Looking at the booklet in his hand, Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction, Qi You's ability is still good, at least he has done this thing in detail and very well, it can be seen that he has put his heart into it. Putting down the booklet in his hand, Zhu Houzhao looked around and found that everyone was not very excited, except for the slightly special performance of the Min merchants.

Everyone knows this, Guangdong Salt Farm is not a big salt farm, and the output is not so high, but this is pure profit!

Whoever does it and who earns, the Fujian merchants are about to regard it as their own land, and what they are afraid of now is that the Zhejiang merchants and the Hui merchants will take it, and the Jin merchants are not too worried about it.

"Now that everyone has seen it, let's get started!" Qian Guangdou smiled and pointed to a piece of salt farm and said: "Guangdong Salt Farm Jiazi No. 1 Salt Farm, with a monthly output of 40,000 stones, the exclusive right to operate the salt farm for five years, the starting price is 20,000 guan, and the price increase shall not be less than 1,000 guan each time, now everyone can bid, 20,000 guan, is there anyone bidding?" ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes drifted to the side of the Fujian merchants for the first time, and after taking a look at Zhu Houzhao, he found that their faces were not very good-looking, and they were looking at the other people around them, and their faces were not very good-looking.

This piece of Guangdong Salt Farm is not a very big salt farm, and the starting price is 20,000 yuan, so what about the big salt field of Guangdong Salt Farm? What about the big salt fields of the Lianghuai Salt Farm and the Changlu Salt Field? Isn't that going to soar to a sky-high price? Most of the people present were salt merchants, and they may not know much about the size of the salt farm, but they knew very well how much money could be made from 40,000 stone of salt.

40,000 stone a month, nearly 500,000 stone a year, how big the profit is, they can't be clearer.

Aside from the cost, of course, the cost refers to the money for tax transportation, and the money for gifts, you must know that in order to get in here, they don't give less money. Remove these costs, and what remains is pure profit, in which, how much money they can get, whether it is worth it, everyone has an acupoint in their hearts.

"Okay, No. 76 has made a bid, he has bid 20,000 yuan, has he continued to bid? Okay, the eighty-ninth bid is 21,000. Qian Guangdou stood on the stage, waving a small mallet in his hand, and the expression on his face was red with excitement, loudly stimulating the merchants below.

Zhu Hou looked at this scene and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that the court is really going to make a lot of money this time, and I am afraid that this money will not be too small. Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao showed a smile, thinking that Dad would be very happy, right? It is estimated that this time the father will also be frightened, and the court will also be frightened, and they should see how much money these salt merchants have.

In the end, the No. 1 salt farm in Guangdong was sold for 32,000 yuan, and the one who took the auction of this salt field was an old man in the pile of people in Fujian, who was in his fifties and very rich.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but think of the real estate industry in later generations, every time the government auctioned a plot, it was very competitive, and the land king was not uncommon, I don't know if there will be a very high price this time, so high that I was shocked.

Zhu Houzhao watched while secretly noting down the transaction amount, the average price of the thirteen salt farms in the entire Guangdong salt field reached 40,000 guan, and the five-year franchise of a Guangdong salt farm was sold for nearly 600,000 guan. As soon as this price came out, all the people now gasped, it was really too high, but Zhu Houzhao didn't think so.

"Now we are starting the auction of the Changlu Salt Farm, and there are a total of twenty-three salt farms in the Changlu Salt Field, and this is the pattern." Qian Guangdou asked someone to send the pattern down, and then said with a smile: "The next round of auction will start after a stick of incense." After saying this, Qian Guangdou turned around and went out, obviously flowing out of space for people to participate in the filming.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on the group of Fujian businessmen at this time, because some of them in this group of people didn't make a move from beginning to end, and they didn't raise their cards.

Zhu Houzhao didn't think that they came here because the price was too high, and it was impossible for them to come here because they were idle and bored, you must know that all the merchants who entered here, they were very strong and powerful, and they spent a lot of resources to enter here. It is impossible for them to come to see the excitement, so these people have not made a move in the Guangdong salt field, and they must have to make a move in other salt fields.

Turning around and walking outside, Zhu Houzhao instructed Liu Jin: "Go and find Yang Lian to the palace!" ”

If you want to say that you know about these businessmen, it must be Yang Lian, whether it is the business cooperation of these people in Qiwei Zhai, or the investigation of these people by the Huanyi Bureau, Yang Lian must have extremely familiar information. What Zhu Houzhao didn't expect was that Yang Lian was actually in the yamen of the Salt and Iron Division, and soon came to Zhu Houzhao's side.

