Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1040 Great Success ([-])

With just one sentence, the eyes of those investors suddenly shone like Sirius in the night sky at the end of the month.

The domestic salt market has basically been clearly divided.They also hope that their own salt farm can invade the rest of the salt area, but they are just thinking about it.

They couldn't make a decision. It is said that the Huaibei salt area can now be seized, which is already the result of the imperial court's support.How dare you look forward to Shu.

Even if they are bold enough to lead the bourgeois revolution and hold the emperor's head down, they cannot sign laws that suit their interests.

Because they can dry salt, can't the capitals of Hebei, Fujian, Huainan, and Guangdong not dry salt?You can't press the emperor's head and force the emperor to order that only Huaibei is allowed to dry salt, right?But that way, before they hold the emperor's head, capitals from Hebei, Fujian, Huainan, and Guangdong will hold their heads first.

The law that is beneficial to their class is "permitting the establishment of large salt farms and crowding out small salt farmers."

And it is definitely not "only allowed to open saltworks in Huaibei, and not allowed to open in other places", this is not called bourgeois revolution, this is called feudal aristocratic privilege.

Now they have already obtained the request of "allowing the establishment of large salt farms and crowding out small salt households", without spending a single shot or bullet.

So from this moment on, they have completely lost their progressive fighting spirit.

In other words, subjectivity has been reversed.

Of course Liu Yu didn't expect this group of people to do anything, so he mentioned letting them see the world with their eyes open.

In fact, their eyes have been opened, and they have seen the world.But the problem is that salt is not silk raw silk porcelain.

As far as it is concerned... as far as it is concerned, they have no control over it.

For example, the trade with Japan, the current price of their salt production, and Dashun's navigation skills at this time are completely profitable.

But this is the same as the British East India Company selling Indian cotton cloth. The biggest problem is not the law of the market, but the British government distorting the law of the market and insisting on super-high tariff protection.

The same is true here in Japan. What can be sold and what cannot be sold is not an economic issue, but a political and military issue.

These businessmen had no guns or battleships, so they could only rely on Dashun officials to negotiate with Japan.

Liu Yu didn't say where to sell it, but these people naturally thought of selling it in Japan.

When collecting Changlu salt before, it was for the official transport to Hankou, but the name was to sell it to Japan.

Now that Liu Yu mentions this matter again, it will be much more convenient to deceive others.

In fact, Liu Yu wanted to use overseas as a reason to expand the production capacity of Huaibei Salt Works in advance.Before the salt production period of the Xiaoman solar term, quickly expand the production capacity so as to complete the occupation of Huainan salt as soon as possible.

Now that the government has intervened between production and sales to supervise, the people in Huaibei Salt Field dare not easily expand production capacity even if they make a profit.

On the one hand, it is worried that it will not be sold.

On the other hand, regulators also need to look at the books and investments.

Without the above requirements, suddenly expanding production capacity, are you planning to smuggle?

In the current situation, is it feasible for Liu Yu to "look at the world"?Will it be possible?Is there a price list of salt prices in Japan?
These are not important.

The important thing is that investors really want to expand production capacity.

Because even if looking at the world fails, the production capacity has expanded so much at once, and the imperial court is supporting them, then they will definitely find a way to make peace.

Even if it is not guaranteed to take away all the salt for expanding production capacity, then it is always possible to cede some of the shares elsewhere to them, right?

The cost of their salt production is the lowest, which means that they support the expansion of production capacity, and it is the imperial court that supports them that hinders their expansion of production capacity.

Similarly, what gave them an advantage was precisely the court that supported them, making it impossible to build large sun-dried salt factories of the same level elsewhere for one reason or another.

This principle is somewhat similar to Britain's appeal for launching the Opium War, calling for opium to become legal.But if opium really becomes legal as requested by the United Kingdom, the British opium dealers will cry instead.

Under this kind of awkwardness, they can only be dogs of the court, that is, the "obedient chaebol" Liu Yu showed the emperor.

Those maritime merchants can go very far with Liu Yu, and Yan is like this, and can only be a "really" obedient chaebol.

