"This. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info。。。。。 The five ministers suddenly felt a little choked, and they really couldn't say what they thought when they were asked to talk about it, and it was a little embarrassing to see Emperor Chongzhen looking at a few of them, and they had to say something.

"What? Is it possible that there is no idea? If there is really none, I will directly issue an order to abolish the current salt policy and directly run it by the imperial court, so that what taxes can be collected, what do you think Aiqing? The corners of Chongzhen's mouth twitched.

"Your Majesty! It's not right! "Sun Chengzong saw that His Majesty the Emperor was going to wipe out all the salt merchants, so there must be no chaos.

"Then let's talk about it, teacher!" Chongzhen said with a smile.

Chongzhen thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty! Wechen thought it would be good to open the law in the past! Just a little change! ”

"Open the middle of the law? Tell me about it, I can't remember it! Chongzhen frowned.

"Your Majesty! Weichen to put it simply, the opening of the law is roughly divided into three steps: reporting, guarding the branch, and changing the market. In the newspaper, the salt merchants transported the grain to the granaries of the designated border areas in accordance with the requirements of the imperial court's investment promotion list, and exchanged it for salt from the imperial court; the shou zhi was that the salt merchants exchanged for salt and then led the salt to the salt works designated by the imperial court to wait for the salt; and the market was that the salt merchants transported the salt they obtained to the areas designated by the imperial court for sale, and this was divided into two stages. Before the reign of filial piety, it was introduced by exchanging grain for salt; After the reign of Xiaozong, Ye Qi was the secretary of the household department, and changed the old system to a merchant to replace rice with silver. Sun Chengzong briefly expounded on the opening of the Chinese law.

"It sounds good to say that it is good for the court, merchants, and even the people!" Chongzhen said.

"Yes, Your Majesty! In addition, because of the huge cost of long-distance transportation of grain, salt merchants used to hire laborers on various sides to cultivate fields, produce grain, and store them in exchange for salt in exchange for more profits. Because this form of tuntian is run by merchants, it is also called Shangtun. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shangtun east to Liaodong, north to Xuanda, west to Gansu, south to the address, everywhere, its prosperity has a certain role in the border defense grain reserves and the development of border areas. Sun Chengzong added, and the other four nodded in approval.

"If it's such a good system, why is it abolished after that? What are the two phases, and why? Chongzhen wondered.

"This!" Sun Chengzong was speechless.

"What's wrong with me? Let's just say it! You're my teacher! Chongzhen encouraged.

"Back to Your Majesty, after that, the royal family, the eunuchs in power, the nobles, the officials saw that it was profitable to hold salt, and they played to ask for salt, resold to salt merchants, and made a profit, and then this phenomenon intensified, which led to the collapse of the legal system, and then, when Xiaozong Hongzhi, Ye Qi was the head of the household, and changed the old system to the merchant to replace the rice with silver, paid to the Yunsi, solved to Taicang, and then distributed to all sides, and each salt was lost to three or four coins, resulting in more than one million silver in Taicang, and the financial revenue of the imperial court increased sharply. Therefore, most of the salt merchants in the border areas moved their families inward, and the Shangtun was quickly destroyed, and the grain reserves of the border army were also greatly reduced! Finally it has gradually developed to the present! Sun Chengzong said bitterly.

"This turns out that the use of food is not very good! Why did you change to silver? Chongzhen wondered.

"Because the grain is transported to the required place for salt, and the salt for the exchange may not be exchanged for salt, and often have to wait in line, and the people who transport the grain cannot afford to wait, and often lose money, so this method is becoming less and less people transport grain, and they have no choice but to let them buy salt directly with silver, and after the court receives the silver taels, they will allocate it to the land they need to buy grain for themselves." Sun Chengzong added.

"The Hubu Shangshu who came up with this method should really copy his nine clans!" Chongzhen hated and hated.

"Your Majesty! Why? At the beginning, many officials applauded this policy! This time it was Bi Ziyan who spoke.

"If I were the officials or salt merchants who handled it, I would praise such a policy!" The corners of Chongzhen's mouth twitched.

Several ministers couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and after thinking about it carefully, they nodded one after another, which was a little clear for them who were used to officialdom, and then nodded in agreement.

"There's a problem with that! It's just that the yield of this salt can't keep up! Chongzhen frowned.

"Yes! Your Majesty! Bi Ziyan affirmed Chongzhen's answer, and then said: "Your Majesty! Nowadays, the stove households often flee, and the salt amount cannot be increased at all. Taking Shanxi Jiezhou Yanchi as an example, there were more than 20,000 people at the most, but now there are almost 400 people. ”

"Ran so much!?" Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then fell into deep thought.

"Your Majesty! Or Weichen will talk about Weichen's thoughts first! "Cheng Ji said.

"Okay! Aiqing said first! Chongzhen said with a smile.

