For these, Xingguo Gong also told him how to deal with it.

For example, about stove households. Originally, on the side of the stove households, it was stipulated how much salt they had to hand over, and then the remaining salt was purchased by the imperial court.

In addition, what kind of incentive system should be implemented, and a considerable amount of money will be taken out every month from the profits from the sale of salt to reward the stove households with the highest salt production, and they will be rewarded according to the ranking. And the last stove household, if it does not meet the required salt production for three consecutive months, without a reasonable reason, will lose this job.

In addition, if the stove owner finds that the salt is secretly stored and used to resell it to those salt dealers, it will be a felony if it is found.

Thinking about this, Zhang Huangyan felt that there were too many things to do, and he felt that there was not enough time at all.

So, he came back to his senses, looked at the salt merchants below, and said directly: "This time, this official has prepared a million copies of salt to sell in advance, but considering that if you sell it to others, I am afraid it will have too much impact on your existing salt sales. Therefore, the official has decided that the million salt quotes will be divided among you. As for the money for the purchase of salt, it was escorted to the military camp outside the city, along with the money from the taxes, to be used for military expenses. ”

Hearing this, these salt merchants were a little dumbfounded, Zhang Huangyan gave them the feeling that they were really making wool. Although they didn't raid their homes directly like Kong Dayu, they were asked to pay taxes and buy salt in advance, which was trying to hollow out their family funds!

Seriously, at this time, there are salt merchants who want to be angry, which makes them feel too aggrieved, it is really fish on the knife board, and they are slaughtered casually!

However, looking at the soldiers and brocade guards standing on both sides, they suddenly understood the fact that they were fish on the knife board, yes!

Thinking about it this way, these salt merchants are quite helpless.

They believe that if anyone dares to disagree, believe it or not, all the reasons just said will be gone, and it will be Kong Dayu's fate directly!

Thinking so, they comforted themselves that although they were going to bleed heavily, they were much stronger than Kong Dayu. Besides, it's not that Mr. Zhang said, if you make more fuss about salt, such as making refined salt, and conjure up some treasures, maybe you can still make a lot of money.

Forget it, even if it's a small profit and quick turnover!

So, whether they wanted it or not, they finally said that they felt that Lord Zhang's kindness gave them the right to buy these salt introductions first.

As for whether the salt introduction can be cashed in, they are not worried. Because they know that the salt yield produced by the salt drying method is definitely large enough!

Therefore, after these salt merchants returned, they could only mobilize the money and grain in their hands, and on the one hand, they had to pay taxes and recall the sealed salt warehouses, and on the other hand, they had to buy salt and transport the money to the camp outside the city.

In this way, the people of Yangzhou City, in addition to being frightened and worried, saw that the army in the city was slowly withdrawing, and those salt merchants escorted a cartload of boxes to the camp outside the city.

Subsequently, a notice from the transfer envoy Si Yamen was also posted, explaining that the salt merchant Kong Dayu colluded with the officials of the former transshipment envoy Si Yamen to sell a huge amount of illicit salt and make huge profits. Other salt merchants all support the new salt policy and so on.

Although this notice was posted, it must have been read by someone who could read it. In other words, the right to interpret the notice rests with the literati. Ordinary people, even if the literacy rate in Jiangnan is relatively high, but it is limited, and they still have to listen to those literati.

This action of the imperial court in Yangzhou Mansion frightened them. Many of them have a close relationship with salt merchants, and some of them are even raised by salt merchants. This time, their interests were inevitably impacted. Coupled with other interests that have been impacted, they are naturally not willing to pass like this.

So they began to misinterpret the notice. When he couldn't do it openly, he used this shady method to start discrediting the new salt policy this time.

Saying that the imperial court is used to stealing money from the house, this is eyeing the money of the salt merchants, so they made up a name to ask for the money of the salt merchants. When the court does this, it is competing with the people for profit......

Ordinary people, what can be distinguished? Whatever they say, they basically listen to it.

Soon, public opinion in Yangzhou City, although they did not dare to say it clearly, after all, there were Jinyi guards and troops in the city, and there was even a large army outside the city. But their private talk is unavoidable.

If it is allowed to go on like this, it can be foreseen that once the army leaves Yangzhou, or there is any fluctuation in the court, then Yangzhou will have such a public opinion on the side, and it will be easy to counterattack.

However, no one expected that at noon, when the restaurant or restaurant had the largest number of people, suddenly they heard the sound of gongs and drums on the street, and some people were shouting loudly.

When the people of Yangzhou Mansion heard this, they were immediately curious.

"What, the literary and artistic soldiers in the army are going to perform? What is it? ”

"I seem to have heard that in the imperial court army led by Xingguo Gong, there are new literary and artistic soldiers, and they are all female soldiers, and the monthly salary is very high, which is the same as the monthly salary of the cavalry."

