The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 74

In the second year of Jingyao's year, the Fuxing Society's year-end summary meeting was held in Jiangyang County.

Unlike the previous meeting held in the prefect's mansion in Fuling County, this time all the senior executives of the Fuxing Society came to the saline-alkali land fifty miles southwest of Han'an County.

This place is no longer a desolate barren land, but a lot of sky trains and people's voices.A bustling scene.

This place is no longer a no-name.According to the memory of the travelers, it has a name that belongs to it more than 1000 years later - Zigong Pavilion.

"Hiss~~ Is this the Zhuotong well invented by Zifeng? It really is a wonderful idea, a wonderful workmanship. In this way, many exhausted salt wells in my Han territory will be able to regain their splendor!"

Mi Zhao, the number one official merchant in the Shu Han, and Mi Boyao, could not restrain his excitement at this time: As a super businessman who has achieved the ultimate in business, Mi Zhao has been staring at the cake of the salt industry for a long, long time.It's just because the Shu Han regime has been too strict with Yantie since Liu Bei. Even though the Mi family runs a variety of businesses, they never dared to reach out to Yantie.This time, thanks to the Fuxing Society, the Mi family can finally enter the salt industry.This is really a happy event that can be reported to Mr. Mi Zhu by burning incense in the Mi Family Ancestral Hall.

"Hahaha, profiteer, how are you? Are you scared? This Zhuotong well uses moso bamboo as the well wall and channel of the salt well. When it is drilled to a certain depth, the brine will naturally spurt upwards. Now this is the deepest drilled in the Zigong Pavilion. The salt well is already more than seventy feet long. Compared with the wide-mouthed shallow wells dug manually before, it is more than ten times longer..."

"Hmph~~~ Zhang Lingxing, where are you so embarrassed. If it weren't for Zifeng, would you know that there is brine here? Do you know the method of Zhuo Tongjing?"

"That's true. But why did you let me meet you? Hahahaha~~~ How about it, are you envious? Are you jealous?"

"Okay, don't show off. Hurry up and get down to business. We all sneaked out from Fuling County. We have to leave as soon as the meeting is over. If someone from the court finds out, His Majesty will be very upset."

"Here, brother, please show me."

"Let me ask you, how many wells have been drilled now? What is the daily salt output?"

"Here, brother, all shareholders. In the past six months, a total of 35 salt wells have been drilled here in Zigongting, and 32 of them have brine. Of these 32 salt wells, 29 have associated natural gas. Because there are new ones every month. The salt well produces brine, so the amount of brine produced changes every day. The latest data here is from the day before yesterday, um, the amount of brine produced the day before yesterday was [-] stone brine."

"Is this daily associated natural gas enough to boil salt? How much salt can be produced from brine?"

"Brother, it's enough! This associated natural gas is not only enough to boil salt, but also enough to light the fire and cook rice for the entire Zigong Pavilion every day. What about the amount of salt produced by the brine, brother, the brine here is really excellent quality brine Ah, one stone of brine can usually get five liters of salt after being boiled dry. It is five times higher than the one stone of brine in my other saltworks in Dahan! Not only that, after the brine here is boiled dry, there are very few impurities, and the salt The grains are fine, soft and white, and it is the best refined salt without any purification!"

This is the city of salt. It is normal for the brine to produce 5.00% of the salt.Moreover, the well salt produced in Zigong has a sodium chloride content of over 99%.The remaining 1% is also rich in iodine.It can be said that if the people of the whole Shuhan can eat Zigong salt widely, what "the people have dishes" and the relatively common big neck disease (hyperthyroidism caused by iodine deficiency) will be completely reversed.

"Based on this calculation, the salt production in a day is 900 shi, a month is 27000 shi, and a year is..." After a simple mental calculation, Mi Zhao couldn't help covering his mouth with his hands: "32 shi! "

But Guan Yi's next words made Mi Zhao collapse even more!

"Why is it so small, what have you been doing for the past six months!"

Before Mi Zhao interceded for Zhang Zun, Zhang Zun himself bowed deeply to Guan Yi: "Brother, forgive me, although this Zhuotong well produces a lot of salt, but it is a narrow deep well, and it has to reach the brine layer. It takes a lot of time. At present, the deepest well at the Zigong Pavilion has been fought for [-] battles, and it took a full three months, so..."

"Forget it, I'm too anxious for my brother. How much is the purchase price for our salt field from the court captain Siyan?"

"Speaking of which, brother, my little brother is also full of anger. The price Lieutenant Si Yan gave us is two hundred dollars per stone!"

"What! Why don't they go grab it! Zifeng, do you know how much the Mi's business sells salt from here? Eight hundred dollars per stone!"

