"Yes, yes, there are hundreds of us here. If there is less salt in the salt field, it will not be enough."
When other people heard this, they immediately started talking too.
Salt is a hugely profitable business, and everyone wants a piece of it. Even those who used to trade in marine fish or cement, as long as there is an opportunity, no one will miss it.
"On this point, I assure you that the quantity is large and the quantity is sufficient. The salt produced in our Changlu Salt Farm is not only large in quantity, but also of high quality."
"Everyone, please move to our salt field first. I will take you to visit our Changlu Salt Field. I think you will not worry about whether the salt production is enough."
Li Jiye heard what everyone said and smiled.
When everyone heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up. Judging from this, the scale of Changlu Salt Farm must be very large. It was said that the volume was large enough, and the output must be huge.
Soon, under the leadership of Li Jiye and other managers of the Changlu Salt Field, hundreds of people walked toward the salt field on the seaside. Even Liu Jin personally led the way to his old friend Zhang Tianhao and Gang Leader Zhang.
Several hundred people were divided into many teams, each team containing about dozens of people, and led by a steward to the Yantian.
"Everyone, please see, this is the salt field of our Changlu Salt Farm. Our Changlu Salt Farm is different from the traditional salt farm. We don't boil the salt, we use the sun salt method."
Li Jiye led a group of people to the salt field, pointed to the endless salt field in front of him, and introduced with a smile.
"Sun salt?"
When everyone heard this, they were immediately confused. The method of making salt in this era basically focused on boiling salt. The Zao household got its name from this, because all the salt fields run by the imperial court were made of salt.
They use pots to boil salt, so they are also called kitchen households.
Now Li Jiye talks about the method of drying salt, which immediately makes people full of curiosity. Can this salt be dried?
"The sun-salting method is actually very simple. It uses wind and sun to dry the water in the sea water, and then you can naturally obtain salt."
Li Jiye seemed to notice everyone's doubts and explained with a smile.
"Manager Li, you can only cook two or three pots of salt a day. If you want to dry out the salt using your salt-drying method, wouldn't it take ten days and a half?"
Someone said with a smile, the meaning of the words was very clear, that is, they doubted the output of Changlu Salt Field. Sun-salted salt, sun-salted salt can indeed evaporate water, but does it take too long?
"Everyone will know later."
Li Jiye smiled and said, and then led the group of people around him to an evaporation pond. He pointed at the pool in front of him and said, "These ponds are evaporation ponds. When you open the diversion channel, seawater will naturally enter with the waves."
In the evaporation pond."
"After a few days of exposure to wind and sun, the water content of the seawater in the evaporation pond will decrease, and then we will introduce it into the crystallization pond, which is the salt field."
After that, he took everyone to a crystallization pond. This crystallization pond has completed crystallization, there is very little water in it, and there is a thick layer of salt underneath.
When they saw this, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up. This method of drying salt seemed a little different. The output looked amazing. The pool in front of them was all filled with snow-white salt.
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“Everyone can take a look at the salt produced by our Changlu Salt Farm~”
Li Jiye confidently motioned for everyone to look around. After hearing Li Jiye's words, a salt worker nearby also shoveled up the snow-white salt with a shovel. Everyone hurried forward and grabbed a handful of salt to look at carefully.
"Good salt~definitely the best salt."
"The color is snow-white, the particles are fine, and there is no bitter taste. It is actually made from sea salt!"
Knowledgeable people immediately pointed out the advantages of this salt, and then were shocked.
They know very well what sea salt looks like. It is yellowish in color, clumped into lumps, and tastes very bitter, making it taste terrible.
Therefore, as long as the conditions are slightly better, people will not buy sea salt. Everyone will buy Shanxi's pool salt, Sichuan's well salt, and the best green salt, which is standard for larger households.
Now, I didn't expect that the salt from the Changlu Salt Farm would be snow-white in color and have fine particles. The taste of the salt would also be quite pure, not like sea salt at all.
"Haha, the salt from our Changlu Salt Farm is naturally the best salt. Please follow me."
Li Jiye laughed happily, and then led everyone to a place dedicated to salt. A small mountain of salt was piled together. Many businessmen had gathered here. Everyone looked at the mountain of salt in front of them.
He opened his eyes wide.
"Everyone, have you seen the salt mountain in front of you?"
"This is just the amount of salt produced in a small area of our Changlu Saltworks in one day. Our Changlu Saltworks bought all the dozens of kilometers of this coastline and built a salt field, so everyone is familiar with our Changlu Saltworks.
