Mi Fang was stunned: "It's just cooking...... What's wrong? ”

"Recently, Qingzhou's finances have been very struggling, and there will be a war soon, and a lot of money will be needed at that time, so I would like to propose to the Son of Heaven to restore the salt and iron official camp."

Since the Duke of Qi Huan, the salt and iron official camp has always been the only way to enrich the treasury, no one does not eat salt, since the Qin and Han dynasties, almost no one does not use iron.

This is also what Chu Yi decided after thinking about it for a long time.

During the Han Dynasty, there were three main sources of income for the state, namely land rent, calculation of endowment, oral endowment and additional endowment. Of course, the lion's share is the field rent.

The Han Dynasty basically pursued 30 taxes and 1, and generally speaking, it was not a problem to collect 5 or 6 billion yuan in land rent across the country, but if there is a collapse today, displaced people are everywhere, and large areas of land are uncultivated, which leads to a big discount in field rent.

Tao Qian estimated that he would send Tianfu from Xuzhou, but I am afraid that this number will not be much. Sun Jian estimates that he will also deduct a little, plus Sun Jian's control over Yuzhou is not strong, and the counties in Yuzhou are quite independent, and it is estimated that the money sent is not much more than that of Xuzhou.

Even though Liu Xie has raised the tax from 30 to 20 taxes, it would be good if Linzi could receive 600 or 700 million yuan in land rent every year.

And as soon as the so-called cannon sounded, it was ten thousand taels of gold. In order to quell the Qianghu Rebellion, the imperial court spent tens of billions of dollars in the past few decades!

As for the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing led the army to the north to conquer the desert, and returned with 40,000 ranks, plus the reward of the Son of Heaven and the placement of the surrendered Huns, the court spent more than 10 billion this year!

Therefore, the cost of fighting a war is innumerable, and naturally we cannot simply rely on land rent, but at this time, we cannot squeeze the people with our lives, set up more names, and collect taxes.

In that case, after the fight, it would be good if more than 10 million people could survive in the world!

So you can only collect wool, the people have no money, but the wealthy family has money! The reason why they are so rich is that a very key income is to cast iron and sell salt.

How poor Youzhou was back then, and every year it needed subsidies from Jizhou and Qingzhou to survive. But after Liu Yu mined Yuyang, "the people are happy to climb in the year, and the valley stone is thirty", and Youzhou immediately became rich!

This shows the huge profits of salt and iron!

As for what will be the reaction between businessmen and merchants...... Guan Chuyi's!

"Government camp?" Mi Fang was immediately stunned, and stumbled and said, "But, but, the Son of Heaven can't compete with the people for profit!" This, how can this work? ”

"This is not to compete with the people for profit, but to restrain the powerful and enrich the treasury." Chu Yi smiled slightly.

Maybe Chu Yi's smile usually makes people feel like a spring breeze, but in Mi Fang's eyes now, this smile is even more terrifying than the fangs of a beast. This is simply going to smash the roots of many powerful businessmen!

Chu Yi has always disliked businessmen, he believes that at this point, most businessmen are scum who are rich and unkind!

In the early days of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the salt and iron in the world were still mined and sold by the common people. But when the imperial court was about to fight with the Xiongnu, and when floods in Shandong were frequent, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even took out his private money, and at the same time borrowed money from Shangjia, but Shangjia was willing to pay very little!

Are you saying it's cheap? When the national disaster is at hand, businessmen only know how to cover their money bags! Chu Yi didn't know what Emperor Wu of Han thought at the time, but after changing Chu Yi, he definitely couldn't help but kick them in the face!

Even Tai Shi Gong wrote angrily in the "Historical Records": "Rich businessmen and big families...... Smelting and boiling salt, wealth or thousands of gold, but not the country's urgency, the people are in great difficulty! ”

So later, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stipulated the "salt and iron official camp", and even launched the policy of "suing the world" to crush the rich merchants of the world into slag, Chu Yi had no fluctuations in his heart, and even wanted to laugh.

China will never allow such a powerful businessman to exist...... Because Chu Yi knows very well what kind of virtue a businessman will be after he is awesome. The later generations of American imperialism are a very good example.

When the economic crisis that swept the world in 1929 swept the world, hundreds of people were hungry and cold, shivering in the cold wind, countless people were displaced, and there was a long queue of people who received government relief bread every day. At that time, there were even a large number of girls willing to sleep with you as long as you were given some food.

At the time of the national crisis, in order to maintain the price of agricultural products, the capitalists in the United States poured a large amount of fresh milk into the Mississippi River, and even dyed the world's fourth-longest river into the "Milky Way"! They slaughtered a large number of piglets, used wheat and corn instead of coal for fuel, and let the fruit rot on the branches!

This is the filth and power of the capitalists!

So in the United States, people can even demonstrate in front of the White House. But you have to dare to march on Wall Street, hehe, I'm sorry, that dish of cooking free and sweet smell can teach you how to be a man in minutes!

Wall Street bigwigs will use violence and blood to remind those self-feeling good America** and banana people who are in charge of the real power in the boiled America!

Therefore, the re-implementation of the "salt and iron official camp" is not the slightest pressure on Chu Yi. Suppressing businessman Jia Haoqiang is justified! And this has little effect on the common people either!

What's more, if there is no profit from salt and iron, where will the fiscal revenue come from? Even if the Jiaobei gold mine is mined, it cannot be issued on a large scale, because inflation is a huge disaster for the people!

As for saying "don't compete with the people for profit", just listen to the, those officials in the Ming Dynasty also said this to the emperor, but the result was to fat the gentry officials and slim the people and the country.

So Li Zicheng shouted, "When King Chuang comes, he won't pay for food", and the Ming Dynasty was gone. Those gentry knelt faster than the other in front of Li Zicheng and the Manchus.

The so-called "not competing with the people for profit" has always been a fig leaf for businessmen and capitalists to cover for themselves. If you really believe their nonsense, that's the real pill!

Mi Fang was really a little anxious: "But, then my Mi family is also ......"

"Well, I know that Mi Shizhong and the Second Chamber Pavilion Marquis are loyal ministers of the Great Han. The family is a loyal family, so naturally they will not be treated badly! Chu Yi smiled and said, "Do you know what is the difference between the planned salt and iron official camp and the original salt and iron official camp?" ”

The Marquis of the Second Room Pavilion is the title given to Mi Zhu by Liu Xie, and the Second Room Pavilion is located in Lanling County, East China Sea.

Seeing Chu Yi's indifferent and confident face, Mi Fang unconsciously calmed down a little, and took a deep breath and said, "I beg Lord Chu to make it clear." ”

Although they are both servants, Mi Fang also knows that the two are by no means at the same level, so their posture is still relatively low.

Guan Yu also pricked up his ears curiously, he didn't know much about politics and economy, but he was also very interested. Although he usually looks down on those scholars who talk about it all day long, he still admires people like Chu Yi Xunyu who are really capable.

Especially during this time, Chu Yi's proposal of the "Juntian Law" and the adoption of orphans all over the world made Guan Erye, who grew up in a poor family and his parents died, have a great good impression of him.