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Chapter 863: The Way to Make Money Private Salt Dealer

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    "What, Commander, you want to take people to Haizhou City in person, I don't agree, I firmly disagree!"

    Looking at the excited Ma Desheng, Li Guoyao smiled and said, "Why don't you agree?"

    "You are the commander of our guerrilla army, the soul of the entire army, not a commando captain. Such matters can be left to Monk or Xu Ziyu, but you can't go."

    Then Ma Desheng continued: "Now you only need to sit in the center and command the operations. Don't take risks as you did before. You know that your head is worth millions to the Japanese. I don't know how many people are watching and thinking.  Give me your head in exchange for the bounty!¡±

    Li Guoyao smiled and said: "I didn't expect my head to be so valuable. It is said that Xue Yue's head is worth half a million!"

    "Isn't it two hundred thousand before? Now it's gone up?"

    Li Guoyao smiled and said: "It's gone up. The Songpu Division that fought in the Wanjialing Battle was almost wiped out, and its worth has soared by 300,000!"

    "It's going up pretty fast. My head seems to be worth only 100,000 oceans!" Ma Desheng said depressedly.

    "Don't be depressed. After this battle in Changsha, the price of Xue Yue's head will be almost the same as mine. How uncomfortable it will be if you are depressed about this and that!"

    "Oh, so Xue Yue can defeat the little devil?"

    "Haha, it's not a big problem!"

    "Let's not talk about it anymore. Anyway, I don't agree with you taking the risk to Haizhou City. After all, you have to pass through Lanling, Linyi, Linmu and other counties along the way. It's too dangerous!"

    Li Guoyao shook his head and said: "What's the danger? At present, Chen Bing, the main force of the Sulu Theater Headquarters, is in Xinqiao Town north of Linyi. It has put considerable pressure on the Japanese troops in Fei County and Linyi, and Lu Wenlong, Monk and others are also constantly attacking  The Japanese soldiers harassing Xuzhou have left them with no time to worry about anything else, so I take this opportunity to go south, who will pay attention to me!"

    "Then there's no need for you to go in person. Our guerrilla corps is not empty. How about I take people south?"

    Li Guoyao said calmly: "If it is just a simple matter of receiving this batch of funds, it will be the same for anyone, but what I am interested in is not the money!"

    "Oh, do you have other ideas?" Ma Desheng asked immediately.

    "Well, this action by Zhu Hong and others actually showed me a way to make a fortune!"

    "What way?"

    "Smuggled salt!"

    "Private salt?"

    "Well, the salt industry has been hugely profitable since ancient times. The profit earned by a big salt merchant in a year can be enough to support ten divisions!" Li Guoyao said.

    "Ten divisions? How is this possible? A division's military expenditure is at least two million yuan a year. This does not include the cost of weapons and equipment. Ten divisions is 20 million yuan. Do salt merchants have such high profits?" Ma Deshengyi  Face asked in shock.

    "Remove the word "?", there is no doubt about it, and the profits will be far more terrifying than you think!"

    Li Guoyao didn¡¯t know much about the profits of salt merchants, but he knew that it would only take minutes to get a share of the monopoly industry and quickly accumulate wealth.

    Historical records record that in the Tang Dynasty, a man named Gong Bo was born in poverty and made a living by selling vegetables and fruits. However, after the reform of Liu Yan's salt law, he seized the opportunity and became a salt merchant recognized by the court, making huge profits.  In just over ten years, he accumulated a fortune of tens of millions and became the richest man in Sichuan.  It¡¯s a typical example of how even pigs can fly when standing at the forefront of policy.

    Moreover, salt has been an industry that giants from all sides have wanted to control since ancient times. Salt has even been an important pillar of the imperial court's economic income in all dynasties. For example, during the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yan presided over the salt administration for nearly 20 years and controlled the government.  Salt profit income increased from 400,000 yuan to 6 million yuan.  Salt profit income accounted for half of the Tang Dynasty's fiscal and tax revenue.

    Sima Guang once said in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" that "the wealth of the world is half of that of salt and profit, and the palace, royal service, military salary, and salary of hundreds of officials are all given to him."  In subsequent dynasties, dependence on salt continued to increase.  At its peak, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, salt profits accounted for more than 54% of the country's total fiscal revenue.

