"I understand." Huang Hua said.

At least Han Jiang is not easy to show up in this situation.

"Then get this done quickly."

"OK."

In fact, it is very important to deal with this matter quickly, but Huang Hua is not very clear about it.

He responded and the two walked out.

"Everyone, I am Huang Hua, a guest of Wang Zhizhou. Of course, although I have the same name as Pang Gong, it is far from that." Huang Hua looked at the merchants, first introduced himself and made a small joke. But he did have the same name as Pang Ji, which is normal, just like the words Zhang Zai and Zhang Dun, both of them are Zihou. The important thing is not the characters, but himself.

A guest is a guest, a little more noble than a disciple, and is equivalent to the scholar who raised scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period.

But as a disciple of Wang Ju, Huang Hua was also a little proud, not for himself, but for this identity.

Since Wang Ju entered the officialdom, he has taken in a total of ten disciples, Ge Shaohua, Huang Liang, Tao Qing, Zhao Du, Han Yun, Zhang Quanzhi, Liu Shaoxian, Lu Pingzhi, Lu Herang, Huang Hua, Zhao Dajing and Wang Xiaoma, they can only be regarded as apprentices now.

Ge Shaohua made contributions to the Song Dynasty in the south and became "reformed" and Zhao Du was about to become reformed.

Then came to Han Yun. If there was a great victory this time, he only found out about the information about Xixia sending troops to Qingzhou in advance, and it was not far from becoming a regular person.

But in fact, Huang Hua vaguely felt that what Wang Ju asked them to do was extraordinary. If they were not just from the imperial examination, they might have been famous in history and at least they would be able to become a regular person in the future.

This formalization is a dream for scholars. Not only is it an official-oriented political system, but it has many benefits to being civil servants in the Song Dynasty. Of course, Huang Hua and others basically don’t know how to be respected but they all like them. In addition, as Wang Ju becomes a disciple, they will also become one after another as Wang Ju’s disciples. Even if they become a real magistrate, at least one child can be compensated in the future. Besides, it’s not just this benefit!

So Huang Hua felt a little anxious when he saw them going down one by one. However, the opportunity has come, not only to do things for Wang Ju, but also to save Zhang Ju and Han Jiang from being embarrassed. Besides, if this matter is done well, there may be controversy in the court, but everyone knows that it will have a great help to the Song Dynasty. Several people join forces to push it, and they may be able to become a regular person.

"I have met Mr. Huang." The merchants immediately bowed.

The prime minister's seventh-rank official, and he was Wang Ju's disciple.

Zhao Dajing also introduced himself: "Dear fellow villagers, I am Zhao Jing, a guest brought by Wang Zhizhou from the security guard Wangjiazhai."

"I've met Zhao Dalang," the merchants saluted again. Zhao Dajing was too young, so the gentleman couldn't shout it out.

After introducing himself, Huang Hua said: "There is a fierce battle ahead, but the enemy has fallen into the trap of Wang Zhizhou. The main army buried by Liang Yi will soon be wiped out. Therefore, in the next battle, Wang Zhizhou will divide his troops into two places. One will pursue the enemy's deserters, and the other will divide his troops to Yonghe Village. Do you understand what I said? That is, from the beginning, Wang Zhizhou wanted to eat the 300,000 Xia troops together. Now it is not far from this goal. Today is not counted. The battles a few days ago have wiped out and captured 100,000 Xia troops."

These people did not see other major battles, but the 20,000 Xia troops who had defeated Song Ji in the city of Qingzhou were all up in the middle of the night and stood at the top of the city to watch.

But when they heard this number, they were still surprised. There were 100,000 people. I remember that Cao Wei only killed 10,000 Tubo people in Sandu Valley, and was shocked to the entire northwest.

However, how is this like? In that battle, Cao Wei wanted to shock, not annihilate. Therefore, the final result was to behead more than a thousand levels, the enemy ravaged each other and fell into the valley, and there were no less than ten thousand people. The Song army seized more than 33,000 livestock, clothes, and tents, but only seven people were captured. Why capture prisoners? In the end, it was not for the sake of northwest stability and was released for free. Therefore, the nature was different. In that battle, only 67 people were killed under Cao Wei's tent.

The battle of Qingzhou was even more brilliant, but how many soldiers have been killed so far? It is about to catch up with the number of killings in Haoshuichuan.

However, Huang Hua only talks about the number of casualties of the enemy, so it sounds like two.

"The enemy has only 200,000 soldiers left?" asked a merchant.

This is really not clear. Even if Song Bing sat on the balloon, he could not count it. But it can be estimated that Huang Hua said: "Because Ming Gong designed the enemy into two, and the design delayed them for a few days. There was insufficient food and grass, and he also divided nearly 10,000 troops to transport food and grass in the rear. Now the two enemy forces together will not exceed 200,000. The Rouyuan Village, which includes Liang Yongneng's defeated army, was less than 100,000. Our army's strength is close to 80,000 troops."

"Then there will definitely be a great victory." The merchants said one after another.

