After dinner, at dawn, Xu Chen continued to discuss the follow-up plans and arrangements for the development of the salt mine with the patriarchs, witches, and a group of middle-aged and elderly women.
Xu Chen originally planned to go back to the Yugong clan to discuss arrangements for these matters after finishing the salt mine.
But the witches of the Yugong clan and a group of clan leaders rushed over impatiently, so the on-site arrangements were more convenient and direct, and many things did not need to be explained at all.
The first step is to determine the distribution of salt mine interests.
The ownership of this salt mine belongs to the Ba Kingdom, which is the royal city, but the development rights will be given to the Yu Gong family.
Salt is related to the quality of life of all tribes and people and is indispensable every day. Therefore, it is considered a national strategic material and the sales rights must be nationalized.
However, mining and transportation require a lot of manpower, material resources and time. As developers, the Yugong family must ensure sufficient profits to have the motivation to mine and transport.
At present, there are barbarians working as salt miners. The Yugong clan only needs to arrange for some clan members to be stationed here to manage it. However, transportation consumes more manpower and time, so they need to find another way.
In the past, when salt was scarce and demand was not high, the price was relatively high, two cents per pound of coarse salt.
This price is actually very scary, which means that you need a good animal skin to exchange for a pound of salt. No matter how big or small the tribe is, it is impossible to exchange it for too much.
Even now, the Ba tribe is the only tribe that can truly afford salt.
Even the Uzbek people who earn thousands of yuan a month cannot buy hundreds of kilograms of salt every month, and they still use it every day.
However, after the development of this salt mine, the salt output will be enough to meet the market demand of the entire Pakistan. In order to allow the tribes to use more wealth to consume and purchase other commodities and promote further development of industry and commerce, the price of salt must be reduced to
All tribes can afford it.
Moreover, salt is different from grain. Except for the manpower and time consumed in mining and transportation, other costs are almost zero. It is simpler than grain production, and the price should actually be lower.
Therefore, Xu Chen planned to reduce the price of coarse salt from two yuan per catty to one yuan and three catties, and price snow salt from the previous sales price to one yuan and two catties.
The overall six-fold price reduction of coarse salt will definitely make all tribes excited and satisfied.
However, this is the selling price, and Wangcheng's purchase price will be even lower. Coarse salt costs one penny and six catties, and snow salt costs one penny and four catties. It is purchased from the Yu Gong clan.
Based on a minimum consumption of three tons (six thousand kilograms) per month, this salt mine will bring at least nearly two thousand yuan in revenue to the Yugong Clan Alliance every month.
But the actual consumption may be doubled, because a large amount of salted fish, bacon and salted vegetables and pickles must be made, and the market demand for salt is greater.
The Yugong clan currently has nearly 1,500 people in seven tribes.
According to the number of people, it is divided into seven tribes. A tribe of 100 people can get about 100 to 200 yuan every month, while a large tribe of 500 people like Yu Gong can get 500 to 1,000 yuan.
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Although it may not seem like much, the benefits are actually very considerable. The Uzbek people are logging, mining, burning charcoal, and smelting copper. Nearly a hundred people participate in copper smelting, and the monthly income is only a few thousand dollars.
At present, the Uzbek tribe has almost monopolized the interests of the copper mine to earn such a large income, and this salt mine will benefit all tribes of the Yugong tribe, and even the entire Ba country.
From this we can see how beneficial salt is.
Because of this, Xu Chen was able to significantly reduce the price of salt to meet the strong demand for salt from all tribes, improve the living standards of the overall people in Pakistan, and popularize it as a welfare.
The Yu Gong clan used to develop alone on the south bank of the Wulong River without much support from minerals or other industries. Although they have worked hard to develop, they are obviously much slower than the Ba clan and the Gonghuo clan. Now they don't have many horses.
Pottery is still not completely popular and satisfied, and copperware is even scarcer.
But with this huge salt mine income, the huge wealth will inevitably bring about a wave of rapid development, and the production and living standards will be greatly improved.
After the distribution of benefits is completed, details such as salt mine development, management, transportation and sales will be arranged.
The seven ethnic groups of the Yugong Alliance serve as the main development bodies and form a development team through internal consultation. They are overall responsible for the management and mining of the salt mine, as well as the construction of settlements and food production here.
Xu Chen doesn't care too much about the management process. He only needs the Yugong clan to provide enough salt to the country of Ba on time and in quantity.
However, given that this is a brand new commercial development, in order to get the salt mine on the right track as soon as possible, Xu Chen still gave a lot of guidance and tips on the development and management of the salt mine.
In fact, just like the mining and smelting of copper mines by various families within the Uzbek tribe, the profit distribution plan was finally determined according to a certain ratio. The money purchased by the royal city was eventually gathered in the hands of the great witch of the Yu Gong tribe, and each tribe distributed and received it on a monthly basis.
share.
