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This is the second time Zhai Zhe has entered the killing of Hukou, and after half a year, the scene is very different.

The streets are deserted, most of the shops are closed, and there is not even a barking wild dog to be seen on the roadside.

When Ningsheng was imported in the first month, there was still an inn open, and now there is not even a teahouse. Except for Dexiang Pavilion and Ping Kui, the various businesses have no business for more than a year, and no matter how rich the owner is, they can't stand it, and even the Cao family and the Li family have withdrawn most of their men and temporarily gave up the business of leaving the city.

Zhang Guang, who killed Hukou and garrisoned it, can only get some benefits from Liu Quan and Ning Sheng now, and it is convenient for the goods to be out of the stopper.

The weather in August, the hottest season has passed, the weather is dry, and even a stomp on the ground can throw a puff of ash.

Ning Sheng greeted him at the entrance gate, and Zhai Zhe and his party of more than a dozen people rode into the jam, and they were in the dust. The guarding frontier army had already been ordered to ignore it.

"The owner!" Ning Sheng's expression was restrained, in front of Zhai Zhe, he always felt that he was still the refugee who was about to starve to death.

Zhai Zhe dismounted, feeling that Ning Sheng seemed to be a little blesser than before. has been the shopkeeper of Pingkui for more than half a year, and it is strange that he doesn't grow some meat.

"You've done a good job in the past six months!"

"Xie Dongjia!" Ning Sheng's face was overjoyed.

After entering the killing of Hukou, Zhai Zhe's important thing was to visit the garrison Zhang Guang, the entrance and exit of the business were complicated, although he made a lot of silver, but the basic etiquette after the entrance still had to be understood. People live with a face, trees rely on a skin, silver is easy to use, and people need to be comfortable to receive.

The gift box of five hundred taels of silver, Ning Sheng ordered the two little servants to carry it and follow it

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7fdf behind Zhe. This year, the business of killing Hukou has deteriorated a lot, and even the price of bribes has shrunk a lot, and five hundred taels of silver is no longer a small amount.

Zhang Guang was also not polite, accepted the money, and asked Zhai Zhe about the situation outside the plug. The entry of the Chahars into Datong in May still brought a lot of pressure to the soldiers guarding the fort on the border.

Zhai Zhe didn't have time to chat with him, and he talked nonsense, all in all, the Chahar people would not enter Kou Datong Town again for the time being, which reassured Zhang Guang. He is not a roundworm in Lin Dan Khan's stomach, where he knows the news.

When leaving the garrison, Zhai Zhe had some bad feelings, most of the border guards of the Ming Dynasty were like this, they were afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and they only hoped that the enemy on the border of Kou would not be from their own territory, and they could escape a catastrophe.

When he returned to Pingkui, Liu Quan was already waiting, but he looked tired and haggard.

"Zhai Dongjia!"

"Liu Dongjia!"

Ning Sheng ordered the men to serve tea, and while leading the two of them to their seats, he interjected and reminded: "The Liu Dong family just rushed over from Youyu County!" ”

Liu Quan smiled apologetically and said: "Youyu has a big drought this year, I have set up some porridge shacks in the county seat, there are many refugees, everything is complicated, and I rushed over immediately after receiving the news of the shopkeeper Ning!" ”

Zhai Zhe was a little surprised and said, "I heard that the government has started disaster relief, haven't I?"

Liu Quan smiled bitterly and said: "The government's disaster relief is limited to Datong Mansion, and the food is far from enough, and I can't watch Youyu's fellow villagers starve to death, so I set up a porridge shop, and it has been more than a month." ”

"I didn't expect you to be so hearty!" Zhai Zhe sighed with emotion, and then said: "I went to the fortress specifically to find you this time, and I want to buy 20,000 stone rice millet out of the fortress, and the grassland has also been drought." ”

"How much?" Liu Quan couldn't believe his ears.

"Twenty thousand stones!" Zhai Zhe stretched out two fingers.

Liu Quan was stunned for a long time, shook his head and said, "Forgive me for not being able to do anything!" There are only 2,000 stones left in Dexiangkui's surplus grain, and every day the porridge shed is opened, the grain is even less. ”

Zhai Yan's eyes were close to Liu Quan, and his face was displeased.

Liu Quan seemed to be completely unaware, and said to himself: "Although I don't have any grain to sell you, I know the north."

