Bai Mingzhe wrote on the silk book and explained his coping strategy.

"Your Majesty, my lords, I have thought of two ways to remedy the grain and grass in the border area."

"First: such as the law of relief for disaster victims, purchase grain from grain merchants all over the world and transport it to the border."

"Merchants are profit-seeking, and as long as there is sufficient profit, they will do whatever it takes to export goods."

"This method is the easiest and most effective!"

Marx said: capital's pursuit of profit is endless. With a 10 percent profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With twenty percent profit, it becomes active; With a 50 percent profit, it takes a risk!

As long as the Han court pays the money, no matter what difficulties there are in the middle, the businessman will definitely try his best to overcome it.

Nowadays, the price of grain in the market is 60 yuan a stone, and if the grain transported to the frontier is sold for 70 yuan, presumably the merchants of the world will go crazy.

In less than two months, all the grain in the world will be lost to the border!

Li Xi, the representative of the northern land who was kneeling in the ranks of military generals, frowned directly and interrupted Bai Mingzhe's words: "Although this method is good, do you know the consumption during transportation?"

"There is not a small amount of grain and grass needed for marching and fighting, and even if a merchant pursues profit, he cannot take risks. In case of an unfavorable situation along the way, the trip will be delayed, and the resources consumed will be tens of thousands of dollars per day. ”

"According to past experience, for every hundred stones of grain transported from Chang'an to the Northland, only eight stones can be transported to the battlefield."

"And if you want to buy grain and grass for 100,000 soldiers to go on the expedition for a month, you must prepare an additional 500,000 stone for consumption on the road."

"Then we will pay the merchants forty million."

"It's expensive, but the treasury should be able to afford it." Bai Mingzhe stopped his pen, looked at Zheng Shishi, who was in charge of the national financial revenue, and said, "What do you think of the Great Agricultural Order?" The legacy left by Emperor Wenjing should not be few. I think that tens of millions of dollars should still be squeezed out. ”

Da Nong Ling Zheng shook his head at that time and said, "Boy, I'm afraid this will disappoint you, and the treasury really can't be taken out." ”

He then got up, arched his hand and reported to Liu Che, and said, "Your Majesty, the taxes paid last year were all in the local area, and they were not transported to the Chang'an treasury. And the legacy of the Second Emperor Wenjing had already been consumed by the time of the Battle of Mayi. In addition, in recent years, we have provided relief to the victims of the Yellow River breach, mobilized money to renovate the Yellow River, built water conservancy, rewarded ministers, and built palaces...... Nowadays, in the Chang'an treasury, most of the remaining property is in kind, and it is difficult to exchange it for money for a while. Therefore, Beichen thinks that this method will not work! ”

Liu Che also knew that his defeat in the past few years was a bit serious, so he directly recognized Zheng's words at that time, and did not let him explain the specific cost in detail, and said: "Bai Mingzhe, the first method is indeed a little difficult to implement, let's talk about the second method you came up with!"

"No!"

"Please wait a minute, I need these things first."

Liu Che nodded, quasi-playing: "Yes!"

Taking advantage of this period of time, except for the master father who was still kneeling on the main hall, most of the ministers hurried to the toilet.

The devil knows how long this plan will last.

Last time, in order to explain and understand the method of governing the Yellow River, the court meeting was held for two hours without interruption.

Many ministers were miserable, and they scolded their mothers directly at that time.

Now this kid is asking for something to be prepared again, and it seems that he is ready to make a big move.

Remembering the fear of being dominated last time, this time, they had to be prepared.

"Huh!"

The brush waved again, and the smooth lines once again appeared on the silk book.

Since the first method does not work, the second method can only be used.

Bai Mingzhe closed his eyes, concentrated, and began to carefully recall the relevant information in his mind.

There are five gases in the sky, and there are five flavors. Run down as salty, the king visited the basket and first heard of its righteousness. The taste is also delicious, bitter and bitter for many years. If you abstain from eating salt alone, you will be better than chickens, and you will be tired.

When he opened his eyes, a fine light was cast on the silk book.

The wrist twists, the brush dances with the light, the ink is swaying, and the whole content is done in one go!

"Huh!"

"Whew! Swish! ”

In this chapter, Song Yingxing recorded the methods of salt production in various parts of the land of China.

Whether it is the seaside, or the inland, whether it is the land of Qilu, or the land of abundance.

All the processes of salt production are recorded in this encyclopedia of industry and agriculture.

