In the spring of March, the sun moves in the stomach, and at dawn, Altair gradually moves to the middle of the southern sky, and the monsoon wind from the south also begins to blow.

"The south wind is three scents, which can relieve the warmth of our people! When the south wind blows, you can fufu the wealth of our people! ”

After the sun shone brightly, the songs that had been circulating in the Anyi area since the Yu Shun era spread again inside and outside the salt pond. Surrounded by reed wetlands in the solution, waterfowl and migratory birds gather, and there are thousands of acres of silver, vast and vast. After entering the spring of March, the southeast wind blows more in Jinnan, and the wind speed is the crown of the four seasons, so that the salt water of the solution pond accelerates evaporation and condenses into salt, and the shape of the salt flower is crystal clear and transparent, and the shape is thousands. In the end, they were cemented into salt piles, one after the other, looking like snow-capped mountains from afar.

Working hard in this snow-white world are the salt workers belonging to the Wei clan of Jinqing, who work all year round, and their skin is tanned, like black worker ants on the snow.

They worked in groups of ten or five in the salt pans under the scorching sun, and the mighty ones first cut a crack in the huge and hard salt mountain with a copper axe and pickaxe, and then the others took a wooden stick in each hand and inserted it into the crack to pry a salt slab off in its entirety. Then they were broken into pieces, crushed into minced salt, and poured into the sacks of kudzu cloth that their wives and daughters had woven very finely.

After that, salt officials would rush to the cart to load the salt bags and transport them to Anyi, Xintian, Pingyang, and even Handan, Chaoge, Wen and other places east of Taihang through Tudao. Or cross the river from Mengjin and send it to Dazhou, as one of the few tributes of the Jin Kingdom.

Of course, this so-called "tribute" also has to collect money, and Wei is famous for never losing money in business, and the salt pond does not need to be cut and boiled like sea salt. To dig with all your strength is to produce 60,000 bells of salt when the year is good. When it was bad, there were forty or fifty thousand, which could barely meet the needs of Jindi.

The environment under your feet is brutal. The sun was fierce overhead, and the salt workers usually did not live long, but Wei did not allow those who were engaged in this hundred-fold lucrative business to relocate, so they could only do it from generation to generation. But in the past year, the son of the Wei family has given them a chance, and he began to select hard-working, physically fit men from among the salt workers to enlist in the army and train "Wei Wushu".

The salt workers can endure hardships and will cooperate. is extremely suitable for becoming a soldier, and for a while, there was no shortage of praise in the Wei family. However, Wei Ju, who had just seen the power of Zhao Ying's victory from Xintian and returned to help his father take care of Anyi's affairs, began to wonder if he would have a chance to compete with Zhao Wuxian with them in his life.

Zhao Wushu has already proven himself, but his Wei Wushu only has an insignificant small victory.

"After all, I'm just deliberately following suit, attaching a tailwind." He was a little discouraged for a while, until his cousin Ling Hubo, who was in charge of employment and cargo colonization, came to report that a messenger from the Zhao family had come to Anyi.

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Wei Ju did not come forward in person. Instead, he asked Linghu Bo to meet with the envoy of the Zhao clan and called him to discuss.

"What does the Zhao family want?"

Ling Hubo's eyes flashed: "Shizi, the Zhao family wants to buy salt from the Wei family, and the amount is not small. It takes 4,000 bells a year! ”

"So much?" Wei Ju was a little surprised for a while, this is equivalent to one-fifteenth of the annual output of Yanchi.

There are a lot of brine land in the Jinyang area, which can be used as soil salt. The annual output is nearly 10,000 bells, although the quality and taste are not good. However, in previous years, the Zhao family usually relied on these soil salts for their own production, and only a few places in Xintian Xiagong and Wen needed pool salt.

What's going on this year? How did the Zhao clan's demand for salt suddenly increase so much.

"It must be because of the lack of salt in Silu. Zhao Zitai asked Zhongjun Zuo for help, but Zhao's self-produced salt industry was only barely enough, so he hit the idea to understand the pool! "Linghu Bo has a lot of contact with foreign countries and cargo and colonization affairs, and he knows a lot about the Qi country's salt ban policy that began in February, and suddenly predicts that the flow of these salts must be in the Lu country.

