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For ordinary people, basic necessities of life are often their most concerned issues.

And food is the most among them, because the people regard food as the sky, because if they don't eat, they will starve to death.

Seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

The first four items are indispensable, and the last three items are dispensable for ordinary people.Of course, if you are very hungry, you can have no oil and salt.From a scientific point of view, salt is one of the main ways for humans to ingest sodium.

Sodium ions in table salt are essential substances for transmitting information in the nervous system. Muscle contraction and heart beating are all related to sodium ions.Therefore, if the human body lacks salt, the nervous system will be very weak, and the person will appear weak.If things go on like this, you will still get sick.

A person can't lift his spirits when he does anything, and he doesn't have the energy to do anything.What can such a person do?

Not only that, salt can also preservative food, so that food can be stored for a long time.

So salt has become an indispensable thing.And this thing has a high yield and is durable.It stands to reason that if you can't finish eating, the common people can afford it.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the method of opening China, and its original purpose was to encourage merchants to transport grain to the border.

At the beginning, the official salt operation was not bad. In the Ming Dynasty, a total of six transfer salt envoys were set up, including Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Changlu, Hedong, Shandong, and Fujian. There were 14 branch divisions and 116 salt fields under them. In addition to setting up the salt transfer department in the district, there are also some smaller salt areas and remote places with salt department.The supply of salt is guaranteed, and the price of salt is also stabilized.

Later, more and more dignitaries participated in the sale of the salt industry. In order to satisfy their own interests, they inevitably had to look for loopholes to open up China and France.

When the regulators who opened up China and France became the beneficiaries of opening up China and France, why are they still supervising?

The flood of private salt, collusion between government and businessmen, and manipulation of the market are a mess.

Zhu Youjian plans to do it himself.

On the one hand, it can make money to ease the economic pressure on the court.

On the other hand, it used low-priced salt to hit the market of private salt merchants.

After the construction of railways in various places is put on the agenda, the transportation capacity will be increased, and the transportation cost will be reduced, and then use strong means to fully control the salt market.At that time, whoever acts as a demon again will die.

According to the records of "Tiangong Kaiwu", there are many types of table salt.Generally, it can be divided into sea salt, pool salt, well salt, soil salt, cliff salt and sandstone salt.

China has a long coastline, and sea salt production accounts for the vast majority.

But sea salt is also prepared differently.There are two commonly used:

One is to plant salt on the shore where the waves cannot be flooded, and the other is to dry salt in places with shallow tides.

Modern technology using seawater to make salt, such as electrodialysis or vacuum method, is not easy to realize with the current technology.Therefore, in Zhu Youjian's idea, it is necessary to adopt the traditional sun-salt mode.

Only by reducing costs can there be market competitiveness. How to effectively reduce costs is the most important issue at present.

Zhu Youjian plans to use cement to build salt ponds to increase salt production and reduce costs.

The produced salt was continuously transported to the inland by steamships, and occupied the market at a low price.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian urgently summoned Song Yingxing.

"Song Qing, do you know anything about salt making?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I know a thing or two."

"That's fine. I'm going to build a large saltworks in Tianjin. Go there in these two days and help me choose a site!"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Song Yingxing was used to it, he could be used for both big and small matters.There is no way, who told him that he can do everything.

After Song Yingxing left, he looked at the map for a long time. The Tianjin Salt Plant was just the first step, and Taiwan and North Korea were next.As long as the shipping capacity can be achieved, killing those salt merchants is just around the corner.

Tianjin, start with Tianjin.

"Wang Banban, pass on Xu Yingyuan."

Xu Yingyuan has been very leisurely recently. Both Global Commerce and Global Bank have stepped into the formalities. He only needs to make some major decisions.

If it can be solved, he will solve it, and if he can't, he will report it to Zhu Youjian.

On the way into the palace, he was still puzzled.

Long live has not summoned himself for a long time, and now the New Year has just passed, is it possible that His Majesty has a new move?

Thinking of this, Xu Yingyuan was very excited, work for His Majesty.There is no lack of face.

"Slave Xu Yingyuan kowtows for long live!" As soon as they met each other, Xu Yingyuan knelt on the ground and sang loudly.

"Get up. Have you been free recently?"

"This..." Xu Yingyuan didn't know how to answer, even if I am very free, I can't say I am very free.

"Okay, I know all about it. Next, you have to get busy. I'm going to build a salt farm in Tianjin to produce sea salt. You should be in charge of it."

"Long live thanks!" Xu Yingyuan burst into ecstasy.This is another big fat difference!

