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Mercury production is low and dangerous, resulting in low yields of mirrors.

Mirrors are very profitable, but they are not a necessity of life, for political needs, Zheng Chenggong listened to Yao Qisheng's advice, and mirrors are only sold in the north.

Although there may be some price losses in this way, it is considered that if there is business with these large merchants in the north, it will be more powerful to listen to the news of the Manchus.

Zheng Chenggong still agreed with the regional bidding plan.

The agency right in the north can only be a few large businesses in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong to participate in the bidding.

In the south, only a few large merchants such as Huizhou merchants, Fujian merchants, and Cantonese merchants could participate in the bidding.

However, these are all big merchants with a rich background, no matter how low the price is, it can't be low!

Jin merchants, Chao merchants, and Hui merchants are also known as the "three major merchant gangs" in China.

Song Yingxing's "Ye Yi Yan Zheng Yi" has a slight record, and "Ye Yi Yan Zheng Yi" said: Those who have the foundation of business probably belong to the people of Qin, Jin and Hui County. In the heyday of Wanli, the capital in Guangling was no less than 30 million taels. The annual interest can produce 9 million taels, only one million to lose, and three million to fill without vain expenses, both public and private, affecting monks, Taoists, beggars, maids, bridges, buildings, when the remaining five million, the merchants and fat families moisten their bodies, so that they are inexhaustible, and inexhaustible. It can be imagined that it is prosperous to this day.

These merchant gangs were a loose group of businessmen who operated together and made profits together, and later developed into the Donggang system, a joint-stock organization chamber of commerce.

But for the sake of huge profits, even allies will stab them in the back.

For example, the Jin merchants went back to negotiate at the beginning, and everyone agreed on the agency price, but on the day of the bidding, the merchants who really believed in the agreed amount were angry and vomited blood.

As if it was agreed, the agency prices given by the Cao family in Taigu and the Fan family in Jiexiu were thirty percent higher than the agreed price.

Suddenly, the Cao family and the Fan family got the agency rights of the mirror in Yanjing and Shandong.

The Cao family and the Fan family took the lead in violating the agreement of the Jin merchants, and instantly smashed the covenant set by the Jin merchants at the beginning.

Other Jin merchants also forgot about the agreement, revised their agency prices, and grabbed agency rights.

The originally amiable bidding meeting became very lively, and one or two chief shopkeepers who did not grab the agency knew that they could not explain to the owner when they went back, and even rushed to the side in anger and beat up the allies Fan Jia and Cao Jia who had broken the contract.

For a while, the bidding conference ended up with an endless ecology, which made others very enjoyable.

The bidding conference for agency rights in the north was carried out first, and the bidding conference on the southern side was shocking.

The chief treasurers of the Hui merchants did not believe in the other so-called allies at all, and revised their agency prices one after another.

Even Wu Ziwei and Wang Wenyan, who had agreed to jointly win the agency rights of salt in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, were forced to write down the amount together and submit it together in order to increase trust.

After submitting it, I don't feel at ease, one person goes to the bathroom, and the other person has to follow.

It wasn't until after the agency announcement was issued that I saw that it was Wu and Wang who jointly obtained the agency in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that I really put my mind at ease.

Under the intrigue, the agency bidding held by Sihai Commercial Bank came to an end.

The Wu family and the Wang family jointly won the salt agency right in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at a price of 480,000 taels a year.

The Wang family relied on the name of the general merchant of Huizhou to win the salt agency right in Anhui.

The Lin family took the right to act as a salt agent in the Jianghuai region.

The Lu family was the most unlucky, and they gave the Wu family and the Wang family a handful, and they didn't get the agency in a region. can only be attached to the name of the Wang family as a second-level agent.

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At the end of the bidding meeting, the people who were plowing at sunrise and resting at sunset had also fallen asleep.

It was supposed to be a calm and peaceful night.

But! The businessmen who came out of the bidding meeting were destined for an unquiet night.

Zheng Tai was dragged to a banquet by countless businessmen.

Although the agency office has been handed over to each company, it has also divided the sales area.

But to whom will the goods be given first? After to whom? Or how much does this give? How much does that give? How much is allocated to each?

There are no specific regulations at these and other bidding conferences, so these businessmen need to try to make more profits for themselves with their own efforts.

Zheng Chenggong, as a general and the head of the Zheng family, is very face-saving to see these businessmen.

These businessmen did not dare or have the ability to invite Zheng Chenggong to the banquet.

In this case, although he is the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Zheng Tai, who also serves as the chief treasurer of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, is the most suitable person.

The heads of the various families who got the agency rights have feasted Zheng Tai.

Those who have not been given the right of agency must also get the second-level power of agency for the sake of their own livelihood.

Otherwise, what does the family sell and eat!

They feasted on the chief shopkeepers of the firms who had obtained the agency rights, hoping to get more goods at a lower price.

The businessmen were feasting, and Zheng Chenggong and Yao Qisheng were also discussing.

How much to sell and how to set the price.

How many spies should be planted among those who deliver goods, darts, and juniors?

How to develop a feeder line in the north?

How can you bring back information security without being detected by the enemy?

These are big questions!

If you don't plan ahead and rely on improvisation, this will never be tolerated.

Other civil and military officials are also busy, Zheng Chenggong made a decision, and those involved in specific work preparations had to be implemented by the officials below.

Officials in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the Investigation Bureau, the Finance Bureau, and the Civil Affairs Bureau were busy assigning tasks to dispatch grain, grass, and materials and manpower.

(To be continued.) )