The so-called money can make the devil grind, this rule applies everywhere.

Of course, the diversity of human beings makes this truth sometimes less accurate.

But for a VIP emperor like Liu Hong, there is no exception.

As long as the money is enough, you are his VIP user, he really helps you do things, after-sales service is also good, for many times of cooperation with high-quality customers, he can also give discounts as appropriate, and make the business prosperous.

There are really not many emperors who talk about business rules and abide by business rules, and they have to thank God for their ancestors when they put one on Liu Bei's stall.

Therefore, if you want to achieve great things, you must first stuff Liu Hong's mouth and make his mouth full of oil, so that Liu Bei can run the carriage in the rules of the game of the Han Empire.

So Liu Bei decided to satisfy Liu Hong and give him dignity.

Liu Hui slowly said Liu Bei's conditions.

"If this matter is successful, the profits from selling salt will only be 40% for you, of which 10% will be used for your own use, 30% will be used for the governance, army raising and conquest of Liangzhou, and the remaining 60% will be dedicated to Your Majesty and will be disposed of by Your Majesty."

"Oh?"

Liu Hongpo looked at Zhang Rang with some surprise, and Zhang Rang was also a little surprised.

"Xuande is busy with this, and he still has this handmade salt-making skill, but as long as he has one percent, the three percent is still used to govern Liangzhou?"

"The reason why the monarch controls salt is not to obtain more wealth, but because considering the difficulty of the country, if Liangzhou wants to be governed well, the amount of use is too great."

Liu Hui said slowly: "The envoy often said that as a courtier, he should share his worries for the country and the monarch, not to make trouble for the monarch, so if you can deal with it yourself, you will dispose of it yourself, and you will ask the court for help if you have no choice."

Now that I have this idea, I also want to open up the finance of Liangzhou, if Liangzhou can solve the financial affairs by itself, then there will be no need to trouble the imperial court, and there will be no need to embarrass His Majesty.

As for the envoy himself, he said that if the salt sale is successful, the wealth will be rolling, one percent will be enough for him to enjoy, and three percent will be used to govern Liangzhou, and His Majesty and Zhang Changzhi will spend a lot of energy to spread out the sale and dredge the relationship, and it is natural to take sixty percent, so that they can share the worries of His Majesty and relieve the difficulty of insufficient use in Liangzhou. ”

Zhang Rang listened and looked at Liu Hong.

Liu Hong listened, was silent for a moment, and then let out a long sigh, slapping the table in front of him again and again.

"If the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have the heart of loyalty to the monarch and the country, why is the Han Dynasty like this? Why? Alas......"

In the face of Liu Bei's heart of "loyalty to the monarch and the country", and in the face of such a loyal and unparalleled Liu Xuande, Liu Hong has nothing to say.

Don't get entangled, don't have more, so be it, otherwise, how can you be worthy of Liu Bei's sincerity?

Speaking of which, even the greedy Liu Hong couldn't help but feel moved by Liu Bei.

So he agreed to Liu Bei's opinion and decided to follow Liu Bei's plan, and the income from salt sales would be divided according to the method of four or six points in the future, Liu Bei would take forty percent, and Liu Hong would take sixty percent.

As for how the big eunuchs such as Liu Hong and Zhang Rang and others who contributed to this sixty percent share the profits, that is their own business, Liu Bei is not involved, no matter what, let them operate by themselves, anyway, no matter what the eunuchs do, it is impossible for them to take more than Liu Hong on the surface.

However, this matter is only a preliminary intention, and many of the issues Liu Bei said need to be considered, such as this cost issue.

Liu Hong likes business, and he also has some research on business, knowing that the cost is too high, the profit will be reduced accordingly, and the salt is mainly made by buying more people, if the price is too high, everyone would rather eat cheap but unpalatable old salt, and will not come to buy delicious Liangzhou fine salt.

Therefore, the price of fine salt in Liangzhou should not be too high, at least not too much more expensive than the old salt currently on the market.

But in this case, there is a cost involved.

