The wine auction was a great success, but it was only the first thing to eat, and the salt and paper were the main event.

The current price of salt is about one stone, and it is all coarse salt.

Like food, salt is a necessity for all people to survive.

The average person consumes at least four catties of salt in a year, which means that seven or eight people can consume one stone of salt in a year.

There are more than 50 million people in the entire Han Dynasty, and the salt consumed in a year is about 30 million guan.

It doesn't seem that this price is high, Yuan Shuguang wine and mirror perfume earned six million dollars a month.

But you must know that the people of the entire Han Dynasty have no money, and more than 95% of the wealth is occupied by less than 5% of the wealthy gentry.

Yuan Shu sells wine and mirrors to make money from these five percent of the rich people, so naturally he earns a lot and it is easy.

Think about it, a jar of wine is 100 times, who can afford this ordinary person? Only those wealthy gentry who don't take this money into account will want to buy it.

Soon after, the troubled times will come, and the mirror and perfume business will probably not be able to be done, and the wine business should be able to survive.

After all, those generals who have some skills are also drunkards.

The most famous are Zhang Fei and Chun Yuqiong, the former lost Xuzhou and later died because of it, and the latter directly led to the defeat of Yuan Shaoguandu.

Presumably, these generals have made a fortune in troubled times, and if they are rich, they probably won't waste money on these good wines.

And salt, no matter what time it is, will not fail to sell. You can try without drinking, but you don't eat salt?

The salt produced by Yuan Shu now is refined salt made through multiple procedures, and the cost is very low.

This time, Yuan Shu took out this salt to cause an impact, so as to secretly monopolize the entire salt industry of the Han Dynasty.

Zhang also asked the ladies to come out again, putting a little salt and a piece of paper in front of every rich man.

Then he said: "This is the refined salt that I have spent a lot of time in Yangzhou after many difficulties, and its salt content is two percent higher than that of ordinary soil salt, and it is cleaner and safer." My lord feels that it is not easy for the people of the world, so he is willing to wholesale these salt prices to you, and each stone of salt only costs 400 yuan, which is more than twice as cheap as the previous earth salt. ”

"There is no need to auction this salt, we will divide it according to your needs and the population of your area, but my lord has one more request. That is, the price of these salts must not exceed seven hundred yuan. ”

"If you agree to sign and draw on the paper next to you, then my lord will secretly send someone to check it, and if anyone is found to be selling at a high price, then cut off the supply of refined salt."

When the rich people in the audience heard that four hundred dollars and one stone of salt were already fried, and the people who came from the Mi family among the four major businessmen could drip water on their gloomy faces.

Some other salt merchants are also a little resentful in their hearts, this is to cut off their financial routes!

However, these people are only a small part, and the vast majority of other merchants are very happy about it.

After all, unlike the former, they make money by producing salt and selling it, they just act as a transit, low in and high out.

Yuan Shu's lowering the price of salt did not have a bad effect on them, on the contrary, it could increase their profits.

After all, when the Mi family produced salt, they set the price at about 800 yuan and sold it to other merchants.

When other merchants buy and sell the salt in bulk, the price of the salt is only enough to sell for the usual money.

If you have more, you won't be able to sell it, after all, the people don't have much money in their hands.

And now Yuan Shu has greatly lowered the purchase price, although the selling price has been limited, but their profit margin has not decreased, but can be increased by about 30%.

The most important thing is that the price of salt has dropped, and the people can buy more, so that the profit can be increased by more than 50%.

Yuan Shu's condition can be said to be extremely beneficial to the vast majority of businessmen, and although the rest of the Mi family and the like are very dissatisfied, there is nothing they can do.

After all, the price offered by the other party is far lower than his own, and the quality is better than his own.

Moreover, the other party also left a lot of profit margins, and most of the merchants stood behind the other party, and instead of killing themselves, they should think about how to get more refined salt supply, so as not to be robbed of the market by other merchants.

Mi Zhu is very anxious now, thinking that he can get a piece of the pie this time, but he didn't expect to find a disaster.

But it's good that I came, otherwise when everything is over, my own family will be unlucky.

Now the situation is very clear, a businessman like himself who makes a fortune by producing salt is completely out of play, the other party is better than himself in all aspects, and other businessmen have also chosen each other.

Mi Zhu felt that he had no power to return to heaven, and there was only one choice left, follow the other party and get more shares of refined salt.

In the past, he was a near-monopoly supplier, so the surrounding merchants did not dare to disobey themselves in the salt industry, and the salt industry in Xuzhou and even Qingzhou was basically their own decision.

But now Yangzhou has a monopoly on the salt industry, and he is no longer the leading boss before. If the surrounding merchants had enough salt, they would surely come and seize their own market.

What Mi Zhu hopes now is to get more share of refined salt, at least to keep his home base, the market in Xuzhou.

Mi Zhu looked at the smiling Zhang in the stands, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that I have to talk to the other party afterwards.

Yuan Shu looked at everyone in the audience, whether they were angry or happy, and finally had to sign and draw on the paper, and nodded secretly in his heart.

In terms of the price of salt, Yuan Shu actually doesn't have to press it so low, no matter how high the price is, he can sell it, not to mention doubling the money Yuan Shu makes, at least it is no problem to increase it by fifty percent. But Yuan Shu still pushed the price down.

Because this can make more people can afford to eat salt and live a better life.

Although Yuan Shu said that he was not a good person, as a modern person, he still had a sense of awe for life, unlike some people in this era who regarded the people as mustard.

A small part of the benefits can not only save thousands of people, but also win the hearts of the people, monopolize the salt market, and have more interests with these businessmen by the way. Yuan Shu thinks it's worth it.

Next is the highlight that Yuan Shu is preparing to use to make money, paper.

Paper in this era is not cheap, and at the current price, a piece of paper that is better can be written is worth more than ten times. Writing is basically done with bamboo slips and cloth.

Because the quality of the paper at this time, although it has been improved, is still very poor.

It is difficult to spend a lot of money to make a piece of paper that is of good quality and can be written clearly.

In the past six months, Yuan Shu has allowed craftsmen to keep experimenting, and finally created a more qualified method that can produce paper that can be written in large quantities and at low cost.

Now Yuan Shu finally has the opportunity to sacrifice the improved paper, this big killing weapon.