four cents a catty, and directly drove those private salt dealers to death.

With the expansion of the briquette business, private salt also entered the counties of Shaanxi.

At present, it is still impossible to win the entire Shaanxi market because of the production volume. With the increase of production volume, it is no problem to force out the salt from Sichuan and Shanxi.

It can even be sold back. In the future, not only Shaanxi and Shanxi, but also the entire northern market will be occupied.

Cheap salt also makes it easier to preserve the mutton brought back from the grassland.

Lamb marinated with coarse salt has become popular in Jiazhou. If you don’t hang a marinated leg of lamb in your home, your neighbors will look down on you.

It is this kind of mutton marinated in coarse salt that is transported to Shanxi. People buy it and cut it into two slices and put it in a bowl when they eat. It is much more cost-effective than buying salt directly.

At present, the output of the entire salt industry is less than 5000 taels, and as the output increases, it will soon exceed that of the woolen workshop.

The profits of the above-mentioned industries are considerable, and anyone can become rich as an enemy.

However, the existence of Taiping's grain store and bank is Zhang Zongxian's real confidence.

Originally, Zhang Zongxian had already prepared to subsidize the grain store. After all, in order to develop the workshop, he had to ensure that the grain would not fluctuate greatly.

In this feudal society with underdeveloped logistics, if the price of grain is not stabilized, the money earned by the workshop workers will only go to the pockets of the grain merchants.

On the one hand, Tianping's grain warehouse has been taken over, and all the official warehouses in Jiazhou have been taken over.

On the other hand, the food and tax paid by the common people also entered the hands of the Taipinghao.

And because Taiping's harvested grain was [-]% higher than the market price, the common people were willing to sell grain to Taiping.

People in nearby states and counties would rather run hundreds of miles to sell it to the Taiping.

For this reason, the Taiping also set up a grain collection base on the edge of Jiazhou.

The people in Shanxi also wanted to sell grain to the Taiping, but unfortunately the Yellow River blocked the bridge and the bridge was not repaired, otherwise they would all go to Jiazhou to sell grain.

The price of Taiping's recovered grain and selling it to the people is also [-]% lower than normal retail sales, so it should not make money.

However, the strength of the Taiping is not short of money, and Zhang Zongxian has always advocated the use of machinery, so he did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to build a water conservancy noodle mill.

This is better than using a donkey to pull the mill. The noodles produced are extremely fine and can be sold at a high price.Ten were built in one go.Thousands of catties of noodles are ground every day.

Soon someone followed suit, causing land prices along the Yellow River to rise.

In addition to the [-] shi of grain for compensation, he later bought another [-] shi from Yansui Town at a price of [-]% of the market price.

Converted down, these grains are also worth 14 taels.Coupled with the grain and grain stacks purchased from the private sector, the current grain inventory has reached 30 shi.

These grains are the guarantee for reclaiming Hetao in the future.

The bank of the Taiping has expanded more fiercely than the grain store, and there are semicolons in Yulin, Yan'an, Xi'an, and the capital.

The biggest factor limiting the expansion of Qianzhuang is the shortage of manpower.

Although some disciples from the outer sect entered the bank for internships, they were still old and experienced, so they couldn't become the shopkeepers of the semicolon all at once.

These shopkeepers have to be cultivated slowly, and they have to have their family members as hostages before they can be released.

If you do business in Jiazhou without deposits in the Taiping Bank, no one would want to do business with him.

Moreover, the credit of the Taiping Bank became stronger after Zhang Zongxian killed the magistrate.

Officials in Shaanxi know that Zhang Zongxian is not easy to mess with, and he is a madman with no rules.

Naturally, no one would make things difficult for the bank's business.

Now, in addition to the property under Zhang Zongxian's name and the Yamen, the Xinjun uses bank notes to distribute money.

The major workshops in Xiazhou also deposit funds in the bank, and pay employees with bills issued by the bank.

Bills are also used for transactions in the horse market. If you want to buy spirits, wool, etc., you must use bills.

This greatly facilitated the circulation of the bills issued by the Taiping. At first, the people did not trust the bills issued by the Taiping.

After the wages are paid, people can't wait to exchange the bills for copper coins and silver immediately.
But soon the common people discovered that buying food and salt with bills was more favorable, and bills were more convenient to use than copper coins and silver.
First of all, the paper of the bill is very special. Not only is it not easy to tear, but it will not disperse after soaking in water, and it will not be soaked.

This is Zhang Zongxian's paper made of cotton wool under the influence of TV dramas in his previous life.

Then use steel plate engraving technology to form a three-dimensional relief texture on the bill.There will be a strong sense of bumps when touching the gravure parts with your hands

With these anti-counterfeiting technologies alone, people can easily identify the true and false, and no longer need to carry scissors to cut money.

Not to mention carrying heavy copper coins for transactions.

Bills of one, ten, fifty, one hundred, and one tael quickly became popular in Jiazhou.
Now in Jiazhou, whether it is a commercial firm or a peddler who walks the streets, only the bills of the Taiping number are recognized.

When foreigners come, whether they are doing business or visiting relatives, they have to exchange their silver and copper coins into bills to spend them.

Even people in surrounding counties recognized the value of these bills.Even Xi'an can use bills to buy things.

The original plan to issue small bills worth 50 taels of silver was quickly diluted.

As a last resort, another 100 million taels of bills were issued, but it still underestimated the people's desire for small currency.

After it was put into the market, there was not even a single wave floating in it.

At first Zhang Zongxian thought that someone was collecting bills and wanted to find an opportunity to run on the bank.

However, after a thorough investigation by Yu Nong, it was discovered that these small bills had been circulated to big cities such as Xi'an, Taiyuan, and Lanzhou.

Not to mention the counties in Shaanxi, where the caravan goes, these bills will flow.

Zhang Zongxian saw that the people were so eager for small currency.

I thought that the silver flowing in from overseas is also inflation anyway, so I might as well let myself collect this seigniorage.

Gritting his teeth, another 200 million taels of small bills were issued.

The cash in the entire Taiping bank is less than one million taels, and a large part of it is the silver that the people put in the bank for interest.

This is more than that. With the spread of the influence of small-value bills, it is expected that 20 taels of small-value bills will be issued every month in the future.

In order to add influence to the bills, the Taiping Bank also built a silver warehouse in Qingjian County, and cast a hundred silver melons for the common people to visit.

Tell everyone that the Taiping Bank has no shortage of silver.

Now Zhang Zongxian is not short of money, what he lacks is qualified officers and trustworthy shopkeepers.

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