The Song army still has few troops, but is the morale the same?

As for the past, one was a night attack, one was a lack of a large number of cavalry, one was a deliberate selection of terrain, and the other was a local battle. Today, all these advantages disappeared, but these merchants ignored it, or they could not think of it at all.

Of course, Huang Hua wouldn't say it, although he was still a little worried.

There are so many changes on the battlefield, and everything can happen.

He continued: "Please look at this map. The enemy is defeated and fled. In fact, Xixia cannot draw many reserve troops to rescue him. So our army will continue to chase him. Where will we chase him?"

Huang Hua pointed his hand.

"Yanzhou."

"I want to chase to Lingzhou."

"We must take the opportunity to annihilate Xixia."

These people said verbally.

"If Xixia is annihilated, then you still have business to do in the future?"

"We would rather not make this money than annihilate the Xixia." Many merchants expressed their opinions.

"That's wrong. Even if you annihilate Xixia, you can still make this money, and you can make this money openly. But Ming Gong didn't have this idea. He just wanted to chase Yanzhou and stopped. Then build several villages in the rear, so that Qingzhou would become the real rear."

Huang Hua said while pointing on the map, but every time he pointed, the faces of these merchants changed. Because the future locations of these forts were almost blocked by Tongsaichuan and Guidechuan, even the mountain roads in other Hengshan areas were also blocked. The problem arises...

"Do you feel that it will be difficult for private salt to enter Qingzhou in the future? But it doesn't matter. Now I'll give you a chance. You all know that we captured a large number of prisoners of war in this battle, but far more than that. In addition to prisoners of war, there are many livestock and vehicles. Since the Ming Gong planned to build more than a dozen forts in Hengshan, of course, he also used prisoners of war to build forts. Then the people in Hengshan became the people of the Song Dynasty in the future. However, the people in this area lived very poorly and could not be ignored in the Western Xia court. However, if they belonged to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty could not ignore it. However, if they were directly relieved, they became the second Murong. In the end, the desire was unfulfilled and difficult to control. If they were not relieved, they might cause trouble because of poverty. Therefore, the Ming Guild mobilized these people to go to Yanzhou... to transport salt!"

These merchants suddenly understood that after Wang Jisheng, he would chase him to Yanzhou. Yanzhou was not too far from Song Dynasty. Whether from Qingzhou or Yanzhou, he could transport grain and grass to Yanzhou. Besides, there were so many prisoners of war. He transported grain and grass when he went there and salt when he came back, so he would perfectly solve the supply and the risk would not be great.

As for the Song army, they stopped in Yanzhou. First, they gave time to build a fortress in the rear, and the weather gradually became warmer, so the difficulty of building a fortress in the rear decreased, and second, they gave time to transport salt in the rear.

With so many prisoners of war, plus the mobilized people, the Song army itself had many supplies and seized livestock vehicles, how much green salt would have to be transported back this day?

Then a bigger problem is...

Huang Hua continued: "First of all, after these forts are built, it will be very difficult to transport private salt in the future. Secondly, Ming Gong may transport millions of stones of green salt back this time. You merchants are pursuing profits, and Ming Gong also understands it. If you are not patriotic, then that is not true. Just like Renduolingding sent some scouts to Qingzhou City this time. You all reported it. This is also patriotism. Therefore, Ming Gong weighed the pros and cons, he came up with a solution. In the future, Qingyu will be transported to five locations, Huaian Town, Baibao City, Dashun City, Jintang City, and Shunning Village."

When we heard this, we didn’t know whether it was joy or sorrow. Baibao City and Jintang City were important fortresses in Xixia, but now Huang Hua made a move to the point of the Song Dynasty and used it as a place for storing green salt.

Of course, it also means that from now on, it will be more difficult for Xixia to threaten Gyeongju. But in this way, is there still a way out for private salt?

Huang Hua continued: "So Ming Gong plans to hand it over to you for sale first. After paying money in Yanzhou, Qingzhou, you will hire someone to transport it back from the five fortresses. Because you bought official salt, you will let you sell it on Shaanxi Road. Don't worry, Ming Gong is the scrupulous manager of Huanqing Road."

After saying this, everyone was happy and laughed together.

The Yanzhou side has nothing to do with them. What they care about is Huanqing Road, Huanqing Road Five Prefecture Army, Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Binzhou, Ningzhou, and Ganzhou. If the green salt can be transported to Binzhou and Ganzhou publicly, it can be sold to the entire Shaanxi Road.

Although the profit may be a little less, it can be sold publicly and will no longer be a thief like before. If you want to bribe the yamen officers and soldiers, the profit may be more considerable.

In fact, this is the reason why Han Jiang and Zhang Feng did not show up.

