For the salt capital of southern Sichuan, the most prosperous place in Fushun County is Badian Street, the largest eight salt merchants have set up shops here, therefore, now the time has passed, the eight salt merchants have disappeared in the long river of history, the name of the street has been handed down, the shops on this street are no longer limited to salt merchants, silver, pawnshop, antique shop, Guangyang store, many businesses are lined up, even the new Daqing Bank in the past few years also has branches on this street.

On the day when Fushun announced the change of banner, a Qing army mutinied, in addition to looting outside the city, a small number of rebels also rushed into the city, looting on this bustling Badian Street, although it was quickly repelled by the garrison in the city, and the businesses on the street were also attacked, pawnshops, antique shops suffered heavy losses, and even the Daqing Bank was set on fire by the rebels, burning all the accounts, so that the local depositors had no return, as for whether those deposits were still in the bank, but no one can say, and even which side put this fire was put on the ground, there are also different opinions.

Although it has long been evacuated, the street of these eight shops is still deserted, far less lively than in the Fire Temple, large and small businesses are closed, and they are busy counting the losses in the military pot, as for the opening of business, they can't take care of it for the time being. (More new chapters here, /]

In front of the Republican Army, whether it is Wang Zixiang or Zhou Hongxun, it is a small corner that cannot be on the stage, they are not as many soldiers as the Republican Army, and they are not as good as the Republican Army, and they are not as good as the Republican Army, so what qualifications do they have to fight with the Republican Army? In addition, Tian Zhenbang, a "southern Sichuan town guard", made a bad move, and the republican army did not eliminate them, the head snakes, and they had already raised their noble hands. (The latest and most complete e-book download)

Speaking of Tian Zhenbang, that is also a character, chóngqìng righteousness, he is considered to have made great contributions to the great cause of the Republican Army's westward expedition, in order to reward the merits, the commander-in-chief Baoju he made the "South Sichuan Town Guard", and assigned the southern Sichuan plate of Xuzhou, Zhou, Ningyuan, and Xuyong to the jurisdiction of someone in his field, and this plate has become the forbidden side of someone in his field, although it is agreed with the commander-in-chief in advance, the salt tax and salt industry are not his turn to Tian Zhenbang to rub oil, but the land endowment and gold in these places are all under the care of Tian Zhenbang, this source of wealth, How can Tian Zhenbang be willing to let others share the profits? In order to realize the ideal of the "King of Southern Sichuan", Tian Zhenbang has tried all kinds of methods by indiscriminate medicine, bad water, and slander, but if it were not for the strict order of the commander-in-chief, I am afraid that Tian Zhenbang would have started a war with those head snakes a long time ago.

What is the idea of Tian Zhen's guard, Zhao Bei is clear in his heart, Tian Zhenbang wants to be a real "king of southern Sichuan", and the commander-in-chief doesn't want him to succeed. (Mobile viewing)

Balance, all for balance! The way of government is to pay attention to the word "balance", and now to destroy Tian Zhenbang, it is not beneficial to Zhao Bei's reputation, if you help Tian Zhenbang to destroy Wang Zixiang, Zhou Hongxun and others, but it will not help to contain Tian Zhenbang, so the best way is to make peace with the mud, let these head snakes contain each other and monitor each other, so as to ensure the right of the Republican Army to speak in southern Sichuan. Therefore, this "Salt Policy Aftermath Conference" is not only for the reform of salt administration, but also to eliminate the way out of these local snakes, balance their forces, and escort the commander-in-chief to govern the whole Sichuan.

Tian Zhenbang wants to be the real king of southern Sichuan, Wang Zixiang,

It is also necessary to scrape the land in this southern Sichuan area, and the positions of both sides are very resolute, who is willing to back down? It is not an easy task to reconcile the contradictions between them, and this requires the commander-in-chief to make a final decision.

If counted from the day Zhao Bei arrived in Fushun County, the commander-in-chief has been in the port for two and a half days, but in these two and a half days, none of the Fushun salt merchants and military and political dignitaries have seen the head of the republican army, and even the reception banquet prepared by Jīng was attended by Lan Tianwei and Fu Huafeng, and no one knew where the commander-in-chief Zhao went, but the rumor came from the mouth of Tian Zhenbang, the town guard, that it was the republican army that planned to rectify the salt policy and refresh the salt industry. (More new chapters here, /]

But how to rectify and refresh it, but no one knows, Lan Tianwei and Fu Huafeng are all tight-mouthed bottles, Tian Zhenbang has just rushed to Fushun from Chengdu, and a martial artist, except for silver, he doesn't know anything, but in the past two days, all the salt merchants, regardless of the size of the industry, are trembling, and now they all know that the dynasty has changed, the so-called "once a son of heaven and a courtier", the people who sit in the country have changed, and even the ministers can be changed, not to mention the little salt merchants?

