Silver Overlord

Yan Liqiang lives in a modern society. In modern society, if you choose one of the most important materials, it is not oil. Oil is the blood of the modern economy, the source of wealth, the foundation of industry, without oil, the whole society will stop, in the world of Yan Liqiang’s past, the most powerful giants and secret groups, the most powerful The fate of the country and the economy is closely related to the oil. The oil derives a wealth of wealth. It also produces countless wars and joys and sorrows. Oil is the battlefield of the great powers. The old friend of the Chinese people, Kissinger. A famous saying – who controls oil, who controls all countries.

In the world where Yan Liqiang lives now, in Silver Continent, if there is something that can be as important as his previous oil, there is no doubt that that kind of thing is salt. Therefore, the expression of the importance of oil can be placed on the salt. It is no exaggeration. The importance of salt, to some extent, even exceeds oil, because a person can survive without oil, but one People don’t have salt, they can’t live without it. Salt is the absolute protagonist of this world trade. It is the biggest trade commodity. The stories surrounding the occurrence of salt and the stories surrounding the occurrence of oil are almost exactly the same. The rise and fall of the giants, the war between countless countries and tribes, are almost all related to salt.

In this world, where salt can be produced, it is equal to where oil can be produced in the past, and as long as there is salt, countless wealth will swarm. In this world, in the Great Han Empire, the richest and most powerful family members are inextricably linked to salt, and the salt tax is the backbone of the Great Han Empire’s fiscal revenue.

In a world where the armed forces are supreme, the Great Han Empire does not have a policy of holding salt monopoly by the government. The salt trade is open to all, and in order to control the salt trade, the huge amount of financial funds needed for the empire is obtained from the salt trade. Great Han Empire invented a very smart way of managing, that is, issuing salt tickets.

The salt ticket has three functions, one is market access, the second is tax collection certificate, and the third is the nature of the invoice.

For all salt production, if you have a capacity of 10,000 kilograms of salt a year, you must buy 10,000 pounds of salt tickets from the official, and your salt can legally enter the market. From the production of salt, the salt ticket begins. Entering it, bear the role of tax collection and market access vouchers, and when people buy salt, for example, buy a pound of salt, they can ask the salt traders for a salt ticket of salt, and then the people can buy salt. The salt ticket went to the relevant salt administration in the local area to “return the tax”. Finally, the salt ticket returned to the court.

According to the quality of salt, salt tickets are divided into four categories: upper, middle, inferior, inferior, and different grades and quality of salt. It is necessary to purchase salt tickets of different grades and qualities. Under normal circumstances, one pound of salt ticket The value of almost half of the price of the salt market is about 50%, but even so, the salt industry is still a profiteering industry, because the price of salt and the cost are conservatively estimated to be twenty or thirty times. The profit margin, even if the official takes half of the profits, leaving the sellers, there are at least ten times more profit margins.

If the salt merchants can’t give the salt ticket when the salt is bought, the salt bought is the private salt. The Great Han Empire is very determined and severe against the private salt. If an ordinary person buys a pound of private salt without a salt ticket. As long as the salt is used to report the accusation, once it is verified, it will immediately “reward the golden ones” and instantly become rich, while those who sell the private salt are the felony of the family.

Under such a complete control system, although there are private salts, they are only a few, and they are not flooded.

Yan Liqiang didn’t focus on the salt before, because money was not his pursuit, but on the way back to Gan Prefecture, Yan Liqiang repeatedly asked himself how he could condense in his shortest time. When I started a huge force, I saw the caravan of the salt merchants who had no money in the market. He suddenly remembered the history of the private salt dealers Zhang Shicheng and others who had seen it in his life, and Zhu Yuanzhang’s history. The thing that was not eaten was suddenly reflected in his mind and completely activated his thinking.

