"These salt merchants can be regarded as receiving the country's favor in this life. For generations, they have received benefits like gold and silver from this salt monopoly. It is said that they should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but when they encounter this matter of making a fortune, they know what will happen next.

It’s us rebels who are in charge, but they still come out in droves, it’s really ridiculous!”

"Brother is right. Businessmen have no righteousness. If they get twice the profit, they will not care about their wives and children. If they get twice the profit, they will take risks. If they get three times the profit, they will not care about loyalty, filial piety and righteousness."

"That's why I want to set up a trade hall, and I also have Yunshan Bank in my hands. From time to time, people say that I should do big things here. Everyone is busy with military and national affairs, leaving business activities to business."

People do it, just pay the money and deliver the goods on time, it doesn’t have to expend so much manpower, it doesn’t have to take too much effort, and you won’t get less money or anything in kind. This is a joke. If nothing else, isn’t that Wang Ziyang?

A living example?”

Wang Zhaojing, Liu Yong and Zhou Xuezhi talked to each other and kept talking about the performance of the businessmen. Zhao Jin glanced at Dong Bingfeng and said with a smile: "We at Zhao Ziying are very disciplined in doing things, and we have strict restrictions on our servants and team training.

You are also strict. Although some people praise us for following the rules, more people will become bolder and think that as long as they don’t violate our rules, they can say anything and do small tricks secretly."

Dong Bingfeng nodded and replied: "Brother is right, Lao Li deliberately made the patrols more aggressive, and everyone in the team respected them, but our servants can only restrain themselves like this. There is no fight now, in case the rules are relaxed

, I won’t be able to hold it in anymore.”

There was chatting, but no one mentioned the martial arts tournament. In the minds of Zhao Jin and his friends, it was not a big deal at all. Finally, Zhou Xuezhi asked about the relevant matters. In the first two martial arts tournaments, they made a lot of money from betting.

This year's event will be bigger, with more guests coming, and the amount of money spent on betting will definitely be larger. How to deal with this money, whether to send it back to the treasury for distribution, or to keep it directly in Qingjiangpu, this matter needs to be

Zhao Jin made a decision.

"Chen Ergou is very good at manipulating people's hearts in gambling games. The odds he offers can make people place bets and make the most money. This is really amazing." Zhou Xuezhi praised him sincerely.

Zhao Jin looked at Li Dajin, who was looking down, and said with a smile: "If Lao Li hadn't found many people to help him judge the strength of a warrior, how could he have judged it so accurately?"

The most critical point in determining the odds is to know the strength of both sides. Chen Ergou is very proficient in gambling, but he is relatively amateur at this. Li Dajin needs to arrange people with accurate eyesight to help evaluate. This is Li Dajin.

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On the third day after Zhao Jin arrived at Qingjiangpu, the martial arts tournament was about to begin. I don’t know who came up with the name this time. It was called the "No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament in the World". Both the organizer and the participants liked it.

After all, this name and title make everyone involved feel proud.

However, when the name came to Zhao Jin, Zhao Jin changed his usual calmness and laughed for a long time. Everyone was confused. Fortunately, after Zhao Jin finished laughing, he said, "This is a good name. It's a good choice." Otherwise,

Everyone needs to change this name.

Chen Ergou and people from all parties have already discussed the list and rounds of the preliminary round. Experts invited by each company, who are well-known or recognized as strong players, will not face each other in the first round of preliminary rounds.

It is almost impossible to meet each other until the fourth and fifth rounds. There are hundreds of games in the first three rounds, and only these specially treated competitions will be held in the "Cornucopia" competition venue.

In the first four rounds of competition, all the people in the world controlled by Zhao Ziying in Qingjiangpu were thrown out. Some people were hiding in the audience to keep an eye on them, and some people were busy making arrangements directly. In every game, there were people placing bets, and there were also people who needed to be there.

To maintain order, referees are even needed. Patrolmen and volunteers alone are not enough, and even the backbone of the big car dealerships have to be involved.

Zhao Jin did not go to watch these games. He had too much business to do when he came to Qingjiangpu. Meeting and having a banquet with everyone from the Qingjiangpu Chamber of Commerce was one of them, and it was also a very important one. There were many business matters that he had to do in

On this occasion, people would send invitations every day, and Zhao Jin was already waiting for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Tianqi to accept the invitation.

After arriving at Qingjiangpu, in addition to the thousands of cavalry brought by Zhao Jin himself, there were also local servants and patrols to protect him, so he only followed two hundred cavalry on each trip. This momentum was already quite large, with men and horses like dragons, and armored soldiers.

, walking on the road is really shocking, people are often frightened and kneel on the roadside. Originally, the government servants were still walking around Qingjiangpu, but after Zhao Jin came, the officials did not dare to show up wearing official robes, except for fear.

Besides, I also feel embarrassed.

