Salt can be produced wherever there is a sea along the southeastern coast.
Besides sea salt from the coast, there are also lake salt, well salt, mineral salt, and soil salt inland.
Salt is not as good as sugar; it is neither monopolized by a single company nor sold as a luxury item.
"Yes! We still need to make sugar and open a sugar shop!"
Madam Zheng temporarily abandoned the saltworks and focused all her attention on the auction in the audience.
Before long, the powerful and influential people from the five counties of Yuezhou arrived one after another.
Of course, they wouldn't appear in person; instead, their own merchants would participate in the auction on the first floor.
They were mostly in private rooms on the second floor, which allowed them to maintain their prestigious status while also being able to control the situation on-site.
An auction—they'd never heard of it.
However, the word "competition" in the term "auction" makes the powerful and wealthy somewhat worried.
If the Prince of Yue's mansion were to sell a rare commodity at an exorbitant price, the merchants or managers under his jurisdiction might easily be blinded by greed.
At this point, it is necessary for these powerful and influential people to take control.
"Madam, we must remain calm and not let the Xie family control us!"
The noblewoman in the next private room to Madam Zheng was from a powerful family in He County, a local tyrant.
Before taking her seat, she went to Mrs. Zheng's private room and greeted her with a smile.
"Of course!" Madam Zheng nodded demurely, indicating her willingness to work with the other party to lower the price.
However, all of Zheng Yurong's plans fell apart after she read about the sugar shop's profits over three months.
A net profit of 200,000 guan per month?
Are you sure this isn't robbery?
What else is there to say?
One word—take a picture!
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