Chapter 69                                                                                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen heard this and laughed. He told the new thing about canning.

Yang Jisheng was slightly surprised when he heard this, and took a ceramic can in his hand, looked carefully, and said, "Brother Zhou, what do you mean?"

Zhou Mengchen also picked up a canned bottle and placed it on the table, saying, "The re-set may depend on it."

Yang Jisheng said: "I don't understand very much."

Zhou Mengchen knocked the pot with chopsticks and said, "How much do you think this can cost is appropriate?"

Yang Jisheng pondered for a moment and said, "It's two or three cents of silver. I won't ask for it any more."

Wang Su didn't do any sorting when doing the experiment. The jar is not small, and she had a whole chicken before.

Zhou Mengchen said: "It's a little cheaper than this duck from Bianyifang."

Yang Jisheng said: "It's not a fresh thing after all. And the taste is far from comparable to the cheap shop. This price is OK."

Zhou Mengchen nodded and said, "No, but I tell you that the price of this can is between fifty copper plates and one hundred copper plates. Would you like it?"

Yang Jisheng said, "Of course." Yang Jisheng is not a rich man. He missed Bianqifang in Beijing, but Bianqifang was cheap enough. The taste was second. Yang Jisheng said, "But how could it be so low?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "What is the price of a chicken in Datong?"

Yang Jisheng said: "A dozen or so copper coins, or a little more." After the large-scale promotion of egg hatching technology, the price of chickens has been going down. It can even be said that the price of Datong chickens is the lowest in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Mengchen said: "This pottery jar is too much for one copper plate. Then burn fire and other costs, thirty copper plates are fine. The remaining twenty copper plates are the travel expenses to Beijing. Do you think it is not possible?"

Yang Jisheng suddenly felt that the price seemed feasible. He said, "Why are the people who buy in Beijing so expensive?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "One of the reason, everything is expensive in Beijing, and two, living things are all exhausted, and the loss is probably not small, and the wealth is huge, and it doesn't count."

It is not an easy thing for these livestock to travel a long distance. Some people may think that watching the herdsmen's brick farm on the grassland, driving so many cattle and sheep all at once, and nothing goes wrong?

In fact, there are two problems. The first problem is that modern animal husbandry technology has reduced a lot of very normal consumption. When a large number of livestock gather, the most worrying thing is that they will get sick. When they get sick, they will almost die of more than half of them, and even die of death, which is not uncommon.

The second question is to drive away livestock on the grassland. In fact, livestock have food, which is green grass. But in the mainland, this is absolutely not possible. In the process of driving away livestock, if the livestock eats other people's crops, you can't leave?

So you have to prepare the forage all the way.

Forage is actually not expensive, and it can be sold for several trucks of silver. However, if the animal is transported, it will not take a day or two, and time is also a considerable cost.

If you become dead, you have to do more.

At least you don't have to worry about losing weight.

Seeing that Yang Jisheng was still a little skeptical, Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly and said, "And this is chicken, how to change it to mutton. What's the price?"

Yang Jisheng then sighed softly and said, "Brother Zhou is really a little bit of a golden hand. If he doesn't become an official, he will definitely be richer than Tao Zhu."

Zhou Mengchen smiled and said, "What do I want so much money to do? Now I am rich enough for a lifetime. No matter how much money I have, it is just a dal. The right way to do things is. With this investment, I can raise millions of military spending in less than a year to make the Tartars look good. And if I do this, the Tartars' life and death will be in my hands."

Yang Jisheng said: "Brother Zhou, what do you mean?"

Zhou Mengchen smiled softly and said, "The Tartars have always known that cattle and sheep are actually not worthwhile for winter. Because they lose weight very much, but they have no choice. But now it is different. I buy these cattle and sheep a lot every autumn to buy food. What will the Tartars do?"

Yang Jisheng was stunned and said, "The Tartars will sell you all the cattle and sheep that must be eliminated. Leave the lambs and cubs, and wait until they grow up the next year."

