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19. One Horse Drives Spiritual Martial Arts

Gao Yue raised his arm and hit the horse's back hips with a bang. The horse from Junzhen neighed, raised his hooves, shook his tail, and ran along the mountain road of Yima Pass toward Qingzhou.

Its neck jingle was shaking, and a string of post station talismans were engraved with the words "To Lingzhou Governor's Office".

In the world, the snow was covered with grayish white. Gao Yue watched the horse disappear, so he raised his head and thought about it, calculating the schedule for its arrival in Lingzhou alone.

The talisman shaking as the strong muscles on the horse's neck swayed, and soon it rushed to the outskirts of Qingzhou City, where there was a small prison in Dangxiang Fanluo. After seeing the horse's galloping, a group of Dangxiang people surrounded him and pulled him with ropes. Then they saw the imprint of "Jingzhen" on the horse, and hurriedly said to each other, "This is the horse sent by Gao Ai Fanluo..."

No one said anything, and respectfully fed the horse corn and forage, chewed green salt and wiped the body. The next day, Jai Fanluo asked the two of them to act as horse escorts, carrying the poles, one after another, and followed the horse to continue northward.

The next evening, the horse and the man were covered with snow. He ran to Maling where there was another state of gang Xiang. He heard that the horse was sent by Gao Ai Fanluo and wanted to send documents to the Lingzhou Governor's Office. The man who was born in the Fanluo dared not neglect, and fed the horses small beans, salt and fine grass. The next day, after the snow stopped, he sent someone to escort the horse to the northwest side channel like a relay.

Fangqu is located at the intersection of three rivers and rivers in Maling River (Malian River), Dongchuan and Xichuan River. So here, the third Dangxiang Fanluo, received Gao Yue's Zhenma...

After entering the Lingzhou boundary, the task of protecting and feeding horses was replaced by Nanshan Dangxiang and continued to be carried out.

Until the horse ran unimpededly into the Orchid Courtyard of the Lingzhou Governor's Office.

Along the way, there were more than ten Dangxiang Fan in Lingzhou, and tens of thousands of tents, but none of them dared to touch the horse's hair.

Because Gao Yue destroyed the pheasant tribe in Qingzhou, the shock to them can be said to be inexplicably great!

"The foreign people are more afraid of their power." This is what Gao Yue said, now it is exactly like this. Dangxiang Fanluo in Qingzhou was obedient. When talking about Gao Yue's name, Dangxiang and other foreign chiefs, heroes and their subordinates were silent and respected them like gods.

A group of toothed soldiers led the horse into the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion. Cui Ning was sitting in the hall, taking the talisman, and pulling out the letter from Gao Yue from Jingyuan.

"Kaolang has also gained fame in Dangxiang Fanluo." Cui Ning laughed when he saw this, "Li Huaiguang instructed Zhai Wenxiu to impeach my Gaolang, but he just wanted to seize the benefits of Shuofang Yanchi, Wuchi and Water Transport to support his soldiers. This time he completely failed."

It turned out that there was Wenchi in Lingzhou and Wuchi in Yanzhou produced salt. This salt benefit has always been under the control of the Lingzhou Governor's Office. Although Li Shi first ascended the throne, he led the Shuofang Army and divided it into Shuofang (traditional Shuofang Army towns, namely Ling, Yan, Qing, Xia, Sui), Zhenwu (zhou and military city where the Yellow River and the Qun), and Hezhong (Puzhou as the core), which are not subordinate to each other, but the salt benefit of the Shuofang Army has not yet been accepted into the court division, but is dominated by the Lingzhou Governor's Office for military supplies.

One of the main contents of Gao Yue's letters is the calculation of Yanli in the second state of Yanzhou.

Salt is an amazing hard currency. When Emperor Suzong ascended the throne from the Shuofang Lingwu to the recovery of the two capitals, why was the Shuofang Army able to "seldom make unlimited contributions"? Did it rely solely on Guo Ziyi's military talent? No, the most important thing is that the Shuofang Army controls the income of the salt pond in the northwest border area alone, and naturally the soldiers and soldiers are elite in the world!

