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On the White Tiger Hall, Yi Feng leaned on the window and looked at the bustling and lively city market under the high White Tiger Stage, like a chessboard-like street, the flow of people was like weaving, endless, and endless.

Gao Mingyue suddenly stroked the piano behind the screen, and the sound of the piano came out from behind the screen, with a unique spontaneity and atmosphere, as if blowing through the wind outside the desert, which made people feel a strong and unrestrained, and inspired a bit of heroism. Yi Feng likes this style of piano, and Fang Xuanling in the hall was also moved at first glance. He didn't know that this piano was stroked by Gao Mingyue, who was holding the account book of Huaihuang, and thought that it was played by a musician arranged by Yi Feng behind the screen, but the sound of this piano was not a soft and charming sound, but it had a strong Huaihuang style, which made people look sideways.

The sound of the piano slowly lingered in the hall.

Yi Feng calmed down and listened carefully, and after a long time of playing, he also had another thought in his heart. Originally, Fang Xuanling proposed a cooperative land hoarding plan, but he planned to refuse. It's not that Fang Xuanling's plan doesn't work, this plan is still good, although this is indeed Huai'an's plan to borrow chickens and eggs, but it is indeed beneficial to Huai'an. Huaihuang has an arid climate and a lack of water, which is not suitable for growing grain, and the food needed is all transported from the distant Jianghuai, which is really a very troublesome and dangerous thing. The place of Yanzhou is indeed suitable for growing grain, and that piece belongs to the mountain basin in the topography, and there are abundant rivers such as the Yanghe River passing through it. He has a lot of cultivated land suitable for reclamation, and even according to the information under his control, the entire Yanzhou has three large territories. If it can be reclaimed, it can reach a huge area of 18 million mu, and even if only one-tenth of it can be reclaimed, there will be nearly 2 million mu of cultivated land. In particular, Yanzhou is close to Huaihuang, if it is cultivated here to grow grain, then the security of food supply in Huaihuang will be greatly improved.

It's just that what Yi Feng said to Fang Xuanling just now is nostalgic, and it is not a prevarication. It's a fact.

After Yi Feng's victory, Hu Cao Gang submitted a report to Yi Feng, which was a demographic survey that he had begun before he sent out his troops. The results of the survey are statistically displayed. Today, there are 113,563 registered households in Wuzhou, with 454,252 households. This figure is the latest statistic jù and is relatively accurate. With a population of more than 110,000 households, this number is quite remarkable. With a new border state outside the Cyprus. There are more than 100,000 households, and such a number of households can be surpassed in the area north of the Yellow River, and it can even be said that it can be surpassed in important towns such as Bingzhou and Youzhou. Even in Yangzhou, the center of the thriving south of the Yangtze River, there are only more than 100,000 people. However, in fact, there is still a big gap between the population of Huaihuang and those big states, first of all, there are many and small households in Huaihuang, and the average family is only about four people, and it is in the Central Plains. On average, there are five, a half, or even six people in a household. For example, there are more than 100,000 households in Yangzhou, but there are more than 700,000 people.

Another point. In other parts of the Central Plains, the population statistics are not actually the entire population. The imperial court counted the registered population, and there were many people who were not registered, such as slaves, monks, prostitutes, and even sergeants, not to mention the slaves hidden in the homes of the local tycoons, and those fugitives hiding in the mountains and wilderness. Generally speaking, this group of non-registered people can account for one to two percent of the total population. In Huaihuang, except for those who came from other places to do business and work, the rest, whether they were slaves, prisoners of war, monks, prostitutes, craftsmen, etc., were all counted and compiled into the household register according to Yi Feng's requirements.

A border state has a population of 450,000, which is really very remarkable, but for Yi Feng, Huaihuang has always been short of people.

Today, among the more than 450,000 people, there are more than 100,000 people in the Huaihuang army alone, and these people are completely out of production. And these more than 100,000 people are still the strongest group of men in Huaihuang. Of the remaining 300,000 or so, about half are women, girls, children, and the elderly, and less than 100,000 men remain, but they are all working in various mines and workshops. The entire Huaihuang has long been strictly short of people, and even in fact, the current Huaihuang is not only the 400,000 people. More than 450,000 people are registered population, and now there are still a large number of people recruited from outside to work, as well as a large number of foreign businessmen.

In the governor's office, there were many officials who once mentioned to Yi Feng, saying that now there is a shortage of people in Huaihuangyanzhòng, and all mines and workshops are in great need of labor, hoping that Yi Feng can temporarily stop the expansion of the army, and even reduce some battalions, for example, since there is the Wuzhou Third Army, there is no need to keep a huge number of Zhenshu Army, and these Zhenshu troops will be abolished, just to save the workshops that are extremely short of labor. But this mention was rejected by Yi Feng without hesitation, and now the outside of the plug is a little calm, and even a little too calm. Everyone thought that Huaihuang had won several battles, and those Turks were afraid and did not dare to provoke them. But Yi Feng clearly knew that the Turks were not afraid of the Huai Famine Army. The current calm is actually just the scene before the storm comes, and the decisive battle between the two major forces of the Great Sui and the Turks is about to break out, and both sides are clenching their fists, and finally the last game. At this time, Yi Feng, who was sandwiched between the two powers, had to take risks and desperately recruit and expand the army, so how could he remove his arms and dismantle the army. No matter how big the gap is in the workshop, he has to insist that the Wuzhou Army will not relax.

