Chapter 10 Grain and Salt

Want to show cards, the road to large-scale money has been broken, it is a lie to say that you are not depressed in your heart, Zhao Xin is very helpless, why Europeans in the Age of Discovery, can turn glass balls into jewelry, from Uncle Black, get real money, Zhao Xin with the 32nd century card system, can only look at the appearance of drooling, perhaps, is the number of lights is limited, slightly frustrated, not frustrated to lose his mind, of course, if you can really be in the lottery, light up the glass ball, or a small piece of glass mirror, Still being able to make a lot of money in this era is just a theory he summarized, and there is a great possibility of realization. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Preliminary lit cards,There are a lot of things that can be studied,The price is a baseline,A mass production,The minimum limit of the harvest year plus a certain float,Under this baseline,That must be a loss of money,Special times,Can play a huge role,Sometimes it's not just about making money,In the famine,Or the era of green and yellow,Food is the cornerstone of a dynasty's stability,With food,Can barely fill the stomach,The people will not make trouble,Will not rebel, When the hungry have nothing to eat, they burst out with unimaginable power in order to survive.

At the end of many dynasties, the final result was that the hungry and cold people rose up, quickly swept the whole country, and the seemingly stable feudal dynasty became stormy under the strength of the people, Zhao Xin studied history, or the direction of the Song Dynasty, for this, there is a very in-depth understanding, the Song Dynasty is one of the pinnacles of feudal society, but like the Ming Dynasty, it is more tragic.

During the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River broke once every 2.4 years on average, the founder of Chinese history, the Han nationality was born in the Yellow River Basin, in the Tang and Song dynasties, but it became a terrible disaster, the three Yellow River diversions in the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, this is not as simple as the break, the second time, in Shanzhou Shanghu diverted to the north, and then for as long as 40 years, let the Yellow River flow north or restore the old way, from the emperor, down to the ministers are involved in an endless debate. During this period, three large-scale diversion projects of the Yellow River were forcibly carried out to force the Yellow River to resume its eastward flow. However, every time the Bang River flows eastward, it ends with a major breach soon after, which not only causes great waste, but also brings huge flood damage. Eventually, the Yellow River returned to its northward route.

Every time the Yellow River bursts, it brings a tragic disaster, the late Ming Dynasty caused a huge peasant army uprising, destroyed the entire Ming Dynasty, let the Manchu Qing pick up the cheap, the Song Dynasty has always had three Yellow River diversions, and the war with the Western Xia for a hundred years, in a period of decades, the stable Central Plains, but unfortunately God does not bless the Song, like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the climate of the Xiaoice River is concentrated in the Song Dynasty, look at the history of the Song Dynasty disasters, sometimes ask, why is the Song Dynasty so sad, one year of water, one year of drought, one year of locusts, It is almost rare that the wind and rain are smooth, and it is easy to recuperate for a few years, either the Western Xia attack, or the southern Yizhigao rebellion, no wonder Renzong reluctantly maintained the imperial court, and had to change the law when he arrived at Shenzong, and two emperors died within a few years, if the law is not changed, there is no money to repair the emperor's mausoleum.

There are strong enemies outside, there are disasters inside, this is the fate of the Song Dynasty in the middle of the period, a few years later in the eighth year of Qingli, the Yellow River will usher in another diversion, this time affecting the entire Renzong and Yingzong Shenzong diversion, became the turning point of the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty, under this premise, food, is really not a simple commodity, he is the cornerstone of the stability of the dynasty, under a specific premise, even more useful than countless money.

In any era, there is a cornerstone, that is, grain and salt, these two are also necessities, the former is the foundation of the stability of the dynasty, the Song Dynasty except for a few specific periods, has been relatively stable, and the price of food is stable and low, has a huge relationship, the current price of grain on the market, about 6 Wen per bucket, but in the card system is 8 Wen, it seems that there is a 30% increase, at a critical moment, it is incomparable.

In the card system, it is not a bucket is a stone, a stone of grain, it takes 150 seconds, relatively long, but an hour 24 stones, 24 hours a day, 576 stones, this is not a small number, it can save lives at a critical moment, according to a prime-age laborer a day 3 buckets to calculate, 33 people, only to eat 1 stone of grain, a little saver, 2 buckets, can provide 50 people, the output of the card system a day, It is enough to support an army of more than 25,000 people, and the consumption of one day is such a powerful support for the army. Not to mention in the event of a disaster, if Zhao Xin keeps showing food, it is enough to save 50,000 people. You know, surviving and maintaining enough combat effectiveness are completely different things, 1 bucket of food, plus other assistance, is enough for people to survive, if there is no food, people will starve to death, which will directly affect the stability of the dynasty, so the loss will be greater.

