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In the White Tiger Hall, Yi Feng held his hands with his hands behind his back and looked at the bustling and lively city streets under the High White Tiger Platform. On the streets like chessboards, there were crowds of people, endless streams and endless streams.

Gao Mingyue suddenly stroked the piano behind the screen. The sound of the piano came from behind the screen, with a unique sense of straightness and grandness, as if it was blowing through the north wind outside the border, making people feel a sense of strength and unrestrainedness, which inspires a bit of heroic feeling. Yi Feng likes this style of piano, and Fang Xuanling in the hall was moved at first. He didn't know that this piano was caressed by Gao Mingyue who was holding Huaihuang's account book, and he thought that behind the screen was played by the music girl arranged by Yi Feng, but the sound of the piano was not a soft and charming sound, but it had a strong Huaihuang style, which made people look at it.

The sound of the piano slowly surrounds the hall.

Yi Feng calmed down and listened carefully. After a long time, he had another thought in his mind. He originally planned to refuse the plan for cooperating land hoarding that Fang Xuanling proposed. It was not that Fang Xuanling's plan was not working, but this plan was still good. Although it was indeed Huaian's plan to lay eggs by raising chickens, it was indeed of great benefit to Huaihuang. Huaihuang's climate was dry and water-deficient, and it was not suitable for growing grain. However, the food needed was transported from the distant Jianghuai River, which was really a very troublesome and dangerous thing. In the Guizhou area,

It is indeed suitable for growing grain. The piece of land belongs to a mountain basin on the terrain. There are rivers like the Yanghe River that pass through. It has many arable land suitable for reclaiming. According to the information he controls, the entire Guizhou has three large land areas. If it can be reclaimed from the Ministry, it can reach a huge area of ​​18 million mu, even if only one tenth of it is reclaimed, it can still have nearly two million mu of arable land. Especially in Guizhou, Guizhou is close to Huaihuang. If grain is reclaimed here, the safety of the grain supply for Huaihuang will be greatly improved.

But what Yi Feng said to Fang Xuanling just now was not a refusal. It was a fact.

After Yi Feng passed away, Hu Cao Gang submitted a report to Yi Feng, which was a demographic survey that he had started before sending troops. The survey results show that the entire Wuzhou household registration is now 113,563 households with an account of 454,252. This number is the latest statistics and is relatively accurate. The number of households in more than 110,000 households is already quite amazing. With a new border state outside the border, there are more than 100,000 households, this number is already very impressive.

The number of households is north of the Yellow River. It can even be said that there are more than 100,000 important towns like Bingzhou and Youzhou. Even in Yangzhou, the center of Jiangnan, today's prosperous Jiangnan, there are only more than 100,000 households. However, in fact, there is still a big gap between the population of Huaihuang and those big states. First of all, there are many households in Huaihuang and small households. On average, one household is only about four people, and in the Central Plains, there are five and a half or even six people. For example, Yangzhou has more than 100,000 households, but there are more than 700,000 people.

Another point is that the registered population in other parts of the Central Plains is not the entire population. The imperial court counts the registered population, and many people are not registered, such as slaves, monks, prostitutes, and even soldiers. Not to mention the hidden slaves in the homes of the powerful people in those places, as well as those fugitives hiding between the mountains and fields. Generally speaking, this part of the non-registered population can account for 10 to 20% of the total population. In Huaihuang, except for those who come to do business outside the country, the rest, whether they are slave prisoners of war, monks, prostitutes, craftsmen, etc., are all counted and included in the household registration book according to Yi Feng's requirements.

A border state has a population of 450,000, which is really amazing, but for Yi Feng, Huaihuang has always been short of people.

Now, among the more than 450,000 people, there are more than 100,000 people in the Huaihuang army sequence, and these people are completely out of production. Moreover, these more than 100,000 people are still the strongest group of men in Huaihuang. Among the remaining 300,000 people, about half are women, girls, children and elderly people, and less than 100,000 men are still working in various mines, workshops, etc. The entire Huaihuang has long been seriously short of people. In fact, the Huaihuang is not only the population of more than 400,000 people. The population of more than 450,000 people is a registered population. Now there is a large number of people recruiting workers from outsiders and doing business. In Huaihuang's mines, workshops, and factories, a large number of workers are not from Huaihuang.

In the General Administration, many officials once suggested to Yi Feng that Huaihuang is seriously short of people, and that all mines and workshops are in great need of labor. I hope that Yi Feng can temporarily stop the expansion of the army, or even lay off some battalions. For example, since there are three armies in Wuzhou, there is no need to retain a large number of garrison troops and remove these garrison troops, which will save the workshops that are extremely short of labor. However, this proposal was rejected by Yi Feng without hesitation. Now the outside of the border is a little calm, and even a little calm. Everyone thinks Huaihuang.