Without an army, all of them are just castles in the air and castles on the sand.

If there is a shortage of people in the workshop, the output will not be raised, and the money will be less, but that is not a big problem. As long as the army is pulled up, as long as Huai Huang can hold on, there is an opportunity to make money.

Yi Feng is now sending people everywhere to recruit workers in Hebei, Hedong and even Henan, and even sent people to Xi, Khitan, Xi and other ethnic groups to recruit people, the conditions are very sufficient, but the effect is not too good. As long as everyone's life passes, no one wants to leave their hometown and travel thousands of miles to the wilderness. After all, although in the eyes of the merchants who are now nostalgic, it is a treasure land full of gold. But in the eyes of many ordinary people, it is just a wild place outside the Seychelles with no impression.

Yi Feng himself is short of people, and Fang Xuanling still wants to borrow chickens and eggs from Yi Feng to make people go to Huai'an to reclaim the wasteland. This is the lack of understanding the situation in advance.

However, Yi Feng still wants to get closer to Fang Xuanling, even if it is to increase his favorability first.

Turning his head and thinking for a while, Yi Feng suddenly thought of another good solution from the sound of the piano just now. Yi Feng is nobody, but it doesn't mean that no one else has anybody.

Seeing Fang Xuanling standing there with a disappointed face, Yi Feng said with a smile: "However, this plan of yours is indeed good, if it is successfully implemented." For Huai'an and Huaihuang, this is a win-win cooperation. Although I am short of labor at the moment, there is a workaround. ”

"Please also ask Yi Shuai to come!" Fang Xuanling hurriedly asked. It was a plan that he had put a lot of effort into developing. It was the first step he wanted to make achievements in Huai'an. He doesn't want to die before he gets out of school, but he has to give it a try whenever there is a little turnaround.

"There is a large amount of arable land that can be cultivated in Yanzhou, which is the best condition, and there are plane trees that are not afraid of attracting the golden phoenix. Huai Huang is the lack of such rich arable land. That's why we have always had to rely on food supplies. ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile on the side: "Although there is no suitable arable land in Huaihuang. There are several large salt lakes in Huaihuang. I heard that the yield of these salt lakes was not high, and they only supplied a hundred miles to the vicinity. But since the great marshal took control of Huaihuang, he has the means to turn stones into gold, and he can actually refine the original ordinary pool salt into snow salt and ice salt that are loved by people everywhere and sought after by countless salt merchants, and even the output is amazingly high, with a monthly salt output of hundreds of thousands of stones. Now it is not only outside the south of the desert, but even in the east of Hebei and Hedong. Even Guanlong, Henan and other places have also bought Yi Shuai's dam salt in large quantities, which is really unacceptable. What makes a certain person even more impressed is that the salt induction invented by Dashuai is even more amazing, allowing salt merchants to transport grain to Huaifa, send it to the designated castles in exchange for salt introduction, and then go to Yancheng to exchange Huàn Dam salt, which not only solves the problem of grain purchase in one fell swoop, but also solves the problem of grain transportation in one fell swoop and salt transportation out. Just sitting in Huaihuang, there is a steady stream of grain transported in, and the salt of the snowflakes is transported out, which is really an extraordinary means. ”

These words are not Fang Xuanling's flattery, but real admiration. Fang Xuanling carefully studied the salt-for-grain process of Huaihuang, and the clearer he understood, the more admiration he felt in his heart. Before Yifeng, I had never heard of such a method, although it was said that for some in-demand commodities, there was indeed a practice of bartering, but salt for grain, and salt in the form of introduction, but it was unprecedented. Yi Feng's salt led to the opening of the Chinese system, and easily let those salt merchants send grain to Huaihuanglai, and also transported it to the designated towns and forts according to Yi Feng's requirements, supplying food for Yi Feng, and also solving the trouble of food supply and transshipment between Yi Feng's own castles. The salt merchants went to the salt lake to exchange huàn salt to lead the salt, and even let the salt from the salt lake be piled up in the warehouse after production, and there was no need for additional transportation and sales. Although the key to this qiē is that Yi Feng has a unique technology for the production and refining of pool salt, the salt introduction is to give full play to this advantage.

Yi Feng just smiled, this salt led to the Chinese system, although it was good, but it was just something he had come up with from later history, so no matter how good Fang Xuanling praised it, he didn't have much to be proud of.

However, his new plan does have something to do with this salt introduction.