In the kitchen, Zhao Xin lit up some daily necessities, pots and pans, shovels and spoons, all kinds of tableware, at least dozens of kinds, as well as grain, vegetables, and meat, just the harvest of the kitchen is about to be a hundred, and it is a big step forward from upgrading, and it has also summed up more rules, most of which are conjectures that have not been confirmed, but it makes Zhao Xin more familiar with the card system.

In the process of such familiarity and lighting, Zhao Xin still found a very profitable thing, if there is a profit in the manifestation of things, and even after the manifestation is a huge profit, and there is no worry about sales, it is such a thing, he is one of the two cornerstones of the dynasty salt, itself, Zhao Xin also thought that he was wrong, as the cornerstone of the dynasty as grain, Zhao Xin did not need to ask Wang Song, he knew its price, these were mentioned in his papers, the price of salt in the Song Dynasty ranged from 20-160 wen per catty, Different types of salt, the price difference is huge, in the system, but there is only one, the card name is refined salt, 600 wen per stone, and the price of grain is about the same, calculated, the cost may be about six or seven wen per catty, according to the lowest selling price, there are more than 3 times the profit.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Xin also understood that the selling price outside was not the production price of salt, the salt tax in the Song Dynasty was the most important tax, more than 10 million yuan per year, most of this tax was added to the salt, salt and grain must be eaten, the former is the cornerstone, any turmoil, will cause a huge reaction, and no one needs a larger amount, but salt is different, the amount of each person needed per day is not much, a family of five a little more than half a stone a year.

Necessities, the quantity of demand is not much, this becomes the best tax product, in ancient times all aspects are not sound under the premise, the poll tax, it is difficult to collect and count, but salt is a natural poll tax, even if the population is hidden, you can not eat salt, increase the tax on salt, has become an important cornerstone of the income of the Song Dynasty. Unlike grain, salt is still a necessity because it is less abundant and does not occupy a major part of the people's spending, and the salt tax is higher, which will not have much impact on society, but can add huge benefits to the center. The income of tens of millions of guan supported the center of the Song Dynasty, which was also the root cause of the Song Dynasty being able to confront the Western Xia and Liao States while still building some large-scale projects.

3 times the profit, do not worry about selling, this is the best business, it stands to reason, as long as there is salt, you can make huge profits, Zhao Xin knows, the salt merchants of any dynasty, are rich on the first side, spend money like dirt, but reason tells Zhao Xin, it is impossible to sell salt, the salt industry management of the Song Dynasty is extremely strict, a small amount is OK, it is not easy to attract attention, more words, when the above is stupid, the Ming Dynasty salt tax is only tens of thousands of taels a year, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, almost has always maintained a certain growth rate, and the growth of the population shows the same beat, It can be seen that salt is one of the most stringent taxes controlled by the Song Dynasty, not to say that there is no room for private salt to survive, it can only be said that this space is very small.

With the card system's thirst for money, that is tens of millions of dollars, if you want to make a profit by selling salt, the salt you need is a very large number, once the sales increase, it will be a big trouble, Zhao Xin is here to dodge, others sell illegal salt, maybe it is a trivial matter, at most the local responsibility is to deal with it, but Zhao Xin must be the target of countless people's staring, really selling a large number of illegal salt, causing a series of problems, the enemy can completely add fuel to the fire, when the time comes, Renzong even the emperor can not save him.

Wang Song's detailed data, so that Zhao Xin's idea of making money with the help of cards was shattered, the only way to make money, all of them were controlled by the Song Dynasty, compared to salt, weapons will be more profitable, especially bows and crossbows, the Song Dynasty's control over them is not only the bow and crossbow itself, but also the basic materials, and therefore, in the black market, the price of these should be very high, even the salt dare not touch, military bows and crossbows are even more terrifying, will put him in a more dangerous situation, unless forced to do so, or for his own use, he will not pay attention to salt and weapons.

Salt in the Song Dynasty, is a necessity, is everyone has to eat salt, without salt, the body will be sick, will not have strength, but in the 21st century, salt in addition to edible, is also an important chemical raw material, in many chemical production bead red, salt has a role, if Zhao Xin used salt as a raw material, to produce something, there is no need to buy expensive Song Dynasty salt, but directly embodied, only 30% of the price of ordinary salt, enough for him to save a lot of money.

This is no problem, as a chemical raw material, salt will become another thing after a chemical reaction, which in later generations, is a part of chemistry, is a basic natural discipline, but in the Song Dynasty, it will become a gold hand, alchemy, want to investigate, there is no way to investigate, this may be the best way to use salt.