Wentang

Chapter 371 Dizhou Salt Industry Alliance (Two in One)

"There are ten roads in the world, and each road has only one salt sales license, which means I will only issue ten licenses." Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Yue Shan presented his plan one by one.

"Each license is for one province, and you are not allowed to sell salt across roads. For example, if you obtain a license for Jiangnan Road, you can only sell salt in Jiangnan Road and not other nine provinces. If you find out, the license will be cancelled."

"After obtaining the Dizhou salt sales license, you can only sell Dizhou salt, and you cannot sell other people's salt. Once found, the license will be cancelled."

"Finally, regarding the price of salt, the price I will give you is one and a half pennies per catty, and your retail sales should not exceed five pennies. Don't put in big buckets and small buckets, and don't mix sand and other sundries to fill the quantity."

The purchase price is a penny and a half?Retail for five cents a catty?Now the merchants below couldn't bear it any longer, and started discussing in whispers.

This price is too low, several times or even ten times lower than that of other salt merchants.

"Crack." Yue Shan patted the table lightly, and the merchants immediately fell silent: "Those who think the price is not suitable can leave."

After waiting for a while, no one moved.So what if it's cheaper than salt elsewhere?Big sales can make money, or make a lot of money.

"Since you don't leave, it's considered as agreeing to the price. Since you agree, then I'll talk about the punishment measures." Yue Shan said sternly:
"I know that you businessmen like to follow crooked ways the most. This is because your nature will not change just because of my few words, and I don't expect you to change."

"I'm just talking about my rules, and those who are willing to abide by it, those who don't want to have better pray that I won't find out."

"My rule is that once someone finds out that someone is fighting big, someone is adulterating, someone is shoddy, someone is driving up the price, and the family is ransacked."

"Don't think I'm joking. This decree has been approved by the sage, and the chief ministers in the court have also agreed. These ten licenses were not made by me privately, but stamped with the imperial seal."

Hearing the words, everyone's hearts shivered, and cold sweat immediately stayed down.

"I will also announce this decree to the world, so that everyone in the world will supervise you. If anyone who reports is found out, then your license will belong to the whistleblower."

"Dare to ask Qing Shuihou, what if someone framed us?" Someone raised his hand and answered.

Yue Shan saw that it was Hong Jia'an, nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "If you can produce evidence that they slandered you, then convict him of false accusation. If you can't produce evidence, then consider yourself unlucky."

Now everyone was scared. They thought this was a chance to make a fortune, but they didn't expect it to be so dangerous.Many people retreated again.

However, as Mr. Ma said in later generations, if there is a 50.00% profit, it will take risks; if there is a [-]% profit, it will dare to trample on all laws in the world; crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

This is the truest portrayal of a businessman.

So in the end no one quit.

Yue Shan laughed. He was really afraid that these people would be scared away. Now it seems that he still underestimated the courage of these businessmen. Of course, he could call it greed.

"Then dare I ask Qing Shuihou, how can I obtain a license?" Hong Jiaan asked again.

"You should have heard that I'm going to build a city, and now I'm missing everything. I made a list, and all of you can choose one or a few items from this list to help me buy them and ship them back." Yue Shan said:

"The top ten fastest and best finishers get a licence."

"Don't worry, you don't need these supplies for nothing. Make a list of how much you spent, and it will be exchanged for equivalent salt for you. When the salt is produced in the spring of the next year, you can take the salt and bring it over."

"Including those merchants who failed to obtain the license, your supplies will be exchanged for salt, and you can sell this salt anywhere in the world at any price."

Hearing this, all the businessmen breathed a sigh of relief, which is equivalent to guaranteeing harvest in drought and flood.It is best to be able to obtain a license, even if there is no way to obtain a license, you can obtain a salt guide.

Although it was a one-shot deal, it was a huge profit to not limit the price. This order was even more profitable than other businesses they did in a year.

"I still have a doubt, can you tell me about Yanyin? Do people who have obtained a license need Yanyin if they want to buy salt?" Hong Jiaan stood up again and asked.

"The license is the biggest salt guide. As long as you come here with the license, you can buy at least [-] halite from the salt field every month." Yue Shan cast an approving look and explained.

"As for the Yanyin I mentioned, it can be regarded as a one-time free license. In the future, I will issue tasks from time to time. Of course, sometimes the court will issue related tasks. Any businessman in the world can accept these tasks according to their ability , you can get the salt guide after it is completed."

"Do these tasks have to be completed by one person? Can several companies work together?" Hong Jiaan asked again.

"Yes, I don't care how many companies you cooperate with, as long as you can complete the task." Yue Shan replied.

Then he answered a few more questions, until these people had no doubts, Yue Shan put the material list on the table and said: "This is the material list, you can discuss how to distribute it yourself."

After speaking, he got up and left.

