Chapter 122: Zhou Chen's Way of Doing Things

On paper, it is shallow, and many things cannot be seen through a piece of old paper.

Zhu Qizhen wanted to ask Yang Pu after all.

And Zhou Chen's movements are also very fast, and he has only worked hard in the household department for three or five days. The draft of the new salt law has already been made.

Zhou Chen thinks that the principle of simplicity in government affairs. It eliminates all kinds of cumbersome procedures and directly abolishes the salt introduction. Instead, it is sold directly in the salt field on a county-by-county basis.

It is renewed every three years.

And the sale of salt should also be sold.

The imperial court set the minimum price. The highest price is also given.

The lowest price, that is, the price that the imperial court collected from the stove, tripled. This amount is the minimum financial income guaranteed by Zhou Chen for Zhu Qizhen.

Any stake cannot be lower than this price.

As for the highest price, it is the highest price of salt stipulated by the imperial court, after all, the imperial court cannot ignore the life and death of the people. Salt is a necessity of life, and if it really makes the people eat lightly, it will not benefit the court.

Although businessmen everywhere must ask the local county government as a guarantee, for example, if you want to sell the salt area in Beijing, you must ask the Shuntianfu to give you an insurance policy to prove your personal assets.

Of course, this maximum price is the retail price.

There is another point, that is, Zhou Chen exempted the original quota of the stove household, and gave the fixed price of the stove household, and there is no longer a quota. Only if there is salt, the imperial court will collect it.

It was also suggested that important ministers should be sent to sit in the salt farms in various places to clean up the malpractices in various places and strictly investigate the illegal salt.

After Zhu Qizhen saw it, he thought it was excellent.

It seems that the salt merchant has to bid twice, once for the right to sell salt in a certain place, and then for the salt itself.

The purchase price of salt was determined, and the stove would not produce it for free. All of them were sold to reduce the profits of salt on a large scale, and these profits were attributed to the imperial court.

And it's not complicated. Because Zhu Qizhen also understands that the plan is too complicated, with the execution ability of Ming officials, I am afraid that it will not be able to be implemented.

Even Zhu Qizhen has the idea of changing the sale to pricing.

Because he beware, this kind of selling, which is similar to the method of modern auctions, will produce disadvantages.

But Zhu Qizhen thought about it, because he needed money so much. He secretly said in his heart: "Let's do it, when something happens in the future, it's not too late to change it." ”

Think about any new law, before it is implemented. In general, there is nothing wrong with it. Let's do it for now.

Zhu Qizhen invited Yang Pu over and asked him to read Zhou Chen's inscription.

Yang Pu took it and looked at it, and said, "Your Majesty wants to abolish the Chinese law?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said Zhou Chen's remarks 1510 and said: "I have also thought about it, although the method of opening the middle is beneficial, but now the benefits of galloping are better than opening the middle

Closed to the Xuanfu, through the gallop of the same room. ”

Yang Pu said: "Yanshan is difficult to cross, but it is not as smooth as Mentougou to Jingshi, from Jingshi to Tongzhou, the old minister has driven through Juyong Pass several times, and now he still feels that the mountain road is difficult to walk, can the road cross the mountain?" The minister thought that it was better to think about this matter in the long run. ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment and said, "No matter what, this Chidao always has to be repaired. No matter how much grain there is in the imperial court, there is always a shortage of food in the nine sides, and this matter must be solved. ”

Zhangjiakou is still an unknown small village in Xuanfu.

The route mentioned by Zhu Qizhen actually overlaps with the route from Beijing to Zhangjiakou to a considerable extent.

Therefore, Yang Pu's worries are not unreasonable.

After all, the story of Zhan Tianyou's construction of the herringbone intersection of the Zhangjiakou Railway shows that under the condition of underdeveloped power, there are technical problems for trains to cross, let alone such a simple gallop.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen has no bottom in his heart about whether the gallop can climb over the mountain.

But the lesser of two harms.

If it is difficult to climb just one or two mountain passes, it is a big deal to change the carriage or the wheelbarrow to climb over.

After all, this is all a route through the army, and it is impossible to even cross the wheelbarrow, and the only thing to worry about is the slope. Daming is not without gunpowder, if it can be exploded, it will be exploded, and if it can't be exploded, it will be changed.

