Half an hour later, Wang Qing came to the house.

We haven't seen each other for only a few months, but Wang Qing's state is completely different from when he gave the last two salt store coupons to Wu Liangshi. His whole face is glowing with pride, and even his figure is plumper than before.

One circle.

Seeing Wu Liang, Wang Qing bowed his hands and bowed: "Why don't you send someone to say hello in advance when your talented brother comes back? Brother Yu, it's better to make arrangements in advance and go out of the city to greet your brother in person."

"We brothers don't engage in such nonsense."

Wu Liang stood up and returned the gift, then asked directly, "Brother Yu Nian, have you brought all the things I mentioned?"

"Except for the account books that have not been recovered this month, the rest have been brought here. Several servants are unloading the truck in the courtyard and will bring it in later for my brother to have a look at."

Seeing Wu Liang talking about business directly, Wang Qing did not dare to be vague and answered seriously.

"Unload the truck?"

Wu Liang stepped into the courtyard.

I saw that Wang Qing actually brought two carriages directly, and these large wooden boxes were pulled on the carriages. The corresponding month categories were engraved on the boxes, and there were rolls of bamboo slips inside.

"..."

Wu Liang suddenly remembered that paper is still in short supply these days, and it is not easy to preserve for a long time due to problems with the production process.

Therefore, today's commercial banks still use slips for accounting. Even Wang Qing, who coaxed him to offer "Zuo Bo Paper" when they first met, did not have the courage to use paper to record accounts.

What's more, the Wang family almost went bankrupt because of his father's funeral. Wang Qing also learned a lot of lessons. In addition, now that he is a boss, he knows that firewood and rice are expensive. Even if the current situation of the salt shop is very good, he does not dare to do it again.

As luxurious as before, we still have to save where we can.

Just like now, the Wang family's current situation is better than when his father was alive, but like Wu Liang, he only wears a simple cloth and no longer wears silk clothes...

"A talented and wise brother."

Wang Qing'er has been in business for a while, and now he is becoming more and more mature. Without waiting for Wu Liang to say anything, he took out another roll of slips from his arms and held it with both hands. "These are just the monthly sales of each salt shop."

As for the detailed accounts, I also have a general ledger here that I compiled personally. I would like to ask my dear brother to take a look at it first."

"Brother Yu Nian is really getting more and more meticulous in his work. Please come in and let's watch and chat at the same time."

Wu Liang grinned, took Wang Qing's hand and turned back to the living room.

In fact, less than four months have passed since Cao's Salt Shop opened.

Therefore, the general ledger summarized on a monthly basis does not contain much content. It only summarizes the number of openings of the salt bank and the income and expenditure of each month.

Wu Liang was not interested in the detailed accounts. What he wanted was the total number.

certainly.

He would not tell Wang Qing that he had no intention of keeping the detailed accounts at all. He would definitely tell him to keep the detailed accounts later and leave them in the house for a few days before sending someone to take them away.

This is considered a kind of "supervision".

Money and silk attract people's hearts, so Wang Qing thinks that no one will check his accounts. Over time, he gradually develops evil thoughts, which ultimately affects the relationship between the "brothers" and may even jeopardize Boss Cao's trust in him.

"In the first month, the total income was 320 shi of corn, 110 pieces of cloth, and 16 jins of gold. Is this the net income after deducting the costs?"

After opening the general ledger and looking at it for a moment, Wu Liang raised his head and asked.

"Exactly."

Wang Qing nodded quickly and said, "When we first opened, according to Brother Xian's wishes, Brother Yu first made a batch of snowflake salt, and took the salt with him to visit the noble families in Chenliu one by one. Each family gave a pound as a gift, and also specially paid tribute to them.

They explained the benefits of snowflake salt. From then on, the snowflake salt from our Cao's Salt Company became the salt of choice for the nobles. A few days later, we received many orders. It was a blockbuster. It was a pity that our salt factory at that time

The scale is still small, and even if we make salt overnight, we cannot meet the demand, so the income is still somewhat reduced.”

"oh……"

Wu Liang nodded slightly.

But I was thinking in my heart, is this enough?

It’s already quite a lot, okay!

It should be noted that in the official system of the Han Dynasty, there were three princes under one person. Not to mention the shady gray income, the annual salary was only 5,000 shi of grain.

By comparison, this salt company's income is already considerable.

Previously, he had handed over all the management of the salt shop to Wang Qing. Only when he came back from Le'an State last time and explained to Wang Qing the joint news purchase of sea salt, he simply asked, and he only knew that the development of the salt shop was still going on.

It's pretty good, but I didn't understand it in depth.

As the saying goes, "Everything is difficult at the beginning."

