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After Henan Mansion, to the west is Shaanzhou, and you will arrive at Shaanxi Road. Leaving the Central Plains immediately, Xu Ping only felt that every grass and tree here on this day was extremely kind, as if he couldn't see enough. Greedy for this scenery, he didn't enter the post house, and asked Tan Hu to send someone to take a few chairs and sit and chat with Chong Shiheng outside.

The sun had just reached the distant mountain, and Zhang Dayou rushed over. A few days ago, Xu Ping recommended him as the Shaanxi right-of-way system to solve the salt, in charge of the Shaanxi salt administration, just went to Shaanxi with Xu Pingyi, and discussed the matter of salt relief by the way.

Since the implementation of the New Deal, the income from the ban on tea, salt, and wine has become unimportant to the imperial finances, and the legal ban has slowly begun to relax. Among them, the alcohol ban is equivalent to the luxury tax, but the original system that prohibits cross-state sales has changed, and the ban is still the same. Because salt is equivalent to a poll tax, the law is much looser, and the three divisions basically no longer draw salt profits from the people. The tea world is in between, and tea is planted in the mountains, without wasting food, nor competing with grain for land, and has been slowly released.

Now that there was a war with the party, wine was not convenient for long-distance transportation and could be left alone, and tea had now become a daily necessity for nomads due to the large-scale promotion of the Tang Dynasty and needed to be restricted. Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi along the three roads, the ban on tea is stricter than before, merchants are not allowed to traffic long-distance, can only buy goods from the channels of the three shops. The three shops have a fixed volume of transportation, and at the same time control the distribution merchants to prevent them from smuggling tea abroad. The tea trade, monopolized by the government, was basically used in exchange for horses. According to Xu Ping's plan, after the whole system was straightened out, the foreign ethnic groups in the north must exchange horses for tea, and all other materials were not allowed to trade, and the tea and horse trade was compulsory. For Song, horses were the real useful material.

The case of salt is more complicated. Shaanxi Road should be open to salt according to the law, but because the party and the Qingtang Qiang under Qinzhou have large-scale salt ponds, they used to be subject to a gentle policy and allowed their salt to enter the Song realm for sale. Now that the party has rebelled and trade has been cut off, the party's salt will definitely not be allowed to enter the country.

Salt profits are an important source of finance for the party, and the severance of official trade will inevitably lead to large-scale smuggling. In the border areas of the two roads of Yanyan and Huanqing, the raw and cooked households are mainly members of the Dangxiang ethnic group, and it is difficult to prevent them from smuggling no matter how strictly it is strictly prohibited. And the party's green and white salt is of better quality than the previous salt solution, and it is difficult to cut off their financial path without worrying about sales.

Before Xu Ping left the Third Division, he decided to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle for the party's salt profits. The first is to reform the production and transportation of salt and improve the quality. It is not difficult to purify salt, but in the past, because of the official ban, it was equivalent to a general poll tax, and in some areas, it was directly assessed according to the population, and there was no motivation to improve the quality. Now the state needs, forcibly demands to improve quality. Another used the distribution of Sansi stores, and the government subsidized and sold it to Shaanxi Road at cost price, forcibly bringing down the price of salt. The most thorough way to deal with smuggling is to eliminate the price difference and make smuggling unprofitable.

Historically, this kind of policy could not be implemented because the cost of military operations on the Shaanxi Road was very dependent on salt profits, and in fact, salt was used to loot the people. Using this method to cut off the salt profits of the party, the Song Dynasty's own finances could not support it in the first place. Now that there is no shortage of money in the hands of the three divisions, the salt profits are dispensable, and they can wage economic warfare against the party.

Zhang Dayou went to Jiezhou for this matter, and most of the previous system and release of salt were sentenced or transferred concurrently on Shaanxi Road, and there were no special officials. Now that the economic war has started first, there is a need to set up special officials.

After seeing the ceremony, several people sat at the door of the post house and chatted about the situation they were about to face.

