Chapter 18: The Salt Merchants Converge
Xu Hui was indeed a qualified executor, and in less than five days, he made Yunhua paper, and offered Yunhua paper with a knife and two feet square to Yunyi.
Yunyi picked up a piece of Yunhua paper, his hand gently rubbed the paper, Xu Hui made Yunhua paper is still a certain distance from what Yunyi thought in his heart, but the quality of Yunhua paper has far exceeded that of Gaoxun paper, if Yunhua paper appears on the market, there must be many people who spend a lot of money to buy it.
Even if the Yunhua paper in Yunyi's hand is just an experiment, its cost is still much lower than that of Gaoxun paper, Xu Hui's knife Yunhua paper is not even used for 2 gold, the main reason is that the raw materials of Yunhua paper are everywhere, and it does not cost much money to acquire raw materials, if you wait until Yunhua paper is mass-produced, its cost will further decrease.
Finally, Yunyi spread a piece of Yunhua paper on the desktop, swayed pen and ink, and wrote down the three big words "Yunhua paper", the ink on Yunhua paper was kept very well, and Yunyi's last step of inspection was over.
Yun Yi nodded slightly to Xu Hui, who was standing in front of him, and said, "Not bad!" Xu Hui's heart that he had been carrying finally let go, Xu Hui didn't want Yunhua Paper to be recognized by Yunyi for such a "small" thing, so Xu Hui would have no face to stand in front of Yunyi again.
Now that Xu Hui has made qualified Yunhua paper, the next step of the plan can be launched, the next step Xu Hui to recruit more manpower, expand or a small workshop of the paper mill, it is expected that the expansion of the paper mill required funds at most a few hundred gold, as long as Yunhua paper mass production, through Yun's sales channels, Yunyi can get a lot of funds.
Xu Hui left Yunfu with Yunyi's handwritten copy of "Yunhua Paper" and two hundred gold, and began to recruit workers and expand the paper mill non-stop to prepare for the production of more Yunhua paper.
On the other hand, the salt production of Linhai County, Yunhua County, has increased dramatically, but it has attracted the attention of many people.
Before the appearance of the "Yun's Salt Making Law", the output of white salt in various places was about the same every year, and the white salt industry of the Dali Empire was basically finalized.
Unexpectedly, the sudden appearance of the "Yun's Salt Making Law" broke this situation, the salt production in Linhai County increased greatly, and more white salt was transported out of Yunhua County, although it was impossible to encroach on the territory of other big forces, but with the efforts of those small salt merchants, Yunhua Salt went to those remote corners.
In the first step, Yunhua salt only reduced the price by 10 copper, causing the salt merchants under the vassal to the Yun family to rush to buy, and the price of a pound of salt was reduced by 10 copper, which was a very surprising thing for these small salt merchants, but they were afraid that they would never be able to buy such low-priced salt again, so they didn't dare to make a public announcement at all, for fear that other small salt merchants would come over and grab business with them, and they would buy all the low-priced salt.
However, the second step of Yun's was to cancel the purchase restriction order of white salt, allowing salt merchants to buy unlimited amount of white salt, which made those small salt merchants crazy, and even some small salt merchants smashed pots and sold iron to make money to buy white salt in Linhaicheng Salt City, and a car of white salt was transported from Linhai County from Yunhua County and sold to various regions of Zezhou.
In this case, the total amount of white salt sold every day in the salt market of Linhai City is more than ten times that of the previous day, which is a huge number, even if Yun's has a certain amount of white salt reserves, it should be sold out in a month, but in this nearly a month, Yun's white salt reserves have not decreased in the slightest, and bags of white salt are piled up in the salt market's site, and after being bought by salt merchants, they will be quickly replenished.
Yun did not hide anything from the "Yun Salt Making Law", and soon it was discovered that the salt workers in Linhai County were using new methods to make salt, which greatly increased the production of white salt.
At this time, the salt merchants suddenly realized that no wonder Yun's would reduce the wholesale price of white salt, no wonder Yun's would cancel the purchase restriction order of white salt, and no wonder Yun's white salt could not be bought, and the original root was here.
At the same time, the news that the Yun clan had a large amount of low-priced salt also spread out of Yunhua County, spread throughout Zezhou, and was spreading to all parts of the Dali Empire.
However, the salt merchants who depended on other forces did not rush to Linhai City to buy white salt, after all, the distance was too long, and even if the wholesale price of white salt was reduced a little, it would not be as high as the cost of transporting white salt.
At this time, Yun's You took the third step, Yun's reduced the wholesale price of white salt to 9 silver a catty, and reduced the price by 20 copper on the basis of the previous 9 silver and 20 copper, which is not a small amount, the salt merchants attached to Yun's smiled, what could be happier than making more money.
The salt merchants who were attached to other forces outside the Yun Clan's periphery saw that the price of Yunhua salt had been reduced again, and a small abacus appeared in their hearts, and they began to calculate how much they would gain and lose if they went to Yunhua County to buy white salt and transport it back to their sphere of influence for sale.
This calculation, some salt merchants were happy, because they found that they were closer to Yunhua County, if they went to Yunhua County to buy Yunhua salt at a lower price, they could get more income, the trouble was that they spent more time on the road, but they could make more money, no matter how fortunate they were, not to mention that there was no limit to the purchase of white salt in Yunhua County, just buy more white salt at a time.
The salt merchants who are farther away from Yunhua County don't care, the distance is too far, the increased cost on the road is higher than the reduced salt price, the gains outweigh the losses, if the Yun family lowers the salt price again, maybe you can consider going to Yunhua County to buy white salt.
Dependency is not vassal, it does not mean that the salt merchant is the subordinate of other forces, there is no clear written treaty between the two, in the Dali Empire, every day there will be a new salt merchant born, there will also be old salt merchants bankrupt or withdraw from this industry, the salt merchant just relies on the Yun clan to eat, if other forces have better conditions, the salt merchant can change the door at any time.
So some salt merchants who were previously attached to other forces brought their men to Yunhua County in horse-drawn carriages, which was a good opportunity to make a fortune, and a day late meant that they would make a lot of less money.
Ordinary people are a copper coin and a copper coin flower, although the small salt merchant has some assets than ordinary people, but every silver coin in his hand has to be carefully calculated.
In any case, Yun Hao and Yun Dui's three-step plan was successfully implemented, and the price of Yunhua salt was reduced, but Yun's net income did not decrease at all, but increased by more than seven times compared to the past.
If Yun's no new plan, even if Yunhua's salt production increases significantly, if the wholesale price is not changed, the sales volume of Yunhua salt will not increase much, and the net income obtained by Yun's will not increase much, so the significance of the "Yun's Salt Making Law" will be reduced by half.
Fortunately, now the Yun family's income has increased greatly, and even Yun Yuankai's smile, who usually has a serious expression on his face, has increased a lot, and the increase in Yun's income means that the Yun family's strength is increasing, which is a very good thing for the Yun family.
Note 1: One knife paper is 100 sheets