Liu Jun's promise of a salt tax of 20 million yuan a year was fully supported by the cabinet. Soon a copy of the salt reform was handed to the Cabinet, which drafted the vote and submitted it to the Prime Minister by the Celebrant of Ceremonies.

The three ministers of the Prime Minister's Office were already cabinet members, and the excerpts approved by the entire cabinet were naturally all passed, and they were sent back to the cabinet for approval and then forwarded to the six sections.

For such a recital that was passed by the Cabinet, the Celebrant Superintendent, the Prime Minister's Office, and the six ministries, and it was also from the Auxiliary Minister Liu Jun, no one in the six departments rejected it, and finally passed it unanimously, and submitted it to the Chinese letter to be issued to the world.

"Among these things of the six branches, they are so obedient this time?" Fu Shan, who had just entered Beijing from Liaodong, said to Liu Jun with some surprise.

"Not really." Liu Jun smiled, the six branches are considered to be the specialties of the Ming Dynasty, and these people are more difficult to deal with than the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Each of the six subjects has a palm print for one person in the matter, one person on the left and one in the matter, and forty people in the other six subjects are given to the matter. This group of people is not simple, although they are all given to the seventh-grade officials in the matter, and they are only from the seventh-grade officials in the matter, which is considered the bottom of the official ranks.

But almost all of these people were born as jinshi, and they were all young jinshi officials who had just entered the officialdom.

In the Ming Dynasty, with the revival of science, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty regarded science as a god, regarded name and honor as more important than life, and compared themselves to Taoist priests. Except for the Four Books and the Five Classics, they despise all learning, and they also despise all officials from other backgrounds except for officials from the imperial examination.

It was under this influence that the Ming Dynasty's reprimands became increasingly popular, and the officials were not afraid of being punished, and instead of resigning, they had to fight to break the net and defend the truth in their minds. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this trend of honoring the festival gradually evolved into the use of reputation as a kind of political capital, and the original simple motive for criticism. It also gets complicated.

Many people are just trying to gain fame and reputation, and their words are not exaggerated. At every turn, he relies on chasing after the wind and catching shadows, gossip, and is extremely sensational and exaggerated.

They are no longer like their predecessors in the early Ming Dynasty, they don't care whether what they say is true or not, they only care about whether they can grandstand with their sharp and mean words, make people feel terrible, and become famous in one fell swoop. Instead, the punishment will be a good one, and it will also have a bad reputation for stifling speech. Make the emperor lose ground.

Since the Apocalypse, the officials of the Taoist Doctrine have often been used by villains, and their speech has only been a tool for the struggle for power and partisan struggle.

Just like this time, even with the unanimous support of Gu Ming, the cabinet and the celebrant and so on, there are still people who want to go the opposite way, intending to grandstand, oppose for the sake of opposition, and seek fame and reputation. However, Liu Jun got the news early. Liu Qiao sent Jinyi guards to visit each of them in secret.

A large stack of evidence of corruption and perversion of the law was placed in front of them, and these people immediately softened. The next day, one more person dared to reject Liu Jun's salt reform plan, and all of them were unanimously approved.

I heard that there was such a complicated process in it. Fu Shan couldn't help laughing.

Although he is also a scholar, he has never looked down on those scientific and Taoist officials in his heart. There are really few people in the Ming Dynasty who are not famous and famous. All rely on chasing the wind and exaggerating to grandstand. Fish for fame and reputation.

"These people are actually easy to deal with, everyone is morally awe-inspiring on the surface, but in fact, they are all male thieves and female prostitutes. Corruption perverts the law. Thinking about the past, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were iron-clad, although they were a little annoying, but they were indeed very ethical. While demanding others, you can also restrain yourself. But now these science and Taoist officials are indeed inferior to one generation after another. But as long as Jin Yiwei has a post, these people are very honest. ”

It is indeed easy to deal with this kind of person. With the brocade guards making a move, they can feel everything clearly. They will either cooperate with Liu Jun and become one of his dogs, letting him bite whoever he wants, or they will only be ruined.

These false apologists like to sell their fame and reputation the most, and the biggest death hole of these people is their name.

Liu Jun didn't have any burden on driving these people, anyway, over the years, most of the officials of the Kedao Yan had become tools for factional disputes, relying on all parties to survive. Although there are not many more competent officials like Liu Zongdao, there are too few.

With Liu Jun's current status, these officials are actually quite willing to be Liu Jun's dogs. The most powerful thing about these guys is that they can observe words and looks, and see the wind and rudder. Now that Liu Jun is in the court, his status changes day by day, especially as soon as Zhou Yanru died, Liu Jun added a bachelor's degree to the cabinet and added the Taibao. Liu Jun is in the DPRK, and there is no one to match.