Anyway, the Grand Canal still has locks raised layer by layer to cross Shandong.

This is much easier to trouble than fighting horses all the way before.

Yang Pu's insight is actually not bad. From Yang Shiqi to Yang Pu, they didn't actually try their best to stop Zhu Qizhen's galloping plan. They can all see the pros and cons.

It's just that Yang Shiqi doesn't like drastic changes and wants to take a picture.

In fact, as far as Yang Pu's original intention is concerned, he doesn't want to rush such a thing, after all, the old man wants to be stable. But how Yang Pu defeated Yang Shiqi was to find the center of the contradiction between Yang Shiqi and Zhu Qizhen.

One is urgent and the other is slow.

Yang Pu still wants to sit firmly in this position, so he can't repeat Yang Shiqi's mistakes. He secretly said in his heart: "Come on, Your Majesty's will, no one can stop it, this matter is up to me, and I have to do it better than others." He said: "In this case, the minister still has to slow down, unless the household department is willing to allocate additional food for the nine sides." ”

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said, "Let Zhou Chen talk about this matter, I want to know yes, what does Mr. think of Zhou Chen's new salt law?" ”

After Yang Pu saw it, he said: "Zhou Chen is still as slippery as before. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How do you say this? ”

Yang Pu said: "Zhou Chen's law can bring a large amount of salt tax to the imperial court, so naturally there is no need to say more. It's just that in this way, the minister thought that after two or three years, there would be no more small salt in the salt industry with a family property of less than 1,000 taels

business. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to it, and then looked at the articles inside, and seemed to understand it for a while, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty, the reason why the salt tax has declined so far is actually because a large number of nobles have entered this industry, which has led to the indiscriminate use of salt. The small people are miserable, and now they are buying in the county, and the people who buy them must have something to do with the government, Zhou Chen actually knows that he has smashed many people's jobs. ”

"Those small salt merchants are not afraid of the revenge, but the revenge of the nobles in Beijing is not something that Zhou Chen dares to bear, so with Zhou Chen's strategy, the minister thinks that the salt in the northern provinces will have a background in the future. How can you sell at such a high price? ”

"The salt tax of the imperial court may have been very high in the first few years, but it will return to normal later."

Zhu Qizhen listened to what Yang Pu said, and sighed slightly in his heart, he thought of a large number of interest groups behind, such as civil officials, such as vassal kings. If you want to know who is the number one in a certain county, you just need to look at who sells salt in this county.

It's just how to solve this situation.

Zhu Qizhen got up and paced, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't think of any way. But looking at Yang Pu, Yang Pu sighed and said, "The old minister has a way, but does Your Majesty really want to do it?" In this way, the turmoil caused by this salt law will not be big. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Zhou Chen is a person who can do things. ”

Although he was not very comfortable in his heart, he also knew that Zhou Chen actually filled the meat of the big salt merchant to all forces. Nobles, vassal kings, gentry, and relatives.

Now that I have heard about the new salt law, what I think is definitely not against it. Especially those who have salt in their hands. What they think about is probably how to get the local salt monopoly.

In this way, there are a lot fewer opponents.

On the one hand, Zhou Chen himself will not offend people, and he has solved two problems, the first is the problem of increasing the income of the imperial court, and the second is the livelihood of the stove households.

Zhu Qizhen really wants to block this matter, I don't know how many people oppose it. He thought about this clearly, sighed lightly, and said, "Mr. can still see it." ”

Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty's top priority is not how this salt method is, after all, how Zhou Chen is a person, the minister does not evaluate, but he is a first-class talent." His method, even the old minister can't find a mistake. ”

"There's just one thing, but it's going to be done right away."

Zhu Qizhen said: "But I don't know what is going on? ”

Yang Pu's voice was a little cold, and he said: "Clean up the venue, and let Zhou Shangshu do things well, he is too tactful to kill him, but for the moths of the country, the old minister will deal with them on his behalf, and I think I can get some fine silver for the court." ”

Zhu Qizhen understood as soon as he heard it.

To be honest, many salt merchants are rich enough to rival the country, but how they got their money is really not up to scrutiny.