Liu Jun's salt farm business does look very promising. Although the investment is a bit large, one million taels, according to Liu Jun, at most three years, everyone will be able to get 10% annual rate of return every year in the future. You don't have to do anything, just sit at home and wait for the cashier, and the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, where can you find such a good thing?

If you miss this home, there will definitely be no second home.

A group of salt merchants sat there and made their own calculations, and soon they thought about it, one million seems like a lot, but there are many people here, more than 300 large and small salt merchants, those who have money have two more shares, and those with less money have a few fewer shares, one million is really not a thing.

But they still have some concerns, can this business really last for a long time, and whether Liu Jun can control this business. What if someone else looks at the money and comes to intervene, but they want to pick peaches? In addition, such a large output will definitely affect Huaiyan and other large salt factories, so Yangzhou salt merchants and those officials of Huaiyan Salt Farm, can they sit idly by?

For these doubts, Liu Jun replied with only one sentence.

"If you want to get rich, and you want to take no risk at all, then what kind of business are you going to do? What's more, you are all engaged in salt trading, don't you even have the guts to do this? Saying that, Liu Jun asked people to hold his Shang Fang sword. He once again pointed out his identity as the marquis of Zhennanhou, plus the identity of the general soldier of Yunyang.

"I have money and want everyone to earn it together, but if everyone doesn't want to make this money, that's okay, everyone is free."

Many salt merchants were still hesitating, but Liu Liangzuo stood up and spoke.

"Master Hou, the little Liu Liangzuo is brave and wants to enter one share first and invest 10,000 taels of silver." For Liu Liangzuo, 10,000 taels of silver is already all the cash that can be taken out, and others are still hesitating, but he feels that this is a golden opportunity. He just didn't have any backing before. can only distribute some salt to Zhou Wenshun and earn some of the leaks between his fingers.

Now that Zhou Wenshun is also dead, Liu Liangzuo is very worried that he will also be implicated. Take out this 10,000 taels of silver, no matter whether you can really get an annual yield of 10% in the end, I hope you can at least be satisfied here in Zhennanhou.

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Jun heard Liu Liangzuo's words, he immediately smiled.

"Oh, Liu Yuanwai is bold and keen-eyed. Ten thousand taels of silver, very good. Come and take Liu Yuanwai to the side to register for shares. As he spoke, Liu Jun even patted Liu Liangzuo on the shoulder. Liu Liangzuo, a man in his forties, was praised by a twenty-year-old man on the shoulder, but he trembled with excitement in his heart, and felt that his body was a few taels lighter.

The value of this 10,000 taels of silver is worth it, and Master Hou is very satisfied with me.

It's good that someone takes the lead, those salt merchants watched the performance of Liu Jun and Liu Liangzuo, and suspected that the two were acting. But it doesn't matter if it's a joke or not. Now that Liu Jun has made his words clear to this extent, they have to express their position.

"I'll take a thousand taels."

A fat businessman who was also one of the first eight to come like Liu Liangzuo spoke up, but he obviously didn't fully believe in this business, and he didn't dare to invest his net worth like Liu Liangzuo. In the end, I only invested 1,000, which is equivalent to buying 10 shares.

Liu Jun is not too little, and a thousand taels of silver is not a lot.

"Very good, please register with this outsider."

Next, a few more people came out to buy shares. However, most of them were 12,000, and there was even one who only subscribed for 500 taels. Liu Jun didn't care a little and gave him a smile.

"Students subscribe for 20,000 taels!" Suddenly. In a piece of 1,200 taels, suddenly a young man shook his fan and shouted out 20,000 taels of silver. For a while, it attracted the sideways eyes of many people, "Hey, it's King Zhou's nephew!" ”

"I didn't expect him to come, I didn't pay attention to it just now."

"This Zhao Gongzi is really big, and it will be 20,000 taels as soon as he makes a move."

The merchants whispered, and Fu Shan whispered beside Liu Jun that this person's mother was the daughter of King Zhou of Kaifeng, and their family was a big family in Nanyang, and they also bought and sold official salt.

"It turned out to be Zhao Gongzi, welcome to join in." Liu Jun said to him with a smile.

With the large-profile investment of Zhao Gongzi, the nephew of King Zhou, the enthusiasm of the salt merchants also increased a lot. Everyone has invested in one share, some have invested 3,000, some have invested 5,000, and some have invested 10,000.

"Dashuai, 10,000 shares have been subscribed." Before many salt merchants came and subscribed, Fu Shan had already come over to say a news that surprised the salt merchants.

The share capital of 10,000 shares of Yingcheng Salt Factory has been subscribed out.

Everyone didn't expect it to be so fast.

What they didn't expect was that Liu Jun actually announced with a smile that the franchise subscription was over.

