Qiming 1158

Chapter 530 Restarting the Private Salt Trade
In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Henan Corps as soon as possible, Su Yonglin squeezed a hundred instructors out of his teeth and sent them to Kaifeng, and handed them over to Wen Anzhi to lead them.

An army that has not received ideological and cultural enlightenment, no matter how strong its military skills are, cannot escape the limitations of the feudal army.

The Restoration Army is an iron army that can't be beaten or dragged down. Su Yonglin will never allow these new recruits and descendants to bring the entire team back.

Against such a background, Su Yonglin felt that it might not be a good thing to have such a large booth, and that he needed to calm down for a while, cultivate his internal skills, and sort out the internal military and political affairs.

This requires not only patience, but also money, a very large amount of money.

The army has three meals a day, daily material consumption, study material consumption, etc., all require a lot 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 feeding the people, and money cannot be saved.

Although the elites of the Jin Kingdom have been squeezed out and a lot of wealth has been squeezed out, the money alone seems to be slightly insufficient compared to the entire post-war reconstruction work and army consolidation work.

The internal demand cannot be pulled up yet. It is unrealistic to expect to rely on taxation to drive the construction. Su Yonglin has never thought of making money from the poor.

He prefers the money of the rich. The rich are so noble, and their money must be more fragrant.

For example, the money of the Jurchen nobles. After Su Yonglin drained all the money of the Jurchen nobles, he deliberately smelled it. Really, the fragrance is not good.

But the Jurchen dignitaries were almost drained by him, there is no more fragrance, and there is no more digging three feet, so who is the richest now?
Southern Song Dynasty.

The "rich" Southern Song Dynasty.

Originally, the Southern Song Dynasty was richer than the Jin State. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have the strength to eat the Southern Song Dynasty in one go, Su Yonglin even wanted to dispatch his army to the south, squeezing the Southern Song dignitaries and landlords and gentry.

In this way, he felt that his revolutionary construction had sufficient funds for construction, and the primitive accumulation was almost completed.

Su Yonglin felt that it was an astronomical figure that could not be counted as to how much wealth the Southern Song dignitaries and landowners and squires had.

Hungry, drooling.

So Su Yonglin's eyes began to turn 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 antiques and cultural relics business and normal bilateral trade, Su Yonglin felt that he still had to take advantage of the difference in salt prices between the two sides to make a fortune.

In mid-May, a few days after the occupation of Central Capital, Su Yonglin held a meeting in Central Capital on major livelihood issues. He took the lead in setting the "Interim Salt Law for the Restoration Army" during the first and second meetings.

According to the provisions of this salt law, he still stipulates that salt must be sold by the government, and private management is not allowed, and those who violate the order will be severely punished.

During the reign of the Jin Dynasty, salt was expensive in the south and low in the north, that is, where there are many Jurchens, the price of salt is cheap, and where there are few Jurchens, the price of salt is expensive.

But this price is also relative to the Jurchen gathering area. Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of gold salt can even be folded in half. The people under the Jin Dynasty were at least better than the people of the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of eating salt.

Now that Su Yonglin is ruling the Central Plains, although he still decides to make the salt and iron official camp, it can be called a broken bone in terms of price.

He lowered the price of salt in the area under his control to a figure that ordinary people could only dream of, which is one or two cents more than the cost price. In short, everyone can afford it, not because they cannot afford salt. And worry.

Su Yonglin means that we can't learn from the Jin Kingdom and the Song Kingdom in the south. We know that people can't eat salt and sell it at a high price, so shouldn't there be smugglers?
Why can't people afford salt?

Small profits but quick turnover is also good, and if the quality of official salt is good and the price is low, people will definitely buy official salt, but not private salt. The private salt market will disappear, and market order will naturally be established.

The profit seems to be less than before, but the hidden cost of anti-private salt sales that was required to maintain the order of high-priced official salt in the past has also been reduced, so in fact there is still some profit.

The salt department of the Restoration Army did not need to be as bloated as in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the military and administrative forces to maintain the order of high salt prices also did not need to be so large, and the military and administrative costs could be greatly reduced.

Millions of water workers are gone, and the salt piece will naturally come to life.

This is the first decree issued by Su Yonglin on people's livelihood after he occupied the Central Capital.

After the salt law was determined, he immediately dispatched troops to occupy all the salt fields in the occupied area, whether on the seaside or inland, all of them were occupied.

Then let the people from the Grain and Pay Department under the General Affairs Bureau go to take over the major salt farms, and arrange manpower to resume production and control the sales and quality of official salt.

By July, with the passage of time, cheap official salt was gradually spread in Shandong, Hebei, Yanyun, Henan and other places.

After appeasing a wave of people's hearts and gaining a wave of popularity, Su Yonglin sent people to the Song-Jin border to organize the official salt team under the control of the Food and Salary Division.

He planned to secretly establish contact with smuggled salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and sell the salt from his side to the smuggled salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty at a high price, earning high profits.

The so-called high price on his side is lower than the price of private salt in the Southern Song Dynasty. The private salt dealer will definitely raise the price after receiving his salt, and the private salt after raising the price 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 Su was simply doing charity, and he could make money while doing charity. He was earning money standing up.

In this regard, Su Yonglin's old subordinates and himself are both old and clear.

Although everyone is now fighting and engaging in politics, more than two years ago, everyone was still a real smuggler of private salt, and this traditional art can not be forgotten for a while.

After the Haizhou pilot was successful, Su Yonglin informed Lin Jingchun and told him to spread out the stall as soon as possible, lie on Nan Song's body to suck blood, and earn all the coins of the Southern Song Dynasty.

When it comes to earning money, Lin Jingchun's whole person is active, his eyes are shining, he waved his hand - little ones, give it to me!

That's how the salt was established.

Lin Jingchun was not at ease. He personally took charge of the salt department, personally dispatched reliable subordinates to lead the formation of a salt sales team, and personally taught the skills of smuggling salt. Soon, more than a dozen official salt sales teams under different banners were established.

Each team is responsible for the salt sales business in a certain area on the border, and each team gives a certain amount of time to find local Southern Song smugglers to open up relationships and rebuild the smuggled salt sales network.

Those who cannot start making profits within a certain period of time and send copper to the Grain and Pay Department, just wait for dismissal and interrogation!
Lin Jingchun's requirements for salt department are very strict.

But this is not too difficult for these new "private salt dealers".

As long as there is demand, there will be a market, and if there is a market, there will be business.

The price of official salt in the Southern Song Dynasty was so high, and the demand from the people was so great that the private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty had their eyes red, so they must find ways to sell cheap salt.

The Song-Jin border of Nanjing Road was also the hardest hit area for private salt trade in the past.

However, since the Liberation Army expelled the Jin Army, the private salt sales network has been cut off.

Because there was no income and no business for a long time, many private salt gangs even disbanded on their own in desperation and went home to farm.

Even some well-organized gangs have basically dismissed the outer members, leaving only a few core members, wandering around the border all day long, hoping for the stars and the moon, and hoping for the smugglers over there to appear soon.

If it doesn't appear again, everyone will change course!

Maybe it was their sincerity that moved God. At the end of July, Ma San, a former smuggler in Caizhou, approached Jing Cheng, a smuggler who was familiar with Xinyang, and brought him a piece of news that made him feel ecstatic.

The smuggling salt trade can be restarted.

(End of this chapter)