Chapter 91: Two Strategies for Salt and Tea

Listening to your words is like seeing a person in heaven.

Zou Run's analysis of ancient and modern, methodical, and simple to understand was fascinated by the fact that the leaders in the hall listened to it.

Everyone in the audience was amazed that the owner of the village was really a genius, but after taking two boats on the canal, he was able to see through so many truths, and found such a thoroughfare for the private salt paving of the cottage.

Ruan Xiaowu, who grew up in Shijie Lake, has never spoken much, but he has always been very good at thinking, and as soon as Zou Run's voice fell, he spoke out and pointed out the key role of Liangshan in this period.

"The vision of the owner of the village is really unparalleled, Liangshan Dazhai has been divided into villages for me to climb the clouds, is in the main road of the Wuzhang River Canal, there is Liangshan as a transit station, I Dengyun Mountain's sea salt will be able to benefit the people of many states and counties along the river, this is really a hero, a big husband!"

"The insight of the owner of the village, Bo Gu Tong Jin, through the heavens and the earth, is really a heaven and a man!" Yang Lin sincerely admired, and then sighed, "If it is as the owner of the village said, as long as I buy off the coastal officials, boatmen and boatmen, the sea salt I climb to Yunshan will be sold all the way to Tokyo!" ”

This beautiful wish aroused everyone's imagination, and they were all fascinated by yearning.

If it is true that even the imperial table of the Ouchi official family uses Dengyun brand sea salt, then what do you have to worry about money and food? A salt drying field is a sea of gold and silver!

At that time, Dengyun Mountain will expand thousands of troops and horses, and occupy the Tamna country on hundreds of large ships, will the day of suppressing the small state of Goryeo be far away?

Therefore, the first step in the economic construction of Dengyun Mountain: by taking the green forest road, engaging in small-scale armed smuggling, making friends with various large and small mountains and heroes in the rivers and lakes, distributing salt to them, and letting them become distributors. The prudent strategy of gradually advancing inland areas with coastal prefectures and counties as radiation points, and the large-depth strategy of relying on canals to carry out salt trafficking have been thoroughly determined.

The collective meeting of the leaders of Dengyun Mountain unanimously passed this strategic resolution.

After Zou Run finalized the general direction, the implementation of the specific rules fell to Yang Linlehe.

The intelligence battalion does not simply sit there and wait for intelligence to come to the door, but under the cover of a number of specific industries, it infiltrates all parts of the country without knowing it, and quietly completes the collection of intelligence in the process, which is the method and strategy of obtaining intelligence at the top level.

After saying the salt, Zou Run continued to talk about tea.

The so-called seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea. In the Northern Song Dynasty, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea were mostly monopolized, and among these four, tea was an important tax category second only to salt.

Tea flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and the tea production area of the Northern Song Dynasty was distributed in 19 roads, 122 Fuzhou armies, and 306 counties, and the main production area was Jiangnan Road, followed by Jinghu, Liangzhejiang and Fujian Road. Such a large economic industry was naturally firmly grasped by the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, who formulated a series of monopoly policies, and fiercely grabbed huge profits from tea farmers and small merchants, and the imperial court and officials ate with a mouthful of oil.

The harsh tea monopoly system has given rise to harsh regulations such as the Tea Horse Law, the Tea Introduction Law, and the Contract Field Law (Note 1), and tea farmers, gardeners, and small and medium-sized traders have been exploited more and more heavily.

By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, not only the desperate people were frantically selling illicit tea, but even the officials in charge of anti-smuggling had gone out to make money.

According to historical records, when Renshu, the lieutenant of Linzhen County, Yanzhou, Northern Song Dynasty, was ordered to go on a business trip, he ordered his entourage to bring a large amount of tea to sell along the way for profit. Su Shi's father Su Xun once played: "...... Bear it as the apprentice of the county official, carry it as the boat of the county official, and the guard will not be ridiculed, and the beam will not be hehe. Su Shi and his younger brother Su Zhe also said: "The tea official is illegal, sells all kinds of things, and business travel is not good, not only for tax losses, but also for wine classes."

By the end of the dynasty, a strange phenomenon had emerged in the various monopoly systems of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the more the imperial court forbade anything, the more officials at all levels with real power abused their power for personal gain, and illegally sold a large number of salt, tea, wine and other goods for profit.

Therefore, everyone can sell it, and Dengyun Mountain will naturally sell it, and as soon as this truth is said, the leaders nodded frequently.

After nodding, he stared at Zou Run with big eyes, waiting for him to say a specific solution.

The movements of these guys were surprisingly consistent, and Zou Run had a big headache. There's really no way, the shortcomings of a bunch of martial artists under his hands are here, and you can't count on them if you need to use your brain a little.

Zou Run sighed slightly, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would quickly find a literati strategist who could share his worries, and at the same time expressed his own ideas.

"When we borrow the navy to expand the army, we will form a fleet, go south to the south of the Yangtze River, collect tea goods, and then sell them to the north to Liao, which will definitely be profitable!"

There must be big profits, but there must be a premise for this method. That is, the strength of the naval army must be excellent, and the water and land battles must be mastered, and the water must face the Ping Navy and the Cheng Navy of Dengzhou, as well as the water power of the southern states. When they went ashore, they had to negotiate prices and goods with a group of smugglers engaged in smuggling tea, and it was absolutely unstable to stand on their feet without going through a few bloody battles and winning a few big victories.

The mountain-like burden suddenly pressed on Er Ruan's body, and Ruan Xiaowu, who was not very talkative, completely turned into a saw-mouthed gourd, sitting on the stool with a sad face, looking at it under great pressure.

Ruan Xiaoqi, who was active, looked at the gazes of everyone and smiled bitterly, rarely without patting his chest and saying cruel words.

He stood up and said:

"The owner of the village, the lives of our three brothers have already been sold, and it doesn't hurt to go straight to the wind and water. If we don't add a few leaders to our navy, I'm afraid that Xiao Qi and the fifth brother will be exhausted, and they won't be able to support it......"

It's not like that, now the navy has such a big plate, relying on the support of his brothers, the power is in his hands, and it is enjoyable, but his energy is limited, and he is really unable to take care of the matter of selling tea back and forth between the north and the south.

Helpless, Zou Run had no choice but to say on the spot that he would bring a few sailor leaders back when he went out to the mountains next time.

Ruan Xiaowu Ruan Xiaoqi barely showed a smile and got up to take the order.

As soon as Zou Yuan heard that his eldest nephew had come back a few days ago and was ready to plan to go far away, his face suddenly collapsed, and he almost engraved the three words unhappiness on his forehead.

Fortunately, Zou Run was also tired enough during this time, and this topic was gently revealed without going into depth, so as not to provoke his uncle to start the nagging mode. Zou Run hurriedly changed his conversation and said a good way to add wealth and treasure.

"I got a secret method from an old boatman the other day, called canning. This thing can make the sea fish last for a month without erosion and deterioration, and the end is very powerful. Therefore, I decided to set up another canning factory on Dangji Island, and I asked my uncle to choose a careful and talented leader to be the director of this factory, so that I could make this canned food out, so that I could climb Yunshan and make another source of money! ”

Sure enough, as soon as he heard that there was one more entry, Zou Yuan, who was in charge of the money and grain, instantly had a golden light in his eyes, and hurriedly agreed.

Zou Run saw that the plan succeeded, and immediately sent a table to say:

"Good! In this case, I will pick a good candidate today, and tomorrow I will set off with me to Dangji Island, one is to review the navy, the other is to inspect the island's defense and salt, and the third is to prepare for the construction of a cannery! ”