I have always heard that the price of tea bricks, cloth, and salt from the south is quietly transported to the north, which is several times the price. Xu Ao didn't know what the concept of this doubling was.

Originally, I was worried that the price of three taels of gold per person would not be acceptable to the high-level leaders of the Qin and Yan armies. You know, they don't even care about a few taels of silver pills. When they returned to the city and told General Qin and General Le Niu about the method of changing prisoners, they were greatly surprised.

Xu Ao inquired a little and found out that a piece of tea brick with a few pennies was of inferior quality, and when it was transported to Beidi, it was just one or two gold. This is nearly a thousand-fold profit! No wonder so many caravans are plundered every year, and there are still people who are willing to take risks. If you have a little capital, as long as you bring gold and silver back alive, you will have food and clothing for the rest of your life.

Therefore, even if Yan State is strictly investigating the sale of tea bricks, salt, and cloth to Beidi every year, there are many bandits on the grassland, plus the devouring of the desert. There are still those who don't want to die, quietly sell their family wealth, and use various methods to smuggle tea bricks and other things. There are so many means that they are worth drug trafficking.

Every year, three or four thousand people go into the desert, and it is a blessing to have one or two people come back. The vast majority of people held on to his dream of making a fortune and stayed in the north forever.

I am afraid that such a large-scale official dealer as this time has not been encountered in the past 1200 years.

And that's just the price of low-quality tea bricks. Those high-ranking tea bricks of Qin and Yan's high-level armies are really hard to find.

At this moment, General Qin gave an order, and personally looted and looted, and the tea bricks of a thousand taels of gold were easily enough.

The real difficulty is the cloth and table salt.

Yan itself is not rich in salt production, and the whole country barely survives on those few salt wells. From time to time, salt is also purchased from other countries. Although the profit of salt is also extremely high, after all, it is not as profitable as tea. It is really difficult to gather enough 1,000 taels of gold for salt.

I'm afraid that even if all the salt in the surrounding cities is scavenged, it will barely be enough for Beidi. But if this is the case, the various cities will be cut off from salt, and once the salt is cut off, it will not be long before hundreds of thousands of troops will be defeated.

Xu Ao frowned when he saw everyone. I couldn't help but think of two methods that I had seen in books: "General Qin, maybe I have a way to eat salt." ”

Everyone looked at Xu Ao together, this is a solution that no one can solve, does this little ghost who has just been named a deputy general really have a way?

Xu Ao was a little weak by everyone, and hurriedly said: "I only heard these two methods, and I haven't tried them to work or not." But it should be feasible in theory. ”

"Be bold enough to say that if it's useful, you'll be credited with it. Without waiting for General Qin to speak, General Le Niu first made his own initiative and made a promise of great merit. General Qin naturally didn't refute General Le Niu's face, so he didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"The boy once heard that in some places, you can't eat salt, so as not to waste the limited amount of salt. They boiled the manure and filtered the residue to dry, which is manure salt. Soak sweat-soaked clothes in hot water and then boil them dry, and you get sweat salt. Anyway, what Beidi wants is only salt, and Han salt and dung salt are also salt, so it should be okay. As soon as Xu Ao finished speaking, he felt that he was too damaged, so he laughed out loud first.

At the beginning of his start, the rest of the people also reacted and immediately burst into laughter. Even General Qin, who was as serious as him, laughed out loud at this time. Three good words in a row.

"You came up with the idea, and you'll leave the matter to you. The required personnel and materials are at your disposal. After the deed is completed, I will definitely ask the king to remember your great achievements. Hahaha" General Qin laughed and asked Xu Ao to go out to get salt, and the rest of the people tried to see how the cloth was going to solve it. Plus, let's see if we can take advantage of the opportunity to go to the cities to collect supplies.

While leaving the council hall, Xu Ao was secretly annoyed. Is it so easy to boil dung for salt? The feces, clothes, and smell of boiling hundreds of thousands of people are all tingling in the scalp when you think about it.

There is no joke in the army, since General Qin has decided to do it for Xu Ao, there is no room for change.

No matter how unhappy you are, you have to bite the bullet.

However, as the saying goes, brothers, blessings and hardships are shared together, and this kind of good errand of cooking dung, how can you forget those good brothers.

Half an hour later, Xu Hu, who was rolling his eyes, Sun Xiansheng, who was missing an arm, Wang Bai, who was helpless, Jiang Zhongyu, who was angry, and Liu Kedi, who was smiling bitterly, all gathered in front of the square that was demarcated to cook dung.

On the square, the twelve giant tripods were already churning in flames. Baskets of dry dung, buckets of thin dung were carried over by the soldiers of Qin Yan and the two armies. In addition, a body of sweaty and sour clothes was piled aside, which was called a stinking sky, and the people across the street closed their doors and windows, and they really couldn't stand the smell.

Xu Hu sighed: "Proud son, proud brother, proud master! Just twelve big dings, do you have to transfer us all over and smell the smell?"

"Even the six of me, each of whom is responsible for two tripods. One boils dung and boils, and the other washes sweat and takes salt. Brother, I'm here to bring you to get promoted and make a fortune. After the deed is completed, everyone is a great achievement!" Xu Ao was already smiling in his heart, this group of guys, especially Xu Hu and Sun Xiansheng, had a good time a few days ago. Today, let them also experience the sourness of boiling dung and extracting salt. Hahahaha

Everyone sighed in unison, and each of them accepted their fate, and each led a few sergeants, starting this great mission of making salt for the country.

According to the account of the Beidi Golden Eagle Department, which was stationed at the farthest distance from Guzhu City, in those days, they all felt that they were soaked in a tank.