Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 922 Shi Ding: Everything is Ready

In other words, before you know it, it is another summer, and the experimental salt field that Shi Ding is in charge of is about to produce results.

After almost a year of dormancy, quietly expanding the scale, etc., the output of the experimental salt field is no longer the same.

The area controlled by 3000 people slowly expanded, and finally stopped when it reached the limit.

It seems that the miraculous scene of seawater being directly transformed into sea salt after drying in the sun aroused Shi Ding.

This guy's courage and ideas are getting bigger and bigger, and he even wants to break through the restrictions Jia Rong set for him, thinking that the bigger the scale, the more credit he will get.

Among other things, if you give today a big surprise, the rewards you can get in the future will be more and richer.

Then be hated by the world's salt merchants and the powerful people behind them?
Jia Rong just said lightly, dispelling Shi Ding's thoughts of blind expansion.

Whether Shi Ding has completely taken down the 3000 troops in his hand is not a question.

As for the strength of the historians themselves, they are stronger than the Wang family, otherwise the two super-grade Marquises would not be so transparent in the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.

It is conceivable that if the sea salt salt field experiment is successful this time, in order to protect the victory, corresponding salt soldiers must be established today.

The soldiers and horses guarding Yantian will not be withdrawn until the wind and waves rolled up by Haiyan completely disappear. This intermediate transitional period is a good opportunity.

If Shi Ding can become the supreme commander of the salt soldiers, then the harvest will be great.

These, Jia Rong has carefully discussed with him, and deduced, and feels that there is a high probability that such a decision will be made today.

As long as Shi Ding can grasp it well, it will be very easy to become a high-ranking official with real power in one fell swoop.

Compared with Wang Ziteng, who needs to work hard to manage Tianjin, and then use the city's size, population density, and economic vitality to show his political achievements, Shi Ding's success is undoubtedly easier and simpler.

As long as he can provide a steady stream of sea salt, today will see his credit in his eyes, after all, it is all white money.

This is also the main reason why the Shijia Shuanghou gave up the post of deputy water transport envoy, otherwise how could such a popular position be handed over to others?

Right now, the most important thing is to keep it secret.

With 3000 people, the number of sea salt salt fields that can be controlled has reached the limit. If the salt fields continue to expand, the news may be exposed immediately.

This is undoubtedly very stupid!
Do you really think that the world's salt merchants and the rich and powerful behind them are just paper?

Once the interests are violated, it may be necessary to draw a knife to kill people.

The nature and severity are much worse than the conflicts between Wang Ziteng and the Cao Gang and related yamen.

With the great development of Jinmen and the increasingly busy sea transportation, Shi Ding's men and women can't hide it for long.

After all, there are [-] officers and soldiers, and the supply of logistics materials alone, as well as the construction and layout of the camp, are unlikely to be deceived.

At the beginning, it might just be regarded as normal military training, but how could it be possible to hide it for a long time?

Not to mention, [-] officers and soldiers spend a year at the seaside, which has extremely high requirements for the military discipline and control of the army.

Jia Rong knew that if it wasn't for Shi Ding not wanting to drink the blood of the soldiers, he would have treated the 3000 men under his command quite generously, and had used all kinds of logistics materials on them, plus the generous welfare benefits, which could barely stabilize the morale of the army.

Even if the big soldiers don't know anything, what about those officers?

Looking at the variegated salt fields, don't you have any ideas?

Coupled with the training intensity of such a standard of two exercises for five days, in fact, Shi Ding's 3000 men have reached the limit that can be maintained.

It's not going to the battlefield, it's just guarding the Yantian. Does it need to be so fierce?
If it weren't for being stationed by the sea, with sufficient supplies of all kinds of food, grass and materials, even meat, otherwise, with such an intensive training method, there would have been a commotion long ago.

These things, Jia Rong often came over and knew it well, he didn't believe that Shi Ding didn't know?
But I just felt that when I handed in my homework, I wanted more benefits.

It's just that this kind of thing is different from marching and fighting. Unless you can solve the country's financial difficulties in one go, you have to weigh whether you are good enough to achieve any goal.

As far as Jia Rong knows, the experimental sea salt field has been quietly selling large quantities of sea salt.

In fact, the salt market in the north has already been affected.

The most obvious example is that the price of private salt in the north has been lowered by one copper plate, which is less than ten copper plates per catty.

But even so, the supply of salt in the northern market is still quite sufficient, and it has not been affected by the price drop in the slightest.

Among other things, the channels for ordinary people to buy private salt are quite smooth, and there are no obstacles.

Such a situation is called the existence of operating the northern salt market, which is puzzling.

Obviously, the demand in the market is not small, but the supply seems to be increasing. Where does the extra salt come from?
Regardless of the fact that the price of private salt has only dropped by one copper coin, the impact on those who sell private salt is still quite huge, and it can be said that the loss is not small.

The way they can make up for the loss is to add more grass-root sand to the salt. Originally, a pound of private salt was usually grass-root sand, but now it has reached an astonishing [-]% or so.

Exaggeration, not exaggeration at all!
Compared with the high price of official salt, the price of private salt is cheap, so naturally there is no need to expect quality.

Cough cough, the sea salt in Shi Ding's hands is all flowed to the northern salt market through private channels.

This was Jia Rong's idea, and it has been recognized today.

After all, it is an indisputable fact that official salt can almost only be sold in towns.

If you want to benefit the lower class and more rural people, you can only circulate it through private channels, which is also impossible.

The selling price of sea salt is naturally cheaper than private salt, and it is not mixed with grass roots, sand, etc., which is quite popular.

As for the possibility that there may be some unclean things mixed in, the taste and effect of sea salt are not very good. How can the people at the bottom care so much?

It is not easy to take a bite of salt smoothly. It is serious to solve the problem first, and then solve the product quality problem.

It doesn't matter if it's done like this, as far as Jia Rong knows, there are quite a few Lianghuai salt merchants whose main sales are in the north, but they have been tricked.

I heard that there have been major losses in Lianghuai salt, and I am afraid that there will be a new round of changes in the number and list of salt merchants.

The fall of a well-known salt merchant may involve hundreds of thousands of people who will lose their lives. There may be tens of thousands of people involved in the interests, and this is not a joke...

(End of this chapter)