Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 54 Zhu Zhanji: They are all a batch of high-quality leeks! ! !

In a word, soft and hard.

When Shen Wendu finished speaking, all the businessmen in the audience were confused in an instant.

They originally thought that this auction was a public auction, and they basically had some understanding of the opponent's situation in advance.

Even many big wealthy businessmen, or people with backgrounds, have already discussed in private the agent locations of Xinyan, and they have divided their ownership tacitly.

Just waiting for the start of the auction, quoting a reasonable price to fool around, saving money, the court is satisfied, and then everyone is happy to win the new salt sales qualification.

But Shen Wendu's sudden move caught everyone by surprise.

After all, if the respective prices are written on paper, there will be some uncontrollable elements to a large extent.

For one thing, no one is sure whether the partner he negotiated before will suddenly raise the price temporarily and take away the part that he originally negotiated that belongs to him.

And some people with some background, now even want to use their background to secretly threaten others to ask for a price, it is somewhat impossible to do so.

After all, if it is a public auction, these people will naturally need to appear in person when bidding, so that they can threaten them quietly.

But instead of writing on paper, who knows who will become his opponent?

Who knows if his little friend will betray him.

All of a sudden, none of the crowd started to write. They looked at each other from side to side, as if they were waiting for others to write first!

Although this auction is as simple as any auction, just simply write a price, but it makes everyone feel more difficult than any previous auction.

A simple number, without any urging, took a full two hours, and the auction ended after the last person raised his hand.

And the merchants who finished the auction were no longer interested in admiring the beautiful people Shen Wendu invited from Qinhuai River.

Each of them is like going through a tough battle. It is obviously a cold winter, but each of them is full of big men.

As soon as the auction ended, groups of threes and twos immediately gathered together, and began to inquire about the bids of other people around them.

It's just that at this moment, the original partners, or colleagues from the same business gang, are no longer as close as they used to be.

There is a thick vigilance, doubts, and precautions everywhere between each other.

He was an out-and-out businessman, and no one was a good man or a believer. No one would doubt whether his former little friend would suddenly stab him in the back if he had the opportunity to keep it private.

At this time, if you still hold the false trust in the past, such a person is either stupid or stupid.

In the box on the top floor of the Huainan Guild Hall, Zhu Zhanji leaned on the chair with his legs crossed, in a very disfigured manner, holding a bowl of hot tea in one hand, taking a sip from time to time.

Holding a copy of "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in one hand, yes, this is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Mr. Luo who just passed away more than ten years ago.

But "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just the abbreviation of this book, its full name should be called "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms"

After all, he couldn't sit still for two hours, so he naturally needed to find something to pass the time.

In this day and age without mobile phones or computers, reading novels is a good choice.

It's just a pity that the authors of the four major novels, "Journey to the West" and "A Dream of Red Mansions" have not yet been born.

"Water Margin" has come out, but Zhu Zhanji doesn't like reading this book very much.

Here Zhu Zhanji is seeing Sanyin fighting Lu Bu.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Shen Wendu walked in holding the quotation paper that had been collected.

First put the quotation paper respectfully in front of Zhu Zhanji, and then Shen Wendu took a few steps back and said:

"His Royal Highness, the auction is over, and all the offers from the rich merchants are here!"

Zhu Zhanji put down the book upon hearing this, and picked up the quotation paper in front of him.

Then he flipped through a few pages, and he focused on Yingtianfu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang, Fujian, Shandong, and Shanxi.

These places are all populous provinces. The lowest population on the surface has a population of 500 million, and the highest population is Yingtianfu, which has a population of tens of millions.

Similarly, merchants who want to bid for these places must bid the highest.

In places with a relatively small population, such as Beiping, Sichuan, and Yunnan, where the population is less than one million, there must be fewer wealthy businessmen bidding for auctions, and the prices will be lower.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji was looking at these quotations, Shen Wendu explained: "Grandson, when these quotations were received, the subordinates had already ordered someone to sort them out. Among them, the highest quotation should be the agent of Xuehua Salt in Zhejiang, who was sent by Zhejiang Xuehua Salt. The Longyou Merchant Gang took it together, and its bid was 500 million taels of silver, followed by Ying Tianfu, and Ying Tianfu's snowflake salt was the highest bid of 300 million taels of silver!"

