Xinshun 1730

Chapter 985 Decisive Victory Thousands of Miles Away ([-])

After carefully inquiring about the situation of these private salt dealers, Liu Yu brought over the small notebooks of the records, went through them himself, and calculated the cost.

Then ask, "Do people in your circle know each other?"

"circle?"

The private salt dealer didn't understand what he meant, Liu Yu smiled and said, "Let's go together."

"Oh... I know it. Anyone who goes to Hankou knows it."

Liu Yu thought about it, and then asked: "If you are given a chance, can the people in your circle eat up the entire salt industry in Lianghu? Money is not a problem, it can be loaned to you with low interest; salt is not Question, I can lend it to you first."

"This issue is of great importance."

"It's done. Naturally, you will reach the sky in one step. The loach in the gutter has crossed the dragon gate. It can see the light and get rid of the mud. I will clean it for you.

"If you can't do it well... If you can't do it well, then you will be a sewer loach for the rest of your life."

"So, think clearly about the answer."

These private salt dealers already knew that they were arrested by Boyer Army, and each of them immediately realized how serious they were involved in.

The Boyer Army usually doesn't care much about folk affairs, but if it can't stand it, there must be a lot of legends about such an organization.

Knowing that this matter is serious, and knowing that it has been involved now, naturally I can only think about what to do, not whether I should do it.

The clever salt dealer thought for a while and said, "If you can borrow money and salt according to what the Duke said, then there must be no problem."

"Salt sellers everywhere, in fact, everyone in our industry knows that wherever official salt is sold, there is a certain amount of private salt. Otherwise, it is difficult to make money."

"We don't think that there are people who sell illegal salt, or walk around the streets with two earthen baskets, as the outside world thinks. We don't do that kind of small business."

"We transported the salt there. The local salt sellers usually sell [-]% of the official salt and keep [-]% of the private salt."

"So, if we really want to do it... In fact, there is no need for the government to give us a loan. As long as the imperial court allows us to sell it, we can push Lianghuai salt out of the two lakes within half a year. At least, Hankou and Huangzhou can keep a catty of Lianghuai salt I can't see you."

"only……"

The private salt dealer thought about it, but he still got to the point.

"It's just that the production of well salt is insufficient. We sell less, and they open fewer wells. Well drilling can't be done in a day or two."

Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "You don't need to worry about where the salt comes from. You don't need to worry about the salt well."

"There are specialties in the art industry, do you understand? You don't produce salt, you are just porters of salt, and it is the sales link. I only ask about this link."

When these private salt dealers heard this, they immediately patted their chests and said, "If you want to say that, don't worry, Duke, it will be fine."

I guess they heard a lot of stories about the Three Kingdoms in Sichuan, and some people patted their chests and said, "Dare to issue a military order!"

Liu Yu snorted twice and said, "Since I've said that, I'd like to congratulate you in advance. You've grown from a group of sewer loaches, which you can't bear to see, to a big red carp in the river."

"But before that, you must not be let go. You must have your own private marks in this line of work."

"You also know that with my title and the general of the boy army beside me, it is impossible to specialize in you salt dealers, and you don't have to worry that this is the person who baited you. If you can catch you, you can catch them. This is necessary."

"After a while, those who can write letters will write their own letters. Whatever I say, you can write to your leaders. If you can't write, leave a mark. If you really say that you don't have a private mark, then I will have to strip your clothes and chop yours. Mark it with your finger or cut off your ear."

These salt dealers hurriedly said: "Yes! Yes! Don't bother the Duke, just get your hands dirty carefully."

"Well, that's good. During this period, there is wine and meat, but you can't go anywhere. You will be sent to Tsushima and locked up first. If you really have the ability, you can swim back from Tsushima. The distance between Kuizhou and Poyang is the distance from Japan, which the Celestial Dynasty sought for justice for the Ryukyu Kingdom."

When these private salt dealers heard this, they felt more relaxed, thinking that since they did this, it must be true.But as the Duke said, if this is done, the loach in the gutter will become a big koi.

After interrogating for a while, Liu Yu left behind those smugglers who were specially running towards Xinyang, and the rest were sent to the cabin for custody.

This time the question was more detailed. While asking, he looked at the newly drawn map after the General Staff of the Privy Council seized the power of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

From the hydrology of the river, the influence of the dry season and the rising water on the salt transportation.

How far to go every day, the operating route, and the logistics carrying capacity along the way.

After arriving in Xinyang, those who went to the Huaihe River, what boat did they use, and which tributary they took.

There are many things that private salt dealers don't care about, and Liu Yu's occupational diseases in the staff business over the years have also been asked.

After asking clearly, looking at the dense notes, Liu Yu thought that he did not have the ability of a one-man staff department, but the organizational strength required for such a thing was far from that of a war.

After calculating according to the above data, Liu Yu knew it well.

The absolute amount of salt hoarded now is not a lot.

But firstly, there is a surplus of low-priced salt. If the Lianghuai salt merchants want to play, they can only use the method of taxing the price.One million taels is enough to leverage four to five million taels, and Liu Yu probably won't last long with the cash in the hands of Lianghuai salt merchants.Moreover, this kind of hedging may reach a certain critical point, and the last bag of salt will directly cause the other party to collapse psychologically.

The second is that as long as the imperial court wants to do it and the administrative power is mobilized, the salt from Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, and Nanyang can also be quickly gathered.Because the imperial court has an excellent navy and an emerging professional transportation company.

That is to say, there are no trains and ships in this year, otherwise there is no need to prepare in advance.

If the salt merchant wants to play, it can only play like this.

