Gao Yue raised his arms and smacked on the horse's hind buttocks, and the neighing sound of the military town's horse raised its hooves, flicked its tail, and ran along the mountain road of Stagecoach Pass in the direction of Gyeongju.

Its neck jingled, and a string of post station talismans was swaying, on which were engraved the words "Zhilingzhou Governor's Mansion".

Between heaven and earth, the snow was full of gray, and Gao Yue saw the horse disappear without a trace, so he raised his head and thought about it, thinking about its schedule to arrive in Lingzhou alone.

The talisman barrel shook under the strong muscles of the horse's neck, and soon it galloped to the outskirts of Gyeongju City, where there was a small state where the party was in a small state, and a group of party members saw the horse galloping, so they surrounded it and held it with a rope, and then saw the brand words "Jingzhen" on the horse, and hurriedly said a few words to each other, "This is the horse ...... of the high envoy of the high emperor."

Everyone was silent, but respectfully fed the horse corn and forage, chewed green salt, and wiped its body. On the second day, the two men acted as horse bearers, carrying the leash, one after the other, and continued to run north with the horse.

In the evening of the next day, the horses and people were covered with falling snow, and ran to the horse ridge, where there was another party item in the prefecture, and heard that this horse was sent by the high envoy, and wanted to send documents to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, this Fan Luo people did not dare to slack off, and then fed the horse with small beans, salt and fine grass, and the next day after the snow stopped, like a relay, he sent someone to escort the horse to the northwest direction of the canal.

Fangqu is located at the confluence of the three rivers of Maling River (Malian River), Dongchuan and Xichuan, so the third party item here received Gaoyue's Zhenma......

After entering the boundary of Lingzhou, the task of protecting the horses and feeding the horses was taken over by the Nanshan Party Item, and the "Dongshan Party Item" continued to perform.

Until this horse ran unimpeded into the front of the Ya Bing Courtyard of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion.

Along the road, more than a dozen party items in the territory of Gyeongju and Lingzhou fell, and tens of thousands of tents, none of them dared to touch half a hair of this horse.

Because Gao Yue exterminated the pheasant clan in Gyeongju, the shock to them can be said to be inexplicably great!

"The people of Fan are more fearful." This is Gao Yue's original words, and now it is exactly like this, the party Xiang Fan Luo in Gyeongju are all obedient, and when it comes to Gao Yue's name, the party chiefs, marshals, and people are all silent and respectful like gods.

A group of tooth soldiers led the horses into the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion, and Cui Ning was sitting on the festival hall, took the talisman, and pulled out the letter sent by Gao Yue from Jingyuan.

"Gao Lang, this kid, also has a prestige in the party." Seeing this, Cui Ning laughed, "Li Huaiguang instructed Zhai Wenxiu to impeach my Gao Lang, but he just wanted to seize the rights of Shuofang Salt Pond, Wuchi and Water Transport to support his soldiers, and this time he completely failed." ”

Originally, Lingzhou has Wenchi, Yanzhou has Wuchi to produce salt, this salt has been in the hands of the Lingzhou Governor's Office, although Li Shi just ascended the throne, he dismantled the Shuofang Army, which was divided into Shuofang (the traditional Shuofang military town, that is, Ling, Yan, Qing, Xia, Sui), Zhenwu (the state and military city of the Yellow River), Hezhong (with Puzhou as the core) three parts, not under each other, but now the salt of the Shuofang Army has not been collected by the imperial court for the time being, but is controlled by the Lingzhou Governor's Office, for the army.

And one of the main contents of Gao Yue's letter is the abacus of Daling and Yanerzhou Yanli.

Salt, but it's a great hard currency. When Emperor Suzong ascended the throne from Shuofang Lingwu and then recovered the two capitals, why could the Shuofang army "be in charge of unlimited merit alone", did it rely on Guo Ziyi's military talent alone? No, the most important of them is that the Shuofang army alone controls the salt pond income in the northwest borderland, and the elite of the natural soldiers and horses cover the world!

So Cui Ning called the branch assistant and counted the accounts.