Therefore, under the guidance of Xu Chen and the auspices of the witches of the Yu Gong clan, a group of clan leaders decided on a rough distribution plan after friendly and enthusiastic exchanges. In the end, the Yu Gong clan itself accounted for 30%, and the Xiu clan accounted for 15%.
Other tribes occupy a variable share of 10% to 15% depending on the population.
This kind of distribution cannot be said to be fair or unfair. It is impossible to refine it to a certain percentage. It can only be distributed in a rough proportion and plan. The main reason is that these tribes cannot even count the population clearly, and they only treat the data as follows.
Simple finger-breaking stage.
Even the distribution of half of it was forcibly determined by Xu Chen based on the size of each tribe's population and contribution.
The Xiu people are the main contributors to the discovery of the salt mine. If they had not traveled hundreds of miles in an unfamiliar virgin forest to finally find out the news about the salt mine, I am afraid that they might not be able to find it in ten or twenty years.
Therefore, it is reasonable for them to take more benefits. Xu Chen originally wanted to give them 20%, but the Xiu tribe did not even have a hundred people, while tribes like the Maotun tribe had close to four hundred people.
, in order to fairly take care of the income and development of other tribes, he had to reduce the Xiu tribe's half share.
In fact, these clan leaders and leaders did not understand the distribution plan at all. Anyway, after Xu Chen said that each of their tribes could receive a large sum of money every month, everyone was very happy. As for the proportion, they did not care at all.
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After the distribution ratio within the Yu Gong clan is clear, the final step is to form a specific salt mine development, management and transportation department.
The seven tribes belonging to the Yu Gong clan must dispatch a team of at least a hundred men and women to live here for a long time. The men are responsible for monitoring and managing the salt mine mining and the safety of the salt factories and camps. The women are responsible for maintaining life, collecting, and farming.
Weaving, cooking.
From now on, this place will be almost a separate tribe. While men and women work and live here, they will also give birth to children and slowly develop farming and livestock production.
Of course, each tribe can also arrange personnel to rotate and stay based on their own tribe's situation, but Xu Chen does not have specific requirements for this.
In fact, production management is relatively the simplest. After all, the salt mine has abundant reserves and it is easy to dig out salt. The current difficulty is transportation.
Especially when there are no roads, vehicles and horses cannot pass, transportation is particularly difficult.
But Xu Chen doesn't have a good solution for this matter at the moment. He won't be able to recruit a large number of people from other clans to help build the road in the short term. He can only let the Yugong clan try their best to find a solution on their own.
In order to increase the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the Yugong tribes to participate in road construction, Xu Chen said that in addition to leaving and providing more bronze tools for logging and road construction, ten more wheelbarrows will be provided free of charge after the road to the Mongolian tribe is built.
, five pallet trucks and three dedicated box-type freight carriages.
Sure enough, Xu Chen's promise made Duke Yu and a group of clan leaders extremely excited, and they all knelt down to express their gratitude.
It is troublesome and difficult to build vehicles, and the output has not been high. Moreover, because of the high price, there are only a few tribes. Except for the wealthy Ba and Wu tribes, only the Gonghuo Basin and the vicinity of the Royal City have built roads and promoted the construction of the Royal City in the past few years.
A batch of vehicles, several years have passed now, and many of them are actually broken, but the speed of building and replenishing them is very slow.
One person on a wheelbarrow can push hundreds of kilograms of goods, two people on a trolley can transport at least four hundred kilograms, and a horse-drawn carriage is even more terrifying. It can pull thousands of kilograms of goods on flat ground.
Once the road is repaired, the investment of this batch of vehicles will greatly ease the transportation problem and solve the Yu Gong family's urgent need.
The development of salt mines is not difficult, but ensuring the survival and transportation of hundreds of people in the salt factory is a big problem. Therefore, during most of the exchange, Xu Chen still focused on guiding the planning and arrangements of these two aspects.
The excitement continued until dusk when Yu Gongwu and a group of clan leaders fell asleep in the simple camp around the bonfire with great excitement.
After a silent night, after breakfast the next morning, Xu Chen began to lead Yu Gongwu and a group of clan leaders to formally plan the farmland development area around the camp, and at the same time arranged for people to continue to go to the salt mine to encircle and build factories.
Time flew by and it was almost noon.
Lei began to gather hunters, organize their equipment and weapons, and prepare to set off to find out about the dragon and a group of forbidden soldiers.
However, just as dozens of people were getting ready, holding flags and blowing horns to set off, they heard the faint sound of horns coming from the dense forest in the valley to the east, and soon came the shouts of "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom."
"The dragon is back!"
Some hunters shouted excitedly.
In an instant, the whole camp became lively and lively. Almost everyone stopped what they were doing and responded enthusiastically with shouts of "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom." Soon, they saw a long group of people coming down the slightly sparse valley.
The sound was loud and mighty, and it looked very lively.