"What does my father mean?"

"Now that the Zhao family is strong, it is difficult for the army to shirk, so he sent his generation here on the grounds that the matter of goods and colonization was handed over to the prince to deal with."

Hearing that his father had entrusted this important trade to himself, Wei Ju was moved but also ashamed. Now that he knows that Zhao and Zhao are opposed, and the war in the east of Taihang has not been extinguished, it is the time for him to seek growth for the clan, how can he give up on himself because his achievements are not as good as Zhao Wuxian?

At this moment, the martial artist Lu Xingjin, who was good at shooting, said: "Since the head of the family let the prince make his own choice, it is better to refuse the Zhao family's request, let Zhao Wuxian lack salt, and make his Zhao Wushu weak, and even the arrow can't be shot accurately, how so!" ”

"No, no." Ling Hubo hurriedly waved his hand to stop Lu Xing's words.

"Ah Xing is confused, now that the Zhao clan is coercing the power of a great victory, its strength is strong, how can he categorically refuse, making the Zhao family resentful of me?"

Lu Xing snorted angrily and turned his head away, while Ling Hubo suggested with bright eyes: "It's better to be like this, the Zhao clan attacked Qi Wei and plundered back a lot of prisoners and money silk, this is a good opportunity to make his generation bleed." The pool salt is sold cheaply for only 300 empty first cloth and one minute, and now the Zhao family is in a hurry, it is better to sell it for 2,000 empty first cloth and one bell, 4,000 bell salt, and you can receive millions of empty cloth coins! (The Jin currency is a small pointy-footed empty cloth, and its weight and purchasing power are about half that of a large Qi knife.)

Wei Ju got up and paced indoors, thinking for a moment before denying this opportunity to easily earn a lot of money.

"No, it won't work."

He taught Linghu Bodao: "Since you know that the Zhao clan is strong, why should you raise the price of salt for a little wealth to make it difficult for them?" We are Qing people, not businessmen, and what we pursue is not all profit. There are more than Qi and Anyi where salt is produced in the world, and it is impossible to ask for it here, with Zhao Wuxian's temperament, he will naturally find a way elsewhere, and at that time, resentment will still be formed. This was an opportunity to send hot charcoal in the snow, so it was sold at the original price for 500 yuan a minute, but it could only be sold for 3,000 yuan. “

He Wei Ju is not stupid, so he will not be the Qin Mugong who did not get a return for the battle of Luo Rafting, he wants to accept the favor, but he also has to cause some trouble to Zhao Wuxian. "The salt in the salt pond is only enough to supply the six kings of the Jin State in addition to the tens of thousands of bells hoarded by the Wei family, and there are a few places in the Zhou room to eat. Shizi, do you use the hoarded salt, or do you ......"

Wei Ju touched his short beard and thought for a moment before coming up with an idea: "Use two thousand bells, and then cut the one thousand bells of salt sold to Fan's ......."

Father's mind. Wei Ju had already figured it out before he came back that Wei would focus on stabilizing the relationship between Zhi and Wei in the future. At the same time, he showed favor to the Zhao family, but it was not good for Wei Lu to come forward. So it was handed over to his son Wei Ju to deal with.

The Fan family is the enemy of the Wei family, because it is common for the old enemy not to sell salt to them.

This attitude is also hinting to the Zhi family: there have been four generations of enmity between the Wei family and the Fan family, and the contradictions between the two families are irreconcilable, so you can only choose one as an ally!

The strong can force the weak to stand in line, but the Wei family, who is the latest in the six Qings, can also use the salt pond in his hand to force Qiang Qing to make a choice!

After Wei Ju made up his mind, the trade with the Zhao family was quickly negotiated, and the Wei family would supply 300 Zhongchi salt per month for the next year. From the east of the pillar to the east of the direct flight to Jianjin, which has been replaced with the Zhao Xuanniao flag, and then transported to Taoqiu, along the Jishui to Yuncheng.