You should have enough confidence in the salt production of the salt farm, right?"
"It's just winter now. If summer comes, the salt production of our Changlu Saltworks will increase dramatically, so don't worry about the production of our saltworks."
“Our Changlu Salt Farm not only has high output and the highest quality salt, but the price of salt from our Changlu Salt Farm will also be the cheapest among all salts.”
"If you are interested in becoming a dealer of our Changlu Salt Farm, you can come and inquire in detail about the sales regulations of our Changlu Salt Farm."
Next to the salt mountain, the steward of the Changlu Saltworks took a tin trumpet and introduced it loudly to the businessmen who came over.
"Young Master Liu is Young Master Liu~"
"I originally thought that no one could make money after paying another two million taels of silver, but now, I finally understand that two million taels of silver is nothing. It is nothing compared to this mountain of gold and silver."
From beginning to end, Zhang Tianhao was extremely shocked.
He sells private salt and has seen a lot of salt. He also went to the salt field run by the imperial court and saw it. The salt field run by the imperial court can be described as hell.
Almost all the kitchen households there are machines, their clothes are in tatters, and they don’t have enough to eat. They spend all day and night around a stove cooking salt. The kitchen households in the salt field are extremely poor, but the officials who manage the salt field are all rich.
Merchants who deal in salt are extremely wealthy.
Originally, he thought that the same was true for the Changlu Saltworks. Whether it was Liu Jin, the Duke, or even the emperor or the prince, they all wanted to make money. Otherwise, why would they throw two million taels of silver to the court in vain?
So he originally thought that the Changlu Salt Farm should have countless stoves arranged, and with the billowing smoke, mountains of salt could be cooked.
But who would have known that there are no stoves or stoves for cooking salt in the Changlu Salt Farm. They actually dry the salt. The key is that the output of the sun-dried salt is so high and the quality is of the highest quality.
Waiting.
The stretches of salt fields in front of him were not salt fields in his eyes. They were fields of gold and silver, producing white gold all the time.
Although the initial investment in Changlu Salt Farm is huge and two million taels of silver are paid every year, the efficiency of salt production is really terrible.
After the salt fields are built, seawater is introduced, and the rest can be collected. Even the number of people hired can be very small. Unlike the salt fields of the imperial court, where households cook salt day and night, which consumes manpower and increases the output.
Low, the key is that it consumes a lot of firewood.
Of course, it was not just Zhang Tianhao who thought so at this time, everyone who saw the salt mountains in front of them thought so. The salt fields stretching to the end in front of them were mountains of gold and silver.
After visiting the salt fields, everyone returned to the reception hall again. No one doubted the production here anymore. Now in winter, the production is already so terrible. If we wait until summer, when the temperature is high and the sunshine is sufficient, the production will be
How terrifying, I'm afraid that by that time, everyone will have as much salt as they want.
"Mr. Li, I wonder how you sell the salt here?"
"Yes, yes, how do you sell this salt?"
Soon, Li Jiye appeared in front of everyone again with the stewards of Changlu Saltworks. As soon as he appeared, everyone who couldn't wait for a long time also hurriedly asked.
"The salt in our Changlu Salt Farm implements a dealer system. I think many friends in the cement business are certainly familiar with this system, but here I still want to explain what the dealer system is."
Li Jiye looked at everyone, smiled and began to introduce the distribution system of Changlu Salt Farm. The system adopted is the same as the sales system at the cement factory.
That is, a prefecture or county only recruits a few dealers. The dealers need to sell the salt from Changlu Salt Factory according to the prices and sales strategies set by Changlu Salt Factory. They cannot set prices privately, nor can they mix goods, etc.
This sales system is a system commonly adopted by many enterprises in later generations. The advantage of this system is that it can firmly bind dealers to their own sales system. Of course, more importantly, it can control the terminal sales price. It can also
Maximize the profits of the salt farm.
At the beginning, Liu Jin also promised Emperor Hongzhi that the salt from the salt farm would not only be of better quality, but also profitable, and would be cheaper than the salt on the market.
This means that Liu Jin must have control over the entire sales chain and be able to adjust the sales price of salt anytime and anywhere, so he can only adopt this sales system.
If it is a one-time use, as long as someone comes to buy salt and sell it at a certain price, the price of this terminal cannot be controlled, and Liu Jin's promise to Emperor Hongzhi cannot be fulfilled.
What's more important is that once the salt merchants in the Jiangnan area launch a counterattack against Liu Jin, it will be difficult for Liu Jin to effectively counterattack the opponent. Only by mastering the entire sales chain can he have control.