The year-end summary meeting of the Fuxing Society in the second year of Jingyao was held in Jiangyang County.

Unlike before, the prefect of Fuling County, the senior management of Fuxing Society all came to the salt-alkali land fifty miles southwest of Han'an County.

This place is no longer a desolate and barren land, but a bustling carriage and a bustling crowd. It is a prosperous scene.

This place is no longer a nameless place. According to the memory of time travelers, it has a name that belonged to it more than a thousand years later - Zigongting.

"Hiss~~Is this Zhuo Tsuka well invented by Zifeng? It's really a wonderful idea and a masterpiece. In this way, many exhausted salt wells in my Han area can be replaced with shining colors!"

Mi Zhao, the largest official in Shu Han, was filled with excitement at this time: As a super businessman who did the ultimate business, Mi Zhao stared at the salt industry for a long time. It was just because the Shu Han regime had been too tight on Yantieng since Liu Bei. Even though the Mi family operated all industries, they never dared to reach out to Yantieng. This time, the Mi family could finally enter the salt industry by entrusting the blessing of Fuxing Society. This was a great event that could really report to Mr. Mi Zhu in the Mi Family Ancestral Hall.

"Hahaha, how about the gangster merchant? Are you scared? This Zhuotong well, with bamboo as the salt well wall and passage, after being dug to a certain depth, the brine naturally spews upwards. Now the deepest salt well in Zigong Pavilion is more than 70 meters long. It is more than ten times more than the wide-mouth shallow well dug in the past... "

"Hmph~~~ Zhang Lingxing, don't show off where you are. If it weren't for Zifeng, would you know that there is brine here? Can you know the method of Zhuo Tsuki-i?"

"That's true. But why did I just meet me? Hahahaha~~~How about it, are you envious? Are you jealous?"

"Okay, don't show off. Hurry up and talk about the serious matters. We all came out of Fuling County secretly. After the meeting was completed, we had to leave quickly. If the people from the court discovered His Majesty, he would feel very unhappy."

"Here, brother, please tell me."

"I'll ask you, how many wells have you dug now? How much salt is the daily salt output?"

"Here, brother, dear shareholders. In the past six months, a total of 35 salt wells have been dug in Zigongting, of which 32 have been brine. Among these 32 salt wells, there are twenty-nine accompanying natural gas. Because new salt wells produce briquettes every month, the daily brine output varies. The latest data here is from the day before yesterday, well, the brine output the day before yesterday is 18,000 stones of brine."

"Is this daily accompanying natural gas enough to boil salt? What is the amount of salt produced in the brine?"

"Brother, enough! Not only is this companion natural gas boiled enough, but the whole Zigongting cooks every day is enough. The amount of salt produced by the brine is really good. The brine here is really a brine of excellent texture. After one stone of brine, you can usually get five liters of salt after boiling it. Compared with other salt fields in Dahan, one stone of brine can only get one liter of salt! Not only that, after boiling the brine here, there are very few impurities, the salt particles are fine, soft and white, and it is a good fine salt without any purification!"

It’s all salt here, and it is normal for the brine to produce 5% of the salt. Moreover, the sodium chloride content of well salt produced in Zigong is as high as more than 99%. The remaining 1% is also rich in iodine. It can be said that if the people in Shu Han can generally eat Zigong salt, what is the "people have a good taste"? The more common big neck disease (hyperthyroidism caused by iodine deficiency) will be completely reversed.

"Thus, the salt production per day is 900 stones, 27,000 stones per month, and 1 year..." After Mi Zhao's simple mental calculation, he couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hands: "Thirty-two four thousand stones!"

But Guan Yi's words made Mi Zhao even more collapsed!

"Why are you so little? What have you been doing in the past six months?"

Before Mi Zhao could plead for Zhang Zun, Zhang Zun had already bowed to Guan Yishen: "Brother, please forgive me. Although the Zhuotong well produces a lot of salt, it is a narrow deep well, and it takes a lot of time to get to the brine layer. At present, the deepest well in Zigongting has been fighting for seventy battles, which took three months, so..."

"Forget it, I'm too anxious for my brother. What is the price for the Yan Yan Captain of the court to buy for our salt farm now?"

"When it comes to this, brother, I'm also full of fire. The price Si Yan Captain gave us is 200 yuan per stone!"

"What! Why don't they rob it? Zifeng, do you know how much the salt price is for my Mi family business? It's eight hundred yuan per stone!"

