Chapter 478 Terrible News

Several salt merchants were frowning, and this time no one dared to speak easily.

"Let's summarize the information we have received, so that we can come up with a solution." Yan Cheng said again.

Several people also started talking, summarizing the news they had received.

It's okay if there is no summary, this time they were really scared.

Zhang Yu's caravan transported salt to Xuzhou continuously from several directions.

As if they had an inexhaustible supply of table salt.

They are afraid of these, and they are afraid that the salt accumulated at home will fall into their hands.

Huge manpower and financial resources have been spent. If it falls into my own hands, the family will be over.

A few people found it incredible that they knew that each family used tens of thousands of people to cook salt.

One part is chopping firewood, the other part is boiling water and boiling salt. How can it be sold like Zhang Yu.

"Zhang Yu must have mastered a method that we don't know about making table salt, otherwise it would be impossible to sell it like this, but if this is the case, our losses will be great, and we may lose the Xuzhou market forever." A salt merchant said.

Everyone gasped. If this is the case, then they must withdraw from the salt market forever.

Thinking of selling elsewhere? Don't even think about it, Zhang Yu also used his army to knock on the gate of Xuzhou before he dared to come to Xuzhou to sell salt.

If they go to other places to sell salt, they will definitely be killed by the local salt merchants and officials.

"We can't be so passive. On the one hand, we must find out Zhang Yu's method of making salt, on the other hand, we must put pressure on Tao Qian to drive Zhang Yu out of Xuzhou. We usually support Tao Qian. During the Xuzhou war, we donated a lot of money." Little money to support him." Liu Shan said.

Several people agreed, and they all realized that Zhang Yu’s family’s table salt might not be sold out. It was a fire sale, and they had never seen it out of stock. Although it was out of stock for two days, most of them reopened soon, and even The more open about more.

For about a month or so, Zhang Yu spent about 200 million yuan, and those aristocratic families alone bought about 100 million yuan in salt.

But in the long run, ordinary people must be the main force.

Zhang Yu spent so much money, and immediately allocated tens of millions of money overseas, let them immigrate tens of thousands immediately, go to mine copper and silver mines, and let Zhao Hai and others continue to search for other continents, and then send people to find resources .

However, finding resources can only rely on luck. Many places are covered by virgin forests, and it is difficult to find them without setting up settlements and developing slowly.

"My lord, my lord, if you have money, you can't spend it like this. It's understandable to invest tens of millions to develop mineral resources overseas, but setting up dozens of county schools requires spending tens of millions more. Now we can't afford it." Zhang Zhao called out when he received the task.

He just had money, which could let him breathe a sigh of relief, but Zhang Yuhua was really extravagant when he came here, and he almost spent it all at once.

Zhang Yu didn't compromise, he said: "Don't worry, we can scrape some money back in Xuzhou, and then we won't move, and I will give it all to you. The investment in education is huge, and the return is slow, but the return in the future is difficult to estimate. The sooner The more you invest, the better."

After Zhang Yu said this, Zhang Zhao could only admit it, but at least tens of millions were left for him. The money was all from the south, and the north didn't give any points, so he could still get by.

When Zhang Yu is rich, Xuzhou will be miserable.

For the time being, only these salt merchants are affected, but these salt merchants really can't make it through.

Through inquiring regardless of the cost, they finally found out that Zhang Yu did have a new technology, and he directly knew that he was drying salt by the sea.

But they also know exactly how to use sun drying, and they still don't have the technology in this area, so they can't find out at all.

They panicked completely.

You don't need to inquire too much to know that the cost is very low, and Zhang Yu doesn't need to raise the price at all.

It takes tens of thousands of people to cook so much salt, but Zhang Yu directly uses it in the sun, without chopping firewood or lighting the fire all day long.

How much can this save, and according to their estimates, the output is also very huge.

"No, we will definitely die." The salt merchant shouted, and they got together again.

This time when they got together, they looked even worse.

"Zhang Yu must be driven out, otherwise we will throw all the salt in our hands, and we won't have to do it in the future." Yan Cheng said.

Several other salt merchants also agree very much.

But they didn't dare to make trouble, otherwise they wouldn't have to sit here.

Zhang Yu has a great reputation for being fierce, and anyone would be afraid of risking his entire family and his own life.

They have also thought of other ways, but a family can't be seamless at all, and still have to take a lot of risks. The most important thing is that a family can only cause some troubles for Zhang Yu and the others, and there is no way to drive them out of Xuzhou.

Therefore, if they want to unite, they can only go to Tao Qian.

"Okay, let's find Tao Qian together and ask him to drive all Zhang Yu's caravan out of Xuzhou."

After much deliberation, they could only rely on Tao Qian.

The strength of the several major salt merchants is not small, and if the aristocratic families related to them are united, they will be a huge force.

Several major salt merchants immediately arranged for people to meet Tao Qian.

Tao Qian's head grew bigger when he saw the greeting post.

No need to think about why he came here, but these six salt merchants were indeed his benefactors, and he dared not miss them.

He already knew that Zhang Yu's salt had entered Xuzhou on a large scale, but it had no effect on Xuzhou.

At least Zhang Yu's selling price is extremely low, which is good for him to stabilize Xuzhou.

"Well, discuss with Zhang Yu at an appropriate time and ask him to raise the price." Tao Qian has already thought about how to deal with the six major salt merchants.

Recently, Tao Qian has been doing pretty well. He relies heavily on Chen Gui and Liu Bei, and he has stabilized Xuzhou with one piece of writing and one military force. Moreover, the army has a good appearance under Liu Bei's training.

However, Tao Qian did not hand over all the military power to Tao Qian. The old Xuzhou generals Cao Bao, Mi Fang and Zang Ba all still had some military power.

Tao Qian replied immediately, arranging to meet them at the State Shepherd's Mansion the next day.

The next day, several salt merchants arrived at the state pastoral mansion very early according to the appointment time, which made Tao Qian a little helpless, as merchants are like this.

However, the six major salt merchants were merchants, but they were from aristocratic families. He didn't neglect them and asked them to wait for a while before Tao Qian came.

"Meet Mr. Tao."

Although several people have great energy, Tao Qian has a high prestige in Xuzhou, and several people hurriedly saluted.

"The complexion of these people is so bad, it's as bad as this old man like me." Tao Qian was amazed that several major salt merchants would become like this. You must know that several people have huge wealth and are all wealthy people, so how could they have different expressions like him? A seriously ill person is about the same.

The few people had just sat down and before the tea was served, Liu Shan said: "Mr. Tao, all my salt merchants in Xuzhou are going to be wiped out. If Mr. Tao doesn't care, Zhang Yu will control the whole of Xuzhou in a short time." system