However, Cai Dao's other two cousins, Cai Song and Cai Bai, are still studying in Guozijian. This time, he didn't show favoritism, after all, these two younger brothers are still young, and they don't have the same spirituality as Cai Shan, and their talents are too poor, so it is not a good thing to suddenly give them official positions.

Since then, Cai Dao has not interfered in anything other than the three envoys, and his second fire has burned on the heads of his own family.

The three envoys, the official positions established in the first year of Changxing in the Later Tang Dynasty, supervised the salt and iron of the country, the household department, and the degree branch, in fact, it is equivalent to the sum of the two official positions of the ancient salt and iron envoy and the household department Shangshu.

The three envoys were also known as the prime ministers, who were in charge of the country's financial power, and their power was second only to the prime minister and the privy envoy. In the more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, this official position has been repeatedly abolished and re-established. When Yuanfeng was restructured, the functions and powers of the three envoys were divided into official positions such as the head of the household department.

In order to completely make the prime minister lose his authority, Zhao Xu reappointed Zhang Dian as the third envoy.

Therefore, when Zhang Dian was in office, although he was named the third envoy, he was actually the only minister in the imperial court.

The so-called salt and iron division is not only in charge of salt and iron, but more specifically, it should be the official monopoly department.

In the liquor industry of the Great Song Dynasty, the official control of the koji was not allowed to be made by private individuals. As a result, the liquor tax received by the Great Song Dynasty every year alone can reach millions of guan at the peak. Of course, this peak did not last long.

The Shuo Party, headed by Sima Guang and others, was like a rat, and had long since teamed up with the other two forces in Bianliang City to privately swallow a lot of liquor taxes.

Cai Daojin's liquor recipe for Song Shenzong is even more so.

Therefore, the first thing he cracked down on after taking office was the liquor tax.

Just like the fight against the bootleggers, if you want to fight the moonshiners, you must start with these people at the source.

Koji can't control the well-established moonshiners, and food is their weakness.

On the one hand, Cai Dao expanded the number of the three envoys' internal personnel, and he privately recruited a lot of secret agents of the three envoys in various places, and they only needed to do one thing, keeping an eye on the imperial court's warehouses and Chang Ping. Once local officials and moonshiner merchants collude privately to resell official grain, the vast majority of them will not be able to escape Cai Dao's ears and eyes.

On the other hand, Cai Dao began to let the students who graduated from Taixue this year begin to serve as the chief bookkeeper in the northern state capitals and counties.

Cai Dao knew that if he used a hard knife to kill people and seize land from the hands of these local tyrants and inferior gentry, he would definitely arouse the opposition of most civil officials in the country.

Since the hard one can't work, Cai Dao can come to the soft one.

Cai Dao's plan for these young people is to completely make the occupation of tenants everywhere disappear.

Today, Cai Dao has a lot of land in the north, and with the rise of primary industry, Luoyang City will also need a lot of labor. Compared to the peasants facing the loess with their backs to the sky, the workers in the factories are more secure in their wages and do not have to continue to suffer from the wind and rain, which is infinitely attractive to those tenants who do not have enough to eat all year round.

The first step was to free the skilled peasants from the shackles of the land, and the vacated land was given to the older, less enterprising tenants.

In the second step, once the industry has formed a scale, Cai Dao began to send people to increase propaganda efforts in various places.

It is believed that with his reputation as a fortune boy, more people will definitely be attracted to come.

The landlords, who had lost their tenants, could only watch most of the land in their hands sit idle, except for their own family members. Of course, those small and medium-sized landlords, or large local families, are numerous. Cai Dao also let it continue to develop.

If these combinations are punched, most of the grain in the entire north will be controlled by Cai Dao's three envoys.

As a result, the merchants who make their own sake will soon die out of their own accord.

As for those big local families, who own a lot of land and make wine privately, Cai Dao will always support them. Once the curtain of the Liao-Song War opened, they were the first batch of fat sheep to be slaughtered by Cai Dao.

Moreover, there is no need to worry about the unknown teacher, just making wine privately is enough to destroy their entire family.

Salt is naturally the main business of the Salt and Iron Division, that is, the salt industry of the Great Song Dynasty.

Except for Bashu, it can be said that it has been monopolized by Cai Dao's forces. Since he is serious now, he set up the Haiyan Group, and handed over 20% of the profits to the inner treasury of the palace, 10% of the royal family, and 10% of the six prime ministers and privy envoys, as for the local high-ranking civil officials and high-ranking military officials, they can only add 1 penny per catty to the original price of Haiyan.

At this point, the entire Haiyan Group has completely defeated the Qingyan of Huaiyan and Western Xia, and has even begun to infiltrate the border areas of the Great Liao State. Many smugglers in the two countries bought large quantities of sea salt from the Haiyan Group and sold it to salt merchants in Liao.

Even after a one-time reversal, these bold salt merchants of the Liao State were able to make huge profits from it.

Iron tools, this is easy to do, on the one hand, strict supervision of iron mines in various places, no matter in the future, no matter what the miners on the mine, are not allowed to hire Song people, Cai Dao led the Great Song Dynasty Age of Discovery, is transporting the indigenous people on the southern islands back to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. These local natives were the main force of miners in various places in the future.

On the other hand, it is necessary to strictly monitor the mutual markets between the countries on the various borders, and all those who resell iron tools to foreign countries will be exterminated. This is an iron law that no one should violate.

There is also a very important strategic material - tea.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the drink has gradually become popular, and the northern nomads have gradually discovered its wonderful use. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a strategic material as important as steel and horses. Fujian and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are close to the coast and mountainous, which is very suitable for vigorously developing this industry.

And Xianyou County has come to the forefront of the country in this item. Every year, Cai Dao's subordinates transported it to Liaodong by sea boat, and they were able to obtain a lot of horses and the three treasures of Liaodong from the local tribes.

The trade with the Great Food Country was no longer monopolized by the merchants of the Great Food Country, and Cai Dao's fleet had completely wiped out the pirates and merchant ships coming and going from the South China Sea Islands, and occupied the strategic location of Puluozhong, which was later known as Singapore.

In the future, all merchant ships passing through here, except for the Great Song Dynasty, no matter what other countries, had to pay very heavy taxes.