A group of businessmen were left looking at the list with greedy eyes, but surprisingly, no one rushed to snatch it.

Naturally, Yue Shan wouldn't really just leave like this and don't care about anything. The reason why he left so reassuringly was because there was an internal response inside.

It was Hong Jiaan.

He sent key information to Yue Shan to find out the assassin, and the request he made was that he could sell Dizhou salt, and Yue Shan gave him a license directly.

However, in order to prevent people from talking about behind-the-scenes transactions, this license is not given directly.Instead, tell him the conditions for obtaining a license in advance, and let him choose tasks in advance to prepare.

The few times he boldly stood up to ask questions just now, it was also arranged in advance, otherwise he would not have dared to ask questions again and again if he had ten guts.

Regarding licenses and salt introductions, Yue Shan is also thoughtful.

Why not let it go completely and choose the license?
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, because there was no monopoly on salt, the price of salt was completely liberalized. What happened?The price of salt is skyrocketing.

According to Yue Shan's knowledge, the price of salt is a hundred times higher than that of grain.This is not eating salt, but eating people, and salt eating people.

Naturally, the imperial court also thought of a way to open an official salt shop to calm the price of salt.The price of salt in the official shop is only twenty yuan a catty, which is very high, but it is already a conscience price compared to private salt.

However, the restrictions imposed by the government are too great, for example, only shops can be opened in county towns, and no branches can be opened.The coverage area is too small to solve the root problem.

If Yueshan completely let go of selling salt, those merchants would dare to sell it for a hundredfold profit, and the common people would not get any benefits.

Now use a license to fix each salt merchant in one place, and cannot cross regions, and cannot set prices arbitrarily.

In order to earn more money, these licensed businessmen have to find ways to sell salt to more people. They will extend their tentacles to every village, even the most remote ones.

In this way, people can get some benefits.

It is not allowed to sell salt produced by other salt farms. This is an exclusive agreement to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the loopholes.

If they are allowed to sell other salt, they will dare to sell Dizhou salt as other salt at a high price, and there is no way to supervise it.

When there is no other way, sometimes one size fits all is a good way.

As for why Yanyin was created again, there are two reasons.

On the one hand, it is to stimulate these licensed salt merchants, lest they do nothing.Some people are diligent and some are lazy. This is human nature. Some people will work hard to open up the market after obtaining the license, and some people will rest on the credit book and eat and drink.

With the stimulation of salt, they dare not be passive and sabotage.Because once they slack off, those salt merchants who have no restrictions will rush to compete for the market.

As for Yanyin, the salt can be priced at will, in order to stimulate more merchants to participate in the game.If Yanyin can only be sold for five cents, many merchants will think that the profit is not enough and they will not accept the task and not participate in his game.This will affect Yue Shan's plan.

In fact, if there are enough people participating in the game, it means that there will be more salt flowing into the market. Even if the price is relaxed, it is unlikely to be sold at a sky-high price.

In addition, licensed salt merchants can only sell five yuan of salt to balance the price, and they can't afford much trouble.

The second reason for creating Yanyin is to better borrow the power of merchants.

There is no need to go into details on how powerful businessmen are. How to mobilize the enthusiasm of businessmen and make them serve themselves voluntarily is a way.

Salt is Yueshan's best baton to mobilize businessmen.If you want salt, do things for me, and if you complete the task, I will give you salt.

Take this construction of the city as an example, if he had to buy all the materials by himself, it would not only waste time and energy, but also be inefficient. The key is that he doesn't have that much money.

Now, a Yanyin has mobilized the enthusiasm of dozens of big businessmen, asking them to advance money for shopping, and even deliver it to their door in person.

What does Yue Shan have to pay?Salt that will not be produced until several months later.It can almost be said that he built a city with the money of merchants, and these merchants are still grateful to him.

As a time traveler, he has too many things to do, and he can't do it all by himself.Being able to mobilize the power of these businessmen will get twice the result with half the effort.

In the evening, Yueshan received the final answer, and 63 merchants formed ten groups to share these tasks and ten licenses equally.Even Hong Jiaan, who was sure to get a license, chose three allies.

Regarding this, Yue Shan also had to sigh with emotion, he really deserved to be a big shot from the wealthy side, who knew how to choose.

Datang divided the 360 counties in [-] states into ten divisions, each of which is very, very large.It is too difficult to run a business by one person.

Not to mention anything else, the envy of the rest of the people can kill them with a little bit of trickery. At this time, the importance of allies is reflected.

Why all the 63 businessmen present participated and no one was excluded, this is exactly their cleverness.

Everyone has seen the list. No matter who is excluded from the small circle, that person will definitely publicize Yue Shan's request and list, and all thoughtful businessmen in the world will participate.

At that time, they really may not be able to win.

