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Zheng Kezhang said that if Huguang had a population of 20 million, he would not have been involved in the Northern Expedition, and of course there was a reason for this, because the western front of the Xia and Qing Dynasty confrontation was crossed by Bashan and Qinling, and the eastern front was formed in Huaibei and Xunan because of the flood of the Huanghuai and Huaibei areas, which were not good places for large-scale use of troops

Although Huaxia can also use the advantages of the naval division to directly Bo Beijing and Tianjin, but the Qing court's largest mobile corps, the Eight Banners New Army and the internal and external firearms battalions, are stationed here, Zheng Kezhang does not have a certain certainty that he can firmly gain a foothold in a battle, and even if the Xia army invades Jiyan, if it cannot be achieved to fight fast and slow, the Qing army can finally rely on the advantage of internal combat to drag down the logistics of the Xia army. It's almost the same as betting on national fortune, and gambling on luck naturally can't be done again and again

Therefore, the only choice left for Zheng Kezhang was to attack the edge of the Yellow River through the gap in the line of Nanyang and Xinyang

However, after the Northern Expedition through the Nanxin Line, there was a great drawback, that is, it was impossible to use the river to provide transportation convenience for the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it was impossible to effectively use water transportation, which meant that it was necessary to strengthen the transportation and supply lines on the 6th Upper Line, not to mention that the South had no way to keep a large number of transport mules and horses like the North, and even if there were, it was necessary to mobilize a large number of people to help transport

It must be known that the husbands and mules and horses also have to eat, and the result of a large number of conscriptions will inevitably lead to a sharp increase in logistical pressure, and since the population of Huguang is only 5 million, Zheng Kezhang has no way to guarantee that after a considerable number of minfu and mules and horses are recruited, there will be no large-scale desertion in Huguang, which will affect the harvest in the coming year and shake the foundation of Huaxia's rule

Therefore, Zheng Kezhang could only press down his minions, give the southern parts of the country time to regain their vitality, and take advantage of the opportunity of the momentary inability to advance northward, and try his best to consolidate the resources of the foundation ship of the Huaxia Dynasty, in order to completely overwhelm the "holy monarch" in the north in the "race"

Of course, the fact that the so-called Bashan, Qinling, Yellow Flood and Huai Flood areas cannot use troops on a large scale does not mean that they must not be able to use troops

In fact, since the Xia army controlled the two provinces of Xichuan and Yidong, there will be small-scale battles in the mountains and forests on the border between Sichuan and Shaanxi from time to time, and the horses of the two countries are constantly spying on each other, and the border villages in key positions are fighting fiercely with each other

However, in contrast to the repeated contention in the direction of Jiange, the Xia and Qing sides were relatively restrained in the northeast of Yibei and in the directions including Baihe Pass, Zijing Pass, Wuguan and other directions, although the official vertebral field has been expressly banned by the two countries, but in fact, the smuggling behavior of the people and the two sides has been repeatedly prohibited, thus making the Western Front one of the important channels for the two sides to exchange information

"Today, an adult of the Privy Council came to the door" In a private house in Hanyang Province, several salt merchants gathered together, although Xiangyang Mansion was the rule of Jinghu Province in the Huaxia Dynasty, but because Hanyang and Xing were across the river from Wuchang, in fact, more merchants set up their private residences either in the city of Hanyang or in the county town of Hankou on the other side of the Han River

"If I want to find a way to smuggle Huai salt to Guanzhong, Hanzhong and Luoyang, I wonder if this is the imperial court has caught our sore feet, so I invite a few shopkeepers to come over and discuss countermeasures."

Huaxia implemented a system of free trade in salt and iron, so Zheng Kezhang sold the beach to merchants early on, and the merchants and salt farmers combined their interests to form salt producers), and the salt farms could choose to sell the finished salt directly, or they could sell the salt to salt merchants (marketers) for split sale

During this period, the Chinese government collected salt tax (resource utilization tax) from the salt factory under the fixed tax system, and collected the municipal tax (sales tax) under the proportional tax system from the salt merchants at the sales terminal

Due to the extensive promotion of salt drying technology, so to Wucheng three years, the cost of each catty of salt in the Jianghuai salt farms is mostly less than two yuan, plus the salt tax charged by the government to the salt field is ten wen per catty, the total cost is 12 wen per catty, of course, the larger the production scale, the lower the salt tax per catty of salt, some of the total cost of 10,000 stone of salt per month can be controlled, generally speaking, the departure price of the salt farm sold to the salt merchant is 25 wen, the profit margin of the salt farm is more than 100 percent, and the salt merchant increases the price according to the distance of the sales place. Coupled with the city tax, the maximum sales price is between 70 and 80 wen a catty

After deducting freight, manual storage costs, losses and other expenses, the profits of salt merchants are usually more than 100 percent, so thick profits, naturally arouse the interest of many people, because the Chinese Dynasty has very low access to the salt industry, so all along the coast are widely opened, salt once led to disorderly competition

To this end, under the coordination of the salt and iron yamen and the local government, the salt farms in various places have divided their own sales scopes

Among them, the Jianghuai salt industry has a large plan, and its salt production is distributed to Jianghuai Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Jinghu provinces, Taiping, Wuchang and Jinghu; The scale of the salt industry in eastern Zhejiang is not large, and it is guaranteed that the province has a surplus, but it cannot be exported; In addition to ensuring their own needs, the salt industry in Dongning and Fujian also supplies and sells goods in southern Jiangxi, Chaozhou, eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong and Hunan; Qiongzhou's salt industry is sold to western Guangdong, Guangxi and Guangnan; Yunnan, Guizhou, Xuyongyidong and Xichuan mainly rely on Sichuan salt for dispensing, but because Sichuan salt adopts salt wells and boiling salt methods, the cost is higher, so the salt price in these places is correspondingly higher

According to the scope of sales, Jinghu Lake naturally belongs to Huaiyan