She had no choice but to own very little land and manpower. The Kingdom of Zhou itself was also small and sparsely populated, and the largest existing landowner and slave owner was her son, King Zhou Jing.

Ding Yun refused to take the land and population from her son.

You can't take away the land of ordinary people.

For now, her development cannot be separated from land and population. Before Luoyang can become a financial and trade center that can attract a large number of people to trade, she can only suffer for her own son.

Besides, it’s not like Ding Yun wanted it for nothing, he had to force it out!

She won’t give you any money!

When the whole of Luoyang develops into a commercial and trade center in the future, with many merchants transporting various things here to sell, and then buying things back to sell, Ding Yun will no longer have to continue to collect her son's land and slaves.

Firstly, she can outsource industries that require a lot of land and directly purchase the corresponding products. Secondly, after the business develops, as long as Ding Yun shows that he wants more labor force, someone will naturally sell the labor force.

Form a relatively balanced supply and demand relationship.

It can't be done now, mainly because Luoyang hasn't developed yet. She has nowhere to buy. No one is transporting slaves in large quantities to sell them. If she wants to hire ordinary citizens, no one is willing to accept them.

Because the current situation is that the great nobles basically use slaves to work. Even ordinary citizens do not believe Ding Yun when she talks about hiring. They are even worried that she will turn them into slaves through hiring. This inherent concept cannot be changed in a short time.

So I can only use slaves first.

Compared with ordinary citizens, slaves are more contented, and having food and clothing without worries is enough to make them loyal.

As Ding Yun successfully obtained a certain amount of land and slaves from her son, she immediately began to continue to expand production and increase the number of manpower to protect the property.

That is to cultivate your own private soldiers in a different way.

Without sufficient armed forces, Ding Yun really couldn't feel at ease. After all, if she hadn't been wary of those big nobles and made sufficient preparations, her workshop and workers would have encountered a great crisis.

Although there is no secret recipe in the workshop.

But if something really happened, wouldn’t it be quite troublesome?

After that, there will be a long period of development of Ding Yun, and the dissemination and fermentation period of refined salt soap and other products.

Except for a small number of relatively reserved nobles who only purchased some for their own use, most of the remaining nobles and businessmen purchased large quantities of products from Ding Yun's four shops and then shipped them out for sale, adding refined salt and other seasonings and

Daily chemical products such as soap have the highest sales volume, followed by pens, inks, paper, inkstones, and glass products. The worst sales volume is toilet paper.

This is something that everyone seems to be shy about mentioning.

Coupled with the low price, high transportation costs and other factors, the low sales volume is reasonable.

But no matter how bad the sales volume is, it's not that they can't be sold at all. They are still sold more or less. Under the transportation of many merchants and merchants controlled by the nobles, these things are quickly centered on Luoyang and Zhou Zhou.

With one country as the center, it spreads to other countries on the periphery.

And quickly triggered a rush to buy.

It can be said that wherever things are sold, they cause a wave of heated discussions. Then there are nobles who simply buy things for enjoyment, and there are also nobles who delve into the source of the things and send their men to Luoyang, the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, to purchase them in person and join in the sales.

The ranks of these things.

By the time the news spread throughout the country and the goods were sold all over the country, there was already an endless stream of caravans going to Luoyang to purchase.

The most important thing is that Ding Yun is still launching new products, and the new products will further attract more businessmen. Those businessmen will definitely not be willing to come with empty cars. After all, they are here, and they will come without bringing something.

Wouldn't it be a waste to bring empty trucks over? Then wouldn't a new commercial, financial and trade center slowly take shape?

As long as Ding Yun maintains the regional characteristics of "people have nothing but I have, and people have my spirit", then Luoyang will inevitably develop more and more prosperously, so prosperous that it will utilize the land to the extreme, expand the city to the extreme, and use the resources of surrounding countries to support it.

This city has developed and grown.

Of course, this is just a future goal. For now, Luoyang has just gained some popularity and some assets.

Ding Yun has just revealed that he is short of labor.

There is a shortage of food and other supplies.

The real big development will have to wait for those merchants to transport enough labor and food before it can be officially launched. Otherwise, just repairing the palace will not have enough manpower, let alone repairing the entire city of Luoyang, or even expanding the entire city. In short, there is no rush, and there is a long way to go.

take it easy.

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Qi State, Capital HD.

Ever since merchants brought refined salt back to Qi for sale, the Qi court began to debate this issue, arguing over whether it was possible to imitate the refined salt process, and arguing over where Zhou got the refined salt.

Should we no longer supply ordinary salt to Zhou Guo from now on, and appropriately reduce the price of green salt?

The salt industry is so important to the State of Qi. The annual revenue from the salt industry accounts for more than 30% of the total revenue of the State of Qi. If this part of the income is lost, all aspects of the State of Qi will be affected, and the ability to provide disaster relief will be weakened.

So the argument went to the end.

Qi decided to take a three-pronged approach.

The first is to order people to study how to imitate refined salt, the second is to send people to Zhou Kingdom to investigate the situation, and the most important thing is to get the secret recipe of refined salt, and the third is to reduce the price of green salt.

There is no way. In the past, green salt was mainly high-quality salt sold to nobles from all over the world, so the price was naturally not too low. But with the advent of refined salt, everyone went to buy refined salt. As long as the nobles who could afford to buy refined salt basically did not

I would like to buy their green salt again.

At most, buy some to brush your teeth and clean your mouth.

If the price is not lowered, the remaining green salt stocks in the country will probably be lost. As for whether we will continue to produce green salt in the future, it depends on whether there are many people buying it. If there are too few people buying it, the profit will be too low.

It is better to cut down the entire production line and only sell coarse salt from now on.

At least coarse salt can still make small profits but quick turnover.

Of course, the attitudes of the other major salt-producing countries were basically the same as those of Qi. They paid more attention to the refined salt sold by Ding Yun, and constantly sent people to Luoyang, Zhou State, to investigate and find out the secret recipe of refined salt.

As for the secret recipes of other things, that is secondary. It is the best that can be obtained. It doesn't matter if you can't get it, because salt is really too important. No matter which princely country you are in, salt is a proper strategic material.

There is no capable king.

Can ignore the importance of salt.

In the end, Ding Yun was annoyed by them and simply held an auction to auction off the secret recipe for purifying ordinary coarse salt into refined salt. Then he restricted the purchase of salt sold in his store, allowing only people from the Zhou Kingdom to purchase it.

Each household is limited to purchasing one kilogram per month, so they simply don’t compete for this profit, so the workshop can feel a little more comfortable.

It can be regarded as exchanging refined salt for a period of peaceful development.

(End of chapter)
Chapter completed!