Daming Yuanfu

"400 taels." Gao Wushi read it silently, and said, "This is a rough estimate based on the price of white rice and flour, but I don't think it is necessary to pay cash. The corn and rice of Yuanma Temple in Liaodong last year were quite abundant. The surplus should have been sold this year and entered into the account. Now we might as well change our thinking and allocate food directly from Yuanma Temple.

Let's open [-]-[-]%, [-]% corn and [-]% rice.At present, corn is much cheaper than flour, and it can be said that the quantity is large, and after changing corn, it can be eaten more by the workers.

In addition, as far as I know, in the past, when the Liaodong corvée was employed, the servicemen had to bring their own salt. This time, it was regarded as a reward from the emperor, and the salt would come from the Liaonan Salt Field.I will write about the saltworks, and the Ministry of Industry does not need to be responsible for the freight. Jinghua Trading Company will send it to Tieling and Kaiyuan along the way. "

Those mentioned above are nothing more than high pragmatism and careful calculation.But as soon as he said that the salt bar was provided by the Liaonan Salt Field, everyone immediately praised him, and even Shi Xing had to agree.

Everyone is a sensible person, and Gao Pragmatically said that "it is regarded as the emperor's favor", but the emperor only holds the dry shares in the Liaonan Salt Field, and doesn't care about its operation at all.Although it's hair salt in the name of the emperor, in fact, everything is highly pragmatic and self-produced.

Salt is not worth much in later generations, but it is not cheap at this time.Of course, the price is a comparison, so you might as well compare it.

There was a house deed in later generations, which said that in July of the 15th year of Wanli, a resident surnamed Xu in Anhui bought a villa. The villa covers an area of ​​five acres, with three buildings and 28 bungalows.

It shouldn’t be a problem for a villa like this to be worth tens of millions in Beijing or Shanghai in later generations, right?Even in Anhui, the price must be in the millions or more, right?But Mr. Xu only spent [-] taels of Wenyin.

How much is one hundred and six taels of silver worth?In the summer of the 15th year of Wanli, there were two coins for a bucket of rice in the south of the Yangtze River. Converted according to the price of grain, one tael of silver is roughly equivalent to about 160 yuan in later generations.That is to say, the one hundred and six taels of silver is less than 2 yuan of Ruanmei coins. At the time of Gao Pragmatic Traveling, such a small amount of money is not enough to buy a villa. Even an ordinary commercial house is not enough for a toilet. of.

The first conclusion drawn from this is that the houses in Daming are very cheap, at least the houses outside Beijing and South Beijing are obviously very cheap.

For building materials and wood, go to the shipyard to get it. If the Liaodong shipyard is not enough, I will send some more from Shandong. "

Everyone shut their mouths together and looked at the Great Ming God of Wealth.

The problem lies in the circulation link.Assuming that you were a boss during the Wanli period and wanted to get some salt to sell, you first had to apply to the Salt Transport Department for Yan Yin, that is, a license to distribute salt.

Even though the cost of using this thing has been reduced due to the rapid increase in coal production in recent years, except for the emperor, princes, and nobles, generally only people like Mr. Gao Ge who don't know how much money they have can afford to burn it.

If it is not dried, it will be used when building a house. At the slightest, it will become moldy and grow mushrooms, and at the worst, it will collapse after a few heavy rains and accumulated water... Therefore, Zhao Shaositu's so-called "burning bricks on the spot and cutting wood nearby" is really true. No way. "

But the situation is different now. Gao Yushi, as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, as long as the emperor does not intervene in the question of whether it is legal or not, he will be the final definer.He said that the payment from the Liaonan Saltworks, the whereabouts of this batch of salt must be legal - but don't forget, after saving the intermediate links, the cost of this batch of salt is not high.

As for the rammed earth walls... Could it be that Shao Shao Situ didn't know that brick houses are more expensive than earthen houses, and the earthen houses are quite warm in winter and cool in summer? "

After getting the salt with the salt, you must go to the inspection office for inspection, and then you must go to the designated place to sell the salt.After selling the salt, the salt must be handed over to the local yamen.

Everyone, you and I talked for a long time, but they didn't discuss and come up with a result.Seeing that the matter was entangled in such details, Gao Wushi couldn't help but patted the table and said, "Quiet!"

Shi Xing knew that it was impossible for him to be clean in front of the Real School, so he was very single, so he laughed and said: "If Zhao Shao Situ wants to say this, there is nothing to argue with in this department, but it is difficult for a clever woman Zhao Shao Situ wouldn't know the truth of cooking without rice, right?
Since the Ministry of Industry has handed over the financial rights, now it has to report to the Ministry of Households for approval even if it saves an extra piece of wood, but the Ministry of Households always seems to think that the Ministry of Industry has stored too much, which is not only suspected of being a waste, but even deliberately profiting from it.

