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Chapter 472 Ticket Salt Law

Yang Reform had been relieved for a long time, which shocked the two of them, especially Liu Zongzhou. Looking at Liu Zongzhou's eyes full of disbelief, Yang Reform laughed.

"Lin Qing's family is right. Even after all kinds of expenses are removed, the profit a salt merchant can make per catty of salt will not be less than [-] Wen, and the actual profit is even higher. Heh, the profit per catty of salt is not less than [-] cents. If it is less than [-] cents, you pay me a penny in taxes, and you can guarantee your income in droughts and floods, but you still say that you have no money, and you are always in arrears. Tell me, who will I do if I don’t run a salt merchant? Are some people too shameless? " Yang Reform smiled.

"Indeed, indeed..." After hearing the emperor's question, the two quickly replied that the outrageous profits of the salt merchants were indeed very scary after the emperor stripped them away layer by layer.

"So, this salt lesson must be changed." Yang Reformed.

"That is, it must be changed, it must be changed." Both of them agreed, especially Liu Zongzhou, who was even more enthusiastic about using the salt class to support the running of the school, but there is really nothing better than this, and the salt class is still so useful money.

Yang Reform looked at these two people and smiled, especially Liu Zongzhou's fanaticism, Yang Reform knew that his plan had succeeded, and the school-running party's war against the Donglin Party had come to an end.If you overthrow the salt merchants and change the salt class, you don't have to go against the Donglin Party yourself. With the Donglin Party-born Confucian master Liu Zongzhou leading the school-running party to fight the Donglin Party..., presumably, it will be a big fight. This is a very interesting thing, thinking of this, Yang Reform smiled even brighter...

"Then I will calculate how much money you can receive after changing the salt class..." Yang Reform smiled "innocently". There is nothing more interesting in the world than watching the Donglin Party fight the "Donglin Party" .

"Please show your Majesty." The two said immediately.

"First of all, this salt is collected from the salt household, so it shouldn't be counted as eight coins..." Yang Reform began to settle accounts for the two of them.

"Then dare to ask Your Majesty, how should we calculate it?" Liu Zongzhou immediately asked, the profit of salt is beyond imagination, that is to say, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this salt class, that is to say, there can be more money to support it Running a school, his career, and his reputation all depend on the salt class.

"The salt collected from the salt households in my dynasty is only a stick of rice and a stone. The price of rice in the south today is only more than one tael of silver a stone, and it is slightly more expensive in the north, but it is only two taels of silver a stone, and a salt is four hundred catties. The actual salt collected by the salt households is only three to five yuan a catty, and it must be good salt..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

Liu Zongzhou looked at the emperor, feeling a little ashamed of himself, the emperor knew this so clearly, the two emperor teachers have done a good job in teaching..., the three or five essays are better received, that is to say, there is more space for the salt class Well, the more salt classes there are, the more secure the running of the school will be...

"Let's count it as Wuwen for now, how many people does my Ming Dynasty have?" Yang Reform asked again about the population with a smile.

"Return to Your Majesty, 6000 million." Liu Zongzhou quickly replied, the emperor has already asked this question once.

"No, no, no, it shouldn't be calculated like this, at least there must be tens of millions, and even 6000 million is still a little... Hehe, don't tell me, you two, there is no secret about Taguchi in the world." Yang Reform said with a smile.The Ming Dynasty concealed the land and population. This is definitely nothing new. As a latecomer, Yang Reform naturally did not believe the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty's [-] million people. The benefits of concealing the land and population naturally needless to say.

The two looked at each other, and Liu Zongzhou was even more afraid of the emperor. The emperor who was calm in the face of this kind of thing was definitely not an emperor to be fooled!I don't know who taught the emperor these things, it's simply bad.

"Hehe, I didn't intend to care about the number of people who concealed the population, nor did I plan to clear the taxes in this area, but I know that this salt is indispensable for everyone. He can conceal the population, but he has to eat it. Salt, so, the people who eat salt in my Ming Dynasty can’t just be counted as 6000 million, at least tens of millions... What do you two think of this?” Yang Reform said with a smile, salt is a natural and compulsory charge For tax, you can use means to conceal the population, you can conceal the report, but people must eat salt, and if they eat salt, they will definitely have to pay this natural and compulsory poll tax, and no one can escape.Salt class is a natural tool to prevent tax evasion and tax evasion. Of course, the premise is that the salt class can be collected and there is no illegal salt.

