I’m Not Really A Study God

Xuecheng Lu Mansion is still in the study room last time. While Lu Zhennan was quietly admiring a calligraphy and painting, Lu Guoxing walked in quickly, with a hint of irritability, “Father, should we do it?” What to order?”

He paused for a while and said again, “Can’t wait any longer. The two families of Xu and Li are fighting on the price of the salt field, but Lu Family is the one who loses the most. It’s too bad. They have been fighting for two or three days. Although all aspects are blooming everywhere, the biggest thing is the price of salt!”

Feudal era, the characteristics of Chinese history inheritance, a dynasty likes salt and iron franchise Only after the franchise of salt and iron can the empire continuously convey benefits.

If it is a franchise, then there will naturally be the Imperial Court department that administers the saltworks. Salt merchants take the goods from the Imperial Court saltworks and ship them out for sale. In this link, the Imperial Court earns only a small amount, far more than nothing. Salt merchants of all sizes earn a lot more, and they do not make as much as the officials who do their jobs.

But State Lu is really not a salt and iron franchise…Because State Lu is too weak, the weak royal family has lost even the franchise, a face-saving project.

The gentry and tycoons of the coastal saltworks directly control the saltworks. You are responsible for one piece, and I am responsible for one piece. The merchants who then take goods out of the saltworks and sell them do not make much money.

Let’s say that Xuecheng is the seat of the residence, and the salt farms controlled by Li, Xu, and Lu. The radiation market is Xuecheng, one residence and three counties, plus more intrusions into two counties in the surrounding town. a little.

Farther afield, there are salt farms controlled by gentry in other regions.

Then even if the salt merchants get the salt, they only make a not-so-high price difference. For example, a catty of salt is more than a dozen copper plates. When the salt merchants leave the market, the salt price is already ten. As mentioned above, salt merchants sell to one province and many counties, and one catty of salt can earn up to two pens and three pens.

Don’t think that the price is not expensive. As a person, or an ordinary person in the age of inanimateness, who do ordinary people leave the salt?

It is every household, and everyone consumes it almost every day. Xuecheng has one mansion and three counties, plus the other two adjacent counties, with a population of thirty-forty million, plus caravans and various ship crews to and from the port. This is an iron rice bowl for generations.

Now the Xu family and the Li mansion are rushing the market, and they both drop one or two pennies a day. That many drop in a day? In the coastal areas, the normal salt price around Xuecheng is only a dozen per jin. Under this circumstance, the business there is really booming, and the Lufumen are quite good.

Therefore, Lu Guoxing can’t sit still anymore. I really want father to take a stand immediately. Whether he chooses to support Li Family or chooses to be an intermediary, he can’t mediate in the salt price industry. Just sit and wait like that.

But in Lu Guoxing’s anxious inquiry, Lu Zhennan still focused on the calligraphy and painting, as if he didn’t even hear it. After Lu Guoxing shouted again, Lu Zhennan calmly said, “You This is too far behind your qigong.”

“Compared to your friend, no. We don’t need to do anything in this matter. Their price war will soon end, even When the price war can’t continue, our Lu Family will be the one who will reap the profits.”

Lu Guoxing was dumbfounded before speaking, “Father means that Li Family and Xu Family will not If it’s down to ten texts, it’s almost bottoming out?”

He is not stupid, otherwise he will not become the next generation successor in training.

It was just a sudden fight between the two sides, which made Lu Mansion dumbfounded and made him a little messy.

“You are not too stupid.” Lu Zhennan stared at this son speechlessly. He was 29 years old and so short-sighted. I really don’t know what he talked about every day about revitalizing the Lu country. Big talk, where does it come from?

“Ten Wen is a bottom line. Once the salt price is lower than ten Wen, it will be the next-door state capital. Salt merchants who buy goods from other gentry-controlled salt farms like us will also flock to you. , Because the price difference is greater than the transportation cost, by that time, the Li and Xu family will not only be resisted and rejected by the gentry from other states, too many merchants will come, and they will also empty the inventory of their saltworks.”

“Once they ran out of inventory, they would not be able to fight the price war. The entire Xuecheng salt market is my Lu Family who decides everything. Not to mention the original price, it’s easy to carry a few words.”

Lu Zhennan calmly analyzed that what he said was also the fact.

Xuecheng is a port city with well-developed shipping, both in ocean and offshore.

Sea transportation is not as convenient as land transportation.

Just run hundreds of thousands of miles, and the big ship sails, which is much easier than land transportation. If the two houses of Li and Xu dare to drop to Shiwen, there will definitely be salt merchants from other state capitals to get the goods. It will definitely cause more hostility from the gentry.

Except hostility is profit!

What if you have a salt farm? Is it impossible to have unlimited stock and unlimited output? The salt in the salt farm is in quantity. If you want to make salt again after you have sold it, it will take time. Where can the salt-making methods of the feudal era be advanced? Otherwise, there will not be any salt panic phenomenon in the historical dynasty.

According to the geographical location and other differences, the coastal areas such as Xuecheng have a catty of salt per catty, but in Dashang, Datang, Rome and other inland capitals, a catty of twenty-thirty text, thirty-forty Wen is not uncommon.

Wait for Xu and Li’s family to be temporarily out of stock, and the inventory is full, which are those that cannot be sold in Lufu. In the market around Xuecheng, it is a temporary monopoly price.

Loss? The Xu family and Li Family went to war, but Lu Family was killed? Don’t be funny, Lu Family will only take advantage of it and have the last laugh.

He believes to give Lu Guoxing a certain amount of time to slowly sort out all the links. This son should be able to figure it out, but he is too impatient, looking at the people who originally bought salt from Lu Family When the salt merchants are running on both sides, they are anxious. People are prone to make mistakes when they are in a hurry.

After a few words, Lu Guoxing has indeed stabilized, and the expression on his face is also incomparable.

“Did you visit the nobleman in the past three days?”

After Lu Zhennan spoke again, Lu Guoxing said, “I went to visit once a day. Not much, and the friendship is not deep.”

“The main reason is that Yuanshu reported to him all kinds of recent developments. The position on the first day was okay. The 2nd day that Yuanshu was still OK, today …That person just smiled and said that Yuanshu’s performance has barely passed.”

Speaking of this, Lu Guoxing couldn’t help but complain, “I really can’t think of the identity of that person. Li Family has already paid a lot of benefits. How much resources and connections did he spend to appease the Mister Magistrate?”

“Since the war began, how much money has been lost in all aspects, and word of mouth has begun to crumble. Bad, just barely pass?”

“I don’t know how noble he is, but his attitude and tone are already beyond our class!”

Li Yuanshu’s original intention, Just to protect dozens of hundreds of neighbors near Wang Han’s home, the direct murderer who killed Xu’s old seventh, from bankruptcy or selling children and daughters from extortion. Up to now, he has paid far more than those dozens of civilians. The total value of the family!

Even if the heart is kind, in Lu Guoxing’s view, it’s really not as good. Let the Xu family and Yu Tongzhi send out the yamen to arrest and extort them at will. The big deal is that Li Yuanshu takes some money from home to help them After paying the extortion money, it was much easier than now.

Lu Zhennan was also stunned, okay, still improvised, barely passing?