It's a pity that although this book is rich in content and has reached new heights of use, it is not recorded.

The Manchu scholars were dismissive of the book.

If you cherish this book, China will not be so miserable for a while.

The essence of the book has been learned by foreigners.

It was transmitted to Japan, and as a result, almost everyone in Japan had a copy in their hands during that time, and some of them directly regarded it as a Bible.

The crazier group even turned some of these truths into political economy theories.

This thing is really bull-banging, and it also promoted the Meiji Restoration to a certain extent.

Spread to the West, Western agriculture and handicrafts ushered in spring.

Take papermaking, for example.

Europe learned to make paper from the twelfth century, but has been using rags as a raw material to produce hemp paper, after the eighteenth century, the consumption of paper surged, but the supply of rags was limited, so there was a raw material crisis in the paper industry, and countries were trying to use other raw materials to replace rags and paper.

As a result, when the "Heavenly Creations" was passed on, they suddenly understood that wild bark fibers, bamboo and grass fibers could replace rags to make paper, and various raw materials could be mixed to make pulp.

The agricultural tools in it directly led to an agricultural revolution in the West on the basis of the industrial revolution.

Such a good book, the Chinese themselves do not use, directly engaged in a capital enemy.

It's ridiculous to the extreme.

After a stick of incense, the silk book is full.

Bai Mingzhe looked solemn and said, "Dr. Dong, please help me get a new silk book."

Dong Zhongshu glanced at the contents of the silk book, his eyes suddenly widened, his face was suddenly full of red light, his expression was radiant, and he said excitedly: "Yes!"

He ran to the side, grabbed a piece of silk and quickly rushed back, straightened it, and let Bai Mingzhe continue to write.

"Is what you wrote true?"

Bai Mingzhe just snorted.

Although there are few words, it is like a natural sound.

If he hadn't grabbed the silk book, Dong Zhongshu would have already started dancing.

Salt has been a scarcity since ancient times.

Now that someone has written out the method of making salt in front of him, it is strange that Dong Zhongshu is not crazy.

So, unconsciously, Dong Zhongshu grabbed the hand of the silk book, from the beginning of the pull, to the last pinch.

The force is getting stronger and stronger, for fear that the treasure in his hand will unfortunately be lost.

"Your Majesty, my lords, the second way I have come up with is to replace food with something else!" Bai Mingzhe spoke again.

"Although there is not much food in the world, there is one thing that has nothing to do with the plague of borers and drought locusts, even if it is a drought in the world for a few years, its inventory is still very large!"

"What do you say?" The silent Wei Qing spoke.

"Returning to the guards, what I say, the sea fish!"

"Fish grow in the sea, and although the roads are dry, the water in the sea is inexhaustible."

"According to the notes handed down by our ancestors, the sea in the south of Liaodong was rich in fish, and it is said that this place was a large fishing ground in ancient times."

"As long as you build big boats along the coast and send people to fish, the amount of fish you get every day will be astronomical, innumerable."

In order to solve this crisis, Bai Mingzhe directly exposed the location of the fishing grounds in the Yellow and Bohai Seas.

Now in the Western Han Dynasty, the fishing grounds of the Yellow and Bohai Seas have not been developed at all, and the fish content in them has definitely reached an astonishing level.

Li Xi shook his head disdainfully and said, "Are you kidding?" Even if the fish are caught, how do they transport them to the border? ”

"When a fish leaves the water, it can't live a stick of incense! Add to that the consumption in transit...... It's hard to make my soldiers eat stinky fish! If this is all you have, then it is better to kill you here and appease the anger of the soldiers! ”

"General, don't worry! Although marine fish are easy to die when they leave the water, there are two ways to take care of the fish so that they don't stink! ”

"One is the method of bowfish, and the other is pickling."

Fresh fish is easy to stink, so it's always okay to make salted fish, right?

Zheng sat upright on the mat and asked suspiciously, "Pickled?" Where do you find salt? ”

"My big man salt is expensive! And since the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, it has almost been monopolized by large merchants. ”

"I'm afraid that the cost of buying salt is enough to buy food for hundreds of thousands of soldiers for more than a month, right?"

Bai Mingzhe grinned and said, "So, I don't plan to let the imperial court buy salt."

Pointing to the silk book, he said lightly: "This is the method of making salt by the sea." If the operation is done properly, the annual profit can be offset against the country's annual agricultural tax revenue! ”