People must eat salt every day. This is a necessity. Salt policy has always been a major national policy!
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daliang has been selling salt and iron exclusively like other countries!
The government sells salt, and merchants buy salt and go to the salt field to extract the salt, and then sell it in their respective designated areas.
Because most salt merchants are from Yangzhou, the salt in the southeast is also called Huai salt. After all, it comes from the Huai River basin!
When the old Zhu family started fighting, Zhu Youde's grandfather received help from wealthy salt merchants in Yangzhou, so he made an agreement with these local tycoons in Yangzhou to lighten taxes, reduce labor, and leave the salt business to the wealthy families in the southeast!
But now that fifty or sixty years have passed, this matter has completely changed.
Daliang set up a Salt Administration Office in Yangzhou to manage the sales and tax collection of salt. During the Jianyuan period, it still received millions of salt taxes every year, but now it only receives less than 100,000 a year!
The amount of salt tax last year was even more exaggerated, 6,800 taels of salt tax!
Zhu Youde naturally knew that the salt policy in the southeast had collapsed and people in the world stopped eating salt. With a tax of more than 6,000 taels a year, he thought he was a fool!
This is not enough for a Yangzhou salt merchant to pay for a meal!
But what he can do, we can only wait and see!
"This Liu Xuan'er is really looking for trouble for me. There are so many things going on in the country, and yet she is going to stir up a hornet's nest for me. Why is she going to investigate some illicit information?"
Aren’t those private salt dealers just people from salt merchants?
This silly girl!
Wang Zhonghou smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Miss Liu is also kind-hearted!"
I don't know!
Aren't you afraid that those salt merchants will kill her?
"The Yangzhou Yanzheng Yamen is completely useless. This kind of thing should not be investigated from the private salt. Let her investigate the Yanzheng Yamen and start with the concubines of the officials in the Yanzheng Yamen!"
Women are most likely to die as an official!
Zhu Youde is very knowledgeable. After all, the corrupt officials he knows were all reported by his lovers!
Wang Zhong said kindly: "Your Majesty, do you want to send some more royal guards over, just in case those salt merchants jump over the wall in a hurry?"
"That's right. The private salt industry is so rampant that even the local military officials can't see it. There must be something fishy. Let Zhou Heng lead the imperial army south. Didn't he always want to go to war? Tell him that if he takes the imperial army south, he doesn't have to come back and just take over.
Jiangnan Camp, wait until Wang Po leads the new army down and attack Southern Tang Dynasty directly!"
Zhu Youde said: "Liang Zan's plan is really good!"
"Master Liang is really a great talent in the country!"
Zhu Youde smiled and said: "I need many such talents, one Liangzan is not enough!"
Wang Zhonghou thought: "Your Majesty wants to hold the imperial examination?"
"I have this plan, but the students who took the last imperial examination made me a little dissatisfied. Let's talk about it later!"
In the Sifang Pavilion, Zhao Shanhe listened to the report from his subordinates!
"What did Liang Zan say to the envoy from the Western Regions? Haven't they found out yet?"
"Ambassador, the Western Regions are very tight-lipped, but I think Daliang must have promised something to the Western Regions. Otherwise, the Western Regions Ambassador would not dare not tell us!"
Isn't this nonsense? Zhao Shanhe has already talked with Liang Zan, and the conditions Daliang gave him are too good!
Not only do they provide money, food, and trade, they are also willing to export some firearms!
Especially firearms, which are the secret weapons of the Daliang New Army!
The spies of the Yan State have been asking about the weapons supervisor in Daliang, but this place seems to have disappeared. Many spies have died but they have never found out where the weapons supervisor is!
In fact, Yan State also had firearms, but they were completely incomparable to those in Daliang!
Now Daliang is willing to export, although it is a very small amount, it is enough for them to take back for study!
Zhao Shanhe concluded that Daliang must take big action!
