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If Zheng Fei is not mistaken,

The Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia stopped many border trades due to years of war.

One of the most important was the ban on the import of salt from Western Xia.

Just because salt has been a variety monopolized by the state in all dynasties,

The price of domestic salt in the Northern Song Dynasty was even more very high, and the price of salt in the whole country generally reached seventy or eighty wen a catty, and in some places it could even reach three or four hundred wen!

As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty only had salt as a year, accounting for a huge part of the annual fiscal revenue.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that salt tax is the lifeblood of the Northern Song Dynasty's finances.

But on the contrary, the better quality of Xixia salt, Xixia's "green and white salt" not only has a better color and fragrance than the salt produced in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also is so cheap that it is only fifteen or sixteen wen a catty. Sometimes you can buy it in seven or eight languages.

Ordinary people are not stupid, and naturally they want to buy the best things at the least price.

So the Northern Song Dynasty stopped importing salt from Western Xia under the pretext of war.

On the one hand, this is to prevent the Western Xia from profiting from salt and curb the development of the Western Xia.

On the other hand, it is also to ensure that they make huge profits.

For this reason, the Song Dynasty even stipulated that smuggling salt should be the same crime as murder!

At this moment, because of Li Zhong's salted duck eggs, Zheng Fei suddenly remembered such a thing,

If you can go to Western Xia to smuggle salt and sell it at a price far lower than that of Song salt, wouldn't you be able to earn several times the difference in price in an instant?

Zheng Fei had learned before that capitalists are afraid of no profit or too little profit, just as nature is afraid of a vacuum.

Once there is a suitable profit, capital will be bold,

With 50 percent of the profits, the capitalists dare to take risks.

For the sake of 100% profits, capitalists dare to trample on all human laws.

With a profit of 300 percent, the capitalists dare to commit any crime, even to the risk of being hanged.

Zheng Fei suddenly felt that he had a capitalist impulse,

Wang Fa?

What does your royal law of the Northern Song Dynasty have to do with me?

The Yellow Nest, which dug graves for the Tang Dynasty, started by selling smuggled salt! Yang Guifei's godson An Lushan even accumulated the capital to rebel against the Tang Dynasty because of salt.

Zheng Fei suddenly felt like he had picked up a small lantern in the vast dark night.

Although its light was so faint, it at least illuminated its feet.

Luda Shijin and the others are making fun of Li Zhong,

Zheng Fei stood up suddenly, startling Luda and the others.

Zheng Fei grabbed Luda's two arms with both hands, stared at a pair of eyes and said excitedly,

"Brother, do you have a way to send me to Western Xia?!"

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I didn't expect Luda to be really capable in this Weizhou City,

Since Zheng Fei made a request to go to Western Xia,

Luda was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head again and again, bluntly saying that it was treason to clear the customs without permission.

But I couldn't help Zheng Fei begged for a while, and the chaos of the buddy's righteousness bombarded again,

Ruda had no choice but to respond.

On the second day, Luda took Zheng Fei to a big restaurant, and Xiao Er at the door immediately nodded and greeted him, "Lord Tishi is here, is it a wine or a ...... today?" ”

Luda snorted lightly and said directly, "Huang Lao Er is not here?" ”

Xiao Er's face changed slightly, "Our second shopkeeper...... At. ”

Ruda walked inside, "Tell him to come out to me."

Xiao Er secretly glanced at Zheng Fei, answered and turned around and entered the inner room.

It's not time to eat at the moment, and there is not a single guest in the restaurant, only a few guys are busy with their own work.

Luda and Zheng Fei chose a wine table in a secluded corner to sit down, and Luda said in a low voice, "Do you know this Huang Er?" ”

Zheng Fei tried his best to recall Zheng Tu's memory, nodded slightly, and said, "I don't know him well, but I have dealt with his eldest brother Huang, and they often send people to my butcher shop to buy meat." ”

Luda said, "Do you know what this Huang Lao Er does?" ”

Zheng Fei said, "I heard that it is a merchant who has cleared customs, and resells some tea and animal skins from Song and Xia. ”

Ruda smiled mysteriously, "Now that the army is in chaos, is it worth going out and adventuring just these things?" ”

Zheng Fei's heart moved, "What does my brother mean......?" ”

Luda snorted slightly, "He does what Xixia is most unwilling to sell and what he is most willing to sell to our Great Song Dynasty." ”

Zheng Fei was shocked,

What was the most reluctant thing in Western Xia to sell to the Great Song Dynasty? It's a war horse!

What was the Western Xia most willing to sell to the Great Song Dynasty? It's salt!

These two things are things that both the Xia and Song sides strictly control!

Zheng Fei's face changed, "Since my brother knows, why does the government ......?" ”

Luda squinted his eyes and said, "There are some things that the official family can't do, so they can only find some people to do it for the official family." ”

Zheng Fei thought about it in his heart, and he understood the reason, if you Xixia are not willing to sell my war horse, I will smuggle it. As for this smuggling salt, I am afraid that after the matter is completed, the benefits of the border guards will be indispensable.

In this way, the border guards can not only get excellent Western Xia war horses, but also reap the benefits of smuggling salt dealers, so they will naturally turn a blind eye.

