Ming Dynasty: My father Yongle, Forever Reigns Over Mountains and Rivers

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Yingtian, the imperial capital.

After the Spring Festival, Zhu Gaoxu stayed behind closed doors.

He promised weapons master Hu Yuancheng that he would give him some scientific books to help him see the real world.

However, having said that, when Zhu Gaoxu started compiling teaching materials, he ran into difficulties again.

Damn it, even if you are writing a basic science popularization textbook, it is still confusing!

In desperation, after careful consideration, the Prince of Han planned to subdivide science into four subjects: physics, chemistry, biology, and geography according to later generations' textbooks, and first popularize some basic common sense.

When I have free time later, I can sit and discuss with Hu Yuancheng and train him to become a scientist.

Although Prince Han stayed behind closed doors, rumors about him were still circulating throughout the court and the public.

The new snow-white salt introduced to the people caused huge waves in the imperial capital!

Nanshi.

This is the most crowded and prosperous market in the imperial capital.

At this moment, thousands of people gathered in front of an official salt shop, making it extremely noisy.

Zhou Chen, the head of the Household Department, was dressed in plain clothes, followed by Wang Wenxian, Wang Fuguang and other salt merchant giants, and was squeezing his way into the crowd.

After all, today is an important day for new salt to be launched into the public.

Under the strong request of Xia Yuanji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, all the officials of the Ministry of Revenue stopped and went to the major salt shops in the imperial capital to confirm whether the people could accept the new salt.

You must know that after the reform of the imperial salt law by His Highness the King of Han, the salt tax has become the top priority of the imperial court's revenue, and absolutely no mistakes are allowed.

Even Xia Yuanji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, took the salt merchants to inspect the salt shop, not to mention officials like Zhou Chen.

When they finally squeezed in, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

I saw an old man in ragged clothes looking at the bag of new salt in his hand with fear on his face.

Store, the old man just wants to buy some ordinary salt, not this kind of refined salt.

This salt is so good, how can this old man afford it? Did you get the wrong one from the store...

The salt shop clerk had already received the order. Today was an important day for the new salt to be put on the market. There must be no mistakes. Therefore, when faced with the old man's doubts, he did not look impatient at all, but patiently began to explain.

My father-in-law, that's right, it's this salt.

You may not know that the Han Palace developed a process for making refined salt, and in order to benefit the people all over the world, it donated this process to the court free of charge.

Now all the salt fields in the world will only produce this kind of refined salt. The coarse salt and low-quality salt in the past have all been refined into this new salt!

So fellow villagers, what you will eat from now on will be this crystal clear new salt. There will be no more coarse salt or inferior salt!

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar, and the people watching were talking about it. They couldn't believe that such a great good thing could happen!

The imperial court obtained the refined salt production technology of the Han Dynasty and refined all the coarse salt and inferior salt into this new salt!

Doesn’t that mean that they no longer have to eat the bitter and astringent coarse salt in the future?

The old man froze on the spot, and it took him a long time to digest the shocking news.

However, he did not feel happy. Instead, he became more frightened and even tremblingly returned the new bag of salt to the salt shop clerk.

Seller, this new salt looks crystal clear and as white as snowflakes. I have never seen such good salt in my whole life.

The waiter was stunned and asked subconsciously: Yes, father-in-law, this salt is better than the salt that the nobles in the palace used to eat. Why didn't you buy it again?

Buy? The old man smiled bitterly, his wrinkled old face full of fear.

How can poor people like us afford such good salt? I'm afraid a pound of salt costs several taels of silver...

Hearing this, the originally noisy crowd suddenly became quiet.

Yes, this salt is so good, how can it be so cheap?

In the past, the price of a pound of salt was about 120 Wen per pound, and at its cheapest it was 100 Wen per pound.

However, the salt was bitter and astringent, and its appearance was incomparable to the new salt. There was no comparison at all.

After all this calculation, the price of this new salt is probably ridiculously expensive!

Thinking about it, watching the people onlookers was like having a bucket of cold water poured on them, but instead they felt panicked and uneasy.

This guy has just said that the imperial court ordered all the major salt farms to produce this new salt. The original coarse salt and inferior salt have been refined into this new salt, which means that in the future, the entire Ming Dynasty will only have this new salt!

But poor people like them simply cannot afford this new salt!

This... what should I do?

Zhou Chen sighed upon seeing this, and was about to explain, but the salt shop clerk took the lead and said loudly: Folks and elders, you have all misunderstood. Not only has the price of this new salt not increased, but it has become cheaper. It only costs six Ten coins a pound!”

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar!

Sixty cents per pound?

How can this be?

This new salt is so good, why has the price dropped?

This is the kindness of the imperial court, and also the kindness of the Han Dynasty. In order to allow people all over the world to eat salt and afford good salt, when His Highness the King of Han presented the new salt-making process, he specifically set the price at sixty cents. A pound!”

This is the official salt price, and it is the same throughout the Ming Dynasty. If someone dares to sell it at a high price, fellow villagers can report it to the official. A pound of new salt only costs 60 cents, and emperor lists will be posted all over the world!

Sixty cents per catty, this is the price sold by salt merchants.

In fact, Zhu Gaoxu's real price is only fifty cents per catty, but that is the official selling price.

In other words, the salt merchant gets fifty cents per catty of salt from the salt field and sells it for sixty cents per catty.

Although this pound of salt is resold, the salt merchant only earns ten cents, but the advantage is that the base is large. The salt merchant sells more than one pound of new salt in a year?

I'm afraid it's tens of thousands of pounds!

And in the past, salt merchants like them used salt to buy salt and then sold it in designated areas. After this set of procedures, UU Reading www. uukanshu.net They don’t even know how much money they spend just to feed those corrupt officials!

On the contrary, now, a pound of salt earns ten cents, which is a mountain of gold and silver that can be seen and calculated!

This blockbuster news thrown out by the store clerk once again completely dispelled the doubts in the hearts of the people!

The old man immediately took out sixty coins and handed it to the boy, who then handed him the new bag of salt.

Old man, I charge you sixty cents for a pound of new salt, please take it!

The old man looked at the new salt in his arms and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to take a sip. The next second, two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

This salt... is so... good!

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man fell to his knees on the ground with a pop and cried bitterly: Old man, I would like to thank the imperial court for its great kindness, and thank His Highness the King of Han for his great kindness...

Zhou Chen and others were a little moved when they saw this, and their eyes turned red unconsciously.

People just want to eat salt, is that wrong?

That's right.

The ones who are wrong are those who prey on the common people!

Zhou Chen hurriedly stepped forward, helped the old man up, and said loudly: Dear fellow villagers, I am Zhou Chen, the head of the household department. What this little brother just said is true!

I will only have new salt from tomorrow onwards, and the price will be sixty cents per pound. It will be the same across the country!

In the future, my people, the Ming Dynasty, everyone will be able to eat salt, and everyone will be able to afford new salt. This is the promise made by the imperial court to you!

As soon as the words fell, the whole place fell into silence.

When Wang Wenxian saw this, his thoughts changed. He immediately threw his sleeves and knelt on the ground, shouting loudly: Long live the emperor! Thousands of years live the King of Han!

When the onlookers saw it, they recovered from the emotion, spontaneously fell to their knees on the ground, and started shouting one after another.

Long live the Emperor! Thousands of years live the King of Han!

Long live the Emperor! Thousands of years live the King of Han!

Long live the Emperor! Thousands of years live the King of Han!

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