Wuzang Pang and Yeli Yuqi both felt that the Great Song Dynasty's blockade of the green salt in Western Xia would not last long, after all, the people of the Great Song Dynasty also wanted to eat salt, and the green salt in Western Xia was fine and refreshing, without the bitterness of salt grains produced in salt wells.

Without the green salt of Western Xia, the people of the Great Song Dynasty can still say a little, but what about those dignitaries and nobles who are used to eating fine salt?

No smuggling is allowed? This is a joke in the eyes of the two of them, as long as someone needs it, someone will sell it, and this kind of thing like illegal salt can't be blocked by Da Song if he wants to!

This is also the reason why Yeli Yuqi did not take this matter to heart.

Now all they have to do is wait, and the wait is long, because it takes a long time for this commodity restriction to become apparent.

Zhao Zhen's measures to restrict the green salt of the Western Xia did make the Great Song Dynasty slowly begin to expose the drawbacks, Ding Wei successively went up and down, the price of salt has risen sharply, but the imperial court did not have any effective means to control the price of salt, because everyone knew that the Great Song Dynasty forbade the Western Xia people to sell green salt in the field, and it was a capital crime to sell green salt without permission.

In feudal times, salt was as important as oil in later generations, and sometimes even surpassed oil in status.

The reason why the imperial court controls the price of salt is to make more people afford to eat salt and ensure social stability, of course, salt tax is also a very important source of finance.

There was no difference between the Great Song Dynasty collecting a tax of one penny from a thousand households and collecting a tax of one thousand wen from a salt merchant.

The amount of manpower and material resources that can be expended varies greatly, and this is the earliest way to pass on taxes to merchants.

Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty has a very perfect tax system, and the taxes paid by merchants include the taxes of the people, which is also the reason why Zhao Zhen exempted various miscellaneous taxes, and the people collected the taxes unconsciously, but not from the pockets of the people, but from the pockets of the merchants.

Don't look at this small change, it not only saves manpower and material resources, but also makes the people less resistant to taxes, and at most complains about rising prices, but the current prices in the Great Song Dynasty are quite stable under the control of Cai Ji and Sansi.

At present, the increase in the price of salt is not something that the imperial court can control, because the price of salt is controlled by the amount of salt.

Zhao Zhen is not worried, because he has a secret weapon, sea salt.

Seawater is the "hometown" of salt, seawater contains a variety of salts, of which about 90% is sodium chloride, that is, table salt, human consumption of sea salt has a long history, but the treatment method is not good, sea salt is bitter.

Zhao Zhen has a way to make the sea salt smooth, the salt field method is the best way to dry salt, you only need to get the best salt in the sun, Zhao Zhen has sent someone to take charge of this matter, and it can be regarded as adding a channel for the people on the beach to make a living.

In just half a month, there will be a steady stream of sea salt from various coastal states and counties in the Great Song Dynasty, which is not a matter at all in the Great Song Dynasty, which has convenient transportation!

Why did the prices of ancient goods remain high?

Because of the inconvenience of transportation, the price of goods in the place of production will generally be very low, and the price will rise sharply in a distant place, now the Great Song Dynasty transportation is convenient, the price is stable, Zhao Zhen believes that the domestic economic development will be very stable, and the biggest source of benefits is still from abroad.

The Tangut people were a big wrongdoer, and of course the Liao Dynasty was also like this, not to mention the Abbasid Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom that were far overseas.

With the passage of time, the Tangut people saw the rise in the price of salt in the Great Song Dynasty, which was what they wanted to see the most, perhaps this would force the Great Song Dynasty to buy green salt in the Western Xia, and the prices in the Great Song Dynasty rose sharply during this time.

The price of porcelain and silk will rise for the Tangut people, but it is just to buy less, and no matter how expensive it is, it is not a big deal not to buy it.

But tea bricks and cotton cloth are indispensable things for the Tangut people, tea bricks can help them remove greasy, is their important necessities, and cotton cloth can withstand the cold and harsh climate.

Both are indispensable, but these two indispensable things are firmly in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, unless they are purchased from the Liao, but the Song merchants just grasped the life of the Western Xia.

The price was much higher than the original, but it was a little cheaper than the Liao Dynasty, and it was that little cheapness that forced the Western Xia to buy the goods of the Song people.

It was not until this time that the revenge of the Great Song Dynasty was slowly revealed, and the financial resources in the Western Xia had been consumed a lot, and a large number of looted property from the Western Regions could be seen every day being pulled away by the Great Song Dynasty merchants, and the hearts of the Western Xia people were dripping blood.

Yeli Renrong saw clearly that the Great Song Dynasty was drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, constantly exploiting the national strength of the Western Xia with an invisible knife, and His Majesty thought that the Song people would not be able to hold out for a long time, although the green salt was only one, but it could become the last straw for the Great Song Dynasty to succumb.

Shaking his head slightly, Yeli Renrong was not optimistic about everything His Majesty said in the court, out of understanding of the Song Emperor, Yeli Renrong felt that Zhao Zhen must have a backhand, otherwise he would not have made such a resolute order.

The Western Xia court had just settled down from the turmoil in Qingyan, and the tension of the courtiers had just been appeased by Li Yuanhao, and the bad news came as scheduled.

The messenger rushed all the way to the palace and knelt down at the door: "Your Majesty, Ning Lingye Li meets begging for sparseness, the price of salt in the Great Song Dynasty has plummeted, and a large number of sea salt that is not inferior to my Xixia green salt has appeared in the market of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the cheap price, but also meticulous and not astringent!" More ......"

The messenger stopped talking as he spoke, and Li Yuanhao was slapped in the face in public and shouted angrily: "What's more? ”

"It's also effective in preventing galls!"

What the?!

With the words of the messenger, everyone exclaimed, gall is a stubborn disease, once you have this disease, there will be a swollen neck, palpitations, insomnia, and even sudden death, many of the Tangut people got such a disease and finally died tragically in the arms of their relatives, the death was extremely miserable.

Now the sea salt of the Great Song Dynasty can actually prevent the appearance of gall, which is too big a blow to the Western Xia people.

Li Yuanhao went out on the spot, and drank hoarsely: "Impossible!" Why can the sea salt of the Song people prevent gall? And my party item is fine and good green salt can't? This must be the deception of the Song people, not credible! ”

Yeli Renrong shook his head and smiled bitterly, His Majesty still didn't believe that there must be a basis for the Song people to say such a thing.

Where do the Xixia people know that most of the sea salt contains iodine, and iodine can prevent hyperthyroidism Zhao Zhen knows better than anyone else, gall is often said to be hyperthyroidism in later generations, also known as big neck disease, which is why iodization is indicated in the salt of later generations.

Zhao Zhen used sea salt this time, killing two birds with one stone to solve the two major problems of salt deficiency and gall, after Wang only visit and investigation, it was found that the people on the seaside because of the long-term consumption of coarse salt from their own homes, not a single case of gall did not appear, and although the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains also have salt to eat, there will be gall, the problem must be in the salt.

As long as he used sea salt for a long time, he could get certain results, which was the only medical shortcut that Wang got from the officials.

Because the official has said that medicine is actually the study of experience, and the more cases there are, the more experience and treatment methods there are.