My Reason for Calmness Chapter 119

When the bidding for licenses for trading rights across the Tibetan border began, everyone was shocked.

Why was the Tibetan border trade opened up? It was to give salt merchants another way to go.

In other words, if the salt administration had not been reformed, the Tibetan border trade would not have been opened, and the Zhennan Palace would have been able to control the tea-horse trade smoothly and make a lot of money every year.

But now, the salt merchants have not yet come to an agreement, and the bidding for the Tibetan border trade in Mingzhan is about to begin.

How do you say this?