Chapter 240: Little Goldfinger
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Looking at the crowded square, Lu Peng hugged his arms and smiled and said to the civil and military brothers beside him: "Now we need to do too much, the manpower required is too great, and the real implementation is not enough, these displaced people are simply not enough, we must spread our prosperity here to the outside world, and attract more displaced people to come over." β
The civil and military generals around him really admired the wisdom of Lu Peng, the lord, at this time, he not only came up with a way to settle the displaced people, but also sometimes did some things that were usually difficult to do.
Xu Jie, who was blushing with excitement, reported to Lu Pengyu: "The dredging of the Daliu River is urgent, according to the local people, every spring, the Daliu River will have a spring flood that will flood the crops and villages along the way. β
Lu Peng looked at the simple general stream and the map along the way, and only clicked on a few small boxes on it: "I came to dredge these rivers, it costs money and effort, but along the way, I am proud of those powerful households, I can't do this loss-making business, you immediately send someone to notify those wealthy and powerful households, and let them take out part of the money to subsidize, otherwise I will definitely not care." Then he dropped the wooden stick in his hand: "I said that it is absolutely unrealistic to get something for nothing in my territory, and I will use this labor to dredge this section of land that can really prevent floods and irrigate us." β
"There is one more thing, the windmills that are commonly promoted in our base area, now many families need to buy them, what do you think should be done?"
Lu Peng nodded calmly: "Sell, you must sell, not only to those big families, but also to the people along the river." β
"But the people along the river can't afford that much money."
"You're really a dead brain." For such a statement, Lu Peng is simply heartbroken: "A family can't afford it, even if it does, it's a waste, my windmill keeps pumping water day and night, and the effect is amazing, won't you let a few households and a dozen households join forces to buy?" β
"But they are all from poor backgrounds, where can they have the money to buy them?"
"Loans, we will lend to them first, but it must not be Hades debt, our interest is set at two percent a year, and then we will use the income from the crops in the autumn as collateral." Then he narrowed his eyes and pinched his bare chin: "In this way, we can also force the usury issued by those big families to lower the interest rate, so that the people can recuperate." β
This method is good, not only to expand the scale of production and sales according to the subway carpenter's workshop, so that more craftsmen and apprentices in technical schools have a livelihood, but also to increase the yield of crops, and at the same time to suppress the family of the Hades debt to exploit the people, it can really be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.
Lu Peng smiled proudly and secretly decided in his heart: "This is not ripe, once the time is ripe, I will drum up the bank, the money bank, and the money bank, that is one of the most profitable transactions in the world." β
Deciding on this issue, Lu Peng immediately hurried to the salt farm that was being developed and constructed, which was now the money bag of his base, and he couldn't slack off.
The salt works in Luxian County have been completely destroyed after the last family riot, but as the saying goes, if it is not broken, it will not be built, and it will actually be more cost-effective to build on the ruins.
A large number of displaced people, as well as the original salt households, were sent to the beach flats, and according to Lu Peng's design, flat salt pans were renovated along the beach flats, and the salt pans were divided into two parts, the evaporation pond and the crystallization pond. First, the seawater is introduced into the evaporation pond, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by sun exposure, the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt when it is introduced into the crystallization pool and continued to be sun-dried, and the salt will gradually be precipitated by the sun.
Dried salt first appeared in Shandong in the Qin and Han dynasties, but the salt produced was bitter and unpalatable, and eating too much could also cause poisoning, so it was abandoned and not used until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when it rose again.
In fact, the reason why the original salt dried the poisonous salt, but the lack of a crystallization pool process, the process is so simple, but the efficiency is infinitely enlarged, the cost is infinitely reduced, a strong labor, can manage ten acres of salt field, and each mu of salt field, but after half a month of sun exposure, can produce no less than fifty stone of fine salt.
After countless efforts by hired workers, when Lu Peng came to the salt field again with a group of subordinates, he was just in time for the first salt pond to show the salt with white flowers.
A pool of white salt is pushed together, piled up into a hill, just this simple salt pond, I am afraid that there are not ten stones of salt, if you look at the endless salt pond, then you must not produce 20,000 stones of salt each time? Such an output is almost equivalent to the output of tens of thousands of salt households for a month.