This kind of obedience is not only reflected in the fact that they have no motive to overthrow the imperial power, but also in the fact that Liu Yu can make them set their minds on increasing production capacity with a single sentence.

Whether it can really open up the external market is almost certain, it doesn't matter at all, and it doesn't even need to be considered.

"Guogong, how many tons of production capacity are you going to let us expand? As long as the Guogong announces the number, we can start working while the weather is still cold and there is no rain."

Liu Yu reported a quantity that was about two-thirds of the number of Yanyin in Hubei last year.

Lin Min next to him looked dazed, thinking that he, the Lianghuai Salt Envoy, was really going to be nothing, and he didn't know anything about such a big matter?
After thinking about it again, yes, although the overseas trade center of the Celestial Dynasty is now in Jiangsu, but as the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu, I will soon be mixed up as the governor of Xuzhou, the governor of Jiangning and the shepherd of Haizhou. It is normal for me not to know about overseas trade.

Anyway, it was you who mentioned this matter, if there is a problem with the surge in production, I will not be able to find it.

He doesn't understand overseas trade, so he can only analyze it from the perspective of a Chinese official: "This matter is indeed beneficial and harmless."

"If it can be sold, it is naturally the best, and the salt tax will increase a lot every year."

"Besides, the salt production in various places is very unstable. Sometimes there will be a shortage of salt when there is a strong wind, or a big wave, or a bad rain."

"Before the Huainan sea tide backfired, a batch of salt had to be dispatched from Sichuan and Fujian to support it."

"If similar incidents happen again in the future, it is natural to focus on the country. You can stop the foreign trade of salt and just support it elsewhere."

"Japan is quite a large country with a large population. The increase in production capacity reported by the government is not too much."

Liu Yu smiled and praised: "That's right. If the imperial court controls land sales as strictly as it controls the salt administration, my Ministry of Industry and Commerce can be completely disbanded."

"Now you salt producers, at least when it comes to salt, you can stay close and seek far. If you are not allowed to sell salt in the nearby salt area, you can't sell it. You can only run outside. This is forcing you to be heroes. Better than those who keep their eyes on the big cakes in China."

"Master Lin is far-sighted. After all, no matter how you look at it, it's a good thing."

Several investors looked at each other and nodded.

Now that the original small producers in Huaibei have basically been forced to go bankrupt, there is no need to use the previous ruthless means to enclose land roughly.

Now relying on capital, it is necessary to buy those nearby salt areas that are available or suitable for building large factories at low prices.

Bought at a high price a few months ago, many people do not sell.If you buy at a low price now, there must be a lot of sellers.

Liu Yu has no doubts about the production capacity of Huaibei salt. Not to mention the introduction of a preliminary modernized factory. In the original history, relying on private salt, the Huainan salt area was directly dried up in a hundred years. .

In history, private salt in Huaibei destroyed Huainan salt, which was also a prerequisite for Zhang Jian and others to start a wasteland reclamation company in Huainan.

Natural conditions are indeed better here.

For investors, this kind of investment is naturally as soon as possible.

The sooner, the sooner it becomes a fait accompli, the better.

At that time, it will become a fait accompli, even if the Japanese market cannot be opened, you can go to the court and cry: You see, we have produced so much salt, and the salt is unsalable. Give us the division.

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A few days after the inspection, Liu Yu and others boarded a boat in Lianyungang, which was still under construction, and headed for the capital.

Nothing happened all the way, until the boat passed Weihaiwei and entered Bohai Bay, Liu Yu suddenly asked Lin Min a question tentatively.

"Master Lin seems to be quite supportive of Xu Guangqi's policy of drying salt and reclaiming wasteland. Then Master Lin thinks that the root of Huainan's salt reform lies in the introduction and vote? Or is it the production method?"

Lin Min chuckled, "Xin Dao Yin, Piao, what have you done with it?"Citations and tickets are all about drinking poison to quench your thirst, and they are all about tinkering. Are you confused about how you made clear tickets in Huaibei?

