Qian Zhiyi, under the leadership of the two officials, traveled all the way to Zhaojiabao. On the way, I also encountered several caravans carrying goods.

Some of these caravans carried grain, some sold horses, and some carried anything. This made the newly repaired road a little congested, and the two-wheeled wagons pulled by horses made a gurgling sound and headed towards Zhaojiabao.

Qian Zhiyi also encountered these caravans on the road, and after asking, they all said that they were going to Zhaojiabao. As for what to do in Zhaojiabao, these caravans laughed and did not answer.

Most of the Shandong businessmen who have obtained the qualifications are silent about the fact that the Zhao family can produce glass mirrors, for fear that there will be too many people buying and selling.

All the way to Zhaojiabao, Qian Zhiyi was about to enter, but was directly stopped.

"Hurry up and spread the news, Lord Denglai Yushi has arrived, let Zhao Yan come out to see me." Qian Zhiyi suppressed the anger and said to the guard guarding the door with a gloomy face.

"Wait a minute, the little one will report to the adults immediately." When the guard saw that it was a high official, he immediately ran into the fort to report it.

But as soon as the guards went, there was no news, and Qian Zhiyi was hung outside the fort, which was a few hours. made Qian Zhiyi's face gloomy, but he was helpless. The guards guarding the door had already ignored him, and he didn't pay attention to anything he said.

It was only when it was dawn that I saw two people dressed as scholars walking out of the door talking and laughing. When they saw Qian Zhiyi, a man in an official robe, one of the scholars was shocked and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I am Qian Zhiyi, the imperial history supervisor appointed by the Holy Lord, you are so bold that you have turned away Lord Ben for more than four hours, your general is so majestic!" Qian Zhiyi couldn't hold back any longer, and spat at the mouth with a red neck.

The two scholars were Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng, Zhang Buyun laughed dryly, and said: "If my general is not more majestic, wouldn't he let those villains who beg for food and bribes everywhere ride on their heads, my lord, say yes!" ”

Liu Heng suddenly shouted at the guards guarding the door and said, "What did you do, Lord Yushi didn't go in to report when he came?" ”

"Tell my lord, Ergou has already gone in to report just now!" One of the guards replied aggrievedly.

"Where did the two dogs go?" Zhang Buyun pointed at him and asked.

"Adults, small ones don't know." The doorman lowered his head and said, and immediately saw that the second dog who had just run in to report had run back, and hurriedly said, "My lord, the second dog is here." ”

"Ergou, Lord Yushi is here, where have you gone?" Liu Heng asked angrily.

"Big ...... Big...... Big...... People, the little one was about to report just now, and Aunt Wang suddenly came to the little one and said, "I have a baby in my family, let the little one hurry over...... Adults atone for their sins, adults atone for their sins, and when the little ones hear that the inner person is going to live, their hearts are anxious, and they put ...... Handful...... Forget about that. Ergou stammered and said with a look of horror.

"What a bold man, he dared to leave his post without permission. Come. Liu Heng shouted, the two guards hurriedly stepped forward, Liu Heng pointed at the two dogs and said angrily: "Drag me down and beat me with twenty sticks to set an example." ”

Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng sang and harmonized, and ignored Qian Zhiyi. Qian Zhiyi could see that people didn't take him seriously at all, and he stopped spraying on his mouth, standing there with a gloomy face.

Soon the second dog was dragged down, and in an invisible place, there was a scream.

Zhang Buyun smiled on his face, stepped forward and said to Qian Zhiyi: "Lord Qian atoned for his sins, my general didn't know that Lord Qian came so quickly, and thought that the adult would come in ten days and half a month, so he didn't go to greet him at the wrong time, as for the little dog who didn't have long eyes, he had already been disposed of." ”

"Lord Qian came all the way here, the road must have been hard, hurry up and enter the fort to rest." Liu Heng said enthusiastically.

"Humph! What about Zhao Yan? Qian Zhiyi asked with a straight face.

"It's really unfortunate, my general just went out on errands, and I'm afraid it will be a few days before I come back." Liu Heng's face showed a suffocating look.

Qian Zhiyi had nowhere to fire, didn't speak, and took two servants into Zhaojiabao.

When I entered the fort, I saw that it was neat and tidy, and there was no garbage on the road, which was very different from the dirty and dirty capital of the road.

quickly arranged a place for Qian Zhiyi, and then ......

Then there was nothing, Qian Zhiyi was ignored again, and no one went to look for him again.

