Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Zhu Da now has inexplicable feelings about this sentence. The value of iron pots is more important than fur and silk, which he never thought of.

The precious iron pot on the grassland is enough to talk about this. Zhu Da can infer other things, such as the lack of iron tools in Mongolia. The large tribes may have a fixed source, but the small tribes can only rely on most or border trade to obtain it. This iron pot is also a material for building weapons at critical moments, which is related to people's livelihood and life and death. This iron pot has become a strategic material...

There are not many things that can be seen or said in the store. Qin Xiucai led Zhu Da and the others away. Except for Zhou Qingyun, everyone understood that this time entering the store was not to introduce Zhu Da to how the business was running, nor to test Zhu Da's intelligence. It was just to show everyone the status of Zhu Da and treat him as a core figure in the future.

The shopkeeper Ding Baotong and several others were sent to the back door before turning around, and he was polite and respectful. After walking a little distance, he looked back and saw that the salt bank had already returned. Qin Chuan smiled and said, "Don't look at Ding Baotong's timidity. He was a well-known character on the ground west of Datong back then. Not to mention the salt bank, even the commanders of various wards must be polite to him."

Among the classes of Datong border town, the commander of the ward was very high. Such people had to be polite to Ding Bao. The status of the shopkeeper Ding was indeed very good at that time.

"But the general behind him died in battle, everything collapsed. The newcomer had a newcomer and he had to squeeze some oil and water out of him. If our salt bank had not taken action in time, he might have died of illness in the prison." Qin Chuan continued.

Zhu Da thought to himself that Qin Xiucai was either aroused his feelings or just wanted to explain to Zhu Da. He said while walking: "In Datong, the civil servants, military generals and internal officials sent by the court were the most powerful, but the real ones were the natives, the Dai King of Datong, and the garrisons everywhere. They might bow their heads for a moment, but they had a long-term wealth."

Every sentence has all kinds of knowledge. If you want to understand the meaning of the words, you have to learn more. Zhu Da knew that this was not the time to show off his skills and be clever. He just listened carefully and tried hard to remember.

When he was about to enter the Qin family's house, Qin Xiucai said with a smile: "Before I went to the salt bank, they only knew how to sell private salt, and it was a mess from top to bottom. The Zuowei fought with them, and the one below was embezzled. After I arrived at the plan, the upper and lower parts were integrated, and private salt became the chassis for training and raising troops, and the trade with various merchants became an extension. Not only the entire Zuowei was stable, but also the business was also a daily increase in gold. Our Shengping Salt Bank was not only in Zuowei, but also in Datong Town West and North Road."

When he first heard these words, Zhu Da did not react to Qin Chuan's intentions for a moment. He thought it was a normal explanation and just listened and thought about it carefully.

Qin Xiucai's method is indeed very solid. He formed a network on the controlled territory by selling private salt, which can obtain profits regularly and in a fixed amount. Through this stable income and territory, he maintains the force of the salt stack, and strengthens the credibility and survival ability of other businesses of the salt stack through this force, and even uses this network and force to attack competitors. As long as the system established by Qin Xiucai works normally, the private salt organization will have a stable rear, and there will always be powerful and warriors on their side, and their strength will become greater and greater.

"Zhu Da, what do you think of this?" Qin Xiucai's question interrupted Zhu Da's thoughts.

This question made Zhu Da react immediately. It turned out that Qin Xiucai said that he wanted to boast about his ability and contributions. It made Zhu Da feel a little amused and crying to figure it out.

However, he could understand the other party's childish behavior. Judging from the environment where Qin Xiucai was and the people around him, there was almost no such thing as communicating. He showed enough wisdom and talent, and was close enough to Qin Xiucai. In a sense, Qin Chuan regarded himself as an equal and reassuring object of communication.

"I'll let my adoptive father think about it." Zhu Da answered very seriously. Of course, he could praise him for a few words and everyone was happy, but if the other party treated him so seriously, if he would praise him casually, it would be disrespectful to his relatives.

Zhu Da's response made Qin Xiucai stunned, and then nodded with satisfaction, with a look of expectation on his face. When Zhu Da saw this, he smiled secretly. After all, Qin Chuan was just a young man in his twenties. Despite experiencing storms and old Yu's plan, there was always curiosity and vanity.

When he was about to reach the inner courtyard, Zhu Da looked up and said, "Entertainment Father, your plan is to turn Datong Zuowei into the cornerstone of the Salt Stage. The profit from the salt trader below is the tax collected by the Salt Stage in Zuowei. The manpower of the Zuowei is the salt Stage's servants and guards, and the merchants and the customers who buy salt are the eyes and ears of the Salt Stage. Relying on these, the salt Stage is invincible, and then planning other things. With these, as long as you engage in caution, it becomes very easy to make profits. This is very similar to the government, but it is more efficient and direct than the government. The adoptive father turned what he learned in the book into practice and made more progress. This is really a great talent!"

