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After Lu Chengqi, who was in a good mood, returned to the Vertical Arch Hall, the chair was not yet hot, and he was still happy, and he received a secret report from the Supervision Department. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoToday's Supervision Department can be said to be Lu Chengqi's eyes and ears, supervising hundreds of officials, inquiring about news, and even infiltrating enemy countries, using the codebook "invented" by Lu Chengqi to transmit information.

The branches of the Supervision Department are all over the Dashun Prefecture, and the officials all hate them to the core, but the people are in awe of them. They are mainly responsible for collecting civil lawlessness, and choose whether to let the Criminal Department take people or tell Lu Chengqi directly, and let Lu Chengqi make a decision.

And today's news is obviously undecided, because the opponent this time is not an official, but a businessman, some unscrupulous businessmen.

It turned out that the salt industry in Dashun was very scarce, only the well salt was refined salt, and the sea salt was coarse salt, yellow and big, and the poor people could only eat coarse salt. However, the supply of coarse salt is not open, because boiling sea salt still requires government approval. The Dashun Dynasty carried out official sales of salt, and then contracted it to salt merchants, and then waited for the tax to be collected. This led to a monopoly among the salt merchants, and the price of salt continued to rise, causing the people to complain.

Of course, there are some people who sell illegal salt, but that's a drop in the bucket, and it can't afford anything. Tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, what is lacking in this is salt. If a person does not eat salt for a long time, loss of appetite, and weakness of limbs, it is a mild symptom, and in severe cases, there will be nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps and other symptoms. This is contrary to Lu Chengqi's wishes, he hopes that the Han people will have blood, but they can't even eat salt, so how can they talk about Wuyong?

In fact, the people who produce well salt do not have much income, and the real majority is monopolized by well salt merchants. These salt merchants lived on strange goods, and gradually raised the price of salt, causing the people to complain.

Moreover, these unscrupulous merchants also sold a large amount of well salt to the Liao State when the people of Dashun could not eat salt, so as to obtain greater profits. If Dashun and Liao were not hostile, there would be nothing wrong with doing so. It is the nature of businessmen to seek profit. But Dashun and Liao are enemy countries, and their own people can't eat salt, but they are sold to enemy countries by well salt, isn't this magnifying their weakness to the enemy?

For this kind of businessman who is equivalent to betraying the country, Lu Chengqi hates it to the core. They only act for their own interests, but forget about the interests of their own country. They will not understand that if the kingdom does not exist, they will also suffer. The eyes are only fixed on the money eye, and cannot see the distance.

The best way to deal with this kind of person, this kind of monopoly, is to break the monopoly yourself. The reason why the monopoly was not broken was that the salt tax revenue was the bulk of the state tax revenue, accounting for about 5 million yuan a year. But Lu Chengqi has now started the collection of commercial taxes, and he can't look down on the five million, since this is the case, it is better to benefit the people.

In addition, the unscrupulous businessmen also sold wrought iron, iron ore, etc. to the Liao State, hating Lu Chengqi's teeth, he personally issued an order, if these unscrupulous businessmen are caught, they must be severely punished.

The next day, in the "Dashun Minbao", such a holy decree was recorded: "I said: I heard that the price of salt in Dashun is rising, and many people have been unable to eat salt, and I am very worried. Therefore, after careful consideration, I decided to liberalize the monopoly of salt, and private traders could also sell it. If you are willing to engage in the production of sea salt, you can go to the Ministry of Industry Yamen to seek technology, and the Ministry of Industry Yamen in various places must not be embarrassed. April 14 of the third year of Hongxiang. ”

The influence of "Dashun Minbao" at this time has covered the entire territory of Dashun, even if it is an official, Di Bao can not read it, but "Dashun Minbao" must be read. Because there is a special interpretation of Di Bao in "Dashun Minbao", the magistrate does not have to go to great lengths to guess what he wants to do. If you have such a convenient newspaper, do you still want to read the newspaper?

