"On the one hand, the production price of salt households is low and their enthusiasm is frustrated; on the other hand, the government strictly controls sales and the price is high, but the income is actually not high."

"Let's give a simple example. Today, a pound of salt is purchased for seventeen cents, the government sells it for thirty-five cents, and the output is one hundred catties. The government's income, excluding wages and dissipation, is only eighteen hundred cents.

"

"But if the purchase price is raised to twenty cash and the selling price is lowered to thirty cash, but the output is one thousand kilograms, salt households will earn two more three hundred cash, and the government will earn twenty-six more five hundred cash.

"

"But with a sufficient supply of salt, ordinary people can not only buy more, but the price has also dropped."

"This is the fundamental way, the way of development, the way of win-win."

Cai Jing listened quietly behind Su You, his eyes flickering. This was probably the purpose of Ming Gong bringing him to the banquet, so that he could understand his political philosophy.

Then I heard Su You say: "Thanks to your Majesty's mercy, as long as the number of questions for this year can be met, the rest are left to the people to do as they please. Everyone, this is a great opportunity to make money."

"With the new opening in Jinghu, Zhejiang Salt can completely radiate the north and south roads of Jinghu, as well as the east and west roads of Guangnan. Who can develop such a large market?"

All the gentry in the audience were horrified. I am not making an ordinary huge profit with this handiwork.

Su You raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "Zhongshu now supplies Sizhou, Dali, Minzhou, and local chemical industries, and the supply exceeds demand."

"So of course all the roads in Jinghu can only fall on your shoulders."

There was another commotion down there.

Suyou continued to interrupt everyone's enthusiasm: "But in order to better manage this part of the production capacity, the Liangzhe Road Transfer Department still has to intervene."

"At least this year, we must follow the example of Jiezhou's salt import system and let the gentry who export millet have priority in applying for salt import according to the amount of grain they export!"

Qian Kejiu immediately handed over his hand: "My Qian family has many children, and I am willing to donate 300,000 stones of rice in exchange for land to help Ming Gong and the people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang to survive the disaster! At the same time, the Qian family also has many ships, and can organize a caravan to go to Jinghu to buy grain.

!”

Yao Chun also handed over his hand: "My Yao family is also willing to donate 300,000 shi. We have to purchase spices from the southeast every year, and the rice there is the cheapest. If Ming Gong has any shortage, the Yao family can also transport grain from Jiaozhi and Zhancheng.

!”

The rest of the people were shocked. I already had 600,000 dan, which was almost a third of the newly opened farmland. They all started arguing: "We also want to serve the imperial court!" "We also want to serve the imperial court!"

Help Ming Gong!"

The following banquet was filled with the smell of copper. At Su You's insistence, the Hangzhou gentry was only allocated two-thirds of the share, and Su You still had to use the remaining one-third to win over the squatters in Suzhou.

.

No matter what, I got 1.8 million shi of food.

This should have been the income of Sitong Company, but Suyou came up empty-handed and played a loan game, promising to exchange some of the new fields gained from water conservancy development in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake in exchange for benefits.

At the end of May, the machinery and equipment from Shuzhong arrived, and all preparations were completed. Jiangning Prefecture, Runzhou, and Changzhou gathered 70,000 laborers to start the vigorous water conservancy improvement project in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake.

Countless grains departed from Mudu and Wujiang in Suzhou and were transported to Changzhou, Yixing and Jiangning. Countless commodities also continued to drive down from Shu and were enriched in the four large towns around the lake, Wuxi, Suzhou, Yixing and Huzhou.

The huge amount of government procurement also stimulated the prosperity of surrounding businesses. When Zeng Bu and Lu Jiawen arrived in Zhejiang, they were shocked and speechless by the scene of thousands of sail boats racing on Tai Lake.

What about the promised floods and droughts coming one after another? Are the big business owners giving Su You face like this?!

Wang Zhongzheng brought a hundred men from Di Yong's Shenji Battalion this time. The two Zhejiang roads were far away from the Liao Kingdom and Xixia. The Song Dynasty now had enough new firearms to equip a considerable army. Zhao Xu was preparing to quietly expand the size of the new army.

On the two Zhejiang roads, the armies that relied on Guo and Jiedu included Yijin Army, Ning Haijun, Zhendong Army, Pingjiang Army, Zhenjiang Army, Zhaoqing Army, Baoning Army, Wang Haijun, Fengjun, Jing Haijun, and Sui'an.

There are a total of thirteen armies, Jiangyin Army and Shun'an Army, with a theoretical strength of nearly 40,000 people.

