Chapter 474 Ticket Salt Law

Yang Reform opened for a long time, and the two of them were shocked, especially Liu Zhouzong, looking at Liu Zhouzong's eyes full of incredulity, Yang Reform smiled.

"Lin Qingjia is right, even if all kinds of expenses are removed, the profit that the salt merchant can get per catty of salt will not be less than 20 wen, but it is actually higher, hum, the profit per catty of salt is not less than 20 wen, pay me a penny tax, drought and flood to ensure income, but still say that there is no silver, always in arrears, the two of you said, who do I not run a salt business? Aren't some people too shameless? Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"Indeed, it is indeed ......" The two of them listened to the emperor's question, and hurriedly replied, after the salt merchant's outrageous profits were peeled off layer by layer for the emperor, it was indeed very scary.

"So, this salt class must be changed." Yang reformed.

"That is, it has to be changed, it has to be changed." Both of them agreed, especially Liu Zhouzong, who was even more energetic, using the salt class to support the school, but there is really nothing better than this, and the salt class is still so rich.

Yang Reform looked at these two people and smiled, especially Liu Zhouzong's fanaticism like beating Jī blood, Yang Reform knew that his plan was successful, and the matter of this school-running party vs. Donglin Party was done. Kicking over the salt merchant and changing the salt class, you don't have to go to the Donglin Party to sing against the stage, there is this Confucian master Liu Zhouzong from the Donglin Party who led the school party to ......fight against the Donglin Party, presumably, it will be a very interesting thing, Yang Reform thought of this, and smiled even more brightly......

"Then I will calculate how much silver I can receive after the salt change class...... Yang Reform laughed "innocently", there is nothing more interesting in the world than sitting and watching the Donglin Party fight the "Donglin Party".

"Your Majesty, please." The two of them said immediately.

"First of all, this salt is collected from the salt households, and it shouldn't be counted as a ...... of eight cents," Yang Reform began to calculate the accounts for the two of them.

"Then dare to ask Your Majesty, how should it be calculated?" Liu Zhouzong 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 silver to support the school, his career, his reputation, but all count on the salt class.

"The salt of the salt collectors in my dynasty is only one stone of rice, and the current price of rice in the south is only one or two taels of silver and one stone, and the north is slightly more expensive, only two taels ......of silver and one stone, and one salt is four hundred catties, and the actual salt of the salt collectors is only three or five wen a catty, and it has to be good salt," Yang Gengai said with a smile.

Liu Zhouzong looked at the emperor, a little ashamed, the emperor even knew this so clearly, the two emperors taught meritorious ......, and the three or five texts were better received, which means that there is more space for salt classes, and the more salt classes, the more guaranteed the school......

"Let's count Wuwen for the time being, how many people does my Ming Dynasty have?" Yang Gai smiled again and asked about the population again.

"Back to Your Majesty, sixty million." Liu Zhouzong hurriedly replied, this question has already been asked by the emperor once.

"No, no, no, it shouldn't be counted like this, at least there must be tens of thousands, and 100 million is still less...... Hehe, don't tell me, the world didn't hide Taguchi's matter. Yang Gai said with a smile. The Ming Dynasty concealed the fields and the population, this is definitely not a new thing, as a latecomer, Yang Reform, naturally will not believe the 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and the benefits of concealing the fields and population, naturally needless to say.

The two of them glanced at each other, and Liu Zhouzong was even more afraid of the emperor, an emperor who was calm in the face of this kind of thing was by no means an emperor who was easy to bluff! I don't know who taught the emperor this, it's just bad.

"Hehe, I don't plan to care about the population that is concealed, nor do I plan to pay off the taxes in this regard, but I know that this salt is indispensable to anyone, he can conceal the population, but he can't not eat salt, so I Ming people who eat salt can't just count 60 million, at least 10,000 ......, what do you think of this?" Yang Gai said with a smile, salt is a natural compulsory poll tax, you can conceal the population through means, you can conceal it, but people can't help but eat salt, eat salt, then it is ironclad to get jiāo, a naturally compulsory poll tax, no one can run. The salt tax is a natural tool to eliminate tax evasion, of course, the premise is that the salt tax can be collected, and there is no private salt.