Yan Liqiang, because of curiosity, a few people who sell private salt can also influence history, and Zhu Yuanzhang, such a chaotic world, is competing for the world, so he bought several related books to see, and read those books, Yan Liqiang is all at once. Suddenly, the original salt has such a big role in ancient times. The legendary war between the Yellow Emperor and Emperor Yan was caused by the two sides fighting for the solution pool. The pool was the land of salt production, because the Yellow Emperor finally controlled the salt of the pool. This became the hegemon of the tribes at that time. Before Zhang Shicheng, Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi, who almost destroyed the Tangshan Mountains, were also private salt sellers. The demon king, such as Cheng Jinjin, was also a private salt dealer, and this group of private salt dealers. Deep participation and influence the historical trend of several important dynasties in ancient China.

Gan Prefecture also produces salt, which is a kind of brine salt. It is limited to the level of brine processing technology in this era. The quality of soil salt produced by Gan Prefecture is generally not high, and it is not sold at high prices. The quality of the green salt, pool salt compared to the difference, and so on.

Fortunately, in the books that Yan Liqiang had seen in his life, there was an introduction to the processing technology of the salt industry. With the knowledge in his head, Yan Liqiang only spent one night, in the own room of the manufacturing bureau. In it, I prepared a little simple tool material and utensils. It was easy to let the low-quality soil salt produced by Gan Prefecture turn into a gorgeous turn and become a white salt.

The salt industry has too much interest in buying and selling, and it involves too much. With this purchase, the four-wheeled carriage is only a small business that can make money. To get involved in the salt industry, Yan Liqiang still lacks some strength and local influence. Allowed, a few years later, he may be able to fully intervene in his own ability, not afraid of anyone, but time is not waiting, Yan Liqiang now needs the most time, so find a strong partner in Gan Prefecture and Backing up is a shortcut, and the entire Gan Prefecture, naturally no one is more suitable than Lei Sitong.

Lei Sitong is not only the Gan Prefecture Provincial Governor, but Sun Bingchen also highly praised him. Both ability and character are the most suitable people that Yan Liqiang can find now. Yan Liqiang naturally wants to pull Lei Sitong up. Your own chariot.

On the matter of making big money, the two sides hit it off.

The production of soil salt in Gan Prefecture is very loose, and there is no scale. The forces that control the salt fields have local local tyrants and forces outside Gan Prefecture. The situation is a bit complicated, in Yuntao County of Pingxi County. There are several small-scale brine mines, but only those brine mines have their mains. Yan Liqiang and Lei Sitong initially talked about the cooperation intention.

The first step in this cooperation is that Lei Sitong is responsible for fixing the salt mines in Yuntao County, whether existing or newly discovered, and then Yan Liqiang takes over the production with the manpower equipment. Lei Sitong is responsible for the safety of the salt field and is the salt field. The sales provided some convenience and help. Yan Liqiang was responsible for sales, and the final profit was divided into five equal parts.

It’s not a matter of three days or two to get the salt mines in Yuntao County. There are a lot of joints behind it. Even if it’s Lei Sitong, it’s really impossible to bring the soldiers and horses to the Yuntao County. Those salt fields were handed over to Yan Liqiang. As a state’s provincial governor, there are rules and regulations. You can’t mess around. Yan Liqiang is not in a hurry. To get involved in this big trade comparable to oil trade, the preparatory work in the early stage is even It is normal to spend half a year in the first half of the year. After the initial cooperation intentions have been negotiated, Yan Liqiang will leave the night, and Lei Sitong will be the official of Pingxi County. Next, enthusiastically sent Yan Liqiang to the gate of Guanuan…

“Lee Shu please stay, don’t send it…” After a discussion, Yan Liqiang’s name, Lei Shu, is also more convincing.

“There will be something after the ceremony, directly to find Jianbei and Yucheng. Whoever dares to find you trouble is to find the trouble of Lei Sitong. Who wants to make you not happy, that is, let me Lei Sitong not happy, I Lei Sitong The sickle on the hand is for these people…” Lei Sitong smiled and pointed to the new county guard and warlord of Pingxi County, saying the domineering words in the same tone as the home, and the content of the words, then Let countless people around listen to the heartbeat.

“Okay, I know, I am afraid I will have trouble with Lei Shu and the two elders…”