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73o There is no shortage of grain, and there are many businesses in Datong Mansion that reserve a large amount of grain, especially the Dasheng Kui Fan family. It's just that food is too expensive in the north now, and most of the people affected by the disaster can't afford it. ”

After saying these words, he seemed to be full of resentment, and said hatefully: "Shanxi and Shaanxi were affected by disasters and led to the people's revolt, all because the salt system was changed to the middle system during the Chenghua period to the color folding system, and now more than half of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in Jiangnan, and no one cares about the life or death of the people in the nine sides." ”

Zhai Yan also knew something about the restructuring of Daming Salt Industry, but he was not very clear, and asked: "I would like to hear it in detail!" ”

Liu Quan took a sip of tea and told Zhai Yan in detail about the history of the honor and disgrace of the Jin merchants.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure the supply of military supplies for the garrisons in the northern nine borders, the Kaizhong system was implemented, that is, private individuals were allowed to transport grain and grass to the nine sides of the northern border in exchange for salt introduction, and the salt trade was operated.

The distance to transport grain from the south to Jiubian was long and the price was high, and the salt merchants established a large number of merchants on the border, and hired people to cultivate and collect grain for the replacement of salt and grass. During the Chenghua period, Fu Xu Pu, who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and Ye Qi, the head of the household department, colluded with Hui merchants to change the law and change the Kaizhong system into a folding color system.

Under the folding system, businessmen do not have to go to the nine sides to pay grain for salt, but can directly go to the Huaizhejiang Salt Transportation Division to pay silver in exchange for salt. The merchants of Huizhou Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River gradually prospered by relying on their geographical advantages, and Yangzhou became a place where rich merchants from the north and south met.

However, from this time onwards, the supply of grain and grass for the garrisons on the nine sides could not be guaranteed, the land in the north was barren, and the military cantonments were gradually destroyed, accumulating over many years, and the price of grain in the nine sides rose far south. The imperial court needed to spend money to transport grain and grass from the south to the nine borders, and the border army's salary and silver to buy grain were not even enough for living expenses, and there were many poor soldiers and poor soldiers, and their war preparedness was lax.

In the later Wanli period, the salt administration changed the color folding system to the key transportation system, which was conducive to the monopoly operation of large salt merchants. Hui merchants are close to the two Huai salt farms, often move to operate the salt industry, Shanxi rich merchants began to decline, and Hui merchants officially rose.

Liu Quan's mouth was dry after saying these words, and Zhai Yan was dumbfounded when he heard it, he couldn't see these secrets of the court and politics from the "Treatise on Salt and Iron".

Liu Quan is a native of Shanxi and hates the changes in the salt politics of the Ming Dynasty. Regardless of the purpose of the imperial court, the reform of the salt administration exacerbated the poverty in the nine borders of the northern border, and the wealth was concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, so that now once Shanxi was affected by the disaster, it was starving all over the wilderness, and the border army and the people could not survive, so they could only hold high the anti-flag against the sky.

Zhai Zhe thought about it, got up and saluted Liu Quan, and said, "Brother Liu, whom I only know today, has been taught below. ”

There is such a businessman in Daming, and a person like Daming can only be a businessman! He had almost made up his mind that he must recruit Liu Quan under his command.

Liu Quan replied: "Don't dare, in business, you shouldn't say much." Who doesn't understand these truths? It's just that there are many interests involved, and no one wants to come forward. I saw that the people of Youyu were starving to death, and I couldn't bear it, so I said these words. It's just ......, but now there is really no food in hand. With that, he spread out his hands.

"Da Shengkui has food?" Zhai Zhe groaned, remembering the letter he tore up that day.

Liu Quan looked lonely and said, "The east entrance rises, and the west mouth falls." Now that seventy or eighty percent of the business in Xuanda Town is in the hands of the eight families in Dongkou, how can there be no food? ”

"Thank you so much!" Zhai Zhe gave his hand to the guests.

Zhangjiakou, big brother, Fan Yongdou! That's really a dead knot that can't be untied! Zhai Zhe was secretly entangled in his heart.

Thinking of going to see Fan Yongdou, Zhai Zhe's mind flashed that sharp-toothed girl Fan Yi, speaking of which, she should be his fiancée. escaped from Zhangjiakou in a rage last year, and I don't know if this marriage contract counts.