Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 538 The money giver is here 3
So far, there have been two calls to send money, which has made Yang Menglong a lot of money.However, the good things are not over yet.Not long after, the old man Cheng Shi came to the door with several dignified old men.

They are the representatives with the strongest financial resources and the highest popularity among Huizhou merchants.

Huizhou merchants have been inherited for more than a thousand years and have always been the giants of the business world. Except for the Shanxi merchants who slowly rose in the Ming Dynasty, there is no merchant group that can compete with them.One of the reasons why they have achieved today's status is that they have a unique vision, are good at discovering business opportunities, and are bold enough. Once they find a business opportunity, they will take all the money in their pockets like a gambler who has seen the cards of the dealer.Wuyang Salt Field began to produce a large amount of salt, which made them see a huge business opportunity. If they haven't acted now, do they have to wait for the Shanxi and Zhejiang merchants to do it before grabbing some leftovers?
Yang Menglong didn't talk nonsense, and directly took them to visit Wuyang Salt Field.

The current Wuyang Salt Field has completely changed. Several salt factories have been built. In more than a dozen salt wells, the salty salt water that would kill people is continuously brought out from the inside and flows along the cement canal to the salt factory.In the salt factory, dozens of biogas stoves spew out blue flames day and night, and the salt water is tumbling in the pots and slowly boiled dry, leaving large chunks of white salt.The master salt worker from Sichuan guarded the pot, carefully filtering out the sundries floating on the brine with a spoon, and adding some soy milk from time to time, which not only makes the salt whiter, but also tastes better.What is puzzling is that in addition to soy milk, they also add a light green powder to it.

"This is kelp powder." Yang Menglong explained, "Salt mines in the mainland generally lack iodine, and if you don't get it for a long time, you will get sick, but kelp is rich in iodine, and adding a little to it is very good for your body. "

The boiled salt is not sold directly, but has to be processed.Kong Wu's powerful young man carried the buckets of boiled salt to the drying room to dry them thoroughly to prevent any water residue, and then poured them into the mill for grinding.The donkey pulled the mill round and round, and the salt grains creaked and shattered, turning into snow-white salt powder.The ground salt powder was sent to the packaging area in barrels. Hundreds of ingenious girls used the moisture-proof treated mulberry paper bags to quickly put the salt powder into it, and then sealed it. More and no less.The big stove was cooking salt day and night, and they were divided into three shifts. They had to pack it quickly, otherwise the salt sent over there would soon pile up into a hill.

An elder from Huizhou who sells salt all over the world took a bag of salt, dipped a little of it with his finger and put it in his mouth. He tasted it for a long time and said, "It doesn't have any astringent taste. It even tastes better than Zigong well salt. Take it as a royal tribute." It’s no longer a problem, good salt, good salt!”

Another Huizhou merchant elder also tasted a little bit, and he was full of praise, but he was a little puzzled: "Champion Hou, what I don't understand is why you make salt into powder and then package it? Others are successful. The barrels are sold."

Yang Menglong said: "It's simple. Salt powder tastes better than salt grains. If you want to make a cold dish or something, you must prefer salt powder, right? As for why you need to wrap it, it's because... those unscrupulous profiteers after wrapping it There is no way to infiltrate sand into the salt, and there is no way to make a difference. This is called thinking about what the customers think and worrying about what the customers worry about."

A group of old men looked at each other, good guy, don't you think we are all unscrupulous profiteers?

"I don't know how much such a bag of salt costs?"

Yang Menglong said: "In Nanyang and Luoyang, such a bag of salt sells for six Wen."

The Hui merchant elder who tasted the salt first shouted: "Such good salt is only six renminbi! Now even sea salt that is too bitter to swallow can be sold for more than ten renminbi a catty! Champion, you sell So cheap, are you not afraid of losing money?"

Yang Menglong smiled and said, "Since when have I ever been in a loss-making business? Salt is a thing that requires small profits but quick turnover. The cost of such a bag of salt is about four renminbi, and I can make a net profit of two renminbi by selling it for six renminbi. Nanyang, Luoyang There are nearly 30 households, even if each of them only eats one bag a month, I will earn a net profit of 60 Wen, which is 6000 taels! People in Huguang and Sichuan are poorer than those in Heluo, but six Wenqian They must be able to afford the salt in the bag, if I can monopolize the market in these provinces, how much money should I make?"

All the elders of the Huizhou merchants looked at each other in astonishment.In their conception, such good salt should be sold as a luxury item, and a catty of salt sells for ten taels of silver without worrying about no customers, but this second-hand product unexpectedly came to do the opposite, making small profits but quick sales!At first glance, this is not a smart approach, but when you think about it carefully, everyone has to admit that this bastard is right.Salt is a necessities of life, no matter how poor people are, they have to buy it, otherwise they will not be able to live. Those salts that are bitter and soaked in a lot of sand are sold for more than ten yuan a catty, while such good salt only sells for six yuan a catty , Which would you choose if it were you?The most terrible thing is that the Wuyang Salt Field has unfathomable reserves, and no one knows that it can be mined for thousands of years. It can fully support this small profit but quick turnover business model. Once he is allowed to open up the situation, it will be a matter of time before he monopolizes the national market. Huai salt, Bohai salt, Zigong salt and so on are all dead!

