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Chapter 288 Selling Salt

After stating my decision to capitalize on the enemy, in the face of everyone's confusion, Mao Wenlong stated his plan: "We have such good salt, and our cost is very low. The most important thing is that we have sufficient production.

, combined with these, we have a competitive advantage with the salt produced in Houjinniuzhuang. In this case, we will simply traffic the salt directly to Houjin." Seeing everyone's still confused expressions, Mao Wenlong simply decided

I squatted on the edge of the salt field and used a small stone to draw a diagram of my heart on the ground for everyone.

"We will dump a large amount of high-quality salt to the territory of Jiannu in Houjin. If my price is only the cost price of the salt cooked in Niuzhuang, then whose salt do you think the people in Jiannu's ruling area will buy?

Woolen cloth?"

This account does not need to be carefully calculated. Even a fool can figure it out. Of course, he has to buy Pidao salt.

"As long as the price is low and the quality is good, not only the Han people in Liaodong will buy our salt, but even the families of the Eight Banners disciples will also buy our salt. Don't tell me any patriotic truth. This kind of truth has not even made us patriotic for thousands of years."

The educated Han people cannot implement it, let alone these barbarians. In their hearts, they only have interests. Waging wars is for interests. Eating cheap salt is actually interests. Living in a small family may not really be able to consider the whole situation.

The interests of the country."

"In this way, if Houjin's salt is monopolized by us, they will have to exchange it with us for real gold and silver. In this way, we will slowly empty out the money in the hands of the slaves and use it for my use. Father

Is that what Shuai meant?" Mao Xueli asked confusedly.

Mao Wenlong clapped his hands: "It is for this reason that we use the cheap salt we produce to slowly drain away their people's wealth. While draining them, we also strengthen ourselves."

"It's a pity that this method is quite slow, and there is a suspicion of being caught. If someone is willing to write this into a memorial and report it to the emperor, the crime of siding with the enemy will be too big." Lu Yixue was worried about using the yard to the king of Shanshan Mountain.

He pointed in the direction and raised the crux of the problem. There is another one. In Liaodong, North Korea has spies from the Jinyiwei who are watching people like him. Now they are simply sitting in their lobby in a grand manner. Of course, sitting in a grand manner

The two guys in the lobby can be bribed, but Wang Dayong, who is always looking for problems with himself, will never be bribed, because the two sides have already accumulated too much grudges, and it is too late to find their own sore feet. Why?

Will he give up his original intention to destroy people like himself?

Mao Wenlong smiled calmly: "It is a very long process to use salt to drain the wealth of Houjin people. I also know this. After all, salt accounts for a small part of the entire life, but if we use it at a low price, that is, as long as we use it

Six taels of silver per load, the price of boiled salt in Niuzhuang, if the salt is dumped in Houjin, the first one that will be destroyed is Niuzhuang's salt. Don't forget, Houjin's current fiscal revenue actually only has two parts,

Part of it is looting and sharing, and the other part is the salt of Niuzhuang. But when we destroyed Niuzhuang's salt production, Houjin's production of salt was no longer a source of income for the national treasury, but instead became a money-losing hole.

What’s the effect of that?”

At this time, everyone suddenly realized.

"As for the factory guards and supervisors that everyone is worried about, in fact, as long as I use my direct method to explain my goal to Banzai in detail, I think I will get Banzai's understanding. First, I want to tell

Long live, there is a way to break Hou Jin's finances, at least let him reduce his financial income. Secondly, since the military salary allocated to me by the court every year has been deducted layer by layer, then I will simply give a smooth favor to long live,

That is to reduce our Dongjiang Town’s military expenditure for half a year and raise our own funds in this way.”

This kind of empty talk can really impress Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian, the custodian of the internal funds. When the Ming Dynasty is financially tight, it can save the court and the internal funds a lot of expenses. That pair of master and servant is definitely

I am happy to see it. Even if Tianqi is unwilling, Wei Zhongxian, who insists on money, will definitely be able to convince Tianqi to agree.

In fact, two years later, Yuan Chonghuan, who was outside Shanhaiguan, began to implement his fortification attack method, and five to six million taels of silver were spent every year. At this time, the old master Sun Chengzong began to recruit refugees from Liaodong to form the Guanning Cavalry.

In the end, there were 160,000 soldiers. Most of the military expenditures of the entire Ming Dynasty were spent outside the customs. The expenditure of tens of millions of taels a year finally made the head of the Ming Dynasty unbearable. Wei Zhongxian, the real money-spender, in order to provide

It is shameless for the generals of the world to make a bowl of porridge and grab money. If you can save him half of the military expenses that you will never get, Wei Zhongxian will definitely be happy to see it. He doesn't care about you.

Where did this money come from? How did it come from?

Especially after the matter is thoroughly explained, this method of supporting oneself while weakening the enemy will definitely be accepted by the emperor and Wei Zhongxian.

In fact, everyone in the world can impeach and criticize Mao Wenlong. As long as the emperor protects Mao Wenlong, then he will be safe and sound. When Donglin comes to power and Chongzhen comes to power in the future, Mao Wenlong should be very strong by then. If his tail is too big to fall off, what's wrong with his big tail? You bite me!

, The problem is that I am far away in Liaodong. If Donglin wants to bite me, he can't bite me. Even if he bites me, he doesn't have the teeth.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Mao Rong believes that one of the ways to solve the tragedy that happened in the second year of Chongzhen is to have a body of steel and iron to make him invulnerable.

Everyone was full of eagerness to try Mao Wenlong's grand plan. They were even more impressed by Mao Shuai's idea of ​​giving the emperor a preconceived idea and using a high-sounding excuse to make money for everyone.

The thing is like this, if you look at a thing from different angles, you will get different results. At this time, it depends on what angle you stand in to do it.

The first batch of salt is loaded on the truck. It is to be sent to Tieshan and Dingzhou in North Korea, because Mao Wenlong has offices in those two places. The main function of this office is to communicate with local North Korean officials about the enemy situation.

, it also has the mission of purchasing supplies for Pi Island. At this time, another function was added to it, that is, it is the place to export supplies for Pi Dao.

Mao Wenlong personally loaded a sack of salt onto the cart, and then symbolically drove it out of the gate of the salt farm. Looking at the long carriage with billowing smoke and smoke heading towards the Korean Peninsula, everyone's eyes were filled with joy.

hope for the future.

And at this moment, Mao Chenglong rushed over as if he had been chased away by a dog, shouting from a distance: "Uncle, uncle, boats, there are many, many big boats."
Chapter completed!
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