The goods brought by the caravan were all urgently needed by Hejiazhai, and the largest quantities were salt and agricultural tools.

Let's start with table salt.

In the middle and later periods of the Ming Dynasty, with the increasing popularity of the ruling group, the royal family, eunuchs, nobles, and bureaucrats saw that it was profitable to hold salt, so they went to the emperor to beg for salt to resell for profit, and this phenomenon was called "occupying the nest". This kind of behavior, to sum it up, is a kind of rent-seeking of rights, and it is an act of embezzling the country's salt tax.

In this way, the Ming court's early and effective salt "opening the Chinese law" will not be able to play at all.

Later, the salt law was broken, and the smuggling group composed of wealthy businessmen, famous families, and military and local tyrants began to openly sell salt, resulting in a large loss of national tax revenue.

Now, in this plane, things have changed.

Since the layout of a certain force outside Guangzhou, salt, a commodity that has become more and more degraded by the government, has suddenly exerted its vitality.

Before this, the monopoly model of the government + salt merchants caused the consequence that the price of salt was getting higher and higher, the salt quality was getting worse and worse, the salt tax revenue was getting less and less, and there were private salt lords evading taxes everywhere, and then the people had no salt to eat, especially the people in remote areas.

When the cross-cutting began wholesale salt in the Guangzhou New District, the previous pattern was broken.

Guangdong is not like Fujian, Guangdong also produced salt before, and there is a perfect salt merchant + official salt system. Now that the old system has been messed up like this, it suddenly can't stand it, and the salt merchant and the capital salt transportation envoy immediately exploded.

However, time has changed, and now the crossing is full-fledged, and the fangs are gradually revealed, and it is no longer the gang of silks that cautiously ran to Fujian to talk about Zhao'an. Now, even if the traversal is openly selling illicit salt on the docks of the new district, the salt merchants and the salt transportation department have no choice. Even if the salt merchants are all big names behind them, even if the excerpts of the salt transportation division can reach the heavens.

There is no way to do this, there is really no way, whether everyone is coming to write or come to the martial arts, General Cao is not afraid.

Those who came to Wu are now the ones who come out of the city gate of Guangzhou, and they can see the warships full of huge cannons and the Cao family's elite army that wiped out all the pirates in the open sea.

...... of the communication is still the same sentence, as long as the surname Cao does not raise the flag in Guangdong to rebel, as long as the Tartars in the north do not die for a day, Chongzhen will never support the political forces behind the Liangguang Salt Transportation Division and the salt merchants.

Having said that, since the salt administration is becoming more and more corrupt in the hands of salt merchants and the ** salt transportation department, and the imperial court is also unable to collect taxes, what is the difference between Cao Chuan selling smuggled salt for profit and a dry salt merchant selling salt for Chongzhen? It's just that Wang Ba is here.

The most disgusting point for the righteous gentlemen is that the governor of Liangguang, who was supposed to be everyone's backstage in this matter, was Xiong Wencan, an old thief who came to take office on the Cao family's ship......

After testing both hands and discovering that it was really a super tiger that had penetrated into the system, Guangdong's salt administration system felt hopeless.

What followed was a period of chaos: anyone with money could go to the docks of the new district to wholesale salt, regardless of whether they were good or bad.

During this period, some salt merchants also tried to fight, swallowing all the salt goods in the hands of Cao Zongbing, hoarding Juqi, and then the people of the head iron were made bankrupt by the endless fine salt transported from Yizhou, Taiwan's seven salt farms have already achieved medium-scale production, and there are more than 500 tons of salt in stock for sale at the wharf in the new district at any time.

In this way, in the shortest possible time, the public was able to use "salt dumping" to collapse the original official and private sales channels of salt in one fell swoop, and the old pattern was completely disrupted.

At this time, Shi Shiran came out to clean up the mess. The method is very simple: slice sales, set up agents everywhere, and other goods.

And the salt merchants who have secretly wrestled with Cao Zongbing finally know that it is powerful, and no one dares to stab them anymore, and they honestly pull the silver cart one by one and go to the wharf in the new district to bid for the salt agency rights in various places.

After expressing his stance to join the new owner and bidding for the agency rights of the salt industry in various places, a Liangguang salt wholesale agent group composed of some salt merchants and emerging businessmen was formed.

Salt merchants soon found themselves involved in a new commercial wholesale network that was efficient and incorruptible. After feeling the charm of the new model, many far-sighted people were ecstatic, as long as Mr. Cao did not fall, then everyone would only make more money in the future.

What really suffered in this matter was actually the salt administration yamen in Guangdong. Cao Zongbing used a large amount of refined salt as a weapon, flipped the table, mastered the de facto Guangdong salt administration, and eroded the inherent power of the government.

In the end, the cross-border won a complete victory, and were able to replicate the pattern of Fujian's salt industry in Guangdong, forming a new salt industry group that was tied to the interests of the cross-political regime.

After that, a kind of contract requirements that later generations are familiar with, but belong to the earth-shattering thunder in this plane, really subverted the cognition of the businessmen of Liangguang: the Liangguang Salt Industry Corporation has stipulated a minimum sales volume for all agents, and the agents will sell less in the coming year, and there will be penalties for selling more, and the head office will have rebates.

The merchants were indeed shocked: from ancient times to the present, they had only heard of the goods were not enough, and they had never heard of this kind of regulations that forced everyone to sell more goods.

In fact, the traversal crowd is also full of helplessness in this matter. Over the past three years, they have set up industrial zones in Taiwan to engage in industrial construction, but today, it is the raw material of salt that can really subvert the traditional seller's market in terms of quantity, achieve dumping, and reflect the advantages of industrialization.

The consequence of the large-scale dumping of salt was to eliminate private salt barons in the first place. Now in Fujian and Guangdong, the big salt lords have been whitewashed and become dealers who cross the public, and the small salt lords are really extinct. Because dealers all over the country are desperately selling goods in accordance with the contract in the territory, the ditches and ditches that have not been to before have been developed by dealers, and there are cheap private salt everywhere, and the profit space of private salt lords is gone, and this profession will naturally disappear.

After the cause and effect are clear, the real background of Wu's shopkeeper coming to Hejiabazi this time is about to come out: Baiji chain grocery company, as a salt agent in Zengcheng County, now needs to develop the local market that was not valued before, so Wu's shopkeeper took the caravan to the remote Hejiazhai shortly after the year, and its fundamental purpose is to contact old customers to maintain channels and find sales for more goods in the future.

In fact, Akito is not stupid at all. After realizing that the supply of salt was abundant enough to complete the required sales volume, Bai Ji Groceries, which reacted, quickly adjusted its business model, from waiting for customers to come to the door, and the old brother who had not seen him for many years took the initiative to visit the old brother this time.