"Back to Your Majesty, this ...... No problem......" Liu Zhouzong said with some fear, he got a lot of information from the emperor's words, that is, the emperor understands many things, what kind of "pit abduction" trick in the past, it is better to show ugliness in front of the emperor, otherwise, it is self-inflicted. ,

"Good! Collect salt from salt farmers at the rate of five yuan, and I add a tax of ten yuan, which is only fifteen yuan, and after the hands of salt merchants transfer it to the people, even if it adds another ten yuan, it is only twenty-five yuan, is it much? Yang Gai smiled and settled accounts for the two people, although these two people will not participate in the reform of the salt class, but they must also be explained to them, so that they will feel at ease and have the motivation to advocate for the reform of the salt class, otherwise, they may not be willing to do a thing hanging in the sky.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is definitely not much, if the people can buy ordinary salt for twenty-five wen, it is already a great virtue and politics...... Lin Zhu replied, this price is definitely not high, if you can buy ordinary salt in twenty wen, this is already quite a great thing, and the salt on the market today, a little better salt, is more than thirty wen, and there are hundreds of jīng salt. Even if it is very poor, the leftovers mixed with sediment cost one or twenty yuan, but what the emperor said was the salt that was normally received from the salt households, and this kind of salt was not any leftovers.

"Yes, Twenty-five Wen, has taken into account the profits of the salt households, the salt class, and the salt merchants, and there is still a lot of room in this, I believe that the people can still accept this price...... " Yang Reform said with a smile, after calculating the accounts inside, Yang Reform has the confidence to reform the salt class, Yang Reform is not so stupid, will not raise the price of salt for the people, will not get along with himself at this critical time, and joke with his own reputation.

"Your Majesty Shengming, as soon as the price of this salt comes out, the people of the world will definitely return to their hearts, be grateful to Dade, and praise Your Majesty's benevolent government......" Liu Zhouzong patted his ass for a while.

"So, the two of you calculate, the tax of ten wen per catty, each person eats ten catties per year, there are tens of thousands of people in the world, how much salt do you have to collect this year?" Yang reformed all the previous conditions one by one, and now, it is time to settle the general account.

Liu Zhouzong's forehead has begun to sweat, this arithmetic, it is really difficult, this number is also too big, seeing that the emperor let himself do arithmetic again, he consciously buried his head, and secretly looked at Lin Zhu, hoping that Lin Zhu would quickly calculate this problem, so pestle, uncomfortable!

Lin Zhu counted it at 1510, and after half a sound, he said: "Back to Your Majesty, each person should pay 100 wen for salt every year, the population of the world is 10,000,000, there should be 1 million wen for 1 million wen, and according to 1,000 wen for one tael of silver, there should be 10 million taels of salt." Lin Zhu calculated for a long time, confirmed that he had not made a mistake, breathed a sigh of relief, and said.

Ten million taels of silver? Liu Zhouzong wondered if he had máo disease in his ears, did he hear it wrong? If the emperor can collect enough of the five million taels of silver, he feels that the current emperor is definitely one of the few "money-making" experts in the Ming Dynasty, but now the emperor told him that the annual salt class should be charged 10 million taels, and the price of salt, and his grandmother's sale of 25 wen, which is ......a lot cheaper than the current salt price, Liu Zhouzong felt that he had lived in vain at this age, and he turned countless thoughts, and in the end, he blamed the salt merchant for this crime,...... This salt merchant is really shameless......

Lin Zhu also breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally finished it! Thinking about the salt class of 10 million taels of silver that he calculated, Lin Zhu felt that it was too amazing, too incredible, how could this salt class rise from less than one million taels to 10 million taels? Arithmetic just now, and his head hurts, Lin Zhu raised his somewhat confused head and looked at the emperor.

Yang Gai smiled but did not speak.

The scene cooled down, and Yang Reform didn't speak, just smiled and looked at the two people, especially Liu Zhouzong.

The scene cooled down, and the two people's shocked brains began to calm down and began to work again.

Liu Zhouzong sat for a long time, and his mind came back to his senses, although this salt class is very "outrageous", but isn't it the more "outrageous" the better? The emperor said, take the salt class to support the school, this salt class is ten million taels a year, and it is more than enough to use it to run the school! Liu Zhouzong, who came back to his senses, was like being beaten with blood again, and began to erect.