However, as time went by, military discipline was lax, and they were basically reduced to nothing more than bugs, harassing the local area, and their father did not love their mother.

Speaking of which, the 600 rural soldiers under the jurisdiction of the state capital were not as effective.

After all, the rural soldiers are also taken care of by local finances. They are a dictatorship force that the prefects can actually control. There are still basic guarantees.

Di Yong and Wang Zhongzheng came this time. In addition to rectifying the army, there was another important reason: Su You asked for money printing, and Zhao Xu had to send his own people to keep an eye on it.

Looking at the boats on Tai Lake, Wang Zhongzheng smiled: "This posture, tsk tsk tsk, even if it is said to be a disaster, some people have to believe it!"

Cai Jing smiled hoarsely: "The captain has arrived, and the judge is relieved. With so much material and money coming and going on Taihu Lake, now I am afraid that all the heroes are eyeing this piece of fat."

Wang Zhongzheng was moved: "Oh? There are many bandits?"

Cai Jing said: "There are indeed many bandits, and there are three main types. The first type is those who work under the salt pavilion, who are exploited by big households, fail to complete their tasks, and become bandits; the second type are salt lords, who collude with private salt dealers to run rampant in prefectures and counties.

, there are several big forces that local officials dare not eliminate; the third category..."

Wang Zhongzheng looked at him sideways: "What? You don't dare to say anything anymore?"

Cai Jing bowed and saluted: "The third category is really hard to talk about. The thirteen armies of the state capital relied on Guo Jiedu. They were both soldiers and bandits. They colluded with the bandits. Not only were they ineffective in suppressing the bandits, but they were good at harassing local officials.

, this, hehehe..."

Di Yong's face was calm: "The courage of the soldiers is what makes the generals. If the army is weak, then it is the responsibility of the command. The hundred people behind Di Yong are all His Majesty's own soldiers, and they all have military merits."

"The lowest class is the deputy lieutenant of Xuhui, Xuanjie Lang and above. To deal with this mess, it is killing a chicken with a bull's knife."

Cai Jing said with a smile: "Yes, the commander-in-chief has been eagerly waiting for it in Hangzhou, starting with Guo's army."

After asking Zeng Bu and Lu Jia for a long time, Cai Jing said to them: "You two came all the way together, and you didn't fight on the way?"

Zeng Bu and Lu Jiawen looked angry and both said "hum" without answering.

Cai Jing took two letters: "This is the letter from Commander Yun to both of you. Go and take office immediately after reading it."

The two of them opened the letter and looked at it, both of them were gloating about the misfortune. Cai Jing then said: "Oh, it's wrong! It's wrong!"

After speaking, he reversed the letter: "I'm so busy that I'm so busy, so this is the right thing."

The expressions of the two people changed immediately. Lu Jiawen turned pale all of a sudden, and Zeng shouted to Cai Jing with an angry look on his face: "If Ambassador Su Yun wants to suppress his subordinates, why would he resort to such despicable means?! I'll go right away!"

Hangzhou, please go to jail, but you won’t have to work for years to be put on the sword!”

Cai Jing looked confused: "What are the prefect's words? This is the importance that the transport envoy places on the prefect. How can it be so bad?"

Zeng Bu said angrily: "Then let me ask you, Raozhou Yongping Prison, how much copper is collected this year? How much money is minted?"

Cai Jing said: "Last year, Yongping Supervisor collected 150,000 catties of copper and minted 200,000 coins."

Zeng Bu shook the letter: "Then why, when it was my turn to defend Raozhou, the copper coins turned into 400,000 jins? The coin coins turned into 600,000 jins?!"

Cai Jing said: "Well...the meaning of luck judgment...it is true that those who are capable work harder."

Lu Jiawen glanced at Zeng Bu and said with a wry smile: "Seventy thousand laborers, three months of labor service, four kilograms of grain per day, not counting the three meals, vegetables and salt mentioned in the letter, the total is 250,000 shi."

"Envoy Su Yun has the ability to reach heaven, and Lu Jiawen has no plan to accompany him. So he will write to the court and ask Envoy Yun to choose another talented person, or perhaps Grand Administrator Zeng has this ability."

Zeng Bu said angrily: "Children of the Lu family! Now is the time when we share the same hatred with the enemy, do you still want to fight in the same nest?!"

Lu Jiawen sneered and said: "I dare to resign and float around in the rivers and seas. I wonder, Brother Zeng, do you dare to join me and fight with him, Su You, to the death?"
Chapter completed!