Zhu Biao continued to read, in fact, the policy of opening up salt to China was also a last resort, and at present, there is a great shortage of grain and grass at the border gates, and grain supply in important border towns and towns is often in short supply.

However, the current tax revenue of the imperial court is spent on disaster relief, relocation and southern conquest of Bashu, and a necessary part must be retained as a prevention of emergencies.

As a result, the imperial court had no surplus grain, let alone money to buy grain, and no strength to transport grain, so it needed to rely on private merchants, hoping to sell grain to the border and hand it over to the garrison through them.

But the businessman can't afford to be early, how can he waste his efforts to work for you in vain, the only cards that the imperial court can take out at present are official salt, and the rest is nothing, so the officials of Zhongshu Province came up with the opening of the Chinese law.

This method was actually taken from the compromise method in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Northern Song Dynasty in order to fight against the Western Xia and the Liao State, the Northern Song Dynasty continued to shrink the official sales area and expand the trade area, and at the same time introduced the compromise method, that is, the merchants transported the grain to the frontier, calculated the cost, issued the "cross-reference", and the merchants went to the Beijing to issue certificates, and finally went to the salt field to receive salt for sale.

The difference is not much from the current opening of the Chinese law, the difference is that the merchants take salt to the salt field to buy salt, and must be transported to the designated area for sale, which can be regarded as strengthening the control of salt merchants, and they take the official salt and sell it to Mongolia.

The opening of the salt industry in China is to use the low cost of official salt, the wide market, and the large profits as bait, hoping to not only transport grain to the border gates, but also develop the border areas, and also expand the border economy.

It's just that the problem of this policy is also predictable, such a huge profit will inevitably be targeted by the eunuchs and nobles, and there is no big problem with Zhu Yuanzhang's high-pressure policy in recent decades, but if it is loosened in the future, then the royal family of the noble officials will not let go.

The more Zhu Biao looked, the more he felt that it was not a long-term solution, the most important thing was that the salt tax was too stable, Zhu Biao had earlier looked through the financial revenues of the previous dynasties, and found that the contribution of the salt tax in the Song Dynasty was the highest, and it could be more than sixty percent of all revenues; During the Yuan Dynasty, eighty percent of the fiscal revenue came from the salt tax.

It is indeed dangerous to decentralize such interests to the people, but now if you don't do this, the border pass problem cannot be solved, although there is no war in the Ming Dynasty at present, but it is impossible not to send a large army to garrison the border pass, and hundreds of thousands of horses are terrifying to think about day and night.

Zhu Biao pinched his eyebrows irritably and said: "This method can only solve the urgent need, but it will inevitably be full of ills in the future. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "What do you think?" ”

Zhu Biao replied: "There are only a few salt households, and the output of official salt is very stable, but the demand for grain at the border passes fluctuates very much, and it is difficult to match the salt trigger, and it is only a matter of time before the officials and nobles participate in it." ”

This is the real problem, there is nothing wrong with this policy, it is true that the state-run salt is given away, it can only be said that it is a little too idealistic, and it is meaningless to restrain the bureaucrats and nobles, there are policies and countermeasures, and they can always think of a way for the sake of interests, not to mention that they hold great power.

And the salt method in salt is still a beginning, Zhu Biao also saw the salt method in the banknote, the salt method in Nama, the salt method in Na Tie, the nano tea method, the tea Yima method, etc., which are also in the plan, but the specific measures and policies have not yet been formulated.

It is estimated that he wants to see the situation after the salt, and then make adjustments, Zhu Biao feels that there is quite Hu Weiyong's style in it, and it seems that he is the main person who makes suggestions.

Zhu Biao explained the problem to his father carefully, and Zhu Yuanzhang also found that this matter was indeed idealistic, but the border garrison was waiting to be fed, and the salt problem could not shake the national capital in the final analysis, and the hundreds of thousands of hungry elites were capable.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Let's do it first, it's a big deal that the military camp will be abolished after it has taken effect in a few years, what can a group of businessmen do if they are dissatisfied?" ”

Zhu Biao had no opinion when he heard this, which is also the fundamental reason why businessmen are looking forward to being officials, everything is not guaranteed for them at all, and they will never be the top priority of the national policy.

Since it is not a long-term national policy, there is no need to think about it, as long as it can solve the urgent need, the matter of the imperial court's tuntian has also begun, after all, the daily consumption of grain and grass by the garrisons in various places cannot be stopped, and the current proportion of the garrison is that the border army guards the city in three points, and the tuntian in seven points, and the inland army guards the city in two points, and the tuntian is divided into eight points, and in the next few years, at least it must be able to supply its own eighty percent of the consumption.

At the same time, the imperial court will also encourage private merchants, that is, merchants are allowed to hire people to land at the border and pay grain on the spot, which saves the cost of trafficking and makes more profits, which is also a kind of cooperation.

Most of the policies that followed were clichés, encouraging all localities to build water conservancy, and the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and other major rivers that are prone to flooding should also consolidate their embankments, and once they overflowed, the responsible officials would be beheaded!

Then there was a new round of relocation, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the prince, from Shanxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang to all parts of the Central Plains, and the officials of the prefectures cooperated to ensure that the people returned to farming.

This group of immigrants in Fengyang is indeed an example of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao's efforts to go south, the imperial court sent many officials to Fengyang to study and investigate, and the experience will be more and more sufficient in the future, after all, this immigration will continue for a long time.

The father and son discussed for a while, and Zhu Biao returned to the East Palace to see his crown princess.

Accompanied by Chang Luohua, who was full of smiles, walked around the courtyard of the East Palace several times, for fear that she would be lazy and unwilling to move, and it would be troublesome to have a difficult birth at that time.

Chang Luohua followed behind Zhu Biao and asked, "I just heard that the three princes have returned to the palace, didn't the lord go to accompany them?" ”

Zhu Biao stretched out his hand and pulled down a few leaves and said: "Drink together at night, they are estimated to be talking to their mother now, after all, they haven't seen each other for half a year." ”

Chang Luohua stretched out his hand and touched the branch that was still swaying and said: "But if you want to eat in the palace, the concubine asked people to prepare, I heard that the second brother and the third brother love to eat cattle, and the fourth brother loves to eat sheep." ”

Zhu Biao turned his head and gently pinched her cheek and said, "You know a lot, what does the master like to eat?" ”

Chang Luohua squinted his eyes and counted: "Hot pot, continue eight fresh, five-flavor steamed chicken, roast pork meat, sea clear rolls, silk goose powder soup, ........."

Zhu Biao was suddenly satisfied, listening to his princess remember his favorite food as if he was talking about it, not to mention how heartwarming it was.

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