Chapter 327: Dominate the Salt Industry
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In Qingzhou City, the branches of the old plane trees on both sides of most streets are bare, quietly stretching in the air, not ostentatious, nor hideous.
The bark of the outermost layer of the sycamore trunk no longer grows and peels off as it does in spring and summer, and turns into a rock-colored hard shell wrapped around the trunk, like a simple Shandong old man wearing a mottled thick cotton coat.
There is very little green in the city, only a few pines and cypresses in the gardens of some large families, although they are long green, but in this winter, those greens are also like sleeping, not as striking as the new green and tender green of spring. The ancients paid attention to adapting to the weather, and winter should have the appearance of winter, so they did not deliberately plant a large number of evergreen pines and cypresses, but chose broad-leaved trees such as sycamores.
Only by abandoning the evergreen of the four seasons will we see more lush branches and leaves in spring, and we will experience the empty beauty of the branches in winter.
The world is open and the air is fresh.
The old and smooth street is covered with a layer of hoarfrost, it is a cold morning, the ancients lived a slow pace, and there are not many people on the street in the early morning of midwinter.
From time to time, a hot white mist rises from the thick branches of the old trees on the side of the street, which is the hot steam from the hawker who sells breakfast just opened the steamer of the big meat buns.
In the breakfast shop built on the street of the hawker, Wu Zhi was leading a group of richly dressed people to sit around the small shop and eat breakfast.
Wu Zhi's face was flushed, he was dressed in a loose and simple suit, and the hem was tucked into his belt, looking like a martial artist who had just finished his morning exercise. In fact, Wu Zhi had just finished running in the morning, and when everyone came to his study for a meeting as usual this morning, Wu Zhi suddenly became interested, so he pulled Song Jiangwu and Brother Xiao to let Jiang Jingjin Dajian and them go out for a morning run.
This is a pain for them, they are all very formal and decently dressed to come to Wu Zhi for a morning meeting, who would have thought that Wu Zhi would actually pull them out for a run, one by one wearing luxurious robes, and it was naturally very awkward to run.
Moreover, Wu Zhi's physical fitness is very good, and he ran around Xicheng District for a long time, Wu Zhi's face was only slightly red, Xiao Rang and Brother Yun were fine, but Song Jiangwu and Jiang Jing almost didn't get tired and lay down.
However, although I was tired, after running this lap, everyone felt extremely happy, and the breakfast on the street was also very fragrant.
They are usually group executives with their own leaders, and they rarely exercise vigorously, but now they sweat profusely and exercise like this, exhaling a mouthful of turbid air in their chests, and then inhaling a breath of cold air, which naturally feels refreshed.
"Little Er, three more baskets of steamed buns, five bowls of mutton soup!"
Brother Yun saw that everyone was eating quickly, and added food for everyone in a timely manner.
"Howler! Fragrant meat buns and mutton soup! β
Xiao Er's face was full of joy and diligence, he knew Wu Zhi and Wu Zhi's gang of big shopkeepers, and now the group of people who can call the wind and rain in Qingzhou are all nesting in their street shops to eat, how dare he slack off?
Brother Yun's wit won everyone's secret nod, although his status in the group is equal to everyone, but because he is the youngest, he has always regarded himself as a junior brother in front of Song Jiangxiao and Jiang Jingwu, especially for Song Jiang, Brother Yun can be regarded as growing up listening to the name and legend of timely rain, so he has more respect for Song Jiang.
And Song Jiang and the others also like this clever sunshine brother very much, and they also admire Brother Yun for having such a business operation method at a young age!
Especially in recent times, after Huang Zhi was beheaded, the Huang family's salt industry was suddenly scattered, and countless salt merchants were grinding their knives and waiting to slaughter the Huang family's salt industry, but when they were ready to buy the Huang family's salt industry by various means and vigorously seize the market, they found that the Huang family's salt industry was being quickly swallowed by people!
The original Huang Jiayan shop had already been replaced with other signboards before Huang Zhi was convicted.
The salt merchants were shocked, and when they inquired, it turned out that the usual smiling shopkeeper Yun Da was buying it behind his back! It's too late for them to grab it!
Not only could the salt shop not be grabbed, but they didn't even grab much in the market, because the Huangjia salt shop was only closed for three days, and it quickly changed its license and opened.
To be able to take over the Huang family's salt industry so quickly and carry out the split and reorganization of personnel and institutions not only requires a lot of financial support, but also a strong wrist and efficient business acumen, and the shopkeeper of Yunda actually did it!