"It seems that Brother Xuanling is very familiar with Huaihuang's salt introduction, so it just saves me some tongue. My idea is this, there is land in Yanzhou, but no one cultivates it, and Huaihuang has no land to cultivate, but salt can be exchanged for grain, and Huaihuang is also short of manpower, so it is impossible to go to Yanzhou to reclaim farmland. But those salt merchants have someone in their hands. ”

Easy wind point to the end, smart people are always a little bit of a penetration.

Fang Xuanling suddenly understood what Yi Feng's plan was, and now in order to get the dam salt of excellent quality and extremely popular, the salt merchants had no choice but to accept Yi Feng's salt to lead China and France, and transport grain from the distant Jianghuai grain producing areas to Huai Famine. While there is still a lot of profit to be made, transporting grain, especially over long distances, is extremely costly. In particular, it is necessary to transport grain to Huaihuanglai, from Jianghuai to the Yellow River, there are still good waterways to go, but after crossing the Yellow River, whether it is from Hedong all the way up, or from Hebei all the way to the north, the waterway is not so smooth, and the further north, the more difficult it is to transport. Especially after leaving the Great Wall, this section of Yanzhou is even more difficult. It can be said that for the salt merchants who exchange salt for grain, the transportation cost is higher than the cost of grain in such transportation. If transportation costs can be reduced, the profits of salt sales will naturally increase.

It is difficult to solve the transportation cost, and generally speaking, only by relying on bulk transportation can we reduce some costs. No matter how large the bulk transportation can be, the reduction is still limited. However, if the salt merchants directly hired people to hoard land and cultivate grain in the Yanzhou, which was close to the famine, then the cost of cultivation might be higher than the original, but the cost of transportation would almost plummet, from the original transportation of thousands of miles to only a few hundred miles of land, and the difference between that would be huge.

This is the method that Yi Feng came up with, he could cooperate with those big salt merchants and let them go to Yanzhou to stock up on the land. Fang Xuanling has no one, Yi Feng has no one, but the salt merchants must have someone.

Generally speaking, those big businessmen who came to exchange salt for famine were basically big grain merchants, and the big grain merchants themselves were also big landlords, and there were many landlords working together behind them. In this way, they have enough grain in their hands, and only by trafficking in large quantities of grain can they realize the advantages of selling grain and get enough profits. And in the hands of the landlords, there are fields and people. Not only were there tenants, but there were also generally a large number of hidden serfs. Moreover, the landlords are often the powerful leaders of a place, and if they come forward to organize and recruit villagers and ordinary people to go north to cultivate, they are much stronger than Yi Feng and Fang Xuanling.

Historically, the Ming and Qing dynasties also practiced salt to open the Chinese law, salt merchants transported grain to the border pass for salt, and finally developed into a salt merchant directly organized people near the border pass to hoard, with the output of grain for salt, saving a lot of transportation costs. This is a method to follow, Yi Feng took it directly, but for Fang Xuanling, this is another method that he has never thought of. Without dam salt, there would be no salt to lead China and France, and without this salt for grain, it would be impossible for merchants to go to northern Xinjiang to hoard land.

Fang Xuanling was trembling with excitement now, and he suddenly felt that the mouth plug suddenly opened, and the fog in front of him was all opened.

"Yi Shuai is smart, and I am grateful."

"It's just a trivial matter, not to mention that it's also good for Huaihuang, it's a win-win cooperation." Yi Feng said with a smile. This is indeed a win-win cooperation between the three parties, so that Fang Xuanling's Huai'an County has received manpower to cultivate fields and grow grain. Although the output was finally obtained by the salt merchants, the salt merchants cultivated the fields in Huai'an to grow grain, the land rent was demanded, the land endowment was paid, and the population increased, Huai'an naturally prospered, and the political achievements also came. The merchants were able to cultivate fields near Huaihuang to grow grain, which greatly reduced the cost of exchanging salt for grain, and profits naturally increased. In this cooperation, it seems that there is no direct benefit of nostalgia, but in fact it is not. Merchants hoard fields and grow grain near Huaihuang, which greatly improves the security of food supply in Huaihuang, on the other hand, the south of Huaihuang is excited, and it will naturally have great benefits to Huaihuang, one can increase the development of Huaihuang's commodity economy, and secondly, it can also provide some labor for Huaihuang, and even solve some problems for the men of Huaihuang to marry daughters-in-law.

Win-win situation for all three parties, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

"Great, please ask the marshal to preside over this matter!" Fang Xuanling said excitedly, Huai'an's fields are only suitable for salt merchants to cultivate, Huai'an frontier, where the cost of land reclamation is definitely higher than that of the mainland, but for the salt merchants, the cost of land reclamation is in the mainland, and it is much lower than the cost of transporting grain from the mainland to Huaihuang. However, no one has done this before, but the dam salt is the most critical point, so Yi Feng is the most powerful to speak, and they preside over it, and the salt merchants naturally trust him more.

"No problem." Everyone is good, and of course Yi Feng has no reason to refuse.

PS: On the first day of February, everyone has a ticket! (To be continued......)