Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

The entire Ming Dynasty needed 30 billion catties of salt, and the population of Shandong was not large in the official yellow book, but the lowest estimate of the population of the whole of China at that time was about 5000 million to [-] million, and a slightly higher estimate was about [-] million. Some scholars even say that it is about [-] million, but this value is obviously a bit inflated.

The northern provinces, Shandong and Henan are both densely populated provinces. As far as the actual situation of Shandong is concerned, Linqing Prefecture alone has a population of nearly one million. Jinan and Jining, the entire Yanzhou, and Qingzhou have a population of several million. Dengzhou is extremely dilapidated and has a population of more than one million. Laizhou also has a population of 500 million. The entire Shandong has a population of at least [-] million. It consumes [-] to [-] million catties of salt a year. It is a relatively safe figure.

The net profit of one stone of Fushan salt is less than one or two or five. Now it has won several new markets, and is desperately opening new salt farms, recruiting workers, drying salt and producing salt. Even the small 2000 people captured in the Jinan Incident have all been escorted to the The new salt field is working hard every day with sticks and whips, hoping to produce salt as soon as possible. Now the shopkeeper Li Lao and other commercial firms are also sitting on the floor to urge everyone every day. , the firm's sale is also a big profit, and the biggest profit must be on Fushan's side, because sales to production are all controlled by Fushan, and the pricing is naturally on Fushan's side. It's because Zhang Shouren doesn't want to ruin his reputation, and he has to maintain his own reputation, otherwise It is not impossible to earn two taels or even three taels for a load. If you earn 300 million silver for 900 million shi a year, then all problems will be solved.

But he earns three taels for a stone of silver, and the big commercial banks and distributors earn more than four taels for one tael and one stone salt. This high price can be bought even for green salt, so they can only use coercive means to monopolize sales, so they are notorious It was ruined, even if Zhang Shouren did not consider his reputation when doing things, he would not be able to pass the hurdle of conscience.

"It's not bad," Sun Liangdong said with a smile, "As far as I know with my arithmetic level, about 200 million halite can be sold this year, which means a net profit of 280 million taels." [

"Very good, not bad."

Zhong Xian said with a blank face: "First, I will tell you how many soldiers I will raise in Fushan, and then I will talk about the income. How do you feel?"

"I'm afraid it's enough?"

Zhang Shiqiang didn't have much feeling for numbers, so he said it cautiously, and when he saw the half-smiles on everyone's faces, he immediately felt that he had no confidence at all, and felt a little timid.

"It's so far away, Shiqiang..."

Zhang Shifu has only known what refinement is since he took charge of the artillery team. He does arithmetic every day and has a little understanding of numbers. He just smiled and said: "We not only have 37 soldiers, but also support at least 300 salt farms. Workers, adults have always given generous rewards and profits to motivate people to make progress. In addition, seven or eight colleges and dozens of middle schools have also been built in various places. In Laizhou, Dongchang, Jinan, and Dengzhou, we will build In more than 1000 farms, adults pay for farming cattle, farm tools come from Fushan, and they also spend money to buy grain to supply tenant farmers. Before the autumn harvest, this investment has no return. In addition, there are more than [-] officials. In addition, there is a hole in the general work, at least ten thousand new firecrackers must be made, more than two hundred cannons must be made, and the adults need to build a cavalry battalion, calculate the cost of war horses..."

At the end, Zhang Shifu's face became more and more solemn, and his originally cheerful tone had become very rigid and unsure.

The people present also turned from jubilation to staring at each other. Based on this calculation, it is certain that the income of 300 million is not enough. The key is how big is this pit, and how much money will it take to fill it up?