Transporting salt from Liangzhou to Luoyang will require a lot of freight and security fees, plus the checkpoints along the way and the checkpoints set up by themselves in the locality, will definitely push up the cost of fine salt in Liangzhou, and the price cannot be reduced.

When it comes to his own interests, Liu Hong began to be extremely resentful of these damn tax collection checkpoints, especially those tax collection checkpoints set up privately by the county itself.

That's literally making his money!

His money!

It's all his money!

They were all earned by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they didn't share profits with him at all!

His money!!!!

As soon as Liu Hong thought of this, his heart ached, and he was extremely angry at the layers of exploitation by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the court and the localities.

But he can't just abolish the tax collection checkpoint for this, otherwise those ministers in the court will definitely have to argue with him, and the opposition is too high, and it will be very troublesome.

So what to do?

To say that the eunuch has a flexible head, Zhao Zhong, who was pulled into a small group to solve the problem, gave Liu Hong an idea.

That is, Liangzhou fine salt was stipulated as a royal tribute, and then Liu Bei was asked to transport fine salt in the name of tribute to Sanfu and Sanhe to sell, so as to avoid tax collection.

Liu Hong didn't understand this.

"You don't need that much salt for the tribute, do you? That's the salt that has to be sold to millions of people, and the amount must be huge, tribute? Does anyone believe it? ”

Zhao Zhong smiled.

"It doesn't matter believe it or not, the important thing is that it's a royal tribute, and who would dare to take a tax on the royal tribute? As long as they know that this is a royal tribute, let them know that this is His Majesty's thing, what can they say? ”

"And what if an official openly opposes it?"

"It doesn't matter then, if they oppose it, let them oppose it, as long as Your Majesty ignores them, what can they do? Is it possible to send people to intercept or loot the royal tribute? If they really dare to do this, then ask the guilt, Dongyuan is not a dry meal. ”

Zhao Zhong glanced at Zhang Rang.

Zhang Rang grinned, looking particularly nuclear haze.

Liu Hong pondered for a moment and felt that it was really that meaning.

The important thing is not the quantity, but the name of the tribute, with this name, that is, the royal special duty-free product, no matter how large the quantity, regardless of whether it is to be sold or what, the imperial court checkpoint and the local county checkpoint can not be taxed.

Otherwise, it is a blatant slap in the face of the emperor.

Slap the emperor in the face?

How many heads do you have?

And the tribute is mainly in the name of a name, the emperor said hello and did not let the checkpoint collect taxes, did the checkpoint dare to disobey the order?

Giving a tribute, although it will inevitably be controversial, at least it sounds good.

As for the nonsense of competing with the people, Liu Hong has also heard a lot over the years, but he doesn't care much about this, he doesn't love money for a day or two, and he knows that the outside world has a lot of criticism for his love of money, and his reputation in this area is almost a little worse.

It's a big deal to let the vicious dogs in the East Park out and bite them for a while, transfer the contradictions, and the problem will be solved.

When it comes to making money, Liu Hong can find a solution to no matter how troublesome things are, and implement them, as long as the real money is in hand, Liu Hong can't do anything.

Besides, Liu Bei can use this money to govern Liangzhou, reduce the burden on the court, and share worries for the monarch, so he Liu Hong can also use this money to "govern the world", right?

So Liu Hong felt happy and praised Zhao Zhong fiercely.

When the matter had a clue, Liu Hong explained the matter to Liu Hui, asked Liu Hui to go back and tell Liu Bei, and then discussed some details with Liu Bei, and then came back to Luoyang to tell him the news after the discussion, and implemented the matter as soon as possible.

"Go back and tell Xuande, he took me to heart, and he didn't forget the loyalty to the monarch in Liangzhou, I was very touched by this heart, I will also take him to heart, if there is anything more difficult in the future, you let him speak, I can help, I will definitely help."

The king of a country was bought by benefits, and when he said this, Liu Hui was also scorched by thunder.

However, Liu Hong said this, Liu Hui also fulfilled his mission, and soon returned to Liangzhou to return to Liu Bei.