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"Such fine white salt is better than the green salt used by wealthy men!"

"The salt merchant in Woyejiang sells it for [-] Wen, but the refined salt from the Imperial City Chamber of Commerce is only [-] Wen. It's [-] Wen cheaper. It's so affordable."

"Hey, so what if it's three hundred? It's not for us poor people to eat. Let's go and buy mustard."

……

For the poor peasants, there is no difference whether it is [-] pounds or [-] pounds.

They have been busy all year long. After paying taxes and excluding the food consumed by their families, they have a thousand cash left over in good years and [-] cash left over in bad years. How can they all be used to buy salt?The whole family is not dressed?You have to buy farm tools when they are worn out, right?My parents are old and suffering from ailments, and it is expensive to see a doctor or buy medicine.

When cooking, I only have to knock out a few salt particles from the yellow-brown coarse salt blocks.

The consequences of a low-salt diet are also very serious, hyponatremia syndrome.

Dizziness, fatigue, sunken eye sockets, lack of energy, and inability to do farm work. It is simply a vicious cycle. 36 Wen A pound of pickled mustard with plenty of salt and spices became their salvation.

Mu Tingxue announced the official price of salt, which was set at [-] yuan.

She didn't dare to lower it too far at once, disrupting Yunhuang's existing economic market and ruining the national salt tax.

Even in order to be more stable, she did not dare to sell refined salt immediately after returning from Maomao Mountain. Instead, she asked the family members to pay half of the land tax first to reduce risks and fill the hole. Then she started selling salt in Yundu and the surrounding areas. In every prefecture and county, the Imperial City Chamber of Commerce was set up to sell salt.

Imperial City is her princess title.

The Imperial City business meeting points established in the five salt-deficient counties in the northwest were all managed in a militarized manner, with soldiers transported and sold. Other salt merchants and aristocratic families could not get involved if they wanted to.

"You have to limit the amount."

Yan Yang frowned slightly as he looked at the arrival reports that had been expedited from eight hundred miles away from the five northwest states, "There are salt merchants who are trying to buy in large quantities and resell them second-hand."

The economic information of the salt shop was sent in the form of military information, which shows that the regent attached great importance to this matter.

Mu Tingxue received the receipt from her fiance: "There is a limit on the purchase quantity. According to the "Household Registration Yellow Book", only those who are registered can purchase it, and the quantity purchased at a time must not exceed two kilograms."

Yan Yang looked at her sharply, with admiration flashing in his eyes: "Rebuilding the Yellow Household Registration Register by selling salt? This is a wonderful method. It can defraud hidden households in the northwest states and counties controlled by local aristocratic families."

The Fish Scale Atlas registers the land in the world.

The "Household Registration Yellow Book" is used to register household registrations across the country.

"With the price of three hundred coins, you won't be able to swindle many hidden people."

Mu Tingxue had her own rhythm, "Boil the frog in warm water, let's slowly lower the price of salt. Three hundred, two hundred and five, two hundred, one hundred. I don't believe that in a few years, when the price of refined salt drops to a few dozen cents, those hidden prices will You can still hold back and not come out to buy! As long as you come to buy, you will have to register a formal household registration in Yunhuang. At that time, Yinhu will no longer serve the clan, and the Yintian under Yinhu's name will also be included in the fish scale album and pay taxes. Return to the treasury.”

Maomaoshan’s refined salt will not be wholesaled to any middlemen.

It is a state-controlled military salt factory that sells directly to the people.

The only downward sales channel is the Imperial City Chamber of Commerce, which is also under military control.

Ancient times are different from modern times. The modern population is 20 billion, while the peak population in ancient times was only tens of millions. Local cities with a population of more than 10 to [-] are all wealthy cities. The ancient capital of Chang'an and Luoyang only had [-] people. This means that there is no need for Set up too many sales channels.

"Those salt merchants are afraid they will hate us to death."

Yan Yang's big hand covered his wife's small hand, and his rough fingertips gently rubbed her soft palm.

Mu Tingxue said: "Before the Dongsang Japanese pirates destroyed the salt road, the northwest region's share did not belong to the Woyejiang salt merchants. They only needed to manage the business in the central and inland areas. More than 100 million salt diversions every year were not enough for them. fat?"

She didn't block other people's ways of making money.

Whether you are doing business or governing, you cannot be a utopian with your feet floating in the air.

"It is."

Yan Yang's deep gaze fell on the two screens beside him. This was an enlarged version of the map of Yunhuang. The composition was very detailed. "In addition to Maomao Mountain, further to the northwest, there are four poisonous salt mines. Feng Minggu, Zhuxichuan, Longqing Mountain, Tianchiling, why not, all are under military control!"

Mu Tingxue smiled brightly: "Have you always been so domineering?"

Yan Yang held her hand tightly, intertwined his fingers, and made a pun: "Yes."

