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It has been twenty days since Jinling City was taken, and all the people in the city have returned to peace, and the people are still living the same life as before. In the past 20 days, the army units of the Mawei Army have also successively taken various counties and towns in Jiangning Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture. The army troops led by Zeng Yangxing were also the same as the Mawei Navy, and they took Suzhou City without much effort, in fact, Zeng Yangxing only took one day to take Suzhou Mansion.

The prefect of Suzhou originally wanted to hold on to the city when he saw the Mawei army coming, but when the Mawei army put up Rabu's head and sent it into the city, the officials in Suzhou surrendered voluntarily. How can this battle be fought, ninety percent of the army has been taken away by Rabu, and they are all under the command of Rabu, and now even the people who trumpet are in front of them, how can they resist the tens of thousands of troops of the Mawei Army with less than 3,000 soldiers and horses in their city?

Suzhou Prefecture, other county towns are simpler, Suzhou prefect sent people to personally follow the Mawei army to the cities to persuade surrender, each of which is very smooth to surrender the city. That is, when the army marched to Zhenjiang Mansion, it was once again resisted by the Qing army, but south of the Yangtze River, there were very few Qing troops involved, and they were not the opponents of the Mawei Army at all, and they all went down lightly. From the time the Mawei Army entered Jinling City, it took six days for the Mawei Army to take all the Jiangnan Province territories south of the Yangtze River.

In the following days, the Mawei Army did not stop, but continued to go north, and most of the Mawei warships were still anchored on the Yangtze River, but they sent thirty fifth-class warships along the Grand Canal to the north. Along the way, he won thousands of Cao transport ships from the Qing court. I guess that's all there is to it. The Qing court should be in a hurry. Without the transportation and grain to the capital, the Qing court was no longer far from collapse.

At the end of the thirteenth century, after the Yuan Dynasty established the capital of Beijing, in order to connect the north and the south, no longer detour to Luoyang, it was necessary to dig a canal to transport grain from the south to the north. To this end, three sections of the river were dug successively, and the horizontal canal of the Sui Dynasty, which was originally centered on Luoyang, was built into a longitudinal Grand Canal with Dadu (background) as the center and went south to Hangzhou. The Yuan Dynasty spent ten years digging the "Luozhou River" and the "Huitong River" successively, connecting the natural rivers and lakes between Tianjin and the Qingjiang River in Jiangsu, and connecting the Hangou and Jiangnan Canal to the south of the Qingjiang River to Hangzhou. Between Beijing and Tianjin, the original canal has been abandoned, and the "Tonghui River" has been newly built. In this way, the new Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is more than 900 kilometers shorter than the Sui-Tang Grand Canal, which bypasses Luoyang.

The key sections excavated in the Yuan Dynasty are the section from Surabaya to the Weihe River in Shandong, and the section from Dadu to Tongzhou. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yuan (Kublai Khan), the Jeju River was opened, from Rencheng (Jining) to Sucheng (Dongping County) Ansan. It is more than 150 miles long; In the 26th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Huitong River was opened, and the canal was opened from the southwest of Ansan. From the northwest of Shouzhang to Linqing, it is more than 250 miles long; Subsequently, the Huihe River was opened one after another, leading the water of Changping in the west of Beijing into the capital, and going east to Tongzhou into the Baihe. It was not until 12 years later that the Grand Canal of the Yuan Dynasty was fully navigable, and the boats could go directly from Hangzhou to Dadu, becoming the predecessor of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is divided into seven sections according to geographical location: Beijing to Tongzhou District is called Tonghui River, from Shenshan Spring in Baifu Village, Changping County through Wengshanbo (now Kunming Lake) to Jishuitan and Zhongnanhai, from Wenming Gate (now Chongwen Gate) to the east, in today's Chaoyang District Yangzha Village to the southeast, to Tongzhou Gaolizhuang (now Zhangjiawan Village) into the Lu River (now the old road of the North Canal), more than 160 miles long; Tongzhou District to Tianjin is called the North Canal, which is nearly 400 miles long; Tianjin to Linqing is called the South Canal, which is 800 miles long; Linqing to Taierzhuang called Lu Canal, about 1,000 miles long; Taierzhuang to Huai'an is called the middle canal, which is two hundred miles long; Huai'an to Guazhou is called the Li Canal, which is about 360 miles long; Zhenjiang to Hangzhou is called the Jiangnan Canal, which is about 660 miles long.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present, the Qing court has maintained the foundation of the Yuan Canal, and the pre-Ming Dynasty also re-dredged the section of the river in Shandong that had been silted up at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. As the main traffic artery between the north and the south, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has played a huge role in history, and the navigation of the canal has also greatly promoted the rapid development of coastal cities.