After winning several battles, the Turks were afraid and dared not provoke them. But Yi Feng knew clearly that the Turks were not afraid of Huaihuang Army. The current peace was actually just a scene before the storm came. The decisive battle between the two major forces, the Sui Dynasty and the Turks, was about to break out. Both sides were clenching their fists and finally made a final breakthrough. At this time, Yi Feng, who was sandwiched between the two strong men, had to desperately recruit and expand the army, but how could he still disarm and lay off the army? Even if the gap in the workshop was large, he had to insist on not relaxing.

Without an army, everything about Huaihuang is just a castle in the air and a castle on the sand.

If the workshop is short of people, the output will not be raised and the money will be earned less, but that is not a big problem. As long as the army is raised and as long as the wasteland can be kept safe, there are opportunities to make money.

Yi Feng is now sending people to Hebei, Hedong, and even Henan to recruit workers, and even sent people to Xi, Khitan, and other tribes to recruit people. The conditions are very good, but the effect is not very good. As long as everyone lives, no one is willing to leave their hometowns and travel thousands of miles to Huaihuang. After all, although the merchants in Huaihuang now have a treasure land full of gold. In the eyes of many ordinary people, it is still a wilderness outside the border with no impression.

Yi Feng himself lacks people, and Fang Xuanling also wants to borrow chickens and eggs from Yi Feng to get people to reclaim wasteland and stock up in Huaian. This is because he has not figured out the situation in advance.

However, Yi Feng still wants to bring Fang Xuanling closer, even if he increases his favorability first.

After turning around and thinking for a while, Yi Feng suddenly thought of another good solution from the sound of the piano just now. Yi Feng has no one, but it does not mean that there is no one else.

Seeing Fang Xuanling standing there with a disappointed face, Yi Feng smiled and said, "However, your plan is indeed good. If it is successfully implemented, it will be a win-win cooperation for Huaian and Huaihuang. Although I lack labor at the moment, there is still a way to adapt."

"Please come on Yi Shuai!" Fang Xuanling asked hurriedly. This plan was made by him for a lot of effort. It was the first step he wanted to make achievements in Huaian. He was unwilling to die before he could succeed. He would try any chance.

"Guanzhou has a large amount of cultivated land for reclaiming, which is the best condition. If you have sycamore trees, you will not be afraid of not attracting golden phoenixes. Huaihuang means lacking such wealthy arable land. Therefore, you have to rely on outbound grain supply for a long time."

Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "Although Huaihuang does not have suitable arable land, Huaihuang has several large salt lakes. I heard that the output of these salt lakes is not high, and they only supply a nearby radius of hundreds of miles. However, after Da Zheng took control of Huaihuang, he had a way to turn stones into gold, and he was able to refine the original ordinary pond salt into snow salt, ice salt that is loved by people from all over the country and sought after by countless salt merchants. Even the output is astonishingly high, with a monthly salt output of hundreds of thousands of stones. Now, not only the south of the desert outside the border, but also the east of Hebei and even the Guanlong River.

It is really amazing that the salt in the south and other places have also purchased large quantities of Yishuai's dam salt. What makes me even more admired is that the salt invented by the Dashuai was even more amazing. It asked salt merchants to transport grain to Huaihuang and send it to designated castles for salt, and then go to Yancheng to exchange dam salt by themselves. Not only did it solve the problem of grain purchase in one fell swoop, but it even solved the problem of grain transport in one fell swoop and salt transport out in one fell swoop. Just sitting in Huaihuang, there was a steady stream of grain transport in, and the dam salt of snowflakes was really an extraordinary method."

These words are not Fang Xuanling's flattery, but real admiration. Fang Xuanling carefully studied the process of salt-changing grain in Huaihuang. The more he understood, the more he admired him. Before Yifeng, he had never heard of such a method. Although there was indeed a barter method for some short-term products, which could be exchanged for salt-changing grain and salt-induced forms, it was unprecedented. Yifeng's salt-induced opening system easily allowed those salt merchants to send grain to Huaihuang.

, and it was transported to designated towns and forts according to Yifeng's requirements, providing grain for Yifeng, and solving the problem of grain supply and transportation between Yifeng's own castles. The salt merchants went to the salt lake to exchange salt to lead the salt, so that the salt of the salt lake could be produced and piled in the warehouse, without any additional transportation and sales. Although the key to all this is that Yifeng has a unique pool salt production and refining technology, the salt system has brought this advantage to the extreme.

Yi Feng just smiled. Although this salt is good, it is just something he has picked up from later history. Therefore, no matter how good Fang Xuanling praised it, he didn't have much to be proud of.

However, his new plan is indeed related to the salt system.