Zheng Fei was suddenly overjoyed in his heart, it was really a coincidence that he couldn't write a book, and he hadn't told Luda about the purpose of going to Xixia, but Luda coincidentally took himself directly to find the Huang family brothers, who were smuggler salt dealers, so that as long as he followed the Huang family brothers, wouldn't the details of selling illicit salt become clear immediately?

Zheng Fei's train of thought was interrupted by a loud laugh, Zheng Fei looked up and saw two people in their forties coming out of the inner room together.

Zheng Fei remembered through Zheng Tu's memory, one of these two people is called Huang Wenquan, and the other is called Huang Wuquan, who is the big and small shopkeeper of this restaurant, and this Huang Wuquan is the second Huang mentioned in Luda's mouth.

Huang Wenquan looks like a classic shopkeeper, thinner than Huang Wenquan, but his eyes clearly reveal a very shrewd look, and he looks like a businessman at first glance. And this Huang Wuquan is more refined, but he is a capable spirit, this Wen Yiwu and the two brothers are both famous figures in Weizhou City,

The two of them saluted Ruda Shi together, "It's been a long time since I saw Lord Tiha, what kind of wind blew you here today?" ”

Then they looked at Zheng Fei again, and both of them were slightly stunned, as if they wondered how Zheng Tu was with Luda,

Zheng Fei was just about to get up and salute, but was held down by Luda, and Luda didn't beckon the Huang brothers to sit down, just pouted and said absentmindedly, "Huang Er, why hasn't this month's dividend been delivered yet?" Xiao Zhong asked two days ago. ”

Zheng Fei was shocked, how could Luda say these obviously "illegal and undisciplined" words so arrogantly?

Seeing that there was no one else in the lobby at this time, except for the guys, and those guys were still busy with their own things, and they didn't seem to respond to such sensitive questions, Zheng Fei's heart moved, and then he understood, these guys have long been surprised, and it seems that Luda has done a lot of things.

Seeing that the two brothers of the Huang family moved slightly when they heard this, Huang Wuquan hurriedly said, "This...... Ti Zhi you know, the last time I came back and met the horse gang, the goods were robbed by horse thieves, more than a dozen men went together, eight were lost, and even the small ones almost left their lives in the desert, and the dividends were ....... ”

"Humph!" Luda's face changed, "The mouth is on your face, how can the Sprinkle family know which sentence is true and which is false?" A dividend is a family fortune, who knows if it was hacked by you? Even if you spread your nonsense, will the small species be slightly believed? ”

Huang Wuquan's face changed greatly, and he was about to reply, but Huang Wenquan stretched out his hand and gently pulled the placket, and then saw Huang Wenquan with a smile on his face, "Lord Tishi, look at what you said, even if the little seed is a little bit more than a little princess who doesn't know the personality of my brother, don't you understand?" ”

After that, Huang Wenquan stretched out his hand to the wine table as if he was playing a trick, and a red cloth purse appeared on the wine table, Huang Wenquan then saluted Luda slightly, "Please also ask Lord Ti Zhi to say a few kind words for us in front of the little kind scriptures." ”

Luda's complexion eased at this time, picked up the purse and shook it slightly, nodded and said, "Then the Sprinkle family will be accommodating for you." ”

Huang Wenquan arched his hand again and again, "Thank you for your jurisdiction, thank you for your jurisdiction." ”

Ruda put his purse into his arms and asked coldly, "When are you going to leave again?" ”

Huang Wuquan continued, "It's a coincidence that Lord Tihar asked, I'll go early tomorrow morning, and if Tiha comes back at this time tomorrow, I won't be able to see the villain." ”

Ruda nodded, "The Sprinkle family has one more thing to trouble you." ”

Huang Wenquan said with a smile, "Lord Tihar is serious, it is a blessing for our brothers to be able to serve Lord Tihar, please do not hesitate to command." ”

Luda pointed at Zheng Fei, "Take this brother with me when I go tomorrow." ”

Huang Wenquan and Huang Wuquan were both stunned, and Huang Wenquan said, "This Zheng ...... Brother Zheng is also going to Western Xia? ”

Zheng Fei got up and hugged his fists and said, "Exactly, I have something to do to go to Xixia." ”

A trace of hesitation flashed on Huang Wuquan's face, "Brother Zheng is going to Western Xia to ......?" ”

Zheng Fei glanced at Luda, and Luda immediately snorted coldly in understanding, "My brother naturally has something important, what's the matter?" Are you still afraid that you will not be able to do it? ”

Huang Wenquan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Where is it, Ti Zhi has misunderstood, now it is not more tense than before, the border is more tense, and the horse thieves are becoming more and more rampant along the way, we are worried that this road will not be too peaceful and delay the affairs of Lord Ti Ha." In addition, ......, suddenly there were many fresh faces in the caravan who were only afraid of the ...... from the Western Xia side. ”

Huang Wenquan looked at Luda and Zheng Fei and smiled apologetically, but the rest of the words didn't come out.

As soon as Luda was about to change his face, Zheng Fei immediately took the lead and said, "Along the way, I will absolutely obey my words and never make trouble!" ”

Huang Wenquan's face softened, and he said with a smile, "That's fine, Brother Zheng can come here early tomorrow morning." ”