King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 70 Shanxi Merchants
  Hear these words.

Everyone woke up in horror.

At the same time, my heart was extremely happy!

100 taels of silver a year!
  God!
  How much is that?
  The county magistrate can’t make enough money in a year!

At the beginning.

Zhu Tan wanted to teach the process by process, and at the same time not allow each family to communicate with each other.

This can effectively prevent the leakage of salt refining technology.

But then I thought about it.

He is a prince, why are he afraid of betrayal or technology leakage?
  The entire salt field of the Ming Dynasty was managed by the imperial court!

Anyone who dares to use his craftsmanship will directly destroy the salt field. The officials will catch him and kill him. It doesn't matter if the salt craftsman is killed!
  Why be so wary.

What's more.

How long will it take for me to teach such a large salt farm?
  What should the princess do if she misses herself?
  It's better to teach a group of people in charge to save trouble!
  Next.

This salt field is the golden mountain of Prince Lu.
  Changlu Saltworks.

The salt class was promoted to the yamen.

After some renovation, it became Zhu Tan's temporary residence and office.

After Zhu Tan trained this group of managers, he began to arrange the renovation of Changlu Salt Farm.

At the same time, three policies were announced to kitchen households.

the first.

Changlu Saltworks reissues salary arrears before!
  second.

Changlu Saltworks will never default on any salary arrears in the future!
  third.

Changlu Saltworks manages meals every day!

There are vegetables, meat, and eggs, and at the same time, you are full!
  As soon as the three policies were released.

Zhu Tan immediately became a Buddha-like figure in the hearts of all kitchen households.

Even every household has a shrine dedicated to Zhutan.
  This incident shocked Zhu Tan.

Quickly order to stop!

He just wants to improve the lives of kitchen households and increase production efficiency.

I didn’t expect those people to praise me so much!

A vassal king was enshrined in a shrine by the people. It was really too low-key and inconsistent with his character as King Luhuang.

Without any choice.

The kitchen households re-designed a salt god based on the image of Zhutan.
  Even the temple was secretly repaired a lot.

Every household burns incense day and night to pray to the Salt God for eternal blessings and a long life.
  What Zhu Tan didn't know even more was that except for the kitchen households in Changlu Salt Farm.

There are also shrines to him everywhere in Rizhao County.
  Everything in Changlu Salt Farm has been settled.

Zhu Tan planned to return to Yanzhou Mansion.

Because he knows that in addition to doing the production side of Changlu Salt Factory, there is also the sales side to solve.
  Now that Ming Dynasty's salt sales channels are tightly controlled by Shanxi merchants, he still has to find a way to break the situation.

of course.

If Zhu Tan is willing, he can cooperate with these Shanxi merchants.

After all, Changlu Salt Farm has a large output of salt and good quality, so Shanxi merchants will definitely be willing to sell it.

But Zhu Tan didn't like these Shanxi merchants.

At the same time, I don’t want my sales channels to be controlled by others.

Therefore, we still have to put aside these Shanxi merchants and set up our own business.

Because Shanxi merchants have not been trustworthy partners historically.

Especially during the entire Ming Dynasty.

The imperial court issued repeated orders not to provide strategic materials to Mongolia and the Jurchens. But under the operation of Shanxi merchants, the entire nine sides of the Ming Dynasty were penetrated into a sieve!
  From horses and weapons to grain and grass supplies, and even firecrackers and guns, they were all sold to Mongolia and the Qing Dynasty!
  Under the operation of these traitorous businessmen, they also accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty and led to a great tragedy in the history of the entire Chinese nation.

It resulted in the subsequent tragedies such as the Qing army's entry into the Pass, the Jiading Three Massacres, the Yangzhou Ten Days and other tragedies.

As Shanxi merchants who made great contributions to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, they enjoyed all the benefits and dominated the limelight in the early Qing Dynasty.

The Tatar Emperor Shunzhi personally named Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa as "Imperial Merchants", specializing in royal business and making a lot of money.

Zhu Tan deeply hated these Shanxi merchants who grew up by stepping on the bones of their compatriots and sucking their flesh and blood.

Even if they are partners, they are the most unreliable ones.

Because they are so selfish!
  I will never hand over the salt sales channels to them.

River.

Cao Mansion.

Dozens of businessmen were sitting in front of Cao Wenlong.

These people are the main talkers of contemporary Shanxi merchants.

Their businesses cover all aspects of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the main ones are rice shops, cloth shops, noodle shops, salt shops, and money shops.

In fact.

These Shanxi merchants are also the top businessmen of the contemporary era.

We know that industries related to people's basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation are the most profitable, so most investments are concentrated in these industries.

at this time.

No more constraints and cautiousness outside.

We no longer need to cover ourselves up in coarse linen and sackcloth and make ourselves in rags.

They all wore silk and satin.

The whole hall was filled with nobility for a moment.

Cao Wenlong looked at everyone and said with a smile: "You are all the best people among Shanxi merchants! Cao invited everyone here to discuss an important matter!"

Everyone was well prepared and knew that Cao Wenlong was pointing to the Changlu Salt Field, so they all nodded and smiled.

Cao Wenlong said: "We Shanxi merchants have always wanted to control a piece of our own salt field! But salt and iron are a state monopoly! Nowadays, iron plants are still privately owned, but the salt field is not privately owned!

However, now the opportunity has come!
  The largest and best salt field in the Ming Dynasty, Changlu Salt Field, fell into the hands of His Highness King Lu!

This is the best news for us!
  We Shanxi merchants own 80% of the salt industry in the world! In the Changlu Salt Farm, 99% of the sales channels are in our hands!

Next, as long as we negotiate a cooperation with His Highness King Lu, we Shanxi merchants will have our own salt field! "

Everyone frowned.

"I heard that Prince Nalu was confused and had been fooling around in Shandong for a long time. Does Shopkeeper Cao want to cooperate with him?"

"Cooperating with the imperial court is like seeking the skin of a tiger! We can just make some money from the imperial court, but if we cooperate in depth, we may become the second Shen Wansan!"

"That's right. The Shen family is miserable! They built the city wall of Yingtian Mansion for the Ming Dynasty, and even helped reward the army, but in the end they ended up having their homes confiscated and exiled!"

When Cao Wenlong heard the discussion, he shook his head and said, "Don't be too prejudiced against the imperial court!

Although we merchants are now suppressed by the court, we dare not wear good clothes outside even if we have money!
  But that's only temporary! Aren’t merchants basically suppressed in all dynasties?

But what happened next? If we raise our children well, take the imperial examinations, and become officials in the court, it won't take a few generations for our businessman status to rise!
  Life is not easy now, but it will be a good life for us in the future! "

talking.

Cao Wenlong smiled again and said: "Back to the subject! This time, we are targeting the Changlu Salt Field because His Highness King Nalu is also in trouble now! Although the Changlu Salt Field is nominally under his control, he has to pay 100 to the court every year. Ten thousand taels of silver in taxes!

Now, the profit that Changlu Salt Farm can make in a year is almost this amount!

Moreover, His Royal Highness King Lu also promised the court to increase taxes by 10% every year!

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is simply impossible!

Haha everyone, have you seen any business opportunities so far? "

(End of this chapter)