The four words "to apply what you have learned" are simple to say, but it is actually difficult to turn the theories in books into practice. Theories are monotonous and the practice is complex. What Qin Xiucai is looking at is nothing more than classics and history. He can be purified and summarized from this, and operated in practice, and has good results. This is really a reflection of talent.

"Don't think I'm talking nonsense. I thought of ancient figures, such as Zhuge Kongming..."

Zhu Da thought that Qin Chuan did something quite similar to Prime Minister Zhuge's achievements. Of course, it is another matter how similar it is.

"I've passed, how can I say this?" Qin Chuan waved his hands repeatedly, his face full of smiles. Anyone could see this joy.

"It's just that I want to ask my adoptive father, and I hope he won't think I'm rude and presumptuous."

"How could it be, I'm already my own family, just say it."

Zhu Da pondered for a while and asked slowly, "Entertainment Father, Shengping Salt Stack is the smallest government in Zuowei of Datong. He uses salt sales to collect taxes, recruits martial artists and wise men as servants, and makes profits through resale trade. The turnover continues. What I want to ask is, can this salt stack be bigger?"

Qin Xiucai stopped his smile and hesitated for a moment and replied: "If you can grow bigger, all the forces around you, no matter whether you are a martial arts or a local tyrant, you can't think that the Salt Stage is as solid and stable as it is, and you can make money well. Only our Salt Stage's strength will continue to grow bigger. Others may either stagnate or be very slow..."

As he was talking, scholar Qin Chuan stopped and said hesitantly: "I can't make it big anymore. At most, I can go to Weiyuanwei. If there wasn't a guerrilla generation in the Yang family, the Datong Zuowei might not have been able to take it down."

"The adoptive father, the salt stack is like an official, but it is not an official. Only by relying on the support can one occupy the area. All he gets is wealth. What will happen if the salt stack planned by the adoptive father is bigger? If the government replaces it, maybe it will only be rebellious if you want to become bigger?"

Zhu Da's last sentence was very light. The scholar Qin Chuan heard it clearly. Zhou Qingyun even turned his head and looked at it, but he didn't know if he heard it.

"You really dare to say..." Qin Xiucai said a word and stopped. After a while, he said again: "...This is indeed a dead end. I think it has been going on since childhood, but I didn't expect that I can only be in the Zuowei, and all parties have to compete for it..."

From hesitation to pondering, Qin Xiucai is now confused, his voice is not high, and he is also intermittent. Zhu Da asked again: "Entertainment Father, you have made such a plan for the salt bank and managed such a situation. The adoptive father must be unwilling to be mediocre and want to do a career, but you only want to run the salt bank and make money and live a well-off life?"

The Salt Stacks are expanding the industry of Datong Zuowei, but the limit is the scope of Datong Zuowei. If you want to make progress, according to the regulations set by Qin Xiucai, it is actually to infringe on the rights and responsibilities of the government and garrison offices, and to receive people's and financial resources.

All the powerful people in the world are doing this, but it’s okay if you do it in one village, one township and one county. If it is expanded to several counties, it will conflict with the government. If you are a family and someone in your family is an official, you can still shelter it, and everyone will think it is the norm. But if it is a private salt organization that does this, it will become an armed rebellion and will inevitably cause severe blows, which is the way to die.

Although the gentry did the same thing, the emperor and the literati and officials ruled the world together was the ancestor family law of the Ming Dynasty. The officials and gentry raised some thugs and would not have too decent force. However, the Yanzhan system was different. He used financial resources to raise forces, protect financial resources, and was also a system that could circulate. This was the basis for shaking the Ming Dynasty and there was a possibility of replacing it, although this might be very weak.

Although he had been to Zheng Jiaji for a short time, Zhu Da could roughly get the mechanism of the salt stack through chatting with several salt stack guards and through what Qin Xiucai said about scale claws, and he could also figure out the limits of the development of this mechanism.

There were only a few steps away from the door of the house, but Qin Xiucai stood there and did not move. Qin Qin, who was nestled in the house, couldn't help but run out.

However, at this time, Qin Xiucai had no time to communicate with his daughter, so he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Be good, go and play with Qingyun."

The clever Qin Qin could naturally see her father's current state. She directly pulled Zhou Qingyun away, leaving only Zhu Da and Qin Xiucai.

The sun sets in the west, the smoke rises, and you can hear the movements in the kitchen, and the aroma of the food has begun to spread. At this time, the room is already very warm, but Qin Xiucai is just standing in the yard in a daze, while Zhu Da is standing aside and waiting.

"...Juda, then what do you think I should do?"

"Studying in the imperial examinations will take a step further on the road to fame and fame."

“……I can’t help but teach you that person…”
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