Subsequently, it was announced that the salt introduction would be issued in June every year in each county and the next year's salt in the month of La, and it would be distributed according to the calculation of 10 catties of salt per person per year.

Taking Pengxi County as an example, there are now 80,000 people (fighting for many years, and there are more dead), and about 800,000 catties of salt need to be consumed every year, and 200 catties per small lead, and 4,000 small leads can be distributed in the county.

Everyone pays a deposit of 1 percent first, and then pays taxes to get other salt quotes after using it up. ”

Some businessmen also felt strange, in the past, the imperial court of Pengxi County only had 400 salt citations, why should 4,000 citations be issued now, is this too much?

However, the smuggled salt dealers think that it is too little, and in the past, the salt was two or three hundred copper coins a catty, and everyone could not afford to eat it at all, and many people saved money.

If the price of salt is only 60 copper coins now, of course everyone has no such concerns.

The salt merchants and salt barons left one by one, and before leaving, they hoped that the government would determine the resettlement sites for the displaced people to lose the recipients, for fear that the government would blame them for making mistakes.

After watching everyone leave, Qian Bangxin sighed and said: "My lord, salt politics is the most important task of the country, you actually say that change will change, I don't know whether to say hello or praise you?"

For each introduction of salt, you need to pay 2 taels of silver for salt introduction, plus Guan Fu Shang Fu or something, so that the yamen can receive at least 3 taels of silver for each salt introduction.

There are 80,000 people in Guangpengxi County, and if each person can eat 10 catties of salt, at least 4,000 taels of salt and at least 12,000 taels of silver are needed.

Now there are more than 20 counties under its jurisdiction, with a population of nearly 2 million, and every year the salt endowment alone can receive 200,000 taels of silver for salt and 100,000 taels of silver for customs and commerce. ”

Qin Mintang, who had just been promoted to the governor of Tongchuan Prefecture, was happy in his heart, according to the division method, 2 percent of the taxes collected belonged to the county, and Tongchuan Prefecture produced more salt, if it could be collected, this would be a large amount of local income.

As the saying goes, if you repay the peach, the adult will promote himself to stand alone and become the governor of Zhili Prefecture, and he will return it no matter what.

Thinking of this, Qin Mintang arched his hand and said: "Qian Jianjun, what the adults have done is really beneficial to the country and the people, not to mention the benefit of the people, in the past, two or three hundred copper coins a catty, not to mention that it has been reduced to 50 copper coins now, that is, 60 copper coins, and the people will be grateful to Dade."

Not to mention anything else, take Pengxi County as an example, if the county can sell 4,000 small salt leads, and collect 2 taels of silver for each small lead, so there are 8,000 taels of silver.

According to the sharing method, 2 percent belongs to the county yamen, and the county also has an income of 1,600 taels of silver.

There are more than 20 counties under the jurisdiction of our volunteers, even if they buy 80,000 taels of salt, they have an income of 160,000 taels of silver, and according to the sharing method, the state and county yamen are 2 percent, and the state government yamen is 1 percent, and the income of the volunteers can be increased by 100,000 taels of silver every year.

This is only the salt introduction, if you add the guan fu (according to the market price of 5 percent, over the county 3 percent), each of which is more than 2 taels of silver, so the government collects at least half of the salt. (5 cents calculated, 1.2 taels of silver per quote, 3 cents calculated, 2 cents per quote 7 cents). ”

Qian Bangqi is relatively conservative, but after all, Xiucai was born and is quite knowledgeable.

Now I hear that there is such a big profit in it, and it is incredible.

To suppress bandits or fight against the Tartars, whether it was Lu Xiangsheng or Sun Chuanting, it was because the country had no money and food, so they forced everyone to send troops, and finally the army was defeated by the rogues and the Tartars.

There are 1,400 prefectures and counties in the world, and the government counts that the population is 60 million, which is actually double, even if it is calculated according to 120 million, a person eats 10 catties of salt a year, so there are 6 million small salt introductions in the country.

According to the two taels of silver for each small introduction, 12 million taels of silver can be obtained from the light salt introduction throughout the year, which is not much different from the three salaries.

How could the imperial court have no money in this way? Displaced people have no money to resettle? The rogue is suppressed and not destroyed? Tartars into the Central Plains?

