The normal price of sea salt is forty copper plates per catty, and the price is twenty times the cost, or even more.

The huge profits have led to the fact that the smugglers have been rich since ancient times.

Yangzhou has been a rich place since the Han and Tang Dynasties, and has the reputation of "Guangling on the ground", but it is far from the Central Plains and under the reign. The pivot is still far away, and there are no prerequisites for affluence...

And Yangzhou is, in ancient times, recognized as the richest place in the world...

However, where is its wealth, it is rich in the private salt merchants...

Yangzhou, since the development of the south, has always been a country. Home to the richest area.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there were twenty-four bridges in Yangzhou and a moonlit night, and in the Ming Dynasty, Yangzhou had a thin horse and golden flower...

Salt, as the most indispensable condiment in human life, seems to be not profitable, but it is the most widely demanded daily necessities.

Controlling the salt industry, even if it controls the money of the people of the world, its process is simple, the output is abundant, and there is no shortage of sales channels.

Moreover, whether it is lake salt, well salt or sea salt, it is there, as long as you go to dry it, you can earn gold and silver, faster than robbery!

Therefore, since ancient times, the smuggling of salt has never been cut off, although all dynasties have cracked down on smuggling of salt, but under the huge profits, there are always people who take risks.

In places of origin such as seashores, salt ponds, etc., the original value of salt is very low.

However, due to transportation, monopoly and other reasons, salt in the interior of the Central Plains was speculated by the powerful and businessmen to sky-high prices.

All of this naturally allowed those merchants who took huge risks to trade in smuggled salt to earn a high price difference.

The Qin merchants in Shaanxi, as well as many merchants, were involved in the sale of salt.

The Qin merchants in Shaanxi generally carried salt along the Yellow River.

Because of Shaanxi, there is natural well salt, and the Yellow River is used for transportation, making a lot of silver.

However, the output of well salt is not large, and the Qin merchants in Shaanxi are naturally unwilling to earn this silver.

However, if you want to get sea salt, you must be subject to the Yangzhou salt merchants, and you must act according to the eyes of the Yangzhou salt merchants.

And the content of this book written by He Shen is about the reform of salt affairs in Tibet and Xinjiang.

Salt is a necessity for people's lives, and it is also the most profitable trading item in this era.

In fact, the top ten most famous merchant gangs in ancient times, at the beginning of their fortune, were inseparable from the salt industry!

In the long history of development in China, many famous businessmen have appeared.

And some businessmen, the development is particularly good, driving a large number of people, so they are mainly regional, forming major business gangs.

China's traditional top ten merchant gangs, whether it is Jin merchants, Hui merchants, Chao merchants, or Qin merchants, mountain merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, Longyou merchants, Ningbo merchants, Su merchants, the world's top ten merchant gangs, in fact, all started by selling salt...

In that year, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, founded "Yanyin", that is, merchants were responsible for transporting a large amount of grain to the north and other border areas to maintain the daily life of the soldiers...

The imperial court gave them salt quotations as compensation, and only when the merchants had salt quotations could they go to the salt-producing areas to obtain salt and sell it in designated areas.

Under the implementation of the "salt introduction system", merchants from all over the country rose rapidly.

That is to say, at the very beginning, whether it was Jin merchants, Hui merchants, Chao merchants, or Qin merchants, mountain merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, Youshang, Ningbo merchants, Su merchants, etc., the top ten merchants in the world were all salt merchants.

However, with the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's control over salt became stronger, and the "salt introduction" gradually changed...

The ten major merchant gangs in the world are also divided into different models in the sale and purchase of salt, that is, peddlers and town merchants.

The dealers are mainly Jin merchants, Qin merchants, mountain merchants, traveling merchants, Guangzhou merchants, Jiangyou merchants, traveling merchants, and Ningbo merchants in the mainland.

After they paid the money to get the salt lead, they went to various places to buy and sell, and the town merchants were mainly Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su merchants, who were responsible for guarding the salt works and taking salt...

The Jin merchants, the Qin merchants, the mountain merchants, the traveling merchants, the Guang merchants, the Jiangyou merchants, the You merchants, and the Ningbo merchants paid a great price for providing a large amount of silver to the imperial court every year in order to obtain salt introductions...

The Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su merchants, because of the benefits of guarding the salt works and taking salt, gradually began to sell a large number of illegal salt as the main means of profit...

After the world's top ten merchant groups, because of the different regions, the business strategy of salt has become completely different, and their contradictions have gradually emerged...

The Jin merchants, Qin merchants, mountain merchants, traveling merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, traveling merchants, and Ningbo merchants who sold and bought salt were suppressed and troubled by the town merchants, such as Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su merchants, for the sake of buying and selling salt...

Even if the mainland merchants who sell and buy salt have the salt quotations issued by the imperial court, how much salt they can take from the salt works still depends on the faces of the Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su merchants...

Although, Jin merchants, Qin merchants, mountain merchants, traveling merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, traveling merchants, Ningbo merchants, and other businesses are done...

