Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 148 The villain Liu Jin
Jiang Bin felt that this matter looked simple, but it was not.

Those people in the Ministry of Rites pushed the matter to the emperor, except for the deterrence of Zhou Wang Zhu An's incident before, those in fact just wanted to avoid taking the blame.

Those old guys!
Will he let the emperor be the master and play tricks behind his back?

"King Xing has always done things properly. He has already stated in the memorial that his eldest son will have to meditate for five years before he can return to the palace. The brothers in the Prince Xing's mansion are respectful and modest, and the position of the son will remain unchanged, and there will be no disputes! It's really a clan. A role model! A role model!"

Zhu Houzhao is in a very good mood at the moment.

"How does the emperor plan to deal with this matter?"

Jiang Bin asked.

"Since you are a child of the clan, you naturally have to be naturalized in the clan. Although King Xing didn't ask for the title, I will give the position of the county king to the eldest son. It's just that the mouths of the guys in the Ministry of Rites should be covered and covered, and they have to be a witness , send someone to Anlu Prefecture to see how the Eldest Young Master resembles King Xing, who do you think should be sent there?"

"I suggest that you let Bai Sheng go. He is getting old and is about to retire. He will be more afraid, and he doesn't want to follow in Zhang Sheng's footsteps. It's better for him to be an imperial envoy!"

"Okay! You're right! That's what I mean too!"

……

Qin Shao has gradually calmed down these days.

In any case, life is still going on.

Rather than being involved in the complex circle of Prince Xing's Mansion, it would be more comfortable to live his own life today.

The matter was a bit too big, and he didn't tell Han Jinrong and the others that they couldn't solve the matter. Tu Zeng was worried that it would be better to keep the secret by himself.

The autumn harvest on the other side of the field has already returned to the warehouse, and now they are busy with wheat cultivation.

A few days ago, they acquired more than 20 mu of dry land, and now they have also planted wheat.

Because of the large amount of land, several short-term laborers were hired.

Today, Zhang Dazhuang has become the steward of the field, and life at home is much better.

I heard that the eldest son married a wife some time ago, and gave Qin Shao a invitation to eat wedding wine.

Qin Shao was too busy to go, so Wang Yin and Xiaosanzi went as representatives.

Zhang Dazhuang's second son, Gouzi, is not too young. In fact, he is younger than Qin Shao. It's just that people in this village get married early even if they don't study.

Generally, people marry their wives early and have children, so as to provide more labor for the family.

Gouzi followed him to buy goods or help in the store. In the past two years, he has matured a lot, and his thinking is different from that of the villagers.

When the family asked him for a wife, he told him not to worry, saying that he would wait.

For example, Qin Shao and Wang Yin are not young and they are not married.

It provoked Zhang Dazhuang to scold him directly: Master Qin, who is comparable to you kid, are you on the same level as him?
Gouzi just smiled.

But Zhang Dazhuang didn't force his son, he really refused the matchmaker's offer of marriage and said wait.

The second son of my family has a loose personality and has been outside for two years. He is really different from ordinary country boys. In many cases, his knowledge and ideas cannot be compared with his own.

I also hope that their ancestral grave will smoke well, and that in the future this son will really be able to marry a wife from a better family for his family.

When Qin Shao was checking the field, he didn't see Zhang Zuo and the others again. It was other people who were looking after the field.

Xing Wang's mansion has been in a mess these days, and Li Ji has reached his age, so it is estimated that Zhang Zuo is busy enough.

...

"How do you buy so many chickens?"

When Qin Shao came back from the field, he saw Han Jinrong and Xiao Sanzi bring back four fat chickens.

"Grandpa, the chicken is cheap. It only costs 10 cents a piece, and it costs more than 20 cents during the Chinese New Year! The girl said that it is cheap to eat when you buy it to make cured chicken and dry it."

The third son said happily.

During the process of fleeing, they did suffer a lot, and they finally settled down.

The body is the capital of the revolution. Qin Shao doesn't save much on food, and basically sells meat every day.

This ancient man was physically weak. In the final analysis, he ate too little protein and his body was relatively weak.

During the Spring Festival, ordinary people, no matter how poor they are, would buy some meat to eat. They would eat some meat throughout the year, and the prices of all kinds of goods would rise immediately. Now that the New Year is over, the prices of goods will fall.

In addition, now that they have settled down, many farmers in the countryside grow just enough to eat. If they want to make money, they can only raise some poultry.

In the past two years, with the increase of poultry, the price has also been brought down.

