Spanish Abstract: En el pais, a lo largo de su historia, unos pocos individuos convertidos en empresarios lograron acumular una fortuna considerable valiendose de las relaciones que establecieron con la politica y con funcionarios del Estado, principalmente con presidentes de la Republica, asi como de las redes sociales y familiares y del poder economico. Uno de estos empresarios fue Jose Maria Sierra, quien logro apropiarse de unas rentas publicas importantes, como las del aguardiente, tabaco, deguello, la sal y el hielo, derivando de ese cuasimonopolio grandes ganancias personales. El proposito de este articulo consiste en describir la actividad economica y empresarial mas relevante que ejercio, relacionada con los remates, en regiones de Colombia como Antioquia, Bogota, Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Tolima, Cauca, Santander, la Costa Atlantica y Panama. El control de esta actividad le permitio convertirse en “amo y senor de los remates”, y fue la que mas aporto al crecimiento de su fortuna hasta convertirse en el hombre mas rico del pais en su epoca. Para la realizacion de este articulo, se consultaron algunas escrituras que reposan en el Archivo General de la Nacion en su seccion de notarias, en donde se da cuenta de la protocolizacion de los negocios y contratos entre particulares y con el gobierno. Tambien, se revisaron libros publicados durante el periodo de analisis que se ocupan de las rentas y los pleitos y reclamaciones en torno a ellas, escritos por los implicados en esos negocios o interesados en el tema. Igualmente, se revisaron algunos libros o capitulos de libros de historia economica, empresarial, social y politica, publicados en anos posteriores en donde hay acapites especificos sobre esos asuntos. English Abstract: In the country, throughout its history, a few individuals have become entrepreneurs that have amassed a considerable fortune using various strategies, among which it is worth mentioning: the relationships that were established with politics and some government officials, mainly presidents of the Republic, as well as social and familiar networks and the economic power. One of these entrepreneurs was Jose Maria Sierra, who managed to appropriate some major public revenues, such as the aguardiente, tobacco, beheading, salt and ice, getting large personal revenues from that quasi-monopoly. The purpose of this article is to describe the most important economic and business activity that this entrepreneur had, related to the bargains, in some regions of Colombia such as Antioquia, Bogota, Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Tolima, Cauca, Santander, the Atlantic coast and Panama. The control of this activity that allowed him to become the “master and lord of bargains”, was the one that contributed the most to the growth of the fortune of Pepe Sierra until becoming the richest man of the country in his time. For making this article, some deeds that lie in the General Archive of the Nation, in the Notaries section, were consulted, for they offer information on the protocol of the businesses and contracts with private individuals and with the government. There was also a revision of books that were published during the period of analysis that are focused on revenues, lawsuits and complaints around them, written by those implicated in those businesses or interested in the topic. Likewise, some books or chapters of books on economic, business, social and political history, published in later years, were revised, some of which have specific sections of such matters.