As salt owls who traffic in private salt, most of them are armed. Private salt in the late Ming Dynasty was common, and most of the governments dared not provoke such armed salt owls.

Huai salt is all private salt, and there is only a small part of official salt. This is known to all officials in the court, but no one mentioned it to the emperor, let alone proposed rectification.

Those who traffic in private salt are mostly powerful people, or have good friends with the powerful people, so that they can mention private salt.

Like the salt merchants in Shandong, they are too young compared to the salt merchants in Lianghuai. Even if you want to sell salt, you don’t have enough salt for them to sell.

Zhao Yan is now developing the Laizhou Bay Salt Area on a large scale, and there will inevitably be a large amount of salt output.

The most important thing is to sell it. It is completely nonsense to talk about cost competition in private salt. Private salt has no cost at all. The reason why the price is so high is because the court monopolizes trading.

If you use cost to compete, no matter how much the price is, as long as there is a huge profit, there will definitely be competitors. If you press the opponent to lose profit, you will definitely not have any profit. It is stupid to fight a price war. If you rely on yourself to sell, you will definitely not be so omnipresent.

Therefore, Zhao Yan only plans to sell salt in the territory he can control, and leave it to the merchants from Shandong abroad.

It is enough to keep the salt price at 2 taels of silver, of course it can be as high as possible.

Just two taels of silver per burden, after the renovation of Laizhou Bay is completed, the annual revenue will be recorded in tens of millions of taels. If other salt farms in Shandong are developed, the annual income will be even higher, and it will be enough to support military expenditure.

It can be sold in advance.

...

After inspecting the salt field, Zhao Yan immediately brought his personal soldiers back to Zhaojia Fort. As soon as he entered the fort, he heard from the report that the Censor and the Supervisor had arrived.

"It's been hanging for those two days." Zhang Buyun said.

"Well! Let's set up a banquet tomorrow to welcome others!" Zhao Yan smiled and ordered to the lower level. Then he asked Liu Heng to help him write an invitation.

What I invited were naturally those Shandong merchants, and they asked them to come to Zhaojiabao for a while in half a month.

The next day, Zhao Yan set up a banquet and invited Qian Zhiyi, who had been ignored for a long time. When Qian Zhiyi saw Zhao Yan, she was stunned. She was so young.

"The Censor came so early, and I thought it would take another ten days and half a month! It happened that another bandit in Laizhou started to make trouble. I went to deal with it. If you miss it, please forgive me." Zhao Yan said with a haha.

"Is that so? I heard that the bandits in Denglaima are making a big fuss! I wonder if Lord Zhao will be wiped out?" Qian Zhiyi asked coldly.

As soon as these words were spoken, Lin Yi, who was sitting next to him, showed an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth. Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue's expressions were strange. The three of them flashed by, and then they each drank wine on their own.

"The Censor doesn't know anything! The horse bandits come and go like the wind, as if they are coming from the north Zhili. I lack horses and have no cavalry, so it is really difficult to wipe out." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

"The Master asked me to come and urge Lord Zhao to suppress the bandits. If the bandits are not wiped out, Lord Zhao may not have a good time." The threat in Qian Zhiyi's words is self-evident.

"Is that so? Did the court send troops to capture my general?" Liu Heng smiled when he picked up the dish and put it beside his mouth, then put the chopsticks into his mouth, smiling unscrupulously.

The others on the table laughed, as if they heard some funny jokes.

"Mr. Qian, the world is different from the past. Just think that Kong Youde was originally a miner. The court was killed for several governors, but there are still people who are in charge of policing." Liu Heng said with a smile: "As for civil servants, there are many people who have been killed in the states and counties! But it is not just a county. If some good people are forced to rebel, the emperor has a bad temper. Civil servants can kill them as soon as they say they are killed."

"So the world today is different." Liu Heng said as he ate the table of dishes on his own. No one has touched the dishes on his own! He didn't even care at all, and he directly stretched out his chopsticks to feast.

The meaning of the words is naturally to let Qian Zhiyi see her position clearly.

"Don't talk nonsense, the emperor cannot guess it." Zhao Yan scolded without any pain, but Liu Heng was a little more courageous.

"Hmph! That Kong Youde is just a clown who jumped into the rock, but he was finally put out." Qian Zhiyi snorted coldly, and Wang Wenyue suddenly said, "Yes! But he ran to Liaodong and was even named the king!"

Qian Zhiyi was speechless for a moment and felt extremely depressed. She came to Huang County as a military supervisor, but she had not given anyone a warning, but instead let others have a warning.

At the same time, I was also secretly shocked. This Denglai guerrilla was simply disrespectful. If he was killed, then...

Thinking of this, Qian Zhiyi couldn't help but shudder.

In an instant, I couldn't help but regret why I had to borrow Beijing debts to fight for the Censor Denglai, and people didn't take him as a military supervisor seriously at all.

The banquet ended in a somewhat dull atmosphere.

Qian Zhiyi was in a very bad mood and returned to the yard where she lived. When she walked in, a knock on the door came from outside. When she opened the door, she saw that Liu Heng had arrived and someone had someone carry a box over.

"This is..." Qian Zhiyi's eyes stayed in the box for a little while, and a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in his heart full of darkness.

"Mr. Qian came from afar and worked hard all the way. My general asked me to send some specialties. Mr. Qian was appointed by the emperor. In the future, he would inevitably take care of each other." Liu Heng smiled.

Qian Zhiyi laughed dryly, feeling a little complicated. After a while, Liu Heng led people out of the courtyard, and Qian Zhiyi couldn't wait to open the box.

The box was full of white silver. Qian Zhiyi had never seen so much silver. She couldn't estimate how much it was. She quickly asked the servant to carry it into the room and closed the door. He sat alone on the bed and counted it slowly.

After counting for a long time, there were three thousand taels.

It seems that he has made a profit! Qian Zhiyi couldn't help but become active. Although Zhao Yan was a little arrogant, this approach is still clear!

Then Qian Zhiyi hurriedly called the servants and asked them to take the silver back to Beijing with them, and quickly repay the Beijing debt. When they think of the Beijing debt, they can make people sleep without intention. If it is too late, they will have to turn it up!

The two servants were searched immediately as soon as they arrived at the fort gate. However, they were not found any secret reports and were soon released.

Regarding this military supervisor, Zhao Yan was on the verge of silver and monitored him.

If you report any news that is unfavorable to him, it will cause him some surprises. The accident is not simple. Zhao Yan, who came from later generations, has seen too many accidents.

Death to drink water, death to hide and seek, death to push-ups, hanged on shoelaces...

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The third update.

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Chapter completed!