Yang Chong disagreed and said: "You have to discover talents, adapt measures to local conditions, that is, each county under your Assassin Mansion, the current development situation is not exactly the same, the situation of Dai County, Pingcheng County, Mayi County, and Shanggu County is different, you must adapt measures to local conditions, formulate a plan for economic development, like Pingcheng, is no longer the capital of the emperor, you can't think about the scene of merchants flocking here, you should use the coal mine to solve the problem of heating the whole county first, and then raise sheep and cattle and pigs, if you go up the production of cattle and sheep, It can form an impact on Turkic products, and Hebei can also consider giving priority to buying your things. ”

"I understand, Master Cui said it all." Song Jingang nodded and said, "I want you to send a group of people to set up mutual aid cooperatives in various counties of Daizhou, and then lend us some money from the bank." ”

This is the first member to take the initiative to develop a mutual aid cooperative, indicating that there are still people optimistic about this, Yang Chong nodded and said: "I sent a letter to the bank and asked them to send someone to Hebei, but so far, you have not implemented the armor protection system, and the effect of the mutual aid cooperative may not be good, you must be prepared for this." It is still necessary to start with production, Zhen Zhai'er is good in Shanggu, even if she has no loan, she still planted grapes, garlic, and jujubes. ”

Song Jingang said disappreciatively: "King Yue, the situation on Zhen Zhai'er's side is different, even if those children have no ability, they are better than us blind people touching elephants." ”

Song Jingang, as a thorn history, naturally knew the following things, when Zhen Zhai'er returned to Shanggu, some of the children he brought from Shanggu happened to graduate from several academies, and Zhen Zhai'er brought twenty students back to Shanggu through various relationships. At first, Song Jingang didn't care, until last year, grapes and garlic were successfully planted, and the Thorn Shifu understood that there were people outside the people, and when these children relied on their father's relationship to build a cooperative to promote the cultivation of grapes and garlic, Zhao Tuo personally went to Shanggu to stay for more than a month, and when he came back, he suggested to Song Jingang that he follow Shanggu's experience.

Yang Chong actually had a plan in his heart, Pingcheng would build an iron factory, but it was absolutely impossible to say it now, because nothing had started yet, and once the news was leaked, the Shandong Shi clan would desperately want to get a piece of the pie. Only after Yanmen County is recovered and the Yunzhong Protectorate is formed, can this plan be announced to the public; Yang Chong smiled and said, "Why don't you know Pang Huan, do you still need me to open this mouth?" Let Zhao Tuo go to Chang'an, and by the way, bring me a letter to see Li Chunfeng, and go to my house to find the fourth lady, and see if you are making leather or salted meat. ”

Song Jingang was overjoyed and said: "Just have your words, and I'll do the rest." ”

After Song Jingang handed over the work, he hurried back to Daizhou to arrange, and Yang Chong did not hesitate to appoint Pei Ju as the Northeast Propaganda Envoy, specifically dealing with the Turks, and was responsible for negotiating between the Turks and the Great Sui; As for the lack of authorization from Yanmen County, Yang Chong was afraid that Pei Ju would mess up, and if he was greedy for merit on a whim like he did with Shi Shu Hu Xi, killing the Turkic people would affect his overall plan.

Yang Chong came this time to see the effect of Cangzhou rice, and the drawings and planting records sent by the Bohai Tuntian Division showed that the progress was very smooth, and the rice was burned, and the taste was quite good; Yang Chong still went to Jiaofei City, Cui Baoshan looked good, the warehouses inside and outside the city were brand new, and they were well organized, Yang Chong asked while watching, and learned that a salt guide in Cangzhou can wholesale 300 catties of salt, and an additional 10 catties of salt in Hebei and 15 catties in Henan, nodding frequently, which is still more reasonable.

An official of the Salt and Iron Division introduced: "Salt merchants take salt leads, from wholesale to salt packaging, a package of salt 310 catties, will only be less than more, the inspection office moves every 20 bags, randomly selected a bag on the scale to weigh, once the salt merchant dares to overweight, not only will the goods be confiscated, but also a fine of copper coins." ”

Lu Yanqing glanced at the scales that were spot-checked and was brass, and said with a smile: "Cheating has always been nothing more than collusion between officials and businessmen to make huge profits. ”

"Copper scales?" Yang Chong asked casually: "Which one is casting, but the entire salt and iron division is a unified weighing stone?" ”

Yelu Tianzuo, the salt and iron supervisor, replied: "It is a weighing stone sent by the Chang'an Household Department, and each set of weighing stones is measured and sent, and the scale has a recorded number on it. ”

Yang Chong smiled and said: "Since I have arrived at the scene, I always have to go through the process and go back to report to Chang'an." Wang Qi and Zhang Liang, you immediately took the cavalry to the major salt farms on the seaside, and adjusted all the scales together to test the weight to see if there was any difference between the salt farms. ”

Cui Baoshan and Yelu Tianzuo couldn't stop it at all, Yang Chong's speech was really comprehensive, but when Wang Qi and the two ran through the seaside salt field and weighed all the scales, Wang Jue walked up to Yang Chong with a gloomy face and said: "There is no difference between the salt farms, but there is a difference with the scales of the Salt and Iron Division. ”

Yang Chongxin said that this wool is so ruthless, if you add the height of the scale rod, I am afraid that ten percent of the loss is there, Yang Chong looked at the surrounding officials and asked, "Can any of you explain it to me?" ”

The birds were silent, but others could be silent, and Yelu Tianzuo, who was the person in charge of the Salt and Iron Prison, couldn't help but say: "This is a dereliction of duty by the lower officials." ”

Yang Chong waved his hand and said: "This matter must be strictly investigated, you must have a result, first, why is the scale from Chang'an different, and it was not inspected when it was sent to Cangzhou; secondly, why is the heavy set of scales in every salt pan exactly placed in the bagging process; Thirdly, the output of salt workers and the quantity of warehousing are calculated every day, why is there no difference between the quantity and the quantity of warehousing? The fourth is why this is the case in every salt farm. ”

Yang Chong's question was very poisonous, so that Yelu Tianzuo had no room to avoid and shirk, especially the last question, which had directly stabbed Cui Baoshan who was standing aside. The current output of the three salt cities in Cangzhou is about the same, all of them are around 1.5 million catties a year, according to the proportion of the scales, which is equivalent to 600,000 catties of salt swallowed in a year, and the salt price of 300 catties of salt and 10 guan yuan is a big number of 20,000 catties of salt; If you add the profit from the later sales, I'm afraid there will always be fifty or sixty thousand.

The Great Sui Law stipulates that anyone who sells more than 5 catties of smuggled salt will be sentenced to death by 20 canes for each trader; scraping alkali to decoction of private salt, the offense is less than one catty, three years in prison, with servitude; scraping alkali to decoction more than one pound of private salt, and a heavy cane and death. The government monopolizes salt, so salt will become a hard currency valued by all parties, that is, high-ranking officials and elites are unwilling to give up; However, this salt case was cleverly planned and widely implicated, which shows that someone has spent a lot of effort.

(End of chapter)