19, Jul 2024
The salt department was established in this way.

Lin Jingchun was not assured that he was personally in charge of the salt company, and he personally sent the reliable department to lead the formation of a salt selling team to teach the skills of smuggling salt, so soon more than a dozen official salt selling teams under different flags were established.
Each team is responsible for selling salt in a certain border area, and each team gives a certain time to find the local private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty to rebuild the private salt sales network.
If you can’t start making profits at a certain time and send copper coins to the reimbursement department, you will be dismissed for interrogation!
Lin Jingchun is very strict with salt company.
But this is not too difficult for these new "smugglers"
Where there is demand, there is market, and where there is market, there is business.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of official salt was so high that the demand of the people was so great that the eyes of private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty were red, so they must try their best to sell cheap salt.
Nanjing Road-Song-Jin border used to be the hardest hit area for smuggling salt, and many smugglers traded in this area.
However, the Guangfu Army expelled the 8 Jin Army to cut off the network of smuggling salt, and the smuggling salt dealers on the Song border were so worried that the whole person was not good.
Due to long-term lack of income and employment, many private salt gangs were desperate and disbanded themselves and went back to their hometowns.
Even some gangs with large organizations have dismissed their peripheral members, leaving a few core members to wander around the border all day, hoping for the stars and the moon, and the smugglers there to appear as soon as possible.
If you don’t show up, everyone will change careers!
Perhaps they sincerely moved Ma San, a former private salt dealer in Cai Zhou, to find his familiar Xinyang private salt dealer Jing Cheng at the end of July and brought him a news that made him feel ecstatic.
The illicit salt trade can be restarted.
Chapter 529 It’s not how good I am, but how bad you are.
The illicit salt trade is about to restart?
It’s not fake, is it
Really? !
Jing Cheng was so excited that she almost burst into tears
"Really? You didn’t lie to me? Can you really start again? "
Ma San nodded repeatedly.
"That is false? I dare not say anything about such a big thing! We’ve known each other for so many years. When have I ever lied to you? And I tell you that doing business with you this time is not an ordinary person. It’s not an ordinary person. You can be careful. "
"Who doesn’t have a backer in our business?"
Jing Cheng shook his head. "If my head was left unattended, my head would have been cut off by the garrison to take credit, but then again, why didn’t you do it? I heard that a lot of people changed careers at that time, and many people who were deeply involved in the face ran away, and I don’t know if they were caught. "
Ma San doesn’t feel strange about this kind of thing, because many smugglers are agents released by the border officials and military officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, or even slaves who are specialized in helping others make money.
Dogs that can make money are good dogs, but dogs that can’t make money can kill and eat meat, and now they can’t make money. Domestic smugglers have no profit value, and they are afraid of being arrested as scapegoats, so they run away a lot.
In the past two months or so, the supply of gold and salt has been cut off, and many salt smugglers have either been killed or run away, which has brought great influence to the whole border salt trade.
However, it should be said that it was miserable here in the Song Dynasty, but in the Jin Dynasty, because the original leader either escaped or was killed by the Guangfu Army, there was almost no life to continue his post, but the smugglers in the Jin Dynasty miraculously retired.
Although being unable to do business really makes people feel helpless, at least the people who can kill donkeys are saved, and there are not many smugglers. I still feel that I have been saved by the Guangfu Army.
But Ma San’s side is still quite scary.
"Also said! The Guangfu Army drove the Golden Man away and occupied the place. As a result, at the beginning of the month, someone suddenly asked me about smuggling salt. "
Ma San made a very scary expression: "I was scared at that time and I had to be arrested by the Guangfu Army for questioning about smuggling salt before, and then I would be killed. As a result, they didn’t kill me, but asked me for a way to continue smuggling salt."
"So that’s it."
Jing Cheng nodded. "So the Guangfu Army also saw this fat meat?"
"That’s not the fat who saw the eyes bigger? Besides, it’s so big that all the benefits can’t be taken up by the official Zhao Guanjia. Isn’t it normal for them to eat meat and have some soup? "
Ma San laughed. "But the Guangfu Army was still a good speaker. He asked me some things and then sent me to the team and said that if I did a good job, I would be given a formal position."
"Oh, that’s a good thing. You’re too young to survive."
Jing Cheng looked at Ma San with a little envy and asked, "So everything is the same according to this?"
