Since Zhongshi, the prime minister of the Great Qi Dynasty 30,000 years ago, put forward the so-called 'Guanshan Hai' policy, dozens of large and small dynasties on the mainland have rushed to follow suit, so that in less than a hundred years, this policy has become an immutable ancestral system on the entire Eastern Court Domain.

After more than a hundred years, this rule was gradually passed on to other continents by people who traveled abroad, and now, except for the Western Brahma Domain, which was completely controlled by the Golden Buddha Sect, this system was accepted by almost all the dynasties on the remaining seven continents.

The so-called 'Guanshan Hai' roughly means that the benefits of the mountains and rivers within the territory of the dynasty and the property of the sea are all monopolized by the government and monopolized.

Of course, this rule does not mean that what I go to the mountains to hunt and hunt must also be handed over to the government, and it is also the government's property when I row a boat to the sea to catch a few fish.

The policy of 'Guanshan Hai' is not aimed at all the properties on the mountains and seas, but there are some specific products that must be handed over to the government for disposal, such as pig iron, gold and silver ore veins, and salt, which are not allowed to be mined and sold by ordinary people without permission.

Due to the implementation of the salt and iron official policy, the iron tools needed by the common people to cultivate the land and the salt needed for survival and food were completely in the hands of the government.

In this way, the government says how much the iron is worth, it is worth how much, and the government says how much silver a tael of salt costs, it is worth as much silver.

In ancient times, it was not so easy for the household department to collect taxes, and the common people generally had such an idea, that is:

I myself face to the loess with my back to the sky, all year round, a little money that is easy to earn, but also by you to take away for nothing, you so-called people in the government, to put it bluntly, is a bigger robber, in the name of governing the world, in fact, knives come and go, give what you want, and don't care about the life or death of the common people.

Therefore, whenever there was a little tax collection, the people at that time hid when they could, hid when they could, and did not cooperate at all.

But after the order of this 'official mountain and sea' was issued, the situation became very different.

Do you need a hoe to farm?

Of course, you need it, and if you don't have a hoe, do you still dig the pit by hand?

Do you need salt for dinner?

Naturally, there is no salt in the meal, and you can't lift your spirit when you walk, where does you have the strength to support your family?

If the hoe is broken, you have to recast it, and if you recast it, you have to go to the government to buy iron.

When the salt is finished, you have to buy a few more taels, and naturally you can't get around the mountain of the official mansion.

Now it's all right, aren't you unwilling to pay taxes? I'll increase the price of iron fivefold and salt tenfold, and if you have the ability, don't work or eat!

Later, under the auspices of Sang Hongyang, the "cage salt iron", in the salt and iron production places set up special salt officials and iron officials to manage, completely the salt and iron of the Great Qi Dynasty to the nationalization, all in the territory of the dynasty mining, smelting, casting, selling steel without the permission of the dynasty, as well as the sale of private salt merchants, will be subjected to extremely harsh punishment

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That is, after the official implementation of the 'Guanshanhai' regulations, the records of the household department of the dynasty were more than one year after another, and the treasury was gradually enriched, and the Great Qi Dynasty took this opportunity to leap from a small subsidiary dynasty to a medium-sized country that did not have to depend on other dynasties.

Later, due to the high utilization rate of iron reproduction after breakage, the monopoly effect of iron can no longer be compared with the salt that cannot be spit out and eaten again, so more than 1,000 years later, the major dynasties have abolished the monopoly system of iron tools one after another, and restored the previous tax system of the joint venture between government and business, while this system of salt official management has been new for a long time and has survived until now.

It's just that the asking price of official salt is too high, and a large part of the people really can't afford it.

What should we do if we can't afford to buy official salt, but if we don't eat it, we will die?

Therefore, despite the serious consequences, many people still choose to take risks under the temptation of private needs and their own interests.

Moreover, as long as the price of private salt is not too high, even if the officials of the dynasty come down to verify it, the common people will also change their methods to protect those salt dealers, and there is no other reason, just because only by keeping their safety, those poor people can live on their own.

The ancestor of the right Xi Tong family is also a small common people in the blood condensation realm, after making a fortune by selling illicit salt, he took the silver for the cultivation method, and began to enter the cultivation world, the clan was the era of geniuses, and now the ancestor of the Tong family rose at that time in the end of the micro, and established the Tong family in the cultivation world in this right Xi city.

The Tong family is full of words in this city, and many years ago, their reputation in the city was also extremely high.

Even if he entered the cultivation world, the Tong family has not let go of the private salt business, so the price of salt in this Youxi City has always been much lower than that in other parts of the dynasty, so that many people who are close to the city will choose to go to this Youxi City to buy salt back.

But after a long time, the generation that made a fortune died one after another, and later those descendants of the Tong family who were already superior at birth, the temperament of the young master and Miss was greater than the generation, and the status of mortals in their eyes was not as good as the generation.

So much so that today, this is clearly the largest salt transshipment place on the first line of the Salt River, and the price of salt is much higher than that of other places in the dynasty, and whether those mortals in the city are still considered individuals in their eyes has become a questionable question.

And the image of the Tong family in the hearts of the people of Yancheng naturally plummeted.

After this, the Tong family's sale of illicit salt is not that no one has found a way to stab the household and the Divine Emperor Jiang Ye, but this is too late, if the right Xi Tong family does not rise, let alone the current Tianwen Realm ancestor is in charge, His Majesty the Emperor will confiscate this Tong family early in the morning, and the nine clans will be punished.

But if you put the interests of a salt mine in this mere Yancheng and a master of the Tianwen Realm on the same scale, which is more important, and a fool can do it

Enough to tell.

It's not like the Great Wei, Dajin, Dayan, and Tianlu inland dynasties, if such a thing happens in those places, let alone a small Tianwen Realm, even if a god elephant master dares to do this, he will be destroyed by the God Emperor.

But the Great Qi Dynasty is like the wind of the sky, the territory is a long shape in the north-south direction, the coastline is long, the sea salt production is very large, more than the right Xi city is not much, less right Xi is not a little less.

Therefore, after receiving the news of the report, Jiang Ye still chose to turn a blind eye, after all, although Youxi Cheng was greedy for the silver earned from selling illicit salt, but the things sent to Wangcheng every year were not ordinary, and the masters of Tianwen were extremely rare, and it was really worth wooing.

As for the arrogance of the descendants of those Tong families, it swelled to the extreme after their fathers and even grandparents drove away more than a dozen successive city lords without being punished by the imperial court.

The fire clouds cover the sky, and the sunset sleeps.

Today's evening, a guest came to the City Lord's Mansion, which has always been cold.

The guest looks like a middle-aged man, but it is difficult to hide the handsome and rich spirit when he was young, in the early days of the legal domain, the bone age of hundreds of years, it stands to reason that this person is still in the juvenile period of his life, and he should not have been so vicissitudes of life, but this is the most real appearance of that person at the moment.

After the subordinate reported, Hu Mingzhu, who was originally meditating and cultivating alone in the quiet room, immediately stopped his daily cultivation, and while ordering the subordinate to go out to welcome guests, he waved his hand to open the stone door of the quiet room, and appeared in the outer courtyard of the city lord's mansion.

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