The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 227 I'm afraid they don't like money

There are a few stretches of houses behind the hypermarket, all of which were bought by Qin Nan at the moment, as his usual residence.

Not long after Ding Yi came back, Wei Jiye and Lu Chao from Dengzhou came to see him one after another.

Wei Jiye is currently inspecting the salt affairs, and is mainly responsible for the sales of refined salt here. He usually cooperates with Liu Yuan's prefect's family to earn salt profits from several local and state capitals in Denglai.

This piece can provide Ding Yi with a profit of more than 1 taels per month, which is quite considerable.

All the money is stored with Qin Nan, and Ding Yi will send someone to collect it when he needs to use it.

Wei Jiye first reported to Ding Yi that there seemed to be peasant armies in many places, and the price of salt and grain in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces had risen.

Recently, many businessmen have come to Dengzhou, wanting to buy salt and transport it to Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

The local Yanyin in Dengzhou is basically made by acquaintances. Ding Yi cut off a batch last time, but most of the rest are now cooperating.

Ding Yi can sell them the refined salt produced by Lushun.

But these merchants only want coarse salt, and they feel that refined salt is too expensive.

This is simple, Ding Yi can ask Lushun to skip one processing procedure, which is coarse salt, and the quality is better than that on the market.

Ding Yi thought for a while, and there are quite a lot of places where he can dry and cook salt in Lushun, but he is afraid that the output will be high and he will not be able to sell it.

"In the future, you will collect information on foreign salt merchants, register all of them, and then tell them."

"If I can guarantee that it will not be sold in Dengzhou, my price can be discounted. The more they buy at one time, the more discount I get."

Wei Jiye must be a local patrol inspector, responsible for the production and sales of the local salt industry, or selling a large amount of high-quality and low-priced salt to Dengzhou, which will affect the sales of the official salt field, and will also make the local salt merchants who cooperate with them dissatisfied.

So Ding Yi asked, I welcome foreign salt merchants, but you can't sell it locally. As for how you ship it out, that's your business.

In short, I can lower the price and the quality is good.

"To what extent?" Wei Jiye asked.

"The more we take at one time, the more suitable we are." Ding Yi plans to rely on these foreign salt merchants to seize the foreign market and raise the wholesale price.

"If you take more than a hundred loads at a time, we will give you [-]% of the profit."

"Hiss..." Wei Jiye sucked in a heartbroken breath.

"If you take more than [-] dan, we will give you [-]% profit."

"If it's more than [-] tons, we'll give you [-]% of the profit."

The maximum profit is [-]%.

For example, in Dengzhou right now, salt merchants take about 0.7-0.8 taels of salt.

Selling 1 tael to about 1.1, there is already a [-]% profit.

According to what Ding Yi said, if you take more than a thousand dan (0.42 catties), it will become 0.47-[-] taels, and the profit is quite high, almost doubled.

If it can be transported to the Shaanxi-Gansu area, it will sell for about 1.5, which is more than three times the price.

In this way, not to mention foreign salt merchants, local salt merchants know that they may also import a large amount of goods and sell them to other places.

Wei Jiye was heartbroken: "Is our profit too small?"

"A lot, I've calculated that as long as the sales increase, we will only earn more." Ding Yi said with a smile: "This is called wholesale. From now on, these merchants will be our franchise stores. They will help us and sell our Lushun Salt is sold all over the Ming Dynasty."

"We have to rely on them to help us occupy the market, and it doesn't hurt to make a little profit."

Naturally, Wei Jiye didn't understand Ding Yi's marketing, but what Ding Yi said made sense to him: "Listen to Dingtou." He said with a naive smile.

"But you have to make an agreement with those salt merchants that we will give in and you can't sell them locally, or you will be caught by the inspection department and kill one by one." Ding Yi said sharply.

"No." Wei Jiye quickly responded.

"In addition, how to transport it out is their own business. If other state governments investigate, don't blame us."

Wei Jiye said: "If the quantity is large now, many people will use boats, which is safer than going by land."

