Chapter 070, salt for grain
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Today's Jizhou is chaotic if it is described in one word, but if you go a little deeper, it is easy to find that these chaos is just aimed at Tang Hong, and the initiators of these chaos are Jizhou soldiers and local guards, and even launched several times and three times The garrisons around the country were attacked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although there were no deaths in these garrisons, such a provocation made Tang Hong, who had just returned to Handan, unbearable, and Zhang Fei scolded on the spot with a snake spear and wanted to kill him.
Tang Hong finally appeased Zhang Fei and asked Frustrated: "Frustrated Master, tell me any bad news at once." ā
"At present, in the counties under its jurisdiction, officials from the noble clan have resigned one after another in the past few days, which has a great impact on administrative management; There were also officials who amassed wealth and oppressed the people, ruining the reputation of the lord. I have already dealt with all these people and asked the Tiance Mansion to engage in the selection of Hanmen scholars on their own. ā
After finishing speaking, he said: "The most important thing now is those scholars who protest against your occupation of the counties of Jizhou, and they now want Yuan Shaolai to become the lord of Jizhou. ā
Tang Hong was silent for a while, and said, "What is the reaction of the people? ā
"Sixty percent of the people are tenants of the noble clans in various places." Fu Zhu only said this, but Tang Hong understood the meaning of it.
"What are Yuan Shao's conditions?"
"The lord marries the daughter of the Yuan family, gives up Jizhou, and keeps Ronghua and wealth."
"Hehe, self-righteous. The frustrated master went to summon Guo Jia. Tang Hong said confidently, there is Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong and others, just Yuan Shao.
Fu Zhu shook his head: "He and Xun Yu went to Taihang Mountain to play." ā
"Huh?" Tang Hong was a little surprised: "Xun Yu is here?" When? At the same time, I was thinking about what was the point of Xun Yu pulling Guo Jia away during this time period.
"Of course it's noon, my lord, you came back this morning and slept until now, and I haven't had time to inform you. But you don't have to worry, my lord, I came three days ago to solve your problems. Compared to my approach with Mr. Tian, this is the real talent. Frustrated and helpless.
"The frustrated master obviously has a way, but he doesn't say it, he clearly deceives me. Hurry up, who can give advice above the frustrated teacher. ā
"Lu Su."
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When the eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man appeared in Tang Hong's sight with a calm expression, Lu Su did not squint, did not look at Tang Hong on the steps, and saluted respectfully: "Thanks to the invitation of King Zhao, who is thousands of miles away, I am willing to be the pawn of King Zhao to repay King Zhao's kindness." ā
When Tang Hong was ordering Lu Su to get up, Lu Su suddenly said: "However, Su is brave and begs King Zhao to agree to the next request." ā
Tang Hong looked stunned, then nodded and said, "Zijing, but it's okay to say." ā
"Dare to implore His Highness to abandon Shuangqiao." Lu Su said in a categorical tone to the end, implying that Shuangqiao and me, both could not be both.
Tang Hong said indifferently: "Lone agreed." ā
Lu Su was slightly stunned, but quickly reacted and knelt down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness." ā
"I don't know if Zijing can solve the anxiety of being alone?"
Lu Su did not answer positively: "Your Highness, you can know that today, salt and iron, grain, and ordnance, these four things in the world will inevitably occupy one of them, especially some scholars who are unwilling to bear the consequences of the defeat in the world. ā
Tang Hong thoughtfully: "Go on." ā
"Jizhou is rich, with many plains and near the Bohai Sea, so grain and salt are the foundation of the Jizhou scholars, if we start from these two, the Jizhou scholars do not have to worry. If His Royal Highness will allocate me 50,000 gold and 300,000 stone grains, as well as the assistance of the Zhen family, I will be sure to uproot the Jizhou Shi clan. ā
Lu Su's proposal was arrogant, and Tang Hong also agreed arrogantly and said: "Accurate, but I'm afraid that these are not enough, I'll give you one more thing." ā
Lu Su showed an inquiring look.
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A month later, all the scholars in Jizhou knew that a wealthy merchant from Yangzhou and a wealthy merchant from Xuzhou came to Ye County, Jizhou.
What really attracted everyone was the Xuzhou salt merchant, since the salt and iron official camp was paid and controlled by many scholars, the price of salt has been rising day by day, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it.
And the salt of this Xuzhou salt merchant seems to be worthless at all, one stone of salt for ten stones of grain, and the quantity is limited.
Selling salt in Jizhou, although the nerve sensitivity of the scholars is not high, it is not low, especially those who have been touched by the interests have heard the news, and a few of them have to take advantage of it, and use means to let this Xuzhou wealthy businessman know that he knows how powerful.
However, when their people were beaten back, they learned that Han Fu intervened to protect this salt merchant, but what relieved these scholars was undoubtedly that the number of other parties was not large.
When some of them bought some, the entire Jizhou scholars were excited, where did the fat sheep come from, they actually sold such a good salt, and at present, the scholars from all over the country directly pulled up the grain and tens of millions of Ye County, after all, although they have salt to eat, they are also very poor, and they are not rich.
Now there is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy more anyway, which causes more and more people in Ye County to go with the passage of time. However, when these scholars bought 300 stone of fine salt at a low price, some people couldn't help but think.
After thinking about this, some scholars sent people to various states to investigate for the sake of prudence, and found that the price of salt in various places was still normal, and they got the reason why the price of salt was so low from the salt merchants.
And once the salt merchant told the truth, all the scholars suddenly realized that this salt merchant once went to sea and accidentally met a master who lived on a small island overseas, and the master taught him a secret method, which is why there is so much salt.
On the one hand, all the scholars bought the corresponding salt according to their net worth, among which the Zhen family bought a thousand stones of high-grade salt, and the rest had more than 800 stones, and the few had dozens of stones. The small number of scholars formed an alliance that dominated more than 100 stones.
These scholars took these salts with great interest to the surrounding states and counties, Youzhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, Yanzhou, Sili, Yuzhou and other places, among which the energy was even sold to the Southern Xiongnu, Xianbei, Sanhan, Liangzhou and other places, one by one to make a lot of money.
Of course, some of these warrior alliances with insufficient defense strength were robbed halfway through, and the bamboo baskets were empty. But these gentlemen were still happy to buy salt from the Xuzhou salt merchant and sell it for ten times the difference.
When they came back, everyone noticed that the surplus food at home was not enough, and when they were about to buy food from the market, they found that either there was no food in the market, or it was so expensive that people had the urge to smash the wall.
The nobles, who were anxious to make money, and the nobles who were anxious to make a fortune, waved a cart of gold to the salt merchant's shop and asked if they would accept the gold.
The salt merchant was very resolute, only collecting grain and not money, even if he had already purchased more than 700,000 stone of grain.
In desperation, these scholars had to inquire where the price of grain was more affordable, and they found that the wealthy merchant from Yangzhou was selling grain, and the price was two percent lower than the current market.
At the same time, all the counties under the jurisdiction of King Zhao opened a soup kitchen, from which each person could receive three meals of gruel a day, but there was one requirement.
This requirement is to require that every person who receives the gruel must say before receiving it: "Thank you King Zhao, King Zhao is virtuous." ā
ps: Hey, hey, how does this chapter feel.
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