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Chapter 103: What's the Problem (Part II)

Fan Hongdao's question does not sound difficult to answer, it is nothing more than how much salt can be produced in a year, how much salt is in the government's designated plan, how much surplus salt is used to improve people's lives, how is the regular salt delivered to the government, and how the surplus salt is sold. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These are the ordinary daily lives of tens of thousands of salt dings, and the middle-aged salt ding who took the money in front of him only thought that Fan Hongdao was a rich boy who came to experience life, and he knew everything and answered them one by one.

Zhu Shufang has no interest in the details of the production and life of these salt dings, so she can only go around in circles boringly.

In the past two days, Fan Hongdao didn't do anything else, just kept looking for all kinds of salt and dings to chat, and then took notes on a lot of things with paper.

Of course, when he met someone who didn't want to delay the time to chat, Fan Hongdao asked Zhu Shufang to sprinkle money, and then said, "Let's talk about three cents of silver first!"

Under this domineering deterrence, there is no one in the salt field who is not deeply convinced. Chatting with others and making money is really new, and you can see you for a long time.

Zhu Shufang felt like she was going crazy, she was really going crazy. Money is a trivial matter, she doesn't care about it at all, but while drinking the cold northwest wind, she accompanies Fan Hongdao to spin around on the salt flats, what the hell is it trying to do!

Seeing that Fan Hongdao walked two more miles to the east, went to another salt field, and went to find the sixteenth salt ding to chat, Lord Zhu finally couldn't help but break out!

She didn't want to say that she didn't want to suffer, so she found another angle: "Stop! You spent so much money on me, you have to give an explanation!"

Fan Hongdao still looked like a ghost who "spends your money to look up to you", and said indifferently: "What is this bit of silver, I will give you a big return." ”

Whenever it comes to this ethereal "return", Zhu Shufang can't get angry, "Painting cakes can't satisfy hunger! What's more, you've been painting this cake for several days, and I haven't seen a shadow yet!"

If you dare to fool me this time, I will break off with you and become like an enemy from now on! I will offer a reward of 1,000 taels of silver to be used against you!"

Speaking of which, the pressure on Lord Zhu is not small, this time he came to Hedong to do business differently than usual, he came to help the Son of Heaven make money. If you mess up, what face will you have in the palace in the future?

Fan Hongdao laughed, "I'm really worth so much money, the price is pretty good." ”

"That's not the point. Zhu Shufang gritted her teeth and said.

Fan Hongdao Huo Ran was shocked, "You are willing to take out a thousand taels for me, the Zhang family in Puzhou is richer than you, they won't offer more rewards to deal with me, right?" Thank you for reminding me, I will be vigilant!"

Lord Zhu can see that Fan Hongdao is also happy in suffering, and deliberately teases her. Turning his head, he commanded his subordinates: "Go back to Siyan City!"

"Slow!" Fan Hong was in a hurry, and stretched out his hand to pull Zhu Shufang.

Unexpectedly, Lord Zhu's old mother was vigorous, locked Fan Hongdao's wrist like lightning, and said coldly: "Slave and maid, please Fan Gongzi to respect himself." ”

Fan Hongdao raised the note in his hand, "Everything you want to know is in it!" This sentence seems to have infinite magic, and it attracts Zhu Shufang back.

Fan Hongdao asked a question first: "What do you think of the current situation of Hedong's salt industry?" Since Lord Zhu brought a huge amount of salt to Hedong with 20,000 yuan, of course he will also do his homework and must have an understanding of the current situation.

As we all know, the evaluation of the salt industry in Hedong by the imperial court in recent years is very consistent, almost four words: the salt law is corrupt. The specific manifestation is that the salt tax has been in arrears for many years, and the salt tax of the imperial court has been reduced.

After listening to Zhu Shufang's answer, Fan Hongdao said disdainfully: "I have heard too many of your words! There are many people talking about it in the temple, and there are few people who can study practice and do practical things!"

Fan Hongdao's demeanor and tone are very familiar to Zhu Shufang. Fan Xiucai's occasional flashes of "spirit" that tried the world as if nothing was really making her feel powerless.

"What's the problem with the salt industry? This starts with economic development and the government's artificial control of the cost of salt production. Fan Hongdao just started, but suddenly the conversation changed: "Forget it, if you don't say it from here, you won't understand it at all, it's better to talk about some simple epidermal phenomena." ”

Zhu Shufang's heart was full of 10,000 alpacas, and then he heard Fan Hongdao continue: "The government forced the salt to produce salt as planned and handed it over to the government with a lower cost of silver. Then the salt merchant paid silver taels in exchange for salt, and then exchanged salt from the government, which was called salt introduction or regular salt.

In order to subsidize the survival of Yanding, the government also allowed Yanding to sell the excess salt produced by itself, which was called surplus salt. The surplus salt is sold and taxed, and the remainder is also the legal income of the salt ding.

The system designed by the government is to formulate a regular salt production plan according to the needs of the marketing area, with fixed quantities and fixed prices, and use salt to attract salt to control and guide salt merchants, so as to ensure the income of the imperial court's salt tax.

The role of surplus salt is flexible and convenient, which is conducive to adjusting the individual shortage market, and subsidizing the income of salt ding, so as to avoid a large number of salt people fleeing because they cannot make ends meet. ”

Zhu Shufang thought about it and didn't think of anything wrong with this system for the time being.

"But what has actually become? Why is the salt class in arrears and reduced year after year?" Fan Hongdao raised the note in his hand again, "The reason is this!

This is a record of the true condition of fifteen salters, and after calculation, it can be found that in their actual output, the proportion of surplus salt is almost equal to that of normal salt!

In other words, the surplus salt should only be a small batch supplement of normal salt, which is an additional benefit in addition to the production of normal salt by salt ding, but in fact, the amount of surplus salt entering circulation is about the same as that of normal salt!

The government only controls and calculates the normal salt, so the amount of surplus salt cannot be reflected in the government statistics. If we hadn't personally interviewed Yanding one by one and then speculated on these examples, we wouldn't have grasped this situation!"

After all, Zhu Shufang is not an uninformed little woman, and her mother's family is from Hui Shang, Fan Hongdao said this, she has already understood a lot. What should have been a small batch of surplus salt yielded was close to the amount of normal salt, which had several consequences.

First, a large amount of surplus salt squeezed out the sales market of regular salt, resulting in the slow sale of regular salt marketed by salt introduction, which affected the capital turnover of salt merchants, and then affected the salt merchants to receive new salt introductions, and finally the income of salt tax was arrears and reduced.

Second, such a large amount of surplus salt production will inevitably affect the production of regular salt, and it is absolutely impossible for the government to recognize it, and it is impossible for the government to issue legal bills for so much surplus salt.

Therefore, it is conceivable that there must be a large amount of salt produced under the banner of surplus salt, and finally turned into underground private salt that does not go through the government at all, which is a huge damage to the salt market.