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audacious in the extreme!

It's really bold.

These merchants were shocked. As a guerrilla general in Denglai, Zhao Yan actually sold private salt and military weapons, and trained armed forces for the salt merchants.

But thinking about it, Zhao Yan has always been so bold. He had directly brought a group of rural soldiers to crippled Wu Anbang's troops and then was dependent on him. It seems that his surname has not changed.

But what does this have to do with them?

As long as you have money to make money, it’s up to him, Zhao Yan, who will take over the trouble, will not provoke them.

Some businessmen who were worried about the lack of hands were overjoyed. They were not really without hands, but without the hands of those who could protect them.

After all, when doing business in the Ming Dynasty, I often traveled to water, and there were inns everywhere and warm shops to rest. Generally, as long as I acted carefully, I would not make any mistakes.

But this salt trading is different. Someone needs to escort it, otherwise those salt ditches who bully the weak and fear the strong will stop people, then slaughter them with one knife, and then swallow the salt goods.

It is also common to eat black and black. After all, even if the salt owls die, they will not go to the government office. This is a shameful thing. If the government cannot find the family, they will naturally not investigate carefully. After a process, they will be done.

Therefore, if there are not enough people to escort the guards, there will be 80% accidents.

"If General can help train people and horses, he can have enough weapons to sell us, and this is a sure thing to sell salt." During the meal, a salt owl was moved to see that Zhao Yan's soldiers were so elite.

"Mr. Zhao, what if there is really no one in charge?" Another businessman said with a bitter face.

"In that case, we can hire people from our Zhao family to escort them. We will collect 10% of the profits every time we sell salt. If we grab the salt goods, we will share half of each." Zhao Yan pondered for a moment, then said after thinking about it. It is good to develop mercenaries. During the escort, we can just eat bad things and work part-time to suppress bandits.

"If you want to do this business, we will discuss the details later." Zhao Yan said. Everyone agreed with a smile, and each had their own plans in their hearts.

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After the banquet was dispersed, only a few businessmen did not plan to do this business and left early. Most of the businessmen stayed, and Zhao Yan and Zhao Quan explained the details of cooperation to them.

Finally, a Shandong Salt Association was established, and members who joined it must abide by the rules set by the Salt Association.

There were 41 merchants who joined, and these 41 merchants became the first members of the Salt Society and perhaps the last one.

After all, the salt industry market is so big, and there will be less profits when there are too many people.

"At present, our main opponent is Huai Yan. When selling salt, everyone pays attention to collecting information about Huai Yan. If you encounter it during the trafficking process, you can eat them. If you can't eat it, you can report to me. I will send people to eat it. If the members of the salt association compete for the market, everything depends on their own ability. You should not act like a bad person."

The main competitor of Shandong Salt Association is naturally Huai Salt, which produces the most salt. Huai Salt now occupies most of the country, and Huai Salt can be seen everywhere.

The salt farms in other regions are too rigid and operated poorly.

There must be competition in terms of cost, but cost is not the main way of competition. The most effective way of competition is to eliminate the other party from trafficking and allow the other party's salt to be transported out of the sales place.

In terms of principle, it is fair competition at home, and it is bad to eat outside. If you can eat it, you can eat it. Zhao Yan sent someone to eat it.

In terms of details.

Each load of sea salt is sold to members at 2 taels and 5 cents, and the market of Denglai Second Mansion belongs to Zhao Yan.

The Zhao family helped them train their troops for free. They had fifteen taels of muskets, ten taels of waist knives, five taels of long spears; thirty taels of plate armor and ten taels of leather armor.

Some businessmen complained that this was too expensive. With their merchants' eyesight, they would not be able to see the profits. Zhao Yan just laughed twice and said that there was no good product at all.

Military weapons are not allowed to be made privately. Although the management is extensive and privately made military weapons are very common, it cannot create the quality of the military weapons in Zhao Yan's hands.

Those official troops sometimes steal and sell military funds, but many of the official troops' things are shoddy.

Those knives and spears may be able to find the same quality as those knives, but those armor and muskets cannot find any better ones.

Hire people from the Zhao family to escort, and the commission is 3 taels per month, and then 10% of the profit is drawn. If the salt goods are bad, Zhao Yan will be half the price with the members.

At the same time, members should pay attention to collecting market information in various places, especially the activity routes and rules of salt merchants in other provinces, and then report them to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan used force to help them seize the market and protect the safety of members' trafficking. Members only need to concentrate on selling salt and enter the market.

This is a kind of division of labor, which is to facilitate members, and also reduces Zhao Yan's management on it, making full use of the manpower and material resources of these merchants.

The next day, Zhao Yan took them to Laizhou Bay Salt Field for a visit. The merchants couldn't help but feel relieved when they saw the salt workers who were constantly renovating the mudflats and the sea salt produced.

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The merchants went back to prepare manpower and silver, while Zhao Yan ordered the recruitment of troops in Shandong. The two battalions under Zhao Yan were not fully organized yet!

Currently, there are only two long spears, the standard should be three, and the organization of musketeers is complete.

This recruitment was pre-recruited for 8,000 people, one infantry battalion was expanded, one cavalry battalion was expanded, one artillery battalion was expanded, and one employed battalion was hired. The infantry battalion was expanded to 2,600 soldiers per battalion. There were 750 spearmen, 600 musketeers, 500 longbowmen, 50 rocket soldiers, 300 artillery soldiers, 400 miscellaneous soldiers.

There are 1,000 people in the artillery battalion, and the cannon has not yet been set, but you can train first.

There are 1,000 people in the cavalry battalion, specially used to blackmail and to fight against bandits by mobile phones.

The hiring camp was 2,000 people and trained to escort smuggle salt.

These soldiers will be selected from all over Shandong. As a guerrilla in Denglai, Zhao Yan is now legitimate to recruit some soldiers and brave soldiers. Who cares about how much he recruits?

According to people's usual thinking, military generals have shortages in their soldiers, and there are very few who can be full, and there are no excesses at all.

Just recruiting troops, who would pay attention to this?

If you want to touch the emperor's money bag, you must have enough strength!

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Second update!

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Chapter completed!