As soon as they left, there were only his own people left in the yard, the prince thought so, these people were all available to him, and he counted them as his own people for the time being.
The prince raised his chin slightly and said, "Let's talk about it."
Tang He didn't speak, Ning Yushi looked at Bai Shan and confirmed again, "Salt can really be exposed?"
Bai Shan said with certainty: "Yes."
Ning Yushi didn't doubt him, and said to the prince with bright eyes: "Your Highness, the salt tax in the south of the Yangtze River can be checked, and even the salt policy in the world can be changed."
"Father also thinks so."
This sentence seemed to give Ning Yushi and Tang He a reassurance. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and said in unison: "I am willing to serve your majesty and be driven by your majesty."
The prince said: "Then let's start from the salt farms in various places. Of course, we can't go straight to the salt farms, so we must first rectify the administration of officials to ensure the smooth flow of roads to and from the salt."
The itinerary they planned this time flashed through Tang He's mind, and it was indeed on the way out of Qingzhou and on the way in and out of Jiangnan Salt Food.
If the weather in Jiangnan changes, they must not only ensure that places outside Jiangnan will not be affected by Jiangnan, but also provide enough salt for Jiangnan, so the salt must also go in.
Tang He and Ning Yushi looked at each other and said, "Water transportation in the south of the Yangtze River..."
"Father has made his own arrangements. What we have to do is to rectify the administration of officials along the way and ensure the salt production in the salt field," the prince and Bai Shan said, "I don't know what are the requirements for the place where the salt is dried? Is it all right near the sea? Or just the salt field?" Beihai County can do it?"
Bai Shandao: "It must be a place with plenty of sunshine and little rain. Of course, the seawater with high salt content is naturally the best."
He said: "Our Waxin Salt Farm was left by the former Lu County Magistrate. He chose this place very well. When we dig down in some places by the sea, we can still see brine."
The prince then understood, "It will be useful to list out the sun-drying method in detail."
Bai Shan responded.
The prince pondered and said: "Since it is suitable for everyone, and the method of drying salt started in your Beihai County, then you should build more salt fields. It seems that as long as there is sea water, you don't have to stick to the sea, you can go further. Just dig a big trench and let the sea water go straight in."
Because he found that there are few crops in this area, and some places that are not mountains are deserted, and the weeds on it seem to be sparse, and it seems that nothing can be grown.
Bai Shan said distressedly: "That's true, but Beihai County is poor and has little manpower. Whether it is digging ditches, opening salt fields or drying salt, a lot of manpower is needed."
The prince frowned.
For the rest, he has nothing to do in terms of manpower.
Regardless of the fact that there are always voices from all over the country saying that the land is not enough, and that the full amount of land will not be allocated after the population is small, but the population is not large.
"Gu can't make people for you at once. Are there many widows in your territory? Send you some soldiers here? Let them have more children."
Tang He couldn't help bowing his head in joy.
Bai Shan: "...Your Highness, it's too late to have a baby now, it will take at least seventeen years to become a baby, right?"
Even if a child is conceived in the bridal chamber today, it will take ten months before it is born.
But he did not refuse the prince to send troops to him, "After today, our Wa Salt Field will definitely attract attention, and we really need more people to protect it."
It just so happens that as soon as people arrive, they let the soldiers garrison the fields. They can’t just do patrols every day. Everyone takes turns to come and open up wasteland when they have nothing to do. If they can grow food, they can grow food, and if they can’t grow food, they can dry salt.
Bai Shan made a lot of calculations, and said to the prince: "Your Highness has also seen that the coastal line is very long. If we build salt fields, there must be a lot of salt produced every day. So much salt is gone. It doesn’t take time and effort to ship it out by land.”
The prince thought of Laizhou Bay, and before he had time to speak, Bai Shan said with a slightly raised tone: "There is a place in Beihai County called Longchi, which is a natural ferry. Outside is Laizhou Bay, and it is not far from Dajiawa to Longchi. , if a ship departs from Longchi, the salt from Dajiawa can not only go south to Jiangnan, Lingnan and other places, but also go north to Youzhou and Pingzhou.”
The prince raised his eyebrows and looked at Bai Shan. Although he felt that there was no need to build another ferry, he still listened for reasons.
Bai Shan continued: "When the official Yan arrives in Youzhou and Pingzhou, he can enter Taiyuan and the grasslands. It saves the steps to go to Laizhou, and the journey is much safer."
At present, the sea route is still safer than the land route.
Of course, this security is aimed at man-made disasters, not natural disasters.
The prince thought about it, "Do you want to compete with Laizhou for the ferry and ships to go to sea?"
Bai Shan coughed lightly and emphasized: "It is to attract more businessmen to come here."
He temporarily diverged his thoughts and hypothesized: "If the salt can be transported out of Longchi, the ship must not be empty when it comes back. The silk and porcelain from the Jiangnan area can be transported on board, as well as the fur and medicinal materials cattle and sheep from the Youzhou and Pingzhou areas. For horses and other things, they can complete the exchange in Longchi, and it will be safer for the salt boats to follow the same route with the caravan.”
Tang He's heart moved, "Won't this change the current route of water transportation?"
The prince who didn't take it too seriously sat up slightly and thought, "In this way, it will be inconvenient to set up the ferry for the official salt to go out in Laizhou."
After all, he has Bai Shan available in Qingzhou, but he is not very familiar with Laizhou.
Bai Shan nodded repeatedly, looking at the prince with piercing eyes.
The prince pondered: "But it is not something that can be done in one or two years. It is difficult to form a scale without four or five years, or even five or six years."
After a little thought, Bai Shan gritted his teeth and said, "I would like to stay here until this matter is done before leaving."
The prince raised his eyebrows, "Are you really willing to stay here for five or six years?"
With Bai Shan's ability and qualifications, he was sent out to accumulate experience, and now he has the credit for spreading the salt method, even if he is promoted and leaves now, no one says anything.
However, the purpose of his going out is to experience, and he will not leave so early, but the plan that the crown prince and the emperor made for him at the beginning was also three years.
After three years, he can be transferred to other places to continue his training, and he will stay in Beihai County for six years...
The prince smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Since that's the case, Gu should go. Isn't it just to build a ferry? You can build it."
Ning Yushi coughed heavily and reminded: "Your Highness, this matter has to be approved by the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry."
According to Bai Shanna's plan, it is obviously not a small ferry, so it is not Qingzhou that will give money, but funds from the national treasury.
Bai Shan felt that he had to wait for the treasury to allocate funds, and he didn't know how long it would take, so he hinted: "Maybe Qingzhou can advance a part of it."
The prince was really interested, leaning forward, "Oh?"
Bai Shan faced Ning Yushi's eyes of "you treacherous" and said to the prince: "It's summer now, and the summer and autumn harvests are coming soon. After that, there will be taxes. If the treasury can't pay for it for a while, you can advance it from Qingzhou." part."
In other words, the things that Qingzhou was supposed to turn over to the treasury were spent first, but in fact they were still paid by the treasury, but the process of first sending them to the treasury and then appropriating them from the treasury was omitted.
The prince felt that this method was good, so he nodded in agreement.
Of course, he was the one who agreed, and whether it can actually be done depends on the intention of the emperor and the princes in the court, but Bai Shan also won the crown prince, right