"What, this is what the immortal taught you??"
"Yes!!"
"Oh! Why don't you say this is a magical skill taught to you by an immortal? You just need to tell us, and we don't have to go through so much trouble. We will believe it immediately!!"
"I knew it!!"
Sure enough, after Zhu Zhen came up with his special move, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately agreed.
After agreeing, his eyes were extremely hot.
Looking at these salts, he seemed to be looking at a supreme treasure.
“The cost of these salts is really only two hundred coins??”
"Well, maybe less!!"
"Okay, okay, okay! It's so good. Now everyone in the world is blessed!!"
Seeing such cheap salt, Zhu Yuanzhang's first reaction was to benefit the people all over the world.
The life of the people of the Ming Dynasty is better than that of the previous dynasty, and the people can also eat some salt.
But the amount of salt is not only very small, but also coarse salt, and even has a lot of strange smell.
For such fine table salt, the common people have never even seen it, not to mention eating it.
Once Lao Zhu introduces this fine salt, people all over the world can eat this fine salt.
For less than two hundred coins a sack of salt, people all over the world can afford it.
Moreover, the output of salt produced by Zhu Zhen is also amazing.
In just a short while, Zhu Zhen made a pot of salt by himself.
Such a simple way to produce salt is unprecedented.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that as long as they increased their manpower, they would be able to produce salt for the people of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes looked at Zhu Zhen, full of heat.
Then, Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his hands.
"Hehe! Six! Do you think we are good to you??"
"To me? Just average!!"
"How can you say it is average without conscience? How can it be average? Think about your brothers and sisters. Which one of them has been made a general like you and has his own soldiers!!"
"Which one of them is like you, who can spank us and yell at us!!"
"It makes sense, but none of them picked up the jade seal like me, and no one brought high-yield food to the Ming Dynasty like me, and no one trained such powerful soldiers like me. !!”
"Ah this...!!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang said these words, he naturally wanted to play the emotional card with Zhu Zhen.
However, his emotional card was not successful. After playing it, he felt that he owed even more.
This made him suddenly feel a little embarrassed!
Of course, I'm sorry, but I still have to get the method of making salt into my own hands.
After knowing that the emotional card could not be played, Zhu Yuanzhang did not beat around the bush.
"Then tell me, how do you want to make this salt before you can give it to us?"
"Actually, my request is very simple. I only need 50% profit from the salt!!"
"What??"
"Fifty percent profit? Impossible. All the income from this salt must be paid into the national treasury. If I give you 50% profit, then won't our Ming Dynasty have no money? We can give you 10% profit at most!!"
"Okay, deal!!"
When Lao Zhu said it would be a 10% profit, Zhu Zhen said the deal was done without any hesitation.
In his heart, he just wanted a 10% profit.
After all, the salt tax has too much to do with it, and there is too much money involved.
If you want a 10% profit, you are already rich enough to rival the country. If you want more, that is really too much. Countless people will attack him.
The reason why he proposed a 50% profit was simply to get Lao Zhu to speak in person and promise him a 10% profit.
As the saying goes, those who seek for the upper will get the middle, those who seek for the lower will get the lower, and those who seek for the lower will get nothing.
If he didn't come up with an even more impossible condition, how could Lao Zhu easily promise him a 10% profit?
It was only after Zhu Zhen spoke that Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he seemed to have fallen into Zhu Zhen's trap.
In his mind, he actually did not want to share the benefits of the new salt with Zhu Zhen, but wanted to take all the money obtained from the new salt as state-owned.
After all, the existence of salt and iron is related to the foundation of the country.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally wanted to hold such an important existence firmly in his hands.
I never thought that I would lose 10% of my profit after being tricked by Zhu Zhen.
However, since Zhu Yuanzhang has already said this, there is no possibility of going back on it.
In addition, the method for making this new salt belongs to Zhu Zhen, and Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet obtained it, so Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to agree.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang did not refute again, the smile on Zhu Zhen's face became even stronger.
"Father, the production method of this salt is simpler, the cost is lower, and the quality is better. I think it can completely replace other salts in the Ming Dynasty, so that the people of the entire Ming Dynasty can eat this new salt!!"
"Yes! Yes, this salt is better and cheaper. People should really buy this new salt!!"
"In this case, we should buy more salt mines. It is best to buy all the salt mines before our new salt is launched. Only in this way will we not be restricted when promoting our new salt!! "
"Okay! Then buy all the salt mines. The new salt reserves are sufficient, and we will promote this new salt!!"
Although Lao Zhu hates businessmen, this does not mean that Lao Zhu is a fool and does not know the ways of businessmen.
The reason why he suppressed business was largely to protect the interests of ordinary people.
In Lao Zhu's mind, businessmen are only interested in profit, and the profit they seek is the profit in the hands of the people.
Under such circumstances, he naturally wanted to suppress the presence of businessmen.
But his new salt is different. His new salt is entirely for the benefit of the people of the world.
It also allows people who cannot afford salt to afford this new salt.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately arranged people to do this thing with great interest.
It takes twenty days to do this.
Twenty days later, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Zhen bought a large number of salt mines.
At the same time, a lot of new salt produced has been quietly transported to various places in the Ming Dynasty.
Since you want to sell salt, you are destined to offend many salt merchants and leverage the interests of countless people.
Zhu Yuanzhang was not afraid of this. He would kill anyone who dared to show his face.
He was afraid that the new salt he made would not reach the hands of the people, and that the people would not be able to eat this cheap new salt. This was a big deal.
Therefore, under Zhu Zhen's suggestion, Lao Zhu distributed goods in advance, opened multiple salt production plants, and then impacted the entire Ming Dynasty's salt market.
They want to break through the current Ming salt market in one fell swoop and establish their absolute status as a new salt.
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