In the Great Song Dynasty, salt, iron, wine, etc. were all monopolistic industries.

The profits of the monopoly industry can be imagined.

Salt, a monopoly commodity, is only a few pennies in price, and the difference in price of a pound is very low, but it can't stand that it is indispensable for everyone, and livestock also needs it, and the consumption is amazing. The tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty in the salt industry alone could reach tens of millions of yuan a year, which was one of the most important revenue pillars of the imperial court.

Of course this was before.

Now that the pirates control the sea, they can wantonly attack any place along the coast, although for the purpose of maintaining the support of the Great Song Dynasty, they did not attack the coastal salt works that destroyed the Great Song Dynasty, and most of the salt works are still operating as usual, but the pirates use the scientific and standardized salt production method provided by Zhao Yue to produce salt, which has low cost, high yield, extremely high purity, no peculiar smell, fine appearance, and is a good thing at a glance, and the price is cheap, but all Song people who have a little money are willing to use it. This had a huge impact on the sales of the Great Song Dynasty's self-produced salt, and with the rapid expansion of smuggling, the tax revenue of the salt industry alone plummeted year by year.

This is still the vast majority of the salt produced by pirates sold to Liao, Jin, and Goryeo, and there is not enough supply for the Great Song market. Otherwise, Song Yan would have collapsed long ago.

For the land to be conquered, the Cangzhao group carried out two-handed aggression.

With regard to Liao and Jin, the Jeju Island army took advantage of the superiority of warships and the convenience of random landing and attacks to continuously plunder the wealth of the coastal population in the north. It doesn't matter if you are a foreign Han Chinese, a Khitan or a Jurchen or a northern Zahu, the army will take it all when it comes ashore.

Those who do not follow will be killed.

They all say that if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different.

Zhao Yue is a later generation, and he has seen with his own eyes the advantages of the human race and talent of the Goddess of Liberty Kingdom. He believed more in the power of interests and the powerful assimilation of the Han nation.

The Great Song has rotted.

However, the civilization and affluence of the Han nation in this era are well-deserved to be the first in the world, full of charm.

Anywhere where the Han Chinese population is overwhelmingly dominant and dominant. The captured aliens are dismantled and placed in various places to do what they are good at, such as mud and sand into the sea. There is no wind and waves at all, and people of different races can only enjoy a good life with the share of obedience and assimilation.

The process of assimilation. The cowardly, conservative and conformist Han Chinese will also quietly change due to the infection of foreign races. This is an important reason why the horseback people are allowed to join the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Yue hopes to see the Han nation become a brave and unrestrained nation with science and technology first and spiritual freedom in his lifetime.

Only in a country with a free spirit and high morale can epoch-making creative geniuses and scientific giants emerge.

Armed aggression can directly weaken the military and reserve forces of horseback peoples. At the same time, it can train troops and improve the actual combat ability of generals.

A strong army is a truly strong army.

Like the so-called strong army defending the emperor in Tokyo City, supporting the Japanese army, in Zhao Yue's eyes, it is bullshit.

These Praetorian Guards officers and soldiers look like big men with strong martial arts, and they seem to be very combative, and they really pull out the field battle, even if the Jiading militia defending Zhaojiazhuang is one layer inferior in weapons and equipment, they can still kill the Japanese army and flee from the wind.

It's really not that Zhao Yue despises the Praetorian Guards too much.

In the historical Battle of Tokyo, even if there are relatives who need to be protected, the Praetorian Guard still has a strong castle to rely on. There is no need to fight in the field, still staring and mustering up the courage to fight, being frightened by the murderous spirit of the Jin army, which is a small number of times, and the vast majority of them urinate, regardless of the full support and ardent hope of the relatives behind them, they just want to find an opportunity to escape, and their performance is not as good as that of the Qinglou woman.

A ninth-rate woman who is coaxed in front of her face and despised in her heart, at a time of national crisis. In the face of the Jin Army's butcher's knife, many dared to stiffen their necks and refuse to serve, and even took the opportunity to assassinate the Jin Army officers.

Their lowly social status and brave performance are similar to those of the high-ranking big men, the self-proclaimed all-powerful literati, and the soldiers who are majestic and domineering in Tokyo City. At the critical moment, he was greedy for life and afraid of death, competing for the dogs of the Golden Army, or abandoning his family and relatives to run away by himself. A very ironic contrast.

