Chi Qiu and Li Yuan had an early lunch, and Brother Cai had only a short lunch break at this time, Chi Qiu didn't want to wait a little, drank two cups of tea, and was about to leave, but an idea popped up in his mind: "Lao Yang, I'm new here, and I don't know some rules very well, I want to ask for advice." ”

"Oh? Brother Chi, but it doesn't hurt to ask. ”

"Now I have opened a workshop in the old town, naturally I want to take root here and do something, but when I first arrived in Yanhu, I don't know that this Yanhu business is a piece of business, and there are no requirements for these workshops in the city, such as taxation and sanitation, of course, I started a workshop in the old town, and they are all the old departments of the mercenary group, I don't know if it will cause trouble?"

Lao Yang looked at Chi Qiu like a monster, how could anyone care about taxes? Hygiene? These things, but anyone who buys a house can't hide, who will go to the pole to ask these things.

In fact, Chi Qiu didn't want to ask, it's not that he doesn't know, how much he has to understand, in fact, he mainly wants to ask the last sentence, to put it bluntly, that is, I went to your site to start a workshop, how can this be calculated, will you ask for dividends or something.

Lao Yangcheng's mansion was not low, but he did not understand Chi Qiu's words, but he was quite interested in talking to Chi Qiu about the tax system in the river, and all the vassal states in the river levied commercial taxes: in addition to the occupation of land, registration and other contents, the city tax was levied according to a certain proportion of the commodity transaction amount, which has become the main part. Moreover, tariffs are widely implemented, not only at the border, but also on the main transportation routes in the hinterland. The Yamazawa tax is still levied in the production process. The normal rate of customs and city taxes was three percent, but it was often raised, and because of the large number of princes, customs duties were more often levied.

In the early days, no one would be taxed in a workshop like Chi Qiu, and it would be generally not until it was a certain scale that someone would come to negotiate the business tax.

As for hygiene, no one cares about it.

Lao Yang's eyes lit up, as if he had found a primary school student who could popularize science, and unconsciously opened Lao Yang's chatterbox, it is estimated that he had been running around and suffering from it, Lao Yang talked a lot about the tariff issue, and the river was still in a state of division and separation. When the East China Sea Alliance was strong, there were 29 separate princes and six autonomous city-states within the alliance. The territory is full of checkpoints, and there are a variety of commercial regulations, weights and measures, and hundreds of local currencies.

Later, under the promotion of the East China Sea Alliance, the Customs Union was created, and the West Dutch currency of the Duchy of West Holland far away from abroad was introduced as the settlement currency, and the countries no longer issued gold coins and large silver coins, and the internal customs of the Union were abolished, the collection of consumption tax and domestic customs duties was abolished, and the free circulation of goods was declared, and only 8% ad valorem tax was levied on foreign goods, and the duty-free import of raw materials was allowed.

The former met the demands of the land-owning princes, but the latter caused discontent among the merchant class.

After all, the agricultural tax is simple, and there are no layers of tariffs when goods come in, and the purchasing power is equal to a straight line, but the coinage right is outsourced to the Duchy of Xihe, and the coinage technology and purity of the Duchy of Xihol are trustworthy, but the gold and silver coins are all entered from Suoxia, which means that the East China Sea Alliance is in charge of Suoxia City and has the power to "mint" it.

In addition, the Duchy of West Holland has a large number of goods

After all, once the goods enter the country, they cannot be repeatedly levied internally, which is equivalent to a large amount of income for the inland princes, unless they find a way to go to the Duchy of West Holland to purchase goods.

Within the East China Sea Alliance, commerce and trade gradually prospered, and many princes owned workshops in addition to land, and their double combination of nobles believed that Suo Xia was using the "coinage right" to exchange low tariffs with the Duchy of West Holland, and it was a compromise with the interests of the East China Sea Alliance to the Duchy of West Holland, and the low-tax West Dutch goods would impact their workshops, and if Suo Xia controlled the gold and silver coins, such as a storm, and cut off the supply for a few months, prices would skyrocket, resulting in a decline in purchasing power, so that these nobles were not pleasing to both sides, Even having to look at Suo Xia's eyes to survive also caused the East China Sea Alliance to deviate from Germany.

After the discovery of gold in Fuyuan, the call for self-coinage in Hejian became higher and higher, and it was very likely to impact Suo Xia's right to "mint coins", so the battle between the two alliances around the Fuyuan gold mine broke out.

