royal robes

Chapter 438
Gao Huaide explained: "Little brother has lived in the desert for a long time. Do you know how many businessmen who passed by the desert were killed by Feng Hui? Doing business in Fengzhou City is a gamble. Those who lose the bet must either stay in Toyosu and continue to do business, or they must find a way to return home alive. Feng Hui is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He controls these businessmen to increase Toyosu’s income. Life here looks like Very rich, but these riches are bought with the flesh and blood of countless people."

"I don't understand."

"The thing is like this. Fengzhou City is located on the border of the four countries. Naturally, there are many people who come here to do business. But if these people make money and leave, Feng Hui will kill them and take the money away. If they continue to If you do business here, then Feng Hui will fully support and let these merchants send people to transport the goods. The food and meat eaten here are brought from all over the place. As long as the merchants continue to stay in Fengzhou, there is no danger, and they will Treated very well, but if they try to leave, they die."

Zhao Kuangyin and He Meiyu immediately understood, no wonder Fengzhou City is so prosperous, because Feng Hui controls these foreign trade merchants, allowing them to do business here, but not allowing them to leave.When there is no food, they will bring food from their hometown. No matter what they exchange, Feng Hui will collect taxes here anyway, which is a very stable income.

But if these businessmen want to leave, Feng Hui can carry out a wave of harvest and recover all the money they made in Fengzhou.No wonder Gao Huaide said that this is a life gamble, because foreign trade is very profitable, exchanging extra things from one's own country for things from other countries, for everyone, the extra things from one's own country are of little value, but others The extra things are treasures, so this kind of business is very profitable.

These poor businessmen have always been under the control of others. If they want to leave Toyosu, they must flee. No one will give up the money they have earned, but if they run away with so much money, it will definitely be a dead end.Anyway, Feng Hui is not in any danger, and this is almost a no-cost transaction.

"It's a profitable business~ If I also set up such a small town, will I be richer than Zong Xin?" Zhao Kuangyin was not angry because of Feng Hui's methods, but admired Feng Hui's mind. It is very profitable, no capital is required, and you can directly reap the achievements of others. It is simply a business of sitting and collecting money, no worse than Zong Xin.

He Meiyu said: "This kind of business will definitely not last long. By the way, Gao Huaide, how do you know that Feng Hui is doing this kind of thing?"

"I heard about it when I was young, and I also rescued several businessmen who escaped from the desert when I was in the desert. I heard about Feng Hui's deeds." Gao Huaide said: "Perhaps Feng Hui's methods were not too clever at that time. , so these people escaped from the great desert. Although these are all things I encountered when I was a child, but I think the situation here and Feng Hui's attitude towards us should be like this."

Zhao Kuangyin and He Meiyu nodded depressedly, they never thought that they would come to such a sinful city.Although they had never heard of what Feng Hui did, Gao Huaide would not deliberately lie, and his attitude towards Feng Hui was also obvious, Gao Huaide didn't like him.

This time it's troublesome, what should I do now when I come to Feng Hui's territory?

"This is miserable, isn't it a tiger's mouth? It would be great if Zong Xin was here. He will definitely find a way to kill Feng Hui, and then steal his business. Let's run it ourselves. Because this no-cost business is really good. , maybe he has more money than Zong Xin."

Gao Huaide sighed: "Brother Zhao, have you calculated how many soldiers can be raised by Master Zong Xin's business? Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are here? There is no comparison between the two. Master Zong Xin looks down on this kind of business."

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said, "I really don't know this, can you help me figure it out?"

Gao Huaide took a deep breath and said: "I really doubt whether you are Zhao Kuangyin, and you don't even know how much money you can make in your own business. Leaving aside the rest, the 25% of the income that Yandao gave Tang Wang Li Jing, Just let him add [-] more troops, which means that you can support more than [-] soldiers with [-]% of your income. If anyone can get [-]%, you can easily support [-] troops. This is an astronomical figure. Have you calculated how much a soldier costs every year?"

"Hey~ I've heard other people calculate this before. 1 taels of silver can support 1000 troops for a year. Yandao pays monthly bills, and almost 1 taels can support 2 soldiers. 10 taels is [-] troops, so Li Jing's [-]% income in Yandao should be around [-] taels of silver. So Yandao's monthly income should be [-] taels of silver."

Gao Huaide sighed: "Sure enough, you haven't received any money once, right? This number should be twice as much as you think, so it's barely enough. So Yandao's monthly income should exceed 20 taels of silver."