According to records, during the period when Cao Yun was developed, the North Canal from Tianjin to Tongzhou carried 20,000 grain ships every year, 120,000 officers and soldiers, and 30,000 merchant ships. The opening of the waterway made the small Zhigu village soon develop into the famous "Tianjin Wei". Tianjin in the north has reached such a scale, not to mention the starting position of Zhenjiang and Yangzhou? This place is even more prosperous, especially Yangzhou, although after the Qing court attacked Jiangnan when a massacre, but Yangzhou City has long been restored, and the prosperity of Cheng dù is better than that of Jinling City.

The Qing court had already learned the news of the fall of Jiangnan, and the Qing army's troops were also urgently deployed. Originally, the soldiers and horses of the Jiangbei provinces, which were closest to the country, did not dare to move at all, and the army in the area of Jingzhou, which was far away, could not divide too many troops, and the road was so far away that the army could not reach it in ten days and half a month. However, after learning that the Mawei Army took Jinling City in only two days, and then took all the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei in only five days, the Qing army did not dare to march quickly again, so it has been more than ten days since the news was obtained, and the soldiers and horses reinforced by the Qing army are still thousands of miles away.

After these days of combing, the Mawei Army has stabilized the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. Geng Jingzhong is also ruthless to this area this time, this is the most prosperous and wealthy area in the world, so there are countless corrupt officials and corrupt officials, all kinds of wealthy families control the place, and land annexation is also the strictest. The family with a long heritage basically has a good reputation, although it took the initiative to take refuge in the Qing court decades ago, but it is also a wise man to protect his life. However, there are more than a dozen new big families, which can only be regarded as small families or just ordinary landlords, who played an extremely bad role when the Qing army attacked Jiangnan that year, and then quickly developed into a big family that is not inferior to the hundreds of years of family. These families, can develop so quickly, that is also to encroach on the property of an unknown number of people, plundered an unknown number of resources, for these families, Geng Jingzhong has no mercy, all of them are beheaded.

For the time being, it did not take much effort for the Mawei Army to stabilize the state capitals south of the Yangtze River, including Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, but although the situation was stabilized. But the economy here is clearly depressed. Many people are afraid to go out at will. The flow of people on the streets has plummeted, and the business of the shops is not doing well. The Mawei Army purged the participating Qing forces in these areas, and at the same time cleaned up the Jiang bandits, bandits, and bullies in the city, and Geng Jingzhong also considered the matter of restoring the economy.

Geng Jingzhong also has a plan to deal with this matter, if the Jiangnan region wants to recover quickly, it has to rely on those big families and big businessmen, without them, the whole Jiangnan will fall into complete chaos, not to mention anything else. Even a lot of silk weaving factories also employ a lot of workers, plus every household in the Jiangnan area spins and weaves cloth, if they don't cooperate, don't start work or don't buy, the people will have to be the first to mess up. Geng Jingzhong also wanted to solve this trouble once and for all, but now was not the time, so he was ready to attract these big families and businessmen and tie them to his ship.

On June 11, it was the dog day, Geng Jingzhong invited representatives of major families and large merchants to discuss matters in the Fengtian Hall in the palace of Jinling City. Needless to say, those big families. Basically, every industry is not small, "gold, money, silk, paper" several major industries. There are all businesses in clothing, food, housing and transportation, and there are several industries in Fuzhou, that is, Geng Jingzhong opened a development zone to attract large-scale foreign trade, and there are a total of six in this area of Jiangnan.

Most of the representatives of those merchants are from the Jiangnan region, except for those salt merchants in Yangzhou, the others are rich merchants from Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture and other places. Among them, the largest number are salt merchants, accounting for nearly half. Other merchants, even if they are not salt merchants, have more or less to do with the sale of private salt. The second is the cloth business, and the third is the grain business.