Going back to the price of salt, although the production cost of table salt is very low at this time, the additional cost in transportation and sales is very astonishing. Dozens of somersaults?

Also in the 15th year of Wanli, also in Anhui, people bought a catty of salt, but it cost three coins.Calculated at 16 yuan per coin, the salt sold for 48 yuan per catty, while the iodized edible salt of later generations sold for an average of just over one yuan per catty.

The manpower problem of post-disaster reconstruction has been solved, but there are other problems that are difficult to deal with.Shi Xing waited for everyone to calm down, and then said: "Ge Lao is kind, but there are so many houses collapsed in the local area, and the Ministry of Industry does not have much wood in Liaodong, so I don't know where to get the materials needed for the reconstruction?"

After talking about the disaster situation in Liaodong, everyone naturally discussed the disaster situation in Zhejiang and South Zhili.Ice disasters in the south are naturally rare in everyone's opinion, but high-pragmatics don't think it's strange—the Little Ice Age, the precipitation line moved southward, and the low temperature range also moved southward. What's so strange?

From this, the second conclusion can be drawn: salt in the Wanli period was very expensive.

In fact, according to the "History of the Ming Dynasty" Shihuo Zhi records, the government purchased salt from the "stove households" (farmers specializing in salt production), and only paid one stone for every [-] catties of rice.

According to general experience, the disaster situation in other places in these two provinces may not be light.So if it is really a large-scale ice disaster, the people in Nanzhili and Zhejiang will inevitably suffer huge losses. Not only will it inevitably affect the economy of the south of the Yangtze River, but what is even more frightening is that a large number of victims will appear in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhao Yumin blushed at Shi Xing's words and didn't know how to answer.Naturally, some of the attendees knew how to build a house, and it was not impossible to think of a way, but no matter how they thought about it, they couldn't get rid of the saying "a clever woman can't cook without rice".As long as the Ministry of Households refuses to approve the money, it is useless to say anything.

Therefore, the amount of wood and stone stored by the Ministry of Industry in various warehouses over the years has been less than a year.As far as the materials stored by the Ministry of Industry in Liaodong are concerned, I think at most they can rebuild the city gates and buildings in the two places, those yamen, warehouses, barracks and so on... I am sorry that the Ministry is powerless. "

Why is power valuable?Gao Pragmatic's operation is a vivid example.

He sighed, waved his hands and said, "Although the Spring Festival is over now, Liaodong is still very cold. If we can't rebuild earlier, I don't know how many people will freeze to death under our helplessness.

Zhao Yumin had never heard of this statement.His Zhao family is a well-known family in Changzhi, Shanxi. His father, Zhao Xikui, was a Jinshi in the 14th year of Jiajing. Political envoy, Henan Zuobu political envoy.

Of course Gao Yushi can't change wood, but...he doesn't have to change it, because he has.

If you want to ask why, perhaps the officials of Ming Dynasty will explain to you: the salt bought from salt merchants is called commercial salt, and the salt bought from stove households is called small-property salt. Commercial salt is legal, while small-property salt is illegal.

Zhao Yumin snorted coldly and said, "Is it that difficult? Burning bricks on the spot and cutting wood nearby, isn't it okay?"

The problem now is that everyone knows that there is no place to store a large amount of construction wood, because the wood also occupies the warehouse. If there is so much storage, is there no cost for the warehouse and the warehouse?
In other words, the current problem is not only whether the Ministry of Households is willing to pay, but the local area in Liaodong may not be able to gather so much suitable wood for a while.Well, if these timbers have to be transported from within the pass, it is really worth the price of tofu as meat, which is not worth it.

When Shi Xing said this, Gao Wushi didn't reply, but he annoyed Zhao Yumin, who was ranked last among the four servants of the household department. Erjing?"

Some people may say, since salt merchants set the price of salt very high, why not get rid of the salt merchants and go directly to the kitchen households?This is a good idea, but unfortunately it is completely unrealistic, because China has almost always implemented a salt monopoly system since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Except for salt merchants with licenses, others are not allowed to buy salt from stove households, and Ming Dynasty is no exception.

