Dahan: A 100-year-old veteran, I will build the strongest family

Chapter 88: One Million Young and Strong, Congratulations! Become a Member of the Beiwei Army

The people of Luoyang City did not notice that, under the peaceful circumstances of Luoyang City, the Li family and the Luoyang aristocratic family had completed an exchange of interests.

This exchange of interests was led by the Li family and the top aristocratic families in Luoyang. The Li family fully supplied Han paper with a price of six cents per knife in exchange for salt merchants, channels and crude salt resources from all over the country.

After exchanging interests.

Li Hong waved his hand and took the lead in supplying Han paper to major families.

Li Hong, however, wanted to let these top families taste the huge profits of Han paper so that they could easily hand over the salt merchants' resources from all over the country to the Li family.

After all, the salt merchants and horse resources from all over the country are a piece of flesh and blood for these aristocratic families. Although they have agreed to exchange with the Li family, how could they give them up so easily?

Procrastination is inevitable.

However, Li Hong couldn't wait.

Compared with snow salt purification, the raw materials and purification methods are slightly more complicated.
Papermaking was much simpler. Wood, grass, bamboo and other materials were easy to obtain, and Han paper could be produced by cutting down large quantities of them.

The five families of Li, Zhen, Lu, Wei, and Mi quickly freed up a batch of Han paper and sold it to the top families in Luoyang, including the Yuan, Yang, and Huang families, at the price of six coins per piece.

After getting the six-coin-a-piece Han paper from the Li family, the Yuan family, the Yang family, the Huang family and other top Luoyang families gathered together to discuss. Soon, the shops of the major families in Luoyang City began to sell Han paper at the price of thirty coins per piece.

At this time, the Li, Zhen, Lu, Wei, and Mi families had temporarily suspended the sale of Han paper, and all the paper produced was sold to a number of Luoyang families.

The Li family and the other five families do not sell Han paper. In Luoyang city, only the major aristocratic families sell Han paper.

The high price of twenty-six five-zhu coins per piece of Han paper directly caused an uproar and protest among the people and scholars in Luoyang.

After all, before, the five shops of the Li family only sold one knife for ten five-zhu coins, but now the shops of the major aristocratic families sell it for twenty-six five-zhu coins. The price difference is really huge.

It’s just that protests are protests.

However, many common people and scholars suddenly discovered that only the shops of these wealthy families sold Han paper, and the Li family and other five shops had temporarily stopped selling Han paper.

This made many common people and scholars quite angry. However, despite their anger, many people still bought Han paper.

On the one hand, after using the tough, snow-white Han paper, they found that they no longer wanted to use cloth, Cai Hou paper, or bamboo slips.

It is easy to go from simple to luxurious, but it is difficult to go from luxurious to simple again.

On the other hand, even if Han paper costs 26 cents per piece, it is still much cheaper than the high-quality and shredded Cai Hou paper.

Therefore, even though the price of Han paper soared to 26 cents, people still came in an endless stream to buy Han paper.

In ancient times, there was no dynasty in which paper was widely used.

Han paper is a good carrier for books, and books represent knowledge.

The people of the Han Dynasty have a strong thirst for knowledge.

The unexpected popularity of Han paper shocked Luoyang's top aristocratic families.

They found that after putting Han paper on the shelves, the shops were making a lot of money.

The six-cent-a-piece Han paper from Li Jiajin was quickly sold out after being put on the shelf, earning me twenty-six cents, a net profit of twenty cents!

Such horrific profits shocked the aristocratic families.

Such huge profits can be made in Luoyang alone.

If Han paper were sent to faraway Yangzhou, how many people would buy it? And how popular would it be?

How popular would it be if it was sold in Jingzhou where Han paper had not yet appeared?

Immediately, the major aristocratic families realized that Han paper was more profitable than they had imagined, and that there was still a vacuum in the sales of Han paper in various places, so they increased the amount of Han paper they purchased from the Li family. However, the Li family restricted the shipment volume on the grounds that the other family's salt industry had not exchanged personnel and resources.

The aristocratic families who had been dragging their feet and unwilling to give up their salt industry personnel and resources finally gave in.

They have even started to contact the Li family and take the initiative to hand over the salt merchants to the Li family.

In response to this, Li Hong waved his hand and handed them all over to the heads of the four families: Zhen, Lu, Wei, and Mi.

Li Hong's positioning is relatively clear. The Li family only needs to expand the team to focus on the production of Han paper and snow salt, and possess strong power, and then they can expand rapidly.

As for the salt merchants and horses in various states of the Han Dynasty, they can be handed over to the Zhen family, the Lu family, the Wei family, and the Mi family.

The four major business families are affiliated with the Li family. The expansion and growth of the four families means the growth of the Li family's power.

What the Li family needs to focus on is mastering core technologies and armed forces.

As a result, the Li family and the major aristocratic families in Luoyang launched a vigorous exchange of Han paper and salt.

The Li family's tentacles in the salt industry began to spread like an octopus, with Luoyang as its center to all the states and counties of the Han Dynasty.

After handing these matters over to the four major business families, Li Hong shifted his attention to another major event in Luoyang.

As time went by, young and strong people from all over the country flocked into Luoyang City. In recent days, the number of young and strong people pouring into Luoyang has even reached as high as 100,000.

Those young and vigorous men who were good fighters in various places poured into Luoyang, causing the public security incidents in Luoyang to reach a new high. This caused headaches for the court judge and the government officials, and they kept coming to Li Hong.

In the midst of this turmoil, as many as one million young and strong men from all the states and counties of the Han Dynasty poured into Luoyang. The streets were filled with young and strong men who participated in the selection process and looked like country bumpkins who had never seen the world.

This day.

Luoyang City, South Gate.

Outside the city gate, there was a huge crowd of young and strong men, like a tide.

Li Hong, dressed in bright silver armor, looking majestic and with a head full of white hair, appeared on the city wall.

Wow!
As soon as Li Hong appeared, he immediately caused a commotion outside the city.

"He is General Li! He is so majestic, he doesn't look like he is 103 years old at all. If you say he is 40 or 50 years old, I will believe it!"

"He is General Li. I heard that he defeated the Xianbei royal court and rescued more than 800,000 Han people. If I could join General Li's army and fight with him, my life would be worth it!"

"I heard that it was General Li who came up with a method to purify snow salt to earn military funds and support an elite army of 100,000 people. General Li is truly a pillar of the Han Dynasty!"

Outside the city, there was a loud and noisy sound.

Li Hong held a simple loudspeaker and signaled for silence.

The areas near the city quieted down first, and the areas far away also gradually quieted down. As many as one million young and strong men looked at Li Hong in unison.

Li Hong took a deep breath, gathered his internal energy, and spoke loudly into the simple loudspeaker:
"I am Li Hong, and I am very happy to see so many great men come to participate in the selection and join the army. You have come from all over the place, and you have worked hard along the way!"

"But the next selection will determine your fate for life. If you pass the selection, you can join the army. You will receive generous treatment and fight bravely. You will have the opportunity to be awarded a title and become a general!"

"Those who can lift a 400-jin stone roller and pass the first level will enter the second level."

"Endurance test: carry a 30-jin load and run 20 miles. Those who pass the test within the specified time can enter the third test."

"The third level is the obedience level. If you pass the third level, congratulations! You will become a member of the Beiwei Army."

(End of this chapter)