"This salt merchant can be regarded as the world's favor, and for generations in this salt law monopoly to receive the benefits of gold and silver, it is said that they should be loyal to this Ming Dynasty, but when they encounter this rich thing, they know that we are the anti-thieves behind them, but they still rush up, it's really ridiculous!"

"The eldest brother is right, businessmen are unrighteous, if they have double the profit, they will not care about their wives and children, if they have twice the profit, they can take risks, and if they have three times the profit, they will not care about any loyalty and filial piety."

"That's why the lord wants to set up a special trade hall, and also grasp Yunshan Xing in his hands, and now from time to time some people say, saying that the lord should do big things here, everyone is busy with important military affairs, and the business is left to the businessman to do, just pay the money on time and deliver the goods, and it doesn't cost so much manpower, and it doesn't take too much effort, and the money and physical goods will not be less, this is a joke, don't say anything else, isn't Wang Ziyang a living example?"

Wang Zhaojing, Liu Yong and Zhou Xuezhi said a word, and they kept talking about the businessmen's expressions, Zhao Jin glanced at Dong Bingfeng, and said with a smile: "Our Zhao Ziying is too disciplined in doing things, and the constraints on family members and group training are strict, we abide by the rules, although some people praise them, but more people will become bolder, thinking that as long as they don't violate our rules, they can say anything, and they can also make small actions secretly." ”

Dong Bingfeng nodded and replied: "The eldest brother is right, Lao Li's side deliberately made the patrol a little fiercer, and the result was very respectful from top to bottom, but our family can only be restrained like this, and now there is no fighting, in case the rules are relaxed, it will not be able to be controlled immediately." ”

Chatting and discussing, but no one went to mention the tournament, in the hearts of Zhao Jin and his partners, this is not a thing at all, and finally Zhou Xuezhi asked about related matters, the first two tournaments have made a lot of money in betting, this year the scale is larger, there are more guests, and the amount of money on the betting must be more huge, how to deal with this money, whether to send it back to the treasury for distribution, or directly in Qingjiangpu to retain, this matter has to be decided by Zhao Jin.

"Chen Ergou is very good at manipulating the gambling game, and the odds he offers can make people bet and earn the most, which is really amazing." Zhou Xuezhi praised him sincerely.

Zhao Jin looked at Li Dajin who was the first to go, and said with a smile: "If it weren't for Lao Li finding a lot of people to help him see the strength of the martial artists, how could he judge so accurately." ”

The most critical point in determining the odds is to know the strength of the two sides, Chen Ergou is very proficient in gambling, and he is relatively amateur to this.

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On the third day after Zhao came to Qingjiangpu, the martial arts competition was opened, and this time I don't know who came out with the name, called "the world's first martial arts competition", whether it was held or participated, they all liked this name, after all, this name made everyone involved feel that their faces were glorified.

However, when this name was passed to Zhao Jin, Zhao Jin changed his usual steadiness and laughed there for a long time, everyone was inexplicable, but fortunately Zhao Jin laughed and said, "This name is good, it is good", otherwise everyone would have to change this name.

Chen Ergou and people from all walks of life have already negotiated the list and rounds of the preliminary round, and the ones invited by each family, those who are famous, or recognized as strong players, will not meet each other in the first round of the preliminary round, and they will not meet each other until the fourth and fifth rounds, and there are hundreds of games in the first three rounds, and only these special treatment competitions will be held in the "cornucopia" martial arts arena.

In the first four rounds of the game, all the characters in the Jianghu market of Zhao Ziying in Qingjiang Pukong zhì were all scattered, some people were mixed in the audience to watch, some people directly had to follow the busy operation, there were people betting on every game, there were also people to maintain order, and even referees were needed.

Zhao Jin didn't go to watch these games, there were too many public facts that he came to Qingjiangpu to do, and the Qingjiangpu Chamber of Commerce everyone met and feasted is one, and it is also a very critical one, how many important business matters have to be discussed on such occasions, every day someone sends a post to invite him, just Zhao Jin is ready to make an appointment has been scheduled to the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

After coming to Qingjiangpu, in addition to Zhao Jin's own thousand horses, there are also local guards of the family patrol, so each trip followed only two hundred iron horses, this momentum is not small, people and horses are like dragons, iron armor long soldiers, walking on the road is really shocking, often people are frightened and kneeling on the side of the road, originally the official officials are still walking around in Qingjiangpu, but after Zhao came in, the officials did not dare to show up in official robes, in addition to being afraid, they also felt ashamed.

