On the bank of the Qinhuai River, a painting boat is decorated like a flower garden, competing for beauty, the fragrant wind is bursting, and the maids are shuttling endlessly, all of them are first-class beauties in the south of the Yangtze River, all of them are charming and enchanting, take a look, and the soul has flown out!

Ji Xueru waited anxiously inside, and finally there was a sound of footsteps, someone got on the painting boat, and he hurriedly greeted him.

"Lord Ding, you can be regarded as a ......"

Ding Huizhen hurriedly waved his hand, signaling him not to speak, and the two of them entered the painting boat, and Ding Huizhen waved at the women around him.

"Let them all go down!"

Ji Xueru smiled embarrassedly: "My lord, do you think these girls are not in your mind, villain, let's find a better one!" ”

"Don't bother with that, it's all dying, what's the mood to look at these things!"

Ji Xueru shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Adult, the little one has something to ask you, you can't prevaricate the little one so much, isn't this the life of the villain!" ”

"Brother Ji, you are the biggest salt merchant in Yangzhou, and you have been rich for several lifetimes, so don't pretend to be in front of this official. There's a copy of this, you take it and look at it, and you'll know what's going on. ”

Ji Xueru said with a smile: "It's not a secret, the little one also heard that he is going to move the salt administration, but he doesn't know what the specific content is, thank you for the reward!" ”

Ji Xueru opened the recital and looked at it in a flash, but as soon as he read a few lines, he trembled all over, and his eyes widened. A rush of blood rushed to the door of the brain, and I almost hung up with high blood pressure!

Chen Qianfu and others jointly signed the letter, which seems to be just for Gu Zhenhua to cater to the momentum.

But most of the people with a little brain will tremble with fear when they see their twists and turns. If you are involved, your neck is even colder. In this recital, they lifted the dark curtain that the Ming gentry officials were most reluctant to uncover. These are the so-called "salt" and "sea".

The registered population of the Ming Dynasty was about 60 million. The annual production of salt is 600 million catties, almost 10 catties per person. For the stove households that produce salt, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that 4oo catties of salt were exchanged for one stone of grain, so it is clear that the cost of salt is about half of the grain. But when it comes to the market, a stone of grain may not be exchanged for ten catties of salt. In other words, the difference between the two is fifty times!

Aside from this huge profit, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 2 million salt citations, and each tax was 6 taels and 6 yuan. That is to say, the salt tax in the Ming Dynasty was more than 13 million taels, but in fact, when the salt tax was the highest in the late Ming Dynasty, it was only 25o thousand taels.

On the one hand, there are huge profits, and on the other hand, the taxes that should be collected cannot be collected.

A huge interest group linked by table salt. Every year from the giant beast of Daming. Absorb more than 10 million taels of windfall profits. Of course, this does not include illegal salt and hidden population, if calculated according to 120 million people, this group took about 30 million taels of windfall profits!

The people of the Ming Dynasty were not very sensitive to numbers, and many times there were often literati rhetoric such as the depth of the water was thousands of feet, the city was hundreds of feet high, and the erosion was ten miles.

However, under Gu Zhenhua's advocacy, the civil officials of the An ** family like numbers more and more. With the most intuitive string of numbers in front of you, it is often more shocking than the subtle words of a saint!

The accounts of table salt have been calculated. There are accounts of overseas goods, and the Ming Dynasty exports more than 500,000 pieces of silk every year. Each piece of silk is between fifteen taels and twenty taels, and silk alone has nearly ten million silver. Not to mention the larger porcelain.

The Ming Dynasty is not short of money, but lacks the ability to hold money!

At the end of the song, Chen Qianfu wrote sadly and angrily about the Battle of Changping, Qin and Zhao, still able to send more than 500,000 troops, two thousand years later, the Ming Dynasty began with the Battle of Salhu, and the previous battles with the Tartars outside the Guanwai, there were only more than 100,000 people. The Ming Dynasty, which had tens of millions of people, was unable to form a military advantage over hundreds of thousands of Tartars. What an irony, more shameful than the ancients!

This is indeed the case, I am afraid that even if he doesn't dig out the old man Chengzu, he won't be able to stay in the cemetery, and he will definitely be laughed at by these incompetent descendants to death!

The greatest power of this note is that it ruthlessly pointed out the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Moreover, with Gu Zhenhua's bold words of "300,000 troops, 3,000 cannons, and 30 million taels of silver", the two echo each other from afar, and the spearhead is pointing at the simplest and most direct problem, financial reform!

Ji Xueru looked at this setback, his whole body was covered in cold sweat, and finally his clothes were soaked from the inside out, and the whole person was like soaking in a sauna.

"Ding, Lord Ding, what do they mean, do they want to uproot the salt merchants?"

Ding Huizhen's face was miserable, and she said helplessly: "What Gu Zhenhua wants to do, how can this official be clear, this is a ruthless stubble." Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng are all capable figures, and the previous Donglin Party was all killed by him, which makes people scary when they think about it! ”

When Ji Xueru heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground and burst into tears: "Lord Ding, Xiao'er went to Xuzhou a while ago, and now he is still detained there, according to his reply, Gu Zhenhua is ruthless, and he actually arranged them next to the torture prisoners, listening to the crying day and night, and the children are almost scared to death!" ”

While crying, Ji Xueru took out a title deed from his arms and sent it to Ding Huizhen.

"My lord, this is a small manor in Hangzhou, a little gadget, not a tribute!"

"What do you mean by that? I can't ask for it. ”

Ding Huizhen hurriedly pushed over, not daring at all.

Ji Xueru suddenly showed a sneer on his face: "What, Lord Ding doesn't want to help me, that's good, if the villain is cornered, don't think about it when the time comes!" It is said that the salt merchants in the world are very rich, and we have a little silver, but the big ones have been eaten by you officials. Something is going to happen, I want to eat dry and wipe clean, and I don't admit it when I turn around, I sue you, there is no such cheap thing, we are not vegetarians, it's a big deal, let's finish together! ”

Ji Xueru tore his face, but Ding Huizhen became afraid.

"Brother Ji, this official doesn't care, but he can't do it! But don't worry, I'll do my best to suppress the momentum and keep your salt merchants safe!" ”

In normal times, Ding Huizhen's assurance may be useful, but now, it is never to be considered.

On the second day of their meeting, Pei Heng in the matter of the official department gave a letter to Chen Qianfu and others, and once again united the six branch corridors and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a total of more than 120 officials to write a book.

Pei Heng said very clearly, who is the murderer who exposed the bones of Cheng Zu, it is those greedy rats, they eat away at the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, shake the foundation of the country, do not pay taxes, do not fight, rentier themselves. As a result, the armament is relaxed, internal and external troubles are slackened, the people are displaced, the Tartars invade, and the country and the people are harmed!

Now to reform the bad government, reorganize the finance and taxation, reorganize the army and the military, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, is to avenge the ancestors and be truly loyal to the Ming Dynasty! Whoever dares to obstruct is a traitor and an accomplice of