Section 475 Centralization (3)

Liu Che waved his hand and stopped Chao Cuo from continuing.

It seems to be the excitement of the Great Dynasty Ceremony, Liu Che feels that his Imperial Doctor has been in a hurry recently.

However, Chao is not to blame.

The pressure of the recent mistake has been very high.

Blows and attacks from all sides made him exhausted.

Since the death of the first emperor, Chao Mistake's position as a doctor of imperial history has actually become like an attic in the sky.

If Liu Che hadn't expressed his stance for a long time, and even secretly pulled Chao Cuo a few times, I'm afraid that now, Chao Cuo would face a situation of betrayal and separation.

Not to mention anything else, Taohou Liu She has been shuttling between the East Palace and Weiyang Palace almost every day recently, and almost everyone knows what the idea is.

"What the prime minister said, I know it!" Liu Che said: "Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's 'Chishan Ze Salt Pond Order' I have no intention of disobeying!" ”

Although it seems that the beneficiaries of the 'Chi Shan Ze Salt Pond Order' are all large landlords, big businessmen, and local princes and kings.

But in fact, Liu Che understands that the order of Chishanze Salt Pond has given the people at the bottom a chance to breathe in a certain way.

According to Chinese tradition, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.

The ownership of these gifts of nature in the mountains and salt ponds is, of course, attributed to the Son of Heaven.

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen ordered Chi Shan Ze Salt + Pond, allowing the people to go to the mountains and forests to hunt and cut wood, mine and even boil the sea for salt without the approval of the government.

This makes the people at the bottom, even if the mountains and rivers are exhausted, still be able to obtain the necessities of survival from the mountains, forests, lakes, oceans and rivers.

If it had been in the Qin Dynasty, the people would have killed even a wild boar in the mountains and forests. are all offences.

If Liu Che dares to repeal this order, then. The spit of the people of the world can drown him.

There is only one Qin in Chinese history, and there is only one Qin.

Liu Che didn't want to die like the Qin Dynasty.

Zhou Yafu was slightly puzzled. He asked, "What does that mean?" ”

Liu Che smiled, where in this world is there any policy that has no loopholes to drill?

It is the salt and iron policy of the little pig in history, in fact, it also spared the Chishanze salt pond order, and was implemented by the yamen of the governor of Su led by Guò Sang Hongyang, and a vest of the captain of Shui Heng was set up in Shanglin Yuan to wash white.

Its basic tone is the so-called civil system, official collection, official sales, and official management.

In this way, it perfectly bypassed the order of Chishanze Salt Pond.

The government still allows the private sector to boil salt and cast iron, but it does not allow private individuals to buy and sell and trade without permission.

All trade related to salt and iron must be carried out through the guò salt and iron officials.

As a traverser, Liu Che is omniscient about the drawbacks of the salt and iron official camp policy opened by Xiao Zhu. But I also know a little.

It is no exaggeration to say that the salt and iron official policy that began with Xiao Zhu has fed countless officials and businessmen in the next two thousand years.

In many cases, the largest and strongest bureaucratic and commercial groups in China are the salt merchants and the bureaucratic circles on which they depend.

Liu Che did not want to take this dead end, which was proven by history.

Little Pig's salt and iron official policy is bad in the private system and official collection.

The civil system of official revenue means that only officials and businessmen can do this business, and anyone else who participates in it will definitely be swallowed up and there will be no bones left.

Moreover, Xiaozhu's salt and iron official policy has greatly restricted the development of China's casting iron smelting technology.

It has appeared in Shaofu today. And the steel frying technology and steel filling technology that have begun to take shape will almost stand still in the next thousand years.

Vested interests arbitrarily reject and obstruct technologies and inventions that may harm their interests.

It's like shale gas has just come to the fore in later generations. The local tyrants in the Middle East have used the great law of the disintegration of the heavenly demons to forcibly suppress oil prices to the point where any shale gas and shale oil are more and more lost.

Thinking of this, Liu Che sorted out his thoughts. Said: "Folk cast iron, boiled salt, I will not interfere." The people buy and sell, and they are at their own mercy! ”

"It's just ......," Liu Che blinked. Said: "I will set up a new position of salt and iron order under the prime minister, with a rank ratio of 2,000 stones, and set up a prince under the order, and order the yamen at the county level in all parts of the county to set up salt and iron officials, who are responsible for selling salt and iron products in the market!" ”

Zhou Yafu listened, but he was confused, he didn't know what he was trying to do?

You must know that for example, today's salt and iron merchants are basically local snakes, and the production costs of most merchants are actually lower than those of the imperial court.

After all, the behavior of the state must be more or less considered for the workers, except for the sentenced prisoners, the rest of the craftsmen basically have salaries and safety guarantees, and in case of accidents, they also have to pay compensation.

It is a prisoner, who participates in boiling salt mining, and if he dies, the court will also give his family an explanation.

But businessmen don't need to.

They hired landless and landless peasants cheaply and coerced them with sticks.

The mud leg is dead, and he throws it directly into the mountain, even if the bitter master finds the door, he can send it away if he doesn't know.

Even if you sue the yamen, the magistrate usually doesn't care about such a thing.

When Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo was young, didn't he almost die in such a black mine?

Therefore, the imperial court had to compete with local merchants in salt and iron, and the price was not something that the imperial court could afford.

But how did Zhou Yafu know that the addition of the Mo family and the progress of technology had made the merchants completely lose all their competitiveness in salt and iron.

At present, the new generation of blast furnace produces thousands of pounds of iron a day.

Although there are such and such problems with quality.

But both cost and efficiency have left all the businessmen in the world.

As for the salt?

Under the instruction of Liu Che, Liu Yan, the king of Jiangdu, has already started drying salt in Jiangdu.

Compared with boiling salt on firewood, drying salt is not as good as boiling salt although it crystallizes or something.

But I can't stand the large output of dried salt!

The amount of salt produced by one acre of salt and iron in a month is comparable to the output of hundreds of workers who cook salt day and night.

As for the cost, it is almost infinitely close to none.

What did the merchants use to compete with the official products of the imperial court?

Even, as long as Liu Che is willing, he can completely destroy and defeat the merchants with a price lower than the cost of boiling salt in cast iron.

It's just that, for the time being, whether it is a blast furnace or boiling salt, it has not yet formed a scale.

Therefore, the businessmen can probably survive for a few years.

But it's better that way.

Boiling frogs in warm water is the best strategy to deal with these guys.

The salt pans and blast furnaces that were waiting for the salt to dry had formed a scale, and under the leadership of the government, the army was used as bodyguards, and the salt and iron order yamen, guaranteed by the country's reputation, would crush all competitors.

The only way for the merchants to survive in such competition was to learn from the imperial court, and also use blast furnaces and salt.

It's just that the businessman in the world can have the background of Shaofu and the authority of the Son of Heaven, and can promote technological progress at any cost and at any cost? (To be continued......)

ps: The author has suffered from heat stroke in the past two days, vomiting and diarrhea, and his whole body is smecing~

In addition, the lymph is also repeatedly inflamed, but the results of the hospital examination are not any problems, even the blood draw is normal, I rub ~ R1292