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Chapter 129 Tired

Yang Reform's fist kept pounding on his palm.

In the room, there was the sound of Yang Reform hitting his palm with his fist.

This open Chinese method is really a mess of Niu B. As long as he works hard to dry the salt and use the salt in exchange for food, the famine at the end of the Ming Dynasty seems to be nothing to worry about.Yang Reform was in a state of fugue, thinking.

"Master Xu, how much salt is exchanged for a stone of grain?" Yang Reform thinks, first figure out the salt production in the whole country, and first figure out the ratio of the exchange.

Xu Guangqi obviously studied the salt policy, and immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the distance, one lead of salt can be exchanged for one to five shi of grain. If Your Majesty opens Shaanxi, you can go through the canal, take the Yellow River, and arrive at Kaifeng. One salt can be exchanged for about three stones of grain, and if you want to go to Xi’an, it’s more than two stones, and in the counties of northern Shaanxi, it’s probably good to get one stone or a few buckets.” Xu Guangqi estimated the exchange ratio between China and France.

"How much salt is one quotation?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, one quotation is three hundred catties of salt." Xu Guangqi answered immediately.

One salt brought to the disaster area can be exchanged for two stones of grain on average, that is to say, the ratio is almost 3:2, [-] catties of salt for [-] catties of grain.Yang Reform thought in his heart, if it is this exchange ratio, it depends on how much salt production is in the country. If the salt production is high enough, Yang Reform does not mind exchanging salt from the sea for grain. As for the interests of salt merchants , in Yang Reform's view, what is more terrifying than the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty?The Jin Yiwei in his hand was still capable of cutting people.This time, Yang Reform is going to go all out, and he will kill anyone who dares to stand in his way. He has been warning himself before, not to easily get involved in businesses such as salt and iron, but now, Yang Reform is being forced by money. His heart was beating, and he was extremely excited, thinking of beheading people and beheading those salt merchants like Young and Dangerous, Yang Reform slammed his palm hard.

"Master Xu, how much salt can I distribute in one year?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have adopted ten guidelines every year, each with 20 yuan of salt and three hundred catties of salt."

Guidelines?There is another outline?Yang Reform was dizzy. Didn't he just talk about opening China and France?Out of outline now?There are ten classes per year, 20 catties per class, 200 million salts per year, and [-] catties per catty. Calculated in this way, the Ming Dynasty’s annual salt imports are about [-] million catties. This figure is very huge. Yang The reform is also surprising, why this salt is so powerful.

"What is the law? How much salt do I have to eat per person per year?" Yang Reform asked this again in a daze. For some ancient technical terms, Yang Reform had no idea. He didn't plan to participate in these intertwined interests at first. Things, Yang Reform also knows that the ancient ways of making money, such as salt, iron and tea, are all intertwined and dependent on each other. Yang Reform did not intend to deal with these things before the gun was hardened, but now, disaster is coming , I have to take risks, and I have to take a machete to kill people like the young and Dangerous boy. The targets of Yang Reform are the salt merchants and those officials who are greedy for ink.

"Your Majesty, a family of five needs about fifty catties of salt per year, and each person needs about ten catties of salt per year." Sure enough, Xu Guangqi had done his homework, and quickly reported the figures.

Each person eats ten catties of salt every year. Yang Reform is surprised. When can he eat salt like this?Eat ten catties a year?If the annual output of 6000 million catties of salt is divided by ten catties, doesn't that mean that the population of the Ming Dynasty was only 9000 million?This, it seems obviously not right!Remember, according to many documents, the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was 1 to [-] million, close to [-] million, and some even stated that the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was more than [-] million, close to [-] million.Judging from the amount of salt cited now, the trade in private salt is still very prosperous. Yang Reform estimates that at least half of the people eat private salt.Doesn't that mean that the salt tax is actually only half collected?Yang Reform once again had a certain understanding of the administrative capabilities of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Guangqi added knowledge to Yang Reform: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the outline method is to compile the salt references obtained by the world's salt merchants into an outline book, which is divided into ten outlines, compiled into ten outlines with the ten characters of 'Holy Virtue Super Eternal Phoenix Fan Nine Surroundings'." The book number, the booklet allows all merchants to be regarded as "woben" forever, and new quotations are made every year according to the old number in the book, and anonymous ones are not allowed to join.

