Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 92 Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish! (seeking subscription)

Ji Heng looked calm.

He didn't find it unusual.

It's just a practice of uniting the majority and cracking down on the handful.

Hu Hai looked at Ji Heng, who was calm and breezy, and then at Fusu, who was full of astonishment, and said, "I can barely hear the general operation, but how to do it specifically? And why should the burden be reduced to the people?" ?”

"Why didn't I see that there was a burden reduction?"

Hu Hai looked at Ji Heng very frankly.

He didn't actually understand.

I am even more confused about the twists and turns.

He used to stay in the palace, and basically rarely left the palace. Even if he did, he was accompanied by a large number of followers, with extremely little life experience, and even some daily common sense.

After listening to several explanations, I feel more and more poor in experience.

Compared with Fusu.

He is now more focused on seeking knowledge.

Ji Heng glanced at Hu Hai lightly, and did not choose to ignore it again, and said: "Because the salt is produced in Longxi, the price of salt in Guanzhong is not high, only 100 yuan per stone. I don't know the cost of one stone of salt. The salaries of the salt workers, officials and others, as well as other miscellaneous expenses, are counted as [-] qian per stone."

"The imperial court sold it to merchants at a price of [-] yuan."

"From then on, the price of a piece of rock salt in the government is set at [-], and the price of merchants cannot be higher than [-]."

"In this way, by collecting more than half of the tax at [-] qian per stone, and then subtracting the price of [-] qian, merchants can earn about a dozen qian per shiyan, and after deducting shipping costs and losses, the net profit per shiyan is at least seven or eight qian. "

"The imperial court controls the pricing power, and also determines the profit of merchants."

"I know you have doubts."

"The imperial court is already selling cheap salt at [-] yuan per stone, who will buy the high-priced salt from merchants?"

"And that's on a case-by-case basis."

talking.

Ji Heng pointed to the two jugs under him.

He pointed to the jug on the left and said, "Now you regard the jug on the left as a piece of rock salt, and the jug on the right as a piece of sand. Now I will grab a handful of salt from the left and a handful of sand from the right."

"immediately"

"Throw the salt from your left hand into the sand pot, and the sand from your right hand into the salt pot."

"And this is the difference between official salt and commercial salt."

"Official salt is salt sand, and there is salt in the sand."

"Commercial salt is sand salt, and there is sand in the salt."

"Faced with the two kinds of salt in front of you, how would you choose?"

Fusu looked at the two empty jugs in front of him, with a rare look of confusion and hesitation in his eyes.

If it is true what Ji Heng said, the official salt is really too bad.

Not worth fifty bucks at all.

If you have the conditions, you will definitely choose commercial salt first.

As soon as he thought of this idea, he immediately understood that this was Ji Heng's purpose.

subconsciously.

He thought of what Ji Heng said about the significance of the country to the people.

Daqin should protect the bottom line.

What is the bottom line?

live!

The existence of official salt is only to allow the people to eat salt.

It is by no means an initiative to make profit for the sake of democracy.

The people now want to rely on the imperial court to live well and live well, which is simply impossible, and the imperial court has no way to do it. The only thing the imperial court can do, the only thing that can be guaranteed, is to make everyone in the world eat as much salt as possible. Affordable iron.

But that's about it.

If you want to eat good quality salt and use hard iron utensils, you can only buy it from merchants.

Fusu also fully understood.

In Ji Heng's eyes, what is the function of the imperial court to supervise salt and iron?

Priority business tax.

The second is to ensure the production and living at the bottom.

Hu Hai didn't think too much about it. After thinking for a while, he blurted out: "Is there any need to think about it? I must choose merchant salt. I don't know how much I can get if I replace this rock salt with official salt."

Ji Heng smiled and said, "Now you think about it?"

"As long as life permits, commercial salt will be preferred, because there is too little salt in official salt. Unless it is really impossible to make a living, you will spend a few feet of cloth to exchange for official salt."

"And today it's tough."

"Many people cannot afford salt."

"And the official salt introduced by the government is used to save these people."

"This is also the responsibility of the government."

"Protect people's livelihood."

"Let the people not afford to eat salt."

"What the government guarantees is not whether the people live well, but whether the people can live."

"As long as the people can live, that's enough."

"As for the merchants who are learning and selling now, imitating the government to prepare a large amount of low-quality salt and making huge profits, this will test the wisdom of the salt officials."

"The price of commercial salt is destined to be higher than that of official salt."

"And keeping commercial salt at a relatively high price forces merchants not to overproduce low-quality salt at will. As long as the quality of official salt is just at the same stage, merchants will lose money if they overproduce and It’s an uncomfortable state of improving quality but earning less.”

"Then force the salt merchants to raise the quality and sell at higher prices."

heard.

Fusu was also startled.

Ji Heng took precautions against merchants too much.

There is no opportunity for merchants to speculate at all.

Fu Su exclaimed: "Mr. Ji really has a great idea. Once this method is implemented, the grand occasion of thousands of children and slaves and a lot of money for merchants will be completely gone forever."

"There is lower-cost official salt, and if you want the public to buy commercial salt, merchants can only choose to increase the quality and quantity."

