"The king has an order to count the acres of ownerless land in the prefectures and counties of Hedong in Hebei as soon as possible."

This was the first decree issued by Zhao Gou.

As the deputy marshal of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Wang Boyan was listed by Zhao as the pacification envoy of Hebei West Road, Zhang Suo was listed as the pacification envoy of Hebei East Road, and Zong Ze was listed as the pacification envoy of Hedong Road (Chen Yu is the pacification envoy of Hebei West Road).

So this group of people was all busy.

Including Huang Qianshan and Liang Yangzu, the latter was made a three-way transfer envoy by Zhao Gou, and the former was appointed by him as a Changping envoy and took him to burn cement to make salt pans.

At the eastern end of the boundary between the Northern Song Dynasty and Yanyun, that is, the Cangzhou area, it is the famous Changlu Salt Field in later generations.

The tributaries of the Guzhang River flow in its territory, and there are many reeds on the bank, so it is called "long reed". In the second year of the elephant of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north and south (580 AD), a county was set up here, that is, it was named Changlu County, and the four years of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (1071 AD) abolished Changlu County and changed to Changlu Town.

But Cangzhou at this time did not produce salt.

Because the terrain of Hebei is flat, the reeds and puddles and swamps of this generation are still part of the Song army's Hebei defense line.

The real development of Changlu Salt Field will not be until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Hangu Yancheng north of the Liao-Song Jiehe River has been flourishing since the third year of Tongguang in the Later Tang Dynasty (925).

Zhao Gou had adopted Liang Yangzu's advice and issued a lot of salt bills in order to raise military salaries, and now he wants to open up the source to raise money, so he must also start with salt.

Because this thing works the fastest.

Salt is a necessity for human life, but the price of salt in the Song Dynasty was not low, at least compared to the cost of salt, it was not worth mentioning.

Boiling sea frying salt is already very profitable, and if it is a large-scale salt drying, it will be even more financial.

With Changlu in the east and the salt in the east of the river in the west, Zhao Gou will be able to avoid the shortage of money in the future.

But this is only one aspect, and it is necessary to collect the ownerless land into the hands. Organizing the army of displaced refugees is the first thing, and giving the soldiers and soldiers under him the second is the second thing, and after these things are completed, his foundation can be completely stabilized.

But the latter takes much longer than the former.

Just count how long it will take to scrap the ownerless and unowned lands everywhere? Coupled with the resettlement of displaced people and the division of land, and even the need to remove local and court resistance, if you want to get everything done completely, I am afraid that it may not be possible to complete it in a whole year.

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Huang Qianshan returned to his residence with a happy face, Chang Ping! He really got the position of Changping envoy, and he was still the Changping envoy of Hedong and Hebei Third Road, so it was better to pacify the envoy and the capital transfer envoy, and he was absolutely powerful. It's really in vain that he raised his troops to defect to King Yan.

When he returned to his lodgings, he was very drunk.

After many days of worry, today, my heart finally fell back into my stomach.

Before raising troops to serve Zhao Gou, he thought about what kind of reward he would get, but with the pacification of the two roads in Hebei and the east of the river all in charge, even the transfer envoys were taken away by Liang Yangzu, or the three roads were taken together, Huang Qianshan was very disappointed.

Because Zhao Song had four permanent divisions in the local area, this pacification envoy and the capital transfer envoy were the absolute top two. Mentioning the criminal and prison affairs and the ordinary envoy cannot be compared with the first two at all.

The authority in this place, the first is to pacify the envoy, who is in charge of military and civil affairs, and the official signature is called the Economic Strategy Pacification Division, commonly known as the Shuai Division, and the system envoy is not a permanent position; Then there is the capital transfer envoy, who is in charge of the collection and transfer of money and grain, and the official signature is called the transfer department, referred to as "Cao Division"; The third is to mention the official affairs of criminal prisons, and take charge of local justice, criminal prisons and supervision, and the official signature is called the Department of Criminal Prisons, referred to as the "Constitutional Division", just like the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations. Finally, it is Chang Ping. Zhangyi Changping (the granary used by the state to level grain prices) and the monopoly of lending money and grain, salt and tea, the official signature is to promote Changping Division, referred to as "Cangsi".

Chang Ping is not short of money, but he is somewhat deficient in terms of actual power. The official system of the Song Dynasty was very complicated, and many official positions were established just for the purpose of decentralizing power. The pacification envoy was established to divide the rights of the capital transit envoy, but later the pacification envoy came to the fore. The establishment of the various permanent envoys was also for the purpose of dividing the right to appease the envoys. In fact, the authority is not as good as that of a local governor. And at present, there is no storage and inventory of money and grain on Hedong Third Road, Hebei, and he is very tasteless.

But Huang Qianshan's current official position is not comparable to the previous 'Changping Envoy'. Like Liang Yangzu, he is also a three-way constant envoy.

It is very common for this person to be a two-way transfer envoy, but it seems that there is only one case in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

And this is not the root of Huang Qianshan's excitement, what really excites him is that he also got Zhao Gou's secret order to burn cement and build salt pans, so that he can rely on the sun to dry salt, and there is no need to fry salt and coarse salt without cooking. The yield is far better than boiling sea frying salt.

If this is true, it won't take long for him, who is now a normal envoy who is still in the family's background, to become a really important person under the command of King Yan.

Huang Yi was a little confused, drying salt, a word he had never heard of. Isn't Yan Wang Mo fooling his father?

"As a father, I have never smelled salt." Huang Qianshan stroked his beard, how many years have passed, there is only boiling sea frying salt in the world, how can there ever be a saying about drying salt? "However, King Yan's destiny is in his body, and Anzhi is illusory?"

The main thing is that the truth of drying salt is very simple and clear. The salt pan is divided into two parts, one for the evaporation pond and the other for the crystallization pond. First, the seawater is introduced into the evaporation pond, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by the wind and sun, it is poured into the crystallization pond and continues to be sun-dried, and the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and the salt will gradually precipitate out when it is sun-dried. The crystals obtained are the coarse salt that is common to the common people.

Huang Qianshan has been an official for many years, and he doesn't know anything about salt, but he also knows more or less what this boiling sea frying salt is about. It's not everywhere that you can cook sea frying salt, some places have thick salt and some places have light salt, isn't it related to the wind and sun?

Drizzling and boiling is also exposed to the wind and sun.

People who can pass the Jinshi exam are not stupid, and Huang Qianshan soon realized that this matter is promising. When he woke up the next day and recruited his son, he didn't listen to Huang Zhen's frustrating words, but asked Huang Zhen to quickly take the money and go to the salt merchant to buy salt money.

At the beginning, Liang Yangzu relied on salt to make great contributions, which is the key to his current position, Huang Qianshan can not be envious, but he knows that the salt money sent out by Liang Yangzu in the past is to make the salt merchants miserable. Because those salt bills can't make salt for them at all.

These days, Liang Yangzu doesn't know how many people have cursed the eighteenth generation of ancestors.

At the same time, all those salt bills have become waste paper.

But how could Zhao Gou not admit to those salt bills? Now buy back the salt banknotes at a low price, and when the Cangzhou salt incident rises, it is not to do business, but only to sell it again, one in and one out, hundreds of thousands of pieces of furniture.

This is a great opportunity to make a fortune without having to be a traitor.