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After Bao Heizi became the third envoy, he had long wanted to use the salt method, and this idea was not a day or two.

Bao Zheng remembered that when he was a child, a pound of salt was only 12 Wen, at most 16 Wen, but in recent years, the price of salt has exceeded 30 Wen, more than doubled.

It is reasonable to say that the addition has increased and the quality has improved, but now the salt is getting worse and worse, and it is full of sand and weeds, and it is extremely rough.

People who are a little more particular about it all eat pool salt, or well salt, and a pound of good well salt can be sold for more than 500 Wen, and ordinary people are not blessed to taste it.

In just twenty or thirty years, the price of salt has skyrocketed, but the quality has collapsed, what is the problem?

In Bao Zheng's view, it was the imperial court that abolished the monopoly system.

In the past, the imperial court was responsible for the production and sale of all salt, among which there was a lot of greed for ink, great waste, and many drawbacks, and many "knowledgeable" officials advocated handing it over to merchants and letting them be responsible for transportation and marketing, and the imperial court only collected taxes, which was simple and could benefit the people.

The young Zhao Zhen listened to the fools of these people, and really let go of the salt, and the salt tax rose from 12 million to 18 million, which seemed to have some effect, and the ministers also used the results to fool the emperor, but what they didn't want to say was that the price of salt had skyrocketed nearly twice, and the real big man could say that more than eighty percent of the profits fell into the pockets of salt merchants, and gradually, the people ate salt became a luxury!

It turned out that the so-called benefit of the country and the people has become a joke at all, but it is only beneficial to businessmen.

Many people were also aware of this problem, and either did not dare to say it, or it was useless to say it, and a large group of officials who were well fed by the salt merchants desperately escorted it.

When the imperial court wanted to adjust the salt tax, they said that increasing the burden on merchants would eventually harm the people, and often it would not be done...... If it weren't for the Western Xia and the national policy, the salt would still not be moved.

But since the opening has been torn open and the disadvantages have been revealed, it is not polite.

Bao Zheng took decisive action, didn't the salt merchants stop selling salt!

Well, you'll never buy it!

Bao Heizi directly sealed the eight largest salt shops, and posted a notice to tell the people that Qinfeng Road and other places exchange grain for salt, which is still valid in Luoyang, and can be exchanged for green salt with grain, or converted into copper, and a pound of japonica rice can be converted into 7 yuan, in other words, 14 yuan can buy a pound of green salt.

Compared with the current price of salt, it is a lot cheaper.

Bao Zheng first transferred 5,000 stones, because the supply is not abundant, can only take measures to limit purchases, a family can only buy 3 catties, but even so, it has greatly alleviated the dilemma of lack of salt, and the people are happy and very happy.

Luoyang was presided over by Bao Zheng, where Sima Guang had already contacted Western Xia and was ready to expand the import of green salt.

Two heavy punches were struck, and Luoyang's situation instantly stabilized.

The salt merchant also wants to defy the sky! I really don't know whether to live or die!

Many people think that this salt contest is over, after all, there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides, and His Majesty and your ministers are so insistent, Bao Zheng and Sima Guang are both officials, it is already a certainty, can anyone turn the tables?

……

"I thought Wang Ningan was so powerful! That's it! ”

A middle-aged man, well-dressed, holding a piece of beautiful jade as moist as mutton fat in his hand, his eyebrows are direct, revealing luxury and arrogance. In front of him, Liu Ji and Xi Ruyan were like two minions, trembling and nervous.

Liu Ji spoke first: "Cui Gongzi, I am incompetent, I failed to stop the perverse actions of the imperial court, ashamed, ashamed!" ”

This Cui Gongzi smiled, "It's not in the way, you can't stop it, do you know why?" ”

Xi Ruyan hurriedly said, "Please give me advice." ”

"Well, I might as well tell you that although Wen Yanbo's old man is quiet, his son is jumping up and down and looking for a lot of people."

"Oh?" Xi Ruyan exclaimed: "Could it be that Wen Yanbo and Wang Ningan have already colluded, so what are they going to do?" ”

Cui Gongzi smiled, "Wen Jifu thinks that he is secret, but the affairs of the Northwest can be hidden from our Cui family?" What they want is to collect business taxes! ”

"What?"

Liu Ji and Xi Ruyan were so frightened that they stood up, they had already mentioned the commercial tax issue of the Great Song Dynasty earlier, so I won't say much, all in all, the gentry rely on their privileges to give themselves tax exemptions, take Luoyang as an example, there are tens of thousands of shops of all kinds, some big and some small, all year round, Luoyang's commercial tax is less than 300,000 yuan!

can collect so much, thanks to the ability of the bureaucratic system of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no such thing as the Ming Dynasty, a huge country, not even hundreds of thousands!

Not to mention others, just Liu Ji and Xi Ruyan, their clansmen do a lot of business, and when they hear the word business tax, they are all sensitive.

"Cui Gongzi, is this news true?" After asking, Liu Ji felt confused again!

Can Cui Gongzi talk nonsense!

"What are they going to do?"

