When Li Rupei entered Guangzhou Prefecture City, he felt a lot of emotion.&{}..{}

Before traveling through time, he went to Guangzhou many times. The so-called Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are the largest cities. Today's Guangzhou Prefecture is definitely not comparable to that in a thousand years, but it also has a different flavor.

Guangzhou Prefecture is divided into inner city and outer city. Li Rupei has heard of it, but this is the first time to see it. The so-called outer city is mainly a place where merchants gather. Most of them are places where merchants live, and there are many overseas merchants. When Li Rupei saw the scene of the outer city, he was very surprised. The wide and neat streets, orderly housing, the streets are numerous shops and bustling pedestrians, which make people never believe that this is the outer city of Guangzhou Prefecture.

This is the power of commerce, a magical power, a power with huge driving force, and a power that no one can stop.

Li Rupei was most concerned about the security issues. In places with developed commerce and trade, if you don’t pay attention, there will be many security issues. Xiangyang’s experience in this regard is worth learning from. The police station sent a special inspection team and patrolled the streets every day. However, the merchant’s answer reassured Li Rupei. The police station of the government is very powerful and patrolled the inner and outer cities every day. In addition, the Iron Blood Army’s garrison is not very far away from here, so bandits and bullies cannot exist, and rogues will also suffer heavy losses. The merchant’s answer made Li Rupei think of Cui Anqian. Perhaps Cui Anqian specifically told Cui Shenyou, so Cui Shenyou learned from Xiangyang’s experience.

The merchants were very satisfied with the security situation in the outer city of Guangzhou Prefecture. The patrol inspection of the police station allowed them to operate with confidence. The Iron Blood Army was stationed not far away, which allowed them to feel completely at ease.

Merchants praised the discipline of the Iron Blood Army. The soldiers of the Iron Blood Army never harassed the local area, and the materials needed by the military camp were purchased in a regular manner. They cleared the money and goods, and never defaulted. This made the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce particularly feel assured that they organized some merchants to visit the military camp every year.

But Li Rupei also discovered the problem, that is the flood of sea salt.

Lingnan Road and Qianzhong Road are different from other places. After all, these two places were finally under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Administration, the Southern Road Main Street, especially Lingnan Road. Because they are remote and Huang Chao's destruction, their economy is once in a state of collapse. In addition, the government is not sympathetic to the people, and instead exploits them even more crazily, resulting in the people not being able to survive. Many people left their hometowns and entered Jiangnan West Road and Jiangnan East Road, causing a large-scale depression in the local area.

After the Taiwan Prefecture, the Southern Road Main Station, sent the experienced Cui Shenyou to serve as the governor of Lingnan. At the same time, a large number of capable officials were dispatched to Lingnan Road. It should be said that the effect was very obvious. After nearly two years of construction, the people finally stabilized under the guidance of commerce.

However, compared with other places, the lives of the people are obviously worse, which cannot be improved in a short period of time. The main reason why commerce can drive the location of the prefectures and prefectures is the location of the prefectures and prefectures. A large number of farmers in villages and towns are still poor.

Sea salt in Lingnan Road has always been flooded, the so-called sea salt. In fact, it is the sea salt obtained by directing the sea water into the salt field and drying it. Such sea salt is relatively cheap, but there are many impurities in sea salt and contain a lot of toxins. After consumption, it is very harmful to the body.

The color of sea salt is light yellow and crystalline, which looks different from white table salt.

Li Rupei actually found sea salt in the outer city of Guangzhou, and there were shops that specialize in selling sea salt. It can be imagined that these sea salts were sold to many villages, towns and remote places. People and farmers in those places were poor, so it would be good to be able to eat Shanghai salt.

No one who accompanied him noticed this problem, but Li Rupei noticed it.

The Tang Dynasty did not prohibit the sale of sea salt, but under normal circumstances, sea salt was not used for consumption. The sea salt needed in the north was generally used for pickles, and the sea salt needed in the south was sometimes used as a medicine introduction. It can be said that except for the Taifu, the Taifu who was controlled by Lingnan Road and the southern road, sea salt is very rare. Moreover, sea salt sold to various places has been purified and processed again, and the light yellow color has almost disappeared.

But all the sea salt sold here is light yellow crystals, which looks shocking.

Li Rupei came to the Jiedushi's yamen with worries.

When entering Lingnan Road, Li Rupei also did not inform Lingnan Jiedushi Cui Shenyou. This was his habit. He was unwilling to put on airs, and he was even more unwilling to alarm the local governments, so as not to affect the local governments' work. If they knew about it, they would definitely need to come forward to greet them, and it would be unpleasant for everyone.