Zhu Zhanji continued to look at the quotation paper, without raising his head, he asked, "According to the highest price, how much is the total amount of silver in each place?"

Shen Wendu was obviously prepared, and said without hesitation after hearing the words: "The agency fee for ordinary yellow salt is 700 million taels of silver in total, and the agency fee for Yingtianfu yellow salt is the highest at 570 million taels of silver. The total amount of agents is 300 million taels of silver, and the total of the two is exactly 8000 million taels of silver!"

"Not bad!"

When Zhu Zhanji heard Shen Wendu's report, he calculated silently in his heart, and followed the discussion between him and Xia Yuanji.

The benefits of new salt are divided. Among them, merchants buy new salt, whether it is ordinary yellow salt or snowflake salt, and the household department only takes [-] yuan per catty.

In other words, except for the forty fen that belongs to the household department to eat alone, the rest, whether it is the agency fee, or the deposit that the businessman will deduct in the future against the agreement, including the profit after deducting the [-] fen from the household department for ten taels of silver per catty of snowflake salt ,

These are distributed according to the ratio of the household department, him, and my grandfather, three to three to four!

In other words, he has 8000% of the 30 million taels of silver, which is almost 400 million taels of silver.

"hiss!"

Calculating the result silently in his heart, Zhu Zhanji shocked himself directly.

Although he knew that salt would definitely make money, he didn't expect that it was just an agency fee. He only took 30% of the share, and he had a profit of 400 million taels of silver!
And this agency fee is only for two years of agency rights!

On average, that is to say, relying on the agency fee alone, he can get an average of 700 million taels of silver every year.

This is a pure agency fee, not a dime of capital, and it is completely earned by empty-handed wolves.

This is not counting other things, including the deposit, and the profit of Snowflake Salt after setting aside 5000 taels of silver. If other profits are included, the annual profit will definitely exceed [-] million taels of silver, right?

Zhu Zhanji was also a little fortunate in his heart, thanks to his insight, Shen Wendu reused Shen Wendu and asked Shen Wendu to propose a method of selling two things for one salt!

Otherwise, if we only rely on ordinary salt auctions, the profits will definitely not be so large.

This can be seen from the auction results of Yellow Salt and Snowflake Salt. The asking price of Snowflake Salt has basically reached three times that of Yellow Salt.

If he followed his previous thinking, perhaps the agency fee this time would not exceed seventy-eight million taels of silver at most.

At the same time, the wealth of Ming merchants made Zhu Zhanji more and more envious.

It is no wonder that later generations surveyed, it is said that only the Shanxi merchants, and the eight major families added up, only the silver in stock has far exceeded [-] million taels of silver!

This is only Shanxi merchants. You must know that Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants have the same strength as Shanxi merchants.

"It seems that Daming is not really poor, it is only the imperial court and most of the people who are poor!"

Zhu Zhanji sighed silently in his heart.

These businessmen usually don't show their faces one by one, and their great ancestor suppresses them desperately.

It seemed that each one of them seemed miserable, but after going through such an auction, Zhu Zhanji really saw the potential strength of these Ming businessmen.

It is no wonder that some people in later generations will say that capital had already begun to sprout in the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Zhanji is allowed to hold so much wealth for a long time, Zhu Zhanji himself will definitely move some thoughts.

Not to mention bribing some officials or something, at least it is certain to invest in some scholars.

"No, capitalism is unacceptable. The biggest capital of Daming can only be the Zhu family. For others, whoever dares to play with capital, I have to let him know the awareness of being a leek!"

Zhu Zhanji silently made up his mind, and then continued to look through these quotation papers!
After a while, he said in a strange way: "If I remember correctly, three announcements and six comforters are also in this auction. Why is there no one bidding?"

Zhu Zhanji’s Three Propaganda and Six Consolation Departments refer to the southwestern area of ​​Ming Dynasty.
In this regard, regardless of the fact that Ming Dynasty seems to be the most prominent in all dynasties, whether it is economy, population, land area or military affairs.

But the territory of Ming Dynasty is definitely not small. Not to mention the northernmost Nuergandusi and the southernmost Sanxuan Liuweisi, they are infinitely close to the estuary of the Indian Ocean for later generations.

My great ancestor, the conquests in the past were not as simple as the simple sentence in the history books to drive out the Tatars and restore China!
Because the chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou are still loyal to Meng Yuan.