Xu Ping said to Zhang Dayou: "Loss, the method of the first system, I have demonstrated to you many times in the capital, and I also sent dozens of craftsmen to Jiezhou to teach craftsmen." When you get there, you must keep an eye on the matter, and don't let the salt be shoddy and useless, as you did in previous years. ”

Zhang Dayou arched his hand: "Yun Xing is at ease, I know that this matter is important, and I will not make a mistake!" ”

"Well, with your words, I'm relieved. There is not a lot of salt in Jiezhou, and there are countless that have not been sold there, and the oldest one is more than ten years ago. Originally, the party project was not opposed, and the salt solution department also said that it would stop salt production for a year or two and sell off the old salt. Now that the party is reversed, and the court does not rely on salt profits, there is no need to mention this matter again. When you get there, you first refine the salt stored in previous years and transfer it to the Sansi Shop. In previous years, most of the salt was transported with straw mats, and the soldiers and officials who transported salt on the road collaborated to cheat, steal the salt, and mix it with sediment, so the farther away from Jiezhou, the more salt and more sand in the salt. This year, the workshop in Luoyang City specially made wooden boxes to transport rice from Luoyang to Shaanzhou by land, and then loaded onto ships and transported along the river to Guanzhong. The empty wooden boxes there were all sent to Jiezhou, and the refined salt was all packed into wooden boxes, properly sealed, and not allowed to be opened on the road. ”

Zhang Dayou nodded and said, "Okay, since Yunxing has made arrangements, everything will be fine." ”

Xu Ping said again: "Also, in previous years, when making salt in Jiezhou Salt Pond, we had to wait until the south wind rose in midsummer, and the south wind was used to dry the salt. When we tried to enter the Shi, the title of the poem was "The Smoke of the South Wind", and we took this south wind very seriously in ancient times. In fact, the salt pond does not necessarily have to wait for the south wind to make salt, and the south wind only reduces the cost of decoction. After you get there, if you have spare time after refining and storing salt, and the salt on Shaanxi Road is insufficient, you can also fry the salt directly. Jiezhou is rich in coal, boiling salt does not need wood, the coal is inexhaustible, as long as there is a need, it will be decoction all year round. ”

Zhang Dayou said with a smile: "This is not necessary. I've read the report of the Salt Relief Division, and every year just the salt that is dried in the wind is enough for a few nearby roads. Now that there are many years of salt, there should be no shortage of salt. ”

"Everything is foreseen, and if you don't prepare, you will be wasted, and when you get there, you should first find the source of coal, and you can use it when refining salt anyway. Moreover, the so-called sufficiency in the past was under the conditions of high salt prices and crude and unpalatable salt. And in order to Huairou Dangxiang and other fans, sell their salt, deliberately suppress the salt and do not sell it. Now that the salt has been refined, the price of salt has been suppressed again, and the party's green and white salt has been banned. ”

Zhang Dayou thought for a while and said, "What Yunxing said is that when I go to understand the state, I will send someone to find Shitan." By the way, I also read the previous report, the salt households in the salt pond are divided into several types, and some of them live extremely hard. When I went there this time, I wanted to change everything to hire and pay wages according to the laws of the three divisions, so as to reassure people. ”

"Okay, that's it! The most difficult thing to do is to win people's hearts, as long as you have people's hearts, nothing can be done! In the past, the imperial court benefited a lot from the salt solution, but now there is no need for salt profits, you can use this to appease the salt farmers who make salt! ”

In fact, the root of all the shortcomings of the policy is in the imperial court's reliance on the salt benefits of the salt pond in Jiezhou. Once the three divisions don't need the money, all the problems should be solved easily, and it is not complicated. The use of the Jiezhou salt pond and the business system of the three divisions of the shop was enough to ban the sale of green and white salt in the party, which first cut off his financial path and let Yuan Hao know the consequences of the anti-Song Dynasty.

Chong Shiheng listened quietly on the side, and when he saw that Xu Ping and Zhang Dayou had finished talking, he couldn't help but say: "Jie Shuai, this is going to Qinzhou, there are Qingtang Qiang in Guwei Prefecture, and there are also salt ponds in the territory, and there are a lot of profits in previous years." Banning the salt profits of the party is afraid that it will also affect them. The people of Fan Qiang are heavy on profits, and suddenly they can't make any money from this, but they are afraid that there will be changes. ”

Qingtang Qiang is a Qiang people living in the territory of Weizhou in the Tang Dynasty, with many clansmen and considerable power, and belongs to the jurisdiction of Qinzhou. Although they are called by this name, they have nothing to do with the Qingtang Dynasty located on the shore of Qinghai Lake, and their ethnic groups are also different. There are salt ponds in ancient Weizhou, which supply many places on Qinfeng Road and Jingyuan Road, and those ethnic groups who occupy salt ponds have benefited greatly.

Xu Ping said to Chong Shiheng: "The matter of Qinzhou, we will discuss it when we get there, and now the situation is unknown, and I can't understand it." ”