    "Commander, although the consumption of salt is relatively large, the cost does not seem to be very high. Is there really such a high profit?" Ma Desheng still didn't believe it.

    ¡°The cost of salt itself is indeed not high, but the potential cost is not!¡±

    "What is potential cost?"

    "Let me ask you, is the price of salt expensive now?"

    "It's expensive. Now you can only buy three kilograms of salt per ocean. A few years ago you could buy about eight kilograms!" Ma Desheng said.

    Li Guoyao then said:"But you know, from a technical or economic point of view, salt itself does not have much value. The high price of salt has never been determined by the cost of producing salt. In fact, the cost of producing salt is extremely low.

    Extremely low, with the development of technology, this cost is still falling.  "

    "Why is the salt added so high?"

    "Because there are many costs that we can't see, including white ones, gray ones, and even black ones!"

    "The cost also depends on the color?"

    "White cost refers to the fact that after salt profit became the main source of revenue for the government, all generations have tried to make more money from this white crystal. In extreme situations such as war or turmoil, raising taxes on the salt industry is even more convenient and addictive.  .¡±

    Li Guoyao then continued: "Gray costs, the monopoly rights, general distribution rights and even hereditary general distribution rights obtained by salt merchants through huge donations, as well as the huge wealth they obtained from this, are ultimately passed on to the price of salt."

    "The black cost is that officials in the salt field, salt affairs, and salt administration all regard the salt industry as a lucrative position. In order to obtain corresponding positions, they also need to carry out power and money operations within the officialdom, and all these efforts must be rewarded."

    "The real reason why those big salt merchants got rich is not from earning the price difference of buying salt at low prices and selling at high prices, but from too many ways of making money that are attached to power.  The most typical operation is for salt merchants to work with salt administration officials to deceive the court.  Officials allowed salt merchants who claimed to have insufficient cash to sell official salt on credit, and later turned these credit accounts into bad debts, relying on them as much as they could. After all, the losses were state-owned assets, but the profits went into personal pockets.

    In the late Tang Dynasty, a Fujian salt official named Lu Ang was investigated and punished. Not only were 300,000 taels of stolen money found, but a gold bed and gold pillow were also found in his home.  If a local salt official has become so corrupt and extravagant, how rich should the big salt merchants who support him get?

    In the Song Dynasty, due to the huge profits from the salt industry, some troops and officials went "shirtless" and participated in reselling private salt to make huge profits.  At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Prime Minister Jia Sidao used his personal power to instruct his subordinates to sell large quantities of private salt. This was just a microcosm of the salt industry in the economic chain.

    "Commander, most of the salt industry is now controlled by local governments and the Japanese. Is it profitable for us to become private salt dealers? Besides, who should we sell the private salt to?" Ma Desheng asked again.

    Li Guoyao smiled and said nothing, and then said after a long time: "Salt has always been in short supply. If you have salt, are you still afraid that no one will buy it?"

    Li Guoyao has never worried about the problem of sales. In order to get a share of the cake, the top circles of the salt industry need to constantly spend money to clear the way. The environment is indeed dangerous; but it should also be noted that the huge bottom circle is in a dangerous situation that they have to fight for their lives in order to pick up the crumbs of the cake.  the point.

    Under strong light, even the shadows will disappear.  Only when necessary will the entire empire be reminded of the existence of the shadow crowd in extreme forms.

    The problem of illicit salt has never disappeared during the imperial era after more than 1,100 years, which just proves that the shadow has never been dispelled.

    Although every dynasty has enacted extremely strict criminal laws for those who sell illegal salt, as long as there are three or more people who steal and sell illegal salt, the one who takes the lead will be punished with death, but this cannot stop the increasing trend of illegal salt.

    Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty said in a memorial: "The people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang are offended by salt violations, ranging from one year to seventeen thousand people, but they cannot be stopped."

    ?? 17,000 people were arrested in one year, but they couldn¡¯t stop the illegal salt problem.

    In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the government captured "five thousand salt disciples" in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture alone.

    By the Qing Dynasty, there was a public saying about the salt trade in Guangdong, which was called "three official and seven private".  In other words, 70% of the market has been eroded by illegal salt.  And these are all driven by a special group - private salt dealers.

    Now, Li Guoyao also wants to join this group and become a private salt dealer.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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