Collect on the spot and sell freely.

When these eight characters came into Zheng Xiaru's ears, it was like a summer thunder, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak class, so that he was stunned for a long time.

Looking at his surprised appearance, Zhu Mingzhong picked up the teacup and said slowly.

"Actually, to put it bluntly, it is to increase the number of classes and correct the introduction of classes,"

More than 300 years of insight beyond the times, so that Zhu Mingzhong is very clear, how to maximize the benefits of the salt tax, the maximum choice is to implement the monopoly system, that is, manufacturing to sales, are directly controlled by the government, and even once, Zhu Mingzhong also planned to implement the monopoly system in Jiangbei, but it is obviously not realistic, after all, this involves many interests, and in addition to the fact that the foothold was not stable at that time, the salt tax is related to the foundation of Jiangbei, so naturally there is no rash engagement.

But now Zhu Mingzhong chooses another way, because he is in control of the two Huai salt farms, and what he needs is not only the market in Jiangbei, but the entire Huai salt area and even other salt areas.

"Abolish the introduction of merchants, directly in the salt field according to the output of the drying field, directly tax, change the introduction to a burden, 100 catties a load, each load of 1 tael 3 yuan salt tax, allow private free sales, in this way, not only can exempt the salt merchants from exploiting the people, but also ensure that the salt tax will not be lost! Of course, more importantly, the salt fields are all officialdom, how much salt is produced per mu of salt field per year, there is a fixed number, if the two Huai salt fields are shipped out of 2 million quintals, you can get 2.6 million taels of salt tax silver, and when there are more people in other days, this salt class will naturally increase day by day! ”

Seeing that Zheng Xiaru was still shocked, Zhu Mingzhong continued.

Of course, after the abolition of the "shore monopoly business", there will naturally be no more monopoly of salt merchants, and it can fundamentally avoid the recurrence of the salt merchants' control of the salt tax, and moreover, whether it is the salt farmers in the salt field or the private merchants who sell salt goods, they are probably retail merchants, because the salt profits are all owned by the government, and the competition between the retail merchants makes the price of salt not as high as it is now. ”

Now, listening to Jinglue's explanation, Zheng Xiaru has already understood the meaning of Jinglu, which is to abolish the introduction of merchants and the donations of salt merchants, where is it more convenient than directly collecting salt to benefit the government?

Not to mention that those salt merchants donated millions of taels, even if it was a few million taels, I am afraid it would be difficult to make Jingluo change his mind. After all, this salt is too big.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, the total amount of salt in the country was no less than four million, but how many taxes were levied? If it had been that the line was not a "shore businessman", but a "tax on the spot", I am afraid that there would be no need to levy three additional salaries, and this salt tax alone would have been able to collect no less than 20 million taels of salt. In this way, how could there be the poverty of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

The strategy is to go on a northern expedition!

Since there is going to be a Northern Expedition, it is natural to find a way to add salt lessons.

I often sigh in my heart, Zheng Xia thinks of the prosperity of Yangzhou City, I am afraid that from now on, the prosperity of Yangzhou City will no longer exist!

"What Jinglu said is that if you can tax on the spot, not only can you increase the salt class, but also make the world's traders go to the two Huai to sell salt, especially in the Huguang area, Huguang and Jiangxi, since ancient times neither salt production, but rely on Huai salt, if the Jingluo can set up branches with Anqing, Qinghe and other places, the salt will be transported from the salt field to the branches, and traders from all over the country are allowed to buy and sell freely, according to the following officials, this year's Huai salt production and marketing may not be less than 4 million quintals! The salt tax must be no less than 5 million! ”

Although it is a pity that the prosperity of Yangzhou is no longer there, it does not prevent Zheng Xiaru from taking the initiative to make suggestions to help Jingluo further improve the transportation and marketing of salt goods, after all, he is a salt merchant and naturally knows how to do business.

5 million taels of salt tax!

It is enough to maintain the military and political expenditures in Jiangbei, and only needs to think about it a little in the bottom of his heart, Zheng Xiaru knows that Jingluo will never give up the huge salt tax brought about by the "on-the-spot taxation", which is far beyond the limit that the salt merchants may pay, and even if they lose the donation, they will not come up with so much silver.

And more importantly, since then, the entire Ming salt will undergo fundamental changes, to the future after the Ming Dynasty, when the salt farms are implemented on the spot taxation, the Ming Dynasty can get tens of millions of taels of salt every year, and with the increase of people, the salt class will only increase. This salt class will not even be inferior to Tian Fu in the future.

"Is it too much to pay a positive tax of one or two or three dollars per burden?"

This tax amount was suggested by the Junzheng Division after investigating the salt cities in various places, but this did not prevent Zhu Mingzhong from asking Zheng Xiaru for advice.

"Back to the scriptures, even if it is a tax of one or two or three dollars, scattered salt merchants can still get double the salt profit, in terms of the shore business, it naturally feels that the profit is thin, but if it is an ordinary trader, double the profit is already a huge profit!"