"Your Majesty is great! With such a high salt class, the saint's career has finally been settled! In our lifetimes, we will finally see the day when the world is in harmony! As Liu Zhouzong spoke, he started crying and burst into tears.

Yang Gengai still looked at Liu Zhouzong with a smile and a speech.

Lin Zhu is an honest, honest, and practical person, not like Liu Zhouzong who is confused about the salt class, and he also sat for a long time, and also thought about many questions, although the emperor said that these are very beautiful, but there are also a lot of questions, after thinking for a long time, he has already organized his words, and he asked clearly, the emperor allowed them to run a school with salt class, and this salt class is naturally going to be changed, how to change it, whether it is settled, suitable or not, whether the new salt class can argue with those who oppose it, Lin Zhu has to ask clearly. ,

"Your Majesty, there are a few things that the minister does not know, and I would like to ask Your Majesty for guidance." Lin said.

"What's the matter, the Qing family just has to say." Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"The minister dares to ask Your Majesty, although this salt class is beautiful, it should be so huge, but the minister doesn't know how His Majesty plans to change this salt class, how to stop the many ills in this salt class?" Lin Zhu's words were to the point, and he didn't look at the emperor like Liu Zhouzong had beaten his blood.

"Hehehe......" Yang Gai laughed for a while, and once again had an understanding of the abilities and feelings of these two ministers, Lin Zhu is more realistic, and he is still a person who can do things, at least logic, at least common sense, knowledge. And Liu Zhouzong, although he has the reputation of a great Confucian in the world, is a person who can't do practical things, and doesn't even have basic logic and common sense, of course, if you want to talk about the interpretation of Confucian classics, this may be called an "expert", if it is to talk to others, this may be better, this is basically consistent with what he wants him to do, and it can be regarded as making the best use of his talents.

“…… What do Lin Qing's families think are the shortcomings of the salt class today? Yang Gengai asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, the ministers don't dare to hold it up, but they also know that there are some skin máo, such as official fraud, official shānggōu knots, official extortion, private price increases, and smuggling of smuggled salt, these are all ills in the salt class, how does Your Majesty plan to deal with them?" Lin Zhu's mind is quite clear, and the questions he asks are also to the root.

"I have passed the law of opening the middle of the law, and I have passed the salt law, and now I plan to change the salt tax to the ticket salt law, and tax it on the land, regardless of the merchant's trading and marketing, so that it only needs to be taxed in the main producing areas of salt, but it has greatly saved jīng power...... Yang Gai said his thoughts with a smile.

Lin Zhu listened to the emperor's words, thought for a while, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister listened to His Majesty's ticket salt law, although he thinks it is good, but the minister still can't understand it, what is the use of this law to solve the shortcomings of the minister...... "Lin Zhu is indeed an honest person, a real person, for what he doesn't understand, what he doesn't understand, what he has questions, he asks directly."

Yang Gai smiled, this Lin Zhu, really is an "honest" person, this country, this work, what you want is this kind of real honest person, without the support of this kind of honest person, just relying on people like Liu Zhouzong, this Ming Dynasty will not be long before the altar will be overturned, smiled, and replied: "Nowadays, I make salt in the court, most of them still rely on salt farmers to boil salt, to be honest, this method of salt making is too backward, not to mention the high cost, and it is too scattered, not easy to manage, and it is not suitable for the kind of ticket salt method that I said about sitting on the ground to collect taxes. My plan is to change the boiling salt to the dried salt, and gather the salt-producing places in the world into a few fixed salt farms, so that the world can meet the needs of the people of the world without too many salt farms. Yang Gai said with a smile.

Lin Zhu nodded when he heard this, although he didn't have much research on the salt class, but after listening to the emperor's method, he also felt that it was good and ideal, but after thinking about it, he said: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, there is no benefit of drying salt in this inland, what should I do?" ”

"It doesn't matter, I just need to find a few fixed places to cook salt in Sichuan, Huguang, and Shaanxi, and I don't need to be scattered everywhere, and I can cook salt in a few fixed places. Second, it is convenient to collect taxes ...... sitting on the ground," Yang then explained.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, it is convenient to collect taxes by fixing salt in several fixed places, but this long-distance transportation does not make the price of salt more expensive?" Lin Zhu seemed to be quite serious and cautious about this matter, and did not agree with the emperor's statement just because he was an emperor.