"If you have already registered to subscribe for shares, we will sign a formal contract in a while, and then we will be partners. As for the others, I'm sorry to tell you that you're a step late, sorry, we didn't have a chance to cooperate this time, maybe we'll look for a chance to work together next time. ”

Hearing this, at first, there were a few small traders who were happy in their hearts, and finally they didn't have to join the gang. But most of the salt merchants who didn't come and joined the gang were suddenly a little frightened when they saw that most of them had already joined the gang and became partners in the Houyingcheng Salt Factory in Zhennan, and only a few of them had not joined the gang.

They failed to become partners of Zhennanhou, not their own people.

Many people can't help but think of Zhou Wenshun.

"Master Hou, add me one, I want to buy shares, I will invest 10,000 taels!"

"Master Hou, I also want to buy a share, and I will also invest 10,000 taels!"

Several salt merchants hurriedly shouted.

It's a pity that Liu Jun shook his head, "Yanchang doesn't need more partners for the time being, next time." ”

A group of salt merchants pestered for a while, and finally saw Liu Jun's resolute attitude, only to know that he had really been thrown aside.

After the matter is negotiated, the next thing is naturally to hold a big banquet and celebrate together.

"Dashuai, those people are crying and shouting that they want to buy shares, and they must add up to at least 100,000 taels of silver, why don't they collect them together?" Fu Shan asked.

"We have to be particular about what we do, we said earlier that we would recruit one million, then we only need one million, and we are not liars, just do one vote and leave." Although Liu Jun is short of money, he doesn't want to lose a lot because of a small loss, but for a hundred thousand taels of silver, so he doesn't want to put his principles away.

Liu Jun is really ready to set up this salt farm and raise one million silver. He planned to leave 300,000 taels for the construction of the salt factory and the recruitment of craftsmen and salt workers, as well as the money for digging salt wells. Digging salt wells is not easy or cheap, and you have to ask those old craftsmen who dig salt wells from the places where there are a large number of salt wells in the artesian wells and Gongjing areas of Sichuan.

A salt well is not a water well, at least ten zhang or even dozens of zhang deep, or even a salt well hundreds of zhang deep, and the mouth of the salt well is extremely small, so special tools and special technology are required. And boiling salt is also a labor-intensive job that requires a large number of workers.

In fact, compared with the salt boiling salt by the sea, the salt well is much more expensive and laborious. But in this day and age. Transportation is also a high cost, so the construction of Liu Jun's salt works still has great prospects.

Although it is said that the shares recruited are for the opening of a salt factory, but that is just the case, in fact, after Liu Jun has now recruited one million taels of share capital, it means that he does not own any shares, and they are all those salt merchants. But in fact, the salt merchants only have the right to dividends. In addition, the right to recover or transfer the share capital after three years is also reserved.

The salt factory is still Liu Jun's, he didn't spend a penny, he got the funds to open the salt factory from the salt merchant, and at the same time only kept 300,000 yuan as the operating expenses of the salt factory. The 700,000 taels of the big head were directly drawn out by Liu Jun and used for military expenses.

"The silver was used to order food first, and the other part was used to purchase materials for the military workshop. The remaining part is used as a turnover bonus. "The money hasn't been handed yet, and Liu Jun has already planned the use of the silver.

"These salt merchants are really rich." Fu Shan sighed.

Liu Jun laughed twice, "Everyone knows that the salt merchant is rich. But the salt merchants were also the most shrewd and cunning. Do you think they are stupid to give us money? No, they are very shrewd, they know that the money they invested will bring them greater returns, so they will invest money in us. ”

"They believe in us so much, aren't they afraid that we will lie to them?"

"Lie to them? It is possible to deceive one or two, but what about these hundreds of salt merchants, we really dare to deceive them of this million taels of silver, but I am afraid that in the end I don't know how I died. What salt merchant doesn't have so many officials and magnates behind him? They all know that I can't lie to them, and I don't dare to lie to them. ”

At the banquet in the evening, Liu Jun also appeared and toasted the partners with a glass of wine, and those who did not come and joined the gang, Liu Jun was also polite to them.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Liu Jun left directly, anyway, they were just cooperating for money, and there were not so many personal feelings. Back in the backyard, Liu Jun found that the lights were on in the house, and when he walked in, he saw Chen Yuanyuan sitting in the house.

"The handsome man is back." Chen Yuanyuan was just sitting in front of the desk reading a book, when he heard the sound of pushing the door and turned his head to see that it was Liu Jun, with a happy look on his face.

"Well, what are you looking at?" Liu Jun asked. Since he returned to Hutou Fort, Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan have a very tacit understanding, one of them came to accompany him for three days, and then there was a gap in the middle. On the first day Liu Jun came back, he took Chen Yuanyuan into the room, and after that, the relationship between the two became more and more intimate.

