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"Salt for grain, how?" Gao Mingyue, who had been sitting behind the screen on Yi Feng's side and listening to the discussion, couldn't help but interject.

Hearing the screen, a woman's voice suddenly interjected, and everyone present couldn't help but turn their heads to look over, but a high screen blocked it tightly, and they couldn't see anything except the painting on the screen. However, everyone is no stranger to the people behind the screen, earlier Gao Mingyue sat directly in the hall to discuss together, and later more and more people participated in the deliberations of the White Tiger Hall, Gao Bo opposed Gao Mingyue to continue to show up, and in the end, Yi Feng was in charge and set up a seat for Gao Mingyue on his side, but a group of screens were added in front of him, so that others could hear her voice, but they couldn't see her.

Gao Mingyue is now limited to a woman's identity, although she does not openly hold an official position in the shogunate, but she assists Uncle Zhang in charge of Tocao's affairs, and can be regarded as the deputy governor of Tocao. Therefore, no one knows better than Gao Mingyue the urgent need for food in Huaihuang at present, in fact, Huaihuang has not had much grain in stock now, and keeps buying grain from all over the country, but the food that can be bought is basically only barely enough to maintain consumption, or even enough to maintain, if it were not for the food that was copied before, Huaihuang would even be in danger of running out of food. But even if Huai Huang is willing to pay money, ordinary businessmen are reluctant to transport grain, because the cost of transporting grain is too high, and grain is generally transported over long distances. Only large quantities of grain can be made to make money, and most of them rely on waterways and ships. And the location of the wilderness. But it is outside the plug, whether it is from Taiyuan, Hedong, whether it is to transport grain. Or to transport grain from Youzhou in Hebei, there is no waterway to go, so you have to take the land route. Especially on most of the roads, you can't even walk in a big car. You have to rely on livestock to carry it and people push it by hand, which is even more expensive.

Powerful large merchant groups, they have a wide range of roads, and they can make more money by transporting silk, cloth, and porcelain to the customs outside the customs than by transporting grain. Because of the food. Uncle Zhang, Gao Mingyue and other households were worried.

"In the future, merchants who want to buy dam salt can only bring grain in exchange. Specifically, they first went to Huaihuang City to open salt leads, and each salt lead was one hundred and twenty catties, that is, one stone, and each salt lead was consistent. But we don't take money, we only take grain. One salt was exchanged for five stone grains, and after they opened the salt lead, they had to transport the corresponding grain to the various cities designated by Huaihuang. Then the salt will be exchanged for salt tickets from the granaries of each city, and then the salt tickets will be exchanged for the corresponding dam salt in Yancheng. ”

Yi Feng's salt introduction ticket method is actually the opening method of the Song and Ming dynasties in the later generations. In the Song and Ming dynasties, the imperial court was a salt monopoly. Therefore, if the salt merchants wanted salt, they had to buy it from the imperial court. However, the imperial court did not sell salt directly, but let them transport grain to the frontier military camp for the imperial court in exchange for salt. Then use this salt to exchange the salt of the court. This method, for the imperial court. The imperial court did not have to work hard to transport grain to the frontier, and the merchants were also profitable. After all, there is a salt lead. They can get salt, and the right to sell it, which is similar to getting a license to sell salt, and with this license, they can actually sell private salt at a lower cost.

At this time, there was no salt monopoly system, but Yi Feng proposed that this method of opening up the middle was also feasible. The key is that dam salt is now a sought-after commodity, an exclusive product, and at the same time, the price of salt and grain is not high, leaving enough profit space for businessmen. One stone of salt for two stones of grain, at this time the grain was almost twenty yuan per bucket, one stone was two hundred yuan, and five stones were just the same money. And the dam salt in Huaihuang is now sold in the auction house of the exchange, and the price of each transaction is at least 1450 wen, and sometimes it is even sold for 200 wen a bucket. Salt and grain trading, they can directly earn a difference of hundreds of dollars per stone of salt. And what is special is that the dam salt is now in special demand, after they transport the salt back, they can still make a lot of money, the same grain, in Huaihuang sold for 20 buckets per bucket, but in the Jianghuai grain area, the price of grain is much lower than this.

Transporting grain to transport salt back, there is a lot of profit in itself, plus the profit left by Yi Feng, this profit is even more. However, there is a condition for this, that is, the more things such as grain and salt have to be transported, the more profitable they are, after all, it is inconvenient to transport. If you really transport a cart of ten stone grain from Youzhou, and exchange it for two stones of salt, you may earn a few hundred dollars, but if you can transport back thousands of stones and thousands of stones at one time, you will definitely earn a lot.

