In the north city of Jiangdu, in front of the Tai Pavilion of the General's Mansion, Shi Liugan, the governor of the Great Si Nong Bureau, gathered the black gauze scarf to cover his face, and looked up at the twenty-four tiger ben on duty in front of the Tai Pavilion, twelve of them held halberds, twelve of them Si Ge, a burly physique, with a big waist and a round waist, his right arm holding a halberd, his cloak covering his left shoulder and left half of his body, and his left hand or waist under the cold cloak, or pressing the hilt of the sword.

There was a solemn atmosphere, as if it was ready to fight at any time.

Liu Gan took a deep breath of cold air, and from holding the official document in one hand and his identity waist card in the other, he came to the side door to line up.

In the former Han Dynasty, there were two deputies under the name of the left and right, and the subordinate officials were Taicang, Junyi, Pingzhun, Dunei, Wuling and Cheng; There are also the officials, the two chiefs of the iron city, and the cheng; The county's capital warehouse, agricultural superintendent, capital water and other divisions.

In the former Han Dynasty, there were a total of 65 Chang and Cheng institutions under the Dasi Nongfu, and the annual tax collected from these institutions was about 4 billion yuan, which was a real state treasury.

Nowadays, due to the establishment of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the improvement of the relevant system, the budget authority of the financial expenditure has been transferred to the Ministry of Households, and the Dasi Nong has lost the qualification to spend and participate in the budget, and only has the duty of tax collection and transportation.

However, Li Chao, the head of the household department, is the elder brother of Shi Li Shao, the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion, one of the three dragons of the Li family.

Since the first emperor entered Shu, in addition to the traditional tax rent, the main financial revenue has been particularly strengthened by the salt officials, the Jin officials and the iron officials, plus the current five tax customs, constituting the four main sources of income of the Dasi Nongfu.

These four revenues are all very important, and as far as the current financial situation is concerned, none of them should be missing.

However, the development of the northern province is provoking the authority of the Great Si Nong.

Before the year-end count, Dasi Nong must fight back and report to the general about the major incident of Beifu's violation of the order of salt transportation and taxation.

Although the matter is only a symptom now, the production capacity of Beifu can be discussed again at the end of next year, and the order of salt transportation in Jingxiang will be completely destroyed.

In the General's Mansion, Changshi Pei Jun entertained Liu Gan, and he couldn't help frowning when he flipped through Liu Gan's appeal documents.

As a native of Hedong, although he left Hedong when he was a teenager, he fled to Yizhou for refuge due to the chaos in Guanzhong, and did not return to his hometown for 20 years...... But he still knew very well how important the salt pond in Hedong was.

At present, the various forces in the court are intertwined and entangled with each other, revealing many lifelines between each other, all of which are held by each other.

Before Beifu attacked Guanzhong, Guanzhong had always relied on salt from Hedong; And now that the Northern Mansion has obtained Guanzhong, it has given the Wei government and the opposition ten guts, and they do not dare to sell and smuggle salt in Guanzhong in full.

Therefore, under the restriction of intentional or unintentional, Guanzhong under the rule of Beifu will definitely lack salt!

Before the development of new salt wells in Yizhou, there were also salt-producing salt wells in the southwest region, and the closest salt well to Jiangdu was in Sheshan County, the former Yidu County.

Around the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River between Jingyi and Jingyi, due to ancient geological activities, there are three salt springs that have been developed for thousands of years, which are the most direct war motivation for Bai Qi's attack on Chu State.

Prefectures and counties that do not produce salt are subject to the control of people's livelihood, and it will certainly be difficult for the economy to develop.

The salt-producing area is on the edge of Jiangdu, which is the confidence that Jingzhou can compete with Wu Yue.

Otherwise, just the exploitation of salt transportation can make the Jingxiang region become a blood-sucking pool in the Wuyue region.

The salt of Kabei Mansion is a secret action, starting from all sides, like a gentle rain and a breeze.

However, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Tian Xin's shipyard in Nanhai began to produce offshore fishing boats at the beginning of the year, and then Beifu formulated a plan to develop fish and meat military rations that can withstand storage.

This plan came to the Jiaoguang area, and the original original dried fish was developed into salted dried fish...... Beifu sent troops to Guanzhong in July, and in August, the first batch of salted fish from the South China Sea went to the Lingqu and the Xiangjiang River to the north, and appeared in the Jiangdu market.

So far, there has been no half a month, and the number of batches is higher than that of one batch, and there have been eight batches of Beifu ships loaded with salted fish that have either arrived in Jiangdu or directly transported to Nanyang.

What really attracted attention was in Hanjin, and Zhuge Qiao, the governor of Hanjin, was the first to react to the Dasi Nong Mansion.

It is called transporting salted fish and military rations, but it is actually selling salt!

This is digging the corners of the imperial court!

This is a felony against the iron law of salt, almost a capital crime!

Should Beifu be exposed and punished?

If it is exposed, the officials and military officials in charge of the Salted Fish Project will know the law and break the law, and they cannot be said to cut off all of them, so they must bring out a few deputies to cut off their heads in order to set an example.

But if it is revealed...... The unfortunate thing about Lu Yi back then is likely to befall the whistleblower again.

Therefore, it is important to find out before exposing it...... Beifu is doing this, is it the general's acquiescence.

If it is done to alleviate the economic pressure of Beifu, then Dasi Nong will find a way; If Beifu acted without authorization to make a profit, then ...... Let's see what the opinion of the general is.

Anyway, the Dasi Nong Mansion can't afford to lose.

Things suddenly came to face like this, what could Pei Jun say?

This is no longer something that he, the chief steward of the Great General's Mansion, can handle, so he can only pretend to be concerned and ask for information on all aspects of the salted fish in the South China Sea to express his high concern.

then sent Liu Gan, and Pei Juncai reported the matter to Guan Yu.

Guan Yu also has a big head, and there are not many salted fish flowing into Jiangdu City, and this kind of unfresh and rare ingredient is impossible to put on his table.

This was very sudden news, and Zhuge Qiao also knew that the matter was sensitive, so he only reported to the Dasi Nong Mansion, and did not over-publicize and spread the matter.

Now that it is suddenly placed in front of Guan Yu, this is no longer a matter of salted fish, but there is another major problem that cannot be ignored.

The salt of Kabei Mansion is almost a secret tacit understanding, and there is no written communication between himself and the Prime Minister's Mansion.

But the Northern Mansion has also responded, could it be that there are people from the Northern Mansion among the high-level core personnel in the General's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion?

This kind of thing can only be thought about by oneself, and cannot be expressed.

Guan Yu remained silent, looking thoughtful: "What does Feng Xian think about this?" ”

"Princess, the husband salts the fish, the salt and the fish."

Pei Jun considered the language and was not prepared to expand the handling of this matter: "The concern of the Great Agricultural Department is that the salt tax is corrupted. The minister thought that he could issue a document to reprimand the priest and make the salted fish and salt taxed together. In this way, the Great Agricultural Administration has no objection. However, in this way, it will inevitably affect the income of the salt farm. ”

He also expressed his worries, not only about the profits of the salt works, but also about the secret plan to gain an advantage in the negotiations through salt and the neck of Kabei Province.

Guan Yu made eye contact with Pei Jun, quite sharp, and worries were written on his faces.