Zhao Yue did not have a good impression of Confucianism, which was extremely distorted, hypocritical, and vain, but extremely prevalent in the Song Dynasty and later feudal dynasties.

He didn't understand. How can hundreds of millions of Han people be so honest and easy to bully and fool?

Where are the fierce men and Tang heroes of the past?

In order to reduce the loss of war, the target territory that is powerless to invade in front of it. Zhao Yue used little knowledge of commercial means to vigorously promote trade aggression.

If salt is a must, then the delicious and quick replenishment of energy sugar is the best anti-fatigue product in the imperial village, and the exquisite sugar is widely popular all over the world. And the spices abundant in the South China Sea Islands are irresistible temptation. Jewelry, jade, which have no practical value in Zhao Yue's eyes, are not worth paying attention to at all at present, and they are commodities that the world's powerful and rich cannot resist.

The Cangzhao Business Group used these commodities and unique technological luxury goods to sell and plunder massive wealth in various places, quietly destroying its economic foundation. When the time is ripe for subjugation, what will these economically troubled countries or regions use to resist?

Zhao Ji reuses Cai Jing as his appearance, because he values that the old guy can get him money and enjoy himself.

Cai Jing naturally knew this like a mirror in his heart.

However, the economic situation of the Great Song Dynasty is changing rapidly. Money is getting harder and harder to get. His life is getting harder and harder day by day.

The salt tax has been sharply reduced year by year, and this year, the taxes in many coastal areas have been empty, and the two major tax areas have fallen into turmoil. To add insult to injury.

He didn't know that the rich Jiangnan was surging in the dark, and sooner or later it would explode.

In order to curb the rapid rise of Zhao Gonglian, he faintly suppressed and attacked Cangzhao with political skills, gloating and watching the unrivaled Cangzhao business in its prosperity for a while being suppressed and blackmailed by many powerful and wealthy families with pink eye, and went into decline in a blink of an eye.

Now Cangzhao business is really 'not good'. He saw the terrible consequences.

The prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty and the passion for people's industrial creation, driven by the Cangzhao business, also lost power with the decline of the leading Cangzhao dragon, resulting in the most important commercial tax in the Great Song Dynasty from counting money to hand cramps to tax collectors who were so idle that they could get drunk when they drank tea.

Smuggling is the fashion of the powerful and wealthy. The greed of this group is unbridled. Smuggling, of course, cannot be stopped.

Stabilize the country, invent and create, and use new economic means to drive the development of business, Lao Cai Jing does not have the ability and insight.

Where can I get the money to make up for the deficit and ensure the emperor's enjoyment?

The old Cai Jing was worried, and he was already old, but now he is getting more and more old.

But no matter how difficult it is, he will insist. Just to keep the position of power.

Zhao Yue didn't care about Cai Jing's life or death.

He watched with great interest the contest between Han Shizhong and Shan Shiqi.

Han Shizhong is obviously very perceptive in martial arts, and his ability should be learned from fighting and fighting, and he has been honed by continuous study and practice in the army. The bow horse is skillful, and an iron spear is very lethal.

And Shan Shiqi is a wealthy family in Qinzhou, has the conditions to learn martial arts, and his family also attaches importance to martial arts in the dangerous border area, he should have learned martial arts with famous teachers or many masters when he was a teenager, and the foundation of martial arts is more solid, the equestrian skills are excellent, and a forty-pound muddy iron rod is very vigorous, and the stick method is good. It's a pity that he lacks Han Shizhong's battlefield training, and he lacks a ruthless and murderous power, and his actual combat experience is even less so.

In Zhao Yue's view, both of them are good talents and beautiful qualities whose combat effectiveness can be greatly improved, at this time, they have their own advantages and disadvantages, if there is no mistake, even if they are tired and climb down, they will not be able to tell the winner.

These two or two goods may have also been experienced, but they are becoming more and more courageous.

Being young and competitive is only one aspect.

They are all trapped in the cruel and ruthless reality, they can't see through the world, they can't find a better way out, one continues to fight for a way out of the army to keep the goods and complete the task, and the other fights for the survival of the cottage, and no one can back down.

To put it bluntly, the two of them are sober fools like the old breeders. (To be continued.) )