"Return to Your Majesty, it's... no problem..." Liu Zongzhou said with some fear, he got a lot of information from the emperor's words, that is, the emperor understood many things, and the previous tricks of "abducting by tricksters" were still rare. To show ugliness in front of the emperor, otherwise, is to bring shame on oneself.

"Okay! Salt is collected from the salt households at five renminbi. I add ten renminbi to the tax, but it is only fifteen renminbi. After the salt merchants transfer it to the common people, even if you add another ten renminbi, it is only 25 renminbi. But it’s only [-] essays, how many?” Yang Reform smiled and settled the accounts for the two people, although these two people will not participate in the reform salt class, but they have to make sense of them, so that they can feel at ease and have the motivation to advocate for reform Salt lesson, otherwise, a matter hanging in the sky, they may not be willing to do it.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is definitely not much. If the common people can buy ordinary salt for 25 renminbi, it is already a great virtue..." Lin Qian replied, this price is definitely not high, if you can buy it for [-] renminbi Ordinary salt, this is already quite a remarkable thing. The salt on the market today, the slightly better salt, is more than [-] Wen, and there are even refined salts with hundreds of Wen or hundreds of Wen.Even if the kind is very poor, the leftovers mixed with silt will cost ten or twenty yuan, but what the emperor said is the salt normally received from the salt households. This kind of salt is not leftovers.

"That's right, 25 renminbi has already taken into account the profits of the salt households, the salt class, and the salt merchants, and there is still a lot of room for it. I believe that the common people can still accept this price..." Yang Reform said with a smile After calculating the accounts clearly, Yang Reform has the confidence to reform the salt class. Yang Reform is not that stupid. joke.

"Your Majesty is wise, once the price of salt comes out, the people of the world will definitely return their hearts, be grateful, and praise Your Majesty's benevolent government together..." Liu Zongzhou flattered for a while.

"Then, let's do the math, the tax is ten cents per catty, and each person eats ten catties a year. There are tens of millions of people in the world. How much salt will be charged this year?" Yang Reform put all the above conditions one by one. Lieming, now is the time to settle the ledger.

Liu Zongzhou's forehead was already sweating. This calculation is really too difficult. The number is too big. Seeing that the emperor asked him to do calculations again, he consciously buried his head and looked at Lin Qian secretly. , I hope Lin Qian can quickly figure out this problem, it's uncomfortable to be stuck like this!

Lin Qian did the math, and after a while, he said: "Your Majesty, each person should pay one hundred cash for the salt class every year. There are tens of millions of people in the world, and there should be one million cash for the salt class. If a thousand wen is exchanged for one tael of silver, then there should be 100 million taels of salt.” Lin Qian did the calculations for a long time, and after confirming that he did not make a mistake, he breathed a sigh of relief and said.

1000 million taels of silver?Liu Zongzhou wondered if there was something wrong with his ears, did he hear it wrong?Originally, the salt class of 500 million taels of silver every year, he thought it was great enough, if the emperor could collect enough of the 500 million taels of silver, he felt that the current emperor is definitely one of the best "money earners" in the Ming Dynasty. But now the emperor told him that the annual salt class should charge 1000 million taels, and the price of salt was 25 Wen for his grandmother, which is much cheaper than the current price of salt... Liu Zongzhou felt that his age was wasted , After thinking about it countless times, in the end, I blamed this crime on the salt merchant... This salt merchant is really shameless...

Lin Qian also let out a long sigh of relief, the calculation is finally over!Thinking of the 1000 million taels of salt that he had calculated, Lin Qian felt that it was amazing and unbelievable. How could this salt have risen from less than one million taels to 1000 million taels?Just doing the math, my head hurts. Lin Qian raised his slightly dazed head and looked at the emperor.

Yang Reform smiled and said nothing.

The scene turned cold, Yang Reform didn't speak, just looked at the two people, especially Liu Zongzhou, with a smile without saying a word.

The scene cooled down, and the brains of the two people who were shocked by the shock also began to calm down and start to work again.

