Jimo didn't drink a few sips of old wine, Xiao Keng picked up the table by himself, and then shared the table with Zhang De. Then Xue Dading and Cui Shen also shared the table, and then Cui Hongdao also twisted it and ran over to share the table. Then Xiao Ergongzi sent all the servants out, and stared at Zhang De excitedly: "Da Lang,, this old man has also calculated, has there never been such a huge profit?" ”

A group of old guys pricked up their ears, and Cui Hongdao, who was pretending to be forced just now, was also shining in his eyes at the moment, and there was nothing left in his mind except for the thought of millions of guan.

Damn, he's not Qinghe Cui's big house and small house, he's from Qingzhou house!

"What you plan is nothing more than the property of the place. However, maritime trade is completely different, for example...... For example, grasslands. Zhang De pulled his fingers, "There are more than one million Dingkou, and when the profit is destroyed, it will be about one and a half million." If it is calculated in terms of table salt, a person will refine four catties of salt every year, which will be converted into coarse salt, and it will be about five catties. The north and south of the desert need 7.5 million catties of coarse salt a year. ”

This example is intuitive, salt is a necessity. But there is a very important problem, salt is a controlled material, and among the bulk materials, it can be said that it has been strictly controlled by the government since ancient times.

Guan Zhong relied on a handful of coarse salt back then, and the small countries around Qi Guo who played directly called Dad.

After Li Yuandi settled the Central Plains, salt and iron were also controlled, and the exchange of salt in various places was strictly controlled. The source of salt in the Turks is mainly a few salt ponds in Monan, and the rest is mainly robbed. Tuyuhun was the first rat at both ends, and the salt traded with the Turks every year was not much in 10,000 stones, but a lot in 1,000 stones.

However, for the wealthy families of Hebei Province, smuggling salt is not a matter at all. For example, Hedong Xue's family, Xue Dading's hometown has a salt well. For example, Fan Yang Lu's. It's just about taking control of a salt pond. Before the establishment of the Dingxiang Governor's Mansion, this salt pond of the Lu family. It's still not official.

After Li Dong made a handful of Lu through the wool and sugar card tickets, one of the most direct benefits was. suppressed the Lu clan in Fanyang, the Hebei salt pond, which is equivalent to becoming the Lu clan's enclave.

Without spending a single soldier, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Imperial Court picked up a well-developed salt pond for nothing.

Zhang De took the salt out to speak, just to let them have a direct experience. If Zhang De had talked to Li Shimin about salt and iron, he was afraid that he would be dragged out and shot for ten minutes on the spot.

"What is the price of salt now?"

Xiao Keng asked puzzled.

"The price of salt varies from place to place, the high one is two hundred wen per bucket, and the low one is five wen per bucket." Zhang De replied to Xiao Keng, and then said. "The price of Datang salt, the average price in the market now, is about 20 Wen."

"Twenty ......"

Xiao Ergongzi's mind went through it, and he secretly said in his heart: Doesn't it mean that there are 15,000 grasslands in a year just because of salt and profit?

It doesn't seem like a lot.

Seeing Xiao Keng's disgusted face, Cui Hongdao coughed lightly and said: "Brother Xiao doesn't know, where the border passes, the imperial court has its own strict laws, and it is said that grain salt does not enter Fanbang." Hence the market price of this line. Put it at the border, it's a big mistake. ”

As he spoke, Cui Hongdao glanced at Zhang De, and then continued to explain: "It's the eighth year of martial arts. Hebei Province...... cough, the salt of the border pass is also a bucket of one hundred and fifty Wen. ”

"Hiss......"

Xiao Keng is not a fool. Now he understood. The salt in Cui Hongdao's mouth is actually a good one. To put it bluntly, it is private salt. The Tang Dynasty did not engage in a complete monopoly on salt production, but only regulated. Local salt wells but there are mining. Most of them are only monitoring but not controlling.

Even when Liang Shidu was still in Monan and Hedong, Fan Yang Lu's private salt did not stop selling. Its net profit for one year, calculated according to the price of Wude for five years, is at least 100,000 yuan.

"100,000!"

Xiao Ergongzi was full of emotion and was quite excited, if Zhang Caozhi was his little friend, it would be great, he would have sent it a long time ago.

"It's just, whatever, this salt profit has nothing to do with us."

Cui Hongdao turned his words and looked at Zhang De.

"Cui Sima, the theory of salt and iron, its benefit lies in specialization. The court is exclusive, so it is peaceful. However, the benefits of sea trade, whether it is tea or Silla maids, are all in our hands. The states of Haidong, if you want to get tea, in Suzhou one catty and two hundred wen, in Baekje, one catty is consistent, one catty or two runs, all of them are determined by our generation. ”

To put it simply, that's how the windfall profits come about. Again, tea is a bulk item, and if Zhang De ferments it and makes it into tea bricks, he can easily increase sales. But now, the Khitan split Turks perished, the biggest one in Saibei is Wei Chi Ritian, and the biggest one in Monan is Uncle Zhang, all of them are their own people, and at this price, it's not how you shout it?

Earn it for three years and five years of black money, and wait for tens of thousands of slave laborers to die and cripple, of course, tea bricks will follow the trend and be popular on the grassland.

