Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 44 Zhu Zhanji: A hundred years from old Zhu, won't what's his be mine?How clever I am! ! !

As for Xia Yuanji, it's not that Zhu Zhanji looks down on the Ministry of Household Affairs. If he really dares to take [-]% of the profit, it is estimated that the old man can only go out at noon in the future, otherwise he will be sacked sooner or later!
Maybe there is Zhu Di's instigation in it.

Glancing at Xia Yuanji, Zhu Zhanji said:
"Old man Xia, it's really not me taking advantage of you this time. Let me tell you the truth. I plan to use new salt to squeeze out all the salt in the market, and re-establish the regulations on salt sales!"

Xia Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Re-establish the regulations on salt sales?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and continued: "A few days ago, I have arranged for people to go to find some wealthy businessmen with rich family backgrounds, and then let them gather in Yingtian. I will divide the regions according to the division of Ming Dynasty and the population of each region, and then formulate a plan. According to the rules, each region arranges a fixed merchant to sell the salt according to the rules set by me."

When Xia Yuanji and Zhu Gaochi heard the words, they glanced at each other, and it was Xia Yuanji who said again:

"His Majesty the Grandson forgives the crime, I have something that I don't understand!"

"Say!"

Xia Yuanji arched his hands and said, "May I ask His Majesty the grandson, since ancient times merchants have been pursuing profit, how will His Highness restrict these merchants? If some of them do not follow the rules in private, what should the grandson do?"

"It's easy!"

Zhu Zhanji smiled slightly and said: "It is not that simple to become a salt merchant. I will ask them to pay a huge amount of deposit. This deposit is their guarantee to act in accordance with the rules. If they act in accordance with the rules, When the time limit expires, the security deposit will be returned to them, and if the rules are not followed, I will not only deduct their security deposit, but also terminate their qualification as a salt merchant!"

"Margin?"

Xia Yuanji's eyes lit up when he heard this new vocabulary for the first time.

No matter what kind of gold, since it is gold, isn’t it all money?
For the Ministry of Household Affairs, if there is money, then everything is easy to talk about.

Even Zhu Gaochi laughed when he heard the words, clapped his hands and said: "This plan is very clever. In this way, in order to become a salt merchant, the court will definitely get a lot of guarantee money!"

"What are you thinking? Our imperial court also wants to talk about credibility, you know that?"

Seeing the two people looking open to seeing Qian, Zhu Zhanji was speechless and said with contempt:
"We just keep these deposits on behalf of them. If they act according to the rules, then the money will be returned to them. If not, who will tell you the rules in the future?"

"But... this... so much money, does the court not want it?"

Zhu Gaochi rubbed the chubby hands with some pity, with a distressed expression on his face.

Although he hasn't seen these so-called "guarantee deposits" yet, he can also imagine how huge these money will be?
Thinking that the money did not belong to the imperial court, Zhu Gaochi, who was used to being poor, immediately felt distressed.

"Of course you can't. Dad, you don't know the truth of Shang Yang's standing tree?"

Zhu Zhanji curled his lips and continued: "Besides, how much is the deposit? Do you think about the population of our Daming? Old man Xia, we should have 5000 million people in Daming, right?"

A trace of hesitation flashed across Xia Yuanji's face when he heard the words, and then he nodded and said, "There was a rough statistic last year. Although it is not very accurate, the population is roughly 95 million!"

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Xia Yuanji. Although the hesitation on Xia Yuanji's face was not obvious, Zhu Zhanji could still see it clearly.

In fact, this is not to blame Xia Yuanji, even if the population of Daming is placed in later generations, it has always been like a mystery.

As you can imagine, when there were no natural or man-made disasters, no large-scale wars, and no shortage of arable land due to the land occupation system in the early Ming Dynasty,

Did the population of the Ming Dynasty decrease instead of increase?
And it's the kind of reduction of tens of millions a year!

Zhu Zhanji can think of the hidden things here without using his brain.

According to the normal law of population growth, the current population of Daming is at least around 7000 million.

However, the things involved in this kind of matter are too complicated, and Zhu Zhanji is not in a hurry to figure it out.

After all, food has to be eaten bite by bite, and the road is also taken step by step.

There are too many things on the horse at once, and Zhu Zhanji is also afraid that he will not be able to grasp all of them, and he may overturn the car.

Since the current official population is 5000 million, Zhu Zhanji can only use this number.

So Zhu Zhanji thought about it, and after keeping this matter in mind, he continued:
"Old man Xia, do you need to eat five catties of salt a year? With 5000 million people, plus all kinds of livestock and other consumption, you need fifty million catties of salt a year, right?"

When Zhu Zhanji said something, Zhu Gaochi and Xia Yuanji nodded.

Especially Xia Yuanji, as Minister of the Household Department, don't be too sensitive to these figures.

Whether Zhu Zhanji is right or not, he can know the answer almost without doing calculations.

