latelenovela Chapter 516
Chapter 516
Chapter 516
"Haha! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince demands 10% interest from us every year. That's one million taels of silver. Instead of letting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince take all the money, we might as well sell everything we have and give it all to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
The merchants and aristocratic families all sneered and said.
"That's good. It saves me the trouble of calculating the value of each salt mine. Where's the title deed to the salt mine? I'll buy it at the market price!"
Qin Yu said in a deep voice.
"Haha! Does His Royal Highness think we are stupid?"
One person asked with a sneer.
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
Qin Yu asked.
"Your Highness, we realized yesterday after we returned home that after your refined salt appeared, our salt was indeed unsaleable. However, to refine refined salt, we also need mineral salt!"
"With the salt mines in His Royal Highness's possession, the refined salt produced will definitely not last long. Therefore, His Royal Highness has only one choice, and that is to buy the mineral salt from us!"
"Don't worry, Your Highness. Our rock salt is extremely cheap. One hundred kilograms costs only five cents. However, Your Highness needs to come and pick it up yourself!"
The merchants and noble families all said this with a sinister smile.
The piece of rock salt they saw that day weighed at least a hundred kilograms, but the refined salt extracted from it was less than a kilogram. Their salt mine had accumulated a large amount of rock salt.
These mineral salts are sold at five cents per hundred kilograms, which can be said to be a huge profit!
Moreover, in this case, the cost of Qin Yu refining one kilogram of refined salt, just the cost of mineral salt, would be ten cents, plus labor and other costs, that would be twenty cents!
Qin Yu sells it for thirty cents per pound, and the profit is less than ten cents, not including the cost of transportation. Qin Yu's profit will be even less!
Not only that, if Qin Yu offends them in the future, they can also raise the price of rock salt, or directly cut off the supply to Qin Yu, forcing Qin Yu to bow to them.
"Oh! Someone, come here! Put the silver into the treasury!"
Qin Yu nodded, and then ordered his men to put the silver into the treasury.
The mineral salt produced by his salt mine is indeed not enough to be consumed in refining refined salt, but does that matter? It's not only mineral salt that can be refined into refined salt, sea salt can also be used!
Less than a hundred miles south of the east side of the city, there is a small coastal country. Due to its barren location, the total number of people there is less than 100,000!
Moreover, these 100,000 people have to endure hunger because they can only make a living by fishing, and the land in the country is not suitable for growing food!
He decided to negotiate with the monarch of this small country and buy their country directly, so that the people would become the people of Daliang, and he would give them silver so that they could also build cities!
From then on, their people could earn income by mining sea salt for him. At the same time, he could also station troops there and build Daliang’s first port!
Of course, if the people of the small country are ungrateful, he doesn't mind destroying the small country directly. Then, all the sea salt will be his!
The people of that small coastal country would never have imagined that one day they would be targeted by Qin Yu just because of the sea salt that annoyed them!
Seeing Qin Yu instructing people to lightly weigh the silver and then move it into the warehouse box by box, the people from the merchant families panicked instantly.
What do you mean?
Shouldn't Qin Yu be even more panicked at this moment? Shouldn't he immediately negotiate with them to take over all the salt mines even if they didn't want the 10 million taels of silver?
Even in order to allow them to provide mineral salt at a lower price, make other choices, or give them tax exemption, at least we should say a few words to soften the situation!
However, Qin Yu just said "Oh" lightly, and there was no further response!
"Your Highness! Don't you have anything you want to say now?"
The merchant family couldn't help but ask directly.