Yang Lin looked at the people around him for the first time, and said with confidence: "Although the rogues are hateful, they intuitively feel that they are right, my Daming was hollowed out by the big and small mediocre officials and corrupt officials, and the taxes that should have been paid to the imperial court were not paid, but they were corrupted by these corrupt officials and mediocre officials."

The imperial court has no money to fight the war, and it is us ordinary people who suffer in the end. The government apportioned, and the government added three salaries.

In this way, it seems that there is no money in the imperial court, and in fact, all of them are corrupted by corrupt officials, mediocre officials, and powerful people.

If Inspector Wang blames and Fan Zhixian blames, then blame me alone. ”

Yang Lin supports the army and respects himself, almost separating one side, coupled with the identity of the guest of honor of the Shu Wangfu (the husband of the county lord), it is too late to win over the court in a corner of the country, how dare you blame?

Everyone applauded, and one by one followed up to express their progress and retreat, and Qian Bangqi expressed his hesitation while expressing his support.

Since ancient times, the imperial court has attached great importance to salt endowment, stealing and selling illegal salt is a big crime, and it is a sentence at least and speculators at worst, why is Yang Lin sure that he can collect it?

Yang Lin smiled and said nothing, and everyone talked about it, so it took half a day to agree on the control method.

Weight control, each person consumes 10 catties per year, and estimates the local salt consumption according to the estimated population.

Divide the law, in the past, all the income from salt introduction went to the imperial court, and there was no interest in the local government, and everyone had insufficient motivation to fight smuggling. Now the law of sharing is implemented, two percent will go to the county, and one percent will go to the state capital, and the local government will also desperately crack down on smuggling in order to share the tax.

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, anti-smuggling gains, half of the stolen goods will be rewarded to the people involved, etc.

Under the premise of franchise qualifications, heavy fines will be imposed on those who sell illicit salt, and those who sell illicit salt will be imprisoned, and those who will be fined will have their family property confiscated, and those who will be killed will be killed, and their family property will be confiscated.

The reform was in full swing, and on the other hand, Yang Lin closely monitored the movements of the Great Western Army.

According to the initial expectation, after the victory and defeat of the Tongchuan battle had just been decided, Zhang Xianzhong would definitely lead the army to help despite the defeat, but the strange thing is that no news of reinforcements was found in various places.

By mid-June, news came from Hosaku that at the time when the Volunteers and the Great Western Army were fighting in Tongchuan Prefecture, the Great Western Emperor was leading his troops to the south to deal with the summer offensive of the Southern Ming army.

Since the summer of the second year of Longwu (A.D. 1646), the king of the cabinet should sit in Zunyi, and the Ming army troops have advanced in many ways to restore the situation in Sichuan.

The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yixing, led the army of Yunnan and Guizhou to attack Xuzhou in the south (today's Yibin), and after two months of fierce fighting, his troops killed Zhang Hualong, the general of the Great Western Queen, and once captured Xuzhou, but under the counterattack of Zhang Kewang, the general of the Great Western Expedition to the East, he was forced to hold on.

Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general, led the Ming army in eastern Sichuan and Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan in the west, confronted the line of Neijiang.

Just when the deputy general Cao Xun supported Zhu Zhilu, the king of Fushun in the Ming Dynasty, as the king of Shu and fought fiercely with Zhang Nengqi, the general of the Great Western Expedition to the north, in the Liya Prefectures, the deputy general Yang Zhan led his troops to break into Jiading Mansion (today's Meishan Leshan area), threatening the rear of the Great Southwest Road and West Road.

In the face of the Ming army's multi-way advance, Zhang Xianzhong, who was sitting in the city capital, could no longer sit still, while sending Zhang Kewang, the general of Zhengdong, to lead his troops to counterattack, and in mid-May, he personally led the land and water army down the Minjiang River, in order to defeat the main force of the Ming army and restore the situation in Sichuan.

The Great Western Army was immense, and its troops numbered 100,000 and were arrogant, but due to the continuous exhaustion of the local conquest in recent years and the shortage of food, its troops marched very slowly.

Since the opening of Dujiangyan, after continuous development, as early as the time when Qin Shi Huang unified the Central Plains, Sichuan is the largest granary of Qin, and it is also the famous country of abundance in the past two thousand years.

However, the Great Western Army was born at the wrong time, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, due to the influence of the Xiaoice River, the world became colder, and the grain of Si Chuan also decreased sharply.

When Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to attack the degree, in order to block his advance, Long Wenguang, the acting governor of Sichuan, and the magistrate of Pixian County dug up Dujiangyan and helped the Ming army with a moat full of water.