Yang Lian, dressed in casual clothes, appeared in front of Zhu Houzhao's eyes, and Zhu Houzhao didn't know what it was like to be dressed so charmingly?

If you put on women's clothes, you will be a proper women's clothing boss!

There is also a person behind Yang Lian, this person Zhu Houzhao really knows, the former Yangzhou Jinyi Wei Qianhu Yang Bin, Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Yang Lian to really stay with Yang Bin. After Zhu Houzhao beckoned Yang Lian over, he asked with a smile: "You have a relationship with Yantiesi so soon?" ”

When Yang Lian heard Zhu Houzhao's words, her heart trembled, and she hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, the slave maid came here this time to see if there are those people who have a lot of money, pay attention to it, and do a more detailed investigation afterwards." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, agreeing with Yang Lian's statement, and then asked his doubts: "Have you figured out the origin and background of those people?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, touch it!" As soon as Yang Lian heard Zhu Houzhao ask this question, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded again and again and said: "These Fujian merchants and some of them are Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants, they are not from salt merchants, but this time they are very generous. Whether it is a noble person or a person who takes another path, he is very generous. ”

"The slaves and maids have long noticed them, and let people touch their bottoms, these people are all coastal smugglers."

As soon as he heard Yang Lian's words, Zhu Houzhao suddenly realized, no wonder, if it is a coastal smuggling businessman, it is not a strange thing for these people to be generous, and the profit of smuggling is very high. Even if they sell their goods overseas and don't go to sea themselves, it is a very, very high profit. You must know that since the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the smuggling along the coast has not stopped.

After so many years of development, these people have long accumulated a very rich value, Daming is a forbidden country, but in this era, sixty percent of the world's total silver production flows into Daming.

Especially after the opening of the Age of Discovery, of course, this is also related to the lack of copper coins in the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of silver circulation, and silver became a semi-official currency, probably in the Chenghua years. Zhu Houzhao has personal experience of this, and now when he goes out to give silver, the merchant collects it, which proves that silver has become a currency and has begun to flow.

Although it has not yet reached the annual inflow of tens of millions of taels in the Wanli period, but there are a lot, if there is any merchant in the Ming Dynasty who is the richest, it is these coastal smuggling merchants.

You must know that the famous Donglin Party, behind them is the big smuggling businessmen in Jiangnan, compared to the Qi, Zhejiang, Chu Party and Qin Party and other landlord faction parties, they are much richer. The economic base determines the superstructure, and the rise and growth of the Donglin Party has a very strong relationship with the smugglers who support them behind them.

Especially in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, smuggling became more rampant, and the advent of the Age of Discovery also made the goods of the Ming Dynasty more popular, because the big market in the West was open to the Ming Dynasty.

Western countries need a large number of silk, tea, porcelain and even some backward countries also need iron and grain, which has led to a large number of trade surpluses in China all year round, a large number of items are sold, and other people's things like what fluff, felt, wine, etc.

Due to the Chinese craze in the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in the West (just like the psychology of the American dream in the world and especially in China now), people still wanted to be proud of having Chinese porcelain, wearing Chinese silk, and drinking Chinese tea from the court to the people.

This phenomenon did not change until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was opium that changed the trade surplus, and the British used opium to knock open the Chinese market and plunder property in China, so the Opium War broke out, opening the history of humiliation in modern China.

Zhu Houzhao also knew why these people didn't sell the Guangdong salt farm, which was an agreement between them and the salt merchants among the Fujian merchants.

The salt merchants among the Fujian merchants helped them to sell salt in the north, after all, they had never done salt business before, had little experience, and needed someone to help them. Among the Fujian merchants, the salt merchants needed their money to go north, and the two sides hit it off. Originally, these smugglers were unable to meddle in the salt business, but the reform of the imperial court gave them opportunities.

"Looks like there's a lot of fun!" Zhu Houzhao looked at those smugglers, a smile appeared on his face, originally Zhu Houzhao was still thinking about whether to arrange a trust in, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary, because the catfish has already appeared.

"Alright, you can go back!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and motioned for Yang Lian to go down, the second round of auctions was about to start, and he was going back to witness this historic moment.

Zhu Houzhao walked back to the chair with a smile, Qian Guangdou also came to the stage again at this time, and said with a smile: "The auction of Changlu Salt Farm starts now, the No. 1 Salt Farm of Changlu Salt Farm has a monthly output of 60,000 stones, and the starting price is 30,000 guan, and each bid shall not be less than 1,000 guan." ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that the competition of the Changlu Salt Farm would be second only to the Lianghuai Salt Farm, because the location of the Changlu Salt Farm was also very superior, it was located in the Bohai Bay.

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