Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 852 Snobbery

The salt tax, the most important source of income for the treasury, has been dropping step by step every year, and it has dropped by millions, which is unbearable today.

It has dropped by more than 200 million taels in two years, and the treasury has naturally been greatly affected.

Today, he is furious, and two consecutive Yangzhou inspectors have had bad luck, and they have all been demoted to the smoky land of southern Xinjiang to join snakes and insects.

Anyway, if there is no comparison, there will be no harm.

When Lin Ruhai was in office, the minimum salt tax standard was more than ten million taels, and he was definitely a rare capable official.

Now I feel a little regretful, I shouldn't have transferred Lin Ruhai to leave Yangzhou.

If Lin Ruhai was still serving as the censor of salt inspection in Yangzhou, the treasury revenue would increase by several million taels every year, so how many things could be done.

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking now.

As for what Lin Ruhai did before he took office, it is impossible for him to let this fellow stay in Yangzhou to wait for death.

After all, he is a capable minister and official. If he really dies in Yangzhou, it will have a great impact on his reputation today.

But right now, I really want to boost the revenue of the national treasury, so I can think about it carefully. Can you try the sea salt method that Lin Ruhai tinkered with?
Coincidentally, there is a large salt field in Jinmen, not far from the capital.

In other words, Jia Rong is also interested in Jinmen.

As an important node of water transportation in the north, Jinmen was developed only in the early Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Jinmen is just a prosperous town developed through water transportation.

All the travelers who came from later generations know how big the development potential of Jinmen is. In terms of economic scale alone, it can be compared to the existence of the capital city.

Through simple investigation, Jia Rong discovered a very interesting thing.

That is, Jinmen, which could have been the shipping gateway of the capital, is lackluster in terms of shipping at this time.

You know, Jinmen in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties was an important gateway for the transportation of grain from the south to the north at that time, and once replaced the role of water transportation.

During the short Ming Dynasty, because the imperial court paid more attention to water transportation, the role of Jinmen's sea transportation node was greatly restricted, but it was still a relatively important northern port.

At least during the Ming Dynasty in the World of Red Mansions, shipping has never been interrupted.

Daqian continued the Ming system and also attached importance to water transportation, but sea transportation has not been interrupted.

However, as far as Jia Rong's investigation found out, Jinmen's shipping volume has shrunk to a certain extent, which is completely incompatible with its status as the seaside gateway of the capital.

Later, after careful investigation, I realized the reason, and it was still the pursuit of interests.

As an important node of water transportation in the north, Jinmen is naturally deeply bound to the interests of water transportation.

Officials sitting here, as well as common people and merchants, etc., basically rely on water transportation for food, so naturally they will not wait for sea transportation that may shake the status of water transportation.

Under the double-layer suppression of the government and the people, the shipping in Jinmen has gradually shrunk, even to the point of being very inconspicuous.

It really makes people sigh, how prosperous is Jinmen in memory?
Speaking of vigorous maritime trade, the short-lived Ming Dynasty system has never been interrupted.

In the Ming Dynasty of the Red Mansions World, Yu Shaobao was unable to turn the tide during the Tumu Fortress Change. The capital city was captured by the Oala Mongols, and the whole country collapsed completely.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty did not implement the so-called policy of banning the sea because of the Japanese invasion.

In the following hundred years of war and chaos, foreign ocean trade has never been cut off.

When the Daqian Taizu unified the Central Plains and completely ended the troubled times, it was naturally even more impossible to actively ban maritime trade.

It's just a well-known reason that the bulk of the ocean trade has always been in the hands of the southeast coastal clans, and the imperial court didn't get much bonus.

The Dagan court's attitude towards maritime trade is completely dispensable, neither paying attention nor deliberately suppressing it.

Of course, those who understand the entanglement of interests know the huge profits of ocean trade.

Among the four major families in Jinling, the Wang family was in charge of the Shibo Department on the southeast coast during the founding of the country. It was responsible for handling foreign vassal trade affairs and made a lot of money.

There is no white jade bed in the East China Sea, and the Dragon King came to find the King of Jinling!
Listen, this is the most beautiful and prosperous state of the Jinling royal family.

Rely on the benefits of maritime trade!
Unfortunately, with the death of the head of the first generation of the Wang family, his authority was also taken away by the maritime trade clan on the southeast coast, and the Wang family's momentum gradually declined.

Otherwise, if the Wang family is still so rich, just using silver can smash the prince to the third rank or above.

Don't listen to Wang Xifeng boasting that the Wang family is rich, that's because the ancestors were rich, but it doesn't mean that the Wang family is still so rich at this time.

However, according to the information Jia Rong inquired, there is still a close connection between the royal family of Jinling and the big clans along the southeast coast.

It is estimated that tens of thousands of silver can be obtained from here every year.

Jia Rong had some calculations in her mind, and wondered if she could use some means to completely bring the inconspicuous Jinmen under control.

The resources in the hands of the four major families in Jinling at this time are quite amazing.

If it can be well integrated and used well, it will not be difficult for Jinmen to take off completely.

Of course, having such an idea in mind is an idea, and there is no action plan yet.

It is not that simple to completely control Jinmen.

To put it bluntly, after all, it is the ocean gateway of the capital and an important node of water transportation in the north, and the interests involved are not trivial.

If you want to settle, the right time and place are indispensable.

As for Renhe, Jia Rong is confident that it will not be difficult to create it by himself through the influence of the four major families in Jinling.

Either way, sometimes luck comes and you can't stop it.

Here, Jia Rong just had an idea in his mind, and rumors spread in the palace over there that Lin Ruhai intends to let Lin Ruhai go to Jinmen to be in charge of the local saltworks affairs.

Such news is really confusing.

At this moment, Lin Ruhai is the majestic chief envoy of the Jin Province, from the second rank to the frontier official!
As for the manager of the Jinmen Saltworks, he didn't even reach the fourth grade. How could Lin Ruhai work in the saltworks? That's not how the joke was made.

If you plan to have a high job and a low allocation today, that would not be a good thing. Will Lin Ruhai do things willingly?
Some existences, hoping that Lin Ruhai would be unlucky, secretly fueled the flames and spread some plausible rumors. For a while, people didn't know whether to believe it or not?
It was Rong Mansion, after hearing the rumors, they didn't know what was going on.

For this reason, the old lady called Jia Rong to discuss it, but in the end, nothing was discussed.

It's just that one can clearly feel that the attitude of Rong Mansion towards Jia Min is a little bit more indifferent and alienated.

Nima, do you want to be so snobbish?

Even before they figured out what was going on, the entire Rong family put on a gesture of looking down on Lin Ruhai, which was simply inexplicable.

According to Qin Keqing, Jia Min was so angry that she didn't go to Rongfu much recently...

(End of this chapter)