The best way is for everyone to form a small circle and make money together, and no one will leak information to the outside world.Anyone who violates the agreement will be punished by everyone.

As for whether this small circle will cheat Yueshan, they would not dare to give them ten guts, because the knife is in Yueshan's hands.In fact, these people behaved very well, and they covered everything Yue Shan made.

This is a happy result for all.

But what Yueshan has to do now is to wait for these merchants to bring the supplies, and then they can start building a new city.

However, he didn't really just sit and wait like this. Instead, he asked people to build a large number of simple houses next to the new city one step ahead of time, as dormitories for workers.

Moreover, the reform of government offices, the construction of salt fields, the construction of docks and docks, and the construction of ships all need his supervision.So instead of not being idle, he became even busier.

For example, just after he came back from Qinghe Town, before he had a sip of hot tea, Master Sun Ren came over to ask why the shipyard hadn't started building new ships.

Yue Shan was also surprised and asked, "You said the shipyard hasn't started building ships yet?"

"Yes, these people don't know what they are researching behind closed doors. I went to find them a few times and they said they were researching new warships and refused to build us warships." Master Sun Ren complained.

As soon as Yue Shan heard about it, he knew what was going on. He got up and said, "Let's go and have a look together."

The two came to the shipyard together and met Mei Xiang here.

"I've seen Qing Shui Hou, and I've seen General Sun." Mei Rong hurriedly saluted.

"Excuse me, Mei Yu, tell me about the current situation of the shipyard." Yue Shan didn't directly question why he didn't build a ship, but asked about the shipyard.

"Back to Qingshuihou, everything in the shipyard is fine, but the workers have never built a ship before, and many of them have never even done carpentry. But it's not a big problem. I've asked people who know carpentry to teach them, and it won't be long before they can do the most It's a simple job." Mei Rong replied.

"Well, yes, thank you for your hard work." Yue Shan comforted him first, and then asked along the topic: "I wonder when they will be able to build the ship?"

"If there is a need, we can start building new ships now, but the time is slow. But last time you talked about the new warships, I thought that since the previous warships were not suitable for sea navigation, I should wait for the new warships. It is designed and built, which can save a lot of wood." Mei Xiang said.

"Your starting point is right to save costs for the shipyard, but your idea is wrong." Yue Shan shook his head and said, "No one knows when the new warship will be designed. We can't keep the navy waiting. What if there is a war? ?”

"So the best way is to build old warships first, so that the navy has ships available, and then solve the problem of whether they are suitable or not."

"Besides, my Tang Dynasty does not only have a Dizhou navy. When the new sea-going ships are built, the old ships can be transferred to other inland river navies. It is not a waste."

"Moreover, a group of qualified workers can be quickly trained through shipbuilding. Once a new sea-going ship is designed, it can be built immediately. What do you think?"

Speaking of this, Mei Yu didn't know the purpose of Yue Shan's visit, and in all likelihood, General Sun went to sue.

Instead of blaming him, Yue Shan came to discuss with him warmly and saved enough face, which moved him very much.Thinking back to the shipyard in Suzhou, the nose that was scolded for anything wrong was not the nose or the eyes. Looking at it now, the nose became sour and said:

"You taught me that I was wrong. I also apologize to General Sun. Don't worry, I will start work on building a new ship right away, and I will definitely not delay your use."

"Hehe... I don't teach lessons. I don't know how to build ships, so I can only offer suggestions. The shipyard still depends on you. General Sun, do you think so?" Yue Shan laughed.

"Yue Hou is right. I was too impatient and had a bad attitude before. Don't blame Master Mei." Yue Shan wants to be a peacemaker, how dare Sun Renshi not give face, and immediately laughed.

"Okay, isn't the matter settled now? Don't be anxious when encountering problems in the future, and discuss more, and you can always find a suitable solution." Yue Shan said.

"Here." Master Sun Ren and Mei Yun said in unison.

"By the way, Master Mei, don't build big boats, but big boats and warships." Master Sun Ren reminded.

"Why?" Yue Shan asked suspiciously.

"The building boat is too high, and it can only drive near the shore, and it capsizes when it goes a little deeper." The lost person explained.

"So that's the case, did Master Mei remember?" Yue Shan asked.

"Little old man, remember. If General Sun didn't tell me, I really don't know what happened to me." Mei Xiang laughed.

"Ships are built for human use. When designing new sea-going ships, communicate more with General Sun. His ability to build ships is not as good as yours, but you are not as good at sailing them. Only by working together can you build better ships. .” Yue Shan said again.

"Here." The two said again.

The matter was decided at this point, and Yue Shan went to the shipyard for another round before returning to the Yamen.As soon as he sat down, someone came to report that Wang Dahu and others had returned, so he had to go to meet them again.

　Four thousand five hundred words, this chapter is not easy to split, so it is merged into one chapter.Count two more...

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