But what can Cao Huachun do? Cao Huachun is also desperate.

Now the yield of sweet potatoes is like that, and there are only so many places to grow.

The most important thing is that although Emperor Chongzhen's imperial village planted a lot, he also let the people steal the seeds, the question is how many people dare to go to the imperial village to steal sweet potatoes?

If you really want to talk about it, it's a head-scratching thing.

Although Emperor Chongzhen's order is not allowed at all, let the people steal sweet potatoes or something, as long as they don't steal other things in the Zhuangzi, as for sweet potatoes and other edible things, if they steal less, they should not see it.

But after all, not many people dared to steal this thing.

I can only wait for this year's sweet potatoes to come down and see if the nobles are keeping up, if the nobles start to plant this thing in their own Zhuangzi, then the people are likely to spread it out on a large scale out of the psychology of following the trend or other reasons.

But before that, it is more reliable to count on the sweet potatoes near the capital than on the Shaanxi side.

Cao Huachun knew about this, and Emperor Chongzhen also knew it.

But there is no good way.

In "Tang Brick", the scheming Chu Guogong Yunye has no good way, and Emperor Chongzhen feels that he has no good way to be a programmed ape.

Let him go, take one step at a time.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Xianchun again and asked, "Is that the biggest salt lord in Yangzhou called Lin Weifeng?" ”

Xu Xianchun bowed and said: "Your Majesty is wise, it is Lin Weifeng, a businessman from Huizhou. ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and ordered: "Order the Jinyi guard of Yangzhou to secretly come to the door to contact this person, if he is willing to do things for the royal family, he will be allowed to be rich, if he is unwilling, forget it, don't care about him." ”

Xu Xianchun was very surprised.

originally thought that according to Emperor Chongzhen's temperament, even if Lin Weifeng was lucky not to die, he would have to take off a layer of skin.

But Emperor Chongzhen said that he didn't care about him?

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Xianchun found that maybe the root was still in his own report.

As mentioned above, although Lin Weifeng is the biggest salt lord, this guy who controls six or seven out of ten of Yangzhou's illegal salt gives six or seven out of ten of the illegal salt in his hands to those poor people to sell - although most of these poor people are his fellow villagers.

Where does His Majesty the Emperor care where the poor are? Even if those poor people are Lin Weifeng's fellow villagers, but they are still the people of the Ming Dynasty after all, aren't they?

It is very likely that His Majesty the Emperor decided to let this Lin Weifeng go for even this reason.

But Xu Xianchun still thought that Emperor Chongzhen was too simple.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it is true that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, but they can't ignore their sale of illicit salt because of this.

Salt, in addition to the salt he eats, should be a worthless thing in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen.

How much is a pack of salt in the Hereafter? One dollar, a little more expensive five cents a piece.

If there was anyone in later generations who could not afford to eat salt, it was still possible in the early years, but since then I have never heard of anyone who could not afford to eat salt - but I often heard that some people scolded the chef of the restaurant for putting too much salt.

Of course, after eating, Emperor Chongzhen himself has done a lot of scolding the cook - this stupid cook robbed and sold salt? Putting salt doesn't hurt you?

But in reality?

In Daming, salt is really a rare thing, and the people who can't afford it are definitely countless times more than those who dare to put salt at will.

Even the kind of poisonous salt that Yun Ye, who had traveled through the Tang Dynasty, had seen, was not eaten by no one in Daming.

This made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy.

No matter how innocent Emperor Chongzhen is, at least he knows that salt is a good thing.

This thing can be used to configure normal saline, sterilization and disinfection, cured bacon, no matter how you look at it, you can't live without this thing.

Especially if you have a cold and fever, it is definitely useful to make a bowl of salt water with some sugar.

Now the salt field in the Denglai area is estimated to be almost finished, and as soon as a large amount of salt comes out, the first thing to satisfy is not the people of the Ming Dynasty, but the tribes of Jiannu and Lin Dan Khan on the grassland.

Although this was Emperor Chongzhen's order, Emperor Chongzhen himself was still unhappy.

We have to solve the problem of the people of Daming eating salt first.

But even if a few more salt farms are opened by the seashore and enough salt is dried, there are still a lot of problems.

First of all, how to transport to inland areas such as Shaanxi?

Continue to open the Chinese law? Doesn't that mean continuing to play with illicit salt?

