In the first year of the Qing Dynasty, the seventh month of the year (15th). In the Liao State Mission, before entering Beijing. In Bianjing City, a strange convoy suddenly appeared, hundreds of ox carts and donkey carts, carrying boxes of tightly sealed wooden boxes, slowly walking in the streets.

The cargo was so heavy that it left deep rut marks on the streets.

There's nothing strange about this one.

But the strange thing is that the troops escorting the convoy are all wearing southern clothes, waving the banner, and the horse infantry army on the East Guangnan Road is also deployed, but the wooden boxes on each vehicle are used to use the flags that will only be planted when transporting materials.

It's weird.

Because as we all know, Lingnan is a wild land, and there is almost nothing in the local area except lychees and longans that can be sold to Bianjing.

What's even stranger is that someone found some coarse, fishy-smelling coarse grains of salt near these ruts.

"Salt?" Many people are wondering: "When did Quang Nam Road produce salt?" ”

In this era, the technology of drying salt has not yet been invented, so although sea salt exists, it is the ancient boiling salt and frying salt.

It is inefficient and costly, so the sea salt along the coast is only consumed by the coastal residents themselves, and has not entered the commercial circulation.

Today, when hundreds of trucks from Guangnan East Road are suspected of transporting salt to Bianjing.

The Jiaoyin shop in Bianjing was the first to react - all the salt quotations and salt banknotes on that day collectively fell slightly by about 2 percent.

Among them, salt solution fell the most, falling by 5%.

Unfortunately, people don't know right away, what exactly these trucks are transporting?

It can only be guessed that Guangnan East Road has finally increased the same amount of materials that can be supplied in large quantities for a long time.

After all, Gangyun has always been only used to transport local materials that are large in volume and can be supplied stably for a long time.

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"Your Highness......"

"Here are the 10,000 stone sea fish that just arrived......"

Zhang Weiji accompanied Zhao Xin and walked in a large warehouse in the imperial city.

Here, it has completely changed.

Densely packed with countless wooden boxes, piled up like a mountain.

The strong smell of the sea fills the air.

"Open it and take a look!" Looking at these wooden boxes, Zhao Xin gave an order to Liu Yongnian.

Liu Yongnian nodded, and immediately stepped forward with a knife, cutting open a tightly bound wooden box, revealing the densely packed dried yellow croaker that was squeezed in it.

The golden skin of the fish has been dried like the bark of the tree, and the sea salt grains wrapped on it are densely packed.

Zhao Xin waved his hand and asked Liu Yongnian to take out a few dried fish from the box and bring them to him.

Then he squatted down and looked at the dried large yellow croaker in front of him.

Each one is more than four inches (12cm), the largest one, and even more than a foot long, even the smallest one, may be more than a pound in the hand!

Zhao Xin looked at these big fish and couldn't help but sigh: "The ocean, sure enough, the resources are so rich that it is unimaginable!" ”

He knew that the few fish in front of him, if they were left to the next generation, any one would be thousands of sizes.

The largest one may sell for tens of thousands.

Nowadays, these fish are just miscellaneous fish in the ocean.

One of the most common catches by coastal fishermen is not worth much.

Now he has ordered people to catch them in batches, tons and tons, and even dry this kind of dried fish and transport it to Bianjing.

But Zhao Xin knew that as long as they were transported to Bianjing, these fish would immediately become the wealth of the country and become hard currency!

Because, no matter how cheap these fish are on the coast.

But after all, they are meat, and they are sea fish with rich nutritional value.

And now, what the Chinese people lack most is meat.

In today's Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that even the landlord class may not be able to consume enough protein.

Like in the Water Margin, the situation of serving beef at every turn is just a novelist's words after all.

The reality is that it is the rich peasants who can eat a full stomach, the landlords who can eat white rice, the merchant families who can see oil at every meal, and those who can eat meat every day are the ruling class.

At least it's a family with a mine.

In the Great Song Dynasty, more than 70 percent of the population lived near the subsistence line.

If you can fill your stomach, you are already very happy.

In the case of Bianjing, the vast majority of residents don't know what meat tastes like except for the New Year's holidays.

And the arrival of these dried sea fish, Zhao Xin knows, will open a golden age.

They will completely change the diet of the people of Bianjing.

He picked up a dried fish and instructed Zhang Weiji: "Zhang Duzhi, starting tomorrow, Qing will take 100 stones of dried fish every day and sell it in Bianjingfang City......

"Sell for 200 wen ...... per catty"

"One hundred of them are classified into Zuozang, and the remaining one hundred are left, and the Inner Service Province can leave twenty texts, and then leave ten texts to Kaifeng Mansion, and the rest will be returned to Guangnan East Road and handed over to the Xuanhui envoy, please Xuanhui envoy at your disposal!"

When Zhang Weiji heard this, his enthusiasm immediately rose.

The little abacus in his heart immediately stirred.

For every pound sold, his chamberlain could leave twenty cents.

One stone is ninety-two and a half catties, and a hundred stones can make a stable income of more than 100 yuan a day?

It seems like a small amount, but what about saving it?

Isn't it just a small vault?

With this small treasury, it will be much easier for the inner servants to do things in the future.

What's more, it's a trickle of business!

At that moment, Zhang Weiji bowed and said: "Your Highness Longen, the ministers thank you on behalf of the inner servants!" ”

He made up his mind in his heart that he would personally take charge of this matter of selling dried fish, and strive to sell it quickly and more!

Zhao Xin smiled hehehe.

This method of dividing the cake and then letting people work hard for him is the best way to use it in this Great Song Dynasty.

Money talks.

He knew that if he distributed this benefit in this way, all the enthusiasm of the upper and lower levels would be mobilized.

It won't be long before the Great Song Dynasty will have one more financial source with stable income, comparable to the tea tax.

Moreover, the growth rate of this financial source will far outpace that of all other projects.

After all, the sea during this period was a treasure land that had not been effectively exploited.

Once human beings begin to develop, utilize, and taste the sweetness.

Soon, all kinds of new technologies and methods will emerge in a steady stream.

Working people can use their hard work, courage and wisdom to create miracles.

Just like in his previous life, in just 20 years, the fishermen of the Great Song Dynasty caught large schools of fish along the coasts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian to almost extinction.

As a result, the fishing fleet had to go to the open sea.

And that would require bigger ships, bigger fishing gear, better navigation, better handling, more sailors.

Since the civilian ships can sail far.

Naturally, military ships will only be bigger, stronger, faster and better.

And these are the successful experiences of previous lives!