"Did you hear that? A few days ago, someone hijacked the salt car of the Ankang. ”

"Who doesn't know the way? A few days ago, some people let off steam, saying that Ankang's salt truck would not be able to pass, and the price of salt would rise sharply. ”

"Tsk, they really did it."

"More than thirty died, and two escaped."

"yes, the corpses are lined up for a long time!"

"Hey, I watched the salt cart of the Ankang enter the city, and it wasn't robbed!"

"Robbed...... It's just that it's not them who died, it's the salt dogs......"

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In the middle of July of the 21st year of Chongzhen, the salt factories in the two Huai had different degrees of harvest. Ankang Company has also become famous with the "robbery" again and again, and now even the most idiotic person can see how tough the force behind this company is. If you change the salt number of another family, how can you happen to encounter the inspection department and the elite army to patrol and train and protect each other every time you transport salt?

Zheng Hanxue was sitting precariously, his body swaying slightly with the bumps of the carriage. He had to be impressed by his father's foresight, and something happened to Wang Zhixin's side, and he was arrested and returned to Beijing, and he heard that he was sent to Lin Yuan to grow vegetables. The salt merchant who gave Wang Zhixin shares asked about the crime of bribery, and the whole family was exiled to Liaodong, and the children and grandchildren should not expect to come back.

The imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate heard the rumors out of nowhere, saying that the Zheng family was related to Wang Zhixin, and the invoice was questioned. After all, Zheng Yuanxun was born as a Jinshi, so he couldn't be tortured, and he insisted that it was Wang Zhixin's attempt to ask for bribes, and he did his own business, so he didn't dare to make friends with his inner servants. Yu Shi really couldn't find any evidence, so he let the Zheng family go.

Before Zheng Hanxue had time to rejoice, the "new salt merchant" mentioned by his father gradually surfaced. Relying on their own heritage, the Zheng family finally found the big shopkeeper of Ankang Company, Chai Yong.

Ankang company is registered in Xuzhou, and the head office is naturally also in Xuzhou. As a former important town, there is no flag outside Xuzhou to cover the sky and the sun. Many of the vacant barracks have also been repossessed by the government to resettle displaced people.

After four days of long-distance bumps, Zheng Hanxue finally met the shopkeeper of Chai Yongchai, who could not see grace at all.

The shopkeeper looks nearly thirty years old, with a thin body, except for a pair of big ears, he can't see the slightest blessing. However, the two sides of the courtesy showed that the firewood shopkeeper was not good. There is a faint demeanor of the children of the family between the gestures, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Zheng Hanxue didn't dare to have the slightest contempt, and tentatively put forward the idea of cooperating with Ankang to make salt during the banquet.

Chai Yong put down his chopsticks and said softly: "My health is just a new family, and the salt sold to various counties is also to find someone to distribute it." ”

Zheng Hanxue felt insulted. The dignified Zheng family, did they actually sell salt to people?

"My Zheng family has sold salt for several generations, but I haven't sold it for more than 100 years." Zheng Hanxue suppressed his anger: "This time it is to invest with your account and share profits." ”

Chai Yong smiled and said, "There is no shortage of money. ”

These five words choked Zheng Hanxue almost speechless.

Chai Yong smiled again and said, "There is a shortage of people. ”

Zheng Hanxue breathed a sigh of relief: "Most of the people in my family are shopkeepers and disciples, all of whom are old people who have been selling salt for decades. Reliable and capable. Seeing Chai Yong smiling and silent, he couldn't help but say again: "Chai shopkeeper, Nanzhi, cough, there are more than 30 million people in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and each person eats two catties of salt every year, this is a transaction of two million taels, can your family eat it?" ”

Chai Yong thoroughly mastered the rhythm of conversation. He stretched out his sleeves and said kindly: "That's it." Needless to say, the matter of buying shares. In the future, when you know the origin of Ankang's family, you will naturally understand. It's not that someone boasted that the company that can get salt now is no more than one hand. ”

Zheng Hanxue looked at Chai Yong's palm, which was like a chicken claw, and said secretly: Sure enough, he is a person who can grab money.

"There is a way that is interlaced like a mountain, and Ankang also hopes that there will be a knowledgeable person like Boss Zheng to help sell salt." Chai Yong said: "If Boss Zheng really has a heart. You can take salt from Ankang and sell it everywhere. In fact, it is no different from buying salt in the past. ”

Zheng Hanxue turned his mind and asked, "What is the price?" ”

"Thirty dollars."

Zheng Hanxue shook his head again and again: "Then when it comes to us, won't we have to sell it for thirty-five catty?" Who can afford such expensive salt? ”

"That's no way, the ex-factory price is twenty-two dollars. And in the future, the coarse salt of the salt factory will gradually be sold out. Chai Yong swore an oath.

"Didn't the people even have salt to eat?" Zheng Hanxue was indignant.

"Between us, let's talk less about the people." Chai Yong said with a smile.

Zheng Hanxue realized that he was out of shape. He turned his face and smiled: "The firewood shopkeeper still has to be less, how about twenty-five?" We went to the salt factory to get salt. The cost of this transfer is not small! ”

"Twenty-eight, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the owner." Chai Yong also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zheng Hanxue asked: "After taking salt from Ankang, wherever my Zheng family sells salt, will Ankang not sell it?" ”

"It won't sell for less than what you were fetching." Chai Yong said: "And Chai can still guarantee that other families will take salt from my Ankang, and they will never be lower than your family." ”

Zheng Hanxue hesitated slightly and asked, "Shopkeeper Chai, why don't you learn the outline?" Wouldn't it be just right to divide the two provinces into land monopolies, and each business will abide by the local area and cannot cross the line? ”

"I'm not so healthy." Chai Yong said lightly: "It's not my family in the world who can get salt, even if you want to do this, you can't stop people from coming to sell salt." Can you still beat people away? ”

- That's not unavoidable.