As a businessman, Zheng Xiaru can certainly see what the biggest change will be after the implementation of "on-the-spot expropriation" and the abolition of "shore diversion merchants", the biggest change is that there will be thousands of traders from all over the country to buy and sell salt, and these salt dealers will sell official salt to all parts of the country like ants moving. These people will buy dozens of taels at a time, or hundreds of taels at most, and they are no longer as greedy as "shore merchants", and all they want is a few dozen taels of salt profits, even if it is a dozen taels of profits, it is worth it for ordinary traders. At that time, the salt seller will only be hard work, and even the illicit salt may disappear.

Zheng Xiaru's answer made Zhu Mingzhong nod, and then he said with a smile.

"In that case, Shisuke, you can draw up a chapter on this matter and report it to the government office in a few days!"

What do subordinates do?

is to carry the black pot for Shangguan, maybe this idea is Zhu Mingzhong's own, but he doesn't mind letting other people "receive merit", the reason why Zheng Xiaru is "meritorious" is because he is a salt transport envoy, as for Zhu Mingzhong himself...... You don't need to take everything on your body yet, not to mention, it's a life that offends people in itself! Sometimes, it is also the way of an official to have a subordinate "recite" it appropriately.

Wealth is but a handful of salt......

From then on, it will never be possible to appear in Yangzhou again, looking at Zheng Xiaru, whose face seems to be a little unnatural, Zhu Mingzhong secretly thought to himself.

The "monopoly on the introduction of shores" is itself unreasonable, and the biggest irrationality is that all the profits from salt should be given to the merchants, not to the state. What is ridiculous is that this kind of unreasonableness has been used for more than 300 years, and it was not until the Republic of China period that it slowly became history with the implementation of "square field expropriation". Now, it's time to abolish this irrational system.

"Xia Guan understands!"

Although his expression was a little unnatural, Zheng Xiaru still nodded yes, but the pain in his heart was probably only something he could understand. Just when there were mixed tastes in his heart, he listened to the scriptures again.

"However, even so, Zhu has not considered the livelihood of this salt merchant......

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Zhu Mingzhong continued.

"Shijie, think about it, you should know that in Qinghe has now built a water-powered yarn factory, the daily yarn is very huge, a machine day and night yarn is equal to a hundred workers, a factory can produce no less than tens of thousands of women spinning yarn, and the yarn produced by the yarn factory is cheap, less than two-thirds of the yarn, such factory yarn will definitely be popular, replacing the high price of the yarn is inevitable......"

Big sticks with carrots!

Since it has taken away people's livelihoods, it is natural to create a livelihood for them, of course, more importantly, Zhu Mingzhong needs to transform these salt merchants into part of the Jiangbei Capital Group, and they are also the easiest group of people to convert.

After all, compared with Qinghe's "government-run capital", the capital-rich Yangzhou salt merchants are the easiest group of people to transform into a capital group, making them supporters of the Jiangbei government rather than enemies through benefit sharing.

Of course, while these salt merchants injected capital into the emerging yarn mills, weaving and other capital enterprises, the government could collect more taxes, and their investment was bound to drive the development of machinery manufacturing in Qinghe and Jiangbei's machinery manufacturing industry in the future, to a certain extent, it was equivalent to opening the door to the industrial revolution. For these potential powers, Zhu Mingzhong naturally will not turn a blind eye.

"Well, as for the silver taels they donated......"

After pondering for a moment, although he was a little reluctant, Zhu Mingzhong still said.

"Return it to them according to the list, and if anyone does not want to take it back, then give them shares as the share capital of the factory enterprise."

Now the government doesn't have any spare money in its hands!

Although the official treasury relied on the Yangzhou salt merchants' raids, they got a huge amount of money, but the money always has their use, at present, this "windfall" for Jiangbei, can do not know how many big things, building a factory is second, more importantly, in the case of "Tonghai Yuguo" with Zheng Chenggong's approval, Jiangbei needs to build more merchant ships, in order to carry out larger-scale foreign trade, through foreign trade subsidies finance.

Of course, if this money is used as equity capital, it can also play a "guide" role, guiding these salt merchants to invest their capital in industrial and commercial enterprises, instead of investing in extravagance and waste as in the past.

Almost as soon as Jing Liu's words fell, Zheng Xiaru understood the meaning of Jing Lu from the "share capital" in his accentuated tone, the money seemed to be returned, but in fact, Jing Luo had no intention of returning at all.

Knowing the meaning of Jinglu, Zheng Xiaru naturally knew what to do next, the so-called "return" was only nominal, as for this share capital...... Who would take it seriously? After all, until now, there are still hundreds of Jin salt merchants on the city wall whose heads are still hanging in cages, if it weren't for this, how could these people take the initiative to give such a heavy gift at the time of the wedding?

After giving some advice on other things, finally, when Zheng Xiaru was about to retreat, Zhu Mingzhong asked casually as if unintentionally.

"Shisuke, where is that old friend of mine now?"