The speed at which they make money is not much slower than that of Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su merchants, but it is impossible to see that they are disgusted by the Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants, and Su businessmen, saying that they are not unwilling.

It's just that the control of the salt field has always been in the hands of Zhejiang merchants, Hui merchants, and Su merchants, and the strength and power of Zhejiang merchants, Hui merchants, and Su merchants are not weaker than those of Jin merchants, Qin merchants, mountain merchants, traveling merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, traveling merchants, and Ningbo merchants

So, they don't have a good solution.

And now, this book by He Shen pointed out another way for Qin Shang and them, that is, to hide salt!!

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According to Heshen's book, the price of official salt is high, and the price is too expensive, which leads to the flood of private salt.

In this case, it is better to increase the production of official salt, lower the price of official salt, and compete with private salt, so as to increase the income of the imperial court.

The salt farms in Huizhou and Zhejiang, as well as Shandong and Sichuan, have been developed maturely, and if you want to increase the output of official salt, you can only start with Tibetan salt.

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Few people in the world know that Tibet is actually an important place for salt production, but when the world knows, time has come to modern times, and salt is no longer worth anything because of the increasing production.

Tibet's mineral salt has no mining value, so I didn't pay attention to it...

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However, in the current time period, table salt is still white gold, and Tibetan mineral salt is still very valuable.

According to the content of He Shen's book, if you want to develop Tibetan salt, you must introduce large livestock, such as cattle, and tall horses.

In the case of the shortage of silver in the imperial court, the people who can provide such technology and capital in this era are none other than the top ten merchant groups and the Jin merchants, Hui merchants, Chao merchants, or Qin merchants, mountain merchants, Guang merchants, Jiangyou merchants, You merchants, Ningbo merchants, Su merchants, etc...

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He Shen's plan is to trade salt.

The specific content is to mine the salt from Xinjiang and Tibet and transport it to all parts of the north.

Shaanxi is close to the Hetao area, and the Hetao area is rich in good horses and cattle, and the endurance and speed of good horses and cattle are very good.

In the era of cold weapons, cattle and horses are productivity, in a word, without cattle and horses, farming is not possible...

There are many horses and cattle and sheep in the Hetao area, there are few vegetables and grains, and the herdsmen often eat meat and have no vitamin supplements, so the body is easy to get sick...

This gave the opportunity to Qin merchants in Shaanxi Province near the Hetao area...

Shepherds, Tibetan people love cheese, can not grain and tea, trapped by carnivorous disease, so since the Qin merchants of Shaanxi in the past dynasties, the line of grain, tea for cattle and horses...

Grain and tea solved the vitamin problem of the nomads, and also exchanged countless cattle, horses, and sheep for the Qin merchants in Shaanxi.

Therefore, the most important thing for Qin merchants in Shaanxi is cattle and horses.

The development of Tibet's mineral salt was difficult for other merchants of this era...

However, it is not completely impossible for the Qin merchants of Shaanxi who have a large number of cattle and horses in their hands.

Tibet is located in the southwest of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters.

Tibet has a unique climate in the whole plateau, the temperature is low and the temperature difference is very large, the air is thin, and it is difficult for outsiders to survive...

Tibet's special plateau geographical environment brings inconvenient transportation, relatively scarce human resources, and extreme backwardness and isolation, which are the three difficulties of doing business.

If you want to transport the mineral salt to Tibet, you can only use three roads from Ya'an in Sichuan, Xining in Qinghai and Yunnan, through rugged mountain roads, relying on cattle and horses.

It takes up to a year to travel from Ya'an or Xining to Tibet and even longer to Yunnan.

Only the Qin merchants of Shaanxi dare to pay attention to Tibetan mineral salt, and they also have the ability to complete this!

How profitable is salt in this day and age?

Even if the private salt merchants set the price of private salt lower in order to suppress the official salt, they still have more than ten times the profit...

In addition, salt is a necessity of life, and it is sold in huge quantities, and it is completely the most profitable business in this era.

The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is bustling, and all for profit...

Seeing the contents of the book of Heshen, I thought that once the Qin Shang Group controlled Tibetan salt, it would be able to get rid of the control of Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants and Su merchants...

With the salt in hand, a large sum of money is about to roll in, how can the Qin merchants in Shaanxi not be excited and excited!

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The other side.

When He Shen saw that the Qin businessmen had already finished reading their plans, they were all very excited, and they forgot to say whether they agreed or disagreed...

Feeling a little funny, He Shen coughed lightly and asked slowly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of this officer's idea? Is there anything that is not thoughtful, or what is improved? ”

He Shen's words were like a basin of cold water falling into the red-hot pig iron, waking up a group of ecstatic Qin merchants.

"Your Excellency, your idea is wonderful and thoughtful."

"From a businessman's point of view, our knowledge and talent are far inferior to those of adults, so where can we find anything wrong?"

"The law of adults can really be said to benefit the country and the people, and the merit is in the future."

"In the past, I have often heard people say, my lord, you are a contemporary countryman, and we used to be a little unbelieving, but now we finally believe it."