Now the Wenchi in Lingzhou and the Wuchi in Yanzhou, the former has an annual output of 15,000 stones, and the latter has an annual output of 7,000 stones, totaling 22,000 stones (Anyi and Xie County Erchi in Puzhou in the Tang Dynasty are directly under the jurisdiction of the Guidu Branch, with an annual output of about 300,000 stones, and the New Tang Dynasty Book Food and Goods Chronicles actually wrote an adult output of 10,000 stones, that is, 'the year of salt Wanhu', I seriously doubt that the Song Confucians have no concept of numbers).

Each soldier was required to eat two spoonfuls and five pinches of salt a day, and the annual amount of salt was nine liters.

Then the number of soldiers under the control of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion itself is 20,000 people, plus the anti-autumn soldiers transferred from other places, a total of 30,000 people need to supply salt, and the annual salt supply is only 2,900 stones.

And the people of the two states, the pond households, and the trade with the Hui Hui together consumed 5,000 stones.

In addition, the salt ponds in Lingzhou and Yanzhou also have a task, that is, to "lose rice instead of salt" every year, to put it bluntly, it is to use part of the salt to buy rice and reserve it for the army. Among them, the quota of the warm pond is 90,000 stone meters, and the black pond is 40,000 stone meters.

And Gao Yue is aiming at this "rice instead of salt".

I'm in Jingyuan Yingtian, I can get rice, who else can I do this "rice instead of salt", Weng Son-in-law is not a good business!

Gao Yue simply calculated that the scale of his camp in Baili New City was 1,950 hectares of Jingyuan soldiers and 800 hectares of Fan Yang soldiers, and he planted corn, wheat, and buckwheat in half a set, and harvested three times in two years, and on average, he could harvest eight buckets of corn per mu of land, and he could get about 120,000 stone corn in a year.

But Gao Yue is not prepared to report the actual number of expenditures.

The quota he was going to report was 100,000 stone corn, so that 40,000 stone was stored in the local branch patrol yard, 40,000 stone was entered into the Jingyuan military grain depot, and 20,000 stone was left for the battalion soldiers (Tian Shi) as a net worth of rice (each Tian Shi family can get about six stone corn, that is to say, enough for one person to eat for half a year, of course, this is an additional allowance, Tian Shi still receives rations from Du Zhi and the military government every month, and Du Zhi gives clothes in spring and winter).

But there is still a balance of 20,000 stone corn, which was "privately occupied" by Gao Yue.

He was not prepared to leave "incriminating evidence", but transferred it to the caravan in Baili New City, and directly transported it to Lingzhou Rongchang to "transfer rice instead of salt" - the rice was accepted by Cui Ning and transferred to the military government, and the salt was sent to Gao Yue for disposal.

As soon as the two phases turned, huge profits were generated.

In order to avoid trouble, the price of salt in Wenchi and Wuchi is still set at 250 wen per bucket (the price of salt in the northwest is slightly lower than that in the southeast sea), and one stone is 2,500 wen, which is unchanged compared with usual, of which the profit of each bucket of salt is 150 wen, 50 wen goes to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, and 100 wen goes to the caravan to cover the price of their transportation feet; However, the 20,000 stone corn sold by Gao Yue was inflated at 200 wen yuan per stone, that is, the price of each stone was 1,200 wen yuan. In this way, 20,000 stone of corn can be exchanged for 9,600 stone of pond salt.

Subsequently, he set up a field in Baili City for this batch of salt, and sold it for 300 yuan a bucket, and Chang'an, Pizhou and Jingzhou did not worry about buyers, and they could also be sold to the Shence Military Town of Purun and Linyou, which could make a pure profit of nearly 29,000 yuan.

Why pure?

Because the 20,000 stone corn was obtained by Gao Yuebai, he took a part of the income from the camp and tore off a piece of meat from the body of the imperial court.

Gao Yue not only eats the virtual soldiers, but also the virtual horses, and now he also eats the virtual rice.

But Gao Yue's wish does not stop there, Wenchi, Wuchi, Baichi, etc. are big salt pools after all, and the imperial court is staring at them to death, and there are several small salt pools in Keling and Yanerzhou, which are also favored by Gao Yue.