While the salt merchants secretly sighed, they also had to convince Brother Yun.
This is to win by the most normal means of commercial competition, and of course they are convinced.
However, Brother Yun did not do anything absolutely, and still left a lot of salt industry in counties other than Qingzhou to be given to the salt merchants, and Wu Zhi was already in control of the operation of official salt, after replacing Huang Zhi as the largest salt merchant in Qingzhou this time, Brother Yun immediately made a reasonable adjustment in the price of salt, and the official salt and the people's salt no longer maliciously reduced the price of competition, and maintained the salt price to a normal level, which was the same as the surrounding state capitals.
In this way, the profits of other salt merchants also rose.
Although Brother Yun grasped the opportunity, but his various skills and business wisdom in merging and approving the salt industry, even Wu Zhi couldn't help but applaud it, Wu Zhi had to admit that Brother Yun's business level was much higher than his own, no wonder he could bring out a talent like Guan Xia.
In fact, Wu Zhi is not very good at business, and the reason why he has succeeded before is that it is a model of collusion between officials and businessmen that is unique to China...... It's to play yin.
To put it bluntly, Wu Zhi is still better at scheming, if he had been allowed to compete with Huang Zhi completely in accordance with commercial means, such as buying short and selling short, hoarding goods and other means, Wu Zhi himself may not be his opponent.
Now that Wu Zhi is getting bigger and bigger, if he still uses the power of the government to hack competitors, it will be too unauthentic, so naturally everything must be done according to the normal rules, anyway, now that the situation is big, others will not dare to disobey the rules according to the rules.
This is actually very similar to the big businessmen in later generations, most of the big businessmen used the side door at the beginning, but after they became large enterprises, it was really more formal than anyone else......
Brother Yun here has a sharp hand, and Dasong Bank has also developed to five in the past few months, Qizhou, Mizhou, Laizhou, Yizhou, and Jeju around Qingzhou have established bank branches, and the deposits absorbed have also reached an astronomical amount.
In fact, Wuzhi's proud buildings are all over Shandong, and the Shandong Chamber of Commerce also has branches everywhere, and Da Song Bank relies on two strong backers, and the establishment of branches should be faster, but Wuzhi's instructions for the development of the bank are steady and steady, step by step, so every branch built by the bank is cautious and prudent.
Not only that, after a branch is established, it must operate smoothly and normally for a period of time to ensure that there are no loopholes before preparing to open the next bank.
The appointment of the president of each bank branch is personally appointed by Wu Zhi Song Jiang, and the vice president is concurrently served by the local branch president of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce, or the vice president of the branch bank must be the branch president of the Chamber of Commerce. The accounts of the bank are managed by the head office at different levels.
To ensure that the bank is absolutely controlled, and authoritative.
Song Jiang has Wu Yong's assistance, and he has been running around to open branches in the past few months, but he didn't let Wu Zhi worry about it, and Wu Zhi also knew that there must be many difficulties here, but with Wu Yong, all difficulties are not difficulties.
As far as Wu Zhi knows, the biggest obstacle to opening these five branches was when Jeju, Yuncheng County, Jeju is Song Jiang's hometown, and Jeju is also Wu Yong's hometown, so it stands to reason that the two of them should have smooth sailing there.
But it was there that the bank was almost not opened, and the people of Jeju still admired Song Jiang for the timely rain, and everyone knew that he was just a mistake in the original crime, and it was for righteousness. I don't hate Wu Yong, when Wu Yong was in Liangshan before, he also took care of the people.
But the Jeju government doesn't think so, in their opinion, Song Jiang and Wu Yong are both wanted criminals they have tried, and now they have come to open a bank after they have laundered their money, and they also call the magistrate brothers, what kind of system is this? They looked down on Song Jiang and Wu Yong in their hearts, so they naturally made it difficult to open a bank.
But fortunately, in the end, the matter was successfully resolved, and no one knows how to solve it, everyone only knows that there seemed to be traces of Li Kui, the most wanted criminal in the Great Song Dynasty, in Jeju at that time, and the frightened Jeju prefect almost peed his pants, and finally inexplicably, the bank was opened.
After the bank was opened, the wanted criminals were also refuted as rumors and misinformation.
Only Wu Zhi smiled, this rumor is indeed "misinformation"!
It is worthy of Wu Yong, with this group of capable people, all that Wu Zhi is left is to accompany the lady and keep an eye on Qingzhou College.
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