Although salt is expensive, people have to eat salt. If they don’t eat salt, they will have no strength. How can they work? Therefore, the big salt merchants in the Daqing Dynasty were very rich. There were also people who took risks and sold private salt. However, if the private salt dealers were caught,

It's time to be beheaded.

If you want to sell salt openly, you must obtain permission from the government and have salt in hand.

Shanyun County's share of salt production has always been divided among the four families of Zhang Yan, Ma and Song. When they first started drying salt, Wen Jiuxiao said in advance that this year's production of salt production would not be released outside.

This caught the four families off guard. Salt is so expensive. Selling salt accounts for half of the family's annual income. They are not that honest. Official salt is mixed with private salt, so they can make more money!

Now that the government no longer releases salt to the public, salt cannot be sold. What does the county magistrate mean? Is it just this year that salt will not be released, or will there be no salt in the future? Does the county magistrate want to do the salt business?

The four families secretly speculated that the Zhang family was lucky. Since they were determined to join the county magistrate's ship and even the roads were built, they could only go to the dark side in one way. If you can't sell the salt, don't sell it.

The pain in the body also weighs on the family members, and no shouting or making trouble is allowed.

The Song family was okay. Song Yi'an entered the county government, so naturally he couldn't dismantle the county magistrate. Furthermore, the Song family also had a scholar who didn't know how expensive firewood and rice were. Song Lixian had long disliked the family's business, which polluted the aroma of books.

Except for the head of the Song family who sighed for several days, there was no splash in the Song family.

The Yan family and the Ma family were furious, "Why don't you add salt? This is going to force us to death!"

"Isn't it? I can see it. This guy is really capable of cutting flesh with a soft knife. First it was a quarry, then there was a census, and now even salt is not allowed to be sold. I don't know what will happen tomorrow.

Well, this time, there will be no way for people to survive."

"Brother, what do you mean by him?"

"What do you mean? Make money! I asked you why you were so kind before, sending rice and meat to Mudleg, and cart after cart of things were scattered, and you didn't feel bad at all. You had already planned it? Now the fox's tail is exposed, right?

The abacus is really good."

"Are you saying that Wen has salt in his hands? No, he has only been here a few days and he has already figured out everything here?"

"I can't tell. Brother, what do you think? If we leave out the salt, we won't be able to open the pot at home." It's not that we can't open the pot. It's true that the money has shrunk.

"Who says it's not the case? Brother, you only have two sons, so you can still live on a tight schedule, but I have five sons. With so many mouths to eat, without the income from salt, I really have to beg for food. Brother,

I am really unwilling to do so, otherwise the four of us..."

"Don't think about it, brother, haven't you seen it yet? There are four more families? The Zhang family and the Song family have long become the county magistrate's lapdog. Especially the Zhang family, look at how hard they are chasing after each other.

If someone named Wen said that shit smells good, he would go up and take a bite." That was a look of disdain on his face!

"Humph, I still don't believe that Mr. Wen really has salt in his hands. What's wrong if he doesn't have any salt? I have salt, so why don't I worry that no one will buy it?" I just sell it privately. It's not like this has been done before.

"That's true."

The two of them looked at each other and understood what the other meant. They had thought together. You have policies, and I have countermeasures. There are many loopholes to take advantage of.

But soon the Yan family and the Ma family discovered that something was wrong. They had salt in their hands, but no one really bought it.

Because the county government posted another notice, which said that people in Shanyun County will be able to buy salt at a fair price in the future. The price of salt has dropped by half from before. What does this mean? It means that the people in Shanyun County will be able to buy salt at a fair price.

I can afford salt now.

Of course, in order to prevent people from collecting large amounts of salt at low prices and reselling it, the county government has also introduced a series of policies. For example, a "salt book" is issued to every household. When buying salt, how many people in your family are there?

, how much is the amount per month, more is okay, but if it is too much, it will definitely not work. As for you saying that you want to use salted fish and pickled vegetables, that is okay, but it will be recorded in the "salt book" that your family

You can't just pickle vegetables every now and then, right?

The idea of ​​"salt book" naturally came from Yu Zhi, and it was not considered her idea. She borrowed it from the "grain and oil book".

It is not practical to ask all the people to go to the city to buy salt, so we set up sales outlets in towns and large villages with large populations to ensure that people can buy salt conveniently.

As soon as this news came out, the common people were very happy. Especially in the villages adjacent to the two counties, they could buy salt at a fair price, but the village next door had to eat salt at a high price. As people from Shanyun County, they were so proud! Did you see that?

This is all because our parents are good officials!

There is another notice on the notice, which is aimed at mountain people. Mountain people who are willing to go down the mountain to live will enjoy the same treatment as the people below the mountain, which means they can also buy salt at a fair price.

As for whether it can attract mountain people to come down the mountain, it will definitely not be effective for a while. Wen Jiuxiao is not in a hurry. He has not yet sorted out the people at the foot of the mountain, so the mountain people will wait and see.

The official salt sold by the government is white in color, has no peculiar smell, and is relatively cheap. People are not stupid, so how can they buy private salt from the Yan family and the Ma family? Didn’t you hear the message from the poor man who went to the countryside? In Shanyun County, there is only

Only the salt sold by the government is authentic, other salt is private salt and cannot be purchased.

The Zhang family and the Song family were very happy. They secretly watched the Yan family and the Ma family's jokes. Huh, they also wanted to secretly sell salt to compete with the county magistrate. Can't they sell the salt? Are they dumbfounded? Are they stupid? Damn it!

While Wen Jiuxiao was selling salt at a fair price, he also secretly asked people to take out salt. Horses don't get fat without night grass, and people don't get rich without windfall. What makes the most money? Of course it's smuggling.

Wen Jiuxiao is not a law-abiding person, otherwise he would not shoot arrows at Princess Anle. He has his own set of principles in his heart. As long as the result is good, what if the method and process are not aboveboard? What's more, he

Selling salt is also for the development of Shanyun County, not to line your own pockets.

Salt is really profitable, cartloads of salt are taken away, and cartloads of silver are brought back. At this time, Yu Zhi is the happiest. She likes to count the silver. She opens the box and looks at it one by one.

The color, the luster, tsk tsk, there is nothing more beautiful than this.

This was not the only thing Yu Zhi was happy about. Didn't she get nearly a hundred bandits from Shachi County? She also picked a dozen bandits from the prison, making up a hundred people, and drove them all to open up wasteland.

Look at the situation of the wasteland. If it is difficult to cultivate, one person can cultivate half an acre a day. If there are not many weeds, one person can cultivate an acre a day. After working for a whole month, several thousand acres of land will be cultivated. After several years of cultivation, this is

Fertile farmland. If all the wasteland in Shanyun County is reclaimed, will we still have to worry about taxes?

The reason why these bandits dare not act like monsters is purely because of the big stick and the carrot. The big stick is self-evident, but the carrots vary from person to person. Yu Zhi does not treat them harshly when it comes to food. It is such a heavy physical labor and they will not eat it.

It's not enough to have a full meal.

Some of the women who were snatched up the mountain gave birth to children by the bandits. Some were forced, but some lived a good life afterwards. Like the latter, Yu Zhi said, if they behave well and reform, they can be redeemed.

After all their sins have been paid off, they are allowed to become common people under the rule of this county and can reunite with their wives and children and live a good life.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, there is no human life on the body.

One chapter today, the kids will start school tomorrow! Ahhhh!
Chapter completed!