Before he was promoted to the general of Datong Prefecture, Luo Yangxing helped him again and again in the court. However, after he was promoted to the general of Datong Prefecture and became a powerful general with heavy troops in the court, the relationship between him and Luo Yangxing became a bit in name only.

As a close minister of the emperor, the reason why Luo Yangxing helped himself at these court meetings was on the one hand for his own benefit, and on the other hand, he was thinking about his old love and hoped to have a good relationship with him.

However, this nostalgic idea can be maintained several times, but it must not last long.

If you want to be clear about the situation in the court as soon as possible in your future development and fight for as much benefit as possible, you really need to have a close minister in the emperor and help you all the time.

Luo Yangxing, who has worked with me many times, is undoubtedly his best choice.

So, after a brief weighing of the trade-offs, Wei Zheng immediately made a decision and agreed to cooperate with Luo Yangxing to form an alliance of joint advance and retreat in the court.

As a veteran of the dynasty, being able to take the initiative to propose this idea can definitely be said to have given him enough face. In this case, if Wei Zheng is still pretentious, he will look down on Luo Yangxing.

So, Wei Zheng spoke out without thinking about it.

"Since Brother Luo wants me to be honest, I will say it straightforwardly: I agree to form an alliance with Brother Luo, advance and retreat together. You are in the court, I am outside the court, cooperate with each other and continue to develop myself."

"As for the purpose of asking the court for Huairen County: Brother Luo should know that I was carrying out large-scale military farming in Datong Prefecture. To be honest, after the court gave me Huairen County, I would also carry out large-scale military farming in Huairen County. Because, after a series of bandits in Shanxi, there is nothing short of refugees... "

"As long as there are people, I can turn 30,000 mu of Huairen County into 300,000 mu in two days in a short period of time. It should be very easy to pay 10,000 dan of grain to the court every year with the income from 300,000 mu of fertile land."

"Military farming, growing grain..." Luo Yangxing said to himself with a thoughtful look on his face.

Then, a trace of light appeared on Luo Yangxing's face and shouted: "Gao... It's so smart... Brother Wei, what I think of you is important... If Brother Wei can really reclaim 300,000 mu of fertile land in Huairen, even if only two ducts of grain are harvested per mu of fertile land, 300,000 mu will be 600,000 tons of grain..."

"Sixty thousand dan of grain, if converted into silver, it will be at least a few million taels. Brother Wei, what you need to pay every year is only ten thousand dan of grain given to the court... This can definitely be called a profitable deal..."

Then, a hint of excitement appeared on Luo Yangxing's face, and he continued to say to Wei Zheng: "Brother Wei, as far as I know, Huairen County's military farming is still part of your entire military farming plan. Although I don't know the specific amount of military farming, there are definitely millions of acres of fertile land."

"Even if you only have millions of acres of fertile land, you can still harvest at least two million dans of grain in a year..."

"In this drought era where two million dans of grain were in the Central Plains, it would definitely cause a sensation. My idea was that since Brother Wei had been honest with me, could he share the two million dans of grain to me and let me gain some benefits from it..."

Even if Wei Zheng only distributes one million dan of food to himself, he can still make a profit of at least one million taels of silver with the current fluctuating grain prices.

However, what surprised Luo Yangxing was that Wei Zheng actually refused this suggestion...

In an instant, the smile on Luo Yangxing's face was covered with coldness and said to Wei Zheng with a cold look: "Brother Wei, is this your way of treating guests... I have done so much for the Tiger and Leopard Army in the court. Do you even have to give me some food? I didn't ask for this food for nothing from you. I should give the money, and I won't lose a single or two silver."

Seeing this, Wei Zheng quickly explained: "Brother Luo calmed down... I, Wei Zheng, don't be reluctant to give up these foods..."

"But I have a more profitable business here than selling grain to cooperate with Brother Luo. I don't know if Brother Luo is interested."

It turned out that when Wei Zheng heard that Luo Yangxing wanted to cooperate with him in business, Wei Zheng's first idea was not food, but salt.

You should know that no matter in China, salt and iron were sold by the imperial court. If you do not have enough strength, you will definitely not be able to interfere in the two transactions of salt and iron.

If Wei Zheng wants to sell the refined salt that was continuously produced in his hands, he must intervene.

However, with his current power, he can at most have influence in Shanxi and sell the fine salt to the entire Shanxi. After leaving Shanxi, he has no choice.

In this case, can Jingyan, a business like laying a golden egg, be wasted so wasteful...

This is definitely not what Wei Zheng wants to see.

At this moment, Luo Yangxing's proposal in front of him directly asked Wei Zheng to come up with a specific solution.