After sitting for a long time, Liu Zongzhou came to his senses. Although the salt class was "outrageous", isn't the more "outrageous" the better?The emperor said, use the salt class to support the running of the school. The salt class is tens of millions of taels a year, which is more than enough to run the school!Liu Zongzhou, who came back to his senses, started to burst out like chicken blood.

"Your Majesty is so kind! With such a high level of salt, the career of a saint has finally come to fruition! We will see the day when the world is united in our lifetime!" Liu Zongzhou got up while talking. Wept, and shed tears.

Yang Reform still looked at Liu Zongzhou with a smile without saying a word.

Lin Qian is an honest, honest, and down-to-earth person. He is not like Liu Zongzhou. After a long time, the speech has been organized, and the quasi-ben asked clearly. The emperor promised them to run the salt class. The salt class will naturally be changed. How to change it? Is it suitable? Can the new salt class be discussed? Those who have won the objection, Lin Qian will ask clearly.

"Your Majesty, there are a few things that I don't understand, please give your Majesty advice." Lin Qian said.

"What's the matter, the Qing family can just talk about it." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"I dare to ask Your Majesty, although this salt class is considered beautiful, it should be so huge, but I don't know how Your Majesty plans to change this salt class, how to prevent many disadvantages in this salt class?" Going up, it doesn't look like Liu Zongzhou is looking at the emperor like a chicken blood.

"Hehehe..." Yang Reform laughed for a while, and once again understood the abilities and temperaments of these two ministers. Lin Qian is a more practical person, and he is still a person who can do things. He has a minimum of logic, common sense and knowledge. have.And Liu Zongzhou, although he has the reputation of being a great Confucian in the world, he can't do practical things, and he doesn't even have basic logic and common sense. Of course, if you want to talk about the interpretation of Confucian classics, this person may be called " "Expert", if you are talking with others, this person may be better. This is basically in line with what I want him to do. It can be regarded as the best use of his talents.

"... What do Lin Qing's family think are the disadvantages in the current salt class?" Yang Reform asked with a smile.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I don't dare to make too much of a big deal, but I also know some superficial facts, such as officials' malpractice, collusion between officials and businessmen, extortion by officials, private price increases, smuggling of salt, these are the ills of the salt class. How does Your Majesty plan to deal with it?" Lin Qian's mind is still clear, and the questions he asked have also been asked to the root.

"I have practiced the law of opening up China and the law of outline and salt. Now I plan to change the salt tax into the ticket salt law, and collect taxes on the ground, regardless of businessmen's sales and marketing. In this way, only the main producing areas of salt need to be taxed. It saves a lot of energy..." Yang Reform said his thoughts with a smile.

Lin Qian listened to the emperor's words, thought for a while, and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have listened to Your Majesty's ticket and salt law. Although I think it is good, I still can't understand it. Useful..." Lin Qian is indeed an honest person, a real person, if he doesn't understand, if he doesn't understand, if he has doubts, he will ask directly.

Yang Reform smiled, this Lin Qiang is really an "honest" person, this country, this kind of work, needs this kind of honest and honest people, without the support of such honest people, only relying on people like Liu Zongzhou who play tricks. The Ming Dynasty will soon turn over the altar, smiled, and replied: "Nowadays, most of the salt production in our dynasty is done by salt households. To be honest, this method of salt production is too backward and expensive. Not to mention, and it is too scattered, difficult to manage, and it is not suitable for the kind of ticket salt law that I said to collect taxes on the ground. My plan is to change boiled salt to sun-dried salt, and gather all the places that produce salt in the world into a few fixed places. Salt farms, with the scale of drying salt, the world does not need too many salt farms to satisfy the world's people's salt, so, I only need to sit on these fixed salt farms to collect taxes, wouldn't it be great?" Yang Reform said with a smile.

Lin Qian nodded straightly after hearing this. Although he didn't have much research on the salt class, he also thought it was good and ideal after hearing the emperor's method. What if there is no benefit of drying the salt?"

"It doesn't matter, I just need to find a few fixed places to cook salt in Sichuan, Huguang, and Shaanxi. It doesn't need to be scattered everywhere. I can cook salt in a few fixed places. First, I can win by quantity and reduce the cost. cost; second, it is convenient to collect taxes on the ground..." Yang Reform went on to explain.

