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These ten people can be said to be the essence of the essence of the Great Song Dynasty scholars, and in the future, Kuang Fu Sheji, the person who will hold the authority of the Great Song Dynasty, it is very likely that they will come from these ten people, and Zhao Zhen will naturally take it seriously.

As a benevolent king, every time Zhao Zhen passed on the big competition, Zhao Zhen would vary from person to person, and from different sides, to understand these new upstarts of the Great Song Dynasty.

When encountering those who are casual and timid, Zhao Zhen will even chat with them about family life and let them relax. For example, let's talk about the inheritance of family learning, relatives and other gentle topics.

When encountering talented and agile people, Zhao Zhen will ask one or two simple questions and take the school exam.

But....

has been an emperor for nearly 30 years, and Zhao Zhen has never met a new scholar who can talk directly to him like Fan Chunren.

Zhao Zhen had met Fan Laoer, a Confucian student who was only twenty years old, and inherited his father's righteousness.

As soon as Zhao Zhen saw Fan Chunren, he did not take the school examination directly, but asked about Fan Zhongyan's body, as well as the recent situation of Du Yan and Yin Zhu. Knowing that the three of them were in good health and free of illness and disaster, Zhao Zhen casually asked a few questions about the Northwest Military System.

He was kind-hearted, after all, the article made by Fan Chunren Dianqian was about the war in the northwest, and he must have studied it in depth. Ask him about the northwest, and the child will not be embarrassed because he can't answer.

But Na Cheng thought that Fan Lao Er and Ben didn't appreciate it, and Zhao Zhen was startled in three and a half sentences.

"The war in the Northwest, according to the text, there is no need to say more. It is necessary to first consolidate the gathering points and stick to the border defense. As long as the Xixia Li thief can't get in and can't grab the benefits, he can hold his lifeline and crush it with one blow! ”

Can Zhao Zhen not be scared?

"Broken in one blow? Choke its lifeblood? "That's something he didn't write about in his article.

Moreover, Da Song and Xixia have been arguing for more than 20 years, how did they get to him, it is like sitting at home and beating a child.... It's that simple?

"Why choke its lifeline!? Why was it crushed with one blow? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the land of Western Xia, with more grazing and less land, no work and no agriculture, is that in addition to cattle and horses, only the production of green salt can be used for the national economy and people's livelihood."

"However, although my Great Song Dynasty can make a lot of profits from the Song and Xia mutual markets, in essence, the significance of the mutual markets to the livelihood of the people in Western Xia is far greater than my Great Song Dynasty's desire to make profits. If the northwest is well defended, the Xia soldiers plunder without results, and our dynasty closes the mutual market, then the Xia land will not be able to meet in March, and the people will have no clothing, no food, and no army to eat. If this goes on for a long time, there will be chaos! ”

Fan Chunren: This is really not alarmist. Before, I discussed this issue with my father and Tang Yi, there is nothing but cattle, sheep and horses in that broken place, if the Song and Xia markets are closed, and the Western Xia loots to no avail, the people of the Western Xia will not even have a place to find a pot for cooking.

Zhao Zhen said again: "It's not useless to close the mutual market and strictly prevent looting, but why is it so effective?" ”

"Because of smuggling!" Fan Chunren said loudly, "The smuggling between the two countries has always been very rampant, even if the mutual market is closed, smuggling cannot be stopped, which greatly alleviates the crisis of the shortage of basic living materials in Western Xia." ”

Zhao Zhen sighed gloomily.

Smuggling has always been the most troublesome problem for the imperial court, and even if the punishment is severe, it cannot break the greed of some people.

"Since smuggling cannot be stopped, where does Yaofu's words of 'one blow and collapse' come from?"

"The law of 'one blow and defeat' that the minister said is actually to prohibit smuggling!"

Zhao Zhen was shocked, and said in his heart, Fan Chunren has a way to ban smuggling?

"Your Majesty, the smuggling of Song Xia is nothing more than stealing into the Xia realm with the silk tea iron of the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for green salt back to the Song Dynasty."

The things that Xixia can get their hands on, except for cattle and horses, are only green salt. However, the Niuma Imperial Court is very strict and it is not easy to make a move, so Weiqing salt is the most suitable and the most sought-after.

The Great Song Dynasty practiced a monopoly system of salt and iron. Salt, a necessary daily necessities for the people, was priced and sold by the imperial court, which was not only high in price, but also in quality not as good as green salt. Therefore, the green salt of Western Xia is quite popular in the northwestern states of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people use salt, and seven or eight out of ten come from Western Xia. It can be seen how rampant smuggling is.

"It can be said that Western Xia can survive when our dynasty closes the mutual market and the official does not get the necessary funds for life, mainly by relying on green salt in exchange."

"As long as the smuggling road of green salt is blocked, the last reliance of Western Xia will be gone. It won't be long before the people in the Western Xia will be struggling to make a living, and if there is no attack, they will be trapped by civil strife. At that time, as long as I used some means, whether it was to control or send troops to attack, it would definitely be advisable. ”

Zhao Zhenxin said that Fan Chunren is only twenty years old, and it is not easy to talk about this step.

However, this has come back again, how can it be so easy to ban the smuggling of green salt?

No, Fan Chunren continued: "And if you want to enter the Song Dynasty, it's not too difficult. ”

"How?"

"Stabilize the price of salt in the northwest, so that the price of official salt is lower than that of green salt!"

“.....”

Yue Zhen's first reaction was that this bad idea must be Tang Zihao's way.

Now, as long as the price and business are mentioned, Zhao Zhen's first reaction is Tang Yi. can bring the military affairs of the two countries to business, and only Tang Yi has these two ideas.

In fact, Zhao Zhen guessed correctly, this was indeed Tang Yi's idea.

The reason for stabilizing the price of salt is very simple, whether it is an orthodox merchant or a smuggler, it is inseparable from the word 'profit'.

Smuggling green salt is huge, even if Zhao Zhen catches one and kills another, even if the imperial court sets the torture of smuggling and punishing the whole clan, there will still be people who dare to stand up and take risks. Besides, the northwest is no longer as simple as a few bold people smuggling a few bags of illicit salt into the country.

In the current northwest, from government officials to military generals, they are all inextricably linked with salt dealers. Otherwise, how could the amount of private salt be several times more than the official salt.

Therefore, if you want to ban smuggling, it is not enough to use torture, you have to cut off their thoughts from the root.

How?

Wouldn't it be over if you just make private salt unprofitable?

If you can't make money from smuggling, who will do it? If the price of official salt is lower than that of green salt, who will buy green salt?

One trick to draw salary, do the opposite, except for Tang Zihao, who can think of it?

Fan Chunren said all the ideas, and Zhao Zhen broke out in a cold sweat....

It's a poisonous ploy!

The so-called gentlemen in the court will never come up with it, only Tang Yi has these two shots.

However, both Tang Yi and Fan Chunren seem to ignore a fact.

That is, the imperial court could not do without the salt tax!

...

In fact, not to mention that there is no salt tax, even if there is one less eldest son, Wen Yanbo has to fight hard with Tang Yi!

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ps: I have a splitting headache, there are only three chapters today, forgive me! (To be continued.) )