This conference can be called the first large-scale joint chamber of commerce in Jiangnan, and the time and place were decided by Geng Jingzhong himself. Geng Jingzhong preliminarily set the time for the meeting to three days. Geng Jingzhong has promised that during these three days, he will be in Jinling City, discussing relevant matters with the family and merchants at any time. Whatever questions they have, they can be generous and generous. The speaker is not guilty.

The content of the meeting is mainly related to the development of Jiangnan commerce. The area under the control of the Mawei Army has always been a strong advocate of the development of commercial trade. Geng Jingzhong, who came from later generations, has always understood the importance of business tax. Compared with the agricultural tax, the industrial tax and the commercial tax are the real big ones, and eventually the agricultural tax can be abolished altogether. Of course, now is not the time.

In Fujian and Guangdong, the development of commerce and trade in several regions is now orderly, rather than disorderly. All walks of life, although there are people who do it. But it's not a swarm, and when they see what makes money, they all flock to this industry. As early as a few years ago, Geng Jingzhong made some healthy regulations on Fujian's commercial trade, with the aim of preventing the occurrence of all kinds of undesirable phenomena. The main purpose of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce this time is to appease these big families and businessmen at the same time and throw out olive branches, and the second is to implement the "Commercial Law" and "New Tax Law" that the Mawei Army has been implementing.

For the Jiangnan region, the most profitable trade is of course salt, even if the Jiangnan area is rich, the people are not very affordable to eat salt, for this matter, Geng Jingzhong is ready to completely change, after all, the price of salt in Fujian and Guangdong has been reduced, and the people do not have to spend a lot of money to buy salt that is more expensive than grain, and it is also a very poor quality salt.

In the past, it cost dozens of yuan per catty of salt in Fujian, but now, the price of private salt has dropped to ten yuan per catty. There are special salt shops below that sell salt, Geng Jingzhong's own industry is selling, and other merchants also buy salt from the salt field to sell, but they can only sell it in Fujian, but no matter how much the price of salt is for each distributor, anyway, when you get to the store, you can only sell it for ten cents at most. If it exceeds this price, the relevant departments of the Mawei Army in Fujian and Guangdong will definitely punish you. Of course, if you want to sell the plough at a lower price, or even don't charge money, give it away for free, that's whatever you want.

Obviously, in this way, there is no room for illegal salt in Fujian. Each pound of salt is only sold for ten cents, and only fools will smuggle it. Geng Jingzhong is not worried that they dare to sell salt to other provinces, if anyone really dares to smuggle it, then the Mawei Army's crackdown will be very strong. There is no huge profit from smuggling smuggled salt in Fujian, and the checkpoint check cannot be carried out, so there is no need for the Mawei Army to crack down. This business. Naturally, it disappeared.

Right now. The Mawei Army is expanding the salt works step by step, and then continues to reduce the price of salt. At present, around several salt farms in Fujian, which produce huge amounts of salt, the price of salt per catty has been reduced to about eight yuan. As the policy continues, the standard price of five cents may eventually be reached.

In the Fengtian Hall, when the merchants heard the news, they almost thought they were dreaming. It all feels extremely unreal, but there are a few well-informed ones. Knowing that this is indeed the case in Fujian, I still feel strange in my heart.

"What?"

"The cheapest is five cents a pound?"

"This Geng Jingzhong, isn't he crazy! A lot of money is not earned! ”

When Geng Jingzhong proposed to reduce the price of salt in the Jiangnan area, the following discussions became louder, especially the salt merchants, who looked at Geng Jingzhong angrily, as if Geng Jingzhong had dug up their ancestral grave. Geng Jingzhong's approach was unexpected by too many people. When most merchants heard Geng Jingzhong's decision to lower the price of salt, their first reaction was that Geng Jingzhong's brain might be broken.

