Liu Jun’s salt farm transactions do look promising.∷∷, although the investment is a bit large, it costs one million taels, according to Liu Jun, at most three years, everyone will get an annual rate of return of 10% every year. There is no need to do anything, just sit at home and wait for cash, and there is a guaranteed income from drought and flood. Where can I find such a good thing?

If you miss this home, there will definitely be no second home.

A group of salt merchants sat there and each made up their own plans. They quickly considered it almost the same. One million seemed to be a lot, but there were many people here, with more than 300 large and small salt merchants. Those with rich buy more than two shares, and those with less money buy less. One million is really not a problem.

But they were still a little worried. Can this business be done for a long time? Can Liu Jun control this business? If someone else sees money and comes to the point of picking peaches, what should I do? In addition, such a large output will definitely affect large salt factories such as Huai Yan. How can Yangzhou salt merchants and officials from Huai Yan Salt Field sit and ignore them?

Liu Jun responded to these doubts in only one sentence.

"I want to get rich and don't take any risks at all, so what business are you doing? What's more, you are all engaged in salt trading, don't even have this courage?" As he said, Liu Jun asked someone to bring his Shangfang sword and once again pointed out his current identity as the Marquis of Zhennan and the identity of the General of Yunyang.

"I have money and want everyone to make money together, but if everyone doesn't want to make this money, it doesn't matter, everyone can do whatever they want."

Many salt merchants were still hesitating, and Liu Liangzuo stood up and spoke.

"Master Hou, the young Liu Liangzuo is brave enough to invest one share first and invest ten thousand taels of silver." Ten thousand taels of silver were already all the cash silver for Liu Liangzuo. Others were still hesitating, but he felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In the past, he had no backer, so he could only distribute some salt to Zhou Wenshun and earn something that was leaked from his fingers.

Now Zhou Wenshun is dead. Liu Liangzuo is very worried that he will be implicated. He takes out the 10,000 taels of silver, regardless of whether he can actually get a 10% annual rate of return in the end, I hope he can at least be satisfied with Zhennanhou.

Sure enough, when Liu Jun heard Liu Liangzuo's words, he immediately smiled.

"Oh, Mr. Liu is brave and has a keen eye. Ten thousand taels of silver is very good. Come and take Mr. Liu to register and acquire shares." As he said that, Liu Jun even patted Liu Liangzuo on the shoulder. Liu Liangzuo, a man in his forties, was praised by a young man in his shoulder by a twenty-year-old, but he was trembling with excitement and felt that his body was lighter.

The Marquis is very satisfied with me with the value of this ten thousand taels of silver.

It would be good if someone took the lead. When the salt merchants looked at Liu Jun and Liu Liangzuo's performance, they suspected that they were acting. However, no matter whether they were acting or not, since Liu Jun made the words clear to this level, they had to express their opinions.

"I invested a thousand taels."

A fat businessman who was also one of the eight companies who came first like Liu Liangzuo spoke out. However, he obviously did not believe in the business and did not dare to invest all his wealth like Liu Liangzuo. In the end, he only invested 1,000, and bought ten shares.

Liu Jun didn't think it was too little, and a thousand taels of silver was not enough.

"Very good, please register with this extraditional officer."

Next, a few people made a statement to invest, but most of them were 1,200, and one even subscribed to only 500 taels. Liu Jun ignored it and gave him a smile.

"Students subscribe to 20,000 taels!" Suddenly, a thousand two thousand taels were in a pile. Suddenly, a young man shook his fan and shouted out 20,000 taels of silver. This attracted many people's attention, "Hey, it's the nephew of the King of Zhou!"

"I didn't expect him to come too, and I didn't pay attention just now."

"This Mr. Zhao is indeed a big deal. He can take 20,000 taels at one move."

The merchants whispered, and Fu Shan, beside Liu Jun, reported quietly that the man's mother was the daughter of King Zhou of Kaifeng. Their family was a large family in Nanyang and also engaged in official salt transactions.

"It turns out to be Mr. Zhao, welcome to join the gang." Liu Jun said to him with a smile.

With the big and high-profile investment from Mr. Zhao, the nephew of the King of Zhou, the enthusiasm of the salt merchants has also increased a lot. Everyone has invested one after another. Some have invested three thousand, some have invested five thousand, and some have invested ten thousand.

"Master, 10,000 shares have been subscribed." Before many salt merchants had time to subscribe, Fu Shan had already come over to say something that surprised the salt merchants.

The share capital of Yingcheng Salt Factory, which has a total of 10,000 shares, has been subscribed.

No one expected that it would be so fast.