Once the market is monopolized, even if it is small profits but quick turnover, the profits are extremely amazing.

The younger generation is terrible...

After seeing Yang Menglong's strength, Huizhou merchants happily signed a contract with Yang Menglong, investing 50 taels of silver to help Wuyang build a larger salt factory with more advanced facilities and a large salt storage. The price of Liuwen underwrites [-]% of the output of Wuyang Salt Field.According to the agreement, they cannot establish sales outlets in the Heluo and Huguang areas controlled by Yang Menglong—even if they do, it will be useless, because the salt in the Heluo and Huguang areas is sold for six cents a pack, and here they pay a penny. If they can’t make money, they will be responsible for transporting Wuyang’s salt to Jianghuai, Beizhili, and even Japan, the Philippines, Siam and other places for sale. If you can sell it to Europe, it’s your job.As for how much it sells for a pack, Yang Menglong can't control it, even if it's sold as a luxury item, it's his business.

After signing another big order, Yang Menglong was in a good mood and enthusiastically recommended another promising industry to representatives of Huizhou merchants: flax.In China, the price of cloth has remained high. The output is too small, but there are hundreds of millions of people who want to wear clothes. Take off your shirt to cool off, only to have someone take away your clothes as soon as you turn around, it's perfectly normal, cloth is valuable!
"The output of flax is ten times that of cotton. The cloth woven from flax fiber is flexible and smooth, comfortable and breathable, and not easy to be broken. Wearing a short-sleeved single shirt made of linen on a hot day is definitely better than wearing a cotton one." Robes are much more comfortable. And linen can also be blended with cotton, or even made into cotton coats, which are very effective in keeping warm in winter... Believe me, this is really a very promising industry!" The second-hand man held a piece of linen , talking endlessly about the benefits of flax, that's seriousness!Then again, he is generally very serious when it comes to making money.

After the introduction, I realized that these old men were all wearing linen shirts...

The old men discussed for a long time, and finally decided to spend huge sums of money to build 200 million mu of flax fields in Huguang and build [-] flax textile factories.Huizhou merchants have always moved from south to north, and made a fortune by earning the price difference by dumping goods. They have not bought any industries themselves, but it does not mean that they are not interested in industries. When they see promising industries, they will not hesitate. Underground, now the flax industry counts as one.

These old men also bought cement production technology and a complete set of equipment at a high price, and they are also going to start a factory to produce cement.Yang Menglong said he was happy to hear this. Cement is a kind of industry that is not very technical but has a wide range of uses. The larger the output, the better. It is inseparable from building roads, houses and reservoirs!

This project made Nanyang a lot of money.

Fang Yizhi was so happy from ear to ear, following Yang Menglong was so much fun, he, the magistrate of Nanyang, was about to be promoted, yet he managed to get so many projects that could benefit the common people!The magistrate paid his own money to buy banquets, entertain those old men, and welcome them to invest in Nanyang. He has done similar things many times, and he is already familiar with it!

After sending away those old men, Yang Menglong hummed "Gold is Enough to Defeat" and made some calculations. He found that he had cheated and deceived, and the money he got was not only enough for next year's military expenditure, but also a huge savings!He exclaimed: "The Ming Dynasty is so rich, and the money is so easy to make!"

The red lady also sighed.

Standing on the side of the road and sighing.

The rebellion in Huguang was huge. She thought that even if the rebels were well-disciplined, Huguang would be devastated. However, when she arrived in Jingzhou, she discovered that this was not the case at all.What lay before her eyes were endless fields. Potatoes, flax, tomatoes, radishes and other crops were all growing beautifully, and the puddles of red and green were dazzling.The rice fields are showing a wonderful golden color, and the heavy rice ears are bending the rice stalks. The farmers are waving their sickles and harvesting against time. Children are searching in the harvested fields with baskets, picking up the missing rice ears.Potatoes have also begun to be harvested. As soon as the hoe went down, seven or eight round and large potatoes came out. The scene of the harvest made every farmer smile.She came forward to ask and found out that these fields belonged to the rebels in name, and no one had the right to buy or sell them, but the output of the land belonged to them, and they only needed to pay [-]% of the rent. It is not difficult to imagine that these fields were once owned by the rebels. How happy the farmer must be when he is overwhelmed by heavy taxes!

In the middle of the river, the boats were full of young people, and these young men were mobilized to fight on the front lines.On the shore, the common people beat gongs and drums and shouted loudly: "When you get to the barracks, fight for strength and beat those officers and soldiers hard, don't let them come to harm us again!" They are not coming back!The red lady was stunned. Your children are going to fight, hey, they might die. Even if you don’t cry, at least you can’t be elated and proud, right?

Looking at the sail shadow gradually receding on the big river, she was silent for a long time, and let out a long sigh: "It turns out that you can still rebel like this!"

(End of this chapter)