Liu Bu now knows the greatest effect of money. They can support their troops and troops with money. If they don’t have money, it would be impossible for their Liu family to develop so well.

Now he looked at the Liu family's account book and understood what business the Liu family does.

The main business of the Liu family is mainly concentrated on the front line of the canal. The Liu family relies on the position of deputy director to collude and evade taxes, and do business on the canal. The Liu family owns four commercial fleets of the canal. They don’t know how much goods they transport from south to north every year, and the money they earn is like flowing water.

Another one is the business of their Liu family in the Fushan area, which mainly involves that they own a wharf and do overseas trade with the Zheng family.

Also, they have a secret salt farm. They cook sea for salt and then transport it to the mainland for sale. This is why their Liu family raises armed servants. Generally, wealthy families have at most domestic slaves, but there are very few who directly train servants like them. This is because the Liu family has a large salt field in the area outside the Fushan Sea.

You should know that the salt administration is the most profitable industry today, but the state specializes in the management of special military officials. If you cook salt privately, no matter how powerful or powerful you are, if the government finds the evidence, it is a serious crime of raiding the family and extermination. However, the Liu family, relying on his own huge commercial network, split the salt produced in his salt fields and sold them quietly, which created the wealth of their Liu family.

Liu Bu knew why their Liu family was so rich. They were on the canal, smuggled goods, evaded taxes, and cooked the sea into salt. These were all the best deals, and it would be strange if they were not rich.

This is also the reason why they have always had a lot of wealth and dare to say that they have raised so many servants and so many soldiers.

The wealth of the Liu family is really not a brag, it is real. Under such circumstances, Liu Bu decisively issued an order to the housekeeper: "Try to recruit as much as possible, otherwise if our salt fields are discovered, it would be miserable. In the past, my father had his official guard and we could cover each other up, but now it is different from the past. I am worried that if our political enemies hear any rumors, the Liu family will be in trouble."

The Ming Dynasty court implemented extremely strict specialized policies for salt administration. All salt fields on the beach are directly managed by the official. If there is a private person who dares to cook, it is necessary to behead the head at the least, and to exterminate the clan at the worst. Even if there is a powerful family who dares to do this, it is very taboo. Once it is exposed, no one can protect you, because the oil and water in this area is too adult and too scary.

Liu Bu knew that the Liu family could be so rich, and it was impossible for them to get it from doing business seriously. Now, it turns out that way.

Even Liu Bu frowned a little, and he said, "Uncle Liu, we are so rich, and we still touch the sea salt. Will it attract others' jealousy?"

Liu Fuqi said, "Don't worry, we have our own bulk cargo channels, and we have relevant departments and relevant personnel to take care of them, and we are actively managing them. This is a huge network. If something happens to us, many people will be unlucky. If the Liu family is raided and follow the clues, there are probably many people who are unlucky, which has formed a trend of not ruling the public. Moreover, we only sell coarse salt and do not compete with the government for the high-end market. We like to sell coarse salt in the sales channel, but we just make some hard money."

Liu Bu said: "It's also the beach, why do others appear in fine salt, while ours are coarse salt?"

Liu Fuqi said, "This may be because the sea environment is different. Anyway, the salt we produce is much worse than the salt in Changlu Yantian and Huaiyang Yantian. There are also some official small salt fields nearby, but they are all quite rough. They cannot be taken out to increase the high-end market with others. They can only sell it to some poor people and strive to make some low-end markets."

Liu Fuqi said, "Since you talk about Yantian, this is also the family business. You should go out and take care of the family business."

Liu Bu said, "This one can be there, I can go and have a look after the meal."

After Liu Bu finished his meal, he immediately led his guards and Liu Fuqi and others to inspect the salt field of their Liu family.

Liu Bu went to their salt fields to find out why their salt fields were not discovered, because their salt fields were built in a large harbor on Tianheng Island. If it were on the beach, they would have been discovered by the patrolling salters. They were built on the island. After cooking salts on the island, they secretly transported them to the Liu family's wharf and sold them through the Liu family's network, so the other party didn't know.

