Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Even the poisonous salt that Yun Ye, who had traveled through the Tang Dynasty, had seen, was not eaten in Daming.

This made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy.

No matter how naive Emperor Chongzhen was, at least he knew that salt was a good thing.

This thing can be used to prepare physiological saline, can be sterilized and sterilized, and cured bacon. No matter how you look at it, you can't live without this thing.

Especially if you have a cold and a fever, it is definitely useful to make a bowl of salt water and add some sugar.

It is estimated that the salt field in the Denglai area is almost finished. When a large amount of salt comes out, the first thing to satisfy is not the people of Ming Dynasty, but the tribe of Jiannu and Lindan Khan on the grassland.

Although this was an order from Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen himself was still unhappy.

The problem of eating salt for the people of Ming Dynasty must be solved first.

But even if a few more salt farms are opened on the seashore and enough salt is dried, there are still a lot of problems.

The first is how to transport to inland areas like Shaanxi?

Continue to open Chinese and French?Doesn't that mean continuing to play private salt?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen began to have a headache again.

It's already too much for Jin Yiwei to send people to set up some kind of salt field, so what kind of official sales of salt should they be asked to do?

It's not very reliable when you think about it.

But what about eunuchs?

Eunuchs are not actually successful.It's okay to send them to watch the saltworks, but it's also bullshit to sell salt.

If that's the case, the number of eunuchs in Daming would have to be multiplied by at least dozens of times—except for the new century Zhongguancun starting point Chinese website in later generations, where can you get so many dead eunuchs!

Emperor Chongzhen, who had been thinking about it for a long time, had a headache for a long time, and he simply ordered: "Chuan, the cabinet is warm and benevolent, the household department is Guo Yunhou, and the official department is magnificent."

When Wen Tiren waited for the little eunuch to come and announce the three of them to enter the palace to meet him, his head hurt first.

No one knows what kind of demon moth His Majesty the Emperor has come up with.

As far as Jingcha is concerned, at least a large number of them have been disposed of, and the rest are outside the scope of the capital, and they are not disposed of so quickly, are they?

But apart from this matter, what else can make the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Officials get involved again?

Shaanxi?

The Shaanxi side has almost stopped, if not completely. Except that some officials may be unlucky, there should be nothing left?

While guessing, the three headed towards the palace.

But after seeing Emperor Chongzhen, what Emperor Chongzhen said really surprised the three of them: "I intend to set up salt farms in the southeast coast to dry sea salt and sell it to the common people at a low price. I don't know what the three lovers think?"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words came out of his mouth, the treacherous and treacherous three knew roughly what was going on.

His Majesty the emperor wanted to sell salt to the common people, and he didn't plan to play any tricks in China, but he made it clear that he couldn't trust the local governments, and was worried that the local governments would mess around.

Guo Yunhou bowed and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, if it is said that sea salt is dried and sold to the common people, this matter is really beneficial to the people. It's just that there is no need to open Chinese and French, how to set the price of salt?"

Emperor Chongzhen knocked on the table, and said flatly, "Da Ming's upper and lower prices are priced together, at fifty renminbi a catty."

Emperor Chongzhen's words were really earth-shattering.

When it comes to the salt price mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen, we have to start with the current salt production of Daming.

How about the salt production in the Ming Dynasty? According to the "Gang Salt System": Merchants who hold salt coins are divided into ten classes according to the region. Percentage, called "woben", plus three taels of tax and silver, and three taels of silver for ministers (transportation).

The annual salt production is 590 million catties. At that time, one catty was equivalent to [-] grams in later generations, and the total amount was equivalent to [-] million catties in later generations.

And this data is the official statistics of the Hongwu and Wanli periods, and the population is still 6000 million, the same as the mid-Northern Song Dynasty.

However, for every sixty-two six cents and four cents of silver that was attracted, the salt tax of 1328 million taels of silver should be paid, but in fact it was only 250 million taels of silver at most, and a large amount of salt tax was lost.

But at this price, it's fucked up.

What was the price of salt in the Song Dynasty?Fifty Wen a catty.

But when it came to Daming, the price turned upside down.

During the Jiajing period, according to the records of Zhu Tingli's "Salt Government Records", "At the beginning of Jiajing, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanjing areas sold three to four cents of silver per catty; five percent.The Nanjing area sells silver for one cent and two cents. "

What is mentioned here is the market sales price of Huai salt.

In other words, in Daming, the price of salt is different at different times and places.

In theory, technology should evolve over time.

Don't think that Moore's Law is only applicable to the sports industry, at least in other industries, the more advanced the technology, the lower the original price and cost should be.

Although there is basically no problem with the technical content of salt, normally speaking, the price should be slowly reduced as time goes on.

But when it happened to be in the Ming Dynasty, this law was no longer valid - the price of the price was even higher than in the Song Dynasty!

As for the reason, a noob like Emperor Chongzhen felt that he couldn't figure it out, and he didn't bother to figure it out.

But I can play with the sun-salt method-ever since the cement was made out, I have been thinking about how to use this thing.

In the end, it was discovered that in addition to being used for building roads and cities, it can also be used for drying salt.

That's good news.

As long as the salt farms for drying salt can be spread out on a large scale, are you afraid that the price of salt in Daming will not come down?

Emperor Chongzhen felt that the price of salt was not a problem, but Guo Yunhou had a headache: "Your Majesty, the fluctuation of salt price is actually a spontaneous behavior of the people. If the price is forced, what will happen to the original salt merchants?"

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and continued: "Redemption.

I bought back the salt that was originally in the hands of the salt merchant at the original price. I know that there are many bastards who have made a profit for themselves.

But they are all redeemed at the official price, and will be monopolized by the saltworks in the future.The Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy or something recalled the capital, and the Salt Transport Censor temporarily did not move. "

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply said murderously: "Forget it, there is no need to recall it. Xu Xianchun?"

Xu Xianchun bowed and replied, "My minister is here."

Emperor Chongzhen ordered: "I will reprimand Yushitai to send Yushi to investigate the salt transport envoys in Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and the Jinyiwei will secretly investigate. The East Factory will review. If there is no problem, the Ministry of Officials will transfer him back to the capital. It was directly taken into Beijing by the Jinyiwei lock and thrown into the Imperial Prison."

When Fang Zhuangli heard this, he felt a pain in the ass.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen once again showed his recklessness and unreliability—it seemed that His Majesty's majesty, no matter how good his disguise was, was still extremely cruel when he should be cruel.