What they didn't expect was that Liu Jun actually announced with a smile that the franchise subscription was over.

"If you have registered to subscribe to the shares, we will sign a formal contract later, and then we will become partners. As for everyone else, I regret to tell you that you are one step late. Sorry, I don't have the opportunity to cooperate this time. Maybe we will look for opportunities to cooperate next time."

Hearing this, a few small vendors were secretly happy at first, and finally there was no need to join the group. But the majority of the salt merchants who had not yet joined the group were left. When they saw that most of them had already joined the group and became partners of the salt farm in Yingcheng, Zhennan Hou, and only a few of them were in the group, they suddenly felt a little scared.

They failed to become partners of Zhennanhou, and they were not their own.

Many people couldn't help but think of Zhou Wenshun.

"Mr. Marquis, add me one. I want to invest. I invest 10,000 taels!"

"Mr. Marquis, I want to invest one share, and I will invest ten thousand taels!"

Several salt merchants shouted quickly.

Unfortunately, Liu Jun shook his head, "The salt farm does not need more partners for the time being, next time."

A group of salt merchants tangled for a while, and finally saw Liu Jun's firm attitude, he realized that he had been abandoned.

After the matter was agreed, the next step was to hold a big banquet and celebrate together.

"Master, those who cried and shouted that they wanted to invest, had to be at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in total. Why didn't they accept it together?" Fu Shan asked.

"We have to be particular about doing things. We said that we would recruit one million, so we only need one million. We are not liars, so we just do one vote and leave." Although Liu Jun was short of money, he did not lose his principles because of a small loss and for more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Liu Jun was sincerely preparing to run this salt farm and raised one million yuan. He planned to leave 300,000 taels for the construction of the salt factory and recruiting craftsmen, salt workers, and the money for digging salt wells. Digging salt wells is not simple or cheap. He had to invite the old craftsmen who dig salt wells from Ziliujing and Gongjing areas in Sichuan where there are a large number of salt wells.

A salt well is not a water well. It must be dug at least ten or even dozens of feet deep, or even hundreds of feet deep, and even hundreds of feet deep. The hole of the salt well is extremely small. It requires special tools and specialized technology. Moreover, salt boiling is also a labor-intensive job that requires a large number of workers.

In fact, salt wells are much more expensive and harder than salt drying on the beach. But in this era, transportation is also a high cost. Therefore, Liu Jun's salt field still has great prospects for building it.

Although the stocks recruited were to open a salt factory, that's all. In fact, after Liu Jun recruited one million taels of capital, it means that he did not own any shares himself, and they were all from those salt merchants. But in fact, those salt merchants only had the right to dividends, and also reserved the right to recover or transfer the capital in three years.

The salt factory is still owned by Liu Jun, and he didn't spend a penny. He got the funds for opening the salt factory from the salt merchant, and at the same time he left only 300,000 yuan as the starting and operation cost of the salt factory. The 700,000 taels of the big one was directly withdrawn by Liu Jun and used it as military expenses.

"Please order the grain first, purchase the other part of the materials for the military workshop, and the remaining part is used as a turnover bonus." Before he got the money, Liu Jun had planned the use of these money.

"These salt merchants are really rich." Fu Shan sighed.

Liu Jun smiled twice, "Everyone knows that salt merchants have money, but salt merchants are the smartest and cunning. Do you think they give us money? No, they are very smart. They know that the money they invest can bring them greater benefits. They will invest money for us."

"They trust us so much, aren't they afraid that we will lie to them?"

"It is possible to cheat them? It is possible to cheat one or two salt merchants, but we really dare to cheat them for this million tael of silver. I am afraid that I will not know how I die in the end. Which salt merchant does not have so many officials and powerful officials behind them. They all know that I cannot cheat them. I dare not cheat them."

At the evening banquet, Liu Jun also showed up and toasted the partners with a glass of wine. Liu Jun was quite polite to those who didn’t have time to join.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Liu Jun left directly. Anyway, they were just working for money, and there were not so many personal insights mixed with them. Back in the backyard, Liu Jun found the lights on in the room. When he walked in, he saw Chen Yuanyuan sitting in the room.

"The Grand Marshal is back." Chen Yuanyuan was just sitting in front of the desk reading when she heard the sound of pushing the door and turned her head to see that it was Liu Jun, with a look of joy on her face.

"Well, what are you looking at?" Liu Jun asked. Since he returned to Hutou Castle, Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan have a tacit understanding. They came to accompany him for three days, and then there was a day in between. On the first day of Liu Jun's return, he took Chen Yuanyuan into the room. After that, the relationship became more and more intimate.