Underwriting?Monopoly monopoly, or hereditary monopoly monopoly.Yang reformed his head.The entanglement of interests in the salt industry is indeed not an ordinary chaos. It seems that he has not even figured out the door to get involved in the salt industry.

Yang Reform is confused and confused. This matter really needs to be carefully figured out!What is the Chinese method, the outline method, what is the underwriting, the copybook, the salt quotation, it is a mess.Yang Reform has been completely overwhelmed.If you are going to cut into the salt industry, you don't know where it is better to cut in.

"Master Xu, in your opinion, how should we practice the method of opening the middle of the salt industry, or the method of outline?" Yang Reform wiped his head, his head was already a mess.It's better to ask Xu Guangqi, since Xu Guangqi dared to say that China and France will be reopened, obviously, there is a countermeasure.

"I think that China and France should be reopened, and merchants should be encouraged to transport food to the border, or to provide relief to disaster-stricken areas in Shaanxi..."

Yang Reform is about to agree to this matter, which seems to be a good thing.Three hundred jin of salt can be exchanged for 200 jin of grain in the disaster-stricken area. There are 100 million jin of salt per year, which can be exchanged for more than 500 million shi of grain. Shi's food, it seems that as long as you put some salt in the sun every year, the disaster can be extinguished, and the salt drying is no problem for me as a time traveler, especially for me as a Baidu guy, go back and search Baidu, immediately knew how to dry salt, there is nothing better than this.What's more, more than half of the people eat private salt every year. If the salt industry is tightened up, then the potential of this salt industry seems to be even greater.Yang Reform is full of confidence, and he plans to go back tonight to find out how the salt is dried.As soon as the salt is exposed, the cost will drop sharply!Seems more profitable.

Someone came out on one side and said: "I would like to report to Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible. The guidelines are for the imperial court to lose millions of taels of silver every year, and the border customs pay, to a large extent, all rely on the guidelines. Once the guidelines are stopped, the household department will be in short supply." It is even more powerful, and the food and wages at the border customs are even more difficult to raise."

"I report to Your Majesty that the guidelines and laws must never be abolished. The court's expenditures are already in distress. If the guidelines and laws are stopped, the court will be even more in short supply. Your Majesty must not."

"Your Majesty, the outline law cannot be abolished. If your majesty abolishes the outline law for the salt class of one million taels a year, where will the million taels be found?"

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A group of ministers said in a long-winded manner that the principles cannot be abolished.Yang Reform, who was originally a mess, was even more dizzy from the noise. Today, Yang Reform has been completely fainted by this salt.Now being quarreled by a group of ministers again, I am even more dizzy and unable to distinguish clearly.

Previously, Yang Reform had always been very apprehensive. If he started the salt industry, the salt merchants would collude with the officials to get him stuck in the salt tax, or threaten him with stopping the salt.I am afraid of throwing rats, so I have been telling myself not to do it casually, once I do it, I will be punished to the death, so that those salt merchants will never stand up.

Originally, he was a bit tempted to join the salt industry, but when these ministers quarreled, Yang Reform's courage shrank back.

However, a flash of light flashed across Yang Reform's mind, and was caught by Yang Reform. As for the quality of the salt law, Yang Reform felt that he already had a standard.

"Wait, who Aiqing said just now that I have a million taels of salt class every year?" Yang Reform quickly caught the tail.Salt tax of 100 million taels per year?Not the millions of taels in memory?If your math is correct, then the salt tax is something like a "compulsory poll tax" (the privileged class can be exempted from taxes and can make fake accounts, but they can't live without salt. The salt tax is a natural and accurate poll tax.), Each person collected more than one cent of silver (0.016 taels of silver). The tax in the Ming Dynasty was really low.No wonder Chongzhen in history had no money to fight.If each person eats ten catties of salt, then the actual tax per catty of salt is only 0.0016 taels, which means that the tax for one catty of salt is no more than two copper coins.

The minister who said the tax of one million taels just now stood up and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I am paying a tax of one million taels every year, and it is even increasing year by year. Thinking about this year, it will not be a problem to increase it by a few hundred thousand taels, Your Majesty." If the outline law is abolished, it will be difficult to collect the salt class."