"Business as usual, old rules, old prices, old routes, old methods and old places. I’ll lead the team then. I’ll see you when I see you."
"It’s a deal!"
High-five is exactly the same as when they used to do business, and there is no difference.
After returning to Cai Zhou, Ma San met with Yan Xin, a 13-year-old doctor of Salt Company, and told Yan Xin what he had accomplished. Yan Xin nodded and patted Ma San on the shoulder.
"Do a good job. When this route is fixed and the shipment is stable, I will arrange a position for you, so you won’t worry about your future. It is definitely rewarding to let the Guangfu Army do things."
Ma San nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and it was not as fierce as when he was a smuggler.
He also knows that the times have changed, and it’s up to the Guangfu army to continue the smuggling trade with the Song people. It’s also up to the Guangfu army to decide, and he’s just a shrimp.
He is directly engaged with the Guangfu Army department, not with some greedy official. It is really necessary to forget the previous one.
But the Guangfu Army is really interesting.
Aside from the identity of private salt dealers, the Guangfu Army has reduced the salt price in the occupied areas to an incredible level, which is much more interesting than the past Jin Guo.
The quality is very good. The official salt is one or two pence higher than the price. It is sold in large quantities. After reading it, I have no intention of making salt money from ordinary people.
But they also want to make salt money.
Earn from who?
Earn from Song people
According to the original price, the Guangfu Army made a smuggling trade with the Song people, and after selling a catty of salt, it could earn almost 30 coppers’ profit. According to his boss, this high profit was to be transported back to the expense department and made public.
Ma San has never seen the smuggling of salt so aboveboard and done so justly, and he doesn’t quite believe that this group of Guangfu officers are really so honest and earn so much money that they are not tempted at all.
As far as he knows, the officials of the State of Xu Jin and the officials of the State of Song, but those who are in charge of salt together are either rich or poor, and they don’t need someone to protect them and make money together.
If you give it to the court, you can’t leave it for yourself, otherwise you will be sorry for yourself.
But it’s the first time that the Ministry can sell salt so cheaply and let the people eat it so cheaply.
Because of this, the Guangfu Army dominated the sale of cheap salt, and it cheered and praised Su Yonglin’s benevolent government.
This has enabled the Guangfu Army to accumulate a large number of people in a short time, hoping that some places that have just been captured will have a good impression on the Guangfu Army and will not resist their rule, greatly reducing the administrative achievements and maintaining stability of the Guangfu Army.
This is of great help to the Guangfu army, which has just captured the place and is scrambling to establish its rule.
It is said that in a rotten world, you don’t need much conscience and people think about it. Even making a little improvement and letting the people catch their breath can have a great effect.
It’s not how good I am, but that you suck.
After seeing through this, Su Yonglin felt that the people were really suffering at this time of life, and a little burden reduction and improvement could make them breathe a sigh of relief and save lives.
And even with such a small breath, the rulers are not willing to let them slow down, for fear that they will think about how to rebel if they slow down.
Damn!
Entering the tenth day of July, Su Yonglin personally urged the salt company to smuggle salt while marching the Liaodong Corps, and asked the salt company to hand in the list of smuggled salt. He personally looked at it to show his attention to smuggling salt.
According to his understanding and professional knowledge, there is a great demand for illicit salt in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the private salt dealers in the border States are confused with local officials, and many of them are confidants of local officials.
Therefore, it was an unexpected gain that Su Yonglin was able to get a lot of information from the military officials of the border States in the Southern Song Dynasty through the contact with the smugglers.
However, compared with the harvest of bootlegging salt, this harvest is insignificant
On average, a catty of salt can earn 30 pence in smuggling salt trade with Song people along Nanjing Road.
In some areas, due to the tightening of policies, ceiling price will further increase its salt by one catty to make a profit of 50 pence.
And Su Yonglin’s side was strictly controlled by him to produce a catty of salt, which cost three or four pence to pay for some transportation, and then transported to the border to sell it, which is ten times the profit.
Make a fortune.
For Su Yonglin, the best thing is that the value of copper coins in the Southern Song Dynasty is strong and the whole East Asia can be circulated, which is better than that in the East Asia, where copper coins in the Southern Song Dynasty can be used to buy things and trade.
In the Jin dynasty, a small amount of self-made coins were not widely circulated. After Su Yonglin overthrew them, they stopped circulating directly. The entire occupied area of the Guangfu Army was also Song coins.