The year-end summary meeting of the Fuxing Society in the second year of Jingyao was held in Jiangyang County.

Unlike the previous meeting in the Taishou Mansion in Fuling County, this time all the high-level leaders of the Fuxing Society came to the saline-alkali land fifty miles southwest of Han'an County.

This place is no longer a desolate and barren land, but a forest of cranes and people. A bustling scene.

This place is no longer a nameless place either. According to the memory of the traverser, it has a name that belonged to it more than a thousand years later - Zigong Pavilion.

"Hiss~~ Is this the Zhuo Tube Well invented by Zifeng? Sure enough, it is a whimsical idea and ingenious workmanship. In this way, many depleted salt wells in my Han territory can be replaced with brilliance! ”

Mi Zhao Mi Boyao, the No. 1 official businessman in Shu Han, was full of excitement at this time: as a super businessman whose business has achieved the extreme, Mi Zhao has been staring at the cake of the salt industry for a long, long time. It's just that the Shu Han regime has been too close to salt and iron since Liu Bei, and even though the Mi family is in charge of all industries, they never dare to stretch out their hands on salt and iron. Thanks to the blessing of the Fuxing Society this time, the Mi family can finally enter the salt industry. This is really a great joy that can be reported to Mr. Mi Zhu in the Mi family ancestral hall.

"Hahaha, Mi profiteer, how's it going? Intimidated, right? This Zhuo tube well, with moso bamboo as the wall and channel of the salt well, after hitting a certain depth, the brine naturally spews upward. Now the deepest salt well in this Zigong Pavilion has more than 70 zhang. Compared with the previous manual excavation of wide shallow wells, it is more than 10 times more......"

"Hmph~~~ Zhang Lingxing, where are you less. If it weren't for Zifeng, would you know that there is brine here? Can you know the method of this Zhuo Tsutsui? ”

"That's just as well. But why did I run into it? Hahahaha~~~ How about it, are you envious? Jealous? ”

"Alright, don't show off. Hurry up and get down to business. We all secretly ran out of Fuling County. We're going to have to leave as soon as the meeting is over. If someone from the court finds out, Your Majesty will be very unhappy. ”

"Oh, brother, please show me."

"Let me ask you, how many wells have been drilled now? What is the daily salt output? ”

"Well, brother, shareholders. In the past six months, a total of 35 salt wells have been drilled in Zigongting, of which 32 have been brine. Of the 32 salt wells, 29 have associated natural gas. Because there are new salt wells every month, the amount of brine produced varies from day to day. The latest data here is the day before yesterday, well, the brine output of the day before yesterday was 18,000 stone brine. ”

"Is this daily natural gas enough to boil salt? What is the amount of salt produced in brine? ”

"Brother, enough! This associated natural gas is not only enough to boil salt, but also enough to cook rice on the fire every day in the entire Zigong Pavilion. The amount of salt produced in the brine, brother, the brine we have here is really a brine with excellent texture, one stone of brine, after boiling dry, you can generally get five liters of salt. Compared with other salt farms in my Han Dynasty, one stone of brine can only get one liter of salt, which is five times higher! Not only that, after the brine here is boiled dry, there are very few impurities, the salt grains are fine, soft and white, and it is the best refined salt without any purification! ”

This is the salt capital, and it is normal for the brine to produce 5% of the salt. Moreover, the sodium chloride content of the well salt produced in Zigong is as high as more than 99%. The remaining 1% is also rich in iodine. It can be said that if the common people of Shu Han can generally eat Zigong salt, what "people have vegetables", the more common big neck disease (hyperthyroidism caused by iodine deficiency) will be completely reversed.

"In this way, the salt production in one day is 900 stones, a month is 27,000 stones, and a year is ......" Mi Zhao couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hand after simple mental arithmetic: "324,000 stones!" ”

But Guan Yi's words below made Mi Zhao collapse even more!

"Why is it so much, what have you been doing for the past half a year!"

Before Mi Zhao could intercede for Zhang Zun, Zhang Zun himself had already bowed to Guan Yishen: "Brother, forgive me, although this Zhuo tube well produces a huge amount of salt, but it is a narrow and deep well, and it takes a lot of time to hit the brine layer." At present, the deepest well on this side of Zigongting has been fought for seventy battles, and it took three months, so ......"

"That's it, it's because my brother is too anxious. What is the purchase price of the imperial court's salt captain for our salt factory now? ”

"Speaking of which, brother, the younger brother is also a fire in his belly. The price Captain Si Yan gave us was two hundred dollars per stone! ”

"What! Why don't they rob it! Zifeng, do you know what the price of salt from here is for my Mi family's firm? Eight hundred dollars per stone! ”

As mentioned earlier, the salt administrations of Shu Han, Eastern Wu, and Cao Wei were all monopolies: the salt works were owned by the state, and production, transportation, and sales were all controlled by the state.