Dynasties and dynasties. Salt is the main source of huge profits for the state, and it is the most important component of the state's fiscal revenue. During the Tang Dynasty. The price of a catty of salt even reached more than 300 wen per catty. A considerable part of the finance of the former Ming Dynasty came from the salt tax, even the current Qing court. During the fiscal period, the Jianghuai salt tax accounted for more than 70% of the national fiscal revenue. Without the salt tax, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Now, Geng Jingzhong has not only greatly reduced the price of salt, but also given up the salt tax! Many people can't understand why Geng Jingzhong did this. Of course, Geng Jingzhong has a good reason. The high price of table salt is actually heroin in disguise, which will make the rulers addicted. The more the rulers relied on table salt, the more they neglected the development of other industries. This deformed way of development will eventually cause the ruler to fall off the throne quickly.

Yes, salt should be monopolized by the state, even in future generations. As the most basic commodity for people's livelihood, the state must firmly control the price of salt. However, this price must not be high. As for the right to manage salt, Geng Jingzhong heard some university professors talk about it in later generations. Among them, there is an example, Geng Jingzhong's impression is very profound.

"You don't need to worry about salt." Geng Jingzhong said unmistakably. "I'm going to tell you a little case." After a moment of silence, Geng Jingzhong's eyes swept across the audience and said eloquently.

The case that Geng Jingzhong wants to talk about happened during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. However, now that the Qing court is about to perish, Jiaqing will definitely not have it again. However, this does not prevent Geng Jingzhong from telling stories. Replacing the background of the Qing Dynasty is still a very philosophical story.

At the beginning of the 11th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (that is, in 1806 AD), there was a "floating price sick people's case" involving four provinces along the two Huai coasts. The cause of this case was that Wang Bingtai salt shops in Wuxi and Jinkui counties in Jiangsu Province lowered the price of salt by 2 cents per catty. Some economists and historians in later generations also humorously called it "the bloody case caused by two pennies". It is precisely because of this strange name that this case will attract Geng Jingzhong's attention. You must know that at that time, "a bloody case caused by steamed buns" was very famous.

Let's briefly describe this case. In the year of the incident, there was a flood of illegal salt in Jiangsu Province, which made the official salt unsalable. Wang Bingtai, a salt merchant in Huizhou who specializes in Wuxi and Jinkui counties, had great pressure on his inventory, so he thought of a way to reduce the official salt from 30 wen per catty to 28 wen to sell it, so as to shorten the price gap with private salt.

Wang Bingtai Salt Shop originally wanted to temporarily reduce the price, and residents did not have to take the risk to buy private salt when they saw that the difference between the value of official salt and private salt was not very large. If the illicit salt is unsalable, the smuggled salt dealers will be held back. Without profits, there would be no salt barons. When the salt barons all changed their careers to other trades, the private salt disappeared, and the official salt naturally sold well. At that time, the official salt was reinstated and sold at the original price. Because it was a temporary expedient measure, it is estimated that the government will not prohibit it, so Wang Bingtai only asked the magistrates of Xi and Jin counties to issue notices, and did not report to the salt transportation envoys. But unexpectedly, the notice of price reduction on his side was posted high. Zhang Yingji, the envoy of the two Huai salt transporters, urgently posted a notice. Stop price reductions in these two counties. Outcome. Naturally, it is conceivable, and the common people can only rejoice in vain. Of course, the price reduction of two pennies is actually not a joy.

However, such a loose and tight, one to reduce the price, the other not to reduce the price, after all, is a very unpleasant thing. Treat the common people like monkeys! As a result, this incident aroused the reluctance of the common people in Xi and Jin counties, so Zhang Jiangmei, who had donated the ninth rank, as the plaintiff, sued the salt merchant and the salt transport envoy on the charge of "salt merchant Wang Bingtai and other floating price patients, and salt transport envoy Zhang Yingji Pishang is not allowed to reduce (salt price)".

After the pleadings are handed over, there is no need to elaborate on the detailed process of the interlocutory judgment. Anyway, the end result is that a group of officials have their black hats removed, or they are demoted. The price of salt in this meagre area. As a result, all the two Huai salt merchants were punished with fines, and the two county orders involved in the place where this case occurred, Zhang Yingji, the salt transportation envoy, and Yanzheng Yanfeng, were all punished by different Cheng dù. What is even more amazing is that Zhang Jiangmei, the plaintiff in this case, was punished with a three-year sentence of 100 canes, and the judge of the case, Na Yancheng, did not end well. The only winner was Emperor Jiaqing, who received a fine of one million taels of silver.

