Xue Xiang also reacted immediately: "Hahaha, I'm overthinking..."

Su You smiled and said: "So we have to go through a few more detours. Although the price of Jie salt cannot be lower than that of Xixia salt, Su You already has a lot of Sichuan snow salt in his hands, and with the measures to refine Jie salt,

We can trigger several salt price fluctuations in local areas in a short period of time, which is completely possible."

Xue Xiang's eyes lit up, turmoil is an opportunity!

"Then what? How?"

Su You said: "Combined with the issuance of Shu banknotes, after the salt price fluctuates several times, the surrounding barbarians will know that Shu banknotes are actually more stable than salt. In addition, they are easy to carry, have sufficient supply, and have credit guarantees. They will naturally gradually use Shu banknotes."

Money trading.”

Xue Xiang paced back and forth in the room: "Most of the smuggling in Xixia is copper coins. When the mature barbarians in Yanbian use Shu banknotes, the flow of copper coins into Xixia will be cut off!"

Then he was so excited that his beard trembled: "If the Xixia people dare to accept Shu banknotes, we can give them a turmoil. The difference between Shu banknotes and copper coins is that it is a kind of credit currency, and its value is in the salt warehouse in central Shu."

Li. Hahaha, unless the Xixia people can attack Shuzhong, we have many ways to turn the salt banknotes in their hands into a pile of waste paper! This is what you call an economic offensive!"

Su You smiled and said: "Exactly, when the time comes we will upgrade the Shu banknotes and exchange the old banknotes with the new ones, so that the Xixia people will cry bitterly holding the old banknotes. But Mr. Xue, the Xixia people are not stupid, so I guess this kind of good thing will be done by others

I won’t fall for it either.”

Xue Xiang stroked his beard: "Even if it's not a trap, blocking the flow of copper coins into Xixia is still a great achievement! What a wonderful plan! What a wonderful plan!"

Su You cupped his hands and said: "There is another benefit..."

Xue Xiang raised his hand: "There is another benefit. Using Shu banknotes is equivalent to putting your destiny in our hands. With the leather processing industry, they have become our raw material supplier."

Su You said: "Yes, this is called a community of interests. The benefits they get from the Song Dynasty are far greater than the benefits they get from Xixia, so they will naturally turn to the Song Dynasty. In addition, they are facing threats from the Xixia people, so they can only

Choose to fight with the Song Dynasty against Xixia."

Xue Xiang clapped his hands and laughed, so happy that he even uttered vulgar words: "Ma Zheng! My Ma Zheng can use this as an opportunity to open up the situation! How can we be a community if we don't communicate with each other! Hahahaha..."

Su You cupped his hands and said: "Congratulations to Duke Ming. Seventy miles southwest of Weizhou, on the Tea Horse Road leading to the Qing and Tang Dynasties, there is a place called Langdu. The geographical location is extremely advantageous. As early as the Western Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, it was Mu

The land of horses. Deng Ai of the Three Kingdoms also crossed the beach from Yangguan here, entered Longnan, and attacked the middle of Shu from the official pavilion. The water and grass here are rich, and with Weizhou as a barrier, the land covers tens of thousands of hectares, enough for pasture."

Xue Xiang couldn't believe it: "How is it possible? How could I not know about this treasure land?"

Su You smiled bitterly and said: "If it weren't for this exercise and the guidance of the herdsmen veterans from the Second Forest Department, I wouldn't have known that there was such a large grassland in the valley at the junction of Min and Wei. I went back and read the information sent to me by my elder brother, and then I knew that there was such a large grassland.

It has a provenance. The military camp built for the Dun'an Army is now completely useless."

"In this transaction, we have obtained 87,000 sheep, 17,000 oxen, and 1,300 horses. How many are you prepared to ask for, envoy?"

Xue Xiang's eyes widened: "Mingrun, what are you talking about? What do you mean by how much? I want all the horses! I want all the cattle! Forget the sheep... forget about the sheep! If you dare to keep one of the cattle and sheep, don't blame me for asking you.

!”

Su You smiled and said: "Ming Gong is too happy, right? Can you afford it?"

Today's cattle price is five guan per head, and horses are even more exaggerated.

The price of Xixia horses in the Qingli calendar is thirty-five thousand for the third class and twenty-eight thousand for the fourth class. Such a large number of cattle and horses can directly wipe out Xue Xiang's salt hoard.

Xue Xiang suddenly grimaced: "Well... Mingrun, think of something. You are so smart, please think of something."

Su You chuckled and said: "We still solve economic problems through economic methods."

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"History of the Song Dynasty": "In the first year of Zhiping, Xue Xiang asked to set up Yuan and Weizhou. Deshun's army bought horse officers and Yongxing's army raised horses. For example, in Yuanzhou, Deshun's army merged with Weizhou and was sentenced to three years.

, I learned that the number of horses in the market is the most important thing in the palace.

Most of the horses sold in the early days of the country only had more than 5,000 horses at the age of one.