"In a few days, the family will be in Beijing, pick a date, let's get officially engaged, and in a few months, we will officially get married." Liu Jun smiled and said to Fu Shan, "That guy Zhang Shan, I've been writing several times, just waiting for you to get married." ”

Zhang Shan has also made an engagement with Liu Jun's fifth sister, and now he is waiting for Fu Shan and Liu Jun's fourth sister to get married first.

"If he's in a hurry, you can drink his favorite wine first." Fu Shan also smiled.

"If you don't cut early rice, how to grow late rice, my father still wants to come in order."

The Chu army is now really formed a close circle, Fu Shan and Liu Jun's fourth sister, Zhang Shan and Liu Jun's fifth sister, and many other senior generals of the Chu army are either Liu Jun's sworn brothers, or his disciples, plus the marriage between each other, it can be said that a real Chu party has been formed. This is no better than the Chu Party as outsiders called it earlier, and this Chu Party is based on the Chu army.

Basically, they are all generals of the Chu army, plus the Liu Qiao family, as well as Mei Li and many other families who have worked closely with Liu Jun for a long time, this is the real Chu Party.

"Transferring you to Beijing to be the chief of the general staff, can you accept it?" Liu Jun asked him. After all, a Liaodong Admiral General and a general of the town guard, transferred to Beijing as the chief of the general staff, is not necessarily better than the original.

Fu Shan had no objection to entering Beijing, but he was a little puzzled about the significance of this privy council.

"It's all step by step, it's just a small step in a big game of chess. Later, the Privy Council was the center of the army. Although you are only the Chief of the General Staff and have a Privy Counsellor at your head, you will be the center of the Privy Council in the future. In the future, we will use this Privy Council to control the armies of all towns in the world. You help me control the commanders of the five armed forces, and through them, I will control the nine military regions in the world. ”

After several rounds of adjustments, the Ming army has now completed the initial integration goal.

At present, nine military regions have been set up in the country, namely Zhili, Guanwai, Central Plains, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sanjiang, Chuanhu, Fujian and Zhejiang, Liangguang, and Yunnan-Guizhou. plus the forbidden army and the water division, more than 20 towns and horses.

Liu Jun is now openly expanding the Chu army in the name of the imperial court, and cutting and merging other towns step by step.

"After Lushun Town is handed over to Lao Zhu, can you rest assured?" Liu Jun asked.

Fu Shan entered Beijing as the chief of the general staff of the Privy Council, and the post of chief military officer of Lushun Town was taken over by Liu Jun's old brother Zhu Yuancheng.

"Lao Zhu's ability is good, you can rest assured if you hand it over to him."

After several rounds of adjustments, the soldiers and horses of the ten towns were reduced one after another, but the Chu army did not reduce a single soldier, on the contrary, it took the opportunity to grow. Expanded the territory.

Before Liu Jun entered Beijing, the territory controlled by the Chu army was also Liaodong and Huguang. But now, Liaodong, Huguang, and Sichuan are in hand, and Gyeonggi, Shandong, and western Liaoning have infiltrated and have great control.

"King Jun, how do you plan to rectify the salt business?" Fu Shan asked with concern. "This salt is not easy to meddle with, there are too many aspects involved in it, and the interests of too many people are involved. And all those who can get a share of the benefits in the salt are all the relatives and noble ministers of the imperial family. This needs to rectify the salt business, but it has to poke the hornet's nest. ”

"Poke when it's time to poke, as long as you're well prepared, don't worry." Liu Jun is determined to change the salt. There are indeed too many people involved, but there are also many interests involved. The salt is ready. The annual salt tax is at least 20 million silver dollars, which is not a problem to collect 20 million more than now.

With so much money, how could Liu Jun let it be taken away by others?

In the past, when he was in Macheng, there was only one inspection. He has to intervene in one acre and three points of land in Taiping Township, just because there are too many interests. Now he has become the governor of Zhili and the minister of Gu Ming. Cabinet scholars, how can they let this salt profit be taken by others again?

"Actually, salt reform is also very simple." Liu Jun is not a native of this era, he is a time-traveler, and his eyes are not limited to this era.

The salt administration of the Ming Dynasty has implemented the official sales law, the opening law, the salt gang law, etc., but they have all fattened the salt merchants, pitted the people of the imperial court, and even the stove households have never received any benefits.

"If you want to reform the salt policy, get this generous salt tax, and you have to smash the original salt system. The old system was smashed from top to bottom, and it was not broken or established. I plan to set up an agency in the DPRK and China, the Salt Administration, which will be in charge of salt affairs. ”

The center of Liu Jun's salt reform is the establishment of the Salt Administration at the top, which comes out separately and oversees the national salt affairs as a whole. Then the salt industry in the country was divided into four major parts, salt production, salt storage, salt transportation, and salt sales.

To put it bluntly, it is the official supervision and business sales.

Abolish the original dealer-style monopoly sales model, and separate the major steps of salt trading. The salt industry in the country is uniformly allocated, and a salt production department is responsible for the management of the major salt farms in the country and is responsible for the production of salt.