In this context, the defeat of Suoxia may not be traceless.

Ji Qiu was secretly surprised when he heard it, and probably understood that this was probably a form of "currency war". Although I don't quite understand the specific twists and turns in it, it is not difficult to guess that Suo Xia Guo also used his identity as the leader to seek his own maximum interests, thus offending the members of the alliance, making the alliance members find another way out, opening the long-abandoned Grand Canal, and purchasing goods from the Lusong Imperial Kingdom through Yanhu, which created the growth of Yanhu.

It is no wonder that Yanhu Lake has been able to rise in just twenty years.

It seems that no matter what, you still have to find someone who is financially proficient, and it is estimated that you will not need it now, and someone will have to come forward for some things in the future.

"Is this Duchy of West Holland different from the Song of Deer?"

"You don't know the relationship?" Lao Yang was stunned.

Chi Qiu naturally shook his head, he really didn't know, he only knew that the dynasty in Jiangnan was called Lu Song because the emperor's surname was Lu. What kind of immortal is the Duchy of West Holland? From this name, it should be one of the princes of Hejian, but in Yuzhou, Hedong, and Guanzhong, there is no trace of the Duchy of Xihe, and the land of Qilu on the Shandong Peninsula, according to the impression of Chi Qiu, Qi and Laidi, that is, the north, should be under the control of the Puqi Grand Duchy of the Kite Duke, and the former Suoxia City is now the enclave of Lusong, --- Qing County, which he still knows as the fifth prince of Xiting. Then Ludi is Yanhu and Yanzhou Cui's family, and there is a decaying Weilan principality, and Yuzhou because of the-stirring stick of the Queshan Cavalry Regiment, the princes of northern Henan are basically not worth mentioning, either attached to the Xiting Empire or attached to Yanhu, or the two ends of snakes and rats, and the grass on the wall.

It seems that after calculation, there is no boundary of the Duchy of West Holland. To be able to trade with Suoxia, who is close to the sea, it won't be from Liaodong, right?

"The predecessor of this Duchy of West Holland was the country of the women, you always know the country of the women, right?"

Ji Qiu shook his head.

"This country of He Nu is a principality at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is not right to say that it is the country of the Rong people, it is said that the country of He Nu is some Bailan people who moved out of Bashu, down the river, initially in the Jingchu area, where with Huaxiazi

The people intermarried and lived for decades before she was given the title of Baroness He. ”

"Baroness He?"

"Yes, this country of Henu is ruled by a lady, and it is the same as the Duchy of Xiqin, maybe the Rong people over there in Bashu are like this." Lao Yang softened his color and continued: "Anyway, they moved to the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is said that it was originally a tidal flat, a barren land, and they also have in-laws with some big families in Jingchu, and the princes of Jiangnan did not embarrass them too much, so they let them establish a country there." ”

Chi Qiu nodded and said that he understood, it is estimated that at that time, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there was no big relationship between more and less people, so it seemed that the country of He Nu was near Songjiang Mansion or Shanghai? It is estimated that there was no Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River at that time, I don't know if Chongming Island has been piled up by the sediment of the Yangtze River now? Chi Qiu knows very little about the history of Jiangnan, in the historical books of Guanzhong, the changes in Bashu or understand a little, after the disaster of heavenly punishment, the Tubo people asked to be attached, acid rain made the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau unable to grow barley, cattle and sheep were killed and injured very seriously, they thought that it was just them to invite disasters, in fact, even if it was the country of abundance, it was not much better.

So the attached Tubo people picked up the saber, and the Bashu Tang people at that time to fight, but unfortunately they made a mistake, acid rain hit, once the place returned to the primitive era, there is no way back to escape, once defeated, only rations can not be obtained, the Tang people are naturally not easy to provoke, so the invading Tubo people lost very badly, it is rumored that "the people of the high mountains lost their horses, jumped on the boat, and never dared to dock again!" "Probably they couldn't go back to the plateau, so they had to go down the river.

"After the settlement of the country of Henu, it was quickly integrated into the princes of Jiangnan, and the country of Henu was famous for planting Jingchu rice, not only the yield increased, the varieties were also improved, the open land was exhausted, the mulberry was full of fields, and the most important thing was that they were able to burn the sea and boil salt, which made them very profitable, and quickly became the richest family of the princes." Lao Yang shook his head and expressed puzzlement: "I don't really understand, it's all by the sea, why can He Nuguo burn the sea and boil salt?" Won't the other princes do it? ”

Chi Qiu smiled, he can still answer this question, just tariff, Lao Yang talked for a long time, Chi Qiu couldn't interject, seeing that he had the opportunity to speak, so he said: "Actually, this salt is available everywhere, divided into sea salt, well salt, mineral salt, lake salt, earth salt and so on......"

