After that, the four of them chatted for another hour, and they generally reached a consensus on the matter of the "Golden Jade Society": this matter was directly issued by the people and acted in secret, and had nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty did not know about it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As for the imperial court, the merchants are also running and collecting taxes, and they are not exposed at all, and they usually do what they should do. However, in the main fields such as salt, iron, tea and horses, the opening can be opened a little wider through the official camp.

Tong Guan and Gao Yu understood this request very well, but Liang Shicheng was puzzled, so Huang Jie also came to ask: "Uncle Liang, do you know what is the price of salt in the hinterland of Liao now?" ”

Liang Shicheng looked confused, how could he be interested in studying this, Huang Jie also said: "If you take Song Jin as a calculation, one catty is less than fifteen Wen." ”

Liang Shicheng also jumped up when he heard this, pointed at Huang Jie and couldn't speak, and then said: "Now in the city of Tokyo, a pound of soil and salt is less than a hundred words!" ”

Now this is 770 Wen Guan, 77 Wen Bai Wen, and Liang Shicheng said that the soil salt is still the kind of black, black, yellow and yellow, mixed with a large amount of sediment The most inferior coarse salt, the market price of the genuine fried salt bought by the government ranges from 180 to 200 Wen. In the city of Tokyo, no one eats this kind of local salt, so it can only be used to feed livestock, or as a benefit to the government government.

However, if this kind of soil salt is sold to the countryside, there is still a market, and even like when Huang Jie's family was still living a hard life in Huangzhou, they ate this kind of soil salt.

This topic about salt is described in detail in the previous article, so I won't say much here.

However, it is said that during this period, it was indeed the salt price of the Great Song Dynasty that was high, while the salt price of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom was cheap. During the Xuanhe period, the price of salt in Liao generally fluctuated around more than ten wen, while the price of soil salt in the Song State was not lower than fifty wen, and good salt was generally around 200 wen. Even in the original history, after the Great Song Dynasty recovered Yanjing a few years later, the salt price of good salt was changed to 260 to 280 wen a catty.

You must know that after the recovery of Yanjing, it is equivalent to getting many salt frying fields in Bohai and Beihai of the original Liao State, and the price of salt should have dropped, but there is no other reason, who called the salt is the monopoly of the imperial court, which is no different from the Ming robbery!

Even during the reign of Song Renzong, the Hebei garrison thought that the price of salt had fought a battle with the Liao army.

At that time, Song and Liao confronted each other, and each other was an enemy country, and it was common for them to fight. However, this time the war was different from usual, and it had nothing to do with grabbing people and land, but because the Liao people sneaked into Hebei and dumped their low-priced salt on the local people, the Song Dynasty of course wanted to counterdump, and the negotiation table could not be negotiated, so the war began.

Anyway, the court of the Great Song Dynasty thought that it was natural to engage in a salt monopoly, and the common people should buy high-priced salt from the government, so they just paid the protection fee.

Let's just say that at the moment, when Cai Jing proposed to reform the salt industry a few years ago, he once calculated an account with Zhao Guanjia, saying: "Hebei and Jingdong are late salt, and the passenger transport to Beijing and western Beijing loses 6,000 official money, and the salt is less than 1,000." ”

The salt merchants purchased finished salt from the state-owned salt farms in Hebei and Shandong, spending 6,000 wen per bag of salt, while the production cost was less than 1,000 wen, and the government made more than five times as much money from the hands, which was obviously a huge profit, just like modern local governments expropriating peasants' land at low prices and then auctioning it off at high prices.

Moreover, when Cai Jing was engaged in the salt reform at that time, he also specially came up with a system of "salt introduction", which was really two mouths of the official, and gnawed the fat of the boss back and forth on this salt profit.

But to get back to the point, Huang Jie also talked to Liang Shicheng about the reason that official salt is expensive and less to buy, and private salt and Liao salt and Xia salt are cheap and buy more, this Tokyo city is guarded by hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, naturally there is no private salt and foreign salt can come in, but the amount of illegal salt in the Great Song Dynasty is not known how many times larger than the official salt (Tiandao League is a home that specializes in private salt trading in Jiangnan), but there are two big problems with official salt: the selling price is too expensive and the volume is not taken, and the price is too low Salt households can't live.

If you can change your thinking, for example, method 1: vigorously purchase salt from Liao and Western Xia, and then put it on the Great Song market, the price will simply be more flat than private salt, or even a few pennies cheaper than private salt, which can not only effectively crack down on illegal salt, but also increase the volume.

Think about it, your official salt may be able to make a net profit of one or two hundred wen per catty, but in addition to the compulsory trading in a big city like Tokyo City, in the general environment there is no volume at all, if it is reduced to the same price as private salt of one hundred and eighty wen, but it can bloom everywhere, although you have to sell more than ten catties of cheap salt to earn a pound of high-priced salt originally obtained profits, but you have to calculate the amount of parity salt?

Moreover, from another aspect, if the Great Song Dynasty went all out to purchase the salt goods of the Western Xia and Liao States, it would naturally drive the development of the salt industry of the two countries, and the other party would naturally buy more frying pans and recruit more workers to cook salt, and even the Great Song Dynasty could raise the price of salt by slowly raising the purchase price, so that the profit of boiling salt was higher than that of farming and even grazing, would it not be all the manpower of the Liao State to develop the salt industry?

Then, after a few years, Da Song suddenly made a gorgeous turn and didn't want their salt overnight...... Is this a big Song Dynasty version of the "New Lu Xuan's Scheme"?

When Liang Shicheng heard this, he immediately jumped up happily, he naturally has the most small brains of this kind of yin person, and he can naturally understand it at one point. At that time, Gao Yu had some questions, so he came to ask: "If this plan is carried out, what will happen to the salt households and salt farms of the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Tong Guan also pointed at Gao Yu and said with a smile: "Naturally, we will continue to produce, slowly hoard, and even increase the purchase price of salt, so that salt farmers can live well, and private salt dealers will have no money." When a certain plan succeeds and the salt goods with the Western Xia and Liao are cut off, don't you still have to rely on him to feed? ”

Tong Guan said "a certain strategy", even if he laughed at Huang Jie's strategy, Huang Jie naturally didn't say much except rolling his eyes. Then Huang Jie also continued: "There are also ironware, cloth, porcelain, silk, and even all kinds of department stores, which can also be sought, so these commercial things can only be targeted by businessmen." ”

Liang Shicheng also came to clap his hands and smiled: "Not bad! But it's a good plan, go back to the miscellaneous family to repay Your Majesty, this kind of strategy kills people silently, if it is successful, it can be compared to a great victory on the battlefield! ”

Huang Jie said a few more idle words, but Gao Yu still raised a question about the loyalty of the rest of the merchants except for the six imperial merchants, Huang Jie didn't speak, Liang Shicheng also smiled predictively: "This matter is not easy, when the miscellaneous family returns to the palace, I will ask Your Majesty to issue a secret decree to these merchants, and they will naturally be rewarded for their good deeds, if there is any disagreement...... The worst is just a Nine Clans, full of beheadings! ”

Listening to Liang Shicheng's vicious words, Huang Jie didn't have a reason to chill his spine, so he also said: "Three uncles, this matter is gracious from above, moved with affection, understood with reason, clear with benefit, and cannot be shown as authority." Since ancient times, women have been pleasing to themselves, and scholars have died for confidants, how can anyone achieve great things only by coercion and coercion? ”

The three of them listened and thought it was true! (To be continued.) )