It's a bit like later generations selling drugs.

Liu Bu also knew why the salt in the Liu family was rough? It was because they extracted it directly from the sea, and then did not undergo further filtration or distillation to extract it. This must be just rough.

Liu Bu asked them on the spot why they didn’t use filtration and salt to purify.

What Liu Bu said about purifying is actually just that Liu Bu learned a very simple experiment in junior high school. As long as they use distillation and purification methods, they can turn coarse salt into edible fine salt. He also conducted experiments specifically for this in middle school, which is not very difficult or high-end. But now these people don’t understand. They directly dry the salt on the beach and pick it up, and then package it to others. In this case, they will definitely not be able to sell it at a good price.

Liu Fuqi said strangely: "Young Master, what is the filtration, distillation and purification method?"

Liu Bu immediately found some tools, found a pound of coarse salt, and gave a demonstration on the spot. After half an hour of his demonstration, they successfully made half of the white and snow-like fine salt from a pound of coarse salt.

Such methods surprised Liu Fuqi very much. He said, "Young Master, where did you learn this skill? This seems very simple, why didn't they think of it, but it did turn decay into magic? As long as they have this process, they can produce first-class fine salt. This salt is as fine as sand as white as snow, and is completely the best salt on the market. Even the mineral salt produced by Hedong Salt Field and Sichuan Salt Factory is just like this."

Liu Bu opened his fan and sang the wind. He said, "There is a golden house in the book? Where did the method come from? I will not be convenient for me to disclose it, but if you think this method is useful, you can use it to finish it and sell it at a high price, and we can also enter the high-end market."

Liu Fuqi couldn't help but have some doubts. He said: "Our people have always been in the low-end market. They have not competed for the market with Changlu and Huaiyang, nor have they attracted the attention of the government. If we also go to the high-end market, we probably just grab food in a trough, which is easy to attract jealousy."

Liu Bu knew that salt is of great significance to people of this era. It can be said that it is impossible for people without salt to eat. Especially for those places in Mongolia that do not produce salt, if you can transport salt there, it is equivalent to gold. Therefore, the Liu family guarding this salt field is actually guarding a large gold mine. Although they did not take the high-end route before, they still made a lot of money. Now if they go to the high-end market, they will be even more rolling like water.

It can be said that many people will definitely be jealous and many people will be jealous.

Liu Bu said: "What's the problem with this? Our Liu family has as many as 2,000 soldiers. This is not a joke. Even a powerful person like Jufeng thief has been wiped out. Who dares to ruin our good things? Let them tell our Liu family's soldiers."

Liu Bu said this with great enthusiasm, and Liu Fuqi also felt that the truth was the case. He said: "Since you have provided such a good purification method, the old slave will immediately arrange for people to prepare the guys and stoves. In the future, the salt of our Liu family will be steamed and purified again and then made into high-end salt. Then we will sell it and strive to make a high-end market."

Liu Bu said, "This is what we should do. I trust you in this regard, Uncle Liu, just feel free to do it."

Other people's housekeepers are slaves and trusted people. The housekeepers of the Liu family have his own way of employing people. To put it bluntly, they are a bit like the CEO of later generations. This is not an ordinary servant, but a senior manager. The Liu family does not regard them as servants, but treats them as important partners and assistants.

If the Liu family did not have someone with capable help like Liu Fuqi, it would probably be impossible for the rear to manage it so well.

It can be said that Liu Yuanqiao trusts Liu Fuqi very much. He can hand over his hometown to him and give him the salt field with his life roots to him. It can be seen that Liu Fuqi has no problem with his trust.

So now Liu Bu said this without hesitation without reservation, and taught them how to filtration, distillation and purification methods, and left them to their salt factory for responsibility.

He believed that if this happened, their income would be greatly increased. The salt in this era was equivalent to silver and could be used as hard currency. To put it bluntly, mastering the salt field was equivalent to mastering the right to mint currency.
Chapter completed!