Yang Reform already understood in his heart that these ministers were always entangled with him, always refused to tell him the real secret, and always refused to explain the most core issues to himself clearly, so he asked directly: "Then the Song Dynasty every year? How much can the salt tax be charged?"

Yang Reform thinks that there are so many things to say, so many things to talk about, and you can't get around "comparing goods". The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were both unified feudal dynasties, so why don't you use the records of the Song Dynasty to compare them? What the hell is going on with taxes?Otherwise, just a group of ministers telling themselves that they can't increase the salt tax or abolish the laws and regulations will be useless.

Regarding the salt tax, Yang Reform always felt that he always seemed to be walking in the mist, unable to see the direction, why, or where to go.Even Xu Guangqi spoke vaguely and didn't understand. Therefore, other ministers even advised themselves not to make outlines.Where exactly is this problem? Yang Reform thought hard for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what a lot of ancient professional terms meant.However, a minister obviously slipped his words. There are millions of taels of salt every year. Since there are numbers, he can directly use the numbers for comparison.Or make a comparison chart of salt courses in the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, so that it is clear at a glance?I am a person in the 21st century. I have never eaten pork. Haven't I seen a pig run?

The Song Dynasty is the previous dynasty, and it has historical records. Why don't I compare it with the Song Dynasty? Isn't that enough?

Yang Reform's mind gradually became clearer, and the question he asked also got to the point. When the officials saw the emperor suddenly asking about the salt tax of the Song Dynasty, they all looked at each other in horror, and no one made a sound. With an expression of not knowing what to stare at, Sun Chengzong simply closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Seeing that no one answered for a long time, Yang Reform asked again: "How much salt tax can the Song Dynasty collect every year?" There was already a little anger in the voice, and Yang Reform knew that there was something tricky in it from the expressions of the officials. This attitude made me even more furious, and the Emperor Huyou didn't show it so obviously, it clearly wrote "Kaizi", "idiot" and "fool" on the emperor's face.

Seeing that the emperor's words were getting colder and colder, a minister stood up and said, "Your Majesty, we need to check historical materials for this matter."

research?Yang Reform thinks this person's words are very interesting, and he has to check historical materials for everything, so what do you need cabinets, ministers, and ministers for?Do you want to eat dry rice?The anger in my heart is already unstoppable, and it is about to burst out.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Song Dynasty can receive 500 million salt lessons every year, and the highest even reached more than [-] million." Xu Guangqi called out the salt lessons of the Song Dynasty with a little passionate words.

"Twenty-five million guan? Twenty-five million taels of silver? Did I hear you right?" Yang Reform's voice immediately raised its voice, and he was really shocked!Twenty-five million taels of silver, this is higher than the sum of taxes and taxes for the whole year of the Ming Dynasty!My God, if the salt tax of more than 500 million taels is collected every year like the Song Dynasty, what kind of golden finger would I have to open?What more Baidu?With these salt lessons, Li Zicheng can be wiped out and the wild boar skin can be trampled to death.

Seeing Xu Guangqi tell this "secret", the faces of other ministers changed drastically.Just now, I was still clamoring for the salt class of 100 million taels a year, saying that the law cannot be abolished, and now Xu Guangqi has revealed that the salt class of the Song Dynasty was 500 million taels a year, which is dozens of times different. Vertical cone top.He couldn't help but glance at the emperor to see how the emperor would get angry.

With a gap of 25 times, Yang Reform fell down on the dragon chair, his heart felt cold, wow, wow, wow, wow.It all shows the darkness of the dynasty, but I didn't expect it to be so dark, with more than 24 times the profit being blacked out. If Xu Guangqi hadn't revealed the gap, Yang Reform would not have believed it. The gap is so big.Twenty-five million taels of silver and one million taels of silver, the difference between the two, even if the Bureau of Statistics came forward, it would not be able to count any good tricks.

"Which one has the largest territory between our dynasty and the Song dynasty? Who has the largest population? How about the salt price? How about the salt tax?" Emperor Chongzhen was as cold as ice, and froze the Wenhua Palace, which was still warm, like a block of ice.