Thinking like this, Emperor Chongzhen began to have a headache again.

It's enough for Jin Yiwei to be sent someone to build a salt farm, and then let them go to sell salt officially?

It's not very reliable when you think about it.

But what about eunuchs?

Eunuchs don't actually make it either. It's okay to send an eye on the salt works, but it's just as to sell salt.

If that's the case, the number of eunuchs in Daming will have to increase at least dozens of times - except for the Chinese network of the starting point of the official village in the new century in the future, where can you get so many dead eunuchs!

Emperor Chongzhen, who had a broken thought, had a headache for a long time, and simply ordered: "Biography, the cabinet is Wen Tiren, the household department Guo Yunhou, and the officials are magnificent." ”

Wen Tiren waited for the little eunuch to come over to announce that the three of them had entered the palace to see the driver, and his brain hurt first.

No one knows what demon moths this Emperor has come up with.

If you want to say that it is Jingcha, a large number of them have already been disposed of, and the rest are outside the scope of Jingshi, and they are not disposed of so quickly, right?

But apart from this, what else can be done to get the household officials together again?

Shaanxi?

Shaanxi is almost the same as if it has completely stopped so far, except for some officials who may be unlucky, the rest should be nothing?

The three of them guessed as they walked towards the palace.

It's just that after seeing Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen's words really surprised the three of them: "I intend to set up a salt field on the southeast coast to dry sea salt and sell it to the people at a low price, I don't know what the three Aiqing think?" ”

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words came out, the three of them roughly knew what was going on.

His Majesty the Emperor is thinking about selling salt to the people, and he doesn't plan to play any more games in China, but he can't trust the local government when he makes it clear, and he is worried that the local government will come to him.

Guo Yunhou bowed and said: "Your Majesty, if it is said that the sea salt is sold to the people, this matter is really a move for the benefit of the people." It's just that if you don't need to open China and France, how will the price of salt be priced? ”

Emperor Chongzhen knocked on the table and said lightly: "The price of the Ming Dynasty is one, fifty wen a catty." ”

Emperor Chongzhen's words were really a bit earth-shattering.

Speaking of the salt price that Emperor Chongzhen said, we have to start with the current salt production of the Ming Dynasty.

What is the salt production of the Ming Dynasty, according to the "Gang Salt System": the merchants who hold salt quotations are divided into ten gangs according to the region, each gang salt quotation is 200,000 yuan, and each quotation is 300 catties of salt, or six coins and 4 cents of silver, which is called "woben", and the tax is three taels of silver, and the minister (transportation) is three taels of silver.

The annual salt output was 600 million catties, and at that time, one catty was equivalent to 596 grams in later generations, and the total amount was equivalent to 700 million catties in later generations.

And this data is the official statistics of the Hongwu and Wanli periods, and the population is still 60 million, the same as in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, for every six taels of silver and four cents of silver, the salt tax of 13,280,000 taels of silver was actually only 2,500,000 taels of silver at most, and the salt tax was greatly lost.

But it's a fucked up price.

What was the price of salt during the Song Dynasty? Fifty wen a pound.

But when it came to the Ming Dynasty, the price turned around and went up.

In the Jiajing period, according to the record of Zhu Tingli's "Salt Political Chronicles": "At the beginning of Jiajing, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanjing sold silver for three cents and four cents per catty of salt, and during the seven or eight years of Jiajing, Huguang and Jiangxi sold for one pound of silver per catty of salt. The area around Nanjing sells silver for one and a half cents. ”

What we are talking about here is the market selling price of Huai salt.

That is to say, in Daming, the price of salt is different depending on the time and place.

Theoretically, technology should evolve over time.

Don't think that Moore's Law is only applicable to the kicking world, at least in other industries, the more advanced the technology, the lower the original price and cost should be.

Although there is basically no technical content problem with salt, it is normal to reduce the price slowly as time advances.

But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, this law was invalid - the price of Yadi was even higher than that of the Song Dynasty!

As for the reason, Emperor Chongzhen felt that he couldn't figure it out, and he didn't bother to figure it out.

But I can play with the salt drying method - I've been thinking about how to use it ever since the cement was out.

In the end, it was found that in addition to being used to build roads and cities, it could also be used to dry salt.

That's the good news.