So Cui Ning called the branch servant and made up the account.

Nowadays, Wenchi in Lingzhou and Wuchi in Yanzhou, the former produces 15,000 stones of salt annually, while the latter produces 7,000 stones of salt annually. Together, it is 22,000 stones (Anyi, Puzhou, Hezhong, Hezhong, and the second ponds of Jiexian County are directly under the jurisdiction of Duzhi, with an annual output of about 300,000 stones of salt. The New Tang Books and Foods and Memorials actually wrote that it produces 10,000 stones of salt annually, which is 'a thousand hu of salt per year'. I seriously suspect that the Song Confucians had no idea about numbers).

Each soldier should eat two spoonfuls of salt every day, and the annual salt content is nine liters.

Then the number of troops under the Lingzhou Governor's Office is 20,000. In addition, the number of troops in the anti-autumn army transferred from other places has a total of 30,000 people to supply salt, and the annual salt supply is only 2,900 stones.

The people of the two states, the Chihu and the trade with the Uighurs, consumed 5,000 stones together.

In addition, there is another task in the Yanchi Lake in Lingzhou and Yanzhou, which is to "export rice and replace salt" every year. To put it bluntly, we have to use some salt to buy rice and store it for the army. The quota of Wenchi Lake is 90,000 stone rice, while Wuchi is 40,000 stone rice.

And Gao Yue aimed at this "losing rice and salt".

I can get rice in Jingyuan Yingtian. Who else can I do this "losing rice and salt"? It's not so good to do business between my father-in-law and son-in-law!

Gao Yue simply calculated that he had a total of 1,950 hectares of Jingyuan soldiers and 800 hectares of Fanyang soldiers. He planted corn, wheat, and buckwheat in half apart. He harvested three times in two years. On average, eight dou of corn can be harvested per mu of land, and he can get about 120,000 stones of corn in a year.

But Gao Yue does not prepare to report the actual number of points.

The quota he planned to report was 100,000 stones of corn. In this way, 40,000 stones were reserved in the local Duzhi Patrol Grill, 40,000 stones were imported into the Jingyuan Military Grain Warehouse, and 20,000 stones were left as a family of other branches for the camp soldiers (Tianshi) (each family can get about six stones of corn, which means that it is enough for one person to eat for half a year. Of course, this is an additional allowance. Tianshi still receives rations from Duzhi and the military mansion every month, and is given clothes from Duzhi in spring and winter).

However, there is still a balance of 20,000 stones of corn, which was "privately occupied" by Gao Yue.

He was not prepared to leave "evidence", but instead transferred it to the caravan in Baili New City and sent it directly to the Lingzhou Quechang to "lose rice and replace salt" - the rice was collected by Cui Ning and transferred to the military mansion, and the salt was sent to Gao Yue for control.

When two phases change, huge profits will arise.

It was still the same false estimate method. Gao Yue and Taishan discussed it. In order to avoid trouble, the salt price of Wenchi and Wuchi was still set at 250 cents per dou (the price of the northwest salt pond is slightly lower than that of the southeast sea salt), and one stone is 250 cents, which remains unchanged from the usual period. The profit per dou of salt is 150 cents, fifty cents belong to the Lingzhou Governor's Office, and one hundred cents belong to the caravan, which is enough to offset the price of their transportation foot. However, the 20,000 stones of corn sold by Gao Yue was estimated at 200 cents per stone, that is, the price per stone was 1200 cents. In this way, 20,000 stones of corn could be exchanged for 9,600 stones of salt.

Then he set up a table of salt in Bailicheng and sold it for 300 cents a dou. The local area of ​​Chang'an, Binzhou and Jingzhou did not have to worry about buyers, but could also be sold to Shence Jun Town in Purun and Linyou, which would be a profit of nearly 29,000 guan.

Why is it pure?

Because the 20,000 stones of corn were obtained by Gao Yue, he took part of the gain from the field and tore off a piece of meat from the body of the Duzhi Department of the imperial court.

Gao Yue not only ate the weak army, but also ate the weak horse, but now he also has to ate the weak rice.
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