Chapter 52: Mine Rebellion

Although Zhu Qizhen is still looking at the production process, his mind has long been on other things, anyway, he doesn't really understand this specific process, and he doesn't even need to understand more.

He thought about how to implement this organizational method, whether to promote Liu Dingzhi and be responsible for the salt transportation division to change the salt from salt to salt, or to summon Liu Dingzhi into the palace and simply set up a Shaofu organization, put all the workshops in the Daming Palace under the management of the Shaofu, and first turn the Shaofu into the Daming Royal Industrial Group.

And then talk about something else.

There are pros and cons to both.

The production capacity of Fujian Salt Transportation Division has skyrocketed and cannot be digested, which has caused a squeeze on production capacity. Once all salt transportation divisions should have the salt drying method, it is foreseeable that the price of Daming salt will usher in a plummet.

But the question is, the plummeting price of salt is a good thing for the people of Daming, but is it a good thing for Daming's fiscal revenue?

You must know that the salt tax is now the second largest revenue after the field tax.

Although general things are small profits and quick turnover, the question is whether salt will make small profits and quick turnover?

Is there a limit to how much people can consume salt?

The price of salt has dropped significantly, will the salt tax revenue rise or fall?

Zhu Qizhen couldn't judge this economic issue for a while, but he personally felt that it would probably rise. Because he personally estimates that although the price of salt in Daming is not high, most families can afford to eat salt, but they still regard salt as a precious thing.

If the price of salt falls substantially, it is estimated that there will be a significant increase in the amount of salt used. And salt is not just a condiment, but also an industrial good.

Although most of the industries that use salt today, some traditional handicrafts also need salt as a raw material, such as leather.

But this is just Zhu Qizhen's personal prediction. The relationship between the imperial court and the tile spur was becoming more and more strained, and it was impossible for him to rely on personal judgment on national affairs.

Zhu Qizhen understands his ability very well, and many things that later generations take for granted will undergo wonderful changes in the society of the Ming Dynasty.

Develop in a direction that Zhu Qizhen did not expect in advance.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen personally feels that if salt is popular overseas, it has the potential to become a bulk commodity. Then Zhu Qizhen began to promote the salt drying method on a large scale.

Even if it is not as expected, the income of the Ming Dynasty on the salt tax will not be reduced much, after all, Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, and many places in Southeast Asia also have tens of millions of people.

With their addition, it can also offset the salt tax gap caused by the domestic salt price reduction, of course, it is better if there is no such gap.

So, think in this regard.

The implementation of the salt drying method should be slowed down.

As for the establishment of Shaofu, it was in charge of Liu Dingzhi. This is also good, especially since Ouchi still has some ordnance

Production capacity. If Liu Dingzhi can straighten out the relationship and let the internal firearms factory and the weapons factory explode their production capacity, it will naturally be better.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen also has to consider the issue of checks and balances of power.

Ouchi has always been the world of eunuchs, and now a minister who was born as a jinshi has been transferred to Ouchi to take charge of a new yamen. Is this an invasion of the center of imperial power by scholars?

With a precedent, it's quite difficult to take a step back.

Zhu Qizhen was actually not willing to do this, but he also had to admit one thing, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were never of the same order of magnitude as Wenchen in political disputes.

Don't look at how arrogant eunuch so-and-so is, just look at their end.

This is still under the patronage of imperial power.

The rise of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was a way to reduce administrative efficiency and even undermine the imperial court system in order to achieve political balance.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, this method is not advisable.

But now the decline trend of the Wuxun group is obvious, and Zhu Qizhen does not want the military generals to participate more in the power struggle, the power struggle in which the civilian officials participate is called political struggle, and the power struggle in which the military generals participate is called a coup d'état.

Therefore, eunuchs are not useful. So what kind of opponent to arrange for the civil official group, this is a question that Zhu Qizhen has been thinking about.

Today, his idea of transferring Liu Dingzhi to the inner court suddenly opened his mind.

