Under the leadership of two yamen runners, Qian Zhiyi walked all the way to Zhaojiabao. On the way, he encountered several caravans carrying goods.

Some of these caravans transported grain, some sold horses, and some transported whatever they wanted. This made the newly repaired roads a little congested, and the two-wheeled trucks pulled by horses sounded a gurgling sound and headed towards Zhaojiabao.

Qian Zhiyi also encountered these caravans on the road. After asking, they all said they were going to Zhaojiabao. As for what they did in Zhaojiabao, these caravans smiled and refused to answer.

Most of the qualified Shandong businessmen are silent about the fact that the Zhao family can produce glass mirrors, fearing that too many people will buy and sell.

After coming to Zhaojiabao all the way, Qian Zhiyi was about to enter, but was stopped directly by someone.

"Go and spread the news quickly. The Censor Denglai has arrived and let Zhao Yan come out to see me." Qian Zhiyi pressed his anger and said to the guard guards with a gloomy face.

"Wait a moment, the younger one will report to the master immediately." The guard saw that it was a high official and immediately ran into the fort to report.

But when the guard left, there was no news and left Qian Zhiyi outside the fort. He hung it for a few hours. Qian Zhiyi's face was gloomy, but he could do nothing. The guards guards at the gate had ignored him and ignored him without paying attention to anything he said.

It was only when they were Yeluo that they saw two scholars dressed in the door, chatting and laughing. When they saw Qian Zhiyi, the man in an official robe, one of the scholars asked in shock: "Who are you?"

"I am the emperor appointed Qian Zhiyi, the censor in charge of the censor. You are so brave that you have turned me out for more than four hours. Your general is so powerful!" Qian Zhiyi could no longer help it, and spitted with red necks.

The two scholars were Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng. Zhang Buyun laughed dryly and said, "If my general is not more powerful, wouldn't it be that those villains who beg for food and bribes will ride on their heads? Sir, do you think so!"

Liu Heng suddenly shouted at the guards guarding the gate and said, "What are you doing? The Censor will not go in and report it when he comes?"

"Report to the Lord, Ergou has just gone in and reported!" a guard replied aggrievedly.

"Where did Ergou go?" Zhang Buyun pointed at him and asked.

"Sir, I don't know." The guard lowered his head and immediately saw Ergou who had just run in to report, and hurriedly said, "Sir, Ergou is here."

"Ergou, Lord Censor is here, where have you been?" Liu Heng asked angrily.

"Big...big...big...big...man, the little one was about to report, but the prince suddenly ran to Xiao and said to Xiao, "I have a baby in my family, so let the little one go quickly... The adult atones, the adult atones, the little one atones, the little one was anxious when he heard that the insider was about to die, and forgot about that matter." Ergou stuttered and said with horror.

"I'm so brave, I dare to leave my post without permission." Liu Heng shouted loudly, and the two guards quickly stepped forward. Liu Heng pointed at the second dog and said angrily: "Drag me and beat twenty sticks to serve as a warning to you."

Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng sang together, and ignored Qian Zhiyi. Qian Zhiyi saw that, but he didn't take him seriously at all, and stopped spraying him, standing there with a gloomy face.

Soon Ergou was dragged down, and screams came from an invisible place.

Zhang Buyun smiled on his face and stepped forward to Qian Zhiyi and said, "My Lord Qian atones for his sins. My general didn't know that Lord Qian came so quickly. He thought it would take ten days and half a month to come, so he didn't go to greet him at the wrong time. As for the infatuated puppy, he has been dealt with."

"Mr. Qian has come from afar, and it must be hard work on the way. Come to the fort and have a rest." Liu Heng said enthusiastically.

"Hmph! Where is Zhao Yan?" Qian Zhiyi asked with a straight face.

"It's really a coincidence that my general has just left for work and may not be back in a few days." Liu Heng's face showed regret.

Qian Zhiyi had nowhere to go and was not talking. She took two servants into Zhaojiabao.

When I entered the fort, I saw that it was neat and there was no garbage on the road. It was completely different from the dirty and dirty capital city of the road.

Soon, he arranged a residence for Qian Zhiyi, and then...

Then there was nothing, Qian Zhiyi was ignored again, and no one went to find him again.

"Zhongping, will this be too much?" Zhang Buyun asked Liu Heng with some concern. Liu Heng waved his hand with a smile and said, "It's okay, let him go and say something when the lord comes back."

...