The middle of March was a good time to sail, and it was customary for Wei Ju to order the boatman in charge of the ships to turn the boats upside down to check for loopholes, and he offered gill fish to the temple to pray for a full grain of wheat and a smooth voyage. Then let Linghu Bo take a boat to the east. Escort the first batch of salt ships to Xilu for a trip, and by the way, spy on how Zhao Wuxian's career is doing.

Ling Hubo confidently took on the task, but he didn't realize it until he boarded the ship and went offshore. I'm not fit for long voyages......

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A day later, Linghu Bo, who had vomited a lot of meat and vegetables yesterday, weakly pulled on the railing and looked out towards the speeding land.

He was on a large plank boat. In order to increase the carrying capacity, people put two boats together. It is covered with wooden planks and is called a "boat". Suitable for inland river navigation. Bags of salt pressed against the bilge, and they were stuffed with moisture-proof straw, which would be exchanged for money and silk in Xilu, as well as the friendship of the Zhao family.

But Ling Hubo also found that there were still many ships sailing eastward in the big river, and they were also full, and his face suddenly turned a little greener.

Because they are also ships that carry salt, and many of them belong to Dr. Wei!

The Anyi Salt Pond is a wide area and is composed of several salt ponds of different sizes, which actually contain three parts: the largest is the East Pond, with a radius of about 120 li; The second is the West Pond, also known as the female salt ze, the small salt pond, is a saltwater beach of more than ten miles, because the water contains a large amount of salt, its salt is bitter, and it is not often mined.

These two large pools are directly controlled by Wei, but the rest also have "six small ponds", which are actually salt-producing puddles, walking near Anyi, the largest is only 500 acres. Liuxiaochi produces a total of three or four thousand bells of salt every year, which is distributed by the Wei family to his subordinates and doctors for their own use.

Of course, the doctors often sold salt to Qin Guo and Dali in private, and the Wei family didn't take it seriously and let it go.

However, this year, these doctors colluded with Zheng Guo's greedy businessmen, and transported hundreds of bells of salt along the river to the east at one time.

Ling Hu Bo was stunned: "Could it be that Zhao Wuxian asked for help from all the salt-producing doctors in the world?" ”

It's a bit of a rush to the doctor.

He asked people to intercept one of the ships and asked them to find out that while the Zhao clan sent envoys back to the Jin Kingdom, they also spread the news along the road: whether it is Jin State porcelain or Xilu Zhen porcelain, from now on they will no longer accept the purchase of gold, silk and other things. Salt, only edible salt can be exchanged for porcelain, interested parties please organize their own caravans to Xintian, Taoqiu and Xilu to carry goods, regardless of boats and chariots, no customs duties will be charged!

Knowing the truth, Ling Hubo was stunned for a long time, but he had to admit that this method of buying salt was really whimsical.

If it is the right way to contact the Wei family through Zhao Ying, then this kind of luring doctors and merchants from other countries to transport salt to Xilu on their own is a strange way.

He was sure that this was definitely thought up by Jia Duanmuci, a well-known patriotic businessman in the Central Plains!

When Qi Huan was the prince, Guan Zi also carried out the salt policy, stipulating that foreign merchants must buy salt with gold, and the rest of the money and goods were not accepted. In order to buy the salt of the Qi country, the salt-free countries poured their gold.

In the end, the gold of all countries was exhausted, and the gold was all returned to Qi, and the price of gold in various countries rose as a result, and the price of gold was expensive and everything was cheap. As a result, Guan Zi threw out gold again to buy all kinds of materials needed at low prices, and Qi Guo got a lot of benefits. This kind of transaction enabled the Duke of Qi Huan to accumulate huge wealth at an astonishing speed in a relatively short period of time, and the Qi State was able to dominate.

Today's strategy is to replace the salt of the year with porcelain, and the gold of the year with salt......