"Forcing the fine salt of the merchants to drive out the bad salt of the government."

"And the existence of the official salt is like a sharp knife, piercing the merchants' chests, making them feel like a stick in their throats, but there is nothing they can do. Since then, the salt merchants and iron merchants have been shackled and can never return to their past glory."

"You can only look up to the court and breathe."

"Fusu sighs."

Ji Heng looked as usual.

Fusu looked too superficially, he only saw merchants, not the root cause.

The reason why merchants will be slaughtered is not because the imperial court is strong, but because the imperial court can now control the means of production of salt and iron.

Merchants who do not control the means of production are one or two dealers who can be replaced at any time, but merchants who have mastered the means of production will be very different, and they can even threaten the court in turn.

The means of production are fundamental.

Be it merchants or Kanto forces.

It's all just conflicts between the means of production changing hands.

In Ji Heng's vision, the shackles put on merchants is to control the means of production.

Merchants can only become replaceable second-hand dealers!
Ji Heng said: "As for the specific operation, this is the business of the Great Qin court."

"I won't get involved."

"I'm taking the wine for lectures, and I'm only doing storytelling."

"The rest has nothing to do with me."

"Let me do everything, what do you want the Great Qin court to do? What do you want the officials below?"

"In his position, seek his own government!"

Hu Hai smiled awkwardly, but didn't dare to answer at all.

aside.

Fu Su said: "Young brother is just in a hurry, Mr. Ji must not take it seriously."

"I just thought about it carefully. The Guanzhong court can supervise it, but what about the Guandong? If the officials in the Guandong lie, hoard, or even sell it privately, wouldn't the court be helpless?"

"Dare to ask, sir, is there any means of supervision?"

Ji Heng looked at Fusu strangely, and said with a sneer, "Is Daqin's control over Kanto so strong now?"

Fusu shook his head.

"Since Daqin can't control Guandong, then don't know." Ji Heng said calmly.

Fu Su was taken aback, "Do you think you don't know?"

Ji Heng raised his forehead slightly, and said with his usual expression, "I just don't know."

"You may feel a little absurd. What Daqin implemented was a centralization of power. Why do I say to ignore the Kanto?"

Fusu nodded.

Ji Heng sneered, and said lightly: "People must learn to be down-to-earth, and don't overestimate their own abilities. Daqin's control over the Kanto is obviously insufficient now, and even Xiang Liang, the remnant of Chu, is difficult to arrest. Do you think the imperial court can still control the Kanto? officials?"

"When your own ability is insufficient, don't force yourself to add things."

"Even if you are reasonable."

Fusu's face turned pale.

Ji Heng glanced at Fusu coldly, and continued: "I know what you are thinking, you are worried that some turmoil and conflicts will break out in Kanto because of this incident, and then the Kanto, which is not popular in the first place, will be even more dissatisfied with the court. Deviate."

"You have this worry, I can understand."

"But you think too highly of yourself."

"What did Daqin do this time?"

"It is to compete with businessmen for profit!"

"As long as the goal is achieved, the process is not important."

"Of course there will be a lot of turmoil in Kanto, but the imperial court can't take care of it right now. Why bother to worry about things that can't be taken care of at all?"

"What will happen to the specific situation in the Kanto? It is a struggle between the nobles, officials, and merchants in the Kanto. The final result will also be determined within the Kanto."

"It has nothing to do with the court!"

"Kanto is Kanto, and Guanzhong is Guanzhong."

"Sometimes separation is necessary."

"It's unlikely that the Guandong incident will turn into an uproar."

"The interests involved in salt and iron are huge. No one wants to lure wolves in. If the court's attention is really drawn, the court will definitely kill chickens and monkeys to deter the local people. Salt and iron are different from people. The court only needs to find out about salt ponds, salt wells, and mines. The location of the place, the place is dead, check it out.”

"The imperial court knows the production of salt and iron, and many hands and feet are not easy to do."

"The court understands this truth, and the local government also knows it."

"The people in Kanto know very well that once the imperial court intervenes, it will inevitably take away a lot of benefits."

"That's not what they want to see."

"Thus, things in Kanto will only rot in the local area, and it will not be so easy to pierce the sky."

"As long as the matter doesn't become a big deal, the court will ignore it."

"And your current focus should not be on governing the world, but on Guguan."

"Closing in the middle is the most important thing."

"People are divided into closeness and closeness, and things have priorities."

"You need to figure it out now."

"The imperial court's current requirements for Kanto are very clear."

"I want money!"

"As long as Kanto can give more money, just turn a blind eye."

"At present, the first emperor is still here, and his power is still strong enough to deter the locals. The officials and nobles in the Kanto have not dared to blatantly rebel. Let's bear with them for a while and watch the dog bite the dog in the Kanto."

"It's not too late to clean up the house when the situation stabilizes."

"Wait until the Guanzhong is completely stabilized, and then find a reason to intervene in the Guandong Salt and Iron, and it will not be too late to straighten things out."

"The way to deal with things is to think before you move!"

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. It needs to be done step by step."

"Hurry is not enough!"

(End of this chapter)