Hearing what Zhang De said, "it is decided in one word", Cui Hongdao was stunned for a moment, and then understood. What salt and iron can determine in a word is the imperial court, so the lion's share of the profits of salt and iron is taken by the imperial court. Although the illegal salt is cheap, the output of the illegal salt is low, no matter how much money a single illegal salt dealer makes, compared with the imperial court, it is simply a small thing.

And Zhang De's sea trade commodities are also bulk, and theoretically speaking, whether it is tea or raw silk, it is still a necessity of life. Zhang Dexiang is the imperial court for those small states that do not have the right to set prices and produce production.

The most important point is that Zhang De is not the kind of small role that is casually handled. It is true that he is a sixteen-year-old boy, but in Jiangnan, Yu Shinan and his son will not mention it first, Lu Deming's connections alone are enough to provide Zhang De with the protection of the north and south of Suzhou. In Hebei, the relationship between Master Li Ke and the Zhang family had to go to Li Jing, and Zhang Gongjin was Li Jing's deputy.

Even if you don't look at these, just look at the scale of the Zhongyi Society, and there are not a few upstart families married by the Shandong Shi clan. Cheng Biting Jin is one of the typical examples, and Cheng Chubi has always been Zhang Dewei's head.

Therefore, even if the Shandong Shi clan really wants to engage in Zhang De and wants to take it by force, they must also take into account the relationship between the Zhongyi Society.

It's not terrible to mess with a teenager, but it's troublesome to mess with a group of teenagers. The so-called don't bully young people to be poor, that's what they say. Moreover, Cheng Chubi and others have already begun to serve in the unified military government or the border army, and with their family background, they are about 20 years old and have a real job from the sixth grade, which is not a matter at all.

Thinking of this, Cui Hongdao suddenly secretly pondered: Could this young man have already calculated?

Although he was surprised in his heart, Cui Hongdao did not move on the surface, nodded and said, "I already know what I said." In this way, the abundance of tea is really exciting. ”

Not to mention the sea trade, the profits on the Silk Road, Sanle Tang came from Persia to Chang'an, and it was directly fifteen times the profit, and it was in short supply. And Chang'an's raw silk took the Silk Road to the Western Regions, which was directly ten times the profit, and the wealth of Hu merchants in the Western Regions came from this.

Moreover, the Western Regions produced a lot of gold and silver, and Persia was at the forefront of exchanges between the East and the West, and the southeast was a subcontinent country with a large population and many cities. The consumption of bulk materials is astronomical for people in this era.

Several people have their own thoughts, and their backgrounds belong to wealthy families in various places. The bait thrown by Zhang De has always been moisturizing things silently. Xue Dading was half helpless and half voluntary, and without the toss of Master Li Ke's son, there would be no food deficit in Cangzhou. But the toss of Master Li Ke's son is also the advanced posture of Li Desheng who went to Chang'an to study......

Then repairing bridges, paving, digging ditches and building embankments can be regarded as sending charcoal in the snow, giving Xue Dading a great political achievement, so whether he wants to or not, Xue Dading will stand on Zhang De's side, after all, the political performance project is not completed in a day.

Xiao Keng was pondering whether to ask his eldest brother to borrow some power, but Cui Hongdao turned around countless thoughts, and secretly sighed in his heart: I knew that there was such a teenager, so that Jue Niang had a place to go, and it was an opportunity to go to the queen to find a beauty to fill the harem, but now it was a mistake, and I can't find a broken door in vain.

There was silence in the hall for a while, Lao Zhang gave Cui Shen a look, Cui Jixiu smiled thiefly, and the two nodded to each other, both of them knew it in their hearts. Sprinkle this handful of carrots, can the horses of these families not bow their heads? Zhang De's sentence of "one word" is simply a trump card, and it directly smashed on Cui Hongdao's heart.

I want to fight with the emperor for the right to education and personnel, and I don't have the money to play a fart. If it was three years ago in Zhenguan, the Shandong Shi clan would definitely not be afraid of the emperor's threat.

But now it has long been very different, one after another, the Turks have beaten Tuguhun, Tuguhun, Tiele and Khitan, and in this way, the finances of the imperial court have actually been supported, there has been no collapse, and some acres of land have also been reduced. For example, the black beans and soybeans needed by horses are reduced by half for an acre of land, and the people praise them.

Not only that, the emperor Li Yuan wanted to repair the summer palace, the emperor was reluctant to pay money, and the Shandong scholars thought that the emperor was shy in his pocket, and he heard that the queen's jewelry had not been added. As a result, Princess Langya herself advanced money to start civil construction, although it has not yet been completed, there are still several palaces, and hundreds of thousands of guan are not smashed in vain.

The royal palace was built, but it did not hurt the wealth and endowment of the country, which shows that the court is different from the former Sui, and no matter how calm the Shandong scholars are, they are also flustered. Fang Xuanling's appointment as the deposed ambassador of Hebei Province was a kind of relaxation and a step for the emperor and the Shandong scholars.

I don't know how long I didn't say a word, but I only heard a squeak, and I saw three little girls staring at the starry eyes, looking at the hall with a ghostly expression, a group of men put the case on the table, and gathered there in a daze. (To be continued.) )

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