"Reporting to the emperor, my dynasty has a larger territory than the Song Dynasty, and its population is similar to that of the Song Dynasty, but the actual population must be more than that of the Song Dynasty, and there are tens of millions of people; The tax looks like 120 Wen per catty of salt, and I pay 360 Wen per catty for salt tax; the annual salt tax in the Song Dynasty was as high as 27 million taels, and I pay 500 million taels of salt tax every year..." Xu Guangqi obviously After studying the salt policy, the data was reported in a flash.

Hearing these data, Chongzhen's heart was icy cold.The price of salt is three times that of the Song Dynasty, the tax rate is only half of that of the Song Dynasty, and the population is larger than that of the Song Dynasty, but the salt tax collected is less than a fraction of that of the Song Dynasty.This, should not be said.Yang Reform suddenly felt that there was no natural reason for the Ming Dynasty not to perish.Yang Reform's heart was really chilled by this "genius" data. Yang Reform was decadent, and suddenly felt that he was too whimsical, and he was counting on Zhongxing Daming to see this kind of "salt tax" "Drifting" level, let this rotten dynasty fend for itself, Ming Dynasty, go to hell!
Emperor Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair with a blank expression on his face, silently in a daze, with deep sorrow in his eyes, looking into the distance with cold eyes, revealing a trace of despair, all the officials stood underneath, looking at the emperor, hoping that the emperor would get angry , already prepared to bear the emperor's wrath, in the silent Wenhua Palace.Depressed, very uncomfortable.

Only now did Yang Reform know why Xu Guangqi hesitated when he talked about it, and why he was so worried when he said it.This matter is actually the collusion between the officials and businessmen of the entire Ming Dynasty, corruption and deceit to the emperor alone. In the greed of these people came.

Yang Reform's heart is a little cold, why is he so busy?They also make glass and weave textiles, but they just want to earn some money to support the army so that people will not be ruined?Fortunately, this salt tax is "drifted away" by tens of millions of taels every year, and only a fraction is left for myself, which is divided by three fractions. I, a traveler, came here to make money with gold fingers, busy with other things , I thought it was awesome, but in fact, it was just a joke.

Yang Reform's heart was crying.

Yang Reform suddenly realized that he seemed to be very tired, and he didn't want to discuss the matter of the salt tax anymore.He said lightly: "Let's go, go home, wash and sleep." After finishing speaking, he dragged his heavy and tired body back to Qianqing Palace.

The rest of the ministers peeped at each other, and seeing that the emperor was not angry, it was obviously not normal.Seems very disappointed and tired.Who knew that Chongzhen was crying in his heart at this time, for the Chinese nation, for the greedy Ming Dynasty elites, for the tragic deaths in China, for the people buried with China, and for the suffering of China.

Some people looked at Xu Guangqi with ill intentions, their eyes seemed to be blaming Xu Guangqi for blowing away the mist that shrouded the emperor's head, and the emperor knew the secret of this. If you know what you're going crazy for, it's all your fault for telling the truth, stay away from him in the future, and tear him down.

Xu Guangqi stood there with his head held high and his chest upright with a resolute face, not moving at all, not caring about the vicious eyes of others, staring at the emperor's distant figure, as if he was thinking about something, with a hint of anxiety.

The ministers shook their heads and left one after another. Sun Chengzong kept his eyes closed all the time, opened his eyes, saw that everyone else had left, and then said to Xu Guangqi who was still standing there staring blankly: "Brother Zi, Chengzong supports you! This Daming Chao, it’s really come to the point where heavy medicine must be given, big man, do something, don’t do something, you and I are half-buried people, what are you afraid of, aren’t you?” After finishing speaking, Sun Chengzong also left by himself go out.

Only then did Xu Guangqi heave a sigh of relief. This time he revealed the shady scenes of the salt class to the emperor. The person he offended was half of the imperial court. Fortunately, Sun Chengzong still supported him, and the emperor also supported him. Otherwise, he would be a single person. Yingdu, not to mention the reform of the salt tax, even the qualification to stand in the court will be lost. If the salt tax is not reformed, if this continues, the Ming Dynasty will have no choice but to gradually suffocate.Sun Chengzong was right, how many years would he have to live?What are you afraid of?
Chongzhen Yang Reform went back to Qianqing Palace alone, and went to bed to sleep.This heart is broken.

(End of this chapter)