In theory, salt merchants can also sell low-priced salt here.Collecting salt is coercing the "people's livelihood" to force the court; selling salt is coercing the "salt government tax" to force the court.

But Liu Yu understands that salt merchants dare not play like this.Once the reforms are made, it is a crime for salt merchants to disrupt the market by selling low-priced private salt; and it is only a side-ball to take advantage of the loopholes in the reform itself to engage in acquisition disruptions.There is a big difference here.

Moreover, the advantage of general contractors is capital. They have no channels and can only play capital disruption, but not market disruption.

After considering these issues thoroughly, Liu Yu wrote two more letters.

One is the fifth memorial to the emperor on the reform of the salt administration.

One was a personal invitation to send people to the Shaanxi Guild Hall in Sichuan to invite the leaders of Shaanxi merchants to come to the Beijing Academy of Sciences for a talk, about the end of this year, and let them leave as soon as possible.

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It has been more than a month since some goods were unloaded on Jeju Island, and several transport ships flying the navy flag came to Jeju Island.

The captain's rank is not low. Dashun's naval reform has already begun, and a large number of transport ships have been abolished.The remaining transport ships are a very professional elite force prepared for a transoceanic battle with 5000 to 8000 men.

Under careful selection, the captain of the transport ship can actually be the captain of the warship. Liu Yu's "advance expansion of recruitment" in Jinghai Palace before made Dashun's naval personnel surplus.

Although Dashun won the cypress and teak from Nanyang and the oak from Northeast China, without the so-called "hundred-year navy" tree-planting curse, Dashun's ship expansion speed cannot keep up with the increase in talent.

The remaining officers were selected and their salaries were raised; the retired officers who were dismissed basically went to Nanyang and the Merchant Navy to find jobs.

The navy is not owned by Liu Yu, so it is not Liu Yu's order that these officers come to Jeju Island.

It was the emperor's order to the seventh son of the emperor, and the navy was dispatched directly, not the regular way of the six governments where the news was leaking everywhere.

After the warship docked at the port, the two sides made a handover, and the packed goods began to be loaded onto the ship.

What these packaged goods are, the naval officer has no idea at all.And they also forbid asking, the whole process was watched by someone specially.

After being installed, the ship left Jeju Island and went to Songjiang Prefecture, where the barnacles were cleaned and maintained at the shipyard of Songjiang Prefecture.

But the sailors did not take vacations, but all sailors were ordered to go to Lingdingyang Military Port for vacation after the barnacles were cleaned up.

The goods are unloaded here, and the newly established shipping company doesn't know what these goods are re-stamped with Japanese sacks.

I only know that this is an order from the imperial court, and it will be delivered to Hankou within a time limit. It is full of military supplies, so there should be no delay.In addition to sea-going ships, shipping companies also have many river cruisers and large river ships after the abolition of the canal.

This time the supplies were escorted by the Marine Corps dispatched from Busan. They were escorted by the highest level of the Privy Council, which suppressed the right of passage of the emperor, the commander-in-chief of the army. The whole process was not inspected or detained.

Although they don't know what is on the ship, in fact, no one pays attention to it.When fighting in western Sichuan before, they also directly dispatched elite artillery units, and the merchants didn't care what was inside.

But this news still made the speculators of Songjiang Mansion, who were more and more commercially sensitive, seize the opportunity. They guessed that the imperial court was going to carry out a wave of more thorough land reforms in Yongshun, Fenghuang and other places in western Hunan.

Don't even think about war material, it depends on Xiangyang, the old capital of Dashun.However, do the merchants know that Dashun's policy of reforming land and returning locals is a sword in one hand and a scripture in one hand.

The so-called "Using the army to govern the seedlings will lead to rebellion after a long service; to care for the seedlings with officials, it is difficult to satisfy the desire. The root of governing the seedlings lies in the transformation of the seedlings."

This is also Dashun's policy of reforming the southwest of the country, and if you put it in one word, there will be a lot of business to do.

Last time, the imperial court bought a bunch of scriptures, and then bought a bunch of "Nongzhengshu" newly published by Songjiang Prefecture in the vernacular version of the market, which taught how to grow corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, castor oil, and oil Tong and other technologies.

Obviously, this time there is going to be a big move, a sword in one hand and scriptures in one hand. The money for the sword must have been earned in Xiangyang, the old capital; isn't the money for the scriptures going to be earned here?
Immediately, some speculators hurriedly printed a bunch of books according to their previous experience, and they rushed to Wuhan and Xiangyang for shipment.In the past few years, Songjiang Prefecture's printing technology has also undergone innovations. Printing is cheaper than other places. As long as it can get orders from the government, it is guaranteed to make another profit.

In addition to the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, and other agricultural policies, there are also special goods from the Songjiang Mansion that focus on soldiers' salaries, and they are also shipped to the west to make a fortune.

Cigarettes, Nanyang sugar cane wine, rock candy, fringed scarves and shawls for women who are most likely to steal military pay, cinchona cream, matches, the navy's batch version of overly alkaline stinky soap, and the navy's characteristic mass-produced wooden Prosthetic legs, who knows if there is any useful snake medicine from the South Seas, who knows what kind of marine mammal jerky meat the navy eats disgusting and drained of oil, and imitation naval officers A pocket watch, a Nanyang garrison imitation mosquito repellent neck gauze that can be easily tied to a standard felt hat, etc.

This is not available in Old Beijing.

You can make money when you fight, and if you can collect some raw lacquer and Xiangxi grass ash after you finish the fight, you can make a lot of money.The speculators in Songjiang Mansion have many years of experience in dealing with the navy, and they have long been aware of "patchwork".

(End of this chapter)