As mentioned earlier, the salt administrations of Shu Han, Dong Wu, and Cao Wei were all monopoly systems: the salt farms were owned by the state, and production, transportation, and sales were all controlled by the state.

The salt field in Zigongting, because of the agreement between Guan Yi and Liu Chan, implemented an on-the-spot monopoly system: the salt field here belonged to the Fuxing Society.All the salt produced is sold to the state.Then other merchants come here to buy from the state.

The proposal of this new system was indeed strongly opposed by the bureaucratic system of the Shu Han Dynasty, especially the captain of Siyan, but after Guan Yi said that Zhuo Tsutsui’s technology could be made public and Liu Chan endorsed it in front of court officials: this is only one case, and it will never be opened again.The new system was barely enforced.

But everyone knows that the biggest huge profit is monopoly. In the past, the captain of the Shu Han Dynasty had full control over the production, transportation and sales of the Shu Han salt.Now that this monopoly has broken a big hole, how do you think people are happy?Therefore, Siyan Xiaowei's Mansion set a very low price for the salt in Zigong Pavilion!

To be honest, the price of 200 yuan per stone is not unprofitable for Fuxingshe, which has associated natural gas to boil salt.Zhang Zun told Guan Yi in private: After deducting labor costs, the net profit can reach 100 yuan per stone.In the past six months, the cumulative salt output of Zigong Pavilion has reached 700 shi.Fuxingshe has a net profit of [-] million yuan in this area alone.

But 140% of it belongs to Liu Chan, and [-]% belongs to Huang Hao.Fuxingshe actually got only [-] million yuan!

Earning less money is a trivial matter.Originally, what Guan Yi fought was the plan of Tibetan soldiers here: as long as the salt production here can support more than [-] industrial workers for him, that would be enough.

What really pissed him off was that Siyan Xiaowei's Mansion bought his salt at a price of two hundred yuan a stone, but then sold it to a businessman for eight hundred yuan. , The cost of sales - In this way, when the Zigong salt is finally sold to the common people, it is almost 1000 or [-] yuan a stone!This price is three times more expensive than before the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one-sixth more expensive than Cao Wei now, and one-fifth more expensive than Soochow Wu!

The people of Shuhan still can't afford salt!The people have food, and the status quo of big necks all over the ground still cannot be changed!

With such a regime that exploits the people to the extreme, it is no wonder that when Cao Wei called, everyone from Yizhou aristocratic families to ordinary people did not want to resist!
"This won't work, the popular support will be farther and farther away from us! When the puppet Wei comes, who will support us to resist?"

But in this case, Guan Yi can only talk to his partners-Yuan Cong faction has not completely controlled the Shu Han regime yet.

"Forget it, let's have a meeting. Let's go back after the meeting."

Following Guan Yi's instructions, Ma Guo began to speak: "In the second year of Jingyao's reign, I revived the industry in Fuling County...a total turnover of 7000 million...after deducting the settlement expenses of newly recruited farmers, workers' wages, After production costs, Fuxing School and other expenses, the gross profit is 800 million. After handing over 4000 million to the Yongan Corps, the net profit is 800 million. In addition, since Fuling County does not need to send food to the Yongan Corps, this year extra savings About [-] shi of grain were dropped..."

"Mijia Trading Company's turnover this year has reached 3000 million yuan, with a net profit of [-] million yuan. According to the equity replacement agreement, [-] million yuan will be allocated to Fuxingshe."

"The Fuxing Salt Industry here in Jiangyang County has made a profit of 140 million after deducting the shares given to His Majesty. The third uncle (Guan Suo) has transferred more than 2000 people from Nanzhong in the past six months, and he has chosen [-] strong men to arrange for the saltworks Work, and the rest will be sent to Han'an County to reclaim wasteland. The wages of these people have been included in the cost deduction, but I still owe Meng Yan the money for buying people from Nanzhong. Uh, the total amount is [-] taels million."

"Transfer the money to Meng Yan quickly. After all, he is not a member of our Fuxing Society. Calculated in this way, the balance of the entire Fuxing Society this year is 300 million."

"I would like to congratulate my elder brother (prefect)!"

"Hey, don't talk about this!" Guan Yi waved his hand irritably: "We are running out of time. My opinion, everyone, is that there will be no dividends for this year. This money will be used to expand next year's production. In the third year of Yao’s reign, the goal of Fuling County is to absorb more than 1 people from Wuxi Man to go down the mountain and reclaim 20 mu of wasteland. From the fourth year of Jingyao’s reign, the goal of the Zigong Pavilion is to , The salt production has increased tenfold! The number of employed workers has increased fivefold!"

(End of this chapter)