The case of the confused monk breaking the gourd is not justified in the first place. However, there is no doubt that the most wronged in this case were the salt merchants, who obviously wanted to sell at a lower price, but in the end they were punished by the Jiaqing Emperor for the trumped-up crime of "floating price patients". They all felt very aggrieved, I did this, obviously to maintain the official salt market, why did I suffer such a cruel punishment? In fact, some smart officials have already felt something when they see this. Emperor Jiaqing's seemingly fair punishment was to make an example of the salt merchants and eliminate the possibility of salt merchants selling at lower prices. The Hui businessmen couldn't figure it out, and they only had a stomach full of grievances.

As a result, after the case, the price of salt continued to rise, and the people suffered more and more exploitation for the necessities of life. After this crackdown, the Huizhou salt merchants no longer dared to stand up for the price of salt, and the Huizhou salt merchants completely lost their pricing power in the salt industry, and became a tool for the Manchu rulers to loot the wealth of the world. This case clearly shows that under the surface of the rich salt merchants of Huizhou, what is hidden is the humiliation of being dependent on power and at the mercy of others. The business of Huizhou merchants focuses on the salt industry. Salt is a commodity that does not have much value in itself, and if you look at China's long coastline, you can open up salt farms to dry salt where there is a sea.

But salt is a special commodity that people can't live without. Therefore, it naturally became the best tax carrier for the feudal society with low productivity, so since the Han Dynasty, salt has been franchised by the government. From the very beginning, the Hui merchants, who focused on the salt industry, did not follow a path of abnormal development, but played the role of the spokesperson of the government who was attached to the bureaucratic system, and was also a merchant and an official. The salt merchants of Huizhou, who were dependent on the bureaucratic system, operated the salt industry and made huge profits. Salt industry operations are hereditary monopoly, that is, the franchise of the salt industry can be passed from father to son, son to grandson, under the premise of huge profits, with the increase of population, the growth of salt consumption, the rapid accumulation of wealth of the Huizhou salt merchant family is unimaginable to ordinary people, such as Bao Zhidao, Jiang Chun, these salt merchants, family wealth converted into modern currency to be counted in units of billions, at the level of productivity at that time, it is not an exaggeration to describe their wealth as "rich rival the country".

The Huizhou salt merchants were inextricably linked with the Manchu government, and could even obtain credit from the state treasury as start-up capital, and could almost make a million profits, or even no profits. At that time, Yangzhou, the base camp of Huizhou salt merchants, could only be described as poor and extravagant, and the biggest trouble of those rich merchants was how to spend the silver that poured in like a tide. The salt merchants in Huizhou did not know that their desire for poverty and luxury was already "the sunset is infinitely good, but it is just near dusk". In order to maintain their status and wealth, the top priority of the Huizhou salt merchants outside of the salt industry was to secure the backers behind them, that is, the Manchu rulers. Despite repeated efforts to increase tribute, the Manchu rulers were still not satisfied.

As the number of the Manchu privileged class increased exponentially, far faster than the wealth of the salt merchants, the extortion of the salt merchants by the banner people became more and more severe. By the late Qing Dynasty, the original face of the Tartars had been vividly expressed, and even the last fig leaf was torn off without hesitation. During the Jiaqing period, the two Huai salt farms, which were dominated by Huizhou salt merchants, had as many as 92 kinds of exacting taxes. According to the statistics of Jiaqing's "Two Huai Salt Law Chronicles", from the tenth year of Kangxi to the ninth year of Jiaqing, more than 100 years. The property donated by the two Huai salt merchants before and after totaled: more than 40 million taels of silver. More than 20,000 stones. Valley 330,000 stones. Each time a businessman donates, it can be millions of taels at most, hundreds of thousands of taels at the least, and the rest of the ordinary donations are difficult to enumerate.

Among the two Huai salt merchants, Huizhou salt merchants have an advantage, so most of the burden of donation falls on the heads of Huizhou merchants. Jiang Chun, a big salt merchant in She County, who was one of the two Huai general merchants, donated every time. "The fee of one million refers to Gu Liban", and finally ended up bankrupt. In the ninth year of Jiaqing, due to the suppression of the White Lotus uprising, financial difficulties occurred, and the Qing government began to raise the price of salt frantically in order to cope with this situation. The higher the price of salt, the less salt will be sold, and the more tax sources will be depleted. Because the higher the price of official salt. The more profitable the smuggling of salt, the more smugglers there are. The less people buy official salt.

