Back at the residence, Yu Wenwen lay on the couch and couldn't sleep, he didn't stay with Yang Ji for too long before turning back, not because he didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, but because it was useless to talk more. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If you want to try to open the Chinese method to repair the plank road, or even attract Shangtun to develop Lingnan through the opening of the Chinese method, it will take a lot of time to plan, and it is impossible to think about everything with a detailed discussion in one night.

What's more important is that Yang Ji is right, he himself doesn't need to put too much energy into Lingnan, so these things only need to let Yang Ji be responsible for the specific implementation, Yuwenwen rushed back to sleep because there are still many things to be busy tomorrow.

However, there is something in my heart where to sleep, once the brain turns up, I can't stop, Yang Ji mentioned the opening of the Chinese law, Yu Wenwen pondered the opening of the Chinese law, there is a good saying: take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall.

There are pros and cons to everything, and the rise and fall of the opening of the Chinese law was a very important event in the Ming Dynasty, which directly led to the rise of the Jin merchants, so Yuwenwen wanted to 'take history as a mirror'.

In order to solve the problem of food shortage in the border army, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, implemented the law of opening the middle of the country, and used the method of accepting grain to attract merchants to transport grain to the border areas, so as to obtain salt in exchange for salt.

Selling salt is a huge profit, the government solved the problem of food supply for the border army, and the merchants were able to buy and sell salt, so they made a lot of profits, which can be said to be very happy, but with the passage of time, the opening of the Chinese law slowly "changed taste".

The specific reason, Yang Ji has said before, is mainly that the businessmen involved in the opening of the middle school are "trapped and guarded", and over time, the attractiveness of the opening of the law is getting lower and lower, and finally it is unsustainable.

All kinds of ills, even Yang Ji, who was in the late Ming Dynasty, knew about them, so didn't the court guilds in the middle of the Ming Dynasty know about it? Didn't they take steps to remedy it?

Of course, measures were taken, but with little effect, for the simple reason that the biggest reason for the corruption of the Kaizhong Law was that the rulers did not keep their promises.

If the two sides of the transaction are the government and the businessman, the government bids to solve the grain problem of the border army, and the businessman wins the bid and delivers the grain to the destination before the deadline.

When the merchant completes the transaction, the government pays the salt, but the transaction is not over, because the whole transaction is not completed until the merchant takes the salt and receives the salt.

The reason for the corruption of the Kaizhong Law is that merchants cannot withdraw salt in a short period of time, and there are "trapped supports" that cannot pay salt for several years or even decades, and the transaction is not completed, and some people are in default.

Therefore, the situation of the opening of the Chinese law is actually that the government is playing tricks and fooling businessmen with a piece of paper.

This situation is very common even in modern times, taking the catering industry as an example, the most famous is that government officials make white slips after eating, and then do not settle the bill for several years or even more than ten years, and drag down one restaurant after another.

In the same way, the salt has become a white strip, and the merchants involved in the opening of the salt field cannot withdraw the salt, and the capital chain is broken and wants to cry without tears, but the government is conclusive: the official did not say that he would not give salt, but the salt production is not enough, so let's talk about it next year.

When the deal becomes extremely unfair, when one of the parties to the transaction starts to play tricks without a bottom line, the fool will make a deal with him.

So, is it because of the insufficient salt production that the situation of trapped support is getting more and more?

No, this is only a small reason, the main reason is that the ruler has no bottom line to repay his debts, unscrupulously obtain the maximum benefit through salt introduction, and the appearance of eating is becoming more and more ugly, which leads to the collapse of the Kaizhong Law.

When the maker of the trading rules takes the lead in breaking the rules, the transaction cannot be carried out.

Theoretically, how much salt is produced in the salt farm, how much salt is issued, so as to ensure that the merchants who have completed the opening of the middle school can withdraw salt in time by virtue of the salt introduction to the salt field.

As a result, the first person to take the lead in sabotage was the emperor.

Salt is popular with everyone, so it has become one of the emperor's best rewards, today to reward thousands of ministers, tomorrow to reward thousands of relatives, and the day after tomorrow to reward someone with thousands of leads, directly let people who do not participate in the opening get a large amount of salt.

