Speaking of conscience, it is simply the most painful thing to give economics to these literati who can only read dead books, but in order to smoothly govern and develop the foundation of Luxian County in the future, they have to be a teacher.

"First of all, we have to raise the purchase price for those salt farmers, according to my current estimates, one hundred and fifty yuan per stone of salt, which is acceptable to those salt farmers, as long as they have money to earn, they will no longer flee, but are happy to cook salt, so that the output will go up."

Liu Yan is sure of this, as the so-called world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit, there is money to be made, of course, those salt farmers will no longer flee, and the output of salt will naturally come up.

"Then we opened up the sale of salt, and the merchants from all over the country sold it directly, so that the consumption and cost of it will no longer be paid by the government, and because of the competition, the merchants will naturally reduce the price in order to expand sales, and will no longer mix the salt with fakes, so that I think the price of salt will be reduced to 500 yuan a stone."

"Can you?"

Lu Peng said with confidence: "Don't underestimate the careful calculations of the vendors, due to the decline in various costs, even if it is 500 yuan a load of salt, the merchants still have huge profit margins, if I am asked to sell salt, I can sell the salt for 300 yuan and there is a profit." Then Lu Peng continued: "The price of salt has dropped, and the people can afford to buy salt, so that the sales of salt will be greatly increased, and the living standards of the people will be improved. ”

"But in this case, where will the government's income come from?" This is what Liu Yan cares about, the purpose of the salt and iron monopoly is to increase the income of the government, but according to Lu Peng's statement, the government has no income, which is convenient for the merchants and people, and the government is equivalent to having no income for itself, at this point, Liu Yan will never do it.

Lu Peng said with a smile: "In fact, the income of the government will not only not decrease, but will increase. ”

"Where does this start?" Liu Yan asked with interest.

"We set up salt officials in the salt factory, and we imposed a strict tax on the merchants who bought salt, and we will levy a tax of fifty wen for one stone of salt, and give them salt guides, and allow them to trade in our territory, and no more taxes will be levied on the way, but when the salt falls into the shop, we can also levy another fifty wen transaction tax from him, so that we will still recover one hundred wen for one stone of salt, and this hundred wen will not cost any other money, just a few small officials."

Guan Yi clapped his hands and applauded: "In this way, our income per stone of salt has not decreased, but because of the increase in sales, we can increase our income, which is indeed a wonderful way." Then he sighed: "The Hanqiang brothers really deserve to be the descendants of the ancestors of the world's businessmen, and others are absolutely inferior to others when it comes to financial means." ”

Lu Peng smiled and said: "Mr. Guan is falsely praised, in fact, this is still an increase in income on the surface, and in terms of taxes from the salt farm, there will be a large amount of additional income waiting for Lord Taishou." ”

"And income? Let's hear about it. As soon as the money was mentioned, Liu Yan was full of interest and his eyes were bright.

Lu Peng said with a smile: "As long as we let go of the official sale of the salt farm, the price of salt here has been reduced, but the price of salt in other states and counties in Dahan has not been reduced, so that countless illegal salt dealers will rush to us to buy salt, and then traffic it to other states and counties, so that our sales will not only double, but may increase by ten times and a hundred times, and the taxes collected will also increase by ten times and a hundred times." ”

Liu Yan thought about it, it is true, although the law on the sale of illicit salt is strict, as long as there is a huge profit, there are men in the world who take risks, as long as they can increase their income here, what else does he care about?

Lu Peng bowed again: "It is beneficial to boil salt, salt farmers will feel at ease, due to the increase in demand for salt, we can resettle a large number of people and cook salt, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to rebel?" For such a matter that benefits the country and the people, please ask the boss to decide. ”

This is indeed a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, Liu Yan decided on the spot to release the salt monopoly in the boundary of Youzhou, and then put forward conditions to Xu Jie: "You originally said that you would resume the payment of the original Lu County to the state capital after one year, I think this is absolutely not good, I need you to resume the payment to the state capital after three months, and it must be doubled after half a year, as for your Lu Peng's military expenses, it is also here, and the state government will no longer supply." ”

Xu Jie, who was explained by Lu Peng, also gave a gift to Lord Taishou with confidence at this time: "My subordinates resolutely complete the tasks assigned by Lord Taishou, and never dare to slack off." ”

After receiving such assurance, Liu Yan was in a good mood, and after encouraging Xu Jie again, he turned around and ordered Lu Peng: "You will reorganize the army now, escort Xu Jie to take office, and immediately sweep away the Liukou in Luxian County and the surrounding areas, create a stable and peaceful environment for Xu County, and let Xu County's order complete the goal he set as soon as possible." ”

Of course, this is something that Lu Peng can't ask for, so he happily accepted the order.

At this time, Zou Jing came out to speak: "This time, Han Qiang can take 4,000 men and horses from his headquarters to fight in Lu County, and the 3,000 men and horses brought by Zilong will be left to the old man to take care of Youzhou, otherwise Lu Peng's 7,000 army is only for one Lu County, but it is overkill, and Youzhou is empty, so it cannot deter the surrounding places." Then he looked at Zhao Yun: "What does Zilong think?" ”

Zhao Yun thought about it for a while, there are two parts of his soldiers, one part is sent by Gongsun Zhan, and the other part is Yuan Shao's kiss, now this Zou Jing captain is not only bigger than himself, but in principle, he is his own top boss, but also because Zou Jing is the eldest brother of his late master, and he is Wan'er's uncle, since the eldest brother of the late lord spoke, he has no reason to refuse, and the other one, the direct third brother promised himself to give himself a cavalry to lead, where do you care about these dispensable infantry troops?

Zhao Yun is still young, he didn't see the current situation clearly, and at the same time he is also a simple and unambitious, so he didn't see the necessity of mastering military power at all, at this time Zou Jing, who had multiple identities, spoke, and he had no choice but to agree, anyway, his responsibility is to protect Miss, Miss is in Youzhou, he is in Youzhou, where Miss goes, he will go.

Seeing that Zhao Yun had no opinion, Zou Jing proposed again: "These three thousand soldiers, of course, are Lu Peng's subordinates, so you still have to pay for the military money and food." Then without waiting for Lu Peng to open his mouth to object, he said directly and decisively: "This matter is so decided, you go out and do it." And then the smirking mustache was cocked.