After seeing off Zhang Zun, Guan Yi walked around his room with his hands behind his back for a few times and asked, "Xiao Qi, when is it now?"

"Qi reported to the head of the family, it is now the third hour of Xu."

It's not yet nine o'clock in the evening, I hope it's still time.

"Prepare the car now, I'm going to enter the palace!"

Liu Chan, who had just fallen from a beautiful girl's belly, has not yet fallen asleep at this time. After all, he is in his fifties. He is very tired after engaging in this vigorous exercise, but the more tired he is, the more he needs to strengthen his nutrition.

So at this moment, Huang Hao tore a thick layer of silk cloth with his own hands and took out a "strengthening agent" produced by Fuling County. Mr. Liu Chan swallowed it with deer blood.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Marquis of Shouting in Han, and the Left General Guan Yi were looking for a visit outside the palace."

"It's so late, why are he here?"

"I also told Han Shouting Hou this way, but Jun Hou said that as long as His Majesty has not fallen asleep, please see him."

"This lunatic man will cause trouble for me all day long. Let him wait in the front hall."

"Here!"

Guan Yi was very clear that as a minister, there was no emperor's instructions or agreement in advance. It was a very bad behavior to seek to see the emperor outside the palace gate in a reckless night. But as a eunuch party member, Guan Yi was very clear about Huang Hao's days of duty in the palace during which nights of a month. If he missed tonight, he would have to missed at least ten days - what he had to do was too big, and without Huang Hao helping him, he might not be sure to convince Liu Chan. Moreover, this matter must not be leaked, and he could only enter the palace late at night.

According to Guan Yi's plan, in the next three years, his main job was to expand production, accumulate population, and then fight against the war. Finally, in the fourth year, Cao Wei's destruction of the country. In this plan, he needed the support of Brazilian County: the population base of Fuling County is too small and the geographical environment is really bad. In just three years, relying on the power of Fuling County alone, he could not fight against the army, nor could he achieve self-sufficiency in food. The population base of Brazilian County is huge, and although the geographical environment is not as vast as CD, it can at least be cultivated.

There are a lot of wasteland. As long as Fuling County can provide sufficient financial support, plus the population purchased by Nanzhong, Wuximan and even Jingzhou of Dongwu, he is confident that he will achieve self-sufficiency in grain before Cao Wei comes to the country. In the next three years, the profits of Fuxing Society in Fuling County will increase by at least ten times, but it will not be able to achieve self-sufficiency in grain. Once the war begins, the method of purchasing grain from outside alone will be full of uncertainty, which is something that Guan Yi cannot tolerate - after all, this is not a game, and you cannot read the file and start over again.

Unfortunately, people's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. After all, Shu Han is not his leader. If Liu Chan, Chen Fu, Huang Hao and others thought that Fuling County was such a remote small county, even if Guan Yi ruined him, it would be harmed. Then the appointment of the Brazilian county supervisor would be much more cautious - this is a big county!

As a result, Zhang Zun was arranged to Jiangyang County. This county had a large amount of resources that could be mined in this era and exchanged for countless money - salt! But this thing was not what Guan Yi wanted in recent years. What he wanted was people! And how many people were there in the Jiangyang County Government's civil account of only three counties? 20,000 yuan was zero. It was less than Fuling County two years ago.

Therefore, he had to make mistakes and find a way to develop Jiangyang County.

It is actually very simple to develop Jiangyang County, which is to develop the salt industry on a large scale. Guan Yi plans to maximize the scale of Jiangyang County's salt farm within three years, and strive to feed more than 10,000 salt farm workers.

Due to the dispersed nature of the agricultural economy, farmers' discipline and organization are relatively poor. Not only does it take longer to train farmers to become qualified soldiers, but the cost is also relatively high. If you recruit a farmer as a soldier, you will have to at least reduce the income of ten acres of land in addition to raising a soldier. The workers are different. The discipline and organization of workers are relatively good - otherwise they will not be able to work in an orderly manner. On the one hand, the time is relatively short, and the cost is relatively small: large-scale industrial factories, workers gather together. They can produce during the day, at night or during public breaks. In this way, Guan Yi can completely hide soldiers from the people. By the fourth year, more than 10,000 industrial workers can be directly brought to the battlefield.

However, to achieve such a goal, we need to fully control all the salt fields in Jiangyang County in the future. This is in conflict with the current salt administration in Shu Han.

China's salt administration has changed a lot for thousands of years, but before the emergence of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were only three types.

One is the entire monopoly system: the state controls all salt fields, production, transportation and sales, and is responsible for all the state. The advantage of this system is that the state can set the price of salt at a very high level through the whole process, and plunder the copper plates of the people as much as possible. The disadvantage is that it is inefficiency, corruption, and the birth of private salt.