The wealthy businessmen inside and outside the Chamber of Commerce have a lot to discuss. Now Xuzhou and Pizhou, including Huai'an North District, are already prosperous places with good purchasing power. The merchants in Qingjiangpu want to transport goods. Zhao Jin must be asked to set a share for this, otherwise everyone will definitely

There will be endless competition, and even harmonious relations, and today's Xuzhou Market is still one of the hubs of transactions between South Zhili and Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi. Specialties from the three northern provinces and even Mongolia are distributed to South Zhili through the market.

, Similarly, a lot of goods from South Zhili are sold to the north through Xuzhou, and we have to fight for more shares with Zhao Jin.

Xuzhou cloth has gained a firm foothold in the market this year. Everyone has been worried about the short supply of Songjiang cloth. Now that there is a replacement, everyone needs to confirm with Zhao Jin whether similar output can be guaranteed in the second year. If it can be guaranteed, can they get it themselves?

To any extent, mass production is most suitable and convenient for mass distribution. Some people even advised Zhao Jin, saying that those people on the sea have no roots and no guarantees. They may be wiped out by storms and waves, and are not as reliable as our businessmen in Qingjiangpu. They also said

Why have we been dealing with each other for so long? Master Jin needs to take more care of everyone.

"Next year Xuzhou's cloth production will be more, not less, with more varieties and better." Zhao Jin's reply made the businessmen in Qingjiangpu crazy. Who doesn't know the huge profits of bulk cotton trade, Xuzhou cloth

Compared with Songjiang cloth, Qingjiangpu is close to the water. Not only is it convenient for transportation, but the price of the goods can also be negotiated. It is easy to calculate how much benefit you can make from it.

What kind of magic does Xuzhou have that turns stone into gold? It can actually produce so much cloth. Based on its scale, no one can calculate this amount. But there is nothing that Zhao Jin promised that cannot be realized. Since he said so

, Xuzhou can definitely do it. Although there is still more than half a year before shipment, everyone is still rushing to finalize it. Many big companies are ready to give deposits directly, or ask Yunshan Bank to come up with conditions.

I don’t know where the rumor came from, saying that people who have contributed to the transportation of the Salt River will also have priority in Xuzhou’s share. As soon as this was said, everyone’s interest in dredging the Salt River immediately rose. The significance of Haizhou Port

Of course, the merchants of Qingjiangpu understand it and know that they will make a fortune by participating in it. However, the prosperity of Qingjiangpu is related to water transportation. Everyone is somewhat resistant to sea trade, but since it is related to making a fortune, no one cares about it.

The salt merchants from Yangzhou Prefecture also rushed over. In addition to transporting the salt river, they also wanted to talk about the Haizhou Salt Farm. No matter Zhao Jin, Wang Zhaojing, Zhou Xuezhi, or even the sophisticated shopkeepers in Yunshan Industry, they did not expect this.

The salt merchants could offer such conditions, but they actually wanted to hand over the salt field to Zhao Ziying. This was their lifeblood, and they actually wanted to hand it over.

There is a quota for the production of salt every year, but every year the salt field will overproduce. This is one of the sources of private salt. The salt merchants mean that as long as Zhao Ziying takes over the salt field, the amount of salt he can provide every year will be greater than that of official salt and private salt.

If the sum of the salt quota is more, the extra production will be the benefit of Zhao Ziying. According to them, this quota is nothing to the output of the salt farm, but now there are too many omissions and too much waste. Zaohu Salt

Not only are the workers committing robberies, but they are also seriously sabotaging their work. Instead of dragging them around like this, it is better to transfer these kitchen salt workers to do more profitable work.

This is the plan to use Zhao Ziying's manpower to produce salt. Zhao Jin has some understanding of the lives of the salt farm households. These people are similar to craftsmen and military households. They are all in a semi-slave state, with no income to make ends meet, and poor treatment.

It was miserable, and in such a state, there was naturally no motivation to work. As for the salt administration, which was already reaping huge profits, there was no intention to take care of it, and it just continued to wither and become dilapidated.

Now the salt merchants have suddenly come up with this idea, not because they have good intentions or want to improve the bad government, but because Zhao Ziying has come up with a lot of businesses worth investing money in. It seems that it is easier to make a fortune. In addition to investing money in these businesses,

In addition, it also requires a lot of manpower, which makes the salt merchants think of changing the cage for birds, poaching the corners of Daming Salt Industry, and fattening their own pockets.

Regarding this proposal, Zhao Ziying agreed to go back and consider it. The salt merchants said more than that. In a sense, they were similar to the wealthy merchants in Qingjiangpu. Now Zhao Ziying's territory has surrounded the Haizhou Salt Farm, and the official

Salt is okay, the shipment of private salt depends on Zhao Ziying's face, and the establishment of the salt market regulates the private salt market, so the private salt purchase of the Xu family's sand ship fleet and the Li family gang is opened up for them

With the new financial resources, whether they are willing to admit it or not, the life and death of the salt merchants are in Zhao Jin's hands. If they want to make more money, they need Zhao Jin to give them more shares in the coming year.

Moreover, the allocation of Zhao Jin does not depend on how much you have received, nor does it matter what influence you have in the officialdom or what your past practices are. It all depends on your relationship with Zhao Ziying and your contribution to Zhao Ziying.

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