The same arrests, rebellions, killings, trials, and imprisonment were staged around Changsha Province. All those who had seized and plundered the salt goods of salt merchants registered under Zhu Shunming's rule, whether they were bandits or gangsters, or salt officials and officials, were all arrested and brought to justice, and those who dared to resist were punished on the spot, bloody and tough.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Shunming pushed his rule further beyond Changsha Province. In the entire surrounding Changsha Mansion, Hengzhou Mansion, Changde Mansion, Yuezhou Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places all know that there is a second stunned person who is not easy to mess with, holding heavy troops, running rampant, and killing people if he disagrees.

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Hu Wanan's ancestral home is Anhui, and his ancestors came to Yangzhou to operate salt goods during the Chenghua years. By the time of Chongzhen, the Hu family had become the leading salt merchant in Yangzhou.

Now the salt administration department around Changsha Mansion is almost paralyzed, illegal salt is rampant, and the sales of official salt in Huguang and other places are blocked. Ladies and gentlemen, how should we act? ”

Hu Wanan stood tall in the chief, looked around at the salt merchants, and asked.

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, so it is better to buy him and give him the right to market salt in Changsha Mansion. Anyway, it's a sale, and selling it to him isn't also selling. ”

Zhai Junhui is a native of Shaanxi and a beneficiary of the opening of China and France. He bought a large amount of grain from Huguang and sent it as far away as the bitter cold land on the three sides in exchange for a large amount of salt.

Then he resold salt and sold salt to Guangdong, Fujian and other places. In less than ten years, it has become one of the top ten salt merchants in Yangzhou, and has a large number of fields in Shanxi, Shaanxi. It can be regarded as a representative of the rising star of Yangzhou salt merchants.

To whom Huguang's salt marketing rights are given, there is no loss for him. Huguang's grain is the source of his wealth.

A suggestion that has no loss for him may be able to get the favor of the king of Changsha and be a very cost-effective deal.

All of you here are old businessmen who have become elites, and everyone knows Zhai Laoqi's wishful thinking.

Yin Lao Qiyin measured: "This Zhu Er has a big appetite, and he can't look down on Huguang's oil and water. Maybe people also have to transport grain to the three sides. Zhu Er was stunned that there are soldiers and generals, and I have seen enough of your grain business. ”

"You ......" Zhai Lao Qi was so angry that he couldn't speak. Yin Laoqi said what was on his mind.

Yin Laoqi's salt marketing scope is Huguang. Zhu Shunming wantonly trafficked and sold illicit salt in Huguang, and he was the one who suffered the greatest loss. He couldn't wait to arrest Zhu Shunming immediately, torture him, and spit out all his belongings.

"Don't be noisy," Hu Wanan stopped: "Noisy can solve the problem?" ”

"The imperial court is in decline, and the official face cannot suppress Zhu Er's stunned; The tricks of the rivers and lakes are even more difficult to use in front of him. Speaking of this, the old man felt that Zhu Er was really stunned, except for the fact that he was very careful about selling illicit salt, he was still very particular about the rest of the things, and he didn't mess around. Otherwise, you may not be able to sleep well. ”

"That's ......," the crowd agreed.

"He Zhu Er is stunned to sell salt goods, there must be goods." Hu Wanan smiled: "Where did his salt come from?" It's not our two salt farms. As long as we strictly control the salt farm, we will not be allowed to appear without salt, where did he get the salt goods of Zhu Er's stunned son? ”

Zhai Laoqi hesitated and said, "This ...... Will the salt farmers be dissatisfied? ”

The imperial court set up salt households in the salt-producing areas to specialize in boiling salt. The salt boiled by the salt households shall not be sold privately, but must be sold to the salt administration department at a low price, and then the salt administration department shall sell it to the merchants according to the salt introduction.

The exploitation of salt farmers by the imperial court and the salt administration department is cruel and ruthless, and the income of the vast majority of salt farmers from boiling salt is only enough to make ends meet, but whenever there is a headache and brain fever or a wedding or funeral, the salt farmers have to borrow. How can they afford to borrow at a higher rate?

Honest salt farmers can only sell their sons and daughters, and those who are more active will think about withholding a part of the salt goods and selling them to the smugglers at a high price (as opposed to selling to the salt administration).

The Salt Administration Department turned a blind eye to the illegal sale of salt goods by salt households. They also know that the exploitation of salt farmers is too much, and they can't let the salt farmers have no way to live, and who will cook salt for them then?

Salt farmers sell private salt, and they have a handle in the hands of the Salt Administration. Once the salt households are disobedient, the salt administration department can stand on the moral high ground and punish the salt farmers reasonably and legally with the law.

It's like the court using corrupt officials. The imperial court did not know that officials were corrupt? Know. Know why you didn't put him in jail? The time has not yet come. The court pinched the braids of corrupt officials, and it was better to rub and use these corrupt officials. Disobedient? The eight government patrols investigate cases, embezzlement, corruption, and concubines...... All kinds of crimes are like shackles, so that corrupt officials have to obey orders.

Now Hu Wanan has proposed to strictly prevent salt farmers from selling smuggled salt, just as officials are strictly prohibited from corruption.

Can the imperial court deal with corrupt officials? Of course you can, but you can't do it. Officials can't be corrupt, so where is the motivation? If the imperial court does not grasp the pigtails of official corruption, how can it manage and pinch them? Every official is like Hai Rui, dare to contradict his boss, dare to point at the emperor's nose and scold, how can the emperor be the emperor happily?

Hu Wanan obviously also thought about this problem, and he said confidently: "You give up a little profit, increase the purchase price of official salt by one percent, and give salt farmers a little sweetness." At the same time, they were warned that they should not sell a grain of salt privately, and those who violated it were ......"

