Liu Che's heart trembled suddenly, his eyes stared directly at the silk book, and he involuntarily stood up from the wooden collapse, and screamed: "The method of making salt!?"

What's the matter, it's spring?

No, spring has already come, and even winter is coming.

The air came with a "bang! Bang! Bang! The voice was the sound of his heartbeat.

The Minister of Humerus! Definitely the minister of the humerus!

He now looks at Bai Mingzhe's eyes, like a wolf looking at a sheep, a cat looking at a fish, and a mouse staring at rice.

I can't wait to hug and kiss a few bites and chew again.

Especially that sentence: The method of salt production, the profits obtained are offset by the national agricultural tax, which is simply a natural sound!

Heavenly! How can there be such beautiful music in the world?

I'm afraid that Boya will not be able to play such a wonderful sound when he is alive.

Liu Che felt that Bai Mingzhe was to himself what he was to Boya.

Why was Liu Bi, the king of Wu, able to launch the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and have 100,000 elite soldiers?

It's not because Wu is a big salt-producing country.

Almost all of the salt needed in the inland was supplied by him.

Don't underestimate the income that comes with salt.

The profits obtained by a small vassal state can be called the central court, so if the Han government operates itself, the profits can definitely reach tens of thousands.

What is a food tax?

If you want to exchange it for money, you have to constantly transport and sell, and the loss on the road alone is an astronomical amount.

Salt is expensive, but light!

Transporting one stone of salt is worth transporting 100 stones of grain.

The amount is small, the profit is more, and the money comes quickly!

In this Western Han Dynasty, where technology is backward and transportation is backward, what else can make money faster than this?

I'm afraid that risking my life to rob once is not as profitable as selling salt for an hour.

Since the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and the overthrow of the vassal states, the operation of salt has been monopolized by large merchants, and the imperial court has not been able to share any oil and water.

Now the appearance of the salty chapter has allowed Liu Che to see the dawn of suppressing salt merchants and enabling the Han government to obtain high profits.

So, he couldn't help it, and shouted directly in front of the ministers: "Where did you get this law?"

Bai Mingzhe smiled slightly, arched his hand at Qin Ling, and said respectfully: "This book was given by a white-haired old man when he followed his father around the Qinling Mountains when he was a child."

"The white-haired old man doesn't know who the criminal is, he just said, I have a fate with him, he has three books, and I am willing to give one to the criminal. The first volume is "Taigong Art of War", the second volume is "Huangshi Gongluo", and the third volume is "Heavenly Creation". ”

Among them, the first and second books are both the art of war. Because of the Art of War, the criminal chose the third volume: a book that records a large number of laws of industry and agriculture! These include salt iron, boats, farm implements...... Where twenty-one volumes. ”

"Favored by the old man, I only got the books after ensuring that only one person per generation passed them on. For example, today, the only person who knows the content of books is Mingzhe!

"The satural chapter on the silk book is one of the volumes! According to this method, the salt obtained is all snow-white refined salt. ”

"Not to mention anything else, based on the price alone, it is five times that of pale yellow miscellaneous salt!"

After a slight pause, Bai Mingzhe deliberately pretended to be embarrassed, and said, "It's just that before leaving, the old man once strictly told him not to take out the books easily. Everything in the world pays attention to cause and effect, just as Qin is the virtue of water, and my Han is the virtue of fire, there is a cause and an effect. If the cause and effect are forcibly reversed, it will inevitably lead to the curse of God. At least the world is a catastrophe, and at worst it is a change of dynasty. ”

"Now that the lack of rations for soldiers originates from the guilty ministers, it should be solved with the power of the guilty ministers, which is in line with cause and effect, so the guilty ministers will write a salty article silently and present it to Your Majesty."

His meaning is clear, believe it or not, this thing was obtained from the mysterious old man. This book is rich in content, highly skilled, and advanced in products, but if you want it, you must ask me. Otherwise, even if the Qinling Mountains are bulldozed, the full version will not be available.

This is the only one, there is no semicolon, love or not.

Moreover, if you want to not be persecuted, there is a cycle of cause and effect, and once you are forced, there will be retribution!

This statement is in line with the induction of heaven and man, even if it is Liu Che, there is no way to reply.

Bai Mingzhe has already planned to find a way to use the gunpowder himself after a while.

In case whoever is idle and has nothing to do, come to a provocation of love, it is convenient for them to fight back.

When the time comes, we will learn from the modern practice of some people aiming fireworks at their neighbors' houses to play shelling.

In the middle of the night, in the dead of night, he pushed gunpowder and blew up his lair!