Luo Yangxing is not only a senior official of the court, but also a commander of the Jinyiwei. Although the Jinyiwei's strength in the country is far inferior to before, the Jinyiwei's strength in the local area is still very strong.

At least one thing the Jinyiwei wants to do is not dare to make things difficult for local officials.

If you hand over the continuous production of fine salt to the Jinyiwei and let the Jinyiwei sell it to yourself, then your fine salt business will not be able to spread across the country in a short period of time, and will not be paid attention to by the local government and the court...

So, the idea of ​​selling salt in the Ming Dynasty with Luo Yangxing came to Wei Zheng's mind in the blink of an eye.

Under Luo Yangxing's suspicious eyes, Wei Zheng directly whispered to the guards.

Soon, the guard walked into the lobby with a cloth bag full of things and placed it in the center of the lobby.

Wei Zheng did not pretentiously, and walked directly to the sack and opened the sack. Then, he pointed to the things in the sack and said to Luo Yangxing: "Brother Luo, the more profitable business I mentioned is just put in this bag..."

Luo Yangxing's eyes lit up and he hurried over.

After Luo Yangxing finished looking at the things in the bag and touched them with his hands, two rays of light shot out of his eyes, and then asked Wei Zheng: "This is fine salt, and it is also very pure fine salt. When you get it in Beijing, you can definitely sell it for ten taels of silver per pound, or even more..."

Then, as if I thought of something, I asked Wei Zheng with anticipation: "Brother Wei, what do you mean is that you have a way to get this kind of salt... Are there many quantities? If there are many quantities, I will give Brother Wei the price of every ten taels of silver you will be sold to me, and I will go to all parts of the country to sell..."

Wei Zheng wanted this sentence. Under Luo Yangxing's expectation and hot eyes, Wei Zheng asked back: "Brother Luo, you are very familiar with our Ming Dynasty. Do you think that with the current situation of my Ming Dynasty, how many loads of salt can be consumed in a year..."

After some contemplation, Luo Yangxing replied: "I don't know anything else. Take Beijing City as an example. Because there are a large number of royal relatives and nobles living in, the fine salt required by the annual number is definitely more than 50,000 dan. You should know that for those rich people, they not only need to eat fine salt, but also rinse their mouths on their own, but also need it."

"In addition to the capital, the demand in the south is also very huge. After all, the people in the south are very rich... So, I guess, our entire Ming Dynasty needs at least 700,000 to 800,000 tons of fine salt in a year."

Wei Zheng nodded and said thoughtfully: "Brother Luo, as far as I know, the fine salt before the Ming Dynasty basically came from Shaanxi. Although some salt wells can also produce fine salt, the quantity is very limited after all."

"However, since the Shaanxi rebellion, no more duct of fine salt from Shaanxi can enter the Central Plains and Jiangnan. In this way, the annual fine salt gap of the entire Ming Dynasty was at least about 600,000 ducts."

"If I provide you with 600,000 dan of fine salt to Brother Luo every year, and let you monopolize the entire Ming Dynasty's fine salt market, I don't know what price you can offer me..."

"Six hundred thousand dan..." After hearing this data, even after knowing Wei Zheng's series of big investments, Luo Yangxing was still very jumped.

At the same time, I was already in a boiling heart and silently began to calculate, if I really had 600,000 dan of fine salt, how much profit would I have every year.

I have never thought about why Wei Zheng, a heavy army in Datong Prefecture, could get so much salt?

There is a saying that is good, but I don’t know if I don’t count it, but I’m shocked when I count it…

Compared with selling grain, selling fine salt brings you more benefits than you imagine.

Luo Yang was confident that if he monopolized the entire Ming Dynasty's fine salt market, and only rich people would buy it, the price of fine salt could be increased to fifteen taels of silver per lever, and even more so, twenty taels of silver could be possible.

Because, for those rich people, as long as they can use fine salt, a few taels of silver will be added to each load of fine salt, which will definitely not affect their pursuit of fine salt.

Once the price of fine salt is raised to twenty taels of silver per pound, even if you can get a profit of five taels of silver per pound of silver, and six hundred thousand taxes of silver, you can get a total of three million taels of silver.

So, facing the temptation of huge profits, Luo Yangxing, who was excited, directly replied: "If Brother Luo really can provide me with 600,000 dan of experience every year, then the purchase price I gave to Brother Luo can be increased to fifteen taels of silver..."

Wei Zheng responded with satisfaction: "It's refreshing to cooperate with Brother Luo. Since that's the case, we'll make it like this... 600,000 dan of fine salt a year, trade on a monthly basis, 50,000 dan of fine salt per month, and 750,000 taels of silver. As for what price Brother Luo plans to sell in the market, it's Brother Luo's own business, I will never interfere..."
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