Looking at the chin of his own subordinates, Lu Peng said proudly: "This is just a salt field established by using a small piece of tidal flats, according to the current output, we can get at least 20,000 stones of fine sea salt, if according to the salt we buy in the hands of salt farmers 70 yuan a stone, we will have a difference income of more than 1.6 million yuan every half a month, if we add 50 yuan per stone of salt to attract money, that is, we now have an income of 2.6 million yuan every half a month, which will greatly ease our financial pressure. Become a huge income for us. Then he looked at Xu Jie, who was already greedy in his eyes: "I have decided that this money will be handed over to our chief Wu Tao at his disposal." β
Xu Jie screamed: "This is the product of my Lu County, how can this be handed over to the manager?" Then he looked at Wu Tao's smug face, gritted his teeth and said, "At the very least, I will leave fifty percent of Lu County." β
Wu Tao stretched out his finger: "Twenty." β
"Forty percent."
"Thirty percent."
"Deal." Wu Tao readily agreed, and then changed his words: "However, in the future, the headquarters of the base area will no longer invest a penny in Lu County." β
Xu Jie continued to scream, ready to continue to argue.
Lu Peng smiled and played a round game: "My eldest master, you can be content, after our salt field is expanded by three times or more in two months, will your income still be less?" β
So Xu Jie had red eyes, flipped his hands in his sleeves and calculated, and after a while, he simply took off his shoes and used his toes, and Lu Peng directly stopped this uneducated action. "Let's go to the store and have a look, today is the first day to sell salt, and see how many people come to subscribe."
The elder of the Zhou family had already rushed to the salt field with a convoy and enough money, he was afraid that the salt field would be short of salt and miss a great opportunity to make a fortune.
As a result, he got up early in the morning, but outside the salt shop he saw the head of the Li family sleeping in a big car, the old thing looked like he came yesterday, lying in the car, in this cold spring breeze, although wrapped in a thick fur, but still frozen, it was shivering and snot. They are all pampered and pampered, where have they suffered such a sin? It's not about money.
They are all old acquaintances, so they hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, and then said carefully: "How much salt is my brother going to buy this time, and where is it going to be trafficked." β
Of course, this is a trade secret, and the patriarch of the Li family wiped his nose without an image, and said perfunctorily: "My family has little financial resources, and I don't buy much, in Youbeiping and Liaoxi, my family has a few shops in the clan, and they are ready to ship it there to make some hard-earned money." β
Patriarch Zhou quietly glanced at the thirty-trailer cart, and scolded in his heart: "It's not much, thirty trailers, and they are all good foot strength, how can they be loaded with 300 stones, good boy, your appetite is not small, just these 300 stones of salt are transported to Youbeiping, how can you earn 100,000 yuan." "I scolded in my heart, but my footsteps quietly wanted to cross Patriarch Li, ready to occupy the first, everyone has shops in these two places, whoever arrives first, who can make a good difference first, this matter can not be delayed, Lu Peng said well, time is money.
As a result, the patriarch Li, who was all over the age, jumped out of the car at this time, stood directly in front of the gate of the store, turned around and said with a smile: "First come, first come, first come, we are all civilized people." β
Patriarch Zhou blushed, looking at the convoys that came one after another, there was almost no one left behind in Lu County, and there were other people who didn't know each other, some drove big carts, some led mules and horses, and some simply carried flat poles, and all kinds of people were also coming, it seems that the news of the release of salt to the official sale has been spread, and they must be fast, otherwise they will lose a lot of opportunities to make money.
Just as he was thinking about it, as soon as the door opened, a young man dressed as a scribe walked to the gate, saluted everyone outside, and announced: "In Xia Wangdong, this salt farm sells books, and I will do my best for all of you, and sell 20,000 stones of salt today." β
Just this sound, it immediately caused a commotion in the queue outside, 20,000 stones, this is a big business.
"But the next sale will not be until the end of the month, so everyone should do what they can when they buy."
Now, there was an uproar again in the team, 20,000 stone looks like a lot, but if it is put in various places, it is also a drop in the bucket, and if you want to traffic again, you have to wait for half a month, who can afford to wait? So the patriarch of Zhou immediately called a grandson who came with him, and ordered in a low voice: "Go back quickly, there is no money at home, so call on the clansmen to make up, the more the better, go and go back quickly." β
As a result, he twisted his face just after giving the order, and almost collided with an old face, but it was the Li family patriarch who was eavesdropping. As a result, the patriarch of the Li family didn't care about the embarrassment, so he directly learned and sold, and kicked a nephew who was in a daze next to him: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and untie an animal and run back to get the money." β
Wang Dong was busy with his hands and feet on the ground, and the 20,000 stone of salt was sold in less than half a day, and then he gave his hand to the customers who didn't buy salt outside because of the lack of money or the late arrival, and said humbly: "I'm sorry everyone, the salt has been sold out today, please be early at the end of the month." Then he closed the door without hesitation. No, no, there are those who haven't bought it are scrambling and begging, hoping to buy the share at the end of the month first.
(End of chapter)
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