please make me king

Chapter 1119 Tea Horse Trading
"Since ancient times, land has been divided into north and south, qi has been divided into yin and yang, and things are different from each other." Hong Chengchou said impassionedly.

"Therefore, tea is produced in Han and horses are produced in Fan, which is also the principle of heaven."

"It is the sage who makes a chariot to travel on land, and a boat to travel on water, so that we can communicate with each other!"

"Since the Tang Dynasty, private tea has been banned, and tea horses have been changed to control the Qiang and Rong, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was still secret."

"Its law: there is a special department for operation, there is a source for tea goods, there is a censor for inspectors, there is a workshop for tea making, there is a warehouse for storage, and there is a dedicated transportation."

"The tea and horse department is also the one who specializes in the department. The Ming Dynasty set up Xining tea and horse department, Hezhou tea and horse department, Taozhou tea and horse department and Zhuanglang tea and horse department in Shaanxi, each with a tea horse ambassador and a deputy. One person is dedicated to Yima."

"The source of tea comes from Ziyang in Hanzhong, various places in Sichuan, and Anhua in Huguang."

"The inspector is the supervisor of the tea horse censor in Shaanxi, Gansu, Taoxuan and other places, referred to as the patrol tea censor."

"The workshops used to be Baocheng Tea Factory and Ziyang Tea Factory, and now Jingyang can also do it. It is famous all over the world for producing Fuzhuan tea!"

"Warehouses are located in Chengdu, Chongqing, Boryeong and Banzhou."

"The method of its transportation is nothing more than official tea pro-democracy movement, summoning merchants and Chinese tea and other methods."

Hong Chengchou talked eloquently for a long time, and gave a rough overview of the tea horse incident.

"Mr. Hong, what do you think is the priority when it comes to tea and horses? I wonder if there is a way?" Zhang Shun frowned and asked.

"Fan people are afraid of prestige and do not cherish morality. I think that military prestige should be the first, and then softness can be obtained!" Hong Chengchou laughed.

"In the past, Deng Yu, the deputy general of the left of the Ming Dynasty, led Renhe, Xiangyang, Lu'an, Mianyang, Gongchang, Lintao and other guards with tens of thousands of soldiers. Yang, Tiecheng, Jishi and other [-] chieftains of the Six Marshals' Mansion came to surrender, this is the beginning of the chieftains in Xining in the early Ming Dynasty!"

Well, go round and round, and finally have to fight!

"Okay, I understand, Gansu must use troops, and then Nai'an." Zhang Shun nodded.

Fighting must be fought, the key is how to fight and what strategic goal to achieve.

"Fan people are intimidated, this is one of them. It's just that there is no tea source under the rule of the rebel army, so how to get it?" Zhang Shun asked again.

If you want tea but no tea, you want horses but no horses, this voice is not easy to make!
"The second thing is, it's called: Prohibition of private tea, commercial tea!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but respond when he heard the words.

"Forbidden private tea, merchant tea?"

"Yes!" Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "The tea production places closest to me are Hanzhong and Ankang, followed by Sichuan and Huguang."

"These three places are not under the rule of the rebel army, so the law of the Ming Dynasty's official tea cannot be practiced."

"Fu Daming's official tea method was taught by officials, but now there are many problems, almost bad, and it can't be used long ago."

"Since this is the case, why not attract merchants, levy heavy taxes, and exchange them at market prices."

"Wouldn't it be nice for the rebels to take their taxes, don't sell them immediately, and then buy them at the market price?"

"Oh?" Zhang Shun pondered for a moment when he heard the words, and couldn't help but look at Hong Chengchou in surprise.

What an empty glove white wolf technique!

In fact, Hong Chengchou's idea is quite similar to the concept of later customs, which is to collect import and export taxes.

In this way, since the tea horse trading was done by merchants themselves, it was difficult to prohibit the sale of tea to Shaanxi, Xining and other places with the corrupt system of the Ming Dynasty.

For the rebels, they can set up checkpoints at important intersections, collect taxes, and then buy horses from merchants.

If everything is arranged by the rebel army, it is necessary to prepare the principal, but also find ways to break through the sanctions imposed by Guannan deputy envoy Fan Yiheng, and also transport and sell.

Not only is it extremely cumbersome, but it is also prone to corruption.

So since the rebel army can't go through the method of official tea, why don't they give up the most important and take the lightest, and practice the method of commercial tea?

"Okay, that's very good!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Hong really has a good idea!"

"Inspired by Mr. Hong, this king has quite a bit of experience, and I just want to discuss it with you."

"According to my mind, it is appropriate to establish a customs law to ban exchanges."

"Set up a mountain pass in every mountain, a river pass in every river, and a customs house in every sea!"

"This is right!" Zhang Shun's remarks did not break away from the pattern of the transit tax in the Ming Dynasty, and everyone couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

For example, the Ming Dynasty set up checkpoints on traffic arteries, and imposed labor tariffs on passing bamboo, wooden pestles, and firewood;

Set up checkpoints in Linqing and Beixin to collect money from ships on the Grand Canal;
There are tax officials at the gate of the city to tax the passing goods.

Even the rebel army, Zhang Sanbai, is now setting up checkpoints in Longjuzhai to levy likin on incoming and outgoing goods.

"However, my tariff is different from other places. It is called over-tax in China, and it is called tariff in overseas." Zhang Shun continued to explain.

"In addition to taxation, there is mediation."

"For example, tea, cotton and linen cloth, medicinal materials, gunpowder, saltpeter, sulfur, and other supplies urgently needed by the rebels enter the customs, and all taxes are reduced or exempted; the tax is doubled when they leave the customs."

"I understand!" Lu Weiqi, Hong Chengchou, Qian Shoulian and others couldn't help but their eyes lit up when they heard the words, and they immediately reacted.

Referring to the system of later generations, Zhang Shun played this move more beautifully.

If so, but as far as the tea horse transaction is concerned.

It means that there is almost no fee for tea entering the customs, but if you want to go out of the customs and trade with the Fans, you need to pay heavy taxes.

And when the merchants exchanged horses, cattle and sheep to enter Shaanxi under the rule of the rebel army, it was still smooth all the way.

However, if you want to sell abroad under the rule of the rebel army, you also need to pay heavy taxes to pass the customs.

In this way, due to the existence of tariffs, it is most beneficial for merchants to transport tea from Hanzhong to Shaanxi and sell horses from Fandi to Shaanxi.

Between entering and exiting, the rebel army actually gained real benefits.

"It's just like this, be sure to investigate closely, and don't let Xiaoxiao take advantage of it!" Hong Chengchou frowned and couldn't help reminding.

Although the theory sounds good, if the operation is not good, everything is useless.

"It's easy!" Zhang Shun said with a smile, "It's nothing more than a tax receipt upon entry."

"For all goods entering the customs, the name, quantity, weight, entering merchants and handling officials shall be marked together."

"Every time you encounter a checkpoint, you can only let it go after the inspection is correct. If the certificate is wrong or false, it will be handed over to the supervisor for trial, to recover customs duties, and to impose a fine. This is one of them."

"Secondly, I want to follow the example of the Salt Law and set up a Gang Law. Anyone who sells tea to tea horses in Xining, Hezhou, Zhuanglang, etc. must register and make a book, and it will be monopolized by a few or a dozen households. Others are not allowed to participate indiscriminately. .”

"Anyone who violates the law will be dismissed at any time, and another merchant will be recruited to counteract it. I don't know what you think?"

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Lu Weiqi couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing when he heard the words.

He was convinced. Zhang Shun not only solved the tea problem and tax problem, but also attracted businessmen and revitalized the economy.

(End of this chapter)