In addition, there is a special salt storage department, which has established several large salt warehouses at important water and land terminals across the country, which is responsible for storing the salt produced by the major salt farms.

Then there's a salt transportation division. This salt transport bureau is responsible for the transportation of salt, they are responsible for transporting salt from the salt works to the salt silos and salt silos in the provinces, and they are responsible for the transportation of salt.

Finally, large salt silos were set up in each of the 21 provincial capitals, and after the salt was brought in from several large transshipment salt silos, they were responsible for the wholesale distribution of salt to the salt merchants.

The most important step of this reform is also here, the salt of the whole country is sold according to the provincial boundaries, but there is no longer a nest order, no longer a monopoly. All merchants were entitled to buy salt from the salt warehouses in the provincial capitals and sell it in their own provinces.

All the salt shall be paid according to one hundred catties per load, and fifty quintals per vote. If you want to buy salt, you don't need to pay for salt, you can directly issue an invoice in the salt warehouse, pay after the invoice and then take the salt, and the salt price and salt tax are already included in the salt payment. In this way, the salt tax has been levied before the salt is released from the warehouse.

After the salt is out of the warehouse, it is sold in the province and no salt tax is levied.

Even the price and tax rate of salt have been set, no matter where the salt is produced or which province it is sold, all the salt will be unified across the country at the warehouse price and tax.

For every 100 catties, one catty is counted as 16 taels.

One quintal of salt is the price of one yuan of salt, three yuan of salt tax, salt merchants invoicing to buy salt, and the warehouse price is four yuan per quintal, including the salt price and salt tax, and no additional taxes will be levied after leaving the warehouse.

This salt price and salt tax are much lower than the current salt price and salt tax. Nowadays, the salt tax of the imperial court is 6 taels and 4 cents per 300 catties, which is equivalent to four and a half silver dollars per load. It's a pity that although the salt tax of the imperial court is high, it can't be collected at all, and all of it is lost.

According to the records of the imperial court at this time, the annual output of official salt in the imperial court was about two million yuan. One tale of three hundred catties is equivalent to six million quintals of salt, and if a taper of four silver dollars is a hundred and forty million yuan of salt, then the salt tax is twenty-four million yuan a year, of which the salt tax reaches eighteen million yuan.

Moreover, Liu Jun predicts that when the imperial court controls the production, transportation and distribution of salt, although the cost may be a lot, the sales of salt will be more strictly controlled, and even the private salt will be greatly reduced, and the sales of salt will increase a lot.

It is not a problem that the salt tax alone exceeds 20 million yuan a year.

The key to this salt administration is to separate the links of salt production, transportation and marketing, and salt sales, and let different people be responsible. Liu Jun is preparing to build a new and complete salt industry system, and even set up a special salt inspection department and a salt police team to inspect salt administration and crack down on illegal salt.

Moreover, the salt is taxed when it is sold, which can also ensure that the salt tax will not be lost.

"The county king's plan is good, but, to be honest, now that the officials are corrupt, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have an efficient execution. No matter how good the scriptures are, it is difficult to recite them when they are handed over to a group of crooked-mouthed monks. Fu Shan said.

"I've thought of this naturally, so I'm going to do something even harder." Liu Jun smiled, "I'm going to give the imperial court a tax." Every year, the salt tax of 20 million yuan is handed over to the imperial court, and then the imperial court completely hands over the salt to me to be responsible, and all links from production to sales are regarded as private industries. It's the same as our military-industrial system, it's exactly according to that set, everyone we recruit by ourselves, use our own rules, who dares to mess around? ”

The tax package system is a major feature of the Ming Dynasty's tax system, and it is the same as the contracted state-owned enterprises in later generations.

"Twenty million? Then the princes of the court didn't smile and crooked their mouths? If it is a tax package, or if we are all responsible for the production, transportation and sales, they will immediately agree to 10 million a year. ”

"Even if you hand over 20 million, there is still a lot of money. But if fifteen million were given, they would certainly be happy. Liu Jun hasn't released this trick yet, but he believes that when he tells the cabinet about his plan, they will support it.

Although fifteen million is less than 20 million, they are willing to accept 15 million in drought and flood without being responsible for this troublesome matter.

And for Liu Jun, the salt tax is also beneficial. First, it can manage salt affairs more quickly and effectively, and second, Liu Jun also intends to use the salt affairs system to recruit and train a group of clerks, which can be regarded as planning for the future. In the future, when these salt managers grow up, they can completely replace the current corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

Listening to Liu Jun's plan, Fu Shan could only smile and admire, "The king of the county really plans far, take one step and see three steps!" ”

"However, despite the plan, it will not be easy to build a new and effective salt system from scratch. What's more, this is still snatching meat in other people's rice bowls. ”

Fu Shan said very heroically, "Who robbed us of meat?" If you don't accept it, beat him until he obeys! ”

"Hahaha, the green master has also learned badly!" Liu Jun laughed. (To be continued.) )

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