Chapter 459: Illicit Salt

The matter of fighting Quanzhou was basically agreed by all the governors, but the matter of the imperial driver's personal expedition was temporarily shelved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but everyone has a score in their hearts, but in order to stabilize people's hearts, Zhao Yu instructed to keep it secret, and everything was prepared secretly. He first transferred the left army and the front army of the palace guards to Qiongzhou in the name of strengthening Qiongzhou's coastal defense, and moved the forbidden army in front of the palace to Yazhou for rest and training. The Baisha Navy has received a number of new ships and added volunteers, and already has more than 500 warships, of which large warships account for most of them, and the number of soldiers has also reached 20,000.

At the same time, Zhao Yu also issued an order in the name of the Military Aircraft Department to organize the Chinese army, the front army, the rear army and the Baisha Naval Army guarding the pro-army in front of the palace into the Eastern Expeditionary Army, with Zhang Shijie as the head of the march, Ying Jieyan for the camp deployment, Zhao Mengjin and Liu Zhu were the main generals of the infantry army and the navy army, and Wen Tianxiang was the governor of grain and grass. Now all armies have stepped up their war preparations, and the capital has stepped up efforts to build siege equipment, mobilized grain and grass, and sent spies to Quanzhou to spy on the military situation. And of course he will not be idle, there are still many things to arrange......

"See Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" Zheng Huchen should enter the palace, and after seeing the little emperor, he took two steps to pay homage.

"Sit down and drink tea!" Zhao Yu held a snack in one hand and jerky in the other, chewing something in his mouth and said vaguely. He didn't know if it was because he was in a good mood recently, or because he was trained by Yuan Miao, anyway, his appetite increased greatly, and he felt hungry again after eating for a while.

"Your Majesty, what an appetite!" Zheng Huchen sat down with some restraint and said with a smile, he always felt that this seemingly harmless child gave him invisible pressure, and he felt nervous every time he met, but after a long time, he thought about it in a panic, and this kind of ambivalence made him very distressed.

"Hungry! Do you see if I've lost weight? Zhao Yu raised his arm, sat up straight and showed it to him.

"Your Majesty is not thin, but a little taller!" Zheng Huchen looked up and down carefully, shook his head and said.

"Hehe, they all say that I am thin and fat in the world, I may have fattened myself, so I am not thin at all!" Zhao Yu listened to it and took another bite of the snack and said with a smile. He also felt strange, when he was in Yashan, he was trying his best to think about ways to break the enemy, trying to balance various relationships, but there was no sign of losing weight, it seems that his ability to resist pressure is really not ordinarily strong.

"Your Majesty is the world, and if you are fat, of course you will also be fattened by the world!" Zheng Huchen said with a smile.

"Haha, I love what you say!" Zhao Hao laughed and said, "Now that I am the emperor, I have already revoked the wanted notice for you, and I am ready to praise you for your behavior of eliminating traitors for the country, tell me what kind of official you want, and I will do it together!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty Longen, your subordinates can live to this day to be maintained by Your Majesty, and now they are justifying their subordinates, there is really nothing to repay, I dare not ask for an official position again, I just want to stay by Your Majesty's side and do my best before and after the saddle!" Zheng Huchen stood up and bowed deeply. He was also secretly glad that he had bet on the right treasure at the beginning, not only climbed the high branches, but also was deeply used, as long as he hugged the emperor's thigh in the future, he didn't want anything, even if he gave a prime minister, he didn't want to change, he was more willing to take care of the dark empire for His Majesty.

"Since you don't want to enter the court, then it's okay, it just so happens that we have a big deal to do!" Zhao Yu put down the dim sum and took a sip of tea and said.

"Your Majesty refers to the matter of Quanzhou?" Zheng Huchen asked.

"Although Quanzhou has a lot of oil and water, the main purpose of this operation is to solve the financial difficulties of the DPRK, and we cannot make oil and water from it." Zhao Yu waved his hand and said, "But our deal is done, and the profit obtained is not much worse than robbing Pu Shougeng!" ”

"Your Majesty, please speak, my subordinates will do their best to complete it!" Zheng Huchen thought for a while. He didn't figure out what the big deal His Majesty was referring to, and he could be said to be the most well-informed person from the ruling power, down to the peddlers and pawns, the entire dynasty, and even Jiangnan, but he still couldn't think of any business that was more profitable than robbing Pu Shougeng.

"Okay, you must already know about the imperial court's preparation to build a salt farm!" Zhao Yu patted the dim sum scum stuck to his hand and said.

"My subordinates know!" Zheng Huchen nodded and said, this matter can be said to be the most important thing in the current court, countless people are busy with this, how can they not know, but they can't think of anything to do with their own bureau.

"Now the southeast coast is in war readiness, the coast is blocked, and both civilian and merchant ships coming and going to Qiongzhou are prohibited from passing. And things have to be sold in exchange for money after they are produced, so I want to use the channels of the peripheral organizations of our bureau to sell salt! Zhao Yu looked at Zheng Huchen and said.

"Your Majesty means selling illicit salt?" Zheng Huchen's eyes lit up and he said in surprise. He knew that selling illicit salt was definitely a big deal, and if anyone could get hold of the salt at the source, the money would be rolling in like a flowing stream.

"It's private salt for Tartars, but what we sell is official salt!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, we are selling official salt, and we are also going to sell it to the people of the Great Song Dynasty." Zheng Huchen was stunned for a moment, and quickly changed his words. He knew that selling illicit salt was a serious crime, and that anyone who boiled three catties of salt without permission and sold ten catties of salt privately was sentenced to death, and those who sold more than 100 catties in other places were punished by exile. And now if the emperor wants to sell illicit salt, wouldn't it be a violation of the law, and it will not be good for the emperor's reputation if it is spread out!

"That's right, this must not be ambiguous, even if you can't admit it, otherwise you will lose your head, and I will follow the melon. As long as we sell salt at an official price, we don't care how much it sells outside the boundaries of Qiongzhou. Seeing that Zheng Huchen was so clever, Zhao Yu said with a smile.

"The subordinates remembered. But our bureau sells salt, and the people in the DPRK and China are afraid that they will make irresponsible remarks, right? Zheng Huchen completely understood what His Majesty meant, this salt cannot be sold in Qiongzhou, and it has to be sold in other places, in fact, it is still selling illegal salt. This made him a little worried.

"Huh, they're weird?! In the future, they are afraid that Xie Zhen will come in time! Zhao Hao snorted coldly and said, "As long as 10,000 acres of salt fields are built, 30 million catties of salt will be produced a year." The annual salt per person is only six catties, which is enough for five million people to eat, and everyone does not have to eat with the consumption of Qiongzhou alone! ”

"Well, my subordinates get it." Zheng Huchen nodded vigorously and said, "As long as we sell salt to the southeast region, then we can make the Tartars unable to collect a penny of salt tax, further destroy the economy of the Tartars, and deplete their finances!" ”

"Well, but you're only half right, we have to market the salt from Qiongzhou on both sides of the river in a few years, so that the Tartar grains will not be harvested, and on the other hand, we must turn the salt into a weapon to prepare for the restoration of the country!" Zhao Yu said seriously...... (To be continued.) )