Therefore, in his opinion, the salt bank has just started. It not only needs to expand the scale of the salt farm, but also expand its business scope and open salt bank branches in various places. Such investment will definitely be quite large, so it is considered good to achieve a balance of payments in the early stage.

Already.

As a result, I didn't expect to achieve such a considerable profit in the first month.

This really gave Wu Liang a big surprise.

"In the second month, the total income was 760 shi of corn, 510 pieces of cloth, and 100 jin of gold..."

This has not just doubled, but several times...

Wu Liangliang became more and more surprised.

During this period, Cao's Salt Shop had successfully opened its stores in Chenliu. It was also when Wu Liang came back from Le'an. At that time, Wang Qing also mentioned to Wu Liang a plan to expand operations to several counties around Chenliu County.

The reality encountered when trading stocks.

After all, after leaving Chenliu County, Cheng Yu could no longer provide convenience to Cao's Salt Store. If he wanted to continue to open a branch, he would need to obtain the salt store's market coupons issued by the court through purchase or other methods.

As a result, Wu Liang just smiled indifferently and asked Wang Qing a question: "Have you forgotten the signboard of our salt store?"

"Cao... clan?"

Wang Qing was stunned.

"Don't worry, go ahead and open it. This is our gold-lettered market coupon. When you see this sign, no one will dare to trouble us except the emperor himself."

As a result, Cao's Salt Company officially entered a crazy expansion mode.

Just as Wu Liang thought, even if they took away the business of other salt shops, those salt shops had no choice but to swallow their anger, and the county magistrates and prefects from various places even pretended not to see it, and no one came to Cao's Salt Shop at all.

The matter of raising market coupons seemed to be acquiesced, and no one dared to mention it in front of Boss Cao.

So much so that Boss Cao probably still doesn’t know about Cao’s Salt Shop.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Boss Cao not to interfere, and Cao's Salt Shop would not be able to operate peacefully until now... But it doesn't matter even if he does, Wu Liang had already signed a contract with Wang Qing, and Boss Cao is

The biggest beneficiary, if Boss Cao asks, all he has to do is hand over the contract to him. Not only will he have no fault, but he will have merit.

great merit!

What boss wouldn't like employees who "take the initiative to work overtime" to work hard on their Lamborghini?

"In the third month, one thousand two hundred stones of corn, seven hundred and fifty pieces of cloth, and one hundred and sixty pounds of gold..."

Income is still growing by leaps and bounds.

But think about it again. At this time, Cao's Salt Company was already quite large in Yanzhou, and Yanzhou was larger than an administrative province in later generations excluding remote areas. Even if the population at this time was not as good as later generations, and social productivity was extremely low, Xuehua Salt's

The pricing is originally designed to deal with the nobles who occupy most of the social resources, so the benefits are reasonable.

"This month's ledger has not been recovered yet, but according to Brother Yu's knowledge, there is a bigger breakthrough in this month's income. The corn alone seems to have exceeded two thousand dan, and the rest needs to be calculated separately."

Wang Qing added in due course, "However, the growth rate should slow down in the future. Our Salt Bank's stores in Yanzhou are close to saturation. Although Shijun already controls more than half of Xuzhou, Xuzhou is close to the sea.

Sea salt resources are quite abundant, and the income from opening a salt shop to sell snowflake salt is far less than inland, so I do not plan to continue to open a salt shop in Xuzhou."

"Your idea is right. Even if you want to build more salt shops in Xuzhou, you will have to wait until the emperor has completely captured Xuzhou and stabilized his occupation before adding more."

Wu Liang nodded and said.

In just three months, a total of 2,190 shi of corn, 1,370 pieces of cloth, and 276 jins of gold were harvested... This is just the beginning.

Even if Boss Cao gets 40%, he and Wang Qing will each get 30%.

It is also a considerable amount of income. In today's troubled times with extremely serious inflation, if converted into gold, it would still cost several thousand gold.

This is nothing short of a successful robbery of a gold-rich imperial Han tomb.

The most important thing is that this is not like tomb robbing, it is just a simple transaction, and it will continue to generate profits in the future, and it will be a sustainable development.

No matter how stupid Boss Cao is, he can definitely tell the difference between the important and the important.

Especially compared with the 5,000 shi of food that the Zhu family and the Chenliu clan gathered together, it was like heaven and earth!

"If it weren't for the guidance of my wise brother, how could my foolish brother be in the situation he is today? I'm afraid the Wang family will never be able to turn around."

Wang Qing sighed with gratitude.

"Money is still a small matter. I think this time the envoy is here. Brother Yu Nian might be able to become a school captain like me. Maybe it happened in the past few days."

Wu Liang said with a smile.

"My dear brother, do you want to recommend me?"

Wang Qing was stunned and asked in surprise.
To be continued...