It is easy for current salt merchants to transport salt out, but the next step is to sell it to various places, and it is inevitable to go by land, which is the most dangerous, but as long as there are huge profits, there is no shortage of bold people in this world.

The eight major Shanxi merchants risked their heads and dared to make money later, isn't it because of huge profits.

Ding Yi sometimes wondered, could Shanxi merchants come here to buy salt?
No matter who it is, as long as there is money to make, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to make money for later gold in the future.

He won't sell other strategic materials to Houjin, but salt can be sold, because there are others who sell it without him, and such things as salt can't affect the strength changes of him and Houjin.

After Wei Jiye left, Lu Chao continued to come in.

Lu Chao has lived in Dengzhou for nearly a year and has become more and more prosperous. Now he looks a bit like a businessman.

Moreover, he married a daughter-in-law in May today and gave birth to a son. When Ding Yi found out later, he was given a congratulatory gift of 100 taels.

As soon as we met today, Lu Chao hurriedly knelt on the ground: "My lord. Thank you on behalf of the mother-in-law and children at home."

"Lu Chao, you can do it, you're older than me, motherfucker." Ding Yi laughed loudly, helped him up, and asked him to sit down.

Lu Chao carefully sat on half of his buttocks, with a look of embarrassment: "Hey, I didn't want to have a baby at first, but I couldn't hold it back for a while, I couldn't hold it back."

"It's pretty good. I like to see you all living well. That's my greatest wish to protect Lushun."

Hearing this, Lu Chao suddenly kowtowed again: "Dayao, I have a small request from you."

"You say." Ding Yi remained calm.

"My mother-in-law likes to be quiet, but it's too noisy here, and the child is young. I often go out and have no one to take care of me. I want my mother-in-law to take my son to Lushun. There are many brothers and sister-in-laws there, so I can help take care of him."

Ding Yi thought for a while, then nodded: "That's fine, after all, they are all my brothers over there."

Lu Chao was overjoyed and kowtowed again.

During this year, Lu Chao worked hard and helped Lushun find many teachers, craftsmen, and doctors.

Basically, every time a ship comes from Lushun, a batch can be taken away.

But now there is a problem. After Sun Yuanhua, the new governor of Dengzhou, came, he attached great importance to craftsmen and firearms, and invited Portuguese Anduo, Boduolu, Fang Sigu, Sa Cong, etc. to set up a firearms camp, and hired craftsmen with a lot of money. A batch is coming from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the capital to vigorously develop firearms in Dengzhou.

So in the past few months, Lu Chao has been unable to find craftsmen locally.

He began to travel to other nearby prefectures, the farthest being Jinan Prefecture.

There are a large number of craftsmen in Jinan Prefecture. They are not treated well and their lives are not good. They intend to relocate, but the asking price is very high. Lu Chao specially reported to Ding Yi this time.

"How much?" Ding Yi asked strangely.

"A lot of people ask, the settling fee is 50 taels, the monthly salary is at least ten taels, and the craftsman needs to be 20 taels."

"Ni Niang." Ding Yi cursed: "How much do you have, how much do you want."

Lu Chao was taken aback, then nodded quickly: "Understood."

"Lu Chao, you have been in Dengzhou for many days, and you have also seen my prosperous development in Lushun. You have to look farther, and I will say it again."

"In this era, artisans are our Daming and Lushun's incomparably precious wealth. How much I have is how much I want. Money is not a problem, but I am afraid that the other party will not like money."

Lu Chao hurriedly said, "I will definitely remember it well."

Ding Yi also ordered him to go as far as possible to go as far as possible in the future to dig more craftsmen.

money is not a problem.

Luchao nodded heavily.

His line, the farthest eyeliner has been placed outside of Jinan, and Ding Yi's mission has been completed.

But there is no need to say how much these eyeliners are, at least he is already doing something.

He did better than Zhao Dashan in this aspect. Ding Yi planned to let him take over in the future and let Zhao Dashan specialize in the intelligence department. First, establish an intelligence agency in Shandong, and then develop abroad.

(End of this chapter)