"Don't be in a hurry to thank you. You need to hide this matter behind the scenes. Don't leak the news and expose the official background."

"Yes, long live!"

"Go, I will give Song Yingxing an order to send someone to accompany you to choose the site."

eighteenth day of the first lunar month

Song Yingxing personally left the capital with Xu Yingyuan and went to Tianjin to select a site for the saltworks.

In terms of establishing saltworks, Tianjin has unique conditions.Later generations of Tanggu Saltworks were built here.

Later generations of Tanggu Salt Fields have a large scale, with more than 200 million mu of salt fields and an annual output of more than 300 million tons of sea salt.

Three million tons is several billion catties.The people of the entire Ming Dynasty couldn't finish it all together.

But right now it is impossible for him to build such a large-scale salt farm, and it would be good to have one tenth, or even a few tenths, of the output.

Twenty of the first month

Xu Yingyuan came back, and under Song Yingxing's guidance, he chose Tanggu, Hangu, Dagu, Nanbao, Daqinghe and other places.After obtaining Zhu Youjian's consent, Xu Yingyuan began to recruit craftsmen to build the salt pond.Worked in full swing.

It is convenient and fast to build salt ponds with cement.Coupled with the quick-drying characteristics of cement, the built salt pond can be put into use within two to three days.

eighth of february

The first batch of salt produced entered the capital by train.

Now that the salt is produced, it must be sold.How to set the price has become a big problem.

The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty can probably be explained by the example of Songjiang Prefecture and Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty.In the early years of Chongzhen, the price of salt in Songjiang Prefecture was between 100 and 0.15 taels of silver per 0.16 catties.At this time, one tael can be exchanged for about 1500 Wen.Then the price of salt per catty is about ten Wen.However, Songjiang is a salt-producing area, and the price is relatively low.

If you go to Shaanxi, the price of salt will be relatively high, and it costs more than ten yuan per catty.

According to Song Yingxing's records, for every 50 catties of salt, when the price is expensive, more than 5 silver coins are needed.But when the price is cheap, you only need 4 more silver.Therefore, according to the normal price system, in the Ming Dynasty, the price of salt per 100 catties hovered between 0.8 and 1 tael of silver.

Of course, the premise of guaranteeing this price is that there can be no disasters, riots, wars and a series of premise.

In times of famine, some unscrupulous traders would dare to sell a catty of salt for hundreds or even hundreds of dollars.

There is only one thought in Zhu Youjian's mind, that is, it is cheap.

How much can something cost in the sea?

Bawen.

Just to be cheaper than you.

So under Xu Yingyuan's secret propaganda, a salt shop in the capital began to sell salt.Eight cents a catty!

After hearing the news, the common people ran to grab the salt.Eight cents per catty, rounded up, is equivalent to giving away for nothing.The common people have benefited, and some people can't sit still.

Where does cheap salt come from?

Where did the unruly salt merchant come from?

It's a price war, right? Come on.You sell Bawen, I sell Bawen too!

The next day

Xu Yingyuan asked someone to hang a signboard of seven cents a catty outside the salt shop.

Also cut prices?

I drop too!

On the third day

Six cents a catty.

Drop again?

Follow up!

Then there are five essays and four essays.

Oh shit!Can't drop anymore!I'm going to lose money!Quickly find someone to find out what these grandchildren are up to!

As a result, after investigation, it turned out that a saltworks had just been built in Tianjin.

Private salt! ?

How dare you blatantly sell private salt!Also fight a price war with us! ?Arrests!

But when these people tried to use their own methods in vain, they found that it was not easy to use.No one dared to touch this salt field, and the background was deep, so it was a hard stubble.But I don't know what's going on!

Strong background?It can't be that the emperor puts the official salt and doesn't care about selling private salt, can he?

We're going to sue!The land of Gyeonggi in Tianjin, at the feet of the Son of Heaven!There is such a daring person, what is the patrol salt censor doing! ?

All of a sudden, the papers of impeaching the censor who inspected the salt, and the papers demanding a strict investigation of the Tanggu Salt Works flew to the palace like snowflakes.

They will never allow a guy who doesn't know the rules to touch this cake.

Zhu Youjian sat in the palace and looked at the memorials, thinking about the distraught looks of these people, he felt very comfortable.

He called Fan Jingwen and showed him the brochure.

"Your Majesty, these people's energy is profound, and there are salt dealers they can't touch? What's the background?" Fan Jingwen also asked Zhu Youjian strangely after reading it, but Zhu Youjian smiled.

Oh.

Understood.