"Daliang is going to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty!" Zhao Shanhe said: "They are trying to bribe our country, Yan, to shut us up, and they must have given us favorable conditions over there in the Western Regions. Liang Zan has seen me and Liang Liang in the Western Regions.
country, but did not take the initiative to meet the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty!"
"What does the ambassador mean, that Daliang wants to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty?"
"That's not the case. Emperor Liang is not a fool. Daliang does not have the strength to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty. We, the Yan State, will not allow the Liang State to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty!"
"That is?"
"Deterrence!" Zhao Shanhe said: "This must be Daliang's counterattack against our country's alliance with the other three countries. I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly. It's annoying. I'm moved by the advice Liang Zan gave me!"
Liang Zan's strategy against the Yan State was very simple and crude, just use money to smash it!
The State of Yan and the Southern Tang Dynasty had discussed and the other party was willing to give the State of Yan 300,000 days of food. The State of Yan could take the food and go whore for nothing!
As long as Daliang teaches Southern Tang a lesson, he can help Yan State not to admit this matter!
Everyone bullied Nantang together.
“This Liang Zan is really a genius!”
"If there wasn't a big disaster in our country next year, I would never agree to cooperate with Liang Guo, but now I have to agree to Liang Guo. They really gave too much!" Zhao Shanhe said with a bitter smile: "For the sake of Yan Guo, I only
I can’t help but feel sorry for Nan Tang!”
It’s really nice to have money!
Zhao Shanhe was speechless. If the Yan State could spend as much money as the Liang State, they would have unified the world long ago!
I think so, but if you don’t have the strength, you don’t have the strength!
Zhao Shanhe said: "Let the Secretary of the Shanhai Navy take action. We must give Daliang something ugly."
"yes!"
At Liang Zan's home, someone could hold Liang Zan's hand and say, "Shijun, Shijun Liang, what you said is serious. I have already sent a letter back to the country. You must not be joking!"
The other party is an envoy from the Western Region Kingdom, but now he is licking Liang Zan like a pug!
There is no way, Daliang gave too much this time!
Not counting the previous conditions for trade, Daliang was actually willing to recognize the Western Region as the Han Dynasty and the orthodoxy of the Central Plains.
Damn it!
Do you know that this is what the Western Region Country has been trying to achieve?
You know what the late emperor of the Western Regions said to Li Yuanchu when he died: He must let other countries recognize that the Western Regions are a Han dynasty, otherwise he will die in peace!
Now the late emperor of the Western Regions Kingdom can rest in peace, and Daliang is willing to recognize the Western Regions Kingdom as the Han Dynasty!
Liang Zan's face twitched: "Don't worry, your Majesty told me this personally. When your credentials arrive, your Majesty will tell the world that my Majesty will swear an oath to the heavenly alliance. What are you worried about? When the time comes, you will also
Will be there!”
"Oh, I can't believe it. I really can't believe it. Emperor Liang is really wise. Don't worry, I will definitely do what I say in the Western Region. The Southern Tang Dynasty is a bitch!"
Fuck, your face changes so quickly, it’s so gratifying!
Liang Zan said: "As long as our country recognizes it, I have already hinted it to Zhao Shanhe on the Yan side. Don't worry, if Southern Tang dares not to recognize it, we will fight them together!"
"Your Majesty is really my good friend from the Western Regions. Shouldn't our country show some respect to Beiyan?"
"Now, you must not go to Zhao Shanhe, lest Nan Tang be wary. When the matter is completed, it will be too late for His Majesty to express his oath to the Tianmeng, so it must be kept secret!"
If I let you see Zhao Shanhe, wouldn't my plan be exposed?
Liang Zan was still a little worried that the Western Region Ambassador would be unwilling. After all, the Yan State was very important!
"I was wrong. Yes, that's the truth. As long as everyone has a tacit understanding, it's okay. This kind of thing can't be mentioned, can't be mentioned!"
Liang Zan smiled slightly and looked at the other person's face with kindness. It's great that you think so. There is no need to waste brain cells to stop you. You are Liang Guo's good friend!