In order to pass on the financial difficulties caused by the depletion of tax sources, the Qing government stipulated that salt merchants must pay the corresponding taxes before obtaining a license to sell salt. In the context of large profits and fast sales in the salt industry, it is not a problem for Huizhou salt merchants. But when the profits of the salt industry are diluted by heavy taxes and various types of extortion, and the illegal salt is rampant, it becomes a fatal problem. For example, the Changlu Salt Field, the salt area is in the Yellow Flood Area, today's Anhui, Shandong, and Henan borders, which is the place of the four wars in history, and the Yellow River is often diverted, natural disasters are strict, and the people are fierce. Illicit salt is the most rampant here, and the smuggled salt dealers are strongly armed, well-organized, and even dare to confront the government head-on.

It is often the salt that is sold this year that is often backlogged five or six years ago, but the capital of five or six years ago has not been fully recovered, and the new salt has been pressed down again, and with the new salt comes a heavier tax. The entry of the salt industry is monopolistic, and the corresponding exit is also monopoly. This means that when the hereditary privilege becomes an obligation, even if you lose the capital, you can only pay it head-on, otherwise you will be guilty of deception. In such a desperate situation, many Huizhou salt merchants have tried their best to escape under the pretext of illness and filial piety, and even more, they chose to escape.

Faced with this situation, the shrewd and sophisticated Huizhou salt merchants recognized that the only way to save the salt industry was to reduce prices, but as soon as they tried, they suffered a huge blow. The authority of the Manchu government was unquestionable, and lowering the price of salt was seen by the Manchu government as a provocation to imperial power, and this was more intolerable than anything else. The salt merchants in Huizhou finally came to the end of the road: the higher the price of salt, the less sales, and the more depleted the tax source, the Qing government could only further increase the price of salt in order to ensure tax revenue, so a new round of vicious circle began.

In this environment, the best fate for Huizhou salt merchants is to be able to retreat from the salt industry. For example, Bao Qiyun of the Bao family in Tangyue, after inheriting the general merchant status of his brother Bao Zhidao, was sent to handle the Huaibei salt transportation. In order to cope with the government's taxes, the few surviving salt factories had to sell salt at a high price, which was of course unprofitable for the salt merchants engaged in salt transportation, and if the ship was wrecked in the process, the salt merchants would admit the losses themselves. Bao Qiyun knows this well, how can he open his eyes and make a loss-making transaction?

Therefore, he "said that he was sick and retired", and would rather bear the big crime of "resisting and missing class", rather than lose the family business in his own hands, fortunately, he got the amnesty of Emperor Jiaqing, and the big crime of "resisting and missing class" was only fined 50,000 taels of silver. Bao Qiyuan, who recovered his capital, never had the idea of commercial salt, returned to his ancestral hometown, purchased fertile land, and built a large number of buildings. The Tangyue archway group we see today was built and repaired in his hands.

This grand building complex proves the glory of Huizhou salt merchants, and also contains the helpless fate of the inevitable decline of Huizhou salt merchants. In the case of Geng Jingzhongtongguò, there are two important points: the first, under his rule, did not rely on salt to provide state revenue, as any previous dynasty did. Second, no businessman, or family, should want to make a huge profit from salt, you should do something else.

He told the people that in Fujian, the merchants were no longer like the salt merchants, who only relied on their privileges to make money. Many businessmen in Fujian are now self-made, who have their own skills, their own vision, hard work, and honest management to make a fortune.

"All necessities that belong to the people's livelihood will be monopolized by the state and will not be transferred to anyone. The price of the franchise will certainly not be high, and after deducting the expenses of various items, the profit should be very thin. So, don't expect me to make any openings in the management of salt. Moreover, I can sue you, and don't expect to make any openings in the future. Even if I die, I will leave a strict order not to allow the price of salt to rise, let alone allow salt to be sold to private operators. If you want to make money, you should think of other ways. (To be continued......)