"Zhongping, wouldn't this be too much?" Zhang Buyun asked Liu Heng with some worry, Liu Heng smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, hang him for a few more days, and wait for the adults to come back." ”

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Zhao Yan is currently inspecting the progress of the construction of salt pans in Laizhou Bay, where more than 10,000 salt workers are being built on the tidal flats.

There are about more than 700,000 acres of silt tidal flats in Laizhou Bay that can be transformed into salt pans, and these salt workers are in a hurry to work when the peak salt production season is approaching.

Some salt workers suffered from edema because of this, and Zhao Yan saw this situation, and hurriedly transferred several doctors to the salt field to set up a hospital here.

In charge of the construction of the salt pan is a local veteran salt worker named Li Zhong, who has been engaged in salt drying for more than 30 years and has rich experience in salt drying.

Zhao Yan is still concerned about the issue of output, although he knows that Bohai Bay has the highest salt production, but he does not know how much.

"By the first month, the yield per mu can reach one quintal. If the atmosphere is normal in previous years, there is no problem with the annual output of more than 120 quintals of one mu of salt field. It's just that the temperament has changed over the years, and the old man doesn't know how much the annual output is. As far as the year before last, one mu of salt pan was less than 100 quintals a year, and last year it produced more than 200 quintals. Li Zhong snapped his fingers and counted.

The whole world is in the stage of Xiaoice, and the climate is somewhat unpredictable, which is difficult to calculate according to common sense. If there is a great drought throughout the year, the yield will be doubled.

Therefore, this thing is not sure how much the annual production capacity is, but this output is still good. If the salt pans in Laizhou Bay are developed, according to the yield of 100 quintals per mu, there will be more than 7 million quintals a year, about 350 million catties.

The salt pans in the Laizhou Bay area are enough for more than 10,000 salt workers.

The output is not worried, but the output has to be sold, and it is useless if it cannot be sold.

There are one sellers, two dealers, and three dealers.

One dealer generally serves the second trader, mainly collecting salt from the salt works. The second-tier dealers trafficked over long distances and sold salt to the third-tier dealers. Some second-tier dealers directly collect salt by themselves and skip the first-tier dealers.

The three dealers sell salt locally, and the salt is broken down into small portions and sold to the people, and the price is lower than that of official salt, and the quality is generally better.

A dealer buys low-cost salt from salt farmers, and the price is definitely a jump price compared to the selling price on the market, and a few dollars of silver can buy a load.

Sold to the hands of second-tier dealers, there are generally one, two, two. And when the second-way dealers sell to the third-tier dealers, the price will reach three, four, or five taels, mainly depending on the region.

In some areas lacking salt, the price can even soar to six taels. If it is trafficked to the ethnic minorities in the northwest, a little salt can even be exchanged for a cow or a horse.

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The second update!

Recently, a group of self-righteous or out-of-context people have popped up in the book review area, and some of them are full of hostility to Xiaocai before they even read the article. It's really helpless, and the side dishes can only be blackened......

In addition, explain the problem of silver.

Some readers believe that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was very little silver, and ordinary people could not see it. This point of view is very unrealistic, the taxes in the late Ming Dynasty began to collect silver, do the common people not see the silver when they pay taxes?

A yeoman farmer produces dozens of stone of grain a year, deducting taxes and food, and selling the rest, even if there is no stone only 0.25 taels (the lowest level at the time of paying taxes, but I don't think there will be any farmers who will sell grain at that stage, unless they are fools), you can see a few taels of silver a year!

And those who have no silver are mostly lost the means of production, and the means of production are naturally in the hands of landlords, merchants, and magnates, and they have no silver in their hands?

In addition, some people explain that there was very little silver at the end of the period, and silver only flowed in on a large scale during the Kangqian period. I beg to agree with this point of view. Personally, I think that the sudden increase in silver during the Kangqian period was mainly due to the fact that the silver looted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty flowed into the market. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was already a lot of silver, like Zheng Zhilong's hometown, thousands of taels were copied out, and the value of other things was incalculable.

In addition, the article explains the reasons for the fall of the dynasty and the aspects of low taxation, too open-mindedness, and too much autonomy of the local government.

Too low tax = large profit margins for land = power for land annexation = a large number of farmers lose their land in an unregulated environment = the political axe cannot provide disaster relief when the disaster occurs.

Too open-minded = political axe can't guide = all kinds of demon moths make trouble.

Local autonomy (extensive management) = inability to exercise effective supervision = no control over land annexation = peasant revolts cannot be suppressed in time.

The commodity economy is too widespread = the peasants are exploited (food prices plummet when they are paid).

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