In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Henan Corps as soon as possible, Su Yonglin squeezed out a hundred instructors from the cracks of his teeth and sent them to Kaifeng, giving them to Wen Anzhi to lead them, so that they could carry out further ideological and cultural education for the new recruits and surrendered soldiers as soon as possible, and civilize them as soon as possible.
An army that has not received ideological enlightenment and cultural enlightenment, no matter how strong its military skills are, cannot transcend the limitations of the feudal army. It can win battles with a favorable wind, but cannot win battles with a headwind.
The Liberation Army is an iron army that cannot be defeated or delayed. Su Yonglin will never allow these new recruits and surrendered soldiers to bring the entire team back.
Under this background, Su Yonglin felt that it might not be a good thing to spread his stall so big. He needed to take a while to calm down, practice his internal skills, and sort out the internal military and political affairs.
This requires not only patience, but also money, a lot of money.
Three meals a day for the army, consumption of daily necessities, consumption of study materials, etc. all require a large amount of financial investment, and this money cannot be saved.
Moreover, the current administrative construction work also requires a large amount of financial investment, which is related to the problem of food for the people, and money cannot be saved.
Although the Jin Kingdom's dignitaries were completely squeezed out and a large amount of wealth was squeezed out, compared to the entire post-war reconstruction work and military reorganization work, that amount of money alone seemed slightly insufficient.
Internal demand has not yet been boosted, so it is unrealistic to rely on taxes to drive construction. Su Yonglin has never thought about making money from the poor.
He prefers rich people's money. Rich people are so noble, and their money must be more fragrant.
For example, after Su Yonglin squeezed out all the Jurchen nobles' money, he went to smell it. Really, it smelled really good.
But the Jurchen dignitaries were almost drained by him, no matter how fragrant they were, they were gone. So who is the richest now?
Southern Song Dynasty.
The "rich" Southern Song Dynasty.
The Southern Song Dynasty was originally richer than the Jin Kingdom. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have the strength to devour the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, Su Yonglin would even want to mobilize his troops to go south and squeeze out all the Southern Song Dynasty dignitaries, landlords and gentry.
In this way, he felt that he had enough construction funds for his revolutionary construction, and primitive accumulation was almost completed.
Su Yonglin felt that it was an astronomical figure that could not be calculated as to how much wealth the dignitaries, landlords and gentry of the Southern Song Dynasty had.
So greedy, so greedy that my mouth is watering.
So Su Yonglin began to set his sights south, feeling that he had to find a way to make money from the Southern Song Dynasty.
Military means obviously won't work, so in addition to the antique cultural relics business and normal bilateral trade, Su Yonglin felt that he should still make a profit by taking advantage of the difference in salt prices between the two sides.
In mid-May, just a few days after occupying Zhongdu, Su Yonglin held a meeting in Zhongdu on major people's livelihood issues. On the first and second days of the meeting, he took the lead in formulating the "Interim Salt Law of the Liberation Army".
According to the provisions of this salt law, he still stipulated that salt must be sold by the government, and private operations were not allowed. Anyone who violated the order would be severely punished. However, Su Yonglin had a "fracture" in terms of the price of official salt.
During the reign of the Jin Kingdom, the price of salt was high in the south and low in the north. That is, where there were many Jurchens, salt was cheap, and where there were few Jurchens, salt was expensive.
But this price is also relative to the areas where Jurchens gather. Compared to the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of gold salt can even be discounted by more than half. The people under the Jin Kingdom were at least better off than the people in the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of eating salt.
Now that Su Yonglin rules the Central Plains, although he still decides to run the Yantie official business, it is a big deal in terms of price.
He made the price of salt in the area under his control drop to a figure that ordinary people can only dream of, which is one or two cents more than the cost price. In short, everyone can afford it, and there will be no reason to be unable to afford salt. And worry.
What Su Yonglin means is that we cannot learn from the Jin Kingdom in the past and the Song Kingdom in the south. We know that people cannot live without eating salt but still sell salt at an extremely high price. Then shouldn't there be people selling smuggled salt?
Why bother making people unable to eat salt?