As mentioned earlier, the salt administrations of Shu Han, Eastern Wu, and Cao Wei are all monopolized: the salt farms are owned by the state, and the production, transportation and sales are all controlled by the state.

Due to the agreement between Guan Yi and Liu Chan, the salt farm in Zigongting implemented a monopoly system: the salt farm here belongs to the Fuxing Society. After the salt is produced, it is sold to the country. Then other merchants come here to buy it from the country.

The proposal of this new system was indeed fiercely opposed by the Shu Han bureaucratic system, especially the Si Yan lieutenant, but after Guan Yi said that Zhuo Tsuka-jing technology could be disclosed and Liu Chan endorsed it in front of the court officials: this is the only case, and it will never be opened. This new system was barely implemented.

But everyone knows that the biggest profit is monopoly. In the past, the Siyan School Captain of Shu Han had fully controlled the production, transportation and sales of salt in Shu Han. Now this monopoly has broken a big hole. How can you be happy? So the Siyan School Captain of Shu Han’s price of salt in Zigongting is extremely low!

To be honest, the price of 200 yuan per stone is not unprofitable for Fuxing Society, which has accompanied natural gas and salt boiled. Zhang Zun privately told Guan Yi: After deducting labor costs, the net profit can reach 100 yuan per stone. In the past six months, the cumulative salt production of Zigongting has reached 70,000 yuan. Fuxing Society alone has a net profit of 7 million yuan.

But 70% of it was from Liu Chan and 10% was from Huang Hao. The Fuxing Society actually got only 1.4 million!

It is a trivial matter to make less money. Guan Yi originally planned to hide his troops here: as long as the salt production here could support more than 10,000 industrial workers for him, it would be enough.

What really made him angry was that the Siyan School Guard's Mansion purchased his salt for 200 coins per stone, but sold it to the merchant for 800 coins. The merchant also had to pursue profits, and also added transportation and sales costs. In this way, when Zigong salt was finally sold to the people, it was almost 1,200 coins per stone! This price was three times more expensive than before the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Eastern Han Dynasty, one sixth more expensive than the current Cao Wei, and one fifth more expensive than the Eastern Wu!

The people of Shu Han still can’t afford to eat salt! People have good food, but the current situation of big necks on the ground cannot be changed!

This has led to the extreme exploitation of the people. No wonder when Cao Wei came, he didn't want to resist from the Yizhou family to the ordinary people!

"This won't work. The people's hearts will be farther and farther away from us! When the pseudo-Wei calls, who will support us in resistance?"

But in this case, Guan Yi could only tell his partner that the Yuan Cong Sect has not yet completely controlled the Shu Han regime.

"Forget it, let's have a meeting. We'll go back soon."

With Guan Yi's instructions, Ma Guo began to speak: "In the second year of Jingyao, my Fuxing Society's industries in Fuling County... The cumulative turnover is 170 million... After deducting the settlement fee for newly recruited workers and farmers, the labor costs of workers, production costs, Fuxing Academy and other expenses, the gross profit was 58 million. After handing over to the Yong'an Corps for 40 million, the net profit was 18 million. In addition, since our Fuling County no longer had to deliver grain to the Yong'an Corps, we saved an additional 100,000 stones of grain this year..."

"Mijia Trading Company's turnover this year has reached 600 million yuan and its net profit is 100 million yuan. According to the equity swap agreement, 30 million yuan will be allocated to Fuxing Society."

"The revival of salt industry in Jiangyang County has made a profit of 1.4 million after deducting His Majesty's shares. Third uncle (Guan Suo) has transported more than 3,000 people from Nanzhong in the past six months. He chose a thousand men to arrange for work in the salt farm, and the rest are placed in Han'an County to reclaim wasteland. The wages of these people have been included in the cost deduction, but I still owe Meng Yan the money for buying people from Nanzhong. Well, the total amount is 2,200 million."

"I quickly transferred this money to Meng Yan. After all, he is not a member of our Fuxing Society. In this way, the surplus of the entire Fuxing Society this year is 33 million."

"We are dear to congratulate our brother (the prefect)!"

"Oh, don't talk about these!" Guan Yi waved his hand irritably: "We don't have much time left. Everyone, my opinion is that there will be no dividends for the time being. This money will be used to expand production next year. Next year, that is, the third year of Jingyao, the goal of Fuling County is to absorb more than 10,000 people, Wuximans go down the mountain and reclaim 200,000 acres of wasteland. We will strive to stop purchasing grain from the fourth year of Jingyao... The goal of Zigongting is to increase the salt production ten times! The number of workers working five times!"
Chapter completed!