To add insult to injury, in the past two years, not only have the conquests continued, the army has increased dramatically, but in order to increase the mobility of the troops, the Great Western Army has continued to plunder the livestock of the people under its jurisdiction, causing the people to be several times the strength of the previous farming, and the land produced less than two or three percent of what it used to be cultivated.

Now there are often bones on the road in the rich plains of the city, and everyone is on the verge of life and death.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people of Sichuan opposed the five beetles, if the Sichuan people were still holding a wait-and-see attitude at the beginning of Zhang Xianzhong's entry into Sichuan, now everyone has a hard time, and the people's grievances are boiling.

The Great Western Army is huge, and Zhang Xianzhong's army has reached 150,000 people, and now the soldiers of the Four Chuan Guards and the Four Soldiers are demoralized, and even those Huguang soldiers are complaining.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong mainly fought in Henan, Huguang and Jiangxi, and his department had the strongest willpower, and the most powerful was of course the Shaanxi soldiers who followed in the early years, but the main force was the Huguang soldiers, and the later four soldiers.

Coming out of the city, although they advanced by land and water, due to the deserted roads, the lack of food and grass, and the low morale of the whole army, the march of his troops was unusually slow, and it took less than 200 miles in ten days.

On this day, the department arrived at the mouth of the Pengjiang River, and the forward met with Yang Zhan, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Xianzhong ordered his generals to lead the army to assault, while he sat on the big ship to mediate.

Although the rebel armies from all walks of life were gathered, Yang Zhan's troops were not more than 10,000 people, and the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, and in the eyes of ordinary generals, there was probably no suspense about the outcome of the war.

But Yang Zhan is not comparable to ordinary people, he was born in Wu Tanhua, he is brave, and he is both wise and brave.

Along the way, I saw that the Great Western Army was marching slowly, and the scouts repeatedly reported that the food and grass in the department were insufficient, and the morale of the whole army was low.

Now, although I saw that the Great Western Army was densely packed, and the mountains were full of people, I felt that although the other side had elite soldiers and strong generals, most of them were just people who had been taken captive.

When the commander led the main force to occupy the dangerous pass and formed a confrontation with the Great Western Army, Yang Zhan led more than 1,000 capable people to make a detour to the rear of the Great Western Army, and made more than 100 rafts and several simple boats in one night, each of which was filled with gunpowder and explosives.

The next day, the sky was clear, the various units of the Great Western Army stormed the Ming army garrison walled, just when Zhang Xianzhong was sitting on a big boat to watch the battle, Yang Zhan led the disguised Ming army to approach the rear army of the Great Western Army, and suddenly ignited the fire boat.

At that time, the wind was strong, and more than a dozen fireboats rushed to the baggage ships behind.

The Great Western Army had just departed from the city, and it was difficult to turn the heavy ships full of goods, and in the face of the fire that poured into the bow of the ship, the soldiers on board panicked, and some shouted loudly to extinguish the fire.

But how could Yang Zhan give the other party such an opportunity, and when he set off the fireboat, he took the lead in leading his troops to sit on a raft to kill, first, the river was full of Ming troops dressed as the Great Western Army.

In the past few years, the Onishi regime has been perverse in Sichuan, and the people's hearts and the army were unstable, but now they suddenly saw the Ming army dressed as the Onishi Army everywhere, and the people who came here did not distinguish between the true and the false, and turned to flee one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong sat in the big tent of the Chinese army and commanded the various departments to attack, and suddenly the rear was attacked everywhere and became a mess, although he led his troops to rescue, although he used all his strength to repel the Ming army and stabilize the situation, but more than 100 heavy ships were burned, and the number of escaped soldiers was also thousands.

The clerk came to report that more than ten of the ships were burned and two million taels of silver were lost.

The ships that were burned with grain and grass were several times greater, and the loss of grain and grass amounted to hundreds of thousands of quintals.

The grain and grass were burned, the silver of the white flowers sank into the river, and the huge westward expedition to the south was unsustainable, and Zhang Xianzhong was forced to lead the army to retreat to the city capital.

This is the famous Pengjiangkou shipwreck, and it is also a comprehensive counterattack plan carefully planned by Zhang Xianzhong in the face of the Ming army's attack on all sides, but because the morale of the whole army is low, and because of the strategy of Yang Zhan, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he finally died without a problem.