Hearing that Liu An wanted to bring the box over, the emperor just waved to a little eunuch standing in the distance.

After the little eunuch came forward, Liu An said, "The official family has an order to ask Tietou to send the official's box here."

The little eunuch bowed and left.

Soon, the two imperial guards came over to put a box down, and the iron head just followed.

After the box was put down, the imperial guards left with their iron heads.

Liu An opened the box and took out a small cloth bag and held it in front of the emperor with both hands. When the emperor opened it, he found that it turned out to be salt, and it was extremely fine and snow-white salt.

"The Guanjia, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road. According to the records of the government, it is divided into four prefectures in the salt area of ​​Guangnan East Road and ten prefectures in the non-salt area, and Guangnan West Road is divided into five prefectures in the salt area and sixteen prefectures in the non-salt area."

All the three ministers Liu An said can be turned against the north except for the emperor.

"Official family, how about this salt?"

The emperor nodded. The salt was quite good and had reached the high-quality salt removal level of tribute salt.

Xiang Minzhong said directly: "This salt is good. It is better than the top salt removal product."

Liu An continued: "Since the Tang Dynasty recorded that the people from two roads of Guangnan boiled seawater into salt. Later, there were unofficial historical records that the Tan family in Quanzhou fled to Qiongya. The stones they accidentally discovered were snow-white natural fine salt on them, which was the salt I took. After two hundred years, the Tan brothers and later generations improved several times, and they studied a new salt harvesting method."

"No need to cook, water is stored in high tide, and water is trapped in low tide. Over time, countless salts are found on the beach. The beach is no longer sand, but salt. The descendants of the two brothers have offered salt drying methods. My father-in-law fought with Qu Yue several times, plus Guangzhou illegal merchants and family slaves. Qiongya has a salt farm with an annual output..."

At this point, Liu An poured a cup of tea on his own.

Kou Zhun smiled and put his empty cup over. He didn't want to speak. He knew that Liu An was here to ask for an authorization. He didn't want to speak for himself, so Kou Zhun didn't say anything.

Lu Meng was a very pure scholar, and immediately asked anxiously: "You have to finish speaking in one go, how much is the annual yield?"

"There is three million stones, which were originally only for the army, but three million stones seem to be endless."

It's not just about using it.

Xiang Minzhong said: "My Song Dynasty now has five uses of salt: food, pickling, pastoralism, medicine, and work. Do you know the filing data of the Salt Warehouse Supervision last year?"

"I don't know."

"Along with the private salt that the government did not find, the annual salt output of our Song Dynasty was 200 million to 30 million jin. However, the data provided by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Revenue was that the demand for salt next year was more than 160 million jin. The silkworm industry alone was 100 million jin of salt. But now, only talking about this item, I, the Song Dynasty, had two jins and nine jins of salt every year."

Xiang Minzhong gave Liu An some popular science.

In the sericulture industry, salt is indispensable for bathing, pickling and storage of seeds. All silkworm farmers would rather eat without salt, so they would save it for silkworms.

In the process of drug preparation, salt is an important one.

There are 105 kinds of medicinal materials that must be used for salt in the imperial hospital registration alone. This is a must-have and is not considered to be available or not.

Therefore, if salt is consumed freely, it will start at 1.6 billion jin in a year.

After giving Liu An a popular science, Xiang Minzhong said, "Qiongya alone has three million stones of salt, and three million stones is three million kilograms of salt. Liu An, Mr. Liu. You are not that you can't find the six ministries in charge of this matter, but you are afraid that they will fight and then bother you. Tell me in detail what's going on with this salt."

Only then did Liu An pick up the detailed official documents that Hong Zhan had already written.

The 200-mile salt field is just the first construction.

It is all sea salt, which relies on the salt that is naturally sunburned. It uses the Qu Yue surrendered army, the group of people who were not disciplined in Chameng, as well as a large number of big-food merchant criminals and domestic slaves.

Hong Zhan cleverly avoided the existence of Kunlun slave soldiers trained by the Dashi merchants in private.

Because these Kunlun slaves have changed from slaves to masters.

They distributed weapons and became the manager of the salt field. The original owner, the Dashi merchant and their evil servant, are now the coolies of the salt field under the Kunlun slave's whip.

The emperor did not read this official document.

The emperor's literary talent was excellent, his poetry was of high quality, but his official documents were not as good as possible.

He could only see whether the words used in the official document were gorgeous, but he could not see the core content of the official document.

Lu Mengzheng was the oldest, so he naturally looked at it first. Then Kou Zhun and Xiang Minzhong sat together, so he looked at it together.

Is it more than three million stones?

There were already many Dasong at this time.

It has exceeded all the annual output of the original salt industry in the Song Dynasty, which is so powerful.

After reading the official document, Lu Mengzheng said: "This official document is very clear. Qiongya's manpower has reached its limit and the output cannot be increased any further. You are here to ask Hong Zhan for rewards. I will submit this reward to the official family and give him the third rank."

"No." Liu An shook his head: "My real idea is to study this set of salt-making methods into a book, and then open a new salt field. What I want to ask for instructions is that the Wuqing army opened a salt field. According to the prediction, the place where the Wuqing army was located was once the place where the Liao army cooked salt. If we use the sun, the number of the Wuqing army may exceed Qiongya."

"This matter..." The emperor suddenly spoke: "If we can save military expenditures from the two routes of Hebei, it would be OK."

The smile on Liu An's face froze.

Liu An originally thought that the extra money from the Wu Qing army could develop military equipment and train vigorously.

But the first thing that happened to the emperor was to save military expenditure.

Liu An didn't know how to answer this matter.

Kou Zhun saw the subtle changes on Liu An's face and gently touched Liu An: "What the official asked you, can you save the military expenditure of the two Hebei routes?"

Liu An immediately looked embarrassed: "I'm afraid it won't work this year, I can save some of it next year."

The emperor didn't pay attention to Liu An's expression just now. He was very satisfied with what Liu An said: "I don't expect to save this year. If I can save 30% next year, it would be feasible. Think about the Korean government, when he first took charge of the navy, the court gave millions of trump cards, but in just one year, it would be able to feed back to the treasury."

Liu An's heart suddenly became bright.

It seems that Jiang is still old and his father-in-law is really good. Liu An thought he knew the current emperor very well, but what Liu An didn't expect was that the emperor's style was really what he described.

Speechless.

After the emperor settled the accounts, the Song Dynasty and Liao did not fight, so it was necessary to reduce military expenditure.

In real history, the Battle of Chanyuan was ultimately undefeated, or even a small victory. In the end, a treaty was signed like a defeated country.

He started the Youzhou War and won the victory, and the alliance was signed with victory.

But the results have not changed.

The emperor began to reduce military spending, at least he had already made this thought.
Chapter completed!