In fact, it is not surprising that Zigong, who colonizes the countries all year round, can have this kind of insight, in many places where salt is scarce, salt is almost the currency of trade, salt can be exchanged for corn, farm tools, cattle and horses and other scarce materials. Even Linghu Bo knew that the salt merchants from the salt pond of Anyi and the seashore of Qi were earning a trade balance from the constant salt and quickly accumulating wealth.

Nowadays, the countries regard porcelain as a treasure, and scholars compete to buy and compare, exchanging salt for porcelain, then the salt merchants will go to Xilu if the water returns to the sea, how can Zhao Wuxian still lack salt!?

Therefore, even if Wei transports salt to Xilu, he will not be able to mix the favor of sending charcoal in the snow, at most it is the icing on the cake.

Ling Hubo wanted to take this opportunity to make Zhao's mind of owing a debt to people suddenly cooled, and another wave hit, the ship shook again, his stomach churned, and he lay on the railing and vomited in the wind......

While spitting, he also thought: "Duanmu Ci is really a genius of the goods, I really don't know how Zhao Wuxian found this person in the market, if it can be used by the prince, it would be great!" ”

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At this point, Wei Ju, who was far away by the salt pond in Anyi, also knew about it, and while sending people to restrain those doctors, he was also lamenting Zigong's talent.

He remembered a story that had been circulating in the local area for a long time.

Ji is a thousand miles of horses, it is buried in the stables of Anyi and is not known, and when it is old, it pulls a cart loaded with salt from the salt pond to climb the Taihang Mountain. Its hooves were stiff, its knees were broken, its tail was soaked with urine, its skin was beginning to fester, and its saliva was dripping to the ground, and it was dripping with sweat. Whipped and crawled to the middle of the sheep's intestines, Ji couldn't go up anymore, lying on the ground and gasping.

Qin Mugong's Bole happened to pass by, and he saw Ji from a distance and was shocked.

"This is Maxima!"

Bole jumped out of the car, hugged Ji and cried bitterly, and took off his sackcloth clothes to put it on. Ji then lowered his head and sighed, and raised his head again and screamed loudly, the sound went straight to the sky, as loud as if a golden stone came out, it was really a thousand miles!

Why is that? Because it knows that Bole is its confidant!

Horses are croaking for confidants! Women are the ones who please themselves! Death for a confidant!

"Zi Tai knows thousands of horses, lifts Duanmu to the market, and lifts Zhang Meng to talk about Pan Palace, so Yingcai is used for it, and has created a career that is difficult for me to achieve. I have the ambition of Bole, I don't know where my Maxima is? ”

The next day, Wei Ju wrote to his father Wei Hao, asking to follow the example of Zhao Ying's monk and build a "Zhaoxian Pavilion" in Anyi to recruit people and rangers from all over the world as diners!

He is not shy from talking about it, yes, this is nakedly emulating the Zhao father and son.

Wei Ju entered the third seat of the "Four Gentlemen of the Warring States", and this is the beginning!

(I've thought of the name of the third volume.,It's called "The Seven Heroes of the Warring States" O(∩_∩)O~,Strive to start before the New Year)

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PS: There's something going on today.,Big chapter one top two.,Two more tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.,In addition, there were some mistakes before.,Here's a comprehensive setting.

The salt output of Qi State: "The beginning of October, as for the first month, it becomes 36,000 bells of salt", 36,000 bells in three months, and about 150,000 bells a year

Pipe. "Aquaman" says that every month an adult man eats five liters of salt, three liters for women, and two liters for children (in fact, it is definitely not up to this number, let's take forty liters a year as the average standard)

100 liters = 1 kettle, 10 kettles = 1 bell

A country with a million people needs at least 40,000 bells

With a population of nearly 200,000 people, it takes 8,000 bells

The Central Plains, with a population of more than 10 million, eats 400,000 bells every year, Qi salt accounts for nearly half of the world, and the rest is the sum of Anyi salt ponds, well salts, soil salt from all over the world, and Wu, Ju, and Yanhai salt, that is to say, in the Central Plains alone, there is at least a shortage of nearly 100,000 bells of salt, which is in short supply

The other millions of copper coins are not unimaginable, just think of the two million five baht in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding...... (To be continued.) )

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