Of course, if you are a big grain merchant and buy grain at a very low price in a good year, then you will be even more profitable.

And if you are a big landlord in Hebei or Hedong, you are not far from Huaihuang, and you transport the grain produced in the field to Huaihuang to exchange for salt, then your cost is much lower than others, and you will earn more. In fact, after the implementation of the Chinese law in the later Song and Ming dynasties, many merchants went to the frontier to carry out business tuning, and they directly hired people to reclaim the border land, and then transported the grain produced to the military camp to exchange for salt, saving the biggest cost in the business of exchanging grain for salt and transporting grain.

For Yi Feng, it would be great if he could use this method in exchange for the merchants to transport grain to Huaihuang. Even if one stone of salt is exchanged for two stones and three stones of grain, or even one stone for one stone, he will definitely earn it. Yifeng's salt drying method, as long as it is a reclaimed salt field, with a new drying method, one ding and one acre of salt field can dry 40,000 catties a year, which is more than 333 stones of salt, even if the salt field and refining salt still have a lot of human cost, but compared to food, it is still a world of difference. An acre of land can produce one or two stone grains, but an acre of salt field can produce more than 300 stone salt.

"Salt for grain, sugar for copper and iron, wine for horses, in short, since we have these exclusive and in-demand commodities in our hands, then we have to use good steel on the blade. It doesn't matter if you make a little less money, as long as you can get what we need. ”

Ling Yun's words can be said to have opened a new door in the minds of those present. Especially the hearts of professional household officials such as Gao Mingyue and Uncle Zhang suddenly brightened.

Indeed, no matter how much money you make, sometimes it is not necessarily right. Money cannot be eaten, drunk, or clothed. Ultimately. In the end, the money earned by Huai Famine had to be converted into grain, cloth, war horses, swords, and so on. If it can't be converted into these, then the money is dead money. And some times. Money is not everything, they can't buy a lot of things. Such as grain, steel, war horses and other critical materials. Now, salt, sugar and wine have also become the exclusive and urgent materials of Huaihuang, and if they can't be bought, they can be exchanged.

"The ratio of exchange between salt, wine, sugar, grain, horses, copper coins, etc., can be discussed in detail, but these things are exclusive materials in our hands, so we have to hold them firmly. Just exchange and don't sell, no matter how much money you have, you won't sell it. ”

The audience was silent for a moment, and everyone couldn't help nodding.

At this time, everyone had clearly thought that under this strategy, some important troublesome problems such as grain, war horses, iron, and copper, which had been plagued by famine, were now solved.

Everyone unanimously agreed with Ling Yun's plan.

A problem that has plagued everyone for a long time has been solved, although the salt for grain has not yet been implemented, but everyone believes it. This plan will be a success. Businessmen are profit-seeking, and they only want profits, so no matter how difficult it is, they will be willing. Not to mention that it is very troublesome to transport grain from the grain-producing area to Huaihuang. No matter how troublesome it is, it may be possible to exchange not rare grain for materials such as salt, sugar, and wine, which are now in demand and extremely profitable. Who wouldn't do such a good deal. In the past, there may still be some businessmen who would have been concerned about the problem of transporting grain out of the border without permission. But now. Huaihuangdu has become the Wuzhou governor's office of the imperial court, so this is naturally not a problem.

After discussing and solving several important issues such as Erlong City and food. The atmosphere of the White Tiger Hall has also become much lighter.

Later, it was discussed together to remove the state soldiers' leave, and from now on, all leave will be canceled, and the state soldiers will begin to assemble and enter a state of combat readiness. And, three days later, move to the northern border of Huaihuang, and camp to Baiyun Town in the northernmost part and Dushi Town in the northeast, and increase grain to the two places. At the same time, the garrisons of the two towns strengthened their vigilance. The Bayegu people have not yet arrived, and at the rate at which they have robbed all the way, it may take ten days and a half months to arrive, or even later. Ling Yun was not too afraid of these Bayegu people, but he was even more worried about the Turks, specifically the Ashina tribe who were worried about the Dulan in the front. Therefore, when assembling to the north, he also ordered the reinforcement of the defenses towards Yehuling and the salt lake.

