In the past few days, Hangzhou City can use a busy word to shape Ding Ya Servant was busy moving this rice grain from Lu Zhihun to the official shop. And the people were busy squandering the money to carry away the food in the official shop. Everyone, everyone is busy, especially in this hot weather, this kind of manual labor is like a torture, and there is no way to do it. Food prices have risen so much now. If you don't prepare again, I'm afraid that the future will be even more difficult.

In fact, not every household in the city is short of food, and some families have even stocked up on grain for the coming winter, so there is no need to buy rice and grain. It's just that people have a herd mentality, and they are easily influenced by the outside world, and when they see people going to buy food, they have an inexplicable sense of urgency, and they don't care about their actual situation at all, and they all follow the flow.

There are only a few shops for government-run rice and grain, and the purchase is still restricted, and there are enough people who have bought it. Some people keep queuing in a loop, wanting to buy more grain to store at home, so that even if the rice in the store has not been exhausted, it gives people the feeling that the supply is not in demand, and the hot scene makes the people more and more anxious.

Fortunately, the people are pleased that there are many profiteers in these years, but there are also many good merchants, aside from those shops where the price of rice is high at two or three hundred wen per bucket, there are also more than a dozen grain stores in Hangzhou whose prices are consistent with those of official shops, and some are only one or two cents higher. The people could accept it.

The people are rustic, and there are not so many flowery intestines. In times of trouble, it is immediately clear who is a profiteer and who is a good person, and the people have their own account in their hearts. Spat on some black-hearted shops. And I really admire those merchants who have a clear conscience.

Of course, for those merchants who are bent on looking at money, they don't lose anything by being scolded for a few words, as long as the benefits are lucrative, even if they let people poke their backs every day and their ancestors for eight generations.

Smoke and rain building, by the mountain with the lake, in the early morning, the sun is shining, not as poisonous as at noon, the slightest wisp of breeze, from time to time from the mountains to wipe in, give people Dan points to cool up, but also make the clear and transparent lake ripples in circles.

In a private room on the third floor, wearing a light blue robe, Yang Chengping, who was standing on the railing, said with a smile: "Brother Xu, you really didn't come at the right time, if you come in March or April in advance, when the spring flowers are blooming." From then on, the mountains were misty and the breeze was blowing. Unpredictable, people stand here, no, but the rain feels wet, like the empty mountain and the rain is blowing in the face, at that time, the smoke and rain building lives up to the name of the rain. ”

"It's a pity that I can't get a glimpse of the beautiful scenery described by Brother Yang." The young man next to Yang Chengping was Xu Hanqing. But I saw him standing by the railing leisurely, with his hands behind his back, and sighed with a smile: "I have heard the Jiangnan River for a long time, and the water is beautiful in the world, like a peerless beauty, there is a word cloud: water is the eye waves."

"The mountains are the peaks of the eyebrows. I want to ask pedestrians where to go. Eyebrows and eyes. Yang Chengping's voice sounded at the right time to echo it, shaking his head and shaking his head, looking at each other and laughing.

Ten million and spring live. After reciting a fortune operator, Yang Chengping sighed: "Chuzhi County's knowledge is really extraordinary, before I came to Jiangnan, I knew that the beauty of Jiangnan's landscape lies in spring." Admirable.

The tone revealed the meaning of hating not being able to meet him, and he may not even have expected that with the passage of time, with a few popular poems, he has unknowingly become famous all over the world and become an idol in the eyes of many people.

"Chu Qiantang has been in office for a long time, and it is close at hand, why hasn't Brother Yang come to visit" Xu Hanqing was a little surprised.

"Why do you want to ask Brother Xu knowingly, I just returned from Shu not long ago, and I am entangled in trivial matters, how can I have this time, besides, as the respect of a county, I am busy saving the people from fire and water every day, even if I have this thought, it is inconvenient to rush to disturb." Yang Chengping sighed and said: "If the disaster relief is delayed, how can I bear it." ”

"Brother Yang is righteous, but the younger brother is negligent about this." Xu Hanqing said ashamedly.

The two of them are not coy, don't think that only officials and scholars from poor backgrounds will care about the people, and the children of the family do not understand the suffering of the people. Only know pleasure.

This is obviously a misunderstanding of the children of the family, you must know that the ancient society has ruled the country with the imperial court for thousands of years, and it has always been the family family, as the foundation pillar of the imperial court, if you only know how to blindly oppress the common people. After that aroused public outrage, the family would be buried with the imperial court.

Therefore, the real family, especially the family that has not fallen for thousands of years, will never ignore the low-level people, but will help the poor people from time to time, which is why in the war-torn era of the Five Dynasties period, no matter how the dynasty changes, many families have been preserved.