"No, there are still female soldiers like this? So what do they do? Literary and artistic soldiers, shouldn't they just sing songs? ”

"Then how can they be equal to cavalry? That's outrageous, isn't it? It's still a woman, on the battlefield, how can there be anything about a woman! ”

"You are wrong, in this imperial court army led by Xingguo Gong, not only are the literary and artistic soldiers female soldiers, but also the health soldiers are also female soldiers, and the monthly salary is also the same as that of the cavalry, haven't you heard of it?"

“……”

As mentioned above, Yangzhou Mansion has always been the leading capital of the entire Ming Dynasty, and there are new things, including, literary style, poetry, clothing, etc., all of which are imitated by Yangzhou Mansion first, and then imitated all over the country.

As a result, it is good now, outside Yangzhou Mansion, there are still women as soldiers! Not only are women soldiers, but also literary and artistic soldiers who have never heard of, health soldiers, etc., and the monthly salary is even higher, which is equivalent to cavalry.

It can be said that this topic overshadowed the fact that the army entered the city yesterday, and almost all the people in Yangzhou, including the old men, as well as those girls, as well as the Yingying Yanyan on the Fengyue Field, were all discussing this thing that surprised them very much.

So, many people want to join in the fun, at least to see what the literary and artistic soldiers are like?

Not to mention, there are so many people in this regard, definitely more than any previous Yangzhou event.

But fortunately, the news said that there will be performances of literary and artistic soldiers in at least 25 places all over the city, which makes them not afraid that there will be too many people to watch it.

All of a sudden, the people of Yangzhou City, calling friends and friends, rushed to see the excitement and look strange.

"Let's go, brother, watch the woman go!"

"It's so vulgar, that's a female soldier, believe it or not, if you don't hide your mouth and be heard, you will turn around and slash you!"

"Literary and artistic soldiers, what are you going to play? Could it be that Mu Guiying is in charge? ”

"Who knows, this monthly salary is the same as that of the cavalry, I really want to see, what is so powerful about this female soldier!"

“……”

The atmosphere of Yangzhou City is the leading in the whole country. Don't talk about it, at least those on the Fengyue Field, there are absolutely no scruples about showing up, and they all meet to go to the theater together.

To be honest, as women, they are more curious about female soldiers in the army!

That's it, before the time comes, the place where the performance is full of people.

As a result, some small traders took the opportunity to do business.

"Eight treasure porridge with melon seeds and peanuts, sell it cheaply!"

"Melon and fruit snacks orange water, the uncle in front of me borrowed a way!"

“……”

It's really lively!

I don't know how long later, suddenly, someone shouted: "Look, it's coming, it's coming!" ”

So, the scene was silent, and everyone turned their heads to look when they heard the sound.

Sure enough, I saw a group of soldiers driving over. Behind a group of male soldiers, there were about thirty or forty female soldiers wearing Daming Mandarin Duck battle robes, walking neatly in unison.

This appearance shocked everyone at once.

Here in Yangzhou City, there are many gorgeous clothes and strange costumes.

However, at this time, they never thought that the feeling that the Ming military uniform was worn on the woman and walked over in unison was really heroic, and that amazing feeling made them a little stunned when they saw the flowers.

At this time, they all had a feeling that women wearing military uniforms could look so good!

It wasn't until the female soldiers had disappeared from their eyes behind a newly erected curtain that they all came to their senses, and for a moment, they all discussed in amazement. Even those warblers and swallows who thought they were leading the fashion trend were also communicating in a low voice.

This discussion was not until the female soldiers began to perform, and they all fell silent.

The performance of the female soldiers is actually a modern drama, of course, in the eyes of later generations, it is still an ancient drama.

is similar to a sketch, which is played as the firewood, rice, oil and salt of an ordinary people's family, and the story of the common people.

Of course, this is not the core, the core is the impact of salt price fluctuations on ordinary people.

The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty, especially Huai salt, is actually the most expensive in all dynasties. According to the Jiajing period, each catty of salt was sold for three cents and four cents of silver, and each catty of salt was sold for one cent and a half cents of silver, which was converted into RMB for later generations, and the gross estimate was that each catty of salt reached 15 to 200 yuan when it was expensive, and it was 50 or 60 yuan at the lowest time.

And ordinary people, how can they usually have any money. Therefore, a lot of the money that the family has earned is spent on the expenditure of salt. The most important thing is that salt is a necessity, not to buy it once and not buy it, but to use it all year round.

Zhang Mingwei compiled this sketch, which reflects the changes in salt prices before and after the new salt policy and the impact on ordinary people.

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