Anything, as long as it is related to the government, it is synonymous with inefficiency, at least the government of the Ming Dynasty.

Giving Yu Yan legal status is actually to let the wealthy stove households and the official stove households PK, and the answer is obvious. Over the years, the official stove households have been losing and entering the hands of wealthy stove households.

In the past, the Salt Transportation Division still had to requisition households to fill the gap, but if the official silver was taxed like the surplus salt, did they still need to spend so much effort to manage the stove households under them?

It is believed that in less than ten or eight years, the official stove households will disappear, and the monopoly of salt production will be the rich stove households.

Moreover, the nature of the salt transportation department has completely changed, from the organizer of salt production to a mere manager, specifically responsible for collecting taxes. What salt area, woben, salt lead...... At that point, it becomes dispensable.

Tang Yi believes that the ideal salt law should be to tax on the spot and then buy and sell freely. Lower the entry threshold for salt merchants, and rely on full competition to bring down the price of salt.

However, it is obvious that such a great effort will definitely implicate the interests of countless people, causing a collective backlash from salt merchants, and the salt transportation yamen will not agree.

And with Jiajing's temperament, he won't let him come nonsense.

Therefore, Tang Yi can only take the means that have the least impact on the system, on the surface, the ancestral system has not changed at all, just to open up tax sources, tax surplus salt, and the official opposition will be very small.

But opening a small door is like an anthill on the embankment, which will destroy the embankment entirely.

Tang Yi's intentions can't hide the salt merchants who deal with salt all day long, they are definitely unwilling in normal times, but who let their handle catch Tang Yi!

It's okay to oppose it, if they dare to oppose it, Wang Wenxian's gang will be killed and trampled to death completely. Fill somebody's shoes.

If Tang Yi's method is followed, the benefits are only shared, and the big boss is still in his hands, and by exchanging shares, they can still stretch their hands farther.

Carefully calculated, between gains and losses. It's hard to say.

It's just how to divide the shares, how to manage the business, and how to distribute the benefits...... There are so many things that you can't figure out in a day or two.

Tang Yi was very generous, he did not interfere with them by force, but adopted an open and transparent attitude, and the eight major salt merchants each sent representatives, with Wang Wenxian as the leader of the stove households, as well as small and medium-sized salt merchants. and the financial businessmen led by Hou Yunlai, the four parties sat together and discussed together.

The people who used to be as powerful as fire and water came together, and they were a little uncomfortable at first, and soon the big guys quarreled fiercely for the sake of interests, and the spitting stars flew all over the sky, and they didn't give in to each other.

Wang Lutai shouted hoarsely, and Wang Wenxian left the table several times. It's a lot of trouble. Of course, when everyone quarrels, they will secretly observe Tang Yi. I hope that this Lord will come out to administer justice and say a few words for them.

But Tang Yi just kept his mouth shut, and the quarrel turned upside down, and at most he sent a little rock sugar and white pears to the big guy to dissipate the anger and continue to argue.

In the last few days, the big guy can be considered to understand. Tang Yi will not get involved in their affairs, and the problem needs to be solved by the big guys.

And Liu Tao will arrive soon, if he can't get the result before this master comes, the price of salt on the market will be high. It's a mess, just wait for the knife!

After a fierce debate, Wang Lutai and others agreed to release 40% of the shares, and they still retained more than half of the shares.

Two of them were traded to small and medium-sized salt merchants, two were traded to stove households, and half were traded to Hou Yunlai, and he agreed that all money would flow in his bank in the future.

Finally, under the witness of Tang Yi, the Quartet finalized the final text. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and after a blink of an air, the salt merchants hoarded salt began to flow to the market in large quantities, and the price of salt returned to around a penny of silver, and the market, which had been noisy for most of the year, finally quieted down.

"This is not peace in the world, but a temporary truce!"

Mao Kun said categorically: "Small and medium-sized salt merchants and stove households will not be willing to get just such a little, the official stove households are overwhelmed, and the wave of flight will follow, and the salt merchants have greatly increased their strength by exchanging shares with each other, no matter what, they will try their best to avoid the tax burden ......" said a lot of questions in one breath, and Mao Kun finally concluded suspiciously: "My lord, I think you don't seem to be solving problems, but creating more problems." ”

Tang Yi smiled slightly, "Mr. Lumen is worthy of being a wise man, and he hits the nail on the head!" ”

Mao Kun was even more puzzled, and even he was a little suspicious of his vision, what kind of calculation did Tang Yi make, did he deliberately plant the root cause of the trouble, so as to make the world chaotic, could it be that he had ill intentions?

"Mr. Lumen, to put it presumptuously, the Confucian scholars of the past generations have always thought of once and for all, thinking about peace for all generations, and thinking of coming up with a set of methods, which will be acceptable for all generations! Are you well versed in the classics, has there been such a system throughout the ages? How many drawbacks have been accumulated in the salt administration for thousands of years, not to mention the current situation in the imperial court, how can I have the ability to come up with a set of plans that satisfy all parties and can last! ”

Tang Yi laughed at himself, "What I can do is to plant the seeds of reform, wait for the right time, and then make drastic adjustments." “

"What do you mean?"

