"Remember, the most important thing is to get the formula of Dingding." Zhu Samarium reminded that he was in the mansion and had also heard of the power of Dingding.

Silver can help him get through this, and Dingding can definitely help him succeed.

"What does the master say, the concubine is all dependent!" Deng continued.

Zhu Samar nodded with satisfaction, "Go down and have a good rest, I'll wait for your good news!" ”

......

Zhu Jun didn't stay in the capital until the end of February, and then left the palace with someone.

He didn't bring any women with him.

And so far, there are only Sunuer's apprentices and Tang Xiuling.

Xu Miaojin is a big fan of vegetables, and he doesn't think much about other women these days.

made Zhu Jun also eat ginseng every once in a while to replenish qi.

In three or four months, it is the due date of Guanyin Nu, and he will come back early.

And this time, his first stop was Yangzhou.

As the so-called fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, Yangzhou is above the north of Yingtianfu, not very far from Yingtian, and the three directly governed prefectures in the north, the first stop, the link is Yangzhou.

To the south, Yangzhou can also be linked to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The road of the six provinces is not a straight line, which involves multiple state capitals.

"Your Highness, Yangzhou has arrived!" Niu Wuliu lifted the curtain and smiled.

Zhu Jun came out of the boat and stood in front of the boat, he was dressed in regular clothes, looking like a rich and noble boy.

What catches your eye is the Yangzhou Flower House on the riverside.

If you want to say that Yangzhou is the most famous, it is the drunken gold fan here.

The beauties of Yangzhou are also famous.

It's just that he thought of the three days of Yangzhou in another time and space, and the three massacres in Jiading, which are all bloody lessons.

Now that he's here, that can't happen in the future.

"It's quite bustling here." After going ashore, Zhu Jun walked around the streets, this Yangzhou is really a unique place.

Even after the establishment of the country, there are only a dozen families left here, but after eleven years of development, the number of people has increased, and in another ten years, the number of people here may not more than double.

Historically, grain, grass, coins, and minerals from the north and south were all transported to various places through Yangzhou, and even sent overseas.

In addition, Yangzhou is also a necessary place for the Central Plains scholars to go south, and when there is a military disaster in the north, most of the Central Plains people will migrate to Yangzhou one after another.

And Yangzhou's Huai salt is prevalent all over the world and is transshipped in Yangzhou City.

Therefore, Yangzhou is an important city for national salt control, and the profits it can obtain can be imagined.

The reason why Zhu Jun came here is because there is a group of people here, a group of businessmen who come here to make a living.

They have a name: Two Huai Salt Merchants!

It can be said that if you want to revitalize Yangzhou in the future, these people are indispensable.

And now, the Huai salt trade is still a voluntary transaction, and has not yet become a hereditary contract system.

Huaiyan produces a lot of salt, but the efficiency is too slow, neither as fast as the sea salt, nor as large as the Qinghai side.

Daye, there is sea salt, but it is still cooked on a traditional stove.

Once the sea salt is changed, the impact on the salt market is huge.

So, he's going to come over and deal with these people first.

In the future, Ningbo Mansion will be strategized, and the salt field must be had, and Xiangshan County is very suitable for salt drying.

And these sea salts will inevitably be transported to Yangzhou.

Those pirates who occupy the island as the king, do not buy sea salt, and rely on rich merchants to worship the docks, how much money can they make?

They don't plunder the common people, and the sea trade cycle is also long, except for Gaoli, the two places of Wazhou have a shorter cycle, and other places are quite far away.

To the south, it is more likely to trade with Liuli Island.

Therefore, if you want to feed so many soldiers, you must have a stable financial income.

"Erbao, how is our family's business doing in Yangzhou?" Zhu Jun asked.

Shen Erbao replied: "Your Highness, our family's business in Yangzhou is not the first, but it is also among the best.

Here we have restaurants, opera gardens, gardens, fat powder, cloth villages, and antique shops.

In short, we all have shops to make money. ”

If you don't talk about why the Shen family is the richest man in the big business, this business acumen is simply invincible.

It's no wonder that Shen Wanqian desperately wants to be an imperial businessman, with so many industries, who can't be blushing?

If you don't find a backer, won't you all make wedding dresses for others if you are targeted?

"I'm asking you, do our family have a salt business in Yangzhou!" Zhu Jun said.

"Yes, too!" Shen Erbao nodded, "In the third year of Shenwu, Your Majesty began to implement the compromise method, and our family got the salt guide." ”

The so-called salt introduction is a salt sales license, which is specially issued by the government, and if it is counterfeit or there is no salt introduction business, it will be sentenced to death.

This compromise method was to have the merchants collect military rations, send them to warehouses in prefectures and counties designated by the government, and then distribute salt to them, collect salt from designated salt factories and sell it in designated areas, and stipulate that the used salt should be returned to the yamen within a certain period of time.

Because Daye is a monopoly on the salt industry, the market price is much higher than its value, and the rate of return on profits is high, so that many people have to drill into Yangzhou with their heads sharpened.

Lao Zhu relied on this hand to revitalize Yangzhou, and in eleven years, Yangzhou had the appearance of being rich in the past.

Although it has not yet fully recovered the appearance of the thousand-year-old extravagance, there are newly built houses everywhere, and there is a vitality of breaking down and then renewing.

"I remember, even if there is a salt guide, the merchant himself has to make the salt, right?"

"Yes!" Shen Erbao smiled bitterly, "But Your Highness, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and this law is to prevent favoritism and fraud, and it cannot be acted by."

Due to the death of many salt merchants for a long time, the salt in their hands has not been used, although the imperial court has not yet recognized the legal situation that it can be an agent, but the two Huai salt transport envoys in Yangzhou have recognized the agent, but they have to hand over a certain amount of agency silver every year.

However, it's getting harder and harder to mix salt now! ”

"Why?" Zhu Jun frowned, "Isn't there enough salt?" ”

Shen Erbao shook his head, "It's not enough, it's really a moving benefit." Many salt factories here have been secretly occupied by the powerful, so it is difficult to exchange salt.

Moreover, the two Huai Salt Transport Envoys are allowed to mix salt across regions.

Because it can be used as an agent and across regions to exchange salt, salt merchants are divided into border merchants and domestic merchants.

Domestic businessmen do not need to go to the border towns to collect grain, and they can buy salt directly from the border merchants to exchange salt in the Lianghuai area.

As a result, some border merchants turned into domestic businessmen, and as the domestic businessmen became bigger, they entrusted the work of selling salt to agents or directly resold salt, and a new businessman called the water merchant was separated from the domestic businessman.

So the current situation in Yangzhou is very mixed and chaotic.

The interests of all parties are involved.

It looks much more prosperous than before, but it's actually ......"

Zhu Jun narrowed his eyes, "These people are dead!" ”