The West Lake Club's idea is very simple. It is to rely on its strong capital to operate at a loss first, squeeze the official salt industry out of the market, and then monopolize the operation, then boil the frogs in warm water to raise the price.

After the meeting, Qian Ruyi adopted the suggestion of his subordinate think tank and first released news in the newspaper, claiming that Qian's salt company had strict management and adopted a new salt cooking method to reduce the cost of salt production.

Shortly after the news was released, the price of selling salt by several salt companies including Qian's Salt Industry was immediately 30% lower than that of the official workshop.

In recent years, Gao Huan has promoted education and has cultivated a large number of professional talents.

Some of them were accepted by the government, while others remained among the people to serve the big businessmen.

This is also the reason why the bourgeoisie is gradually becoming stronger. They not only control the means of production, but also control talents.

Therefore, Qian Ruyi's plan seemed very professional. He could clearly understand the production costs of the official workshop and how much funds they still had. They made plans based on their mastery, but there was no reason for them to fail.

While Qian Ruyi was promoting, they purchased salt from the market while expanding production and preparing to lower prices.

Huai'an, the leader of the official salt industry company, is deserted outside the gate of JAC Salt Industry. In just one month, the situation where the market was crowded no longer appeared.

After Qian's Salt Industry lowered its shipment prices, both the government-run and private sales companies across the country went to cheaper private companies such as Qian's Salt Industry to purchase goods, making it difficult for the official salt industry to operate.

In Gao Huan's positioning, the salt industry is an industry that concerns people's livelihood. From the positioning of the official salt industry at the time of its establishment, it is not about making money, but about making the people afford salt.

Therefore, the official salt industry has developed for more than 20 years, with more than 100,000 workers, but the account only maintains balance between income and expenditure and does not have much deposit at all.

The salt produced now cannot be sold, and workers are waiting to pay for the wages, and the raw material suppliers have to get the payment for the goods. The official salt industry immediately fell into a business crisis.

At this time, Huang Ting, the supervisor of JAC Salt Industry, was sitting in the office, reading a newspaper, when a manager walked in and sighed: "The supervision is still no one came!"

Huang Ting was from Gao Laozhuang and his childhood playmate of Emperor Gao Huan. After Gao Huan rose up, he worked with Yang Yan as a personal guard for Gao Huan. Later, he was transferred to a secret front to spy on the Qing army's intelligence.

After Gao Huan completed the unification, the army and intelligence systems with huge war time needed to lay off employees. Huang Ting was tired of living a sneaking life in the dark, so he went to Nanjing Political University to study economy and management for three years and transferred to Jianghuai Salt Industry as a supervisor.

In the past few decades, due to the monopoly of government operations, private merchants have been prohibited from entering the salt industry. The official salt farm run by Huang Ting has ensured income from drought and flood, and no problems have occurred.

This time the imperial court carried out reforms to allow private merchants to enter the salt industry and promote competition. Huang Ting did not take it seriously at first. He felt that the official salt farm had the advantage of scale, so there was no need to worry about these private merchants.

But who would have thought that less than half a year after these merchants entered the business of the official salt farm?

Huang Ting frowned, "Have they all gone to Qian's Salt Farm to get the goods?"

The visitor nodded, "The shipment price over there is 30% lower than ours, and they naturally choose cheaper sources."

Huang Ting glanced at the newspaper on the table again, which read news that Qian's Mining, through scientific management and the use of new laws to make salt, reduced costs.

Now JAC Salt Industry has not much money in its account. If the salt produced cannot be sold, it will not have the money to pay workers, and if there is no money to pay coal suppliers or iron suppliers, it will face difficulties like JAC Mining and be liquidated and sold by the court.

Thinking of this, Huang Ting said in a deep voice: "First reduce the price, and then let the craftsman master study new salt making methods to reduce the cost."

"Supervisor!" The visitor said, "I have another thing to report. Our master has been poached a few people by Qian's high salary today. In addition, there are several craftsmen who have proposed to raise their salary, otherwise they will also accept Qian's request and go to their side to do things."

This is really a waste of firewood. The shopping malls are like battlefields. In the past, they were protected by the imperial court, but now the barbarians are killing in.

After hearing this, Huang Ting vaguely smelled a targeted smell, as if he had returned to the glorious years of the past and felt a slight sense of fighting.

This was obviously a business war initiated by Qian. As a soldier who worked on the secret front, Huang Ting did not surrender so easily.

He stood up, pondered for a moment, and then made a decision, "Send someone to talk to the masters, improve their treatment appropriately, and try to keep them as much as possible."

"I understand!" The visitor said worriedly: "But supervise, our funds?"

Huang Ting said in a deep voice: "I'll go to Nanjing and think of a solution!"

After completing the order, Huang Ting immediately left Huai'an and went to Nanjing to seek help from old friends to see if he could borrow money from the bank to help JAC Salt Industry overcome the difficulties.

As soon as he left Huai'an, Qian Ruyi received the news.

Nowadays, the times have changed, the war has gone, the collective interests have been weakened, and people pursue their own interests and wealth more.

This allows those who control wealth to control people and have considerable power.

Money can make the devil push the mill, but West Lake can use money to buy the senior executives of JAC Salt Industry. He is clear about Huang Ting's actions.

In the garden, Qian Ruyi read the information sent by his think tank and smiled: "If it is spread, let all the bank accounts in Nanjing not be able to lend them."

Xie Sanhou said: "President, we can influence private bank accounts by relying on our relationship. What should we do if the official bank accounts lend them to them?"

Qian Ruyi sneered: "Who is an official now has no problem. If anyone lends money to Huang Ting, we will send someone to check his old status and then get rid of him."

Now that the Civic Party is in power, it is easy for them to do this.

Xie Sanhou laughed and said, "If there is no silver account to lend Huang Ting money, they will say it for up to three months."

Qian Ruyi said: "Three months have been too long. If you look for someone and find a newspaper to expose it, it means that there is a problem with JAC Salt Industry's operation and the funds are bottoming out, and you will follow the footsteps of JAC Mining."

Xie Sanhou's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "President is wise! In this way, merchants who supply raw materials and materials to JAC Salt Industry are afraid that JAC Salt Industry will go bankrupt and will definitely collect payments. I don't think they will have to go bankrupt and liquidate at most two months."

Qian Ruyi smiled and nodded, waved with some smugness: "Go and do it!"
Chapter completed!