Strictly speaking, the sales of salt are under the jurisdiction of the Three Divisions. If the green salt was produced by the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju did this, the impeachment memorial could cover the entire palace. But green salt is not, this is clearly the snatched Xixia salt, and the government does not sell it, and private salt will not be suspended. Even the sales scope of green salt is not much involved in salt removal. It may be that large-scale trafficking and trafficking will cause some profits to be lost, but the damage will not be great. If we talk about it in a big way, because of the salt grabbing this time, if we grab too much, there will be a large amount of green salt sold by the government on Shaanxi Road in the next few years, rather than the green salt coming from private vendors. This will make the Xixia economy worse. Unless the Xixia lowers the price of green salt to ten cents per kilogram. But if the traffic costs are deducted, the Xixia people will not make much money.

Wang Ju played a verbally, and it was far more beneficial to the Song Dynasty than to harm. Moreover, the money was used to reward and provide pension to the soldiers of the three armies. Wang Ju's extravagant military use was also famous, and it was not the first time.

However, because of this war, people will inevitably be jealous and even hate the hatred of the ministers in the war, and they will use this to make a fuss at that time.

But this really makes a lot of money. So Wang Ju did it.

When Huang Hua said this, these merchants were all interested, and the next step was to negotiate the price of salt and quantity.

Of course, not only these merchants, but more merchants will soon join the feast, but the merchants in Qingzhou will get the most from the near-water tower and benefit first.

The merchants whispered and discussed for a while, and one of them stood up and said, "If this is the case, we are willing to pay twenty-one pennies per pound."

I originally planned to come up with twenty papers, but I was embarrassed to think about it, so I added another article.

Huang Hua sneered and said, "The salt was transported to Huai'an Town, Baibao City, and Dashun City. There were no officers, soldiers, yamen officials and officials to blackmail them. The freight was almost negligible, and it was sold publicly. This was the money that rewarded and supported the soldiers of the three armies. You only paid twenty-one cents, which was too terrible."

In the past, private merchants received green salt from the border as the average price was much lower than 21 cents, but they had to pay the cost of carrying mules and handle the fees of clerks and yamen runners and officers and soldiers of each battalion. After all, it was almost nearly 20 cents.

But it is finally private salt. It cannot be sold openly, but can only be sold secretly. Therefore, the "wholesale price" per kilogram is only about 30 cents. But it is definitely more than the people's hands. In other words, it seems that the profit is high, but many profits are taken away by all links. The real profit per kilogram of private salt merchants is also only a few cents. However, its sales volume is large, so there are many businessmen who operate private salt.

Now it is not private salt, but official salt, which can be sold publicly. Think about the market price of a pound of bitter salt. If it is sold publicly, how much will a pound of delicious green salt be sold? Thirty-five, forty-five, or fifty-five, or fifty-five?

As for the reward and pension soldiers, everyone automatically ignored it.

In fact, is it low? It is really not low. The laws of the Song Dynasty sometimes do not take it seriously, and the determination of cases based on the "story" is an absolute official position. Even if the officials say it is a matter of the final word, it is not a matter of the final word. The court has little credit.

But now the government is waiting for money and money. If the salt is bought back, it may be accumulated for several years. If the government sells it, it will be ignorant of crying. Moreover, these little wealthy businessmen in Qingzhou are not the Gao family and Cao family, and they are still "vulnerable groups."

At the same time, there is also a backlog of funds, especially those merchants who are ill-hearted and have a way to lend money. They may buy some green salt, but they won’t buy much at all.

If Wang Ju had not been the governor of Qingzhou, and had an official position to pacify the magistrate of Huanqing Road, Wang Ju had cooperated with them again before, then the price paid by these merchants might not be even twenty cents.

This is also the reason why Wang Ju set the price now. Going back, there are three states behind Huanqing Road, as well as several states on Fuyan Road, and even Yongxing Army will have merchants attending this feast. But those people may not trust Wang Ju or buy Wang Ju's face.

But now it’s decided, and there is another reason why Huang Hua doesn’t know.

But Wang Ju and Huang Hua also discussed the price of salt in advance. Huang Hua said, "Let's do this, 23 cents per catty, no deposit will be charged for the time being. After getting the salt, pay the money and silk."

The twenty-three articles obviously made everyone a little embarrassed, so they bargained for a while and turned into twenty-two articles.

And it made a preliminary amount of 630,000 stones!

"How rich are you," said Huang Hua and other merchants after leaving.

Sixty-three thousand stones are millions of stagnants, and he can't even calculate it. Besides, this is just a state in Gyeongju.

"Well done!" Zhang Shi praised.

He immediately notified the soldiers on the balloon with his banner.

The soldiers on the balloon immediately spread the news to Rouyuan Village.

After a while, the news was seen by Wang Ju. At this time, he was not far from Rouyuan Village. Seeing the flag waving on the balloon, he raised his telescope and waved it twice in a row, twenty-two times, one with a flag with gravel grains, and another six times and three times behind it.

He immediately translated it, and each pound of salt was twenty-two cents and ordered 630,000 shi. The price was just that, but this quantity surprised Wang Ju. He couldn't help but think that the Song Dynasty had no money, there were so many local rich people in Qingzhou. But the more local rich people, the better.

"Good news, it's time." Wang Ju waved his fist and said. (To be continued.)h118
Chapter completed!