Because of the agreement between Guan Yi and Liu Chan, the salt works in Zigongting were monopolized on the spot: the salt works here belonged to the Fuxing Society. After the salt is produced, it is all sold to the state. Then other merchants come here to buy from the state.

The proposal of this new system was indeed fiercely opposed by the Shu Han bureaucracy, especially the captain of Si Yan, but after Guan Yi said that Zhuo Tuojing's technology could be made public and Liu Chan endorsed it in front of the court officials: this is the only case, and it will never be opened again. This new system has only barely been implemented.

But everyone knows that the biggest profiteering is monopoly, and in the past, the salt captain of Shu Han had full control over the production, transportation, and sales of Shu Han salt. Now that this monopoly has broken a big hole, how can people be happy? Therefore, the salt price given by the Lieutenant's Mansion to Zigong Pavilion is extremely low!

To tell the truth, the price of 200 yuan a stone is not unprofitable for the Fuxing Society, which has associated natural gas to boil salt. Zhang Zun privately told Guan Yi that after deducting labor costs, the net profit can reach 100 yuan a stone. In the past six months, the cumulative salt output of Zigongting has reached 70,000 stones. The net profit of the Fuxing Society alone is 7 million.

But seventy percent of them are Liu Chan's, and one percent are Huang Hao's. The Fuxing Society actually got only 1.4 million!

Making less money is a trivial matter. Originally, Guan Yi planned to hide his troops here: as long as the salt production here could support more than 10,000 industrial workers for him, it would be enough.

What really made him angry was that the Governor's Mansion of Siyan School bought his salt for two hundred yuan a stone, but sold it to a merchant for eight hundred yuan - the merchant also wanted to make a profit, and also had to add the cost of transportation and sales - so that in the end, when the Zigong salt was sold to the common people, it was almost 1,200 yuan a stone! This price is three times more expensive than before the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one-sixth more expensive than the current Cao Wei, and one-fifth more expensive than the Eastern Wu!

The common people of Shu Han still can't afford to eat salt! The people have vegetables, and the status quo of big necks all over the ground still cannot be changed!

With such a regime that exploits the people to the extreme, it is no wonder that when Cao Wei called, everyone from the Yizhou family to the ordinary people didn't want to resist!

"This will not work, so the people's will will be farther and farther away from us! When the time comes, who will support us to resist? ”

But in this case, Guan Yi can only say to his partner - the Yuan Cong faction has not completely controlled the power of Shu Han yet.

"Let's have a meeting. Hurry up and we're done, we're going back. ”

With Guan Yi's instructions, Ma Guo began to speak: "In the second year of Jingyao, I revived the industry in Fuling County...... The cumulative turnover is 170 million...... After deducting the settling-in allowances, workers' wages, production costs, and expenses for the revival of the newly recruited workers and peasants, the gross profit was 58 million. After handing over 40 million to the Yongan Corps, the net profit was 18 million. In addition, since my Fuling County no longer needs to send grain to the Yong'an Corps, I have saved about 100,000 stone of grain this year......"

"Mijia Trading Company's turnover this year has reached 600 million, and the net profit is 100 million, and according to the equity replacement agreement, 30 million will be allocated to Fuxing Society."

"The revival salt industry here in Jiangyang County, after deducting the shares given to His Majesty, made a profit of 1.4 million. The third uncle (Guan Suo) transferred more than 3,000 people from Nanzhong in the past six months, and selected 1,000 strong men to arrange to work in the salt factory, and the rest were resettled in Han'an County to reclaim wasteland. The wages of these people have been included in the cost deduction, but I still owe Meng Yan the money to buy people from Nanzhong. Well, that's 22 million. ”

"This money was quickly transferred to Meng Yan, he is not from our Fuxing Society after all. In this way, the balance of the entire Renaissance Society this year is 33 million. ”

"I'm going to congratulate my brother (Taishou)!"

"Hey, don't talk about that!" Guan Yi waved his hand irritably: "We don't have much time. Ladies and gentlemen, my opinion is that there will be no dividends for the time being this year. The money was used to expand production next year. Next year, that is, the third year of Jingyao, the goal of Fuling County is to absorb more than 10,000 people from Wuxi to go down the mountain and reclaim 200,000 acres of wasteland. Strive to stop buying food from outside from the fourth year of Jingyao...... The goal of Zigongting is to increase the salt production tenfold! The number of workers has increased fivefold! ”