Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 66 The Big Cake That Choked People to Death

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"Please come, everyone, I have something important to discuss."

When the atmosphere became warmer, Zhang Shouren put down his wine glass and signaled that he was going to talk about business.

Seeing him like this, several giant merchants also put down their wine glasses and chopsticks, looked straight at Zhang Shouren, and listened intently to what the deputy Qianhu had to say. [

It must be something urgent to invite everyone here so fast.

At this time, most of the diners downstairs left, dozens of relatives outside were guarding the door, outsiders did not dare to enter without permission, the restaurant was completely silent, only waiting for Zhang Shouren to speak.

Looking at everyone, Zhang Shouren said: "Proprietor Qin is in Jinan Prefecture, but his business is mainly in Laizhou and Qingzhou. Proprietor Chen's Hefenghang is in Qingzhou Prefecture, Gaomi and Duzhou, and there are also branches. Proprietor Wang's business is in Stay north, am I wrong?"

"That's right, your lord said so."

"Exactly."

"I don't know what your lord's words mean?"

Several businessmen replied one after another that the scope of their business is not a small place, and there is no need to mention distribution points such as county towns and towns.

For example, Fangjiaji collects a lot of salt, but it is just a branch of Qin Banghua's Lifeng Bank. Lifeng's real big business is still in Jinan, and the salt collected from various places is sold in various places, from Jinan to Dezhou, The Linqing area is where Li & Fung sells the most.

Because it is close to the sea near Dengzhou and Laizhou, the area around Jiaodong was originally a peninsula, and there are salt fields everywhere.

For example, there are salt farms in Lingshan and Fushan, and the military households rely on the sea to cook salt. In Dengzhou and Pingdu Prefecture, there is Bohai Bay in the north, and they also have their own salt farms. Therefore, there are many people who can be self-sufficient, and the sales of salt are naturally not as good as inland.

More than half of the salt in Shandong is self-produced, and a small half is imported Huai salt. There are also rich people in big mansions like Jinan who buy well salt from Qinghai, Gansu. It's not that rich people are reluctant to buy and use it.

Everyone has their own territory division, which is also the default after many years of operation. If it is forced to change or something, it will first cause chaos among its own people.

"Everyone's salt is sold in different places, and the prices are different." Zhang Shouren ignored others, and only continued on his own terms: "Changyi and Gaomi are more expensive, and there are more than two or three. As long as it is cheaper, there are also prices in Pingdu and Laizhou that are less than two taels. This way of selling, it is easy to compete with each other. When collecting salt, the price will be raised, and when it is sold, the price will be lowered. Salt is sold every year. How much to eat is fixed, no matter how cheap people are, they will not eat more, and no matter how expensive they are, they will not eat less. The official thought, in this case, why not set the price to death, and the price of salt received and the price of salt delivered are both stable Come down, so that everyone will earn more when they sell more, and they don’t have to worry about collecting and selling salt... Dear proprietors, what do you think?"

Zhang Shouren is now relying on the sea to eat the sea, raising hundreds of people to do so many things, relying on cooking the sea to produce salt.

So he has also worked hard on the salt, and the underlying situation is very clear when he talks about it.