In addition to not having a name, usually Hutou Fort sees Chen Yuanyuan and calls her Aunt Chen. Chen Yuanyuan also accepted this title, and never proposed to Liu Jun to enter Liu's house or anything. She has a courtyard in the Yacheng of Hutou Fort, and next to Liu Jun's courtyard, Shen Man also has one.

Usually she sometimes reads books in the courtyard, but she also likes to go to the Red Sleeves Workshop a lot of time, and she has a room on the third floor. Usually she helps Shen Man deal with the accounts together, and it seems that doing these things can make her more fulfilling.

"Check the income and expenditure accounts of the Red Sleeve Workshop for the previous month." Chen Yuanyuan put down the account book and came over to give Liu Jun wide clothes.

"You like to do that."

"Passing the time." Chen Yuanyuan said with a smile.

Liu Jun changed his clothes, leaned directly on the head of the bed, and began to take stock of his accounts. Before entering Sichuan, Xiong Wencan pulled out 50,000 taels of silver for him, and after entering Sichuan, he seized about 200,000 taels of booty, and then divided about 200,000 taels of loot with Mei Zhihuan, as well as more than 200,000 court rewards.

Add up, there are more than 600,000 yuan, but there is not much silver now, many of them are some gold, silver, satin, dictionary, jewelry, pearls and other things, and they have to be exchanged for silver money, but it is still difficult to sell so many materials at once. And I used a lot of rewards and pensions for the soldiers last time.

If he took the 700,000 taels of silver today, he really didn't have any cash in his hands.

But the 700,000 taels of silver were recorded in the account, and it only slightly alleviated the funding gap. Raising 50,000 new troops, at least 2 million taels of silver a year, unless he intends to be like other court generals, eat empty salaries, support his family, and then lead a useless army.

The property brought back from eastern Sichuan had to be sold as soon as possible, some of it was put into the service agency for the soldiers to exchange, and most of the other had to be exchanged for cash through the relationship of the old man Lu Weizhang and others.

In addition, the newly recorded 700,000 taels of silver had to be used to purchase grain, mules and horses, and all kinds of iron, lead, sulfur, and nitrate.

It turned out that when there were only a few hundred people, Liu Jun didn't have to worry about money as much as he wanted. But now, anything is inseparable from money.

Originally, Liu Jun planned to cover the 50,000 new troops in Yunyang Town by himself, but now that he looks, the pressure of training 50,000 horses at one time is too great. After thinking about it, Liu Jun planned to leave the 10,000 soldiers and horses in Fubiao to Governor Zhu Dadian to practice by himself, and he didn't bother to care about those people, so he just assigned the original more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Yunyang Town to Zhu Dadian's Fubiao.

Although Liu Jun knew, Yunzhen used to have 13,000 soldiers and 2,000 horses, but in fact, more than half of the water was used. Let Zhu Dadian have a headache by himself.

If you subtract those 10,000 horses, then Liu Jun only needs to practice 40,000 by himself, well, if you let go a little more, in fact, Qin Yimin, the deputy general of Chongqing, and the two teams of 4,000 people who garrisoned Ma Wannian in Baidi City can also be left alone. But thinking about it, Liu Jun still doesn't plan to let these two teams go.

Liu Jun also knows that he is now opening a salt farm to mine salt, which will definitely cause many people to be dissatisfied. But now that the emperor still trusts him, there are still many bandits in the Central Plains who have not been resolved, and even if they are solved, they will still be related to the outside of the country.

Therefore, for a long time, martial arts, especially those who could fight, were still very useful to the emperor. Not to mention building a salt farm, even if it is out of the ordinary, the emperor can accept it.

To put it bluntly, there have to be soldiers. Holding a heavy army, and it is a heavy soldier who can fight, has the right to speak, which is much more effective than what Zhennanhou or what the chief military officer. In any case, we have to take advantage of the opportunity given by the emperor this time to expand and refine it.

Perhaps, it's time to set up a martial arts lecture hall to train those rapidly promoted Hydra officers in rotation, and at the same time, also pick some excellent seedlings, teach them from scratch, and teach some orthodox low-level officers in a year or two. Well, the training camp cannot be withdrawn, and a group of the best soldiers from the army must be selected for training in the training camp, so that they can become soldiers and successfully transform into low-level officers.

The group of young people sent by Fushe and Qihuang Villages had to find a way to let them stay for a while longer. These are excellent soldiers who have participated in several battles, and they are just right to bring new recruits.

"Dashuai, it's late at night, and the slave serves you to change your clothes and rest." Liu Jun was still thinking with his eyes closed, but Chen Yuanyuan's soft voice came from his ears. (To be continued......)

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