The discovery of the overflowing sea salt in Lingnan Road made Li Rupei not in a good mood. Although he knew that there were special reasons and the government was afraid that there would be no good solution to the problem, this situation could not be maintained for a long time. The toxins in the sea salt would cause too much harm to the body. Moreover, the south was originally a hot and humid place, and the bacteria were growing very crazy. After the people and farmers ate such sea salt, they caused various diseases. The poor people and farmers were even more unable to cure the disease, so they had to wait to die.

The most important thing is that among poor families, those who can eat sea salt or eat enough sea salt are only the strong labor force in the family. Once these people fall, it means that a family will completely collapse and lose all hope.

Cui Shenyou never expected that Li Rupei came to Guangzhou Prefecture and appeared outside the Jiedushi's yamen.

He hurriedly came out.

"Uncle, I came here uninvited. I saw that Lingnan Road was in good condition, especially the outer city of Guangzhou Prefecture. I heard it as a false hearing and saw it as a true sight. The construction was indeed very good."

"The prince came to Lingnan Road, in such a remote place, so he should have to say hello earlier, so he can go and greet him."

After all, they have a relationship and speak differently. Li Rupei does not have much politeness, and Cui Shenyu is not too verbose.

After entering the Jiedushi's yamen, Cui Shenyou led Li Rupei to the wing room.

Just as he sat down, before Cui Shenyou spoke, Li Rupei directly talked about Haiyan.

"When I was in the outer city, I found some shops selling sea salt. After inquiring, I learned that most of these sea salts were sold to remote places and eaten by the people and farmers. It should be said that in Shannan Road, Jiangnan Road, Huainan Road, Hejiannan Road and other places, almost no one eats sea salt. I knew that there were still some places in the north, and the people and farmers ate sea salt. It seemed that there were still many people and farmers ate sea salt in Lingnan Road, and I was a little worried."

A trace of light shot out from Cui Shenyou's eyes. He could not have imagined that Li Rupei could discover such a specific thing.

"The prince, the governor's yamen are catching up on this matter, but there are also many helpless things here. The price of sea salt is far lower than the price of salt. There are many remote places in Lingnan Road, and people are in trouble. It is good to be able to eat Shanghai salt."

Seeing Cui Shenyou's helpless expression, Li Rupei spoke again.

"I thought of a solution to see if it is feasible and asked the common people and farmers not to buy sea salt. This road is obviously not feasible. It would be good for poor families to eat Shanghai salt. If you want to ask the common people and farmers to eat salt, you may still need to take action from the government. As long as the price of salt can be similar to that of sea salt, I believe that no people and farmers will buy sea salt..."

Before Li Rupei finished speaking, Cui Shenyou widened his eyes. As soon as Li Rupei finished speaking, he spoke.

"Not at this time. The price of salt is several times that of sea salt. The difference between them is too large. If the price of salt drops sharply, not to mention that the government cannot bear it, even those merchants who operate salt cannot bear it."

Li Rupei smiled, he knew that his meaning was misunderstood.

"Uncle, don't worry. Someone's meaning is not to reduce the price of salt, but to subsidize the government. After carefully calculating the amount of salt needed by poor people and farmers every year, the governments at all levels will directly provide subsidies so that these poor families can use the money to buy salt."

Cui Shenyou glared at him again, but before he could speak this time, Li Rupei explained.

"The money that needs to be spent was taken out by the Taiwan Administration of the Southern Road Main Street, but one thing is that this is definitely not something that everyone can enjoy. It must be those families who are really poor. The government should also help and urge these families to work harder to get rid of poverty as soon as possible and be able to truly afford salt."

After Li Rupei finished speaking, Cui Shenyou sighed.

"Your Majesty, Lingnan Road is in trouble and there are so many things. Now it is really difficult to worry about sea salt and salt. The staff of government officials at all levels are very nervous. I once visited many county government offices, from county magistrates to ordinary yamen runners, so I was so busy that I was not stuck in the ground. In the past, the government was mainly responsible for money, grain and prison sentences. Now it is completely different. People's livelihood is the most important. If there are refugees in the local area, or even people starve to death, the county magistrate will be punished and severely punished. This involves spring plowing and autumn harvest, as well as commerce. Therefore, sitting in the county government office is no longer possible. The elders in the countryside, Li Zheng and Jiashou, are all over the place. The Jiedushi's yamen received a lot of letters, asking for the addition of officials. Sea salt and salt. I am not particularly worried. As long as the officials in the government can be added, these things can be done."

Li Rupei nodded and expressed his approval. Under his request, although the division of labor in society has not been detailed yet, the responsibilities of the government are indeed different from those before. According to the original determined number of staff, the staff is indeed insufficient.
Chapter completed!