Isn't this the Heavenly Thunder Plus body, isn't this the cycle of cause and effect?

Even if no one was killed, that movement was enough to make the superstitious Liu Che believe in the power of cause and effect.

As for the immortals? Don't admit it, resolutely don't admit it!

"Whew! Call! Liu Che sat down, panting heavily, his chest rising and falling.

Under such a series of bombardments, he already believed seven or eight points.

Stories that seemed particularly ridiculous to later generations had a special market in Dahan.

The Han family advocates this kind of story, and they never get tired of hearing it! After all, there have been similar things, and there have been more than one.

The first thing is that when Gaozu had not yet made a fortune, there was a hexagram that claimed that Gaozu's face was unspeakably expensive, and even the rich and noble faces of Liu Ying and Princess Lu Yuan were fortunate to be close to their appearance.

Although this matter is all legends, there are people who believe in it, and there are people who don't believe it, but the second thing can't help but be unbelievable by others - Liuhou and Huangshi Gong!

Liu Che stared at Bai Mingzhe and muttered, "That old man has the Art of War of Taigong and the Huangshi Gongluo...... Could it be the original Huangshi Gong? No, it shouldn't be, Huangshi Gong has turned into stone, and now he is still at the foot of Gucheng Mountain! ”

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he dragged a long voice, guessing: "Could it be that he is staying behind...... Yes, it must be! Liuhou has unpredictable abilities, he must have become an immortal! Certain! ”

Thinking of this, his breathing quickened a few more times.

Seeing this, Chun Tuo hurriedly ran to Liu Che's side, constantly rubbing his back to help his breath flow smoothly.

Liu Che's face was ruddy, and he waved his hand, signaling Chuntuo to get out of the way.

Stay!

The Marquis of Xinghan!

Liu Che frantically brainwashed himself: more than 80 years ago, he helped Gaozu dominate the world and helped Emperor Hui inherit the throne...... It must be after the Marquis calculated that the world will not be peaceful and there will be a disaster, so he will give Wu Anjun what he has learned all his life!

It must be so!

In his later years, he almost became an immortal!

It must be his integrity that moved him, so he will send Liuhou disciples to help him fight against the Huns!

The brainwashing was almost over, he looked at Bai Mingzhe's eyes, and became more and more gentle: "Aiqing, the person who gave Qing the book, but the marquis?"

Stay?

Above the court, the two thousand stones looked at each other, all confused.

Isn't Liuhou already dead, and the Hou State has been removed? What's the matter, Your Majesty?

Bai Mingzhe didn't care about everyone's expressions, and when he saw that the fish was hooked, he smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, but the sinners don't know."

Liu Che asked, "Did you meet Qing in Qinling?"

"Exactly!"

Liu Che nodded reassuringly, "I understand!" After the retreat, I will make arrangements again! Thou shalt move on to strategy! ”

After receiving the order, Bai Mingzhe continued to explain the second method: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, now that there is a method of salt preparation, presumably the problem of salting sea fish should no longer exist. Pickled foods have a long shelf life! You don't need to worry about rancid smell at all when transporting it. ”

"As long as the salted fish can be sent to Longxi, Beidi, and Yanmen, the soldiers will not only be able to eat a full meal, but also eat meat!"

"Isn't it beautiful to eat fish and meat, supplemented by grains?"

Since ancient times, which one has absolutely dared to guarantee that the soldiers will eat meat at a time?

Although there is not much meat on the fish, no matter how little, it is still meat.

As long as the amount is large, you can definitely eat enough.

"Generals, when the time comes, feed the horses with the rations you have saved. This method is full of people! ”

Before Zhang Qian brought back the pasture from the Western Regions, the horses ate millet!

So, after eating the fish, the saved millet is just right to feed the horses.

Seeing that the people in the Chengming Hall were silent, Bai Mingzhe further elaborated on method two.

From now on, he has to face the border generals!

Bai Mingzhe shifted his gaze to a middle-aged general and called, "General Li Xi!"

Li Xi, who had been lowering his head and thinking about the benefits of the method, raised his head, his brows were still furrowed, and said, "What's the matter?"

"Dare to ask where the salt eaten by the Huns comes from?"

"Quack!"

"Boom!"

After Bai Mingzhe asked this question, the sound of knuckles rubbing sounded in the Chengming Palace.

All the generals were furious and eager to pick up their knives and cut people.

