Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 38 Salt Administration

"Su Wannian, you have sold private salt, tell me how the business is done here and how profitable it is. Gu-grain-net-first-post www>

Zhang Shouren didn't answer the question directly, but kicked the ball to Su Wannian who had been silent all this time.

"This one……"

Su Wannian was not good at words, but he didn't refuse.The atmosphere tonight is very good. Everyone gathered around Zhang Shouren, the boss, originally intending to know everything and talk endlessly. [

In fact, after receiving the invitation, everyone knew that it was the adults who wanted to discuss the way forward. This matter related to the future of a small group that had just begun to have some vitality.Having tasted the sweetness of the good days, no one wants to go back to the past, so no matter what, it is necessary to discuss a good future.

After a little hesitation, Su Wannian began to talk eloquently, telling everyone about the benefits of salt.

When everyone boils sea salt, what they earn is the lowest level of salt profit.

After the salt is boiled, it is sent to the Fushan Salt Field. The salt in the salt field is the official salt, which is collected and sold by the Salt Ambassador. One rock salt is 120 catties, and the maximum collected from the military households is three coins, and it is mixed with about [-] catties. When the sand is sold again, a piece of rock salt is sold for about three taels.

This is more than ten times the huge profits, but the official salt is cheap and expensive, so people who are not poor generally don't eat it.Jiaolai ground is near the sea, and ordinary people eat coarse sea salt, the price is slightly lower than the official salt, a load of two or five, and the quality of the salt is also higher.

As for those who sell private salt, they are all powerful and well-connected businessmen from all over the country. Naturally, their private salt is collected from small traders, or even directly from the Inspection Department. According to Su Wannian, the bottom-level private salt Salt is small salt merchants. A stone of salt is collected at a price of about one tael, and then they go up, and then the big salt merchants eat it layer by layer, and finally it reaches the common people at a price of about two taels.

Ambassador Salt has nothing to do with private salt. The lifeblood of private salt is controlled by those big families, wealthy merchants, landlords, and the salt inspectors stationed in Jiaozhou City.

Illegal salt dealers in the entire Jiaolai area, no matter how big or small, are taking the route of inspecting Feng Sanbao. If you have paid enough tribute to Feng Sanye, there will naturally be a way to sell illegal salt. If not, then I'm sorry Once met by Yan Ding from the inspection department, at least they will be beaten severely, confiscated, and even their lives will be lost. The road for smuggling salt is usually a remote path, killing someone and throwing it into a river ditch, or simply killing someone. Dig a hole and bury it, who knows?

Originally, selling private salt was a crime of beheading. Even if the sufferer knew who did it, where did he go to file such a lawsuit?

After so many years, this Feng Sanbao has raised at least three or four hundred saltmen, and many of them are really fierce, willing to fight with their lives. In terms of strength, let alone a thousand households like Fushan, even if they are The Jimo Battalion stationed in Jimo was recruited, and it was hard to say whether they could be Yanding's opponent.

The entire Jiaolai area, plus dozens of counties in Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and Sifu, with hundreds of thousands of households and millions of people, has a total of about 20 shi of private salt circulation in a year, and Feng Sanbao colluded with the salt ambassador in the salt field The official salt received at a low price must have a profit of more than 10 taels a year, or even more.

During the reign of Chongzhen, the salt tax was only a few 10 taels a year, not more than a million anyway. A small inspection can earn so much a year, not to mention ordinary people, even if the emperor knows it, I am afraid that he will have to eat a lot of it. be surprised.