As long as the salt field can be spread out on a large scale, are you afraid that the price of salt in Daming will not be reduced?

Emperor Chongzhen felt that the price of salt was not a problem, but Guo Yunhou had a headache: "Your Majesty, the fluctuation of salt prices is really a spontaneous act of the people. ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted and continued, "Ransom."

Redeeming the salt in the hands of the original salt merchant at the original price, I knew that there were many bastard things that benefited themselves, and the price of the salt was about the same as that of giving it away.

However, they were all redeemed and bought back at the official price, and later monopolized by the salt works. The two Huai salt transport envoys recalled to the capital, and the salt transport imperial history did not move for the time being. ”

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply said murderously again: "That's it, there's no need to recall." Xu Xianchun? ”

Xu Xianchun bowed and responded: "Weichen is here." ”

Emperor Chongzhen instructed: "I will punish the imperial historian to send the imperial historian to investigate the two Huai salt envoys, and wear brocade clothes to secretly investigate. Dongchang review, if there is no problem, it will be transferred back to the capital by the ministry, if there is a problem, it will be directly taken into Beijing by the Jinyi Wei lock and thrown into the edict. ”

When Fang Zhuangli heard this, it was a pain in the egg.

Emperor Chongzhen once again showed his recklessness and unreliability at this moment - it seems that no matter how good the disguise of His Majesty the Emperor is, no matter how cruel he should be, he is still extremely brutal.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to what the people below thought in their hearts, but said directly: "Seawater drying salt, in addition to the cost of manpower, there is basically no cost.

When the time comes, it will be directly transferred by the post stations in various places, and the yamen in various places will be sold to the people. The price is 50 wen, and it is up to the people to buy it voluntarily and cannot be compulsory. ”

Wen Tiren thought for a while, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, if the government secretly increases the price?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Isn't there four grids and eight laws in Jingcha?"

If they secretly raise the price for personal gain, when the time comes to Jingcha, I want them to look good! Also, the Jinyi guard secretly stared at me, and if he found a one, he reported it together, if he was ruthless, he didn't have to wait for Jingcha, I wanted their heads!

I will give you a word below, there are many ways to make money in this world, and I don't bother to care so much. But if anyone dares to make money from the common people, it will make me unhappy.

I'm not happy, hehe. ”

Emperor Chongzhen's later words were not said, but the meaning was obvious.

According to Emperor Chongzhen's past style, everyone can hear what the latter words mean - whoever dares to make me unhappy for a while, I dare to make him unhappy for the rest of his life.

But Wen Tiren still bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, separate the salt administration, set up another salt administration department, and send personnel to supervise the lower levels?"

In this way, if you don't go through the local government, the local officials can't interfere, and it's more convenient for the Jinyi guard to supervise? ”

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Wen Tiren unexpectedly.

In later generations, there was a salt company, as if the salt I bought in the supermarket had the logo of this company on it.

Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what kind of way this company was, he thought it should be a state-owned enterprise.

For today's Emperor Chongzhen, getting such a state-owned enterprise actually has more advantages than disadvantages.

Although it is said that there will always be three barrels of oil in the future generations to make people feel blocked, but the existence of such a salt company is an absolutely good thing.

At the very least, there are more benefits than disadvantages.

For the current Emperor Daming or Emperor Chongzhen, no matter whether this salt administration department needs the state treasury and internal subsidies, at least the salt price is stable and will not be chaotic again.

And the officials of this salt administration department will keep an eye on the local government or something for their own benefit, and once there is a problem, these guys will be more active than Jinyiwei.

Thinking about it from this aspect, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to get out of the set of tax collection things of Eagle Sauce in the later generations - the hooligans and villains in Eagle Sauce's family don't take the law seriously, but no one dares to owe taxes to the tax bureau.

Those guys will drive tanks and collect them in arms!

After pressing this tempting thought recently, Emperor Chongzhen spoke: "Quasi, Wen Aiqing went back to the book and talked about this matter carefully.

In addition, I intend to place this salt administration secretary under the cabinet, and the cabinet is directly responsible, but the salt works are directly under the palace and under the direct management of the wine and vinegar noodle bureau. ”

……

Wen Tiren really couldn't imagine that Emperor Chongzhen would take away the salt farm alone after agreeing to make a salt administration secretary yamen.

In this way, the salt government is waiting to lose all the pants!