Li Xi squinted his eyes, roared in a low voice, and said, "The vast majority of its salt is naturally smuggled here by Han merchants!" For his own selfish interests, he smuggled such an important material to the Huns, which is really deserved! ”

Li Jiao, a representative of Longxi, also spoke out in response: "Although there is salt water in the territory of the Xiongnu, the food they eat is mainly salt smuggled by Han merchants."

Bai Mingzhe applauded and said with a smile: "This is very good."

"Shaft, what do you mean by that?" Li Jiao stood up directly and glared at Bai Mingzhe angrily.

Li Xi pressed the ground angrily.

If it weren't for Wei Qing's face, the two of them would have directly killed Tingwei yesterday and split Bai Mingzhe's body on the spot.

Now they dare to applaud the Huns because they get salt!

Looking for death?

Not paying attention to the anger of a few people, Bai Mingzhe asked with a smile: "Dare to ask the two adults, have you ever thought of bartering and selling salt to the Xiongnu in exchange for mutton."

Li Xi directly vetoed it, saying: "If you don't eat salt, people are powerless." Selling salt to the Huns, wouldn't it be allowed to grow stronger, and after it became powerful, it would invade our borders? ”

Li Jiao didn't speak, but from the way he didn't admit it, his thinking should be not much different from Li Xi's.

"Alas!" Bai Mingzhe sighed heavily.

He still looks down on this group of generals.

It seems that this group of generals fought purely for the sake of military merit.

Except for some methods of using war, I don't know anything else.

No economic acumen at all.

If Sang Hongyang was at the border, Longxi and the north would have been completely developed.

The lessons of history are that where war occurs, it is often accompanied by opportunities to make a fortune.

Bai Mingzhe glanced at him, clenched his fists and asked, "Two generals, even if the two of them don't sell salt to the Huns, but other merchants smuggle and sell it, can the two of them completely control it?"

"If not, why not control this income in the hands of the Han military?"

"Not to mention anything else, the profits from the simple sale of salt are enough to purchase a batch of mutton in the territory of the Xiongnu and open meat for the soldiers. What's more, the general could also use the money he received to buy grain from grain merchants in the Han Dynasty. ”

"Why don't you use the method of killing two birds with one stone?"

Li Jiao's eyes erupted with rage, and he burst into a shout: "Shinong Industry and Commerce!" Are you insulting the two of us? ”

"The two of us are Han generals, how can we do such a lowly thing!"

Bai Mingzhe sneered and said, "Cheap things? If the Han military controlled the border salt trade, the Xiongnu might not have violated the border! ”

"If it had been implemented in the early years and cut off the possibility of smuggling by merchants, now, as long as the Han military cut off the supply of salt to the Xiongnu for three months, they will definitely submit and beg for trade!"

At that time, without spending a single soldier, the Xiongnu could be forced to submit to the Han Dynasty. This law can be traced to the rule of three generations and the government of the five emperors! ”

"Even if it is desperate to start a war, we just need to wait for the work and face the battle! Why be proactive? ”

"Although you are a general, you don't know how to be flexible!"

Bai Mingzhe stood with his hands behind his back, as if he was a military master, and after staring at the audience proudly, he announced loudly: "You can know that soldiers can fight, and business can also fight!"

Its confident voice spreads in the vast Chengming Palace.

Today, he officially announced that "business war" is an exclusive term.

"Business wars?" Li Xi was stunned for a moment and muttered.

Wei Qing's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new continent.!

New ways to fight! A new way to defend against the Huns!

He hurriedly took out his pen and ink and recorded this new term on the Chao Wat in his hand.

Zheng, who was sitting in the group of civil officials, was full of red light at that time, and he kept shaking his arms excitedly.

He couldn't wait to vent his emotions.

This kid is so good at business!

Proper talents!

This is the kind of talent you need!

Zheng was writing at the time, and at the same time secretly made a decision.

No matter what the result of today's court meeting is, Bai Mingzhe must protect it!

If nothing else, just for today's full harvest.

He could already foresee that Bai Mingzhe would come to his team, and the remaining assets of the treasury would triple the following year.

Isn't it just that you're close to your relatives, and you don't mind, but as for the opinions of others, isn't it important?

As long as the relatives are strong enough, even if others are unwilling, they must hold back and shut up!

In the history of the Han Dynasty, there were not a few relatives who served as generals and prime ministers.

Take Dou Wangsun, who was executed last year, for example, when he was in power, was anyone against it?

Is anyone unconvinced?

The answer is almost no, everyone basically thinks that he is very suitable, even if someone is not convinced, he must honestly obey Dou Wangsun's dispatch.

If he hadn't been put on the hook and saddled with the crime of forging an edict, he would definitely be alive and well now.