A grain of salt, evaporating from the sun of seawater to natural crystallization, can be as fast as four or five days, and as long as twelve or three days. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSalt lying on the salt field is not worth a lot of money, but once it enters the circulation market, the price can rise tenfold, which fully confirms the strange phenomenon of "salt producers die poor, salt sellers earn death" in this industry. Circulation generates wealth, and when you master salt, you also grasp the financial resources of ancient society; The people who sold salt were the holders of the wealth of the time. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the monopoly of salt and iron has become one of the important financial revenues of a feudal dynasty.

However, this is often the case: the more projects that are prohibited by the government and operated exclusively by the government, the more competition there is; And the less competitive the industry, the greater the profits. In the context of monopoly monopoly, the edible salt industry was given a strong color of profiteering. The profit of salt is at the top of all ranks, therefore, in line with the principle of "there must be brave men under the heavy reward", because of the "salt and iron monopoly" and all kinds of people walking on the rivers and lakes have derived a group - illegal salt dealers. They also came into being with the implementation of the salt and iron monopoly system, and with the existence of the feudal dynasty in China, and have existed until modern society.

With the emergence of illicit salt dealers, there was illicit salt, which refers to the production, transportation and sale of salt in violation of the relevant government prohibitions. The occurrence and overflow of illicit salt is usually closely related to the government's salt policy, especially the salt monopoly policy. Generally speaking, in the period when salt was freely produced and sold by the people, there was no official salt monopolized by the government, so naturally there was no private salt, so to a certain extent, private salt can be said to be a direct product of the salt monopoly system.

Zhao Yu knew that in this era, the profits from the sale of illicit salt were equivalent to those of modern drugs, but because the income from the monopoly of salt and iron was of great importance to the government, the governments of all dynasties and dynasties had set strict laws against the illegal sale and operation of illicit salt projects. The existence of the same huge profits has made the illegal salt dealers who defy the law repeatedly banned, and they are as bold as they are and how profitable they are, and they are very solid and not afraid of death. It has also made the smuggler a project that can only be run by outlaws.

Because of the existence of strict punishment and strict laws, the risks that illicit salt dealers in ancient times need to bear are the same as the risks that drug dealers need to bear today. Zhao Yu knew that in the southeastern region, especially in the areas where Huaizhejiang and Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangnan meet, the activities of illicit salt dealers were extremely frequent. So to rob people and silk, plunder women, fight with patrol officials, to kill and injure officials, if they are cleared, they will be thieves, according to the danger, the government can not get it.

However, Zhao Yu knows that things have to be seen from both sides, although the risks that smugglers and drug dealers need to pay are similar, but drugs and salt are different. Drugs are harmful, while salt is dispensable. If the common people feel that the price of salt in the government is fair and reasonable and can afford it, the illegal salt dealers will naturally disappear, and it is precisely because they cannot afford to eat salt in the first place that there is a market for the illegal salt dealers. The common people are not particularly disgusted with these thieves who dare to challenge the monopoly policy of salt and iron, and even have a good impression of them, and in their hearts the smugglers of salt provide themselves with cheap salt, which is tantamount to helping the needy.

Zhao Yu still knows that the 'chivalry' in the hearts of these ordinary people is by no means an ordinary thief, but there have really been a few famous people in the annals of history. The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought for the salt of the Jiechi in the Battle of Hanquan, and the winner became the ancestor of China. Huang Chao, a salt dealer in the Tang Dynasty, overthrew a dynasty that had been established for nearly 300 years; The chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Wu Yue was founded by a smuggler named Qian Biao; Zhang Shicheng started by selling illicit salt in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, and he competed with each other and did a shocking career.

Even the Yuan Dynasty at this time was because of the rebellion of a few smugglers. Some of these seemingly profit-seeking 'thieves' were directly involved in the peasant uprising, and even if some did not participate in the military struggle, they were supporters of many rebel uprisings, but instead became the gravediggers of the dynasty, so Zhao Yu knew that they were a force that should not be taken lightly. And he also knows that salt has not only affected the fate of the Chinese nation, but also played an important role in world history.

Coincidentally, in the American Civil War, it was also salt that decided the fate of the Southern army. Four days after the outbreak of the war, President Lincoln ordered a blockade of all Southern ports. As a result of the blockade, salt produced in the north could not be circulated to the south. The plantation owner boiled salt with seawater, but this did not solve the problem at all. The Northern army soon recognized that the shortage of salt in the south was an important strategic advantage for the northern army, and they immediately destroyed the salt works every time they captured them. Salt became increasingly scarce in the South, and meat gradually disappeared from people's tables. With the help of freed slaves, the Northern army continued to weaken the Southern army by capturing the saltworks and eventually destroying St. Andrew's Bay. At this point, the southern army was powerless, and two months later, the war ended with the victory of the northern army.

Zhao Yu now feels that he is the spoiler of history, he has changed an important node in history at this time, so he simply makes it bigger and turns the world upside down. So he didn't just use salt as a means to make money, but he also used salt as a catalyst to move history forward. Because he knew that in history, as long as there was a financial problem in the salt industry, there would be a group of heroes, and only after the Southern Song Dynasty did the salt people become more exploited, and armed riots became more and more frequent.

In the early years of Shaoxing, there was an incident in Mingzhou, Zhejiang, where salt people held canes to protect the right; In the third year of Qingyuan, the salt people of Daxishan in Bao'an, Guangdong Province held a riot; During the Jiatai period, the pavilions and soldiers of the salt field in western Zhejiang jointly rioted; In the second year of Jiading, a salt uprising led by Hu Hai occurred in Chuzhou, Huaidong; In the second year of Baoyou, Ogiura led the Tinghu riot in western Zhejiang; In the first year of Deqi, it was the eve of the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, and because of the arrears of the salt households' labor costs, the pavilion households led by Xu 209 and Ye 3004 in Minghe, Zhejiang Province were provoked to revolt.

Zhao Hao's current plan is to use the salt in his hand to impact the market of the Yuan Dynasty, make money and disrupt the enemy's economy at the same time, and then stir up the salt politics of the Yuan Dynasty on the basis of harming others and benefiting himself, creating a chaotic situation. Of course, he can't do these things, and he can't do them with great fanfare, so he can only fake his hands on the smugglers who are not afraid of the land these days...... (To be continued.) )