Huai salt is cut off, so the city is fed on soil salt. The reason why Huai salt is cut off is because the thief said that "grain salt cannot be helped", and this Huai salt is not sold to the north, which naturally leads to the cut off of folk sea salt.

As he left the restaurant, his brows furrowed, and he learned the news from the shopkeeper's mouth, which seemed to explain his previous doubts and tell him why so many people were sweeping the soil to make salt.

However, why did the Jianghuai Economic Envoy cut off the salt roads in Shandong and other places?

If it is still possible to ban the Qing Dynasty, but now it does not sell salt directly to Shandong, wouldn't the two Huai have lost a lot of salt profits?

When Jin Chong, who was full of doubts in his heart, thinking about why he didn't sell salt, Cui Bidong, who was holding a hexagram flag, wandered around the street like an ordinary Taoist priest. Occasionally, I will also play the hexagram in my hand, every time I encounter a place with a lot of people, I will inevitably take a few more looks, thanks to this is a small county town, if it is in other places, I don't know who will attract attention.

This small town, which once had thousands of households, has not yet recovered because of the massacre of the Qing captives, and there are only about a thousand households in the city, and the outside of the city seems to be a little depressed, and there are a few shops among the half-collapsed houses on the side of the road, and it seems that the business is quite good, and these shops seem to be shops specializing in buying local groceries. There was a long queue in front of almost every shop, and the hawkers who drove ox carts and mule carts to sell goods, although their faces were sweaty, but their faces were full of excitement, as if the carts were pulling bags of local goods.

With the experience accumulated along the way, Cui Bidong is like an ordinary wandering Taoist, but after only a while, he became familiar with those hawkers. Seeing that the guy in the shop was inspecting the salt-like things poured out of the cloth bag, he pretended to be curious, and while he was drinking tea at the roadside tea stall, he asked with a smile the vendor who had just sold a cart of goods.

"This little brother, what are you pulling in this car? Look at how many people? ”

"Yo, Dao Ye thinks he just came from another place!"

The tea-drinking peddler, with a smile on his dark face, only listened to him speak in a low voice.

"To tell you the truth, the things on this car are all nitrate, originally a catty at most three or four cents, in previous years, when sweeping the soil, this nitrate is not worth much, and sometimes it can't be sold. But recently, this soil nitrate has not only risen to five or six yuan, but also in short supply, the original thought that the price of this soil nitrate will fall if there is more salt from this sweeping soil, but this not only did not fall, but fell steadily on the price of five Wen. Hey, I heard that in the south, this soil is a pound of nitro, and it is open to collect ......."

"South, who wants this from the south?"

was stunned at first, and just when Cui Bidong was a little puzzled, Jinzhong's eyebrows suddenly raised, and he immediately asked.

"You're saying it's all sold to the south?"

"Then we don't know!"

The peddler looked at him and smiled.

"Anyway, I'm a dealer of goods, these merchants bought the goods, who to sell to, the small ones don't know, anyway, this sells nitrate to make money, and don't worry about selling, don't say anything else, just our place, five or six thousand catties a day is normal, if you wait for the cold weather, when the nitrate is more and less salt, at least ten thousand catties a day, take advantage of this time to save more capital, and wait until winter to get a good handful......"

The peddler's words fell on Jinzhong's ears, and he looked at the vendors thoughtfully, thinking back to the people he saw sweeping the soil and making salt on the road ahead, and suddenly, his eyes lit up.

"The poor monk knows why the salt road in Shandong will be cut off in the south!"

"Oh? Why is Shandong Salt Road broken? ”

Cui Bidong asked in surprise.

"That's for this dirt!"

Now that he had figured everything out, his face was even slightly red from excitement.

"Originally, this sweeping of soil to make salt was only done by a few poor people in the countryside, and the people who wanted it were just salt, but they only saved a little salt money, and then sold some small salt to supplement their families in the countryside. As a result, the output of this soil is naturally limited. But now, the salt road in the south is cut off, the folk have no salt, in the past, only the small salt eaten by the poor in the countryside, naturally it will sell well, although the small salt obtained by sweeping the soil is not as good as the sea salt, but it can make the people avoid the suffering of light food, the folk suddenly have no salt, the price of salt is bound to rise, so that the people have made salt, the salt is more natural nitrate, the output of this soil nitrate naturally surges, and the south is plotter, it is this soil nitrate! ”

That's right!

It's the nitrate!

The purpose of cutting off the salt road in the south is to stimulate Shandong, Henan and other places to sweep the soil and make nitrate, so that they can get the soil nitrate.

"Senior Brother Jinzhong, are you saying that this soil and nitrate are all mapped by the south?"

Cui Bidong looked at Jin Chong puzzled, and then asked rhetorically.

"This place can collect thousands of catties a day, and what Shandong and other places produce every day is more than tens of thousands of catties? What do you want so much dirt to do in the south? ”

Cui Bidong's words made Jin Chong smile slightly, and he glanced towards the south before speaking.

"All nitrate, Huayi is born, and China specializes in the northwest. If the southeast traffickers do not give official citations, they will be guilty of believing that they are private goods. Nitrate is the same as salt, and it is vaporized by moisture under the earth, and it is now on the ground. Those who are close to the water and the soil is thin become salt, and those who are close to the mountains and the soil is thick become nitrate. It dissolves when it enters the water, so it is called "nitrate". Long, Huai to the north, the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, in the room, sweeping the floor every other day, can take a little for the decoction of the three most of the three nitrates: out of the middle of the Sichuan nitrate, born in Shanxi vulgar call salt nitrate, born Shandong vulgar call soil nitrate......"

Quoting the record in "Heavenly Creations", when walking towards the south, the pace of this kind seems to be quite brisk.

"This Shuzhong and Shanxi are too far away from the south, so this Shandong soil nitrate is naturally the best choice......

It is not only very close to the south, but also in the case of deliberately cutting off the salt road in the south, the people of Shandong in order to avoid light food, but also in order to obtain salt profits, have made salt and nitrate, so that naturally the south can naturally buy a large amount of nitrate.

After walking a few miles south, he was on the embankment of the canal, and now he looked at the southbound ships in the canal, whether these southbound boats were carrying soil and nitrate, and he naturally did not know whether these ships were carrying earth and nitrate, but it was certain that those traders would be driven by huge profits and do everything possible to transport the soil and nitrate they purchased to the south in order to obtain huge profits.

"Bidong, now that you and I have reached the canal, when we get to the dock, let's see if we can find a boat, and then take a boat south!"

Noticing that Cui Bidong seemed to have something he didn't understand, he smiled slightly.

"Bidong doesn't know why the south asks for nitrate? Without him! It's all because of the fear of the Tartars, and so are the firearms of China! ”