Fang Chen’s plan is being fully implemented. In just one month, more than 5,000 money shops have been opened across the country!
A lot of money is used to invest in soap factories, textile factories, and pharmaceutical factories.
Fang Chen cooperated with major chambers of commerce in each city to enter other commercial fields.
The economy of the Great Yan Dynasty is developing rapidly, and all this is Fang Chen’s contribution!
People feel happy when they are happy, and everyone in the court is very happy. Recently, every official went to court with a smile, which is very harmonious.
Luo Ningxin and the ministers discussed various things, and they were full of passion.
Fang Chen has been very busy recently and has to sign a lot of documents every day.
Bai Ling'er investigates in the Ghost Pavilion.
The people of the Jinyiwei were fully protecting the sixteen merchants and their families.
Because Fang Chen received a secret report, Bai Yongliang wanted to kill the sixteen traitors.
You must never let these people get into trouble.
Fang Chen has been to court every day recently to listen to the opinions of the ministers.
On this day, the morning court was on the way.
General Lu Yang of the Maritime Department returned to Beijing.
He brought a very amazing news.
"Your Majesty! I have important things to report!"
"The Dagan Dynasty suddenly cut off the salt transaction with the Dayan Dynasty. From now on, the Dagan Dynasty will not provide us with any salt!"
All the civil and military officials at the scene were shocked.
This news is like a bolt from the blue!
The Maritime Trade Bureau was established in major seaports to manage maritime foreign trade, manage foreign merchants, imposes income taxes on merchants, and purchases non-banned items, and delivers the obtained goods to the imperial capital.
A long time ago, the Maritime Bureau mainly traded by land, and later traded by sea.
There are great benefits in the process of foreign trade, including cultural exchanges and technological dissemination, which promotes civilization and economic development among all countries.
Lu Yang has always been responsible for foreign trade transactions with major empires.
Luo Ningxin asked: "General Lu, the cooperation between the Dagan Dynasty and our Dayan has not been any problem for many years. Why is Dagan doing this now? Is there something wrong with the business recently?"
Lu Yang explained: "Your Majesty, before the Dakan Dynasty terminated its cooperation, there was no sign, and there was no problem in cooperation in other businesses. It was just that the cooperation was unilaterally terminated in terms of salt."
"Originally, the salt for this month was delivered half a month ago, but the Dagan Dynasty was not delivered for a long time. The officials of our court communicated with the person in charge of the Dagan Dynasty, but they rude for various reasons, saying that it was salt. Exporting to other countries, the salt has become less and less over the years, and there is no way to provide it to the large-capital Great Yan Dynasty, so it has refused to cooperate with us."
"Even if we increase the price, the other party will still cut off cooperation and have a very tough attitude."
Luo Ningxin's face looked very ugly, and all the civil and military officials were very puzzled and discussed it.
"Over the years, we have had a good relationship with the Dagan Dynasty. Why did this happen suddenly?"
"The salt and minerals of the Dagan Dynasty were one of the main sources of economic resources. They have been working with other countries for hundreds of years and rarely have problems. Unless there is a war between the two countries, they will cut off their supply, and now it has happened. It's really incredible to have such a thing!"
"Although we still have a lot of salt in our current stock, the population base is too large and it cannot last long. At most two or three months, problems will arise."
"Salt is very expensive, and many poor people can't afford it and are reluctant to spend money to buy it. If the supply is completely cut off, it will cause serious consequences!"
Fang Chen had never spoken and was listening to the ministers' discussions.
Salt is a very important mineral that can stimulate the taste of food, arouse appetite, preserve food, and make food radiate another flavor. It is an indispensable mineral in the human body or animal body.
If the human body lacks sodium, it will cause symptoms such as low sodium content, dizziness, fatigue, loss of appetite, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, muscle spasm, headache, etc.
Long-term sodium deficiency is prone to heart disease and can lead to low sodium syndrome. Not to mention going to the ground to farm, marching and fighting, it is difficult to even take two steps.
A person can live without meat and like a normal person for decades, but without salt, he can live without a year!
Based on the importance of salt to people, salt has become an official strategic resource, especially in ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient, many places did not produce salt, but they were seriously needed, which made salt trading a very profitable business, and even more so.
In many ancient countries, wars broke out between tribes because you had to eat salt, no matter how expensive it was, you had to eat it!
Therefore, in order to maintain national stability and ensure national fiscal revenue, salt is monopolized by the state as a monopoly product!
The country also implements official salt monopoly, prohibiting private property and private ownership, and severe punishment for violators.
But some merchants will try their best to get some private salt for sale, but the imperial court sometimes turns a blind eye.
As long as the price of the salt sold is not too excessive and can be transported to all parts of the country for use by the people, it is also a good thing, and the court will not participate too much.
Because the Great Yan Dynasty is too short of salt!
The cost of salt mining is very low, and the Daqian Dynasty also had a large amount of salt and a large number of mines.
The price of salt they gave was relatively high, almost achieving a salt monopoly.
If the supply of salt in the Great Yan Dynasty is completely cut off, the entire country will eventually fall into disaster!
Fang Chen also realized the seriousness of the matter.
Luo Ningxin and civil and military officials began to discuss countermeasures.
The Daqian Dynasty always had envoys and chambers of commerce living in the Daqian Dynasty.
The chamber of commerce in charge of salt is called Qiankun Chamber of Commerce, which is also the first chamber of commerce in the Daqian Dynasty. It is very close to the official and specializes in transporting official materials to various empires.
After discussion, it was finally decided to send someone to communicate with the envoys of the Daqian Dynasty to communicate about this matter. No matter what conditions the Daqian Dynasty offered, as long as it was not too much, it must be accepted.
Lu Yang said: "Your Majesty, sirs, I communicated with the head of the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce twice before, and offered an extremely high price, which exceeded one-quarter of the previous one, but they still disagreed and refused!"
"The third time I went to find them, I was disappointed. They actually stayed in the door and stopped seeing guests!"
"After my hard request, the other party sent me a message, so I am not qualified to negotiate with them!"
"This time, they want to talk to Lord Fang Chenfang!"
As soon as these words were finished, everyone felt that the situation was very serious.
And they asked to talk to Fang Chen, the matter must be strange!
At this time, Fang Chen finally spoke.
"Our Da Yan Dynasty and other businesses of the Da Qian Dynasty are cooperating, and there is no problem with the official resources and items, but there is a problem with salt. At this time, they designated to talk to me, and someone later made a mistake!