One is the on-site tax system: the state sends officials to major salt yards. The production of salt yards is the responsibility of the private sector. After the salt is produced, the state officials collect the salt tax in the salt yard. The remaining transportation and sales are all ignored. The advantage of this is that the production is efficient, and private salt is basically extinct. The disadvantage is that the country gets relatively little.

The third type is the exclusive sale system. The production of the salt farm belongs to the private sector. After the salt is produced, it is sold to the country at a fixed price. Then the salt merchant goes to the salt farm to buy from the country. After the purchase, the salt merchant is responsible for transportation and sales. The advantage of this is that the country can earn the difference steadily and the interests are guaranteed. Manufacturers and distributors are also more motivated.

What kind of salt administration is in Shu Han? I'm sorry, it is the "all monopoly system" that Guan Yi dislikes the most - production, transportation, and sales, all controlled by the state, and private individuals are not allowed to intervene - not only Shu Han, Cao Wei, and Eastern Wu, but all of them are like this - there is no way, the country is in a state of war for a long time and needs more money to support the standing army.

"I Guan Yi pays homage to Your Majesty. I bother you late at night and you will be punished for death!"

"Hmph, General Zuo, you know that you have disturbed Your Majesty. Although the death penalty is not enough, you don't tell me a reason. Don't talk about Your Majesty, our family can't spare you!"

The hidden look of gratitude at Huang Hao, Guan Yi leaned down and said, "Your Majesty, I have a way to make Jiangyang County govern within three years and make a profit of 1 billion yuan every year!"

The first sentence "The three years of Jiangyang County's rule" Liu Chan and Huang Hao just looked at each other and smiled: I knew that you, the leader of the Yuan Cong Sect, would not ignore your younger brother. But the next sentence "Make a profit of one billion yuan a year" made Liu Chan and Huang Hao unable to calm down.

What does one billion yuan mean in a year? According to the current rice price in Shu Han, the retail price of refined rice that is peeled off with one stone is 150 yuan. One billion yuan can buy 6.6 million stones of grain - enough for all the people in Shu Han people to eat in the first half of the year!

Liu Chan's eyes turned, and Huang Hao immediately stood up and said to the little eunuchs in the room, "Get out of our family and keep a close eye on the door. If a word that General Zuo said tonight is leaked, you and your family will not live!"

After shutting away, Liu Chan pushed Guan Yi fiercely and said, "To be careful, if you dare to cheat me, don't blame me for not remembering the old love!"

"How dare you deceive Your Majesty in such a big deal? Your Majesty, there is a place in Jiangyang County, with almost endless brine underneath..."

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"Even if what you said is true, the national salt administration has its own laws. How can you want me to promise you that the salt farm will be supervised by the Fuxing Society?"

Guan Yi obviously felt that when he proposed that the salt farm in Jiangyang County would be mined in the future and the right to produce and sell it would be handed over to Fuxing Society, Liu Chan's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

"Your Majesty, I have three reasons. First, if the salt farm in Jiangyang County is really mined thoroughly, the amount of salt produced is definitely astronomical. With such a large output, who will Your Majesty give it to?"

Before Liu Chan could answer, Huang Hao had already spoken: "Your Majesty, what General Zuo said makes sense. Since the 16th year of Yanxi, the output of 39 of the 41 salt farms in the country has been declining every year. However, the scale of the private houses of all salt farm officials has become larger and larger. The country's salt income has dropped from 400 million yuan a year before Yanxi's 16th year to 130 million yuan last year."

It can be said that the entire monopoly system is destined to breed a lot of corruption. What year was the 16th year of Yanxi? Fei Yi was assassinated. Without the high pressure of prestigious officials, the disadvantages of this system were immediately released. Liu Gan, the current prefect of Brazil County, was one of the main salt administration officials in Shu Han. In the evaluation of later generations, he clearly pointed out that this was a corrupt official.

Moreover, the sadness of Shu Han is that for the local rich people in Yizhou, they very much dislike the Shu Han regime. Therefore, the entire monopoly system has also spawned a large number of private salt dealers in a country that is seriously resistant to the central government.

"Say the second reason."

"Hey, Your Majesty. If the country can reform the salt law and implement the place-based monopoly system, the country's income will be stable and will not lose too much because the officials are working on it. Moreover, the officials responsible for transportation and sales can be laid off and the army will reduce a large amount of expenditure. More importantly, the people will not suffer from the lack of salt. This is a great good policy. If Your Majesty performs this method, the people will be grateful to Your Majesty."

The people of Shu Han were so bitter. The government controlled the production, transportation and sales of salt throughout the process, and set the price to the sky. During the Taiping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the price of salt was 400 yuan per stone. What is the price of salt in Shu Han now? 1,200 yuan! Such an outrageous price led to the general insufficient salt in Shu Han people - so the envoys of the Eastern Wu said that "people have good food" in Shu Han.

"Hmph, I'm afraid the people will say that this is Zhuge Siyuan's proposal. What is the third reason?"
Chapter completed!