"Your Majesty, Liang thought that in response to industries such as iron smelting, salt boiling, and cotton weaving, weaving, weaving, and other industries, we would acquire it as an official business, and set up full-time officials to manage it. This would definitely increase my tax revenue greatly!" Zhuge Liang began to explain while Adou was reading the memorial.

The Han Dynasty sold salt and iron, but with the arrival of troubled times, salt and iron were smuggled. Salt is a necessary material for life, and private salt circulation among the people is rampant. As an important strategic material, the profit of smuggling is also quite huge.

However, this salt and iron are sold in specialty, and they are all primary products, that is, unprocessed pig iron and uncooked coarse salt. The power of iron smelting and boiling salt is still among the people.

The government refines iron ore into rough iron ore, or direct iron ore, and sells it to the public. After the folk craftsmen further refine it, they then build various agricultural tools and weapons. In this process, the value of pig iron has increased several times, and the profits are very huge.

Only the salt industry is similar. There are three main sources of salt in the Han Dynasty, one is sea salt, the second is well salt, and the third is pond salt. Sea salt is naturally salt in sea water, the well salt is the Sichuan Basin of Chuzi, and pond salt comes from Liangzhou, Yongzhou. Among them, the salt from sea water contains relatively few impurities, but the well salt and pond salt contain more impurities. It is necessary to boil salt to remove impurities before it can be eaten.

Both the Wei and the Eastern Wu were around the sea, so they usually consume sea salt, and the Shu Kingdom did not rely on the sea, so they could only use well salt and pond salt. However, under normal circumstances, the government sold coarse salt that was not processed, and after the vendor bought the coarse salt, they purified it after boiling the salt and then sold it to the people. The profits in this link are also huge.

The brocade weaving mentioned by Zhuge Liang mainly refers to Shu brocade.

During the Han Dynasty, the manufacturing of Shu brocade in Yizhou was already very developed. Shu brocade, as the first of the four famous brocades, was naturally very popular among people. No matter where they were sold, they could be sold at a good price. It is rumored that Cao Pi liked Shu brocade very much back then. Compared with salt and iron, although the demand for Shu brocade was much smaller, the profit it could bring was not inferior.

According to Zhuge Liang's proposal, if these three industries with huge profits are acquired as state-owned and monopolized, they can indeed bring a lot of money to the court, and this effect will be immediate.

"Prime Minister, I'm sure about this matter. I'll leave it to the Prime Minister for your full responsibility! As for the military household I just mentioned, the Grand Tutor, let it be handed over to you and the Ministry of War!"

After seeing off Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, Adou suddenly felt much more relaxed. If Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong came to coordinate the planning, there was no need to worry about Adou.

"Zhang Yi!" A Dou shouted softly, and Zhang Yi immediately walked over.

"Your Majesty, have you ordered?"

"Guo Huai is doing well recently!"

"Well, fortunately, eat as much as you should, sleep as you should, and read military books from time to time, and you are so depressed all day long." Zhang Yi answered.
Chapter completed!