According to your method of equalizing land and merging and then equalizing land, the ticketing method and quotation method are basically left-handed and right-handed, and no one has seen much advantage.

After 20 years, the salt tickets are once again monopolized by big hoarders. If you backhand and change the tickets, isn’t that changing the name, changing the soup but not the medicine?
Now you ask me, whether you are leading tickets or producing, how can I answer other questions?
"My lord, there are no outsiders, and the boat has arrived at the Bohai Bay. You know me. Then I might as well just say it."

"Xu Guangqi saw the key point, but at that time, the Ming Dynasty was already in decline, and the priority to solve was not to boil salt to dry salt, but to attract and vote, and to collect money."

"Although he got the right method, he didn't get the right time. It's a pity."

"At this time in this dynasty, the dispute over the introduction of votes has not yet reached the time when the salt administration has completely corrupted. Therefore, the key to the Huainan salt reform is to change the production method. That is, the boiled salt is changed to sun-dried salt, and the boiled salt firewood to turn wasteland into fields."

"In the battle of Huaibei, it is no longer possible for the court to object with the reason of worrying about insufficient salt production after the change."

Liu Yu hummed, and said again: "But there is one thing, I still have to remind Mr. Lin."

"Salt drying in Huainan is no better than in Huaibei. Now that the canals have been abandoned and sea transportation has risen, considering the rain, heat, wind, tide, and coal that drives the steam engine..."

"Is it true that salt must be produced in Huainan?"

"Why do I think that, looking at it now, the only reason to produce salt in Huainan is that Huainan has produced salt since ancient times?"

After a brief shock, Lin Min laughed helplessly.

He didn't talk about these hard, seemingly impersonal production issues, but talked about humanistic care.

"My lord, my lord, since ancient times, there has been a saying about riding a crane down to Yangzhou."

"It's not enough for you to abolish the canal, but you also want to abolish the Huainan salt. The many cities on the canal, and the many cities in Huainan that were prospered because of the salt, will all be destroyed by the Duke."

"I'm afraid that after a hundred years, if someone reads about one hundred thousand guan, they will be puzzled. Why don't you go to Songjiang if you have one hundred thousand guan in your waist? Why go to Yangzhou?"

"Yangzhou Fenghua, in the future, will it be destroyed by my hands?"

But Liu Yu said disapprovingly, "Chang'an, Xijing, is magnificent and beautiful; the cities of the Western Regions, merchants travel through it. Isn't it the same? More recently, how prosperous was Macau in the last years of the previous dynasty, where the east and the west were connected? Now it is like hell. There are only human traffickers and opium traffickers left."

"I reckon that Huai'an claims to have 80 people. Within ten years, there will be [-] left? But Yangzhou should be stronger, so it won't be."

"This is the law of nature, there is no need to regret it."

Lin Min gave a wry smile and sighed.

I thought to myself how many troubles you have created with such a fluffy sentence.A large town with tens of thousands of people falls on everyone's head. The pain of migration has nothing to do with you anyway.

What Chaozhong said is true, you really have no sense of humanity at all.

You are right about the truth, but you have to do it and talk about it, but I won’t talk about it anyway.

Even if I say, I will build a saltworks in Huainan with mud.

I support the change to drying salt, but I did not say that I support moving the largest salt-producing area to Huaibei.

If you want to talk about the right time and place, the rain and heat, the salinity, and the coal production area, that is your perspective, not the perspective of everyone in the meeting.

Anyway, you have ruined a big Huai'an city, if you are willing to bear the reputation of declining Yangzhou, you bear it, don't look for me.

Abolishing Huai'an is easy to say, after all, the matter of shipping itself is abandoned. The ministers of the court and China also know that "the river must be abolished first", as long as it is not a pig's brain, this insight is still there.Harnessing the Yellow River was the top priority of the imperial court, second only to war, and it was acceptable to abandon Huai'an for this reason.

But you even want to abolish the Huainan salt area, which is a bit shocking.This is not a matter of right or wrong at all, but a direct challenge to the normal perception of everyone in the court.

(End of this chapter)