Huo Guang was worried about the affairs of the salt company for the next two days, Zhang Jiaqi is now his only two subordinates, and the other is Li Si, Huo Guang closed the salt shop directly, let Li Si continue to follow him, and raised the salary of others.

Because of Zhang Jiaqi's excellent performance in the clan ancestral hall, County Magistrate Zhang didn't say anything on his face, but arranged several capable subordinates for Huo Guang and Zhang Jiaqi, all of whom were veterans, worked calmly, and entered the salt company.

Huo Guang chose the location in the middle of the four counties, and bought a house and a large piece of vacant land, because it was not a prosperous area, so the house and land prices were very low, and the county's money was used.

Sang Hongyang has already come to the news, agreed with Huo Guang's plan, this day the pearl salt arrived, the first time to 15 stone pearl salt, Huo Guang calculated the cost of about 900 yuan a stone, because it was a national highway.

The price of taking the national highway is expensive, but the speed is really fast, and now the price of pearl salt in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places is even if Sang Hongyang deliberately lowers the price, it still costs five or six thousand yuan a stone, and the supply exceeds demand, and other salt merchants are miserable, and they have seized a large number of market shares.

Sang Hongyang was not idle, and did not indulge in a large amount of money every day, but began to make large-scale acquisitions and merge other salt farms and salt shops.

His purpose was not to take this opportunity to make a lot of money, when he saw Huo Guang's proposal, he also had some ideas in his heart, he felt that he could try it, and it would be much less difficult to implement it from a small place, so not only did he specially transport the salt over, but also ordered the people of the Sang family to help Huo Guang.

When the preparations were almost complete, Huo Guang sent a message to the main salt merchants in the county, inviting them to come and gather.

The salt merchants named in the county town all came, in fact, there were only ten of them, and some of them cooperated with each other.

Everyone attaches great importance to the matter of pearl salt, and it arrived early.

The people who opened the salt shop were not ordinary people, but this group of businessmen had to wait for Huo Guang to arrive.

Huo Guang took Zhang Jiaqi with him, walked into the middle hall and greeted everyone, the Sang family came today is Sang Tianliang, since Huo Guang went to Nulu, Sang Jin has never contacted him, it is estimated that he knows about this matter, and Huo Guang is also busy and has not contacted.

Everyone sat down, Huo Guang made tea and said: "Everyone, take a sip of tea first, these tea leaves are different from ordinary tea leaves, they are all made after taking the young buds on the tip to fry the fragrance, there is a sweet aftertaste, everyone can taste it." ”

Those who couldn't bear it spoke first: "Huo Gongzi, don't sell Guanzi, we are here to do pearl salt business, so you can say it bluntly." ”

Huo Guang took a sip of tea, and put it down after a little hot mouth.

"During this time, you have all seen and tasted pearl salt, and you are willing to come today with sincerity, and everyone knows the news of our establishment of a salt company, so I won't say much nonsense, and now there are 15 stone pearl salt in the warehouse, which will be distributed to you for sale."

"Huo Gongzi, what's the division?"

"I plan to let go of the pearl salt, everyone can sell, but the salt company will allocate everyone's quota to be as fair as possible, so that everyone has salt to sell and make money, but at the same time I have to remind everyone that the pearl salt sold by the salt company will be recorded, and the Shaofu Yuan in each county will come to the door to reconcile the accounts every month, and if the sales and purchase and inventory do not match, everyone will also understand what it means."

Huo Guang's words made a group of people below whisper, everyone was dissatisfied, this means that there is no way to evade the salt tax, of course, this matter can't be said openly, no matter how ignorant people dare to say what they want to evade taxes directly?

And pearl salt is only here, if you want it, you have to go his way.

Huo Guang looked at the look of a group of people who wanted to speak and then said: "We only care about our pearl salt, ordinary salt doesn't care, pearl salt is now only supplied to big cities like Luoyang, Chang'an, Qinghe County is an exception, and the salt tax on pearl salt will not be fifteen taxes one, but twenty taxes one." "It's equal to 5 points, and the tax rate has been adjusted slightly.

As soon as I heard the good news of the reduction of the tax rate, everyone's heart was relieved, and the children with strong arithmetic ability had already calculated that the proportion of paying salt tax was 1/4 less than the original.

Of course, this is still a lot worse than their original escaping ingredients.

"Huo Gongzi, how to calculate the price of pearl salt? How can we get the goods? ”

In contrast, basically everyone wants to be in the pearl salt business.

Huo Guang asked people to carry up a stone of pearl salt, put the salt in front of everyone, stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful, and it fell slowly, white and clear.

"Everyone, you can all buy pearl salt from me, but I will distribute it according to the number of stocks, and I will not let one take a lot and one take very little, so as to ensure that everyone has goods to sell, as for the price, 1200 yuan a stone."

As soon as they heard this price, this group of salt merchants was going crazy, no matter how much the pearl salt was calculated outside, it cost five or six thousand yuan a stone, didn't this price take off? They shouted for a hundred and ten stones, and as soon as the price was announced, all their worries were instantly dispelled.

The cost of 900 yuan, the profit is the salt tax, if the whole switch is calculated according to Xiahe County at least 1,300 stone salt in a year, if all the switches in the future, the income of nearly 400,000 yuan, the four counties are not bad, a year is 1.6 million yuan of income, and they have to add 5 points of value-added tax that they sell, so it is much more than the previous salt tax income.

Of course, this is a perfect situation, and the high price in the normal early stage, the market share of pearl salt can reach one-tenth is very good.

Although the price will definitely be reduced in the future, according to Huo Guang's calculations, at least the salt tax will be added to the salt tax from the salt company, at least 10 points, which is not high, but the total amount is still very considerable.

After deducting the cost of the operation of the salt company and salaries, the salt tax paid to the county government is still very large.

"The rules are set, and if we follow the rules, we can operate pearl salt, but if we don't follow the rules, I will say ugly things in front, then don't do it, you are all my elders, I don't say it's appropriate, but the county guard trusts me so much, let me do this thing, I have to do my best to do it."

"There is also a rule, that is, the pearl salt in the county can only be sold in the county, and don't go out of town."

Huo Guang's condition made them in an uproar again, and they put forward different opinions one after another, but Huo Guang did not let them discuss, but notified.

Zhang Jiaqi asked in a low voice: "Brother Guang, is this thing framed?" ”

"I can't frame it, but I can limit some of it, grasp the big and let go of the small, now if we rashly flow the pearl salt to other counties, it will inevitably lead to things, and a small amount should be fine."

"What if someone is disobedient?"

"Don't do it, then don't do it, they won't stop making noise for a while, I'll go to the back and talk to your grandfather first, they still have something to discuss, you deal with them in front of them, there's no need to say anything, if they want to ask, they just say they don't know, just let them discuss it themselves."

In addition to the group of businessmen in front, there are also county leaders and leaders of four counties in the back.