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The people who felt the shock were not only Western businessmen, but all businessmen who were not local in Nanzhili, coming to Nanjing for the first time, had to go through a process of 'shock'.

Those things in Nanjing appeared too suddenly, there was no sign, and there was no process for people to get used to. As if overnight, these things appeared.

Other businessmen are still stuck in the previous world view, and in the blink of an eye they find that the world has changed greatly, and it is hard not to be shocked.

A steamboat alone has made countless businessmen unable to figure it out.

There are also those cement roads, fountain landscapes, none of which is something they can understand.

"Nanjing has changed so much that I almost don't recognize it."

Xu Wenjing from Huai'an said with emotion that he had been to Nanjing for business the year before, and he was familiar with Nanjing. But today's Nanjing has given him a sense of strangeness.

"Look, sir, that's the soap and soap we're going to buy, and there's a lot of people lining up."

The housekeeper saw an oversized warehouse that said wholesale of perfume and soap.

At the door of the warehouse, there are many merchants queuing to buy goods. A large number of carriages were parked on one side, and large boxes of silver filled the ground.

Chen Daolin has not yet established a sales channel in the north, so the perfume soaps they make are not only retailed in the south, but also wholesaled to other merchants.

Wholesale to other merchants will make less money, but the advantage is fast, and the money will be returned quickly.

Chen Daolin is ready to focus on expanding the scale of production, regardless of sales. As long as he has the sole production right, he will not have to worry about making no money, and he will make a lot of money.

If other businessmen want to do this business, they have to come to him to buy goods. Those who come to wholesale and retail are all making hard money.

The wholesale price has already been set very high, and labor costs and shipping costs are also required, and the profit is only a few percent higher than other commodities.

But just for the extra profit, countless businessmen broke their heads and wanted to snap up this kind of goods.

"Let's take a look first. I heard that Nanjing has recently added something called a match. It only takes a light stroke to start a fire, which is very convenient."

Xu Wenjing was obviously prepared. He came here on purpose because he saw the business opportunity of Match.

However, at present, matches have just been listed, and the production capacity is limited, which is in short supply.

Xu Wenjing went around the East City without finding the wholesale office. After some inquiries, he finally found the Han family.

When the Han family was bidding, they won the project with an investment quota of 300,000 taels.

Today, this business has become the exclusive business of the Han family.

After the Han family launched matches, they quickly made a name for themselves around Nanjing. Like this kind of convenient and beneficial commodities, there is no need to worry about no sales.

Xu Wenjing and the Han family have no friendship, but in business, they pay attention to having multiple friends and multiple paths. Even though Han Sanli is not worried about sales now, he still met Xu Wenjing, and the two sides exchanged greetings.

In the end, Han Sanli declined Xu Wenjing's purchase request.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of businessmen in Nanjing. Han Sanli can either sell it at a price, or he can set up sales channels himself.

Some businessmen who came to Nanzhili to seek wealth were not lucky enough to find a way to make money, but there were also many businessmen who got the opportunity.

For example, the shopkeeper Tao, a big salt merchant in Xuzhou, bought a large amount of cheap salt wholesale in Songjiang Prefecture.

For a pound of coarse salt, he used to buy 70 cents from other salt dealers. But now, the purchase price in Songjiang is only 60 cents.

One catty is only ten cents in profit. This time, he wholesaled 100,000 catties and shipped it back to Xuzhou in one go, which made him an extra 1,000 taels of silver.

A thousand taels may not seem like much, but it is pure profit.

On average, they can earn one thousand taels per year, which is equivalent to six or seven hundred thousand in a year for later generations. This can already be regarded as a successful businessman, belonging to the real wealthy class.

Moreover, the shopkeeper Tao is only one trip. In a year, he said that he will have to go back and forth more than ten times. This is the income of tens of thousands of taels.

To be able to make a net profit of tens of thousands of taels a year, this is already a rich man.

But shopkeeper Tao only made a small profit. The real big profit was made by Pang Yuanming and Wu Changqing.

They use steam engines to pump water to make salt, which is very cheap.

The average cost of a pound of coarse salt is only about 20 cents.

In other words, they can earn as much as 40 cents per pound of salt in wholesale sales, and even if they sell it for retail, they can earn 60 to 70 cents per pound.

Earning forty cents a pound may not seem like much at first glance, but their output is high.

With their current production capacity, they can make at least 100,000 catties a month, which is a profit of four or five thousand taels. Moreover, they are constantly expanding their production capacity.

Pang Yuanming's plan is to first expand into a salt field that can produce millions of catties per month, so that the monthly profit can reach 40,000 to 50,000 taels, which is hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Then go to other places to open branch factories, at least ten branch factories must be opened, and the monthly output must reach the scale of tens of millions of kilograms. In this way, the annual profit is several million taels.

10 million catties of salt a month, no worries about not being able to sell it,

Calculated based on an average of 100 grams of salt per person per month, the current total market demand in China is as high as 40 to 50 million catties per month.

100 grams of a person per month is calculated according to the minimum demand. If calculated according to the health standards of later generations, a person needs at least 200 grams per month, and northerners need more.

Moreover, in addition to the domestic market, it can also be shipped abroad.

As the population increases, this demand will also increase.

In short, they have no market for their low-priced salt.

The business of making salt is the real profiteering. During the bidding, several big businessmen and Pang Yuanming competed, and finally Pang Yuanming won the bid with the first investment quota of one million taels.

One million taels is the first investment. When expanding the branch in the future, he will need to continue to make additional investment.

Moreover, at least half of the profits earned by Pang Yuanming should be given to Wu Changqing to support the army.

Speaking of which, Wu Changqing made the most profit. He didn't have to do anything, just provide a water pump and a more advanced salt-making process, and then sit and wait for the dividend.

Other hard work and troubles were all handled by Pang Yuanming.

Of course, even so, Pang Yuanming still had money to make. After the scale is expanded, there is even more money to be made. As shrewd as he is, he has naturally undergone meticulous calculations and will not do business at a loss.

If he hadn't reluctantly cut such a large piece of meat to Wu Changqing in the bidding plan, he would not have obtained the authorization of this business.

But now, those few bidders who failed can only watch Pang Yuanming make money.