When Zhu Zhanji mentioned fifty million catties of salt, Xia Yuanji stroked his beard and stood up and said:

"His Royal Highness, the Ming Dynasty produced more than [-] million catties of salt in the Lianghuai and Liangzhe areas last year, and the entire Daming produced a total of more than [-] million catties!"

Zhu Zhanji: "..."

Well, there still seems to be a big problem with his estimate.

This is the problem that the population of Ming Dynasty obviously does not match the numbers.

A person can eat up to five catties of salt a year, and if livestock is included, the average person can eat up to ten catties of salt.

That is to say, if Daming really only had a population of 5000 million people, not including private salt, at most [-] million catties of salt would be enough.

However, the Ming Dynasty produced [-] catties of salt a year. In addition to the high price of salt caused by the government's control, some people still couldn't eat salt.

The obvious question is where does the extra salt go?
While writing down these questions in his mind, Zhu Zhanji continued to settle accounts and said: "Then let's say one hundred thousand catties, and this does not include all kinds of private salt. I will price it at 50 renminbi for a catty of new salt, that is to say, 5000 catties." The total price of thousands of catties of new salt is [-] million taels of silver!"

"Aside from various costs, the profit of a catty of salt is about 4000 taels of silver, which means that one hundred thousand catties of salt is a profit of [-] million taels of silver!"

Zhu Gaochi listened to the various numbers that Zhu Zhanji reported casually, and wrote them down on a piece of white paper one by one.

Then he handed it to Xia Yuanji, who frowned after reading it.

He thought even more, selling one hundred million catties of salt for fifty renminbi, the profit he earned was more than 4000 million taels of silver.

However, the salt sold by the court in the past was obviously more expensive, but the harvest was only 1000 million taels of silver.

Seeing this number, Xia Yuanji almost chopped off his own beard, then gritted his teeth and cursed: "Profit!"

Zhu Zhanji was not far away from him, and when he heard the old man talking about a profiteer, he knew that the old man was throwing the blame.

The imperial court's salt tax income is so low, and the ghost knows how many people have reached out their hands,

Although it is true that those salt merchants are full of food, but from Ji Gang alone, it can be seen that it is definitely not just merchants who are eating.

But I want to find out all these people one by one, not to mention the fact that it is unrealistic.

Zhu Zhanji estimated that even if he succeeded, Zhu Di would stop him.

After all, there are definitely many people here who are heroes of Zhu Di's superior position.

If you bring things to the bright side, no one will lose face.

This is also the reason why Xia Yuanji is a profiteer.

These days, starting from old Zhutou, the businessman has no status. If something goes wrong, regardless of whether he has anything to do with the businessman, the businessman is an excellent candidate to take the blame.

Killing a group of businessmen, corrupt officials bulged their pockets, the household department bulged their money bags, and the emperor had money to go to war.

It's a feat!
After hearing Xia Yuanji's words, Zhu Zhanji just curled his lips and didn't say anything.

Although he understood the truth, he didn't think about saying something fair for a group of businessmen in the past. After all, the businessmen of Daming knew it.

Killing a batch will definitely not be wrong, especially Shanxi merchants.

However, Xia Yuanji wanted to trouble the businessman, and Zhu Zhanji would not take care of it, but Zhu Zhanji planned to use the new salt to completely tie it to the royal family with the salt industry of Daming.

So after taking a look at Xia Yuanji, Zhu Zhanji said: "The 4000 million profits, as salt tax, the Ministry of Households can collect 2000 million!"

Xia Yuanji did some calculations and nodded. The salt tax for a catty of salt is 2000 Wen, [-] million taels is completely reasonable!

Zhu Zhanji continued: "I will sell these salts to those merchants at a price of 1000 Wen, and there will be a profit of 300 million taels of silver, the Ministry of Households will take 300 million, I will take 400 million, and the remaining [-] million will go to the emperor! "

Xia Yuanji nodded again, then paused, and asked, "Even so, His Highness is still far from the 4000 million that His Highness promised the minister?"

"What are you in a hurry for?"

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Xia Yuanji, and then cocked his mouth and said: "Those merchants want to sell salt, they had to change to Yanyin in the past, but now all the salt from the court belongs to me, and I don't want their Yanyin, but I follow The region assigns my salt to them to sell, so I can charge them some agency fees, right?"

"Also, if a businessman defaults on the contract, in addition to the deposit, it's not too much for me to ask them for some liquidated damages, right?"

"It's not too much. The franchise fee is charged once every five years. In places like Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi with a population of nearly ten million, it's not too much to charge an agency fee of 2000 to [-] million in five years, right? Other places have fewer people, and I It’s not too much to charge an agency fee of several million? And those who breached the contract, tsk tsk..."

Zhu Zhanji smacked his lips, then glanced at Xia Yuanji who was pinching his fingers and counting non-stop, and said with a smile, "Old Xia, how are you doing? Did you figure it out?"

Xia Yuanji's mouth twitched when he heard Zhu Zhanji say "Old Xia". Did he have a new name?
But when he thought of Zhu Zhanji's words, his heart moved immediately.

