The importance of firearms is not only Zhu Cixuan, but also Huang Taiji. His father Nurhaci was invincible in the field, but when he encountered the Ming army defending the city, the Qing soldiers obviously couldn't do it.

Facing the cannons that were thunderous and lightning, the Eight Banners Army was in a mess. Cannons were not something that cold weapons could resist.

The training of the Liaodong Army is almost done, so Zhu Cixuan will make his next plan next.

Money will only depreciate continuously when putting in the warehouse. Money is not saved, but to use money to support money and turn the money in your hands into more money.

Although he was greedy for 10 million taels of silver, his burning speed was still beyond Zhu Cilang's imagination. Especially during the exercises of the Huben Camp, the Eastern Palace Guards, and the Liaodong Army, a lot of silver were burned.

No wonder the court is powerless. It’s not that Emperor Chongzhen doesn’t want to train troops. If you don’t have money, you can practice a hammer.

The crisis in the late Ming Dynasty was fundamentally a financial crisis. Even Chongzhen thought of reducing fiscal expenditures by disarmament. For example, the dissolution of Jimi Yongxin Army directly led to some of the eliminated soldiers conspiring to rebel against the Ming Dynasty when the Later Jin soldiers invaded Ji.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a hurry to seek medical treatment, made many seemingly helpless but insidious actions. Zhu Cixuan had not received much money from corruption.

The salt industry is an important guarantee for the national fiscal revenue. Zhu Cixuan, he set his sights on a treasure land of the Ming Dynasty, the Chaka Salt Lake.

Chaka Salt Lake is located in Qinghai. At this time, the military and political strength in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty was weak. The Mongols could migrate from the northern desert and the Western Regions, and came to Qinghai along the Hexi Road and Qinghai Road, which had abundant water and grass.

Gushi Khan of the Mongolian Weila tribe in Moxi occupied Qinghai. Later, he sent envoys to surrender to Huangtaiji in Liaodong.

However, Gushihan of the Weila tribe was not strong in Qinghai, so Zhu Cixuan decided to take Qinghai back and occupy the Chaka Salt Lake, and for this purpose, he sold salt from Chaka Salt Lake to the territory.

The salt produced in the Ming Dynasty, salt lakes like Jiechi only produced a small part of it. In addition, well salt from Sichuan and other places also occupied part of the market, but the most important one was sea salt in coastal areas.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt drying technology of later generations was not widely used, but instead used the method of boiling salt and frying salt to produce it. The output was limited, the quality was rough, but the price was not cheap. Moreover, sea salt required a lot of manpower and was called "salt", and its life was very miserable.

In a turbulent period, Zhu Cilang did not have the energy to teach people the salt drying technique along the coast. Besides, salt drying is not something that can be achieved overnight.

The salt in Chaka Salt Lake is different. It is surrounded by 200 or dozens of miles. The salt is natural and it is endless. Mongolia uses an iron spoon to pick it up and sells it to the jade market and trade it, and the county people rely on it.

In other words, the salt of Chaka Salt Lake can be extracted directly, and it is salt when taken off. It is clean and free of impurities. In addition to being salt, Daqing salt can also be used as a Chinese medicine, which has the effects of sucking heat, cooling blood, improving eyesight, moistening dryness, and even used to treat kidney diseases.

Qinghai is a desolate place, and there is almost no military power here. It was easy for the Ming Dynasty to seize the rule of Chaka Salt Lake.

Zhu Cixuan decided to hand over this matter to Song Xiance and let him station in Xining and be responsible for the salt trading.

Fan Yongdou’s mansion is now Zhu Cilang’s military base.
Chapter completed!