The newspaper is now published every two days, and the newspaper that has just been published will reach the farthest border in three days at the latest. As soon as this issue of "Dashun Minbao> came out, the whole country was immediately boiling. Because "Da Shun Min Daily" not only recorded Lu Chengqi's holy decree, but also attached the process flow of the salt drying plant. As long as you are new to writing, you can understand it. But in practice, someone needs to guide you.

Under Lu Chengqi's repeated expansion, the Ministry of Industry Yamen has now become the Yamen of the most officials in the Dashun Dynasty. At this time, special official documents were also transmitted to the Ministry of Industry and Yamen of each state capital through the post road. For a while, there was an endless stream of businessmen who came to ask for a way, who made the Dashun coastline so long, and you can dry salt anywhere?

I have to say that Lu Chengqi's hand is too ruthless, and he directly stunned those well salt merchants who kept raising the price of salt, they have a keen sense of smell, how do they not know that Lu Chengqi is going to attack them? As the saying goes, when the Son of Heaven is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed. How can ordinary people fight the entire court? Those unscrupulous businessmen felt panicked all day long, and they were afraid that their private sale of well salt to the Liao State would be exposed. Take money to curry favor with the magistrates, but where do those magistrates dare to collect it? As soon as you stretch out your hand, you will be in the prison of the Supervision Department tomorrow. The more this is the case, the more these unscrupulous businessmen feel that they are at the end of their rope.

But Lu Chengqi was in no mood to attack them, and he did it for the sake of the people of the Great Shun Dynasty. What he really cares about is that those unscrupulous businessmen who sell fine iron and wrought iron to the Liao State have now been arrested in the prison of the Supervision Division, although they refuse to admit it. But the Ombudsman has a way to get them to speak, after all, the Ombudsman is not a good person.

After such a turmoil, some unscrupulous merchants were secretly beaten, and most of the salt and iron were cut off from flowing into the Liao State.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Lu Chengqi's mouth, and he thought: "In the first half of the year, I have a musket team, are you still afraid of your cavalry?" Maybe at that time, even artillery was there! This kind of salt and iron strategic material, do you still want to get it so easily? Dream! Go and ask the Uighurs and see how much they can give you!" "Although the Uighurs are attached to the Khitan, their salt and iron production is not abundant, and they can't supply it themselves, so where can they give so much to the Khitans? This trick was drawn from the bottom of the kettle, and Lu Chengqi thought that he was hitting the seven inches of the Khitans. In fact, Lu Chengqi didn't know that the Khitans could also make iron, at most it was just a quality problem, and it was no big deal. Even salt, which can be obtained from the Uighurs, is not a difficult task. It's a big deal to do business with the Koreans, and they don't have any major conflicts of interest anyway.

When it comes to the people's reaction to the salt, it is too intense, especially the wealthy businessmen, who have already taken action and bought a large open space by the sea. The salt drying method is actually very simple, which is to use the sun to evaporate the water in the seawater to obtain sea salt. However, the climate requirements for Yantian are still quite high, and it needs to be in an area with a mild climate and sufficient sunshine, and it also needs to have a large area of flat seaside tidal flats to build a Yantian.

The salt pan is generally divided into two parts, the evaporation pond and the crystallization pond. First, the seawater is introduced into the evaporation pool, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by the sun, it is poured into the crystallization pool and continued to be exposed to the sun, and the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and the salt will gradually precipitate out after drying. This is kosher salt.

After the coarse salt is dissolved in water, it will be overthought and evaporated, and a part of the impurities will be overconsidered; At this moment, the salt is dissolved in water, and then it is evaporated, and after two times, the impurities have been removed. At this time, it is dissolved in water, edible alkali is added, stirred, and then evaporated after crystallization, and refined salt can be obtained.

Refined salt is sold to rich and noble families, and coarse salt is eaten by poor families. In fact, coarse salt contains more trace elements needed by the human body, but those rich and noble people are not used to eating it.

If after a month or two, the salt farm has salt output and flows into the market, then the price of salt will definitely fall again and again with the intervention of many competitors. The result Lu Chengqi wants is this, so that everyone can afford to eat salt.

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