However, the emperor's money bag has been pried into the corner of the wall countless times, and the annual output of Huai salt is nearly one billion catties, most of which goes into the pockets of those powerful people.

The monopoly of tea and salt has always been an important financial income of the feudal dynasty, which reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, and the annual income of the two monopolies was tens of millions of yuan, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was divided by those magnates.

Needless to say, the tea tax is only a hundred thousand taels a year, and the salt tax is also pitifully low, only two or three million taels a year, which is not equal to the total amount at all.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was, to put it bluntly, a puppet. Although they control the power of life and death, those civilian bureaucrats collude with the powerful and dig into the corners of the country all the time.

Zhu Youzhen said before hanging: I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country.

This sentence is not wrong, the demise of the Ming court has a lot to do with the financial bankruptcy, and those civil officials and magnates are like bloodsuckers attached to this behemoth, constantly grabbing profits from the state.

Even if it's financially abundant, so what? The silver will not be used in a real way, and when the war begins, the opportunity for those civilian officials to make a fortune will come, and the silver will not be used by the soldiers at all.

The reason why Liaodong is corrupt is inseparable from those civil officials. When the sound is sounded, the civil official has to deduct a sum of money, and the military attache has to pay a bribe if he wants to be promoted.

As a result, more than half of the silver that was deducted was sent to the generals, and the generals deducted a large part of it, and in turn bribed civilian officials, so that a vicious cycle was formed.

At the beginning of Chongzhen, when there was a vacancy in the Beijing or local chiefs of the court, in addition to the regular selection by the new jinshi, it was also selected by the state and county officials who had served for a certain period of time. This opened the door for some courtiers to make a fortune.

The selection criteria are not based on morality and talent, but on favoritism. For example, Lang Zhonglu Mai of the Ministry of Rites, just because he and Zhou Zhengyi, the younger brother of the university scholar Zhou Tingru, are sons and daughters, relying on this relationship, he actually set a price of "7,000 Qiuzilin (Hanlin officials), 5,000 Qiuke (in the middle of the matter), and 3,000 Qiudao (supervising the imperial history)", openly accepting bribes, and going to the door to seek officials on behalf of others. If he is not sure, how dare Lu Mai do this? It is not difficult to get a glimpse of the inside story of collusion and favoritism between the DPRK and the Chinese people.

Anyway, the emperor is a fool, all the civil officials are lying to the emperor, the emperor's education is presided over by the civil officials, and the emperor who doesn't go out of the capital all day long understands those cats. It has formed an eternal spectacle that the imperial court is fooling the people and the officials are fooling the emperor, and even the constitutional monarchy is not as good.

Zhao Yan directly established a resettlement site for displaced people in Laizhou Bay, and the first batch of displaced people of about 5,000 people were resettled here.

After repairing the simple house, Zhao Yan immediately began to organize personnel to build the salt pan.

The technique of drying salt from seawater has been around for a long time, and it has been adopted in many places today. For example, Huainan salt, Huainan boiled salt, Huaibei salt.

However, the way of drying salt in Huaibei is relatively unique.

There are also long reeds that rely on salt drying, and there are some scattered salt pans, but this technology has not been popularized on a large scale.

The advantage of drying salt is that it is low cost, and the yield is not necessarily higher than that of boiling salt.

If it is compared to those rudimentary salt boiling equipment, the output is naturally higher. However, compared with the output of boiled salt in Huainan, the output of dried salt will be much lower.

The salt households in Huainan use large iron plates to cook salt, and five or six people can produce thousands of catties of sea salt when they start work at night. However, the cost of iron plates is very high, and ordinary salt farmers cannot afford them.

The highest yield is the use of underground brine in the well beach salt drying method, Laizhou Bay has a lot of underground brine, but Zhao Yan has not yet developed the technology.

Drilling techniques are low and pumping efficiency is lower.

However, fortunately, the geographical conditions of Bohai Bay are superior, and this is the area with the highest salt production in tidal flats.

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Xie Yongming is not having a good time, and he is worried all day long. Moved his fat body, thought about it for a while, but still didn't dare to leave his small castle.

After Xie Yongming and Wu Anbang reached an agreement three months ago, they were secretly happy in their hearts, but within a few days, it was reported that Wu Anbang was defeated at the Baiyang River.

Within a dozen days, the imperial court actually arrested Wu Anbang for questioning. And that Zhao Yan turned out to be a guerrilla attack in Denglai, which made Xie Yongming fall into a great panic, and hurriedly ran back to Zhaoyuan to close the fort and guard it strictly, always paying attention to the direction of the wind.

During Zhao Yan's crackdown on bandits last month, Xie Yongming was scared to the point that he had nightmares. Fortunately, the Zhao family didn't seem to know about his existence.

Maybe Wu Anbang's straw bale didn't give him out!

Wu Anbang did not confess to him, because no one asked about it at all.

But this does not mean that Zhao Yan is unclear and does not know about his existence. Liu Heng, as Wu Anbang's staff officer, participated in this matter almost the whole process, and he was very clear about Xie Yongming's origin.

That Xie Yongming has a hard backstage, and I heard that there are people in the DPRK. Zhao Yan behaved more calmly during the caress period, so he didn't touch him.

More than 600 horsemen were rumbling on the grassy ground towards a village on the outskirts of the city. Four hundred, plus more than two hundred horses loaded with goods. Some horses carried cannonballs, others cannons.

Soon the group was on the outskirts of the village.

A small fort six or seven meters high was built outside the village, enclosing the entire village, which was where Xie Yongming lived.

"What a high wall." Lin Yi looked up at the walls of the small castle and let out an exclamation.

While he was watching, the people on the small castle also spotted them.

"The horse bandits are coming, the horse bandits are coming, no, the horse bandits are coming......" The frightened voice instantly spread throughout the castle......

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I'm going out today, it's too late, so that's all I can ...... There is an update estimated in the evening...... However, it is not guaranteed...... If you come back early......

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