"Oh?" Lao Yang stopped: "Wait a minute, is there anyone outside?" ”

A handmaiden came in and said hello.

"Go get some tea. By the way, did those two girls wake up? ”

The maidservant approached, picked up the teapot and replied, "The little one is up." ”

"Didn't cry or make a fuss?"

"No, just sit on the edge of the bed in a daze."

"Then you can bring her something to eat later, you should be hungry too." Lao Yang said lightly.

"Yes!"

After the maidservant left, Lao Yang raised his hand: "Brother Chi, keep talking!" ”

Where's that? Chi Qiu warmed Fang Cai's words: "This salt is divided into sea salt, well salt, mineral salt, lake salt, and soil salt

It's sea salt. ”

Lao Yang wanted to say that it was all nonsense, Yanhu had eaten sea salt for thousands of years, and smiled: "Brother Chi is really well-informed." Then he told the maidservant to fetch the pastry.

"The sea salt method is to bring seawater directly into the stove and cook it in an iron pot. This method has been handed down from the tube and is called the decoction method. ”

Lao Yang nodded. I took a piece of osmanthus cake and put it in my mouth.

"But this method is laborious and labor-intensive, and the output is limited by containers, the scale is not large, and the salt price is expensive, so the salt from Hedong is also needed. It is said that Tao Zhu Gong in the Spring and Autumn Period, in 19 years, three to a thousand gold, descendants of the business prosperous, so to a huge million. It was to go to the Hedong salt field to sell salt and accumulate wealth. ”

Lao Yang disagreed: "It has been like this throughout the ages, is it possible that their country of He Nu is lighting firewood in the sea?" ”

"Actually, no, is this firewood burning, or coal?"

"That's coal, of course!"

"What about coal? Or is the sun so bad? ”

Lao Yang's eyes flickered, and he suddenly realized: "This is naturally the sun, but if the sun can be sun, how?" Can there be ten suns in the sky that have dried up all the seawater? ”

"Naturally, we don't need ten suns, if there are ten suns, we don't have Houyi, I'm afraid that we will all be sunburned to death." Chi Qiu took a sip of tea and said: "In fact, you only need to dig a field first, introduce seawater, and then close it and separate it from other seawater, which is called a salt pan. ”

Lao Yang slapped his brain: "It's that simple? ”

"It's that simple! Or you don't need to cook it in a container, just pour the water from the salt pan with high salt content into another salt pan and continue to dry. Then the seawater is re-released into the previous salt pan, and the two sides are dried together, a batch of salt is dried, a batch of salt is collected, and then the brine is introduced. ”

Chi Qiu ordered some tea and drew a schematic diagram on the table, the seawater → the evaporation pond→ the crystallization pool→ coarse salt and mother liquor, Lao Yang had an epiphany: "This is the meaning of boiling the sea?" ”

In fact, in the previous life, in the first year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong (1522 AD), Haifeng Field took the lead in frying for drying, and has been using the old process of traditional salt-making for more than 2,000 years, and it was changed to this way of boiling sea salt in that year, since then salt is actually not a scarce product, sea salt has been inexhaustible since that time, but the imperial court has been controlling the price of two products through the salt and iron monopoly, salt as a necessity for the people, although the salt monopoly system is very different from the tax system in form, But in fact, through the sale of salt, to collect the people's fat and ointment, so the Ming and Qing dynasties will derive the salt introduction system, merchants want to sell salt need to buy a license in the hands of the imperial court, with this thing can go to the salt production area to transport salt for sale. To put it simply, the supply of salt was large enough at that time, but the government and businessmen colluded to monopolize the operation to ensure that everyone who wanted to eat salt paid more.

And Chi Qiu believes that the country of He Nu back then developed this way of drying salt, so that it could become a powerful country in Jiangnan in one fell swoop. Because of that year

It seems that it is only a decoction method.

"Isn't that as long as it is close to the sea, the sea salt production is endless?"

"That's nature."

"Then why is salt so expensive now?"

