King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 71 The evil feudal landlords suppress national entrepreneurs!
  When everyone heard this, they all frowned in thought.

Someone's eyes lit up quickly.

"Shopkeeper Cao, are you saying that we can step in and help Prince Lu complete this task, and at the same time, we can also gain control of the salt farm?"

Cao Wenlong smiled and said: "That's right! We Shanxi merchants account for 80% of the world's salt business!
  As long as you are willing, all the salt that people in the world can eat comes from Changlu Saltworks!
  As long as Changlu Salt Farm expands its production to meet the national sales, there will be no problem in increasing its salt tax!

And we have to offer a very low price to His Highness Prince Lu!

From now on, Changlu Saltworks will exchange salt with us at this price!

Haha, in this case, Changlu Salt Field can be regarded as the salt field of our Shanxi merchants! "

When everyone heard this, they immediately understood what Cao Wenlong meant.

In the past, Changlu Salt Field could only account for about 30% of Daming salt sales in a year.

But Shanxi merchants can use sales channels to let Shanxi merchants across the country buy salt from Changlu Salt Farm!

In this way, Changlu Salt Farm can account for 80% of Daming salt sales in a year, or even more!
  Once the sales channel problem is solved, as long as King Lu solves the production problem, the profits of Changlu Salt Farm can grow with the increase in sales scale!
  In return, Shanxi merchants naturally had to get an extremely low price from the salt farm.

In this way, there is no need to go to other salt farms to buy salt. The Shanxi merchants will only lose a little freight.

As for Prince Lu, even if he wants a profit of 200 million taels of silver.

In the end, Shanxi merchants still made a lot of money.

"Shopkeeper Cao, this is a good idea! But what if the court asks us why we only go to Changlu Salt Farm to buy salt?"

Cao Wenlong smiled and said: "If His Royal Highness Prince Lu sincerely cooperates with us, he will naturally protect us! In this world, is there any better protection umbrella than a prince?"

Everyone laughed.

Shanxi merchants have always liked to get involved with the government.

Only in this way can profits be maximized.

At the same time, you can take advantage of the opportunity to make unfair profits.

These are all old traditions.

"What if His Royal Highness Prince Lu is too greedy? I just made a rough calculation and found that the annual sales volume of Changlu Salt Farm is 1200 million jins! Let's help him increase it to 3200 million jins, and the approximate sales volume is 384 million taels of silver!

We have to deduct the cost of transportation, sales, etc., which is about 20 taels of silver, and there is still a benefit of 364 million taels!
  Among them, 100 million taels will be given to the court, and it will increase by 10 taels every year from now on!

There are still more than 200 million taels left to share!

The cost of producing salt at the Changlu Salt Farm is not high, after all, the kitchen households don’t get a few silver stipends!
  But if Prince Lu insists on benefits of more than 100 million taels, then we won’t earn much! "

Hear the calculations of the person in front of you.

Cao Wenlong smiled.

"It turns out to be shopkeeper Qi! Sorry! Sorry! They say that the Qi family in Jinzhong is unparalleled in business! When we met today, it was really amazing! I figured it out so quickly!"

Later, Cao Wenlong smiled and said: "This time, I want to discuss with His Highness King Lu how to divide the profits!
  Without us, how could the Changlu Salt Farm earn so much? He originally lost everything, but now he can make money! It's not too late to thank us, how much do you want to share?

If he wants too much, for example, more than 50 taels of silver a year, then let's break up the deal. He will worry about his, and we will continue to make ours! "

Hear this.

Everyone suddenly knew what was going on.

They all expressed their approval!

The Xu family and Wang family in southern Shanxi, the Qiao family and Huang family in northern Shanxi, the Qi family and Yue family in central Shanxi, and other key Shanxi merchants have all joined this initiative!

Changlu Saltworks.

The salt class was promoted to the yamen.

Zhu Tan was waiting for the royal family to be ready before leaving.

Suddenly, Yin Shao came over and said to Zhu Tan: "Your Highness, there is a businessman here asking to see you! He said he can help Your Highness solve the profit problem of Changlu Saltworks! If you don't see him, I will send him away!"

As a scholar, Yin Shao looked down upon merchants very much.

Everything is inferior, only reading is superior.

In fact, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang did not have a good impression of the businessmen group.

But they know their importance to economic construction. So I suppressed and supported at the same time, which was very awkward.

In terms of political status, scholars, peasants, industry and merchants were listed, and merchants were ranked last. Even in terms of clothing, merchants were not allowed to wear expensive clothes such as silk. Even peasants could wear better clothes than merchants.

But in terms of taxation, the commercial tax is only 30% tax, which is outrageously low.

Not only is it far lower than the commodity tax, stamp duty, deed tax, value-added tax, corporate income tax and other dazzling taxes that are required to do business in modern society.

Even if it is lower than the previous dynasty, it is frighteningly low.

This also allows businessmen to accumulate large amounts of wealth in a short period of time without having to bear any social responsibilities.

Zhu Tan was slightly startled when he heard Yin Shao's words.

Can you help yourself solve the profitability problem of Changlu Saltworks?
  This person has such a loud voice!
  Subsequently.

Zhu Tan frowned and said, "Are you a Shanxi merchant?"

Yin Shao was stunned.

"How does Your Highness know?"

Zhu Tan sneered.

"Do you think this king is a fool?
  Eight out of ten salt shops in the world are in the hands of Shanxi merchants! If they want to help me solve the profit problem, only they can do it!
  Although my visit to Changlu Salt Field is not kept secret, ordinary people are not qualified to know!

This businessman can come to your door. How can he do it without any skills?

Apart from Shanxi merchants, who else in the world is interested in and has the strength to do salt work? "

This time, it was Yin Shao who was shocked.

He didn't expect that.

The prince who has always been ridiculous turns out to be so shrewd!
  He admired: "Your Highness, I admire you!"

Zhu Tan asked: "Did that man bring a gift? For such a great prince, he is too embarrassed to come empty-handed, right?"

Yin Shao was speechless.

The prince must have gone crazy thinking about benefits.

The money brought by mere merchants stinks!
  Pooh!
  However, he did not dare to refute, and kept smiling and said: "I did bring it, and it's quite a lot!"

Zhu Tan said: "Then please come in quickly! Move the gift to the backyard! Even if I beat him out later, this thing cannot be returned!"

Yin Shao:.
  I couldn't help but shake my head. Wasn't this determined to deceive others?
  It is not something a gentleman would do.
  But I thought about it again.

My own prince can't even get close to a gentleman, so isn't it natural for him to deceive others?

Zhu Tan's face was full of pride.

Speaking of which, Cao Wenlong should be regarded as the top among businessmen in the Ming Dynasty.

Shanxi businessman is a talkative person, no matter what, he is worthy of being in the top ten of the Hurun Report, right?
  However, here.

Sorry, I can only let you see what it is like for the evil feudal ruling class to suppress national entrepreneurs.

soon.

Cao Wenlong came to the door with a smile on his face.

This is also the first time he has been able to come into contact with such a high-level figure.

The majestic Prince of Ming Dynasty!

Except that the subordinates moved the gifts a little too fast.

It made him a little baffled.

Everything about Cao Wenlong feels good.

After seeing Zhu Tan, Cao Wenlong respectfully kowtowed to the ground three times.

"Cao Wenlong, a common man, bows to the prince, who is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"

(End of this chapter)