Zhang Chu stopped Wang Jijie, who was about to turn around and leave.

Wang Jijie was relieved in his heart, and thought: "This thief still can't resist the temptation of silver, and wants to agree to do business with the Houjin people."

"There are many ways to make money, you don't necessarily have to stare at the dead end of the Houjin people, I think you must have done a survey on the market situation in Fugu when you came here, and there are many good things on the market." Zhang Chu motioned for Wang Jijie to sit down again, and calmly talked to him about business.

"It's the same to make money, but businessmen still prefer businesses that make more money and make money quickly." Wang Jijie still wants to turn the topic back to the transaction with Houjin, there must be too attractive profits there.

"Don't mention the business with the Houjin people, if Boss Wang likes to take risks, he will have such a high profit if he invests his money in other places." Zhang Chu saw that he was going back to the old topic again, and immediately stopped him.

"Then I really want to listen to the big handsome's opinion." Wang Jijie was not convinced, thinking that if there were profitable business opportunities, the businessmen would have rushed over a long time ago, and it was your turn to be a thief, doing business and rebelling are still different.

"Most of you Shanxi businessmen started by selling salt, do you think if you sell salt, is it very profitable?" Zhang Chu knows that Shanxi has a unique condition, the salt lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi is more than 100 miles away, and the mining of salt has a history of many years, Shanxi merchants buy salt from Yuncheng and then sell it to all parts of the country, and now there are more than 500 salt merchants registered in Yuncheng, and they earn huge profits from the sale of salt every year. Salt is an indispensable necessity for people's lives, and the Ming Dynasty inherited the salt monopoly system of the previous dynasty, and the purchase and sale of salt was strictly controlled by the government. Therefore, the price of salt in the whole society is very high. Merchants have colluded with the powerful or paid a large amount of bribes to obtain the right to operate salt, and ordinary businessmen have no chance to make this fortune.

"Salt, there is a lot of salt here in Fugu?" Wang Jijie became excited, if he could trade salt, of course he could make a lot of money.

"There is no one here in Fugu, there is one in Yulin, and I am organizing personnel to dig salt wells in Yulin, but it will take a long time to produce salt brine." Zhang Chu's words made Wang Jijie very disappointed, it's hard to say how long this is a long time. Since it is said that it will take a long time, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, in that case, the profit will definitely be reduced, and it is still unknown whether the salt brine can be produced.

"It's going to take a long time, right?" Wang Jijie thought, you can't fool me with things that don't have a score in the future.

"It does take a while for this, but the reserves of underground salt mines in Yulin are extremely rich, and if they are mined enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat for a few lifetimes, it is still very cost-effective for merchants who want to have a stable income to invest their money in it. Boss Wang is a person who likes to take risks and make money quickly, and of course he is not willing to put money on it. I still have a place where I can have salt immediately, but with Boss Wang's financial resources, I still have a little bit of a small financial right, and I can't eat so much salt alone. Zhang Chu deliberately mentioned the problem of financial resources to stimulate Wang Jijie.

"Then the big handsome will tell me where there is so much salt." Wang Jijie was really stimulated, thinking that we are not the richest man in Shanxi, but there is still some silver, I have never heard of where there is so much salt, and I can't eat it with my financial resources.

"Can you eat all the management rights of Yuncheng salt?" Zhang Chu said with a smile.

"The management rights of Yuncheng salt are in the hands of hundreds of salt merchants, and it is not easy for others to get part of the management rights, let alone all the management rights." While Wang Jijie replied to Zhang Chu's words, he was also thinking in his heart, I can't eat so much salt management rights, but this management rights are not in your hands.

"If I defeat Yuncheng, will the original business rights of those merchants be invalidated?" Zhang Chu reminded Wang Jijie not to forget the identity of the person standing in front of him.

"It's okay to say that the ordinary city is not something that ordinary people can fight. The salt lake of Yuncheng has been enclosed with a wall since the period of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and has been reinforced and repaired for hundreds of years, from the first rammed earth wall, gradually all have been replaced with a brick and stone city wall, and four gates and urn cities have been built, the last major repair of the entire city wall has been less than ten years, not that no one has hit the idea of Yuncheng salt, but they have retreated in front of the strong city wall. Wang Jijie traveled south and north, and he is still very familiar with the geography of Shanxi, and he has no psychological burden for the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, but he has no roots in whether he can cause rebellion.

"The high walls of the fortified city are not a problem, with the current strength of our security army, there is no strong city that we cannot break." Zhang Chu is still very confident in the siege ability of the security army. This confidence is not unreasonable, the reason why Zhang Chu remembered to attack the fortified fortress of Yuncheng is because the arsenal of the security army has made another major breakthrough in artillery manufacturing technology.

"Since Dashuai is so sure, why don't you capture Yuncheng first and then find merchants to cooperate, so that Dashuai will get more?" Wang Jijie said this, but he was thinking in his heart: "You just blow it, if you can win Yuncheng so easily, you will share the benefits with others." ”

"To tell you the truth, the main reason why I haven't attacked Yuncheng now is because I am poor." Zhang Chu heard the irony in Wang Jijie's words. But he didn't care, but cried poorly.

"Poor? How can a handsome soldier be poor if he is strong and strong. "Wang Jijie said in his heart, you can't cheat me out of my money even if you are poor, if I cooperate with you, I will definitely take the money out first, and if you get the money, you don't go to Yuncheng, or you can't beat Yuncheng, who will I ask for money. You are a thief, no matter how big my ability is, you will rob me, and I can't rob you.

"Individuals have personal difficulties, if I send troops to expand the army, I need a lot of food and salary, and I need to consume a lot of weapons and ammunition to fight a war, this battle is the icing on the cake for me, I can't reduce the treatment of soldiers because of this war. If I hadn't met you, I could have postponed this plan, and one day I would have sent troops to occupy the salt lake in Yuncheng, but it is impossible for you to profit from it there, and no one will give it to anyone else. Let's make it clear, now I am short of money and need time, but I have the strength, you have the money, if you take the money out, I will quickly form a team for the expedition to Yuncheng, and I will be able to quickly defeat Yuncheng and win time. I'm exchanging money for time, you're exchanging risk for money, and if everything is calm, you'll only be able to pick up a few dead fish and shrimp. Zhang Chu said very frankly.

"Can you defend Yuncheng?" Wang Jijie knew the habits of this rebel very well, he captured a place and robbed it, and then ran away, occupying the salt lake is not a matter of collecting a few bags of salt there and running, only long-term mining can make considerable profits.

"If you are willing to cooperate with me, I can let you see the strength of our army first, and then you will know whether I have said anything big." Zhang Chu knew that businessmen were very cautious, and they would not make up their minds if they didn't see rabbits and eagles, and if they didn't see the real thing.

"If Dashuai really has that strength, I will not only invest money in, but also find my counterparts in Shanxi to fund Dashuai's actions, money is not a problem, as long as there is a profit to make a lot of money, we Shanxi businessmen don't mind what kind of business to do." Wang Jijie thought to himself that if he didn't take risks, there would definitely be no matter how much money he made, let's see how strong this security army is, if it is really as strong as Zhang Chu said, it doesn't matter what Ming Dynasty he is, what kind of thief, make money. (To be continued.) )