"We have no opinion!"

For the win-win plan proposed by Li Jing, the Tuyuhun people naturally will not object, they are originally representatives of the pro-Tang faction, even if the plan proposed by Li Jing is a little harsh, they will grit their teeth and agree.

What's more, the plan proposed by Li Jing is to let the two of them win-win, and everyone will work together to get rich.

Otherwise, if Datang does not provide technology and sales channels, no matter how much dried meat and milk powder they make, it will become a burden to them.

"Since you don't have any opinions, do you usually get your salt from Chaka Lake?"

Li Jing nodded and asked about table salt.

"No, the salt is bought from Datang merchants, and the price is twice as expensive as that in Datang, the salt in Chaka Lake is poisonous, and it is easy to die if you eat too much!"

Murong Zhong said.

The ministers nodded in agreement, saying that there was no problem with Murong Zhong's words, and they did not come to Chaka Lake to eat salt, but to buy it from merchants.

There is nothing wrong with eating some salt in Chaka Lake, but eating too much is really terrible.

In addition, due to the official management of salt and iron, it is forbidden for private people to sell it privately, and the transportation cost is high, so the price of natural salt is also high.

In the current Datang, a pound of salt costs 200 yuan, and ordinary families may not be able to eat it.

If the merchants of the Tang Dynasty traveled thousands of miles to transport grain and grass to Tuyuhun, the price would be doubled, and a catty of salt would cost 400 yuan, which would be affordable for the nobles.

This is only the price of coarse salt, fine salt belongs to the upper class people are eligible to eat, and the middle class people are not qualified to use it, let alone the bottom people.

"The salt in Chaka Lake can't be eaten even if it takes tens of thousands of years, and I just have a method in my hand to purify the salt in Chaka Lake into fine salt, and I can mine the salt in Chaka Lake in large quantities."

"Datang will not only provide technology, but also provide corresponding equipment, cooperate with you Tuyuhun people to mine, and then transport the mined salt to various places for sale."

Li Jing talked to the Tuyuhun people about the mining of salt, and it happened that he had a set of equipment for refining fine salt, which was opened from a large gift box.

If it is mined manually, it is about 1,300 tons a year, and if it is used with equipment, it can be mined 10,000 tons of salt a year at the same cost.

In this way, the cost is greatly saved, and there is greater room for benefits, and Li Jing also plans to no longer adopt a monopoly method in the future salt administration.

Change the monopoly mode to full liberalization of salt mining, wholesale and retail prices.

In addition, a special yamen was set up to manage and collect salt taxes to supervise and manage and prevent people from deliberately raising prices.

Establish a salt reserve system composed of yamen reserves and private merchant reserves, and the yamen reserves shall not be less than one month's salt consumption in the region.

Private reserves are not less than the average sales volume of one month under normal circumstances, and in the event of natural disasters and emergencies, it is necessary to take timely measures such as putting reserves.

Ensure the safe and stable supply of salt, maintain price stability, strengthen the monitoring of salt prices, establish and improve the emergency guarantee mechanism, and maintain the stability of salt prices.

This is conducive to promoting competition, and there is no need to worry about the local yamen raising the price of salt, and there will be a situation where ordinary people cannot buy it!

"Regent, Chaka Lake can produce fine salt, which is a matter of benefiting the country and the people, but transporting fine salt from here to various places, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources required for transportation are too heavy, and the common people can't afford to eat it, and if the imperial court invests too much, the gains outweigh the losses!"

Ma Rutao, an official of the Tang Dynasty stationed in Tuyuhun, got up and saluted.

He believes that the cost of transportation is too high, and if he can't make back these costs, even if he extracts more salt, he will lose money.

"Fine salt can be circulated in the market, it will reduce the price of salt, the price of salt will fall, the people will not be able to eat, the people will eat fine salt, and the cost will be earned!"

Li Jing thinks that this is not a problem, as long as everyone can afford it, are you afraid that there is no money to make, and you are afraid that you will not be able to earn back the transportation cost?

Not enough, the current transportation cost is indeed too backward, how much can be transported by horse-drawn carriage?

Li Jing planned that after the complete defeat of the Tibetans and the force of the other party to surrender, he would lay a railway and build a steam locomotive for transportation.

This saves a lot of costs, and the train pulls more than the horse-drawn carriage and doesn't require too many people.

That is, it saves manpower and material resources, and it can also save a lot of money, which is very cost-effective.

However, the railway is not so easy to build, and he has to go back and think about it carefully, and try to implement this matter as soon as possible.

Ma Rutao disagreed after hearing this, and felt that Li Jing led the troops to fight, maybe it was okay, but when it came to governance, there was still a big gap in terms of governance, and the consideration of the problem was not comprehensive enough.

Salt and iron official camps, where is it so easy to solve the problem, to transport the salt from Chaka Lake to various places, how much manpower and horse-drawn carts are needed?

Both horses and people need to eat and drink, which in itself is a huge expense, and the human, material, and financial resources consumed will also increase exponentially according to the distance of the journey.

There are other expenses, this is a huge amount of money, if the price of salt is too low, it will not be able to make up for it, if the price is too high, ordinary people cannot afford to consume, and they will not be able to fill the deficit in this area, and sooner or later it will be stopped.

"As far as I know, during the Zhenguan period, the price of salt was only 50 yuan, and now it has risen to 200 yuan, and with the fine salt of Chaka Lake, the price of salt can be at least 10 yuan lower than that during the Zhenguan period."

"This is a good thing for the whole Datang, and I decided to set up a salt administration department, which is responsible for the production, distribution, taxation, anti-smuggling, etc. of salt, and set up a separate salt law to manage it."

"As for transportation, there will be a way to solve it in the future, and I believe that with the joint efforts of everyone, there is no problem that cannot be solved."

Li Jing continues to paint his magnificent blue fields, and he firmly believes that these will be achieved in the near future.

The first chief official of the Salt Administration Department, Li Jing planned to let Fan Zhongyan do it, after all, Fan Zhongyan had been a salt official in the Song Dynasty, and he was the most experienced in this regard, so it was most suitable for Fan Zhongyan to be the salt envoy!

But for everyone here, everything Li Jing said is just painting a big pie, and it is very likely that it will never be realized!

Li Jing is now on the rise, and they don't want to offend Li Jing, anyway, they don't have to pay for the cost of transporting salt, and all the expenses are the financial expenses of the imperial court.

It is the household officials who should be in a hurry to get angry, and if they really want to stop Li Jing's crazy behavior, they should be the household officials, not them.

As a result, everyone complimented Li Jing for his far-sightedness and wisdom, and they were far from being able to say good things like that.

How could Li Jing not understand what they were thinking, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it now, sooner or later you will be convinced.