"Your Majesty! This salt is related to the country's plan, and the imperial court must preside over the resale, but if all the imperial court to buy and sell, it is not realistic, so Weichen thinks that it is still the implementation of the original open law, and at the same time Weichen thinks that the price of official salt can be slowly lowered, this His Majesty can let the household or Zhongxingwei people transfer the price of salt from all over the country to make a unified adjustment, this price can finally be close to the price of private salt, so I believe that the people will be willing to buy official salt and will not buy private salt! "Cheng Ji said.

"Oh! How does Aiqing want to reduce the price of this salt? If this price goes down, the tax of the imperial court will be less! Chongzhen said with a smile.

"Your Majesty! Can you tell Wechen the price ratio of official salt and private salt now? Cheng Jiming said respectfully.

"The ratio of the price of private salt to official salt is about 1:2 to 1:4. The proportion of large differences in quality is less, and the difference in quality is larger. Chongzhen smiled and repeated what Wang Chengen said before.

Several ministers couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this, so much worse?! Then Cheng Ji said: "The price of private salt is cheap, I believe that absolutely some of the people will buy private salt, so calculated, I believe that the sales of this private salt are much higher than the official salt, so how big is the profit of this private salt, the imperial court did not collect the tax on this private salt!" At the same time, Weichen thought that those salt merchants might also use private salt for sale, and these imperial courts would not be able to receive taxes! ”

Bi Ziyan couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, if all this silver was given to the household, then he would be much easier.

"Since the profit of private salt is so large, and the court can't collect taxes, and this private salt is difficult to eliminate, in this case, why don't the court compress the profits of this private salt through other methods, and when they have no profit to make, there will naturally be no private salt, in addition, although the court has lowered the price of this official salt to the price of private salt, it will collect a lot less silver, but on the other hand, there are more people who buy it, and the loss in this area should naturally make up for it, and maybe the court can make more!" Cheng Jiming said with a smile.

"Not bad! Go on! Chongzhen said with a smile.

"Let's let Master Liu say it next! We just communicated together! Cheng Jiming said with a smile.

"Oh!?" Chongzhen looked at Liu Hongxun with interest.

Liu Hongxun smiled slightly at Cheng Jiming, nodded, Chongzhen looked at it, smiled, and said in his heart: "Isn't it the legendary good friend?" ”

Liu Hongxun said respectfully: "Your Majesty! In addition to what I just said, there is another point in this opening of the Chinese law is that before the implementation of His Majesty, His Majesty can let Zhongxingwei or his colleagues in the household department count the grain reserves and consumption throughout the country, for some provinces that are very short of grain, such as Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces, although there are new crops now, but the situation is not too optimistic, and if the merchants transport grain in the past to exchange for salt, the imperial court can give them more salt as a reward, and there is also a business that can be transported to the nine border areas can be rewarded in the same way, In addition, it can also be appropriately given preferential treatment to businessmen, so that more businessmen who are not so strong can also participate in it, so that there will be no situation where the two Huai salt merchants dominate now, of course, the premise of implementing these reforms is to raise the output of this salt, just Weichen and Cheng Daren, Xu Daren and Sun Shoufu discussed that there is a way, that is, to make those stove households profitable, the imperial court can give each stove household a rule on how much salt must be handed over a day, as long as he completes this amount, The extra salt can be directly exchanged for salt, they can save it themselves or sell it to merchants, of course, they can also exchange it for some other necessities of life such as cloth, grain, etc., which can be recorded in the local government, as long as the stove household feels that this errand can make his life better, I believe they will work hard, and you can refer to the current practice of the Ministry of Industry, that is, for those stove households with good skills, as long as they are willing to share their skills, the court can also reward them according to their contributions, I believe that they will all be happy to accept it! ”

Wechen added! This must have been difficult to get started! Your Majesty can send the Criminal Department, Zhongxingwei and others to jointly supervise! Sun Chengzong said.

Chongzhen nodded, and then said, "Cao Huachun, bring the map!" ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Cao Huachun nodded.

After that, Chongzhen took the map handed by Cao Huachun and said, "This! There should be a salt lake in Hedong in Shanxi, and it should be developed well, which is also a way to increase production! ”

"Your Majesty! There's a salt pond here! Nowadays, there are too few households. Bi Ziyan said bitterly.

"Tell Yang He to arrange arrangements and move in some people, as long as they are willing to be stove households, they will be given preferential land policy and some living subsidies, how much is appropriate for you to discuss, let the stove households with good craftsmanship teach, and also give them preferential policies and subsidies, and the stove households who are willing to move back also enjoy this policy!" Chongzhen Road.

Several ministers looked at it, nodded, and did not object.

"And this! If I'm not mistaken, there are also two big salt lakes on this side of Xiningwei! It can be mined! Chongzhen said.

"Your Majesty! It's not easy to operate here now, and I'll think about it later, Wechen thinks it's the best policy to start implementing the previous negotiations! Sun Chengzong said.