Small profits but quick turnover are also good, and if the official salt is of good quality and low price, people will definitely buy official salt and not private salt. If the private salt market disappears, market order will naturally be established.
It seems that the profit is less than before, but the hidden costs of anti-illicit salt sales that were required in the past to maintain the order of high-priced official salt have also been reduced, so in fact there is still some profit.
The salt affairs department of the Liberation Army did not need to be as bloated as in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the military and administrative forces to maintain the high salt price order did not need to be so large. Military and administrative costs could be greatly reduced.
Millions of canal work was gone, and the salt industry was naturally revitalized.
This was the first decree issued by Su Yonglin on people's livelihood after occupying Zhongdu.
After the Salt Law was finalized, he immediately sent troops to occupy all the salt fields in the occupied area, whether on the seaside or inland.
Then, people from the Food and Rating Department under the General Affairs Bureau were asked to take over the major salt farms, and arrange manpower to resume production and control the sales and quality of official salt.
By July, as time went by, affordable official salt was gradually rolled out in Shandong, Hebei, Yanyun, Henan and other places. People enjoyed low-price salt and praised Su Yonglin's benevolent government.
After appeasing a wave of people and gaining popularity, Su Yonglin sent people to the border between Song and Jin Dynasties to organize an official salt team under the control of the Food and Rating Department.
He planned to secretly establish contact with private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty, sell his own salt to private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty at high prices, and earn high profits.
The so-called high price here is lower than the price of private salt in the Southern Song Dynasty. The private salt dealers will definitely raise the price to sell it after receiving his salt. However, after the price increase, the private salt is still far less expensive than the official salt in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Thanks to the high price of official salt in the Southern Song Dynasty, Su was simply doing charity. He could make money while doing charity. He was simply making money while standing.
In this regard, Su Yonglin's old subordinates and he himself are both old men and women with a clear background.
Although we are now engaged in war and politics, more than two years ago, we were still real private salt dealers, and we will never forget this traditional art.
After the success of the Haizhou pilot, Su Yonglin informed Lin Jingchun and asked him to spread out the stall as soon as possible, lie on the Southern Song Dynasty to suck blood, and earn all the Southern Song Dynasty's copper coins.
At the mention of making money, Lin Jingchun became active, his eyes lit up, and he waved his hand - Come on, kids!
This is how the Salt Division was established.
Lin Jingchun was still uneasy, so he personally took charge of the Salt Department, personally dispatched reliable subordinates to take the lead in forming a salt selling team, and personally taught the skills of smuggling salt. So soon, more than a dozen official salt selling teams under different banners were established.
Each team is responsible for the salt sales business in a certain area on the border. Each team is given a certain amount of time to find local private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty to establish relationships and rebuild the private salt sales network.
If you cannot start making profits within a certain period of time and send copper coins to the Food and Rating Department, you should wait for dismissal and interrogation!
Lin Jingchun has very strict requirements for the salt department.
But this is not too difficult for these new "salt dealers".
As the saying goes, if there is demand, there is a market, and if there is a market, there is business.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of official salt was so high, and the people's demand was so great that the eyes of private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty were red, so they must find ways to get cheap salt to sell.
The Nanjing Road border between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty was also the hardest hit area for illicit salt trade in the past. Many illicit salt dealers conducted illicit salt trade in this area.
However, since the Liberation Army expelled the Jin Army, the private salt sales network has been cut off, and the private salt dealers on the Song border are anxious and feeling bad.
Because there was no revenue and no business for a long time, many private salt gangs even disbanded themselves in despair and went home to farm.
Even some large-scale gangs have basically dismissed their peripheral members, leaving only a few core members who wander around the border all day long, hoping for the stars and the moon, hoping that the private salt dealers over there will appear soon.
If you don’t show up, everyone will change careers!
Perhaps their sincerity moved God. At the end of July, Ma San, a former private salt dealer in Caizhou, approached Jing Cheng, a private salt dealer in Xinyang whom he was familiar with, and brought him a piece of news that made him feel ecstatic.
The private salt trade can be restarted.