Cui Gongzi shook his head, "It's not clear what this is, but there is one point, salt is the breakthrough!" They probably want to start with salt and then include other commodities as well. ”

Cui Gongzi said, threw the jade on the table casually, and smiled faintly.

"Don't say it, Wang Ningan is a ghost! With such a big piece of fat placed there, it's no wonder that Wen Yanbo's old guy gave him his life, and it's no wonder that Pang Ji and others have changed the direction of the wind. What court officials, Shilin admires, what is famous and famous, they are all a bunch of dirt buns who see money and open their eyes, and no one is an exception! ”

Liu Ji and Xi Ruyan bowed down and listened, and said in their hearts that this also includes them!

Of course, these two people didn't dare to contradict Cui Gongzi, and they felt that Cui Gongzi said this, it was natural and confident!

Compared with their family, in addition to the Confucian saints in Qufu, even the current emperor Zhao family, or the previous emperor Chai family, there is also the Liu family, which is known as the thousand-year-old family!

Compared with the Cui family, it is too much worse, and it is not a grade at all!

Cui Gongzi scolded a few times, then chuckled: "You don't have to worry, look at the direction of the wind first, and when they use all their means, I want to see how long this wind can blow." ”

Liu Ji and Xi Ruyan saw that Cui Gongzi was not moving, and they were also relieved, the sky was falling, and there was a big man on top, what did they have to be afraid of!

The two said goodbye and left, and Cui Gongzi looked at their backs and sneered secretly!

Two stupid pigs, they know that they ran in front of the emperor and screamed, just your little way, let alone Wang Ning'an, even those ministers can't hide it, no wonder people joined forces to blast you to the scum.

Cui Gongzi is very helpless, but there is no way, their Cui family has been lurking for too long, although they have saved their lives and huge financial resources, but there are too few people available on the table.

Moreover, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the power of the Hanmen has risen in an all-round way, and the gentry have taken over the original family.

In fact, Wang Ning'an, these generals, are more cordial to their Cui family.

But before he could hook up, he started the war first.

Cui Gongzi admires Wang Ning'an's talent very much, but there is one thing that he does not dare to agree with, as a family, it is natural to oppose the imperial power, there is a thousand-year-old family, and there is no thousand-year-old court.

Wang Ning'an, Wang Ning'an, if you are a smart person, you shouldn't breathe out of the emperor's nostrils!

Cui Gongzi's face gradually became solemn, and a thick murderous aura shrouded his brows, Wang Ningan, if you don't know what to do, don't blame me for being polite.

……

The salt price in Luoyang has been successfully suppressed, but the storm in the northwest has not ended, on the contrary, with Luoyang as the center, more and more places have seen a salt crisis.

Yan'an, Jingzhao, Hwaju, Gyeongju, Jinju, including the previous Qinzhou, and many more county seats, as if by magic, salt disappeared out of thin air.

It is not accurate to say that it disappeared, the salt merchant's shop is still open, but the salt storage is not enough, so he has to open late and close early, and the people who buy salt every day are lined up.

When the salt is getting less and less, the people are crazy to buy, followed by the soaring price of salt, once pressed to about 15 Wen The price of salt quickly broke through 20 Wen, and then broke through 25 Wen, and the distance to return to the previous level is just around the corner.

The entire northwest is in the same situation.

"Finally made a move!"

Wang Ningan paid close attention to the price of salt, he handed over a lot of things to Bao Zheng and Guangguang to do, not that he was lazy, but that Wang Ningan knew that the water in the northwest was very deep and deep! The forces here are intertwined and entrenched.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, the hometown of the Three Qin Dynasty is the place where the Han family has Longxing, and all dynasties have regarded the northwest as the fundamental place. Until the founding of the Great Song Dynasty and the establishment of Kaifeng, the capital of the Northwest gradually declined, but it took 3,000 nails to break the ship, and Wang Ningan has always had a suspicion, why did Li Yuanhao quickly establish a country in the Northwest, why did he beat the Great Song Dynasty to the ground, is all this so simple and ordinary?

It's not that Wang Ningan likes conspiracy theories, but he is in the game and has to think about it.

What I am most afraid of is that the enemy pretends to be a dead dog, always in the clouds, I can't see clearly, and I can't make a move, as long as I dare to fight, dare to bubble, I Wang Ning'an hasn't climbed anyone yet!

"Go and tell Master Bao that salt sales points will be set up in various places, 3,000 stone of blue salt in each city and 500 stone in the county seat, and let Sima Guang negotiate with Xixia as soon as possible, and the salt will not be broken!"

Someone hurriedly ordered, the two huge machines were running at high speed, and the power behind Wang Ningan was like an octopus, pushing its tentacles deep into the northwest.

Gradually, he finally found the clues, and sat alone in the study, holding a note in his hand, rubbing it repeatedly, and the note was about to break.

The Cui family, it's actually the Cui family!

Didn't it mean that they had already been killed by the Yellow Nest?

Why did it pop up again?

It's really ghostly!

The Northwest is also really interesting, and you can also touch a thousand-year-old antique, should you be happy, or should you cry?

Wang Ningan was silent for a long time, slowly released his hand, threw the note on the candle, turned into ashes, turned around, lay on the comfortable big bed, and quickly fell asleep......