"Since my lord has plans, I'll first learn about the situation of the salt industry in Liaodong!"
Luo Shang spoke with an extremely grave expression.
The interests touched by the official salt trade were not something ordinary businesses could compare to.
This was different from the businesses the Luo Family had done before. At present, the Luo Family was involved in many trades—cloth shops, embroidery workshops, gold and silver jewelry, grain stores, blacksmith shops, carpentry shops, escort agencies, and so on. Although the Luo Family had a hand in many businesses, all of them were conventional ones.
But the salt industry was an entirely different trade. Setting foot in it could very well cost one's entire fortune and life.
Of course, the profits brought by the salt industry were also not something Other People could compare to. If the Luo Family could truly gain a firm foothold in Liaodong's salt industry, then the Luo Family's family fortune and status would rise by several levels.
This risk was still worth taking.
"No hurry, no hurry. The salt industry and maritime merchant trade are still only my ideas. If things go quickly, I won't try to get involved in the salt industry until next summer. As for maritime merchant trade, that may have to wait until the second half of next year, or even the year after!" Yang Zhengshan said.
The Yang Family had no few businesses either, but they mainly centered on houses and land. Apart from those, there was the Horse Farm.
But the Horse Farm could not do without him; its profits would drop sharply.
And now the Tenglong Guard was also not suitable for building a large-scale Horse Farm, which was why Yang Zhengshan had set his sights on the salt industry and maritime trade.
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