The relationship between the boat and the water was not only understood by the emperor. So like the proprietor of the chapter, those are for immediate interests. But abandon the practice of ignoring the people, this kind of behavior is no different from taking advantage of the fire to rob, of course Yang Chengping looks down on it, he is too lazy to pay attention to it, and he has a temporary benefit. But they have lost the hearts of the people, and they can't see anything now, and when the disaster is over, the business of those shops will definitely plummet.

It stands to reason that with the ingenuity of profiteers, they should be able to think of this, but in the face of absolute interests. Not everyone can stay sober, besides, those people have lived in Hangzhou for many years, and when it comes to vision, they naturally can't be compared with people like Yang Chengping and Xu Hanqing who often travel south and north, even if they vaguely feel that something is wrong, but they are blinded by huge interests and lose their usual reason.

After a while, the restaurant guy knocked on the door and came up with tea, breaking the somewhat heavy atmosphere. Xu Hanqing took a sip of tea, returned to normal, and said with a smile: "This trip to Shudi." Presumably Brother Yang must have gained a lot. ”

Yang Chengping reined in his thoughts, his mind turned slightly, and he knew that he couldn't hide it, let alone such a big piece of cake. I couldn't eat it alone, so I simply admitted it generously, and said with a smile: "Brother Xu is really well-informed, and this time I went to Jiangnan, presumably for the sake of it." ”

"Of course, the imperial court has opened a salt ban, and the people of the world have heard the wind and moved, and they are also ordinary people, so they naturally dare not live behind the people, and if they want to get a piece of the pie, they have to ask Brother Yang to take care of them." Xu Hanqing said with a smile.

Some people may find it strange, after all, in the eyes of ordinary people. In ancient times, businesses like salt and iron. It has always been controlled and sold by the state, and no private person is allowed to interfere with it, once it is found that someone is operating privately. It is definitely a felony of murder, and there is no emotion to talk about.

This is not wrong, since the Spring and Autumn Period in order to increase the country's financial resources, the Qi State Guan Zhong implemented reforms for salt administration, salt trading has become a patent of the imperial court. Salt is a necessity of human life, so the successive dynasties have emphasized that the enemy is very important to obtain more enemy benefits, and they have tried their best to provoke a series of reforms to strengthen the monopoly of salt.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the system of the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, most of the salt in the area were sold by the government, and the salt tax revenue occupied a very important position in the central financial revenue, and there was a momentum that could be endowed by half the world, so the production and sales of salt were controlled by the imperial court very strictly, and the sales were also designated by the government to poison the area, and those who crossed the border were regarded as crimes, and the salt market was basically monopolized by the government.

However, the Song Dynasty wars were frequent, and the troops stationed on the border were in urgent need of grain and grass, which reflected the ability of the merchants at this time, and what was the war in the mere area, as long as there were enough profits, the merchants could do whatever it took to do so, and there were capable ministers in the court, and they also realized that if the grain was transported to the border by the imperial court, it would be time-consuming and laborious, and the burden would be too great, so he immediately thought of the merchants.

However, if there is no benefit, the merchant will basically not do it, so some smart officials immediately thought of a good way, which is to let the merchant transport grain to the border army, and then take the voucher to the capital household department to receive salt money, and then exchange the salt money for salt. This is the system of money and salt.

After the implementation of the new law, it did effectively alleviate the burden on the imperial court for a certain period of time, but after Li Yuanhao of Western Xia rebelled against the Song Dynasty in the first year of Renzong Jingyou, the situation changed. The military needs of the border state army are urgent, so in addition to military rations, livestock and grass, there is also an urgent need for other miscellaneous items, some cunning merchants and greedy officials, the appearance and the inside are treacherous, and most of the grain and grass transported to the border army are poor, damp, rotten and inedible, and for ordinary merchants. Since salt money is easy to obtain and cheap, there is not much profit to be made, and of course it is not willing to continue.

On the one hand, the common people in the continuous use of soldiers, constantly to deal with all kinds of complicated soldiers, miscellaneous service, but also increased the burden of transporting salt, the result is that the income of salt profits is thin, not to help solve the urgent needs of the border states and counties, and cause the people to disturb and uneasy, on the other hand, the Western Xia produced green and white salt, the Qiang people often used green and white salt into the border and the Song people in exchange for rice and wheat.