The total area of ​​Jidian and nearby counties, including the inner and outer areas, is 68,000 hectares, and the military divisions have another 39,000 hectares.

Over the years, officials have lost their status, the boundaries are unclear, and they have been abandoned infrequently, and many people have fallen prey to invasion.

The supervisor raises horses in Shayuan and gets three hundred foals at the age of 40,000.

Xianggan Bureau is an excellent person, especially good at business and financial affairs. He can calculate every strategy and be very attentive.

To restore the Zhaoling Mausoleum, it was estimated that the money and grain would cost 500,000 guanshi, but the Three Divisions could not provide 100 million, so they would be moved to the edge of Shaanxi Province and buried in salt in Yong'an County.

He asked Chen Wubu, thinking that he was a businessman who had broken his promise, so he offered up the missing items.

Please give free land to the people and collect rent.

So he set up a farm in Yuan, Wei, and used Xianyan's direct market horses, so the horses were one year old and numbered ten thousand.

He also said: 'Now I invite you to Yuan, Weizhou, to suppress the Rong army. The officials exchange salt and cash for exchanges, so that they can bring light goods back to Shu. Sichuan merchants use the exchanges of salt to lead them to Qi and Yong, and exchange them for supervisory silver and enter Shu.

, get the best of both worlds.'

The Qun Mu Si asked Xiang Ji to send water to the commander-in-chief during the year, and tens of thousands of salt, horses, cud, and millet were brought in. The people were not benefited from the tax, so his lesson was the best."

"Miscellaneous Notes of Shu": "In the first year of Zhiping, Marshal You told Xue Xiang, the capital of Shaanxi Province, to conduct financial planning, establish salt affairs, and circulate Sichuan banknotes for the market. This enabled the court to obtain horses and the barbarians to obtain goods, and Shu

Jade Salt.

The solution salt was re-refined using the Shu method, sold to Qi and Yong, and supplied to the capital.

The quality is as pure as snow, the taste is better than green salt, and there is no adulteration. Whenever the market hears the arrival of the salt salt truck, the streets are full of people rushing to buy it and hoard it.

The rest was turned into soy sauce, tempeh, pickled mustard and other products, which were sold at Daxiangguo Temple.

The imperial court heard about it and supervised the bank to review it and specialize in its profit..."

This is a carnival of capital and technology.

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Jiezhou Yanze is a hundred and twenty miles across. The brine is red in color and is under a spring. There is a spring in the middle, which is a sweet spring.

To its north, there is the Wuxian River.

The water of the Great Brine cannot be mixed with sweet springs and cannot turn into salt.

But if salty water enters, the salt will no longer form, which is a problem for the salt lake.

It is better to build embankments to prevent them than to prepare for bandits and robbers.

Gaiwu Xian is turbid water. When it enters the brine, the brine veins will be deposited and the salt will not be formed. It must be different.

"Review of the Salt Methods of Hedong and the Scenic Sites of Yanchi Gate": "Xuanyuan clan killed Chiyou in the wilderness of Zhuolu, and his blood went into the pond for brine. Today there is Chiyou City in the south of the pond. According to legend, this is the place where he was buried."

"Records of Three Dynasties of Confucius" records: "The Yellow Emperor killed Chiyou in Zhongji, and Chi You's buttocks and head were in different places, and his blood turned into brine, which was the reason for the solution of the salt pond."

Su You once made a wild guess, maybe the Battle of Banquan was a war for control of salt.

However, Jiezhou Salt Lake's method of collecting crystals naturally was not to Su You's liking.

In order to allow Xue Du's transshipment envoys to have more money to buy horses, and also to allow themselves to sell more Shu products, Su You sent a chemical team to help Jiezhou carry out brine soil salt extraction technology.

This method is actually very simple. Pick the brine soil onto the cement floor, then collect the reeds and weeds around the salt field and burn them into ash, spread it on top of the brine soil, and then spray water on it. After a few days, the potassium ions in the grass ash will

This will replace the sodium ions in the brine soil.

The upper layer of grass ash is scraped off, and the salt crystals grow in the lower layer of grass ash, shaped like grass buds. This is called the "salt planting method."

Collect the gray salt, dissolve it, remove the ash, and recrystallize it to become quite pure table salt.

This is not Su You's own invention, it is a trick played by the people of Haidong Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. Their purpose of using this method is to remove excess impurities in seawater salt.

The concentration of the brine spring in Jiechi is extremely high, so high that without the fresh water spring, a salt bank will form, preventing the salt from continuing to crystallize. Of course, there is no problem with this method.

After the salt planting is completed, there will be a large amount of potassium sulfate, sodium sulfate, potassium chloride, and some sodium chloride left in the brine soil.

This thing is a natural cure for constipation and can also cure hemangiomas.

However, Suyou's chemical team still led the workers to add water to the brine, filter it, pour it into the brine separation tank, and use the step-by-step crystallization method to produce various crystals.
Chapter completed!