"Not bad!" Ma Qiang clapped his hands and said, "Zifang is really quite brave, but he lacks experience in fighting, Zizhong, are you willing to let your younger brother join the army?" ”

Ma Qiang really thinks that Mi Fang is okay, with Huang Xu's current force value, he can already be a middle-level officer who can block so many moves.

Mi Fang was immediately overjoyed and said, "Thank you Ming Gong!" ”

Mi Zhu shook his head helplessly and said, "Please also ask Ming Gong to let him be a soldier first, don't be proud of his heart." ”

When Ma Qiang heard this, he couldn't help but feel that Mi Zhu, who was indeed qualified as an elder brother, and said with a smile, "In this way, I will let him go to the grassroots level to exercise first, know about the affairs in the army, and then go to Lin Haibu?" ”

"Thank you Ming Gong!"

After arranging the Mizhu brothers, Ma Qiang began to worry about who to take care of the three companies he was going to set up.

These three companies are not just commercial companies, they will inevitably create great wealth and form a new force.

In the words of later history books, this is called the germ of the bourgeoisie.

The commerce of the Han Dynasty was actually very underdeveloped, because the population was not large enough, and the transportation was not convenient enough, so most of the commercial activities were done locally, which is the limitation of the small-scale peasant economy.

Therefore, the helmsmen of these three companies must understand not only business, but also politics.

"Forget it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge..."Ma Qiang secretly comforted himself in his heart.

"Fengxiao, the pirates have been pacified, and you can summon Haoqiang, who has a salt farm, to come to Qingdao for a meeting."

"No!"

In the face of Ma Qiang, who had just cleaned up a group of rebels with a steel knife, no one dared to say that none of them would come, and it only took five or six days for all the Haoqiang in Qingzhou to gather in Qingdao, even as far away as Jinan.

These heroes sat together, and they all understood what they were doing here, after all, they all ate salt and rice, and they would understand after looking around.

"Looks like we're going to bleed profusely this time." A Haoqiang sighed, thinking in his heart how much money he would have to get this time to avoid the catastrophe.

"I can see it, this money, if you don't bring it in life, you won't bring it in death, as long as you can satisfy Ma Zhijun, you can get it out!"

There are also those who can see it.

Anyway, there are hundreds of people, some with sad faces, and some with full confidence. There are sighs and sighs, and there are elated.

Some people see coming here as a way to spend money to eliminate disasters, but some people see coming here as a great opportunity to connect with Ma Qiang.

Everyone knows that this envoy is not lustful (dare not), not good for money (not lacking), not good for wine (not good for drinking), and he doesn't even know where to start if he wants to bribe.

"The horse envoy has arrived!"

With a shout, everyone suddenly sat up and looked out of the door.

Ma Qiang is Huang Xu on the left, Guo Jia on the right, and Cai Ji, Xi Wei, Guo Yuan, Zhang Bo, Guan Cheng and others are all following behind, which shows that Ma Qiang attaches great importance to this meeting.

Ma Qiang sat down, and everyone greeted Ma Qiang.

"You have worked hard and worked hard, and you are summoned here today for the sake of a salt word!"

As soon as Ma Qiang's words were spoken, many people's faces changed.

I thought you were going to have golden eggs, but who knew you were going to be a chicken that laid golden eggs!

Ma Qiang looked around and said with a smile, "The ancients said, if you make a soup, you only have salt and plum, among the five flavors, salty is the first, although salt is small, it can't do without it, it is related to the national economy and people's livelihood!"

Cai Junshou, I don't know what the price of salt in Donglai is at this time? ”

Cai Ji is actually a little confused, I don't know what to do with summoning myself over, is there something more important than Qingtian?

"Back to the envoy, Donglai is close to the sea, and the price of salt is relatively cheap, only 600 yuan a stone."

"How much salt do the people have?"

"Guanzi Haiwang Chapter" has clouds: a family of ten, ten people lick salt, a family of 100, a hundred people lick salt. For a month the husband shall be less than half five litres, and the woman shall be less than half three litres, and the infant shall be less than half a litre. Cai Ji opened his mouth to report the literature, I have to say that this made Ma Qiang very impressed.

This product is really in stock.

"A man needs five and a half liters a month?" Ma Qiang was taken aback by this number, isn't it salty?

Cai Ji hurriedly replied, "There is a slight difference between ancient and modern liters, and today's people use about three liters of salt in a month after adulthood. ”

That's not a lot!

It is said that later generations of Chinese eat more salt, but in fact, compared with the ancients, the taste of later generations has been too light, because most of the ancient people did manual work, that sweat can flow all over the place, and the demand for salt is much more than that of later generations.

"In this case, and according to three liters, a family of five will cost fifteen liters in a month, more than four hundred yuan!" Ma Qiang shook his head and said, "It's too expensive, how can the people afford it." ”

One stone in the Han Dynasty was two buckets, and one bucket was ten liters.

"The price of salt in Donglai is already extremely low, and I learned that because of Dong Thief in Guanzhong, salt has risen to 5,000 yuan a stone!" Cai Ji thinks that the price of salt under his rule is okay.

Ma Qiang asked, "In the past, when it was peaceful, when was the cheapest time for salt?" ”

Cai Ji was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It's less than a hundred dollars, but at that time..."

Ma Qiang stopped Cai Ji and said, "In this case, I think the price of salt can be lower, 100 yuan is too much, a family of five 15 liters a month, I think 10 yuan per liter is enough." ”

"Huh? How can this work? ”

"In this way, the capital will not be recovered!"

"Ming Gong! This is a chaotic government, and if such an order is given, the people will only have no salt to eat! ”

The heroes below were suddenly in a mess, if Ma Qiang really gave such an order, then they could only close the workshop and stop boiling salt.

After all, under normal circumstances, the profit of salt is only about 20%.

Don't feel low, this is already a huge profit. You can double your assets in four years!

Ma Qiang smiled and said, "Everyone, be quiet! ”

It's still noisy down there.

"Quiet!" Huang Xu roared angrily on the side, and then quieted down.

"Everyone should know that I, Ma Qiang, also do business, toothpaste, soap, glass, porcelain, wine, ironware, I naturally know that there are people who do this head-killing business, and no one does the loss-making business.

You and I go to a place, and when you get there, you will understand why I just said that this salt is enough for ten dollars! ”

Ma Qiang said, got up and walked out, and the others hurriedly followed in turn.

Ma Qiang looked at the sky, but it gave face, and the sky was clear.

"Let's go, go to the salt drying field!"

Ma Qiang waved his hand and said, someone led the way.

As he walked, Ma Qiang spoke.

"I know that the salt is made from thatched wood, which is too slow and too labor-intensive, so the price of salt has always been high.

I got a method from my teacher, I can make a large amount of salt cheaply and quickly, and when the cost comes down, the selling price will naturally come down! ”

Listening to Ma Qiang's words, all Haoqiang was half-convinced, and they didn't know if it was true or not.