The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, the emperor takes the lead in engaging in "not taking the next example", and of course the magnates also have to "not take the next example".

The related households can take advantage of the situation to go to the salt field to give priority to the salt, and the merchants who honestly complete the opening of the middle school, take the salt to the salt field and wait in line for the salt, and the result can be imagined.

In order to solve the problem of "trapped and guarded supports," officials have been making constant efforts to take measures to rectify the situation since the beginning of the Yongle year, some of them have advocated rectifying the rule of officials and punishing corrupt officials who manage salt affairs, and some have advocated vigorously cracking down on the illegal salt trade, but all of them have been treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

It's very simple, the government doesn't keep its word and plays tricks, this is the cause, but who can cure it?

The emperor wants salt, the magnates want salt, and the salt government dares not to give it? Do you dare to over-issue? Dare not give priority to related households?

In the era of imperial power, this is an unsolvable problem, the credit of the government, first of all, is related to the emperor's moral bottom line, followed by financial problems, and finally the problem of official governance.

Yu Wenwen couldn't help but think of reality, if he operated in many ways and asked the imperial court to approve the trial implementation of the Chinese law in the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion, would there be a problem of being trapped in the guard?

The related household has appeared now, but it was licensed by Yuwenwen, as a reward for the enthusiastic support of various merchants and families, but he was not stupid, and he did not let the other party take all the salt from the Guangzhou Salt Farm.

As long as he keeps the bottom line, then this problem is easy to solve, and if you want to use the Kaizhong Law to implement Shangtun in Lingnan, the time span is large, and it is indeed risky.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains court has emphasized agriculture over business, and under the long-term influence of the official-oriented ideology, officials have basically no ideological burden on oppressing businessmen, which is a stubborn disease and basically impossible to change.

In view of this, Yuwen Wen did not dare to issue bonds, lest Ri Xingchang be favored by the imperial court and become a tool for collecting money, and he would be thrown away like a night pot, and the credit that he had built up with great difficulty would come to naught.

The opening of the Chinese law is tried in the Guangzhou Governor's Office, and the salt introduction is bound to be hot, so will the magnates reach out? I'm afraid not, because Guangzhou is too far away.

For the magnates of Bashu, Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Henan, and Huainan, the well salt of Shudi, the pond salt of Hedong, and the sea salt of the eastern coast from Cangzhou in the north to Wu County in the south are the most convenient salt producing areas.

So as long as the successor governor of Guangzhou is not stupid or bad, and deliberately corrupts the credibility of the government for a certain purpose, then the opening of the Chinese law can be smoothly implemented, and if it really changes, it will be decades later.

However, there is more than one problem, it is because of the "lessons from the past", so Yuwenwen must beware of another negative impact.

After the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court could not guarantee the food supply of the border army in Xuan, Da and other places, and could not dismantle the army, so it could only make a compromise and entrust the Jin merchants to solve the food supply problem of the border army.

This can't be a loss-making business, so the Jin merchants have to have income to make up for the loss caused by the transportation of grain and grass, but Shanxi does not produce salt, so how can it be compensated?

Quite simply, smuggling.

With whom to smuggle? Of course, it was a smuggling deal with the enemy, the Mongols.

The consequences of this are very serious, the Jin merchants and the border army have formed a community of interests, the army that should be on the border for the country is involved in smuggling, whoever dares to come to investigate will die, even if the court knows, there is nothing to do: kill all the Jin merchants, who will provide food to the border army? Kill all the border troops, and the same will be true for the new garrison.

And as time passed, an even bigger smuggling partner emerged, and that was the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, Yu Wenwen does not want to indirectly lead to the emergence of smuggling groups because of the implementation of the open Chinese law, this is not his unfounded worry, because if you want to try to open the Chinese law, it is inevitable to expand the area of salt fields to increase the output of salt, and sooner or later the salt drying method will be learned by the local tyrants along the Lingnan coast, and then the output of private salt will also rise gradually.

It is conceivable that with the increasing prosperity of the salt trade in Lingnan, the overflow of illicit salt will lead to more and more cases of smuggling of salt.

As a result, a serious destabilizing factor emerges: the salt barons.

Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, who subverted the Tang Dynasty, were all born in salt owls!