Yang Ji's words made Yuwen Wenmao pause, and after he pondered for a moment to straighten out his thoughts, he began to discuss with Yang Ji about the many problems to be faced in the trial implementation of the Chinese method, the first of which was salt production. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The method of opening China is to use salt as the medium of material exchange, that is, to use salt as hard currency, so the materials or money that can be raised by "Kaizhong" depends on the amount of salt that can be cashed.

In general, this is a fair trade between the government and the merchants, who transport the designated materials or grain to the designated place according to the government's requirements, and the government will release the agreed salt to the other party in return.

Then the merchant will use the salt to draw a fixed amount of salt from the salt factory, and sell it elsewhere to obtain high profits, so the key to the problem is whether the merchant can withdraw the salt in time and in full with the salt lead.

This question is divided into two aspects, one is whether the government keeps its word and allows merchants to rely on salt to obtain salt; The second is whether there is so much salt in the salt farm, so that the merchants can pay it in time and in full.

The former is relatively easy to solve, and the key lies in the latter: can the salt output of the Guangzhou salt field support enough materials and grain to repair the plank road?

According to Yu Wenwen's plan, several salt farms under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, the output of next year will reach 200,000 Hu, and the next year will reach 500,000 Hu, whether this plan can be realized is not yet known, so if the trial of the Chinese method, the amount of salt introduced by salt, must take into account the actual annual output of salt in Guangzhou salt farms.

If the law is to be opened on a trial basis this year, then the salt introduction issued by the government will not be cashed until next year, and the amount should not exceed 100,000 yuan, because if the salt introduction in the hands of the merchant cannot be withdrawn in time, it is very easy to shake people's hearts.

The word "timely" is particular, how quickly can you get the salt in time?

Arriving in Panyu in the same month, the month with salt to draw salt, this is an idealized state, in fact, it is likely not to do, then the month to arrive in the next month to withdraw, is more suitable and still relatively high requirements.

Because this should take into account the problem of centralized withdrawal, if several wealthy businessmen arrived in Panyu at the same time with a huge amount of salt, according to the order of first come, first served, the first to withdraw and then to the next, then it is very likely that the salt stock of the salt field is not enough when it is the next turn, and it needs to be "ready-made".

Once the peak of withdrawal, the date of delivery of salt will naturally be postponed, which is related to the output, and the output is related to the weather.

If it is a large-scale centralized withdrawal, or the bad weather causes the salt production to decline, so that there is a situation of "guarding the branch", everyone can understand it, so it will not be panicked, and the problem is that if there is another reason that leads to "stuck on the branch", it will not be good.

If the situation of the Ming Dynasty is viewed, it is the merchants who take the salt and lead it outside the salt field for several years or even decades can not withdraw the salt, which directly leads to their capital turnover, and in serious cases, the capital chain will be broken, and the family will be ruined.

The reason for this situation is nothing more than man-made disasters.

With the salt lead, you can withdraw the salt, and you can easily get a huge profit when you sell it elsewhere, of course, everyone wants such a hot salt lead, but the salt production of the salt field is so much, the amount of salt is limited, what should I do if there are more monks and less porridge?

It's easy to do, over-send salt, and then there are people in the background who cut the queue to give priority to withdrawal, as for when the powerless ordinary businessman can withdraw the salt, hehe.

The annual output of 500,000 yuan of salt in the salt farm, the total amount of salt issued each year can reach more than 1 million hundred, and then the powerful and people with background control a large number of salt through the operation, and can always give priority to withdraw, then the salt produced by the salt farm in a year will soon be divided up by it.

Businessmen who have no power and no power can only "defend the branches" outside the salt field, but this year's salt is not shared, and next year's or even the next few years will also have no salt share, so they can only take the salt and lead it outside the salt field to be trapped and defended.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the law was opened, because Emperor Hongwu hated corrupt officials very much, and whoever dared to mess around would pick the skin, so the officials ruled well, and set a system that only allowed merchants to obtain salt, so there was basically no problem of being trapped in the branch.

Since the Yongle period, the imperial court has relaxed the restrictions, not limited to merchants engaged in "opening the middle" to obtain salt introduction, this opening is out of control, the magnates have intervened to get a piece of the pie, and the number of salt introduction over-issuance is getting bigger and bigger.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of trapped support became more and more serious, causing many businessmen to go bankrupt or suffer a great loss of vitality.

When Yang Ji said this, he did not question the corruption of the government officials at this time, as the governor of Guangzhou and the assassin of Guangzhou, he had a great chance of becoming a regular, so during his tenure, there would be no situation where the businessmen were "trapped in the branch" because of the corruption of the officials.

The problem is that in the future, in fact, the trial implementation of the Chinese method is to solve the urgent need to repair the plank road, and then it will be over, and Yang Ji is worried about what to do once a special situation appears.

"The king, if according to the previous plan, the lower officials may not be too long in the Guangzhou Governor's Office, if the successor officials engage in personal fraud, it will very likely lead to the problem of 'trapped in the defense', and the construction of the plank road will probably be greatly affected."

"The cost of building the plank road is about one million copper dollars, that is, it is calculated according to the completion of one to two years, and more than half of the labor used is slaves, which must be bought with money, otherwise do you think that the widow will burn money to support it?

Yu Wenwen didn't think this was a problem, and said his judgment: "You always have to do it for a year or two in office, and when you leave, even if the plank road is not completed, it will be almost the same, and the successor Guangzhou governor will not be able to harm this project even if he is corrupt." ”

"King, people are not as good as heaven, and the planned things may not be completed as scheduled, and the lower officials are afraid that the plank road will just be halfway up when they leave office, so they took this into account before and did not rashly propose."

Yang Ji felt so sleepy, but Yu Wenwen was on the rise at this time, where could he say "discuss it tomorrow", so he directly pointed out the key to the problem, and the other problem was the contradiction between the output and demand of salt.

Not long ago, Yu Wenwen made a promise to reward several merchants and clans who actively participated in the government's outstanding performance, and let them buy salt at the price of ten wen per bucket in the Guangzhou salt factory.

Then the government introduced salt, which directly led to a large increase in the demand for salt, and when the contradiction between demand and supply occurred, how to solve it?

Yuwenwen wants to buy people's hearts, so the emergence of franchise households, but in the future, there will be many ordinary businessmen to get the salt, and when the time comes, everyone rushes to Panyu to withdraw salt, but has not been able to pay, so what should I do?

"Great King, one of the reasons for the existence of the Kaizhong Law is that a large number of related households have appeared, which has squeezed out the original withdrawal quota of ordinary businessmen, resulting in them not being able to pay salt for years or even decades."

"If this problem is not solved, the trial implementation of the Chinese law will also ruin the reputation of the king."

Yuwen Wen was surprised when he heard this: "If this thing is not done well, how can it ruin the reputation of the widow, and at that time, it should not be you who is in charge of Yang?" ”

Yang Ji, who boasted that he had seen many big scenes, was also made sleepy by such brazen words, and he was almost choked by saliva: "King! This matter can only be carried out with the consent of the king, so why do you think that you can get rid of it once something happens? ”

"So!" Yu Wenwen spread his hands and said with a smile: "At that time, if you mess up and cause a civil uprising, of course the widow will not be able to get out of it, and he will be besieged by the ministers in the court but speechless, so he can only pretend to be crazy and sell stupid spit on himself, and then be fined for several years and so on..."

"As for you, you can't get out of it, in the face of a businessman whose family is ruined, you can't stand the condemnation of your conscience, so you can only apologize for your crime by dying by self-judgment!"