"Maybe this method is not yet widespread." Chi Qiu was a little bleeding in his heart, could it be that the country of He Nu still kept this secret recipe for hundreds of years? It shouldn't be, once the salt drying method is formed, it is unlikely that the vast salt pan will not be discovered by those who are interested, the method is very simple, as long as you think about it a little, it is difficult to copy. "Or maybe it's controlled by Jiangnan."

Lao Yang was indignant: "It's really hateful, they don't spread out such things that benefit the country and the people." ”

Chi Qiu comforted Lao Yang: "Since ancient times, salt and iron have been monopolized, iron is not a bulk commodity, the common people don't use much, only salt is, in fact, salt is also a way for the superior to collect taxes, don't be impatient, don't be impatient." ”

The old poplar's beard curled up, and he said angrily: "This kind of thing, you...... Not...... I understand......" He took a long breath: "In this way, it is not impossible for the country of Henu to get rich, now I finally understand, but listen to what you just said, this way is not complicated, and it depends on the sky to eat, why don't other princes in Jiangnan learn, they also have the sea, but they have to spend money to buy salt from the country of Henu?" ”

"It's hard to say."

Chi Qiu thought of what he had seen in the previous history books: since ancient times, Yangzhou and Chuzhou in Huainan were the main salt production areas. Yangzhou is famous for Jiangdu and Hailing, and Chuzhou is the largest in Yancheng and Lianshui. In particular, Yangzhou, located in the north-south thoroughfare, since ancient times salt merchants have gathered, for the national salt industry distribution center, the Tang Dynasty has been "Yang one benefit two" said. After the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the salt industry was used as an important capital, and the salt industry became a major social and economic commodity in Jianghuai. In the first year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (937 AD), the Southern Tang Dynasty changed Taizhou and placed Hailing Supervisor, which strengthened the management of the salt industry. and set up a Yancheng supervisor in Chuzhou, "one hundred and twenty-three salt pavilions". To the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yancheng "has more than 417,000 stones, Taizhou Hailing salt is like Gaocang, and Xiaohaichang is more than 656,000 stones." Huainan Yanli had a very important position in the rule of the Southern Tang Dynasty, so that after the Southern Zhou Expedition obtained several states in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Tang Salt Works were completely lost, and the economy was heavily hindered. Li Jing said that he was willing to "dedicate himself to the unfallen people of Jiangbei County,...... Zhou Shizong "did not allow" the loss of hundreds of thousands of tributes, and begged Hailing salt to belong to the south", but in order to further control the Southern Tang Dynasty, he agreed to "give 300,000 stone of salt to the army". Since then, the salt industry has become an economic bargaining chip for the Later Zhou regime to firmly control the Southern Tang Dynasty.

At that time, there was no salt drying method, so why was the salt production in Jiangbei far more than in other places? The Southern Tang Dynasty lost the Jiangbei Salt Farm, so it was controlled by others, why is this? In fact, if you think about it carefully, maybe the north has enough sun, and the south has a lot of rain, of course, it may also be the coastline, the coastline in the north is flat and suitable for salt, and the coastline in the south is tortuous and there are many typhoons.

There are many places that you can't figure out, there may be humanistic habits, it may be a geographical problem, or it is ......

Chi Qiu had no choice but to say lightly: "Maybe there is also the problem of brine, after all, after the sea salt is dried, it is uncomfortable to eat, and if you want to eat it, you need to make refined salt, as long as it is a woman country."

If you control this method, their salt will taste better than other salts, and it is not unavoidable. ”

Lao Yang waved his hand and said: "That's it, this was all hundreds of years ago, so I don't care, if we are free in the future, Brother Cai and I will simply go to the beach to set up a piece of land and use your method to boil salt!" ”

Chi Qiu smiled: "Then don't forget me, let me have a stake in technology." ”

Lao Yang rubbed his hands, his eyes were a little treacherous: "Then do you know how to configure the brine?" ”

"I don't know!"

Lao Yang nodded his head and glanced at him: "Then why give you shares, I remember all your methods." After that, he could wipe the tea stains on the table, although the sketch he had just drawn had long since dried up.

"Cunning! Pull the ladder up behind you. Chi Qiu also rolled his eyes.

"Hahaha......" Lao Yang said with a smile: "Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, it turns out that you can make money like this for nothing, and the losing brother has worked hard here all these years, and he has to do those things that are suspected of being criminals and bad people." ”

(End of chapter)

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