He slammed down the salt law catalogue, and said secretly in his heart: "If you downplay the special gender of eunuchs, and then look at the battle between eunuchs and civil officials, it is actually a battle between internal court officials and outer court officials." ”

"And such a thing is not once or twice in history."

Anyone who knows a little about the ancient Chinese bureaucracy knows that the official position of Shizhong was originally the emperor's attendant, but later became another name for the prime minister, Shangshu, an official, was also a minor official in the palace, and later became the highest administrative officer, and was once the prime minister.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it carefully, and said secretly: "These court officials, they must not be eunuchs, otherwise the civil officials below will definitely not agree, and even disagree, and although the Ming eunuchs have some capable people, it is too difficult to ensure that these eunuchs have outstanding people in each generation." ”

Zhu Qizhen suddenly remembered Wang Zhen and sighed lightly in his heart.

"These court officials can't be civil officials. Otherwise, all my hard work will be in vain. ”

Zhu Qizhen's desire to replace the outer court officials with the inner court officials was an expansion of his own rights, rather than giving civil officials the opportunity to reach into the inner court.

This general direction must not be changed.

But what to do, Zhu Qizhen was not sure for a while.

Where to find a class with vitality and social status that can compete with the civil service? This question made Zhu Qizhen fall into contemplation, and Zhu Qizhen casually put away the salt drying method catalogue in his hand, but accidentally, something fell from here

Coming out, there seems to be a pamphlet.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly frowned, and said secretly: "This is a clip." ”

What's the point that you can't play it specially, so you have to send it over so carefully? When Zhu Qizhen saw the clip. It's sensitive to smell that something is wrong.

The reason is very simple, the attached folds in the folds are endless, and they are sandwiched in the folds, which is common, but they are generally explained in the folds.

But this clip is not.

Zhu Qizhen didn't think this was a low-level mistake made by Liu Dingzhi. If Liu Dingzhi could make such a low-level mistake, then he would not have to mix in officialdom a long time ago.

Would you write a report to your boss and clip something else that doesn't matter?

Then there is only one answer, there are some things Liu Dingzhi wanted to tell him, but he was worried that someone would look at it halfway, so he sandwiched the clip in, not even in the twist, but in the catalogue of the salt drying method.

Liu Dingzhi is not worried that Zhu Qizhen will not be able to see it, because the music that Zhu Qizhen has seen will generally be archived and retained, and someone will check it carefully.

Regardless of what Liu Dingzhi wrote in this clip? This kind of cautious situation made Zhu Qizhen feel bad.

Zhu Qizhen opened the clip, hurriedly flipped through it, and his face changed greatly. took a deep breath, but it was written above that Ye Liuzong, a native of Zhejiang, was stationed in the mountains of Fujian, secretly formed armor soldiers, and plotted to rebel, while Fujian did not report it. Whitewash the peace.

Liu Dingzhi also made it clear the cause and effect, the real problem of this matter appeared in the mining policy of the Ming Dynasty, and it was Zhou Chen's decision to reopen silver mines in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places that specifically detonated this problem.

The Empress Dowager quit the mines and rested with the people, which was certainly a good thing for the people. But good things don't happen when they're not properly placed.

The imperial court boycotted the mines, but the mountains were closed and no mining. Officials withdrew, but the local miners were not settled.

When the imperial court first began to build mines, these miners were recruited from the neighborhood in the form of labor, and they lived in the mines for many years, relying on mining, but now in a word, the imperial court does not mine, these people must fend for themselves, but there are many people there who can go to the way out.

Among them, there was a person left by Ye Zongliu, who organized the miners to secretly open mines.

This is a common occurrence, and it is not surprising.

But the problem is that Zhou Chen has now ordered the reopening of the mine, the mine is there, it is in the hands of Ye Zongliu, he has gathered thousands of people, Xiaoao mountains and forests, and the mine is their life-root. How could they abandon the mine because of an order from the imperial court.

In their eyes, the mine is theirs.

Zhou Chen saw in the household document that the mine is banned, and it can be mined if the ban is lifted again, and the local government will not ask the situation to tell the above.

The Fujian region naturally tried its best to get Ye Liuzong.