There are a lot of things to talk about inside and outside the Chamber of Commerce, now Xuzhou and Pizhou, including Huai'an North District, are already prosperous, have good purchasing power, Qingjiangpu businessmen want to transport goods import, this should ask Zhao Jin to set a share, otherwise everyone will definitely compete endlessly, and even hurt the harmony, and today's Xuzhou Bazaar is still one of the hubs of Nanzhili and Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and the specialties of the three provinces in the north and even Outer Mongolia should be distributed to Nanzhili through the guò market, the same, A lot of goods from Nanzhili are sold to the north through Xuzhou, and this one also has to fight for more shares with Zhao Jin.

This year, Xuzhou cloth has been firmly established in the market, we have been worried about the shortage of Songjiang cloth, now there is a replacement, we have to confirm with Zhao Jin, can we guarantee the same output in the second year, if we can guarantee it, how much can we get, bulk production or bulk distribution is the most suitable and convenient, and even some people persuaded Zhao Jin, saying that those people at sea have no roots, maybe when they will be wiped out by the wind and waves, it is not as reliable as our Qingjiangpu businessmen sitting on the ground, and what do we say that we have been dealing with for so long, It's good to take care of everyone a lot.

"Next year, the output of Xuzhou cloth will only be more, not less, and the varieties will be more and better." Zhao Jin's reply made the merchants of Qingjiangpu crazy, who didn't know the huge profits of the bulk cotton cloth trade, compared with Xuzhou cloth and Songjiang cloth, Qingjiangpu is close to the water, not only in the transportation of all kinds of convenience, the price of the goods can also be negotiated, how much benefit can be earned in it is easy to calculate.

What kind of magic does Xuzhou have to turn stone into gold, and it can produce so much cloth, according to his scale, how to calculate this amount, but Zhao Jin's promise is not unfulfillable, since he said so, Xuzhou will definitely be able to do it, although there is still more than half a year before the shipment, but everyone is still scrambling to finalize, many big businesses have been ready to give a deposit directly, or ask Yunshan to open conditions here.

I don't know from where the tone comes out, saying that the people who have contributed to the salt river also have priority in the share of Xuzhou cloth, as soon as this is said, everyone's interest in dredging the salt river is immediately high, the significance of Haizhou Port, of course, the merchants of Qingjiangpu understand, and they also know that they will make a fortune if they participate in it, but the prosperity of Qingjiangpu is related to Caoyun, and everyone is a little resistant to the sea trade, but since it is related to making a fortune, no one can take care of it.

The salt merchants of Yangzhou Mansion also rushed over, in addition to transporting the salt river, they also had to talk about the Haizhou salt farm, whether it was Zhao Jin or Wang Zhaojing, Zhou Xuezhi, and even those old and sophisticated shopkeepers in Yunshan Xing, they didn't expect the salt merchants to open such conditions, they actually wanted to hand over the salt farm to Zhao Ziying to manage, this is their lifeline, and they actually wanted to hand it over.

There is a quota for the production of salt every year, but every year the salt farm will overproduce, which is one of the sources of private salt, the salt merchants mean that as long as Zhao Ziying takes over the salt farm, the number of salt goods that can be provided every year is more than the sum of the quota of official salt and private salt, and the more produced is the benefit of Zhao Ziying, according to them, this quota is nothing to the output of the salt farm, but now there are too many omissions, too much waste, the stove salt workers are not only internal theft, but also slack work strictly, and so half-dead dragging, It is better to transfer these stove salt workers out to make a more profitable living.

This is to use the manpower of Zhao Ziying to produce salt, Zhao Jin has an understanding of the life of the salt farm stove households, these people are similar to artisan households and military households, they are all semi-slaves, the income can not make ends meet, and the treatment is miserable, in such a state, naturally there is no enthusiasm to work, and the salt administration has been sitting on huge profits, and there is no heart to care, so it has been withering and tattered.

Now the salt merchants suddenly had this idea, not because of kindness, or to improve the bad government, but because Zhao Ziying came up with a lot of businesses that are worth investing money and looking at it easier to get rich.

For this mention, Zhao Ziying promised to go back and think about it, the salt merchants said more than this, in a sense they are similar to the wealthy businessmen in Qingjiangpu, now Zhao Ziying's territory has surrounded the Haizhou salt field, the official salt is okay, the shipment of private salt depends on Zhao Ziying's face, and the establishment of the salt market regulates the private salt market, the Xu family's sand fleet and the Li family's gang of private salt procurement is to open up a new source of wealth for them, whether they want to admit it or not, the rise and fall of the salt merchants are pinched in the hands of Zhao Jin, and they want to make more money, Zhao Jin needs to give more shares in the coming year.

And Zhao Jin's distribution does not depend on how much salt you attract, no matter what power you have in the official face, and what kind of examples you have in the past, it all depends on your relationship with Zhao Ziying and your contribution to Zhao Ziying

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