Hu Wanan's face was fierce, his right hand was cut off diagonally, and he said with a cruel smile: "Kill chickens and monkeys, salt rats should also be governed." ”

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Entering the golden autumn of October, the grain harvest in Changsha Mansion, Baoqing Mansion and other places was completed, and everyone had a smile on their faces, and they couldn't hide it.

A bumper grain harvest.

This year's harvest was unlike any other. In the past, the big landlords who benefited the most from the harvest.

The joy of this year's harvest was dispersed to everyone under Zhu Shunming's rule.

Because Zhu Shunming encouraged and even directly set up factories, a large number of tenant farmers were freed from the land and entered the factories to receive cash wages, so that the landlords had to lower their rents and taxes and win over the tenant farmers so that no one would be left to cultivate the land.

Zhu Shunming implemented the practice of paying taxes according to the actual acres of land, and as long as the land registered in the register, the land tax must be paid. The landlords had to treat tenant farmers or long-term workers well, otherwise they would pick their sons, and the landlords' land would not be abandoned, but they would have to pay taxes.

The land tax is spread into the acres of land, and the tenant farmers do not have to bear heavy taxes, and their lives are relaxed.

It seems that the landlord class has to pay taxes and reduce land rents, so it should lose a lot. In fact, the landlords did lose some in farming, but they gained more commercial and industrial profits from Zhu Shunming's policy of promoting both agriculture and industry.

Everyone is in business, everyone runs factories, and an atmosphere of setting up industry and commerce flourishes under Zhu Shunming's rule.

With the example around them, the encouragement of the imperial court, the sufficient market, and the guarantee of the army, everyone will inspire the ambition in their hearts. Who wouldn't want to earn a few more copper plates? Who wouldn't want to live in a high-rise building? Who doesn't want a beautiful wife and concubine? Who doesn't want to be fed and clothed? Who doesn't want to dictate?

Money is the biggest driving force for social progress.

Merchants also reaped their joy from the harvest.

When there is surplus grain at home and money in the bag, the peasants should treat themselves and their families well.

The family has worked hard for a year, so they have to buy some jewelry gouache to comfort them; The children at home are naughty and cute, weighing a few catties of meat to make up for their bodies; The big girl is sensible and filial, she should pull a few feet of flower cloth, dress up well, and find a good family in the coming year; The old man is old, and the longevity material that is always talking about is time to buy, looking for a good paulownia wood, finding a good carpenter, brushing a few more layers of lacquer, and fulfilling the wishes of the elderly.

The peasants' desire and ability to consume were strong, and the merchants naturally smiled from ear to ear. The factories provide a large number of goods, and the migrant workers have money and demand, and the business is naturally prosperous.

Even the flower shop on the Liuyang River has a little shadow of the Qinhuai River, and the crowd of people who play day and night to find joy highlights the prosperity after the troubled times.

Zhu Shunming's collection of taxes per acre of land is aimed at freeing the peasants from the heavy tax pressure.

The landlords and bureaucrats who owned a large amount of fertile land did not pay taxes, and the heavy taxes were pressed on the poor people, which was an important reason why the peasants continued to rebel during the Chongzhen period and Jiannu was able to enter the Central Plains.

The release of the peasants from the land tax eliminated the source of the riots, cultivated a large number of consumers, and enlivened the commodity market, and third, it was the best political slogan, laying the political groundwork for the future expansion into other regions.

Zhu Shunming collected agricultural tax, commercial tax, consumption tax, special business tax, etc., and naturally bore the taxes and salaries of the imperial court. Compared with Zhu Shunming's tax of nearly 10 million taels, the tax of hundreds of thousands of taels in the imperial court is simply pediatric.

I really don't know what Emperor Chongzhen was crying for while sitting on a mountain of gold, and finally ruined the country and hanged himself, what was in his head?

After paying the field and three salaries in full, the prefect Lei Qilong was naturally happy. Although he is no longer as commanding as before, he can live comfortably, he doesn't have to worry about the trivial affairs of the yamen, he is not short of money, and he can still get good in the assessment of the officials, and maybe he can be transferred back to Beijing to be a Beijing official, why not? This Zhu Shunming, why didn't he come to Changsha Mansion earlier? The old man worked hard for two years, was frightened, and couldn't sleep at night. Zhu Er was stunned, a good person!

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"Boss, the salt goods are broken, and you can't buy private salt from Lianghuai."

Shi Lei's Military Intelligence Department had already set up private salt purchase points in the salt farms of Lianghuai and Huai, purchasing private salt from salt households, and becoming the largest private salt lord in Huguang.

There is money and an army, if it is not used reasonably, Zhu Shunming will be kicked in the head by a donkey.

Since the integration of the Minwang Mansion, Zhu Shunming has taken over the way of the Minwang smuggling of smuggled salt, and carried it forward, almost monopolizing all the illegal salt from Lianghuai to Huguang.

Zhu Shunming had an army of sailors, was rich and powerful, and the price of bulk goods in Huguang was not high, even cheaper than the price of salt barons directly purchased from Lianghuai and transported to Huguang, and the small smuggled salt dealers were happy to buy goods in Huguang.

There is no risk at all in purchasing goods in Huguang, it is reasonable and legal, and you can even find a dart bureau to escort it. Zhu Shunming also encouraged salt barons to sell salt goods to neighboring provinces, providing certain armed protection and rebates.

Salt Owl is the biggest beneficiary of Zhu Shunming's policy, and he is also his loyal supporter, and at the same time Zhu Shunming's vanguard in the economic attack on the Ming Dynasty.