"Yes. Moreover, the grain production in Fengzhoutan will also be greatly affected." Zhou Mengchen said lightly.

When Yang Jisheng heard this, he immediately understood.

Just like before Zhou Mengchen came to Datong, the foreign food from Datong suppressed the enthusiasm for local grain production in Datong. A large amount of foreign food made the farming of the people in Fengzhoutan worthless.

I dare not say that the people in Fengzhoutan did not grow food, but they would have very little food and would have herded more cattle and sheep. Moreover, the Tartars sold cattle and sheep and purchased food, which made their lives stable. However, the lifeline of Fengzhoutan was captured by Zhou Mengchen.

If the Tartars had the life gate, they would be captured by Zhou Mengchen. If that was true, it would depend on how Zhou Mengchen was about to take action.

Maybe someone will say that Xin Ai is so stupid and falls into a trap.

This is really a conspiracy.

As mentioned earlier, the life of Mongolians is very cruel, especially in winter. Even if you don’t buy a large number of cattle and sheep, it is easy to freeze to death in large quantities of cattle and sheep. After all, sometimes people will still freeze to death, let alone cattle and sheep?

At that time, cattle and sheep were worthless. They could not finish eating, but they would smell bad in spring.

Zhou Mengchen's plan solved this big problem and brought great improvements to the lives of the Mongols. No one can resist the temptation of a better life. Even though they knew that there might be problems here, they were unwilling to betray them.

Even at that time, tribes and Mongolian nobles who really wanted to continue peace with the Ming Dynasty would appear.

This is the general trend. Although Xin Ai is the Mongol Khan, no Mongol Khan can represent all Mongolians.

Yang Jisheng said: "What a decisive kill. It's a magical trick. Tell me. What do you want me to do?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "You still remember the Shuozhou Industrial Zone I told you."

Yang Jisheng said: "I remember why I don't remember. Now I'm doing it. I'm going to submit a report to the court, with Shuozhou City as the center, and then a county will be distributed to the jurisdiction of Shuozhou, and then find a new county in the same year, which is placed in this position. You can handle special matters specifically. You are looking for a way to the master, and this matter may be done."

Speaking of this, Yang Jisheng sighed softly and said, "Some things can be done or not, but I have retained capable personnel. No matter when Xinxian will pass, I can do it cheaply before that."

Yang Jisheng also thought that commercial tax is important.

However, it is precisely because of its importance, but it cannot be put on the surface. However, as the governor, Zhou Mengchen had already asked Jiajing for the right to act cheaply before coming to Datong. Moreover, as a chief official, the governor had a great discretion. For example, many people think that Zhang Juzheng was promoted by the one-whip method. In fact, before Zhang Juzheng, many ministers had tried to implement it.

It's nothing more than that it has not been implemented nationwide.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen did the business tax matter quietly below, and even if there was some news, it was nothing. After all, local officials in various places had taken action in one way or another. But if they had to fight with high altitude and everyone in the court knew it, it would be difficult to do.

Yang Jisheng understood this very well and wanted to try it quietly. As long as Zhou Mengchen was still in harmony, the following measures would be fine.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Then I would like to thank Brother Yang, but I would like to ask Brother Yang to see an industrial area around Datong."

"Come again?" Yang Jisheng said.

Zhou Mengchen said: "It's not that I want to do this. It's really because these industries cannot be placed in Shuozhou. On the contrary, it is the most convenient to place them around Datong."

Datong was originally a major transportation route for connections outside the border. Nowadays, cattle and sheep all come from outside the border, close to the origin of raw materials. Moreover, in the future, there are other industries that need to be gathered together to manage.

Of course, the most important thing is tax collection.

After all, the root of the Ming Dynasty is clearly seen from Zhou Mengchen's perspective. If the Ming Dynasty court could not collect taxes from the Industrial Revolution, then it would not be positive about this matter from top to bottom. On the contrary, the Industrial Revolution brought a lot of taxes to the Ming Dynasty court from the beginning, and not to mention anything else, even in order to solve the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty, discerning people would have implemented it.
Chapter completed!