In other words, when his father retired, he was already a high-ranking official of the second grade. Does his family need to talk about the conditions? How can it be possible to understand what materials are used for private building?
Seeing Zhao Yumin's hesitation, Shi Xingyu smiled with disdain: "Huaihuai, Huaiye, has the habit of nostalgia and nostalgia for the past, that is, not forgetting the ancestors. And the locust tree is also a 'tree of ghosts', and the locust tree is regarded as The rafters used in building houses can use "house ghosts" to resist the invasion of "foreign ghosts", so they can town houses. Therefore, when building houses, folks like to use pagoda wood as rafters.

Shi Xing was very satisfied with this result.Although he can't compare with Gao Pragmatic at all in any aspect, since the two sides are definitely unable to compromise, it seems quite happy to be disgusted by Gao Pragmatic through this matter.

In the Ming Dynasty, a stone of rice weighed about 190 catties. Calculated at one yuan and sixty cents per catty, one stone was [-] yuan.Officials can purchase [-] catties of salt with [-] yuan, which shows that the cost of producing a catty of salt by "stove households" will never exceed one yuan.

Many years ago, Gao Yushi once told Gao Gong that although the salt merchants made a lot of money, a large part of the expenses were transferred to "other people", so the salt merchants should not just be caught and scolded.Salt merchants can of course scold them, but more importantly, those in charge must think about where the problem lies in the entire industrial chain, otherwise it will be impossible to cure it.

However, Shi Xing didn't finish his sentence, he continued: "In addition, the wood for building this house is not ready to be used as soon as it is cut. All types of wood need to be air-dried in advance, and the time required for air-drying is also different. In March, some take more than a year, and some even take longer.

"Zhao Shao Situ was born as an official, so he doesn't seem to know much about building materials." Shi Xing smiled and said, "I don't know if Zhao Shao Situ has heard such a sentence:' pagoda tree rafters, elm beams, persimmon wood pillars rammed earth wall'?"

Unexpectedly, he was ridiculed by Shi Xing for failing to say a word. Zhao Yumin blushed but didn't know how to refute.In fact, although his family's conditions are good, they can only do "recovering ice in summer", but "burning earth dragon in winter" is really impossible.

But the trouble now is not the two disasters that have already been reported. What Gao Wushi is more worried about is that Nanzhili and other places in Zhejiang far away from the provincial capital have actually been affected by disasters, but they have not had time to report.

This whole process is not only cumbersome, but also costs a lot of extra money-at this time, the clerks of the yamen generally have poor benefits on the surface, and they are waiting to find subsidies from other places. If you take the initiative to send them to your door, they will naturally Remind you by procrastinating until you take the initiative to put the vain money into their pockets.

So here comes the question, how did the price of salt on the market rise to 48 yuan a catty?

After saying this, it naturally attracted a lot of praise, and even Gao Yushi himself felt that he was really a kind person.For timber, [-]% of the market price is basically the cost price, and since Gao Yushi promised to be provided by Jinghua, according to experience, the freight will also be borne by Jinghua... That is to lose money and make money.

Elm, the wood has straight texture, clear patterns, good elasticity, more importantly, it is not easy to deform or crack, and it is resistant to moisture and corrosion.Even if the roof leaks, it will not cause the elm beams to rot in a short period of time.In addition, elm and "Yu" are homophonic, which means "a family has surplus", so folks like to use elm wood as house beams.

Persimmon wood is black persimmon wood, which has been honored as a sacred tree since ancient times, and it also has the function of seeking good luck and avoiding evil.The texture of this wood is hard and delicate, with many twists and turns. The black-brown wood grain has straight lines, curly cloud patterns, and landscape-like patterns. It can be described as varied, so it can make the house more lively. Therefore, people like to use persimmon wood as beams and columns. .

"There is a shipyard in Jinghua near the Liaonan Salt Field. It was originally built for the construction of inland watercraft in Liaodong. The scale is not large or small. There are a lot of wood stored in it, most of which should have been air-dried."

"I'm afraid there are more than two disasters in the south of the Yangtze River. Now everyone is discussing disaster relief, and this should also be taken into consideration..."

Gao Wushi said so, and everyone looked at him, but at this moment, a secretary of the household department hurried outside, who rarely cared about the rules, and called out at the door: "Ge Lao, Urgent news from the palace: Wang An, the admiral of the East Factory, committed suicide by hanging himself!"

Dongchang admiral Wang An hanged himself?

When this news came out, everyone present was in an uproar.The majestic admiral of the East Factory, and the young admiral of the East Factory, died so suddenly?
Slightly different from others is Gao Yushi, who focuses on "hanging himself" - not an accident, not homicide, and of course not being given to death, Wang An "hanged himself".

Gao Wushi narrowed his eyes slightly.
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