Xu Ping was sitting with Wang Gongchen drinking tea, discussing the expected harvest of the land reclaimed by the camp this year, Liu Jian hurriedly came over, and said to Xu Ping: "Jingluo, just now the leader of the Shangding clan found the Shuai Mansion, saying that he saw us selling fine salt in the Sansi Shop, and the price was very low. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info At such a price, no one in their clan bought the salt from the salt pond. ”

"What, is it possible that he still wants Qinzhou to help him suppress the people?" Xu Ping motioned for Liu Jian to sit down, "Since this dynasty has banned all the fields along the border of the party, Yuan Hao's most important source of wealth is to sell green and white salt to this dynasty. Selling fine salt along the border is to cut off this income from the party, and the other roads have already started, and we are already the latest in Qinzhou. ”

Liu Jian said: "The truth is this truth, but where do the people of Fan pay so much attention? They only knew that from now on, the surrounding area would buy salt from the imperial court, and their own salt could not be sold. Without this source of wealth, there will inevitably be a lot of resentment in their clan, and they are afraid of chaos. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "That's the same." For the surrounding Tibetan departments, as long as they are not attached to the party, we still focus on Fusui. Let's figure it out together and see if we can have the best of both worlds. - First of all, it is impossible to stop low-cost fine salt! ”

Liu Jian recruited An Fan as a judge of the Economic Strategy Division and Qin Longlu, and the original intention of the imperial court was that only he had been to Qingtang and gave him this official position to envelop him, so the official position brought the non-existent Qinlong Road, not Qin Fenglu. But Xu Ping's policy in Qin Fenglu is no longer to raze and control raze, but to focus on me, and change raze to summer, and the things he is in charge of will change. The annexation of the accounts under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou into villages, the establishment of walled forts and other things are now in charge of Liu Lian.

Wang Gongchen said: "In fact, in the official face, this dynasty does not allow the places under the jurisdiction of the imperial court to use private salt. After being transported here, the salt has a weak taste and a lot of sediment, so the people like the green and white salt of the Tibetan department. Now that the imperial court has eliminated these shortcomings, there is good fine white salt, who will eat the private salt of the Tibetan department? Since it's not allowed, why bother with what the people in the Tibetan Department think! ”

"That being said, but the lack of the income of the salt pond in the Tibetan Ministry will inevitably resentful of the imperial court. Fan Qiang loves money, and if we ignore it, it may give birth to chaos. The imperial court gave them a way out, if they didn't obey, we would go to pacify the rebellion and be famous. Otherwise, we are not doing things well. Abuse without teaching, this dynasty rules the world with benevolence and righteousness, and cannot do that. ”

Xu Ping said as he summed it up in his heart. In fact, he knows the big strategy, but when it comes to the Shangding clan, how to arrange it in detail still needs to be carefully considered. Benevolence and righteousness ruling the world is just a big slogan, and setting such a principle, if everything is really thought like this, it would be roundabout, Xu Ping has not yet reached that level. After all, the affairs of the Tibetan Ministry must be both graceful and powerful. But how to show them favor and deter them enough must be carefully considered.

The border areas love to buy green and white salt, not because the quality of the salt is not good, but because it is not good after being transported here. In the past, the officials and soldiers were asked to carry salt, but because of the loss on the road, and they secretly withheld it, in order to make up the quantity, they mixed mud and sand into it. The farther away from Jiezhou, the more sediment is mixed in the salt, and when you get to Qinzhou, it will become salty sediment. Xu Ping switched to the mail division to transport salt, and used a wooden box to seal it, cutting off the matter of stealing salt. In the process of transportation, a reasonable loss was set, and this reasonable loss was no longer passed on to the box army transporting salt, and the quality of salt was raised. Now the fine salt sold by Sansi Shop is good and cheap, and no matter what you do, it is impossible for the surrounding people to get the benefits they used to be. What's more, their salt-making technology was already relatively backward, and the Great Song Dynasty did not use salt to collect poll taxes, so they naturally couldn't compare.

This is an economic war against the party, and those around it can only consider themselves unlucky.

Liu Jian understood what Xu Ping meant, and tried to ask: "Otherwise, the salt in Fanluo will be bought by Qinzhou, how about setting an amount?" ”

"Yes, we take their salt and sell it as fine salt, and it's the same." Xu Ping nodded, "However, the government collects salt, and it is impossible to use the price of salt they sold before, and the government cannot lose money." Either they will give the salt pond and put the salt prison there in Qinzhou, and give them some money every year, or pay a lump sum to buy it. ”

Liu Jian also felt that this was the only feasible way, and asked: "If the government buys it, how much will it be set every year?" How much is a pound? After receiving their salt, there will be less salt to be transported here, and I don't know if the three divisions are willing or not. ”

Xu Ping smiled: "How could the third division be unwilling? Do you think there is still much interest to be earned for a pound of fine salt and ten cents? Xie Zhou has been transported here for nearly a thousand miles, and the price of salt sold can be considered good if the freight is good, maybe the third division will lose money to go in. As for the annual amount, you can count the households in several states of Qinfeng Road, and it is not impossible to collect all their salt. However, the amount should not be set too high, so as to prevent the Tibetan people from being greedy for money and selling it to us in the green and white salt of the party. The best way is for them to dedicate the salt pond and set up a salt prison there in the imperial court. As compensation, it is possible to pay them in a lump sum. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "This is also feasible, Fan Qiang loves money, as long as real money is given to them, they may not be unwilling." ”

Liu Jian said: "Okay, then that's it!" There are several ways to put it in the picture, let them choose for themselves! By the way, now that their leader is still waiting for me, it is better to set a price and let them go back and sum it up themselves. ”

"The price is not easy to set arbitrarily, the government will buy it uniformly, and the price will be set to death, and there will inevitably be a matter of mixing mud and sand into the salt transported in the future. In this way, if they are willing, they will come forward by the three shops to see how much fine salt can be made in one catty, and use this as a standard, divide it into several grades, and set a price for each. The general principle is that the three shops do not make money or lose money, but only help them make fine salt and sell it. This is clear to them, the major policies of the imperial court will not change, and they must also learn to adapt. ”

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Wang Gongchen said: "In the past, the green and white salt sold around was one catty and fifteen wen, and when these flowers were sold to salt sellers, they were nothing more than seven or eight wen, how high could they be?" The three divisions of the shop remade fine salt, plus the people who sold the invitation, it is estimated that the salt will be collected according to five or six cents. If you do the math, it's not much worse than before. And being bought by the imperial court does not have any risk, it is no longer a matter of breaking the law and breaking the ban, as long as these people are in their right minds, they should not refuse! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "Jun Zhen, if you just take care of these Luoluo, you can do anything." But don't forget, we set such a price for salt in order to ban the party's green and white salt. Even if the people who have a salt pond agree, how can they be willing if the party's salt can't be sold? What I'm worried about now is not these troubles, but the party and the tribes that used to profit from smuggling green and white salt. Salt doesn't grow long and sells so much green and white salt to this dynasty every year, how did it come from? Many of the tribes around Huiju are involved in trafficking in illicit salt, and they are the ones most likely to cause trouble. ”

Liu Jian hurriedly said: "Jingluo said it very well. The north side of the Wei River is mostly shengfan, and they are already uneasy, but this time they have cut off their financial route for trafficking in illicit salt, just afraid that something will happen! ”