Zhu Zhanji calculated only some figures based on existing official data.

Not to mention just the salt tax and the benefit of ten cash per catty, the Ministry of Household Affairs has safely entered more than 2000 million taels of silver into the account of one hundred thousand catties of salt.

If you add these "agency fees", "guarantee deposits", and "breach fees".

Although he didn't understand the specific difference between this fee and that fee.

But for this kind of thing, as a household secretary, Daming's money bag, Zhu Zhanji sometimes admires the old Beibi when it comes to making money.

Although he didn't fully understand what Zhu Zhanji said, he could understand the general idea.

If the merchants bought salt according to the salt system of the Ming Dynasty in the past, how to sell it would have little to do with the court.

The imperial court is equivalent to a furnace household, responsible for making salt, making salt, and then selling the salt to merchants.

However, when a merchant buys salt, it is up to the merchant to sell the salt at what price.

But it is different according to the method of His Royal Highness in front of you.

The world's largest salt merchant has become His Royal Highness in front of him.

If you want to sell salt, you can. You have to pay money to join the gang of His Royal Highness, and you can't pay the entry fee.

In order to ensure that you follow the gang rules, you have to pay a deposit.

Although he didn't figure out what the hell the breach of contract fee was.

But he could almost imagine that with the temperament of those businessmen, someone would definitely break the rules.

At that time, if it is impossible to say, someone will raise the regulation to fifty renminbi and raise it to dozens of renminbi.

If this kind of thing had been done in the past, the imperial court would definitely have no choice.

But it's different now, if you dare to break the rules, I can directly confiscate your security deposit.

At the same time, you will be kicked out of the gang, and then a newcomer will be recruited into the gang!
In this way, the agency fee has been charged twice, and the deposit has also become a profit.

The money here, even if it is 4000% a year, but it is more than [-] million?

And this is only counting the [-] catties of salt before. If the price of salt is as low as fifty cents a catty, plus such high-quality table salt, it will definitely squeeze out all the private salt markets.

At that time, Daming will be more than one hundred million catties of salt a year?

Is it almost doubled?

The more Xia Yuanji thought about it, the brighter his eyes became. Looking at Zhu Zhanji, it was like looking at a peerless treasure.
Standing up and cupping his hands, Xia Yuanji bowed to Zhu Zhanji and said, "It's wonderful, it's really wonderful. Once His Royal Highness Taisun comes out with this method, it will not only reduce the price of salt, but also let everyone eat salt. , the Department of Hubu will surely be able to breathe a sigh of relief from now on."

Rich is father!
For Xia Yuanji, even Zhu Di couldn't do without him!
But in the same way, for Xia Yuanji, the grandson in front of him is simply the father of the household department!
Zhu Zhanji glanced at Xia Yuanji and nodded in satisfaction.

Well, deceiving Dafa has gone one step further!
Drawing big cakes is indeed the best political method.

It is true that Xia Yuanji has made money, but Xia Yuanji is responsible for producing salt.

Also responsible for shipping and everything else!
And what about him?
Sitting at home, he just moved his lips, and with an empty glove white wolf, he made a [-]% profit without any effort.

As for his grandfather, Zhu Zhanji curled his lips in disdain.

To be disrespectful, who is the future emperor of Ming Dynasty?
It's Zhu Zhanji, isn't it?
After a hundred years of Lao Zhu, after all, everything about Lao Zhu still belongs to him?
Well, it looks like he only gets [-]% now, but when he becomes emperor in the future, Zhu Di's [-]% will also be his, and the [-]% will become [-]% immediately!
"I'm so smart!"

Zhu Zhanji gave himself 120 likes, and then glanced at Xia Yuanji who looked admiring.

I feel more and more proud in my heart, look at this old man, the original [-]-[-] split has become [-] in an instant.

I don't know if the old man will vomit blood after he wants to understand this truth!

Zhu Zhanji laughed unkindly: "Old man Xia, do you understand now? According to my method, it will definitely bring in more money than your five hundred Wen a catty!"

At this moment, Xia Yuanji was still thinking about how much money would be added to the household department in a year if those private salts were squeezed out?
Hearing this, he nodded his head, cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, please rest assured, after I return, I will definitely formulate a perfect method, and then immediately start working on new salt!"

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanji also nodded and said: "After the new salt matter, we will gather those furnace households, and each salt farm will set up a salt factory affiliated to the household department. Each step is handed over to different people, especially the brine, you can change the name when making salt to confuse the public, and you must ensure that the way of making salt will not be spread.”

After listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, Xia Yuanji asked Zhu Gaochi for a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote down all Zhu Zhanji's words one by one.

Although he is not a stupid person, compared with Zhu Zhanji, he has less knowledge after all.

Many things that Zhu Zhanji said will make his eyes shine.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanji tried his best to tell some things that could be used by later generations.

After all, the matter of salt was extremely important to him and to the entire Ming Dynasty.

At least in his plan, in the next ten years, salt will be a very important financial pillar of Daming.

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