"May I ask Your Majesty, it is easy to collect taxes by making salt in several fixed places, but wouldn't the long-distance transportation make the price of salt more expensive?" Lin Qian seemed to be quite serious and cautious about this matter. , and did not agree with the emperor's statement just because he is an imperial party.

"Hehehe, it's okay, let's not talk about drying salt. They are all on the seashore, and they have the advantage of seagoing ships. Each transportation can range from thousands of stones to tens of thousands of stones. In fact, it is still quite advantageous. As for the inland Actually, Sichuan and Huguang also have convenient waterways. The place where I boil salt must be close to the river, and I can transport salt through the river. In fact, it is still very cheap. Now I subsidize shipbuilding in the south of the Yangtze River, and I don’t care about it. Salt merchants build ships, hehehe, this can be regarded as reducing the cost of salt transportation..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

Lin Qian nodded straightly, and looked up at the emperor. His eyes were full of admiration. Of course, the emperor had planned a lot for state affairs!After thinking for a while, he said, "What is His Majesty's plan for the land of Shaanxi? Shaanxi does not have the convenience of Jiangnan rivers, and it is difficult to transport salt."

"Shaanxi actually has rivers, but they can't be compared with Jiangnan. Fortunately, there are not many places where it is inconvenient to transport salt, and there is not much trouble in the overall situation. A catty of salt is worth three to five pennies, which is within a reasonable range." Yang Reform explained.

"Your Majesty is a great talent, such a design is really exquisite. There are only a few fixed places in the world to make salt, and they are all placed under His Majesty's nose. Collusion is quite effective..." Lin Qian gave a certain degree of affirmation to the emperor's vote-salt law.

Yang Reform smiled confidently.

"However, I would like to ask Your Majesty again, how to guard against private price increases? How to guard against private salt? If you can't prevent salt merchants from raising prices indiscriminately, the people will never enjoy His Majesty's benevolent government, and the people will always be exploited by salt merchants. Salt, His Majesty’s plan to collect taxes on the ground may come to nothing.” Lin Qian once again raised questions about the new salt department, obviously, this is a down-to-earth official.

"As for the problem of guarding against private salt, I have two preparations at present. The first is to start with the data. There are only a few places in the world that produce salt. There are records to check how much salt is sold to a certain place. The consumption of salt is almost constant, and if there are no accidents, it will gradually increase. If the sales of salt in a certain place decrease suddenly or greatly, it means that there is an influx of illegal salt here, and you need to investigate carefully; High-pressure situation, strict prevention of private salt, the first few years are more difficult, and may require a lot of energy, once the amount of salt eaten in various places stabilizes, the inflow of private salt can be inferred based on changes in data, of course, I do not expect I can completely put an end to private salt, even a little loss, I will not take it to heart..." Yang Reform said his plan.

Lin Qian nodded straightly. It seems that the emperor still thought of a lot of ways to deal with the salt class, taking all aspects into consideration.However, he continued to ask: "If you dare to ask Your Majesty, what is Your Majesty's plan for raising the price of salt?" Lin Qian asked again.

"Hehehe, please forgive me for keeping this matter a secret. It's not convenient to talk about it for the time being. The Qing family will naturally understand in the future." Yang Reform didn't say anything, but he had preparations, and that was Liulizhai. With the weapon of Liulizhai , There is a problem with the price of salt in that place. According to the rules of the ticket salt law, everyone can sell salt at will. They only need to "dump" salt to these places with Liulizhai. What salt price cannot be overcome?How many people in the world can resist the "dumping" of Liulizhai's salt?

Lin Qian looked up at the emperor again, since the emperor said there was a way, Lin Qian didn't intend to ask any more.The emperor has basically agreed with the new salt law.

"I report to Your Majesty, I have no doubts. Your Majesty's law is really a great good. If it is implemented in the world, all people in the world will benefit. I have found many disadvantages, and I bow to you..." After Lin Qian finished asking, he kowtowed deeply immediately without any doubts.

Liu Zongzhou had been listening intently to the emperor and Lin Qian talking about how to change the salt class, and he was also amazed at the beauty of it. The more salt classes he collected, the more money he could get for running the school, and the more stable the salt law, The more stable his running of the school will be, the sage's career will be able to continue, and he will not give up halfway.

(End of this chapter)