Qin Shao watched as Han Jinrong washed the slaughtered chickens and rubbed them with coarse salt.

The current salt management in Daming is not as strict as that of Lao Zhu in the early days, which caused the price of salt to rise, and the common people could not afford it.

However, the price of salt varies greatly from place to place. For example, in coastal areas close to salt fields, the price of salt is relatively cheap, at 7 cents a catty.

There is no saltworks here in Huguang, and the price is now 14 renminbi a catty, which is much higher than the price of a cup.

According to the old man Zhu, the price of salt from Ludi and Yudi is even higher, reaching [-] or [-] yuan.

Of course, the price of different salts is also different. For example, the salt that is dried by the sea, called raw salt, is relatively rough, and the price is relatively cheap; while the boiled salt is relatively delicate, called cooked salt, and the price is also expensive.

The cheapest of these is fishing salt.

Because the imperial court's control over salt is very salty, and the price of official salt has not been cheap.

The fish caught by fishermen on the seashore are not hungry for embalming, and they cannot be sold very far.

In this case, if you want to marinate a fish weighing five catties, you need at least one catty of salt. The cost of a fish is not as high as the price of salt. In this way, fishermen will go bankrupt and cannot survive.

Many fishermen wanted to use cheap private salt for salting, which was equivalent to supporting the circulation of private salt, and of course the imperial court did not allow it.

Among them, the Yuan Dynasty was the most harsh.

The law promulgated by the Yuan Dynasty: "Anyone who commits illegal salting such as fish, shrimp, bamboo shoots, etc., buys, or eats by himself, and trades all kinds of things, shall be punished according to the illegal salt law.

Now the policy has become much more flexible.

The policy of "fishing salt" is adopted, which is to provide fishermen with some cheap home-made salt and let them marinate aquatic products.

However, in order to prevent fishermen from buying a large amount of low-priced fishing salt and reselling it, fishermen need to report how much fish they catch, and fishermen are allowed to buy the amount of low-priced salt according to the number of fish caught.

Even so, it still cannot stop some people from making false reports, and some salt merchants also take advantage of loopholes to buy a large amount of poor-quality fishing salt for sale.

Fishing salt flows to various places and becomes private salt.

Qin Shao has read a historical record.

It is said that Liu Jin, the great eunuch, sells salt, and two fish are placed on a cart of salt, which is called Yuyan.

What a blatant smuggling of salt!

When he looked at this period of history, he felt that Liu Jin was really crazy!
In the eyes of historians, Liu Jin is a complete villain, but to his surprise, after being fully in touch with the situation of this dynasty, he found that Liu Jin was not as stereotyped as described in the history books, but a treacherous little girl. person image.

The villain Liu Jin and Eunuch Liu also did good things, for example, he also lowered land taxes.

Some time ago he went to buy land, and Qin Shao learned that the land tax has been reduced a lot compared to before.

Xu Yapo said that it was proposed by Liu Gonggong when she was in business, and the tax was lowered many times in order to reduce the burden on farmers.

He asked who is Eunuch Liu?
"It's Liu Jin from before! The one who was most favored by the emperor before is dead."

Mistress Xu said mysteriously.

Qin Shao never thought that this person would do such a thing.

When he was chatting with An Yongzhen, he also talked about it.

An Yongzhen said that Liu Jin did more than that.

When he was in power, he also established an irregular inspection system for officials. For unqualified officials, he was fined with rice.

He also sent a censor to inspect the two Zhejiang salt departments, held officials accountable, and confiscated the stolen money, and it is said that all of them were collected into the state treasury...

An Yongzhen said that these situations were also quoted when writing the storybooks in the early years, but now those words are not dared to be published, and it would be bad if they were watched.

"Brother Qin, I don't think there are absolutely good and bad people in this world!"

An Yongzhen said something that Qin Shao pondered for a long time.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Jin smuggled private salt so blatantly, I don't know whether it is true or not?
However, those are all digressions, no matter what the historical facts are, one thing is for sure, the price of private salt is indeed cheap.

The price of private salt in Anlu Prefecture is usually six or seven renminbi, and Han Jinrong would buy some when pickling vegetables.

Otherwise, if you use good salt to pickle vegetables, ordinary people will not be willing to buy them.

In some families with financial difficulties, it is good to eat some private salt and have a salty taste. Who would be willing to pickle vegetables!

pickles!

pickles!

pickles!

Qin Shao suddenly had an idea in his brain, maybe the salt field might really be useful now.

(End of this chapter)