"It seems that Brother Xuanling is very familiar with the salt production in Huaihuang, which saves me some quarrels. My idea is this: Guizhou has land, but no one cultivates it, and Huaihuang has no land to cultivate, but it can be exchanged for salt and grain. At present, Huaihuang is short of manpower and cannot go to Guizhou to reclaim wasteland. However, those salt merchants have someone in their hands."

The Yi Feng is lit until it reaches the point, and smart people always understand it at the point.

Fang Xuanling suddenly understood what Yifeng's plan was. Now, in order to get the extremely high-quality and very popular dam salt, salt merchants had to accept Yifeng's salt to divert China and France, transporting grain from the distant Jianghuai grain production land to Huaihuang. Although there are still many profits available here, the cost of grain transportation, especially long-distance transportation, is actually extremely high. In particular, there are good waterways to transport grain from Jianghuai to the Yellow River, but after crossing the Yellow River, whether it is going up from Hedong or from Hebei to the north, the waterway is no longer so smooth, and the northward, the more difficult it is to transport it. Especially in Guizhou after leaving the Great Wall, it is even more difficult. It can be said that for salt merchants who exchange salt for grain, in this kind of transportation, the transportation cost is higher than the cost of grain. If the transportation cost can be reduced, the profit of selling salt can naturally increase.

It is difficult to solve the transportation cost. Generally speaking, only by relying on bulk transportation can we reduce the cost. However, even bulk transportation is limited. However, if salt merchants directly hire people to hoard land and cultivate grain in Guizhou, which is close to the desert, the cost of farming may be higher than before, but the cost of transportation will almost plummetly. From the original transportation of thousands of miles to only a few hundred miles, the difference between them will be huge.

This is the solution that Yi Feng came up with. He could cooperate with the big salt merchants and let them go to Guizhou to stock up on the fields. There was no one in Fang Xuanling, and no one in Yi Feng, but the salt merchants must have someone.

Generally speaking, those big merchants who came to the wasteland to exchange salt were basically big grain merchants, and the big grain merchants themselves were big landlords, and there were many landlords working together. In this way, they had enough grain in their hands. Only by the trafficking of large quantities of grain could the advantages of selling grain and obtain enough profits. The landlords had land and people. Not only were there tenants, but they generally had a large number of hidden serfs. Moreover, the landlords were often powerful figures in the land. If they came out to organize recruitment of villagers and people to go north to farm, they would be much stronger than Yi Feng and Fang Xuanling.

Historically, salt was also implemented in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Salt merchants transported grain to the border to exchange salt, and finally developed into salt merchants directly organizing people to stock up near the border, using the grain produced to exchange salt, saving a lot of transportation costs. This is a method that can be followed by Yi Feng, but for Fang Xuanling, this was another method that he had never thought of. Without dam salt, there would be no salt to stock up in China and France. Without the salt to exchange grain, merchants would not have gone to the northern border to stock up. Everything was one link after another.

Fang Xuanling was trembling with excitement now. He suddenly felt enlightened and the fog in front was opened.

"Yi Shuai is so smart, I am grateful."

"It's just a small matter, not to mention that this is also good for Huaihuang. This is a win-win cooperation." Yi Feng said with a smile. This is indeed a profitable cooperation between the three parties. In this way, Fang Xuanling's Huai'an County was given manpower to reclaim fields and cultivate grain. Although the output was finally earned by the salt merchants, the salt merchants reclaimed fields and planted grain in Huai'an, and the land rent was needed and the land tax was paid. Moreover, with a large population, Huai'an naturally flourished and political achievements were achieved. The merchants were able to reclaim fields and grow grain near Huaihuang.

The cost of salt exchange for grain is greatly reduced, and the profits will naturally increase. In this cooperation, it seems that there is no direct benefit to Huaihuang, but in fact it is not. Merchants hoard fields and grow grain near Huaihuang, which greatly improves the security of Huaihuang's grain supply. On the other hand, Guizhou, south of Huaihuang, is excited, which will naturally have great benefits to Huaihuang. On the one hand, it can increase the development of Huaihuang's commodity economy, and on the other hand, it can provide some labor for Huaihuang, and even solve the problem of marrying a wife for the men in Huaihuang.

The three parties win-win, hello, I, hello everyone.

"It's great, please ask the Grand Marshal to help you with this matter!" Fang Xuanling said excitedly. Only when salt merchants reclaim the fields in Huaian are suitable for salt merchants to reclaim. The cost of land reclamation here is definitely higher than that in the mainland. However, for salt merchants, the cost of land reclamation is much lower than that in the mainland, and the cost of land reclamation is much lower than that in transporting grain from the mainland to Huaihuang. However, no one has done this before, but dam salt is the most critical point, so Yi Feng is the one with the most right to speak. If they preside over it, the salt merchants naturally trust him more.

"No problem." Everyone is good, and of course Yi Feng has no reason to refuse.

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