In order to unify Yunnan and Guizhou, Zhu Yuanzhang sent generals Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Mu Ying and others to lead an army of 30 to march south.

Under the command of the coach Fu Youde and the vanguard general Lan Yu, the Ming army quickly took over the entire Yunnan-Guizhou area.

After learning that Yunnan and Guizhou had been recovered, Zhu Yuanzhang was very pleased. He ordered Fu Youde Lanyu's class teacher to return to the court, and at the same time sent an edict to his adopted son Muying, ordering him to lead the rest of the soldiers to guard Yunnan for generations.

In this way, the Mu family became the "Duke of Qianguo" of the Ming Dynasty and the country, and the hereditary commander-in-chief posted the seal of General Nan.

This is also an important reason why Yunnan can be attached.

And the so-called Three Propaganda and Six Comforters were specially set up to govern these chieftains.
The three announcements are: Nandian Xuanfu Division, Ganya Xuanfu Division, and Longchuan Xuanfu Division.

The six comforts are: Cheli Xuanwei Division, Myanmar Xuanwei Division, Mubang Xuanwei Division, Babaidadian Xuanwei Division, Mengyang Xuanwei Division, and Laos Xuanwei Division.

As for the Sanxuan and Liuweisi going south, they only need to pass through a short period of dense forest to reach the mouth of the Indian Ocean.

How important this place is, it is no exaggeration to describe it as a dream in future generations!

It’s just that later the Mu family’s influence was too great, and it was gradually suspected by the imperial court, and its influence was gradually weakened by the imperial court. Coupled with the implementation of the policy of reforming the natives, the resistance of the natives in the southwest intensified. return.

That's why the three announcements and six comforts gradually got out of control.

But now Daming is not the later Daming. Daming has strong soldiers and horses, and the Mu family is terrified of the entire Southwest.

And the imperial court has Zhang Fu, the British Duke, who can be called a nightmare existence for the indigenous people of the Southwest.

It can be said that the current Southwest still agrees with the rule of Ming Dynasty very much, and feels very honored to be a citizen of Ming Dynasty!
So this is also where Zhu Zhanji is strange. Three propagandas and six comforts, the population is not a small number, and the statistics on the surface have a population of more than 400 million.

According to the calculation of ten catties of salt, 4000 million catties of salt will be obtained a year, which is not a small amount.

Naturally, no one should care about it!
Shen Wendu was sweating on his forehead when he heard the words, and quickly said: "His Royal Highness, although the southwest side is under the jurisdiction of Ming Dynasty, there are still locals who make troubles from time to time. Although the scale is not large, they will be suppressed soon, but some people who are not familiar with it The merchants in the local situation did not dare to go there easily, otherwise they would lose some money, and their lives would be in danger. The subordinates did not have much contact with the rich merchants there, and the distance between Southwest and Yingtian was quite far, so there was no one there. participate!"

Zhu Zhanji nodded when he heard the words, but didn't blame Shen Wendu.

After all, Shen Wendu has handled this matter well enough!
As for the southwest region, Zhu Zhanji thought about it, and guessed that what Shen Wendu said was almost true.

"In the final analysis, Daming's jurisdiction over there is too weak!"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head, feeling a little helpless.

His current ability is limited, even if he wants to do something, there is no way.

"If that's the case, you will be responsible for the sale of new salt at the Sanxuan and Liuweisi. I will send a message to Qian Guogong Mu Sheng. If there is anything that cannot be resolved, you can directly Find Mu Sheng."

"Subordinates obey!"

Shen Wendu was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly responded. Regarding the new salt business, he didn't say that he was greedy.

It's just that Zhu Zhanji didn't say to make him responsible, so he didn't reach out.

But now Zhu Zhanji has opened his mouth. Although it is only a southwestern region that is not considered rich, but with Qian Guogong Mu Sheng as his helper, naturally there will be no major problems.

Seeing that he agreed, Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and said: "When you sell private salt, you also let people check out the specific situation of the natives over there, the local terrain, the places where the population gathers, the roads, etc., in the end. It’s good to be able to buy more local natives, and I will reuse them in the future!”

Shen Wendu's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, and he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he nodded quickly.

　Thank you for the reward from the boss of QQ Reading Qianmeng, thank you very much, thank you for your support to the little author! ! !

　　
　
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