Green and white salt is cheap and delicious. Although the imperial court strictly prohibited private salt, it could not prohibit it, so the soldiers and civilians of Shaanxi Prefecture ate more green and white salt, and the sales of the border state army were decreasing day by day, and the income of the government was greatly reduced, and the financial crisis was more serious. It shows that the banknote salt system is no longer feasible. Knowledgeable officials in the imperial court have written directly to admonish. It is imperative to reform the salt law.

At this time, some officials named Fan Xiang stood up, although this person's surname is Fan, but he has nothing to do with Fan Zhongyan, but the two have one thing in common, that is, they are strong reformers, and when they realize the disadvantages of the salt law, Fan Xiang keeps writing and putting forward specific suggestions for the preparation and solution of salt. After several twists and turns, Emperor Zhao Zhen finally agreed to implement it.

The content of Fan Xiang's salt policy reform can be summed up in several aspects, and it is inevitable that Shaanxi will enter the grain and grass along the border, and the import of green and white salt will be strictly prohibited, but what makes the world's businessmen value the most is that Fan Xiang actually abolished the ban on the monopoly of the government, implemented the trade law, and at the same time lifted the ban on salt entering Shu in order to expand sales.

You must know that before this, the Sichuan and Shu regions are not allowed to transport salt into the merchants, which is also a historical reason, after the Song Taizu destroyed the Hou Shu, abandon a period of time to connive at the soldiers in Chengdu to loot, has made the local people resentful, to the early days of Taizong, when the world was undecided, in order to be able to destroy the Hou Han Dynasty, recapture the land of Yanyou, the imperial court set up a yamen there, cut off the trade, plundered the main local economic sources of tea, silk silk to increase national strength.

Some landlords and big businessmen also took the opportunity to hoard and sell cheaply, and the life of the people in Shu was even more sad.

Later, the civil rebellion was suppressed, but Song Taizong was also full of fire, and felt that the people of Sichuan and Shu did not accept the king, so they naturally had to be treated differently. Up to now, Zhao Zhen is a benevolent lord, and he will not stick to the law of his ancestors, and when he saw someone put it forward, he agreed to it.

The emperor's thoughts, businessmen don't want to understand, as long as they know that the implementation of the new salt law is good for themselves, who doesn't know the land of Sichuan and Shu. The country of abundance, Shu tea and Shu brocade are famous all over the world, especially those barbarians, people are stupid and have a lot of money, living in the deep mountains and old forests that only produce gold and not salt, just take a bag of salt, you can exchange it for the same weight of real money and silver, maybe it also comes with a few arms thick for a hundred years of Liao, ginseng as a gift.

Even if the danger factor of frequent infestation of beasts and tigers in the deep mountains and old forests is too high, then after entering Sichuan, you can also take a diversion into Dali, and buy some rhino horn and spices from selling salt back to the Central Plains.

"Brother Xu is polite, it should be the younger brother who relied on you to smile at Yang Chengping, his tone was a little sincere, compared to the Yang family, which has been far away from the center for a long time, the relationship between the Xu family in the capital is deeper, after all, the implementation of the new law, anyone can taste the taste of interests, but the official salt introduction is not so easy to get, and the rich may not be willing to give it to you.

In the Song Dynasty, salt is divided into several types: pool salt, sea salt, well salt, rock salt, in terms of the shape and preparation method of salt, it can be divided into grain salt and end salt, and the quality is different. The price is naturally different, and pond salt is abundant in the northwest. It is also a well-known thing that sea salt is abundant in Huainan.

In terms of location, the best choice for entering Shu is, of course, to take the waterway in Huainan, so Xu Hanqing will go down to the south of the Yangtze River to investigate, turn around in various states, and finally choose Hangzhou as the entry point, but doing business across the river dragon is often not as familiar with the way as the head snake, and there may not be good salt if there is salt, so of course Xu Hanqing wants to find someone to cooperate.

After inquiry, the target candidate is Yang Chengping, and the two are from famous families. And there are also several sides of the relationship, have a certain understanding of each other, the same want to do salt business, complementary advantages, it is simply a match made in heaven, in this case, then what is there to hesitate, after the two of them said through, quickly reached a cooperation intention, finalized the details of cooperation, division of labor and cooperation, of course, did not forget the crucial profit distribution issue.

"Brother Xu suffers some losses, let the younger brother take advantage of it, and add two to five, how about it?" Yang Chengping said with a smile, this is just a kind word, the investment of both sides is about the same, there is no question of who accounts for the majority, and the profits are of course divided in half.

Xu Hanqing shook his head slowly, stretched out four fingers, and said, "Forty percent."

Yang Chengping frowned slightly, of course he didn't think that Xu Hanqing was high-spirited, and he only wanted forty percent of the profit voluntarily.

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