Zhao Yan is currently inspecting the progress of building salt fields in Laizhou Bay. More than 10,000 salt workers have been placed in the Laizhou Bay area, and these salt workers are building salt fields on the tidal flats every time.

There are about 700,000 mu of silt flats in Laizhou Bay that can be transformed into salt fields. As the peak salt production period is approaching in August and September, these salt workers are rushing to work.

Some salt workers suffered from edema. Seeing this, Zhao Yan quickly transferred several doctors to the salt field to set up a hospital here.

The person in charge of the construction of the salt field is a local old salt worker named Li Zhong. He has been engaged in salt drying for more than 30 years and has rich experience in salt drying.

Zhao Yan is concerned about the issue of output. Although he knows that the Bohai Bay has the highest salt output, he does not know what it is.

"By August and September, the yield per mu can reach one duct. If the prosperity of a mu of salt is normal in previous years, it would be fine if one mu of salt fields produces more than 120 ducts per acre. But the prosperity has changed over the years, and the old man doesn't know how much the annual output is. As mentioned in the previous year, one mu of salt fields is less than 100 ducts per acre of salt fields a year, and last year it produced more than 200 ducts." Li Zhong counted with his fingers.

The world is in the small ice stage, and the climate is a bit strange and difficult to calculate according to common sense. The drying of salt on this mudflat depends on the weather. If there is a severe drought throughout the year, the yield will definitely double.

Therefore, this thing cannot guarantee the annual production capacity, but the output is still good. If all the salt fields in Laizhou Bay are developed and calculated based on the per mu output of 100 dan, it will be more than 7 million dan a year, about 350 million jin.

More than 10,000 salt workers are enough in the salt fields in Laizhou Bay area.

There is no need to worry about output, but the output has to be sold, and it is useless to not sell it.

The salt dealers are divided into one dealer, two dealer, and three dealer.

One dealer generally serves the second dealer, mainly collecting salt from the salt farm. The second dealer sells salt for a long distance and sells salt to the third dealer. Some second dealer collects salt directly by themselves and skips one dealer.

The three dealers sell salt in local areas and sell it to the people. The price is lower than that of official salt and the quality is generally better.

A dealer bought cheap salt from salt merchants. Compared with the market price, it is definitely a price that jumps from the house. You can buy a tumbler for a few dollars.

When sold to the second-deao dealer, there are usually one or two taels. When sold to the third-deao dealer, the price will range from three to four to five taels, mainly depending on the region.

In some areas with salt deficiency, the price can even soar to six taels. If trafficked to the minority groups in the northwest, a little salt can even be exchanged for a cow or a horse.

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Second update!

Recently, a group of self-righteous or out of context emerged in the book review area. Some of them were hostile to Xiaocai before reading the article. I was really helpless, Xiaocai could only be a little bit weird...

Let me explain the problem of silver.

Some readers believe that the silver in the late Ming Dynasty was pitifully small, and ordinary people could not see the silver. This view is very unrealistic. Taxes in the late Ming Dynasty began to be collected. Could it be that the silver was not seen when the people paid the tax?

A self-cultivated farmer produces dozens of stones of grain a year. After deducting taxes and eating, he sells the rest. Even if there is no stone, it is only 0.25 taels (the lowest level when paying taxes, but I think no farmers will sell grain at that stage unless they are fools), and they can still see a few taels of silver a year!

Most of those who have no money have lost their means of production, and the means of production are naturally in the hands of landlords, merchants, and powerful people. Do they have no money in their hands?

In addition, some people said that the end of the silver was very small, and silver flowed in on a large scale only during the Kangxi and Qianlong period. I don’t agree with this view. I personally believe that the sudden increase in silver during the Kangxi and Qianlong period was mainly because the silver robbed by the Qing Dynasty flowed into the market. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were already a lot of silver, such as Zheng Zhilong’s hometown, which was confiscated thousands of taels, and the value of other things was even more inestimable.

In addition, the article explains the reasons for the demise of the dynasty and the low tax revenue, the too open thinking, and the too autonomous local government. Let me explain it again.

The tax revenue is too low = the profit margin of the land is large = the motivation for land mergers = a large number of farmers lose land in an unregulated environment = the current political axe cannot save the disaster.

The thoughts are too open = the political axe cannot be guided = all kinds of monsters are causing trouble.

Local governments are too autonomous (extensive in management) = effective supervision cannot be implemented = no control of land annexation = peasant riots cannot be suppressed in time.

The commodity economy is too rampant = farmers are exploited (grain prices plummeted when they pay).

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Chapter completed!