Liu Bei didn't know much about the Western Regions in this era, but he vaguely remembered that there were many countries and populations in the Western Regions, and some were also very wealthy.

But at present, they are all eating unpalatable bitter salt, and Liu Bei believes that once Liangzhou fine salt enters their market, it will definitely form an advantage in the local area.

Those who have the courage to open up will be able to make money in the Western Regions.

As for the risks......

Liu Bei doesn't need to care about it for the time being.

Of course, the government has to levy a tax of 10% and 5 percent on the money earned, and then the income of the brave pioneers.

Many big salt farmers were dumbfounded by this, and then they wanted to cry without tears.

The Western Regions, to put it simply, the Silk Road was indeed prosperous back then.

But now is different from the past, the Eastern Han Empire no longer has any absolute dominance over the local area, what risks there are in the local area, what hostile forces there are, and who wants to take a cut of them, it is uncertain.

One is not good, everyone even has to explain the car with the goods, as well as the guards who accompany the team, and they have to pay for the settlement fee if they don't make any money when they go out.

How dare we do this business?

"The risk in the Western Regions is very high, the thieves are haunted, and no one knows if they can come back after going once, Junhou, this is too ......"

Faced with the reason and timidity of these people, Liu Bei spread his hands and said that he was very disappointed.

You don't even have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and open up new tracks, and you still want to make a lot of money?

If you want to make a lot of money, you have to have the courage to step out of your comfort zone! To discover new outlets, open up new tracks, find new industry pain points, and strive to complete new industry integration.

Then give me your comfort zone!

Of course, if you don't go, you don't have the courage to leave your comfort zone, and you can live a good life with your existing wealth and land, but it's not so good.

Can't afford to feed that many people?

You can dismiss a group and hand it over to the government to manage.

Can't afford to take care of that much land?

The government can pay for the purchase, and you can hand over the land.

Can't run that many industries?

The government will help you reduce your burden and slim down, and you will sell your property to the government, okay?

By the way, check if you have evaded taxes before, okay?

Looking at Liu Bei's nuclear smile and listening to his words, the big salt households can understand that Liu Bei is a ruthless stubble who eats meat and does not spit out bones.

It's not that there is no one behind them, it's not that there are no official forces in the local area to protect them, provide them with a lot of help, and take a lot of money from them, and these local bureaucratic forces are also very unwilling to change Liu Bei's policy.

But the key problem is that there are people behind Liu Bei.

is still the biggest and greediest person in the world.

Moreover, the umbrellas of the wealthy and powerful families in Liangzhou should be the bottom of the Han Dynasty in terms of power and connections, and they can also compare with Bingzhou and Jiaozhi, and they really have nothing to do with the Luoyang Imperial Court.

There were not many people in the entire Han Dynasty who could wrestle with Liu Bei, and they had nothing to do with them, and they didn't want to have anything to do with them.

Without foreign aid, they can't beat Liu Bei, they want to protect their own interests, but they don't dare to die, in the face of Liu Bei's threat, they can only admit it, hand over their interests, and keep it for Liu Bei.

In case Liu Bei really checks their accounts and raids their homes, not to mention what chain reaction will happen later, at the moment, they will definitely be eaten and wiped clean by Liu Bei.

is still the same sentence, Liangzhou is really Liangzhou, this Liangzhou on the edge of the rules of the game, Liangzhou that is not valued by everyone, is really wonderful.

Liu Bei is not galloping horses here, it is galloping horses!

Everything you can think of is possible in Liangzhou at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty!

Under Liu Bei's coercion, the old vested interests in Liangzhou had to compromise and had to admit defeat to Liu Bei.

But there are also three or five families who have the courage to take risks, and feel that even if they can't sell salt in Liangzhou, they want to go out and break through, and they definitely don't want to leave this industry like this.

They made an agreement with Liu Bei and began to prepare to explore trade routes to the Western Regions.

But Liu Bei can not care about the past, but now, the tax cannot be paid, if you make money, you must pay the tax honestly, otherwise the new account and the old account will be calculated together, you know.

Understand!

Who doesn't understand?

The old situation in Liangzhou no longer exists, it has been shuffled, who dares not to understand?

At this moment, everyone understands the king.

The salt industry in Liangzhou was unified by Liu Bei, but Liu Bei's pace did not stop, followed by the steel industry.

Recently, the government's supply of agricultural tools to the entire Liangzhou agriculture has also begun to increase on a large scale.

Originally, the iron industry was also semi-governmental, semi-private, and it was difficult for farmers in Liangzhou to use agricultural tools, and they could not use any good goods.

However, after the government-run part of the agricultural tools were supplied in large quantities and sold at reduced prices, in just a few months, the people of Liangzhou suddenly found that they could afford to use iron agricultural tools.

And the quality of these iron farming tools is quite good, much better than the ones they used before.

The quality is good, the price is a little cheaper, the supply is quite sufficient, and the government-run iron shop is full of brand-new and high-quality iron farm tools, which are open to supply, and the peasants are happy to see.

This wave of price, quality and tactics instantly allowed the government-run iron shop to occupy more and more market share.

In just over two months, a group of people who operate iron in Liangzhou can't get along.

Like the big private households selling salt, they didn't dare to go against Liu Bei blatantly, and they didn't dare to squeak the umbrella behind them.

There was no way, so a group of people came to Liu Bei to beg for mercy, begging Liu Bei to give him a way to live, don't kill them.

heard how Liu Bei cleaned up the big salt sellers, in order to prevent Liu Bei from checking the accounts and raiding the house, they also joined forces to make a sum of money, and quickly donated it to the state capital in the name of donation to curry favor with Liu Bei.

Liu Bei then met them with a smile and showed them a way.

Don't think about continuing to live your previous life, my goal of unifying salt and iron in Liangzhou cannot be changed, this goal needs to serve a more ambitious goal, and it will not change in the short term.

But as long as you are willing to hand over all the production lines and craftsmen, as well as the mines you control, etc., the state government will buy them at the right price, then I will not ask about all the purchases and sales in the past, and you will continue to live a boring and rich life.

Come to think of it, the wealth you have accumulated and the money that the government has given you are enough for you to live in luxury for several lifetimes.

Of course, if you can't think about it and don't agree, I won't accept this money, let's take it slowly.

Your account books, decades of salt and iron taxes, as well as land taxes, as well as the calculations and mouths of the family members, let's check slowly.

If you check one item and do another, no one can escape.

Is there anything else to say about this?

Liu Bei's willingness to spend money to solve this matter with them is already a good thing, at least it shows that Liu Bei is not a madman and will not kill people casually, but if he really wants to turn over the account books to settle the past tax problems, they will count one of them and all of them will be finished.

In this place where Liu Bei covers the sky with only one hand, under the premise that all the protective umbrellas are torn apart by the fierce man who fell from the sky, they can really only be finished.

Today, these big families finally understand what real power is.

They don't have a choice.

As a result, in July and August of the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei, with the power of great victory, actually realized the monopoly of salt and iron in Liangzhou through mergers and acquisitions.