"20 taels of silver? How much salt do you have to sell?" Zhao Kuangyin said depressedly: "Salt island is very cheap, only a tael of silver for two catties. If you have 20 taels of silver, then you have to sell 40 catties of salt to make a profit." So much money. The sacks we specially made, one bag of salt is a whole hundred catties, and ten bags of salt are put in one ox cart, and the cart is pulled by two oxen. A businessman like this usually buys a dozen carts of salt and transports it away. Calculated, a single merchant can buy more than 1 catties of salt, and the business in Yandao is very good, and there are a lot of big customers like that, often in dozens of cars at the same time, 40 catties originally felt like a lot, But if you think about it carefully, it’s not too much.” Zhao Kuangyin still has some things to say, now Lei Hong is distributing the income of Yandao, Zong Xin has never taken care of it, who knows how much Lei Hong and Lei Tianxin have privately embezzled?Lei Tianxin's grandson is already rich beyond compare.

It's no wonder that so many people stare at their [-]% income. Originally, [-]% income can take away tens of thousands of taels of silver in a month, which is an astronomical figure.A few dozen taels of silver can buy an ordinary house in the city, and ten thousand taels of silver can allow many people to live comfortably for a lifetime.

The most profitable part of Zongxin's business is that he doesn't need capital, and all the brothers from the Ao Gang are helping him with these things.Of course, the members of the Ao Gang also took a lot of benefits from it, especially Zhao Pu, who now controls the economic lifelines of many people. As long as Zhao Pu plays with his temper, there will be financial turmoil in many cities.

Salt is the most profitable thing in the world today. It is more profitable to buy *food and weapons.Thanks to Zong Xin who can think of a way to change salt from seawater, he is the real genius, and Zhao Kuangyin never doubted this.

He Meiyu said: "You can earn 1 taels of silver in a month? Mr. Gong, you actually gave this as a betrothal gift?"

"Nonsense, it's not just to save you."

"Oh~ That's right. I'm just too surprised." He Meiyu said: "It is said that people surnamed Zhao regard wealth as their destiny, and you are willing to give up such a large fortune for me. Just because of this, I have to marry for you."

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Oh~ Zong Xin is not much better. He was cheated by the Guo family to take away [-]% of his original income. Now that Guo Wei has the money to develop the Great Zhou, Zong Xin's money is also necessary. I think Zong Xin That's why he said that Yandao's business will be for Tianya sooner or later. This shameless monk has earned so much money, and he's still called poor all day long..."

"Master Zongzhen's move can be said to be a blessing to the world, and there is no need to say that about him." Gao Huaide said: "Before the appearance of the salt island, in fact, all the salt industries in the world were about to collapse. The cost of cooking salt is extremely high. In addition, trees must be cut down for burning. The forest destruction in coastal areas is very serious, and it is by no means a long-term solution. Moreover, the population is increasing, and burning fire and cooking salt can no longer meet the people's demand for salt, so the price of salt has soared. Before that , the price of a catty of salt has reached 800 yuan, or even one or two yuan, and the highest quality salt is even as high as five taels a catty. The quality of the salt produced in Yandao is very good, but the price is very low. I’m afraid the supply of sand to be infiltrated into the salt will be in short supply.”

"Is it so serious?" Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe it. Is he so short of salt now?

Gao Huaide said: "It's more serious than what you look like. No matter who can endure it without eating for a few days, but if they don't eat salt for a few days, they will completely lose their strength. And they will get sick, a very serious disease. Although helpless, Zong Master Xin can be said to be an eminent monk sent by heaven to save the world, and just one place in Yandao is enough to pass on to future generations for thousands of years."

Gao Huaide's evaluation of Zong Xin is very high, of course, because he does not know Zong Xin. Zhao Kuangyin can be sure that as long as he talks to Zong Xin, he will know that Zong Xin is not as great as he looks like. In fact, Zong Xin is a It's just a shameless monk.

Of course, Zhao Kuangyin is still very objective. He knows that Zong Xin didn't build the Salt Island for himself, because he hardly got any benefits from the Salt Island, and these benefits were almost divided up by others.Li Jing accounted for [-]%, Guo Wei accounted for [-]%, Gu Guozhang and Bai Yuntian each accounted for [-]%, Lei Hong accounted for [-]%, and Bu Xiangyang accounted for [-]%.

Now Zong Xin and the two founders of himself have not received anything at all, but... the people of the Ao Gang are not stupid, and the person surnamed Lei is not stupid either. Of course, these shares are given after meeting their needs. So both Aobang and Leihong should have received more money than anyone else.Isn't the money all Zongxin and himself?

After all, these people are just sharing, they have not participated in the operation of Salt Island, and they can give as much as they want, so Zongxin, as the founder, absolutely cannot lose money.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Let's not talk about this matter, Gao Huaide, do you know how many troops there are here?"

"There should be no less than [-] soldiers. Although the city is small, it has complete facilities and is extremely prosperous. What's more, the owner of the city is the Jiedushi of the Wuling Army. His troops will not be too small."

(End of this chapter)