Old Nanfeng rushed to the main castle of Gaojiabao and was immediately invited into the meeting hall.
As soon as he entered, he saw a group of big shots discussing matters with serious faces.
He only recognized the Holy Girl, Thirty-Two, and Cheng Xu. He didn't recognize the others, and he didn't dare to make mistakes, so he sat obediently behind Cheng Xu and just pricked up his ears to listen.
Thirty-two said: "We need to make alkali, and making alkali requires a lot of salt. Since Puzhou, Shanxi is a salt-producing area, it is an inevitable step for us to get salt from the fields. Otherwise, it will not be built." Even though the chemical plant is ready, it still lacks salt to start operations.
Chunhong couldn't help but asked: "Didn't Heavenly Lord give us a lot of salt before? Please ask again..."
Thirty-Two interrupted her and said: "Don't think about asking the Heavenly Lord first for everything. Only when we can't solve it ourselves can we ask the Heavenly Lord. We couldn't solve salt before, so the Heavenly Lord gave it to us, but now we ourselves If you have the ability to solve it, you have to solve it yourself.”
Cheng Xu said: "Yes! If we didn't have a boat and couldn't reach the Gudu Wharf, it would be reasonable to ask Tianzun for salt. But now that we can touch Puzhou, we still need to ask Tianzun for salt. That's simply unreasonable. ”
Thirty-two turned to Xing Honglang: "Miss Xing, you are familiar with the situation in Shanxi. Could you please tell me what the process is to get the salt there?
After the wedding, Xing Honglang, who was wearing a woman's bun, was also sitting, with a red face, as if there was nothing unhappy in the world, and the whole person was in high spirits: "Actually, salt is not produced in Puzhou. , is produced in Hedong Road, which is the hometown of Tie Niao Fei in Hedong."
Xing Honglang continued: "In ancient times, the Yellow Emperor fought against Chi You. The place where Chi You's head was dismembered formed a large pool called Jiechi, and that pool was rich in Jiechi. People gathered around Jiechi to make salt. , a big city was formed, which is now Hedong Road."
Everyone in the room said they learned.
Li Daoxuan also nodded in the sky: I have learned new knowledge.
Xing Honglang said: "The government has taken salt very seriously since ancient times. Therefore, heavy troops were stationed in Hedong Road to protect Jiechi, and the government was responsible for managing the production and sales of Jie salt."
Speaking of this, she grinned: "But Jiechi is very big, more than forty miles long. In such a large area, how can a few soldiers from the government garrison be seen? The life of the saltsmiths in the government is very hard. Get coins to do it for free. All the salt was taken away by the government, which only gave them a small amount of wages, making it difficult to make ends meet, so the saltsmiths would always sell the salt secretly..."
Thirty-two said: "I understand, so all the private salt dealers in Puzhou went to the pond to buy salt from the saltsmiths? This gave rise to the famous private salt dealers in Puzhou.
Xing Honglang: "Exactly! Since Puzhou is not far to the west of Hedong Road and very close to the dissolution pond, Puzhou has become a transit point for saltmakers. A large number of private salt dealers gather here, looking for opportunities. , went to Jiechi to secretly contact the saltsmith, and after buying the salt, he immediately returned to Gudu Wharf and sold the salt by ship to all over the world."
Speaking of this, Xing Honglang grinned: "In our small place of Yongji, nine out of ten villagers have sold private salt.
Everyone laughed and shook their heads: "Don't let Fang Wushang go to your village, otherwise they will all be captured and sent to labor camps."
I really didn’t dare to let Fang Wushang know what everyone was talking about today.
Thirty-two said: "Miss Xing...cough...Mrs. The land will bring the salt back. Of course, the best thing is to be able to enter Jiechi, but... Listen to Mrs. Xing
He said that Jiechi was heavily guarded by government troops, so it would be inappropriate to rob Jiechi now. "
Cheng Xu nodded: "If we send troops to rob the solution pool now, it will be equivalent to cutting off the salt supply to the imperial court. It is no different from directly declaring a rebellion. It is as stupid as Wang Jiayin proclaiming the king. The real thing is to accumulate food and slowly proclaim the king. Kingly way.
Bai Yuan said in the middle: "So it is not appropriate for us to rob the solution pool openly now, but it is completely feasible to send a small team of people to the solution pool to contact the saltsmiths and ask them to ship private salt to us in the future. "
Xing Honglang grinned: "This is my specialty."
Thirty-two: "Well, Mrs. Xing has to take the lead in this matter. You go to the edge of the solution pond and contact the saltsmiths. However, with your team alone, it is okay to transport a small amount of salt. If you need a large amount, It is impossible to get salt. Shanxi is not peaceful now. There are rogue bandits everywhere. When you can transport little salt, you can still flexibly avoid the rogues and soldiers. Once you transport too much salt, dozens of salt trucks will With a long queue of vehicles, it is impossible to guarantee that they can evade bandits and officers and soldiers every time."
Xing Honglang nodded: "This is a problem."
Thirty-Two turned to Cheng Xu and Zao Ying: "At this time, we have to rely on Professor He and Professor Zao to learn."
Zao Ying frowned and said: "As soon as we take action, won't the name of the Gaojia Village Group be known? When the court saw it, Gaojia Village actually sent a cavalry team and a gun team to protect the private salt, which is equivalent to showing off. Understand the rebellion.”
Cheng Xu chuckled: "Teacher Zao, you are wrong about this. How could it be possible that Gaojiacun did this? We Gaojiacun didn't know about it at all! Of course it was done by rogue bandits. Shanxi is now full of people. Rogue bandits, it shouldn’t be surprising that there is suddenly a group of bandits with cavalry and musketry, and they engage in a large number of illegal activities, right?"
Everyone: "..."
Xing Honglang smiled: "This method is appropriate, just pull my banner. Anyway, I, Xing Honglang, Yongji, is also a well-known salt lord in Shanxi, and I don't have nine tribes to kill. Just say that I rebelled, and brought a large number of The cavalry and gunmen were blatantly engaged in illegal activities, so the court would not suspect Gaojiacun, and would at most regard it as a more fierce bandit among the more than a hundred thief leaders under Wang Jiayin."
At the end of the sentence, she chuckled: "Maybe Wang Jiayin will treat me as one of his own and won't come to snatch our salt truck."
Li Daoxuan gave a thumbs up: This is not a bad way to handle it!
Thirty-two: "It's okay to pretend to be bandits, but...Mrs.
Xing Honglang laughed loudly: "Don't worry! I can't do that kind of thing."
Zao Ying: "Hey, then I will go to Shanxi with my good sisters to have fun."
Cheng Xu turned to Zao Ying and asked: "Zao Tuanlian, your cavalry battalion has never been full, right? How many spare horses are left?"
Zao Ying: "There are still three hundred empty horses."
Cheng Xu nodded: "Then I will send three hundred of my soldiers to follow you. They will ride with you on horseback. They will dismount and form formations when fighting is needed."
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