Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and Yang Xi's goal of five thousand stone of coarse salt for two months was finally achieved. This is still five or six days a month ago on the road, and the first ten days have been been reclaimed, and there is no salt. In the future, as long as the area here gets bigger and bigger, it can produce terrifying numbers.

"This is a money island, so science and technology are the primary productive forces, yes." Yang Xi sighed that as long as this place continues to exist, he will not be short of money.

Of course, the technology of drying salt cannot be passed on to the outside world at present, and even if they are released, there can be no leakage.

On August 15, Yang Xi decided to take the two boats with him first, but the ship's guards only took fifty people. Yang Xi left Wei Gua with one hundred guards, thirty-two ships and ten sailors, and guided Qian Dahai to stay on the island.

Qian Dahai can't leave, and if things leak, it will be a big mess. As for the guide, Yang Xi has already recorded the direction, and with the existence of a compass, there is no difficulty in this.

The current compass has been improved into a glass shell by Yang Xi, and it doesn't even need to be opened, just take it out and use it.

Two ships, 5,000 stone of coarse salt, 50 ships escorted by guards, Yang Xi in chief, two large ships left Lou County on August 15. Just in case, Yang Xi ordered the ship to rest during the day and had to maintain the speed of the ship.

The journey back to Jiangxia was very long, and because it was a countercurrent, it took eight days this time.

Exian, Chenhe Port, two steamers quietly returned to the port.

Jian Xi and Qin Fang had already arrived at Chenhe Port at the agreed time, and the two had been waiting for Yang Xi for half a day. The two thought that Yang Xi would miss the appointment, but found that Yang Xi rushed back in the evening.

For two whole months, no more than one day and no less one day.

The three of them met, but Yang Xi never mentioned the matter of salt, just greeted the two of them to drink, and the matter will be talked about tomorrow.

Early in the morning of the second day, the leaders of the Chenhe factory who received the notice gathered in Chenhe Port, and at the same time, there were more than ten vice presidents and members of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

Yang Xi also specially invited Hu Zhao of the Hu family and Huang Ping of the Huang family, and these two people naturally will not lose face.

As for Roland, although he is the county magistrate, he is only the vice president of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

Yang Xi first greeted everyone, and without saying much, he took everyone to Chenhe No. 1, then opened the deck and went down to the bottom cargo hold. When everyone arrived at the cargo hold, looking at the warehouse full of yellowish crystals, it was a little difficult to breathe.

Qin Fang's eyes kept rolling, if it weren't for Chenhe Port, he really had the idea of robbing.

"Don't be surprised, Chenhe No. 1 and Chenhe No. 2, with a total of 5,000 stone of coarse salt, rushed back to Chenhe Port last night, which is a great joy for my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Fang didn't believe it, Roland didn't believe it, and the others didn't believe it either, so they all ignored Yang Xi, and went up to grab a handful and tasted it.

"What salt!"

"I didn't dream!"

"It's not salt, it's money!"

"According to the current market price, five thousand stones here is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"

Even Hu Zhao and Huang Ping were a little shaky and dizzy. There is no way, now the price has more than doubled, and it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 taels here.

Yang Xi said slowly at this time: "Everyone! It's not 100,000 taels here, it's only more than 10,000 taels for my Chenhe Port. From today on, my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce will be involved in the salt industry, of course, in order for you to make more money, we will not pay this tax. Today, as the president of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, I announce that in order to make the orderly development of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, the following salt industry business regulations are specified. For the member units of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, the purchase price of salt is 27 yuan a catty, and the purchase price of the vice president unit is 25 yuan a catty. Cooperative units, well, for example, the Xiang Gang brothers, even if it is thirty dollars a catty. The unified foreign merchant price is 35 yuan, and no one is allowed to fight a price war, otherwise the supply will be stopped. ”

This is a hierarchical treatment, if you want to get higher profits, okay, join. How do I join? Unified scheduling, although it is a decentralized organization, can be assimilated, anyway, the first principle of capital is that private property is sacrosanct. As long as interests bind you, you still don't support me? The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit.

Hu Zhao's eyes were red, he could have been a vice president unit, such a big plate, thinking about it for so long, isn't it just that after joining the club, do things according to your rules, it's not easy to do, slaves are transformed into workers, and high wages are paid, compared with the profits earned, it's a ball?

Moreover, the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, all those who join, have carried out staff cultural training, and one person only earns fifty yuan a month, which is nothing, and he will come back after selling a few catties of salt.

You don't see the horse dealer Ferma, a bad old man, there are more than thirty, that is, to provide more than two years of horses for the Chenhe factory, seven or eight hundred horses bought back, and now earn thousands of taels of silver, where to go on like this, in a blink of an eye has been the vice president, it is said that the horse dealer Du Temad rented a Sochen river boat, every time he has to take a boatload of goods out, earn a sum of money, and earn a sum of horse money.

Thinking of this, Hu Zhao weighed the pros and cons, and had a plan in his heart, without further ado, he immediately said: "President, my Hu family is willing to join the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, the Hu family has 1,000 tenant farmers and 200 slaves, and I am willing to convert them all into free people and hand them over to the president for education." ”

This is to lower your posture, and you don't ask if you are the vice president, I believe that the other party has its own arrangements.