Zheng Han learns the secret way.

"The key is to make the brand." Chai Yong said: "Nowadays, there are not many banknotes, and there are still few people who can get salt. If there are more paper money in the future, anyone can take salt from the salt factory, why should people buy yours? ”

"My family's reputation has always been good." Zheng Hanxue boasted.

"Then it has to be good." Chai Yong said: "Recently, I was thinking that Ankang and dealers like Guihao would jointly fund the construction of a new number, establish a trademark, and refine the refined salt of the salt factory. Although the cost will go up, it is a good thing in the end, and I am not afraid that no one will know the goods. ”

Zheng Hanxue's heart moved, and he seemed to have touched the mind of this firewood shopkeeper.

"This can be done, does the shopkeeper have a charter?" Zheng Han asked.

"When I went to Huai'an in September, I took out my own charter." Chai Yong looked at Zheng Hanxue and smiled: "By then, most of the other dealers will already be in place." ”

Zheng Hanxue had to smile awkwardly, but he was helpless. He came out of the restaurant with a bowel sound. The meal on the table just now cost him more than three taels of silver, but unfortunately he only ate two bites.

"Hiccup!"

A full burp with the smell of wine exploded in Zheng Hanxue's ears, so angry that Young Master Zheng almost turned around and hit it. The person who hiccups is his cousin Zheng Hanlin, who was sent by Zheng Yuanxun to prevent him from spending all his time in the name of official business.

The reason why Zheng Yuanxun chose this cousin is because he has not had a bright brain since he was a child, and he belongs to a character who can't do anything, eats nothing, and doesn't tell lies to cover up for others, so he is the best candidate for "imperial history".

"Look at you, you have no regard for the dignity of my family. Everyone said business just now, just eat it hard! Zheng Hanxue complained.

Zheng Hanlin smiled, stretched out his finger and stuffed it into his mouth, it turned out that there was shredded meat stuffed between his teeth, and he wanted to take it out.

Zheng Hanxue grinned and avoided a step: "Can you be dirtier any more!" Where is it like someone from my Zheng family! ”

"Phew." Zheng Hanlin spit out the vegetable residue in his mouth, as if he was responding to his cousin's accusation, which made Zheng Hanxue even more angry.

The clearers on the side came up to persuade one after another.

"It's nothing, what if you don't eat?" Zheng Hanlin disagreed, and continued to shave his teeth with the tip of his tongue, squeaking.

"It's nothing!" Zheng Han Xueden jumped up angrily: "This is a major matter related to the life and death of our family!" If you can't sell salt, can you rely on a few acres of thin fields to drink the northwest wind? ”

Zheng Hanlin disagreed, and said: "The firewood shopkeeper himself is tired of selling salt, so he must be looking for our family to do it, what are you afraid of?" The crown prince prints out the banknotes, just to make the people of the world use them, and so on there are always them, what are you in a hurry? ”

"What's the hurry? September is the salt season, wait for a few months, what will we eat next year! Zheng Hanxue's neck was bruised, he flicked his sleeves, and walked quickly towards his four-wheeled carriage, shouting in disgust: "Go back to Yangzhou!" ”

On the side, Qingke persuaded Zheng Hanlin to get in the car, but Zheng Hanlin was crazy again, and said: "I want to play in Xuzhou for two days, you leave the car for me, and go back first." ”

Zheng Hanlin's father is Zheng Yuanxun's own brother, so he naturally speaks by number. A group of people got on the bus one after another, and returned south with Zheng Hanxue's carriage, leaving Zheng Hanlin and his little servant.

"Young master, what's there to do in Xuzhou?" The little guy said with a sad face.

"I just don't want to go with my eldest brother. Let's go to the Qinglou to eat flowers and wine and mix with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and go back leisurely, wouldn't it be comfortable? Zheng Hanlin smiled and walked away.

The little guy ran after him with all his might, and said secretly in his heart: What is the place of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau?

The imperial court set up the General Administration for Industry and Commerce to oversee the operation of companies, trading companies, and stores across the country to prevent profiteers from breaking the law and prohibiting, in short, the household registration of "legal persons". It has set up industrial and commercial offices in each prefecture, and the industrial and commercial offices in each county under its jurisdiction are governed by the distribution level of the registered capital of the company and the commercial bank.

The registered capital of Ankang Company is 100,000 taels, which is eligible for the direct management of the Xuzhou Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce. This means that the news on the surface of Ankang Company can be copied away by the Xuzhou Prefecture Industrial and Commercial Bureau as long as it costs five dollars of silver.

Zheng Hanlin entered the yamen of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, only to see an old official sitting groggily in the foyer dozing. He stepped forward and coughed dryly, woke up the old official, and asked, "The old man is bothered." I want to copy the register of shareholders, but I don't know what the procedures should be? ”

The old official was a little surprised. Not long after the promulgation of the new policy, the registration of the company has not yet been accepted by everyone, let alone the matter of checking and copying the register of shareholders of other companies.

"After the east wing of the second hall," said the old man simply, "here is the silver." ”

Zheng Hanlin asked the little guy to find out five coins of silver and was about to leave, but he was caught by the old official and forced to give him a return ticket, with the word "invoice" written on his head, and the amount was exactly "silver five coins". (To be continued......)

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