Mu Tingxue shook her head: "At least one mine must be freed, two mines are best. Even if we are a monopoly, we cannot be so domineering. We have already monopolized the salt mine purification technology, and we cannot afford to monopolize all the minerals. Anyway, we will not be able to exploit it for hundreds of years. Finished. Leave room for other salt merchants to operate. After all, salt merchants are supported by family members."

This business is not something ordinary people can do.

Salt and iron are all heavily taxed items controlled by the state.

The person who pioneered this method in Chinese history was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.Although this emperor has immortal merits, he is suspected of being militaristic. In order to collect money for military expenses, he invented the state-controlled heavy tax on salt and iron, engaged in coin inflation, and even divided the titles into ten or twenty grades, and openly sold his official titles. Therefore, In Emperor Wu's later years, the people were in dire straits.

"Then we will allocate two thousand salt-refining soldiers with excellent skills from Maomao Mountain, and then allocate eighteen thousand soldiers from the Zhenbei Army to sign confidentiality agreements, and divide them into two troops of ten thousand people, and go to Fengming Valley and Tianchiling to station the establishment. Salt Works.”

The regent was domineering, but he still listened to his wife.

Mu Tingxue nodded: "Fengming Valley is in the hinterland of Western Shu, and Tianchiling is on the northern plateau. This is good. It can reduce transportation costs and provide more jobs."

Once the salt production plant is built, small towns will inevitably form nearby, and the prototype of the economic zone industrial chain will be in place.

How many people can a refined salt mine feed and provide jobs for?

These [-] soldiers who refine salt have money in their pockets. They can't always stay in the mountains. They have to go outside the valley for some fresh air occasionally. The nearby civilians in the northwest will cater to them and create some life and entertainment. Facilities.There are many horses in the northwest, and they can also provide horses to transport salt. They will even marry their daughters to them. The houses, banquets, and childcare related to the marriage can also provide jobs for others.

The most intuitive example - as soon as the Maomaoshan Salt Factory was opened to the public, the surrounding area was originally a hundred miles of no-man's land. In just two days, hundreds of families gathered spontaneously not far from the foot of the mountain, including soldiers' families, wives and children. They moved here and formed a small village, calling themselves Cat Village.

They dare not go near the martial law area, but they can sell daily necessities on the periphery, raise chickens and ducks, open up wasteland for farming, and even open a tavern.On holidays, soldiers would come down from the salt factory in the mountains in small groups to have a drink and buy some daily necessities.

"Hey, my aunt is here?"

A handsome and striking head poked into the governor's tent.

Yan Yang glanced at his nephew and said coldly: "If you don't go to training, what are you doing here?"

Mr. Qin Xiaohou knew that he was disturbing his uncle, but he was not afraid. He was thick-skinned: "My parents wanted to invite my uncle to our house for dinner, but you two eloped to Maomao Mountain and never had the chance."

Mu Tingxue was a little embarrassed: "Elope... elope?"

Yan Yang glared at his nephew and said sternly but not angry: "If you don't know the words, you can shut up."

Mr. Qin Xiaohou laughed and scratched his head: "Uncle, you don't know how bad my wording is, just like that."

Yan Yang held his forehead.

Mu Tingxue couldn't help laughing.

Are these the students with poor education and top students in military and martial arts who cannot be saved by the Imperial Academy’s elders offering wine?Quite cute.

Mr. Qin Xiaohou was not ashamed at all. Seeing the eldest princess happy, he was also happy: "Would you like to come to our house for dinner?"

It was hard to reject the hospitality, so Mu Tingxue agreed: "Okay."

Qin Xiaohouye was overjoyed and handed over a very formal invitation letter with gold flowers on it, indicating that the invitation would be in seven days, so that the invitees could prepare time to come to the banquet.

"As soon as my father got the wheelbarrow drawings you gave him last time, he went into the wooden house without eating and spent three days to restore them. My mother was so angry that she asked my father to go and talk to the bad guy. Damn it, she's going to Xiaoxiang Shuiyun Pavilion to order eighteen young masters... Oh, that's a long way off."

"Sister Yun, have you ordered it?" Mu Tingxue asked.

"Yes, she has been playing this trick for more than ten years, and she never gets tired of it. Every time she gets into trouble, she runs to the fireworks place, waiting for my father to come looking for her in a hurry." Mr. Qin Xiaohou rolled his eyes. Deep contempt.

"Where did I just say? Ah, by the way, my father restored the wheelbarrow and took it to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, which aroused everyone's admiration. My father took the wheelbarrow to Chaoshang, showing that it can be used to transport supplies on rugged mountain roads, and can also For the common people to use as carts, the imperial court immediately ordered the Ministry of Industry to make [-] wheelbarrows and send them to the front line of suppressing bandits in the southwest. The Queen Mother also awarded my father a reward and asked him to promote it among the people. My aunt, do you know that this wheelbarrow drawing has provided support to the people? How many craftsmen are there? My father has always had a bad reputation, but after he popularized the unicycle, some people actually praised him."