"The battle is just around the corner, and I hope that before the battle begins, Tocho and Kurasa will be able to prepare the winter clothes of the warriors. Every soldier had to have a robe, a fur coat, a felt blanket, a poncho, leather shoes, gloves, a fur hat, and a sufficient tent, powdered milk, meat floss, fried rice, etc. Ling Yun said a lot in one breath, fighting a war, fighting is logistics, and fighting is comprehensive strength. Although it is also possible to rely on the enemy for food, it is not possible to completely pin the logistical supply on the enemy before the war. You must be prepared enough, even if you can really grab food at that time, even if you have a surplus of food, it is a hundred times better than being hungry.

At the meeting, everyone basically maintained the previous strategy, and pulled the troops and horses to the northern border first to wait for the opportunity. Once the Bayegu people approached the Huaihuang border, they had to seize the opportunity and take advantage of their unstable foothold to unite the Xi, Khitan, Xiren and other tribes to catch Bayegu off guard. Of course, in case these tribes are timid, at a critical time, the Wuzhou army itself will also have to go up. In short, this battle has to be fought outside of Huaihuang, and the final bottom line can only be fought under Baiyun City and Dushi City, and they must not be allowed to break into the center of Huaihuang. It is not only necessary to protect the tranquility of the cities in Huaihuang, but also to protect the young border trade market in Huaihuang as much as possible.

After the meeting, everyone went about their duties, and Yi Feng returned to the Shuaifu.

The red sun is falling in the west, and there is no noise of the outer city in the inner fort, and it is heavily guarded everywhere. Since the alarm message came, in the inner fort of Huaihuang Middle City, where Lingyun Marshal Mansion was located, the alert level had been raised by several levels, and there were guards and patrols everywhere. It is necessary to strictly prevent assassins and dead soldiers from infiltrating the fort and threatening Yi Feng. It wasn't cold during the day, but at night, the biting cold could already be felt in Huaihuang City. The night fog was thick and covered like a veil, and Ling Yun suddenly noticed that a beautiful and touching young woman was standing in front of her with a smile on her face, as if waiting for the wife who had returned to her husband late.

Yi Feng looked at him, suddenly a little confused, the woman's eyes were full of love, a kind of long-lost reunion cordiality. However, he did not know her at all, or had no memory of this person at all.

The stone-paved streets of the inner city were quiet for a while.

The guards also noticed something abnormal, and one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy, they drew their swords out of their sheaths, quickly stepped forward to protect Ling Yun, glared at the woman coldly, and were ready to draw their knives and pounce at any time.

She was a little emaciated, but she still looked slimmer and more touching.

She was wearing a white fox fur and a pair of deerskin boots, but her hair was tied up and she was combed into a bun, so beautiful a goose-faced young girl, but holding a sharkskin sheath sword in her arms, just standing in the cold wind, staring at Yi Feng.

"Yuan Hao?" There was a tremor in the woman's voice, as if there was a bit of anticipation.

"Maybe I used to call this name, but I don't remember it anymore, a certain surname changed its name to Feng, and the word Lingyun." Although he didn't know if the woman was looking for him, Yang Guang once told him that he was born in the East Palace, and at that time Yang Yong thought he was his biological father, so he named the child Yang Lin. He was called by that name until he died at the age of two. Of course, when Yang Guang knew that he was the father of the child, he once gave him a name called Yang Gao. Later, he followed Murong Ke, Murong Ke named him Yi Feng, and after he woke up, he gave himself a table name, called Ling Yun. He has many names, but he has never heard of himself having a name called Yuan Hao. But looking at the woman's appearance, it seems that she really knew him once.

Yi Feng doesn't have any memories of the past at all, but before Jiangnan lost his memory this year, 'he' also had amnesia six years ago. Therefore, no one knows his memories before he was twelve years old, and now Yang Advertising sù his life experience, but in the ten years between the age of two and twelve, no one knows his qiē.

Now this woman who suddenly appeared here made Yi Feng feel that maybe this was really an acquaintance, maybe she knew about that experience.

"You are Yuan Hao!" After the woman finished speaking, she stepped forward with a little excitement.

With a snap, Cheng Yanjin had already unsheathed his knife, stepped forward to block in front of Yi Feng, and shouted at the woman, "Stop, who are you!" ”

The woman stopped, looked at Yi Feng, and suddenly said slowly: "You really don't remember me, Yuan Hao!" ”

"I'm sorry, this lady, I hurt my head twice in Xia, so I don't remember anything before, and someone told me about things six years ago, but I don't remember anything about six years ago. Little lady, should I know you? ”

The woman's tears flowed down her eyes at once, and she muttered: "Six years ago, six years ago, six years ago, yes, you should know me, you shouldn't forget me" (to be continued......)