"My step is just to break the monopoly of the big salt merchants, through the exchange of shares, such as Wang Wenxian and others, and some small and medium-sized salt merchants, they will take advantage of the situation, and when they eat the whale and swallow the official salt, they will turn their heads and snatch the share of the big salt merchants. I dare say that in ten or eight years, or even sooner, they will start a crazy fight. That's when the salt law will really change. ”

Mao Kun pondered Tang Yi's words carefully, and asked tentatively, "What do you mean by big breaks?" ”

Tang Yi nodded, "A group of bastards is better than a turtle son, especially when it comes to businessmen!" ”

The words were not rough, and Mao Kun asked again: "What should be the salt method in the hearts of adults?" ”

"Competition and mediation, salt is a necessity for the people to survive, not a tool for the imperial court to accumulate wealth, and it is a shame to use the salt tax to support finances! It's even more embarrassing to make money by relying on salt! ”

This remark was deafening and shocking, I really didn't expect Tang Yi to have such a heart-to-heart, Mao Kun hurriedly stood up, bowed down and said: "The adult has lofty knowledge and has the world in his heart, the old man admires!" ”

"Mr. Lumen has an overreputation, I am saying that although the ideal is good, it is not possible to achieve it, and a good ruler is to find a balance between various interests and try to take care of the poor."

From Tang Yi's words, Mao Kun heard that Lao Cheng, who was seriously inconsistent with his age, was even a little negative. looked down and thought about it, but felt that what Tang Yi said was very reasonable.

There are never perfect rules, only constant revisions, constant adjustments, and never ending. Gou is new, and it is new, and it is new, and this is the truth.

It's ridiculous to say, Mao Kun was also worried that Tang Yi was too young, would do things too ideally, and didn't know how to measure, so he asked Tang Yi to teach him a lesson. It's a shame for a young man to be older than himself. It seems that if you can't progress quickly, you won't have the face to be a strategist for others.

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Tang Yi handled everything almost as well, and Liu Tao also rushed to Huai'an. He is not a good stubble, the guard of honor of the transport envoy walked unhurriedly, he was in casual clothes, arrived in Huai'an in advance, took a big turn in the market, carefully inquired about the situation of salt prices, and was not satisfied with the store, and ran to the people's homes to inquire carefully.

After tossing a big circle, he was shocked to find that the price of salt had really come down, only a penny of silver, which was much cheaper than the capital, and the people had no rebound. As for the stove households that kept making trouble a few days ago, they also quieted down.

I saved up all my strength, punched the cotton bale, and almost flashed my waist!

Liu Tao thought about it for a while, and knew that it must have been done by this kid Tang Yi. He never leaks anything in his work, how can he leave a mess.

But where did you put me in doing so?

Liu Tao found Tang Yi angrily and wanted to be reasonable. Who knows, when he saw Tang Yi, he was startled first.

"Okay, what's wrong with you?"

I saw Tang Yi's face pale, sitting on a wooden four-wheeled vehicle, similar to the legendary Zhuge Liang, and was pushed into the living room by the guards.

Liu Tao and Tang Shen have fought side by side, the two of them are good friends, and he is also half of Tang Yi's elders, so he hurriedly ran over and asked with great concern.

"Mr. Renfu, the little nephew is nothing serious, but he has been running around for the past few years, and he has not been allowed to rest, and he has suffered a cold on his legs, so it doesn't matter."

As he spoke, Tang Yi used his hands hard and wanted to stand up, but halfway through, his forehead sweated, his body shook, and he sat down heavily.

But Liu Tao was frightened, Tang Yi looked like this, how could he dare to ask the teacher!

"Alas, young people are like this, they always feel that they are in good health, and they can do nothing. Let your dad know, it's not necessarily distressing! Liu Tao sighed: "You hurry back to Beijing to recuperate, if you have anything to explain, just tell me, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, I don't know much about salt affairs, you have the final say." ”

Tang Yi was secretly refreshed in his heart, it turned out that pretending to be sick was really beneficial!

"Mr. Renfu, the turmoil some time ago was that Yan Maoqing wanted to use the reform of the salt law as a threat to ask for money from the salt merchants, and there were many contradictions among the salt merchants, and they were chaotic all of a sudden. The little nephew has barely mediated these days, and the turmoil has subsided. In the past few months, when I sold cheap salt, I collected more than 1.7 million taels of tax silver, and Mr. Renfu could take this silver, close the position as usual, build a salt warehouse, hoard salt, and throw it out to stabilize the price when the price of salt is high. As for the salt merchants, it is nothing more than strict supervision to prevent tax evasion. ”

Tang Yi intermittently explained the situation. After Liu Tao listened, not only was his anger gone, but his eyebrows danced.

More than 1,700,000 taels!

What a red envelope!

Although Liu Tao is not greedy, but it is easy to do things with money in his hands, so people under him can listen to you, Tang Yi is really interesting!

"Don't worry, I will do what I say, and I will manage the salt affairs according to your method." Liu Tao suddenly lowered his voice, leaned into Tang Yi's ear, and said in a low voice: "Okay, this time I left Beijing, it can be regarded as leaving the fire pit, you have to be careful, both sides have already killed red eyes, just the criminal department Shangshu, three in three months, like a marquee!" ”

Liu Tao, who is accustomed to seeing the light of swords and swords, mentioned the situation in the capital, and he also had palpitations. (To be continued.) )