"Hehehe, this is okay, don't talk about the salt, it's all on the seaside, there are benefits of sea ships, each transportation is less than thousands of stones, more than tens of thousands of stones, in fact, it is quite advantageous, as for the inland, in fact, Sichuan and Huguang also have convenient waterways, where I cook salt, it must also be close to the river, and salt can be transported through the river, in fact, it is still very cheap, I am now subsidizing shipbuilding in Jiangnan, and I am not restricted to salt merchants shipbuilding, hehehe, this can be regarded as reducing the cost of salt transportation...... "Yang Gai said with a smile.

Lin Zhu nodded straightly, looked up at the emperor, his eyes were full of admiration, this emperor is of course planning for the sake of state affairs! After thinking about it, he said: "What is Your Majesty's plan to do in the land of Shaanxi?" Shaanxi does not have the convenience of the Jiangnan River, and it is difficult to transport salt. ”,

"Shaanxi, in fact, there are rivers, but it can't be compared with Jiangnan, fortunately, there are not many places where salt transportation is inconvenient, and there are not too many obstacles to the overall situation, even if the salt price is slightly higher because of salt transportation, even if it is three or five Wen per catty of salt, it is also within a reasonable range." Yang explained.

"Your Majesty's great talent, such a design, sure enough, there are only a few fixed places in the world to make salt, all of which are placed under Your Majesty's nose, if someone does something from it, it will definitely be exposed...... As for restricting officials from engaging in personal fraud, the official shānggōu knot has a considerable effect...... "Lin Zhu gave a certain affirmation to the emperor's ticket salt law.

Yang Gengai smiled quite confidently.

"However, the minister wants to ask Your Majesty again, how can you prevent the price of salt from being privately increased? And how to guard against illicit salt? If you can't guard against the salt merchant Hu Luàn's price increase, the people will not be able to enjoy Your Majesty's virtue and politics, and the people will always be exploited by the salt merchants, and you can't guard against private salt, and Your Majesty's plan to sit on the ground and collect taxes will be frustrated. Lin Zhu once again questioned the new salt class, obviously, this is a down-to-earth official.

"For the problem of guarding against illegal salt, I currently have two preparations, the first is to start from the data, there are only a few places in the world where salt is made, how much salt is sold to a certain place, there are records to check, people eat salt is almost constant, if nothing else, it will gradually increase, if the salt sold in a certain place suddenly decreases or decreases greatly, it means that there is an inflow of private salt here, and it needs to be investigated in detail; The second is to maintain a high-pressure situation on private salt, strictly prevent private salt, the first few years are a little more difficult, it may require a relatively large jīng force, once the amount of salt eaten in various places is stabilized, you can infer the inflow of private salt according to the changes in the data, of course, I don't expect to be able to completely eliminate private salt, a little loss, I will not take it to heart......" Yang Reform said his plan.

Lin Zhu nodded, it seems that the emperor has thought of a lot of ways to deal with the matter of the salt class, and has taken into account all aspects. However, he continued to ask: "The minister dares to ask Your Majesty again, what is Your Majesty's plan for the private increase in the price of salt?" Lin Zhu asked again.

"Hehehe, I'll forgive me for selling this matter, it's not convenient to say it for the time being, and the Qing family will naturally understand it in the future." Yang Reform didn't say, but there was preparation, that is, Liulizhai, with the weapon of Liulizhai, there was 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, and only need to "dump" salt to these places with Liulizhai, what else salt price can't cross? How many people in the world can resist the "dumping" of Liulizhai salt?

Lin Zhu looked up at the emperor again, since the emperor said that there was a way, Lin Zhu did not plan to ask again. For the emperor's new salt law, he has basically agreed.

"Your Majesty, there is no doubt about the minister, Your Majesty's law, it is really a great good, it is implemented in the world, the people of the world are benefited, Your Majesty's holy name will be recited by the people of the world, and the salt class can also be collected, and it is to prevent many drawbacks, and the ...... of submission is observed" Lin Zhu finished asking, no doubts, and immediately kowtowed deeply.

Liu Zhouzong has been listening intently to the emperor and Lin Zhu talking about how to change the salt class, and when he heard the wonders, he was also amazed by it, the more the salt class is collected, the more money he can get to run the school, the more stable the salt law is, the more stable he is in running the school, and the cause of this saint can be carried on, so as not to give up halfway