Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"How could they not have discovered it? In the past, the chieftains in Qinghai never mentioned this matter to the court, and kept it secret. Even though they were forced by Tonobuhua to submit to the court this time, they didn't say anything. They might have just been thinking of continuing to do it secretly. It was only because of Qinghai's submission that my mother looked up the local chronicles. There was a sentence in the "Book of Han·Geography" - from the northwest of Linqiang in Jincheng County to the outside of the Great Wall, there are the Queen Mother of the West's Chamber, the Fairy Sea, and the Salt Lake. My father asked the garrison stationed there to send people out to look for it. And now, they have found it."

Because of the salt lake issue, Zhu Gaochi was very dissatisfied with the Xuanwei Si and Xuanfu Si around the Ming Dynasty.

It turns out that these original toasts and other things are all ungrateful people who can never be fed.

The imperial court treated them with various preferential treatments. When they brought local specialties as tribute, the court would give them cash, silver, and other gifts.

But in the end, even the existence of a salt lake in the country was kept secret.

Still such a big salt lake area!!!

Anyone with a conscience would not do such a thing!

By extrapolating from this, I wonder how many things those other Xuanfusi and Xuanweisi are hiding from the court!

"Mom is still awesome!"

Zhang Xin sincerely admired Xu and even read the Book of Han.

"That's for sure."

Zhu Gaochi was very proud.

"Didn't Qian Yuan discover this?"

Zhang Xin doesn’t know how to evaluate the previous dynasty.

"They are busy fighting foreign wars and fighting for positions among their own people. They don't even care about the country. What else can you expect from them?"

Zhu Gaochi felt that if we had to evaluate the former Yuan Dynasty, we could only say that it was a typical case of being born in adversity and dying in comfort.

"How much salt is in the salt lake? Normally high, or very high? How does it compare to the salt well?"

Zhang Xin asked again.

She had always had a vague idea about salt, but to implement it, the salt production had to be high, so high that the salt would be completely worthless.

"The salt wells are simply incomparable, and the number of salt lakes is too numerous to count. Not to mention the small ones, the second largest one discovered so far, the Chaka Salt Lake, is about six times the size of the West Lakes. It is rich in Daqing salt. People who went to survey it said that it is enough for the entire Ming Dynasty to consume for two to three thousand years. The largest one is called Chaerhan Salt Lake, which is hundreds and thousands of times larger than the Chaka Salt Lake, but it is not as convenient as Chaka for extracting salt."

Zhu Gaochi became even more excited when talking about this.

With such a huge storage capacity, there will never be a shortage of salt in the country again.

There is no need to expand the salt fields on the coast, which saves a lot of trouble.

The only downside is that the journey is too long, and it will be inconvenient to transport salt.

"Build roads! Build them all over the country. The court will pay for part of it, and the rest will be funded by the Royal Commerce Bureau. Let the people of the country have access to salt and have enough salt."

Zhang Xin made the decision immediately without any doubt.

"Dahua! We are thinking the same thing!"

Zhu Gaochi slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly.

To be honest, in the past ten years, the Ming Dynasty has developed in terms of both economy and people's livelihood. It is no longer the mess it was when his father took over.

But he felt that the current economic situation in the various prefectures of the Ming Dynasty was too different from the living standards of the people.

Take salt for example.

Most of the places with low salt prices are relatively developed.

Places with high salt prices are often remote and poor.

In poor areas, the price of salt is 9 cents, and a person needs about 15 kilograms of salt a year. Therefore, an adult's annual expenditure on salt alone would be at least 13 taels of silver.

If a family has a few able-bodied adults and wants them to have the strength to work and not get sick easily, they will have to spend dozens of taels of salt a year.

This is simply unaffordable.