After all, the salt merchants are only a handful, and if they are severely attacked, they will not be able to turn the sky.

On this day, Gao Junshan summoned Huang Yunfa, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, in the Wenhua Palace.

"Your Majesty!" As soon as Huang Yunfa met, he paid a greeting first.

Gao Junshan hurriedly said: "No courtesy." Bestow the seat. ”

After Huang Yunfa sat down, Gao Junshan said again: "Enter the blessing!" I have invited you here this time to discuss with you about the salt merchants. ”

Huang Yunfa said: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate is now cracking down on salt merchants, which has caused a shortage of salt in the market for a while, and the price of salt has skyrocketed. ”

"Do you have any good solutions?"

Huang Yun said: "Only by controlling the salt field and ensuring the smooth transportation can the situation of salt shortage be alleviated." ”

Gao Junshan said: "You are too conservative, we don't want to control the salt farm, we want to control the entire salt sales channel, in other words, the salt must be controlled exclusively, and cannot be operated by private individuals." I have called you here because I hope that your Ministry of Commerce will specialize in salt and be supervised by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. ”

Huang Yunfa worried: "If we run the business, it is inevitable that there will be corruption. ”

Gao Junshan said: "Therefore, it must be strictly supervised, regardless of the south and north, the salt price is unified across the country." ”

Huang Yunfa said: "It is not easy to unify the price of salt. The country is so big, the transportation conditions are not the same, and in terms of cost, it is impossible to be unified. ”

Gao Junshan said: "If it is done by a private person, it is indeed impossible to unify it, and it is up to your Ministry of Commerce to do it, and the unification of salt prices is not a difficult matter, and it is completely possible to make up for losses with wins, and I can also ask the household department to allocate a sum of money to you to reduce the price of salt to a minimum, so that the people of the whole country can afford to eat salt." ”

Huang Yunfa's eyes lit up and said, "If there is a working capital, the unified salt price can be done." ”

Gao Junshan reminded: "The purpose of our monopoly on salt is not to make money, but to let the people of the whole country have salt to eat. If anyone dares to do anything about the operation of salt, harm the people, and exterminate the nine tribes! ”

Huang Yunfa oozed a cold sweat, thinking to himself, this emperor is an iron-fisted person, he must be careful when he acts, once there is a bad pool, he has to go around if he can't eat.

……

Liu Fangliang got the imperial decree of Gao Junshan, and he was full of ambition to do something big, he ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate and punish the salt merchants nationwide, and he also personally went to Jiangnan to supervise the matter, because the salt merchants in Jiangnan were the richest.

Before leaving, he came to bid farewell to the high mountain.

Gao Junshan was reading a book in the imperial study of the Chuanxin Palace, and Sun Kewang reported: "Your Majesty, Liu Du Yushi asks to see you." ”

He looked up and said, "Let him in." ”

Liu Fangliang came in and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, please say goodbye!" ”

"Just say something."

Liu Fangliang said: "His subordinates are going to Jinling, so they have come to resign." ”

Gao Junshan instructed: "This trip to Jinling can learn from the experience of the last time, and the scope of the attack should not be too wide, just investigate and deal with the salt merchants, and you should not arrest the rice merchants, tea merchants, and silk merchants." ”

Liu Fangliang assured: "Your Majesty rest assured, your subordinates will do things according to Your Majesty's will, and they will never mess around." ”

"Hmm!" Gao Junshan nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said, "You go to Jinling to do something for me." ”

"Your Majesty, please."

Gao Junshan motioned for Liu Fangliang to come over, and then he lowered his voice and said, "I have a concubine in Jinling, you have a little concubine in Jinling, you have arrived in Jinling to inform her, and let her come to Beijing to serve my daily life." ”

"I will do it. I don't know who my name is? ”

Gao Junshan said: "Her name is Liu Rusi, she is in the palace of Jinling, after you go, let Liu Wenxiu's Cao Gang send it over." ”

Liu Fangliang was puzzled: "Isn't it solved by Your Majesty sending a telegram to Liu Wenxiu?" Why do you need to go again? ”

Gao Junshan said: "You went in person on behalf of me to show that you value her." ”

"I will do it!"

Gao Junshan waved his hand and motioned for Liu Fangliang to step back.

After Liu Fangliang stepped back, Sun Kewang came in with a telegram in his hand.

"Your Majesty, Jiang Guorong's telegram."

Gao Junshan took the telegram, and Sun Kewang turned around and exited the study.

He watched Jiang Guorong's call alone in the study.

Jiang Guorong said in the phone call that the land in Xichang is fertile, and there are large tracts of land to be cultivated and suitable for habitation. He suggested that at least 200,000 people be emigrated to Xichang, believing that if all the land here was planted with crops, a year's harvest would feed half of China.

Jiang Guorong's report is a bit exaggerated, the black soil there is indeed fertile, but a year's harvest will never support half of China.

Gao Junshan did not fancy the fertile land there, but the rich underground resources. Xichang (not Xichang in later generations) contains abundant underground resources, including: oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, ferrous and non-ferrous metals (iron, chromite, manganese, copper, zinc, bauxite, nickel), precious metals (gold, platinum) and non-metallic mineral raw materials (asbestos, talc, graphite, magnesite, kaolin, etc.).

These do not need to be investigated by geological experts, and he already knows them when he is born in later generations. But he is very supportive of Jiang Guorong's idea, he knows that the development of underground resources is not an overnight thing, but growing grain can produce immediate results, and there will be a harvest that year.

Gao Junshan called Jiang Guorong back and told him to build a high wall and accumulate grain.

After three years of hard work, they have built the city of Karasar decently, and now Gao Junshan wants him to build Xichang City at the foot of the Ural Mountains and on the banks of the Iset River.

Dai Zicheng's cement plant has been built, and the first batch of cement has been put into the construction of Karasar City, Gao Junshan ordered Dai Zicheng to promote the technology of the cement plant to the whole country, Huaxia's road construction, shipbuilding, construction industry, all need to use cement, so in the near future, cement factories will spring up everywhere.

Gao Junshan sent a congratulatory telegram to commend his hard-working Chongwen disciples and hoped that they would continue to work hard and go to Xichang to explore for oil.

Gao Junshan promised them that in Xichang, they would be given the best conditions, and after the Xichang City was built, the houses inside would be selected by them, and each person could be assigned a set of dormitory houses, and fifty acres of land, if they did not want to farm, the state could recycle it at a high price.

He knew that these disciples of the oil working group were the hardest, and since the establishment of the working group, the members of the working group had been in the field every day, sometimes without a hot meal a day, and even delayed the important matter of getting married and having children in order to find oil.

Of course, like the petroleum working group, geologists also spend the whole year sleeping in the wilderness, and they dedicate their beautiful years to the vast mountains and wilderness for the rise of the Chinese country.

For these heroes, he will take credit for them.