Except for not having a name yet, when he saw Chen Yuanyuan from all over the Hutou Castle, he always called her Aunt Chen. Chen Yuanyuan accepted this title and had never asked Liu Jun to enter the Liu family or something. She had a yard in Hutou Castle, right next to Liu Jun's yard, and Shen Man also had a room.

Usually she sometimes reads books in the yard, but she still likes to go to Hongxiufang for a lot of time. She has a room on the third floor. Usually she helps Shen Man handle accounts together, and it seems that doing these things can make her more fulfilling.

"Check the accounts of Hongxiufang's revenue and expenditure last month." Chen Yuanyuan put down the account book and came over to give Liu Jun a free shirt.

"You really like doing these."

"Pay some time." Chen Yuanyuan smiled.

Liu Jun changed his clothes, leaned directly against the head of the bed, and began to take stock of his accounts. Before entering Sichuan, Xiong Wencan drew 50,000 taels of silver to him. After entering Sichuan, he seized about 200,000 taels of spoils, and then he shared about 200,000 treasures with Mei Zhihuan and his men's spoils, as well as more than 200,000 in court rewards.

In total, there are more than 600,000 yuan, but there is not much silver in stock. Many of them are gold, silver, silk, satin dictionary jewelry, pearls and other things. They have to be replaced with silver and money, but it is still difficult to take so many supplies at once. And I used a lot of rewards and pensions to the soldiers last time.

If the 700,000 taels of silver he took today, he would really have no cash.

But the 700,000 taels of silver was only slightly alleviated. Raising a new army of 50,000 can cost at least 2 million taels of silver a year, unless he intends to eat empty salary, support his family members like other imperial generals, and then lead a useless army.

The property brought back from eastern Sichuan must be taken as soon as possible, and some of it will be exchanged for the soldiers in the service club. Most of it must be found through the relationship between father-in-law Lu Weizhang and other relationships, and they will find the next family to exchange it for cash.

In addition, the newly deposited 700,000 taels of silver have to be purchased, including grain, mules and horses, various iron materials, lead, sulfur, and nitrate, and other materials. All of them are money.

It turned out that when there were only a few hundred people, Liu Jun did whatever he wanted and didn’t have to worry about money. But now, everything is inseparable from the word “money”.

Originally, Liu Jun planned to make 50,000 new troops in Yunyang Town, but now, it is too much pressure to train 50,000 troops at one time. After thinking about it, Liu Jun planned to keep the 10,000 troops and horses that Liu Jun planned to strode Biao for the 10,000 troops and horses to strode him, and he was too lazy to care about those people. Just in time, he assigned the more than 10,000 troops and horses in Yunyang Town to strode Zhu Dadian's strode.

Although Liu Jun knows that there were 13,000 soldiers and 2,000 horses in Yunzhen, but in fact, more than half of the water is needed. Let Zhu Dadian get a headache by himself.

If you lose those ten thousand people, Liu Jun only needs to practice forty thousand. Well, if you give up some more, Chongqing deputy general Qin Yimin and Baidi City guarding horses for ten thousand years can actually ignore it. But thinking about it, Liu Jun still doesn't plan to let go of these two people.

Liu Jun also knew that the matter of opening a salt farm to pick salt would definitely cause dissatisfaction for many people. But now the emperor still trusts him, and there are still many bandits in the Central Plains that have not been solved. Even if it is solved, the foreign Jianlu still has not been solved.

Therefore, for a long time, warriors, especially those who can fight, can still be highly valued by the emperor. Not to mention building a salt field, even if it is extra special, the emperor can accept it.

To put it bluntly, there must be soldiers. Only when they hold a heavy army and are a heavy army that can be fought can they have the right to speak. That is much more effective than the general officers of Zhennan Hou or the general. In any case, they must take advantage of the opportunity given by the emperor this time to expand and train them carefully.

Perhaps it is time to set up a martial arts lecture hall to train those rapidly improving Nine-Headed officers. At the same time, they also select some excellent seedlings, start from scratch, and teach some orthodox lower-level officers in one or two years. Well, the teaching battalion cannot be withdrawn. They have to select a group of the best soldiers from the army to train in the teaching battalion, so that they can become soldiers and successfully transform into a lower-level officer.

The group of young people sent by Fushe and Qihuang villages must find ways to keep them for a while. These are excellent soldiers who have participated in several battles, and they can lead new recruits.

"Master, it's late at night. I'll serve you to change your clothes and rest." Liu Jun was still thinking with his eyes closed, but Chen Yuanyuan's soft voice came from his ears. (To be continued.)
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