The salt merchants, the leading merchants in ancient China, not only grabbed a lot of wealth for themselves by virtue of their special status, but also maintained inextricable ties with officialdom, and if you want to bring down a salt merchant, you need to use enough strength. (All novels:\.] Yanzheng is not so easy to rectify, at least during the Chengping period.

In the pre-Qing Dynasty, the salt administration paid attention to eight words: Yu class, compassion for businessmen, benefit the people, and eliminate selfishness. Yucai refers to the maximum extraction of salt taxes and the abundance of the national treasury; Compassion for merchants refers to reducing the burden of salt merchants and avoiding fishing in the dry water; Benefiting the people means reducing the price of salt, expanding the diversion of the shore, and not making all kinds of people suffer from the risk of light food; Putting an end to smuggling means trying our best to put an end to the sale of illicit salt and maintain the revenue from the salt tax.

This eight-character mantra looks high-sounding, worthy of calling "my emperor Shengming", but in fact it is not like that at all, since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, this salt government has stumbled all the way, and there is no time to go smoothly, the reason is very simple, because the "eight-character mantra" is fundamentally contradictory, Yujiao means to increase the squeeze of salt merchants, salt merchants are not fools, naturally will not bear this heavy tax, will naturally give up those distant and no profit to lead to the shore, but also must try their best to turn private salt into official salt, In order to reduce costs, this has caused a direct consequence: first, hundreds of people in remote areas cannot eat official salt, or cannot afford to eat salt at all; Second, a large amount of salt tax was lost, or it became a mansion or theater of salt merchants, or it entered the pockets of salt officials and tax collectors, and the income of the imperial court naturally decreased.

Of course, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty did not consider the implementation of reform of the salt administration, from the beginning of the founding of the country, the emperors have been staring at the salt tax, the bottom of the group of capable ministers have not less ideas, but for various reasons, has not dared to do it, so, the salt merchants continue to maintain their privileges, but the enjoyment of this privilege comes at a price.

In the words of officialdom, salt merchants are the "fat pigs" raised by the imperial court.

The reason why the emperor is willing to maintain the special status of salt merchants is purely to fatten pigs, when there is a shortage of silver, when to kill pigs, and the number of salt merchants is limited, which determines the simplicity of the pig procedure. There is no way, the flow of commerce and currency in ancient China was too poor, only the rich salt merchants had enough cash for the government to extort, and other merchants did not have this kind of strength at all.

Only the salt merchants were fat pigs, and they were slaughtered happily, and in exchange, the imperial court gave these salt merchants special care, and could even provide various conveniences for the children of the salt merchants to take the imperial examination.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the salt law was the outline of the merchant to lead the shore, it was the direct inheritance of the Ming Dynasty salt law, this system in the Ming Dynasty has exposed many drawbacks, the end of the Ming Dynasty has appeared to reform the salt law, only due to the rapid collapse of the Ming Dynasty and finally not implemented, to the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, Yongzheng years, the salt law has been extremely corrupt, seriously affected the financial revenue of the imperial court, the Yongzheng Emperor had to take measures to carry out a small range of repairs to the salt administration, knocking and beating, barely coping, since then, a successor emperor dìdū had tried to carry out a thorough rectification of the salt administration, on the spot to collect taxes, the ...... of the democracy movement Many reform measures came out one by one, until the Daoguang period, finally appeared "ticket salt law", fundamentally solved the defects of the business introduction system, not waiting for further promotion, the Opium War and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War broke out successively, in order to solve the problem of military spending, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others pointed fingers at the salt administration, and adopted the circular ticket law of the outline law in the ticket law, which is equivalent to returning to the outline of the business shore system, since then, the Qing Dynasty's salt government has no power to return to the sky, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the program business shore system has not been abolished.

If we count from the Ming Dynasty, this ancient salt administration system has been in practice for 500 years.

Some historians have commented that "ancient China was a thermos flask", and the salt government system may be a perfect footnote to this sentence. (Read!) 〕