"Good! Welcome Vice President Hu to join us. If Yang Xi was alone at the moment, it was estimated that his mouth would laugh directly to his ears.

"No, no! The president misunderstood, the representative of my Hu family, but not me Hu Zhao, but the dog Hu Zhuo. In the future, the dog Hu Zhuo will fully represent all the foreign business of the Hu family. ”

Yang Xi is even happier, Hu Zhuo is now his brother, easy to speak.

The Hu family set an example, and a few other foreign businessmen who did not join the chamber of commerce also joined one after another, leaving only Jian Xi and Qin Fang. Qin Fang still didn't say anything, he was an old man, and it was difficult to deal with it.

Jian Xi is too smart, Yang Xi thought in his heart, you said that you are a general, what are you doing with 11% brain development, don't you increase the difficulty coefficient for me.

Seeing that the two of them calmly did not express their position, Yang Xi sighed, this trick will not work, so he can only wait, and wait for his strength to improve to another level.

It must also be raised to a higher level, by next year, the world will be even more chaotic, the yellow scarf will resurge, and there will be a tiger like Sun Jian jumping out, and in more than a year, Liu Biaolai, in charge of the entire Jingzhou, will become a party to divide the hegemon, if he can't fight, he can only be cut as a leek.

Liu Biao is not a good person, the Three Kingdoms said that he did not want to forge ahead, that was the later stage, in the early stage, he entered Jingzhou single-handedly, killed a large number of Jingzhou Haoqiang, and then won over a large number of people, and controlled one-tenth of the world in minutes.

And then in the second year, he defeated Yuan Shu, and the general Huang Zu killed Sun Jian, which is called not enterprising?

Without further ado, let's return to the topic of Chenhe Port.

5,000 stone of coarse salt, 1,000 stone was ordered by the Xiang Gang, 1,000 stone was ordered by the Hu family, 1,000 stone was ordered by the Huang family, Roland also ordered 500 stone, and the rest of the other small merchants totaled 1,000 stone, and there were 500 stone left in Chenhe Port, and the income was more than 10,000 taels of silver in an instant.

In this kind of large-scale transaction, Yang Xi received most of the gold, and received three thousand taels of silver for the deposit, and the balance was paid within three days, and only gold, grain, or slaves were allowed to be deducted.

Slave! Chenhe Port can actually use slaves to deduct money and grain, which makes the major families think about it, and the purchase price is according to the market price. The slave trade to Chenhe Port is also a big income.

This kind of thing, the best thing to do is the Hunan Gang, Qin Fang decided, all over the river, to purchase slaves for salt.

After everyone dispersed, only Jian Xi and Qin Fang were left, and Yang Xi invited the two of them to a banquet in Chenhe Restaurant.

The 5,000 stone salt was put into the market, and the retail price was 80 yuan a catty, which was four times lower than the market price, which immediately attracted the attention of the salt gang in the industry, but this time the amount was not large, compared to the entire Yangtze River, it was too little, even if the entire Jiangxia and more than 10 counties were not saturated, and they were sold out in an instant.

In the two months that Yang Xi was away, twenty wooden houses were completed behind Chenhe Port, and Yang Xi came back and issued investment rules. What is planned here is actually a brothel and a hospital. But there is one point, all women in Qinglou must hold a certificate to work, and there must be no persecution, etc., this certificate can only be issued by Chenhe Port.

However, in a few days, the news spread to several nearby counties, and even the big businessmen who ruled Xiling City had joined.

Yang Xi has to go to school every day in the past few days, and by the way, he has inspected several good students, and Pang Tong is naturally one of them. Pang Tong has been enrolled in school for one year, and all the foundations have been completed. Fortunately, Yang Xi finished writing the book of basic chemistry in the past two months, and then handed it over to Yang Xi for printing.

Ten days later, the Chenhe fleet set off anew, this time, Yang Xi did not personally lead the team, but ordered Dong Cai to be the captain of the fleet, leading two old boats and Chenhe 12 and Chenhe 13, which were launched in the past two months, a total of four boats, with 200 guards, and an additional 200 guards, which were handed over to Wei Gua, the commander of the guard battalion, to conduct combat training on an unknown island.

Yang Xi planned to use the small island as his big rear, and put 2,000 people into the development and 1,000 ship guards to prepare for the future naval battles. Of course, this matter will not be completed until the end of the year.

In the next three months, the Chenhe fleet made two voyages, and by the end of October, the total number of personnel on the nameless island had been invested in 1,000 people, but these 1,000 people were led by Wei Gua, the commander of the ship's guard battalion, to provide salt and drill. Of course, Yang Xi handed over the three boats that came out in the past three months to the ship guard battalion, but those four boats were used for daily cruising to prevent anyone from trespassing on the nameless island all day long.

A total of three trips, a total of 15,000 stone of salt, put into the market at a low price, finally caused a huge change in the market, and the major salt merchants and families are inquiring about the origin of this salt.