How much to set for air freight is something that needs careful consideration.
For Wang Qi, it is a bit of a luxury to send thousands of literate and strong laborers to work in salt. He hopes that these people will know enough is enough and come back with the money to become self-employed or raise funds to open a small factory.
But obviously ordinary people don’t have that consciousness, so freight and floating island progress are needed to naturally force them back.
While the salt workers were doing construction work on Yandao, their families were not idle either. The exploration team had already roughly surveyed the conditions in various areas of Yandao.
In fact, it's pretty much the same. About one-third of the entire island is covered with coral. After the island becomes a floating island, the salt in these places will be basically worthless.
The remainder consists of seafloor silt, which later forms a salt-alkali mass and is covered with crystalline salt. Among them, the salt-alkali blocks are difficult to use due to the lack of fresh water in the local area. Collecting crystallized salt is a time-consuming job.
As long as the per capita income can be controlled to less than eight yuan per day at this stage, it will be fine.
To formulate specific standards, let the newly built refined salt factory in the new DC District of Phoenix City do a manual experiment to know the approximate production capacity.
The refined salt factory is a very simple factory, otherwise it would not only charge a processing fee of 1 dime.
The entire working process is to dissolve coarse salt, filter out sediment, add chemicals to turn impurities other than sodium chloride into precipitates, filter again, and evaporate water to obtain high-purity refined salt.
Through official coordination, several alchemists were dispatched to the refined salt factory to provide guidance. After adjusting the reagent ratio, it was ensured that the finished salt could retain trace amounts of potassium, calcium, and magnesium, and it was classified as high-grade table salt.
Of course, this is the latest official reserve standard and is not used as a market guide.
A large amount of coarse salt is transported into the refined salt factory every day. If you spread the salt on an uneven ground and sprinkle it with water to dry it thoroughly, you can test how much a person can produce in a day.
In fact, because it is more difficult to collect crystallized salt on the dry hardened layer, the experimental results will be reduced by a certain proportion.
The process was complicated, and the result was that the shipping fee from Yandao to Phoenix was set at 330 yuan per ton.
Black-hearted?
In fact, it's not bad. Calculated based on mileage, the price is only 2 cents per ton per kilometer, which is only twice the mileage fee of the train. If it were not for the fact that there is still demand for salt overseas, we could have set a higher price and directly cut off the transportation of salt islands.
Pricing in that range would have other benefits, too.
The aviation industry is one of the ultimate crystallizations of industrial manufacturing. Even if the magic glider is relatively simple to implement, there is a threshold, but this threshold is not as high as the radial engine and subsequent jets. With suitable profit prospects, some people will still Join together.
When the second phase started, the market price of salt was slightly high, with retail sales in various places ranging from 1 yuan to 1.1 yuan per kilogram, which was not yet over the line.
It's not that businessmen don't want to make money, but they don't dare to touch the line.
The rules of the Kingdom's official treasury are very transparent. The entry and exit prices are posted on the public notice boards near each warehouse. 1.2 yuan is the price of salt in the official treasury. Therefore, as long as there is still profit, retailers will not touch this thread, otherwise it will lead to Not called competitors, but natural disasters.
At this time, the border price of salt was 0.92 yuan, which was tax-free. After deducting the reasonable profits of domestic transportation and transportation merchants, the profits on the retail level were already very low.
Due to the site specifications and the experience of the salt workers, the quality of the salt on Salt Island is not as good as the traditional sea salt in Fatel, so we can only compete for the market at a low price.
At the beginning of the second phase, the salt from Yandao became a landing price of 0.82 yuan.
The landing price is located at the central airport, and it has to be distributed to various places through transportation. When it enters the retail store, the price is about 0.85 to 0.87. In addition to the difference in quality, it is actually the same as salt from other places.
The result was a quick squeeze, with the two security companies and the salt workers scrambling to find a solution.
Fortunately, salt will not deteriorate after being made, so it doesn't matter if you leave it on the island. It just needs to change from the collective distribution of money to individual measurement, otherwise there will be trouble with the distribution of money in the future.
On the sales side, we walk on two legs.
On the one hand, there was an emergency price adjustment, from 0.82 yuan to 0.75 yuan.
At this time, three months have passed since the construction of the ropeway transportation system in the Dark Land Block and the Wind Valley Block began. The temporary ropeway system already has sufficient container capacity redundancy. The landing price of 0.75 yuan is directly reflected at the border, which is less than 0.78 yuan.
People in China don’t like to buy low-quality salt, but there is no minimum wage system overseas. Soon, through the security company headquarters, overseas businessmen were contacted for bulk purchases.
On the other hand, the security company is also actively contacting the refined salt factory, hoping that they can help make refined salt.
The refined salt plant has no technical content, just a few pools with different functions. It is privately owned. The cooperation form with the government treasury is to collect coarse salt and hand over refined salt. The processing fee is 100 yuan per ton of coarse salt, which is 10 cents per kilogram.
However, there is a weight loss when processing coarse salt into refined salt, and Salt Island is still too expensive for a dime, so the two sides argue.
The initial task of the refined salt factory was to provide refined salt to Guanku, including the refining of Guanku’s original imported sea salt. Guanku needed 9,000 tons of finished salt, with a total amount of more than 900,000 to less than 1 million.
The salt factory has a special composition and is used to take care of disabled soldiers and the families of martyrs. The shares are managed by Obsidian Bank, and 30% of the shares belong to the operator and factory workers.
The official has given an exclusive salt refinement license within one year, but the refined salt factory needs to bear the costs of its own factory building, various pools, and slag agent treatment.
Because the equipment is simple, the official also coordinated with alchemists to help improve the process. After deducting costs such as water and distillation, the profit ratio is still very high, which is equivalent to picking up money. However, the 9,000-ton business cannot last too long. The refined salt factory also hopes There is follow-up business to do.
What comes into play here is mainly the will of the factory director.
The director of the factory is not from the military, but after working for a while he has clearly seen that if there is no limited-term exclusive operating license obtained by taking care of military families, how can a factory with this kind of technology make money?
If you finish the official order and then go out to work alone, you may not make as much as you do here.
Therefore, the factory director hopes to continue operating the refined salt factory, at least until the exclusive license is completed for this year and then look at the situation.
Both parties had their own needs. After wrangling, they also contacted the officials and obtained official documents stating that the salt refining was postponed to free up production capacity. In the end, they agreed to refine the salt at a price of 7 cents, but the Yandao side had to deliver it to the factory.
The processing fee is 70 yuan per ton, after deducting water, coal, labor, tax and other expenses, the profit is returned to a reasonable range. After all, official orders have a certain currency issuance function, and the profit ratio will be higher than normal operations.
Since Yandao now has exquisite salt, it is natural to want to make more money. After negotiation with the salt workers, the wholesale price was set at 0.9 yuan.
The graininess and taste of sea salt and refined salt are completely incomparable. Even though Fatel's sea salt does not have the fishy smell and dust of Salt Island coarse salt, it is directly exposed to the sun and will have a little bit of bitterness. Although it is not too bad in a small amount of food, You can taste it, but there is indeed an objective taste gap.
The wholesale price of 0.9 yuan, which is equivalent to the retail price at the refined salt factory, becomes 0.83 yuan. After deducting the short-distance freight, it is dozens of yuan more per ton than the coarse salt of 0.75 yuan.
The quantity is hundreds of tons and thousands of tons, and these few dozen dollars are not a small amount of money.
Domestic channels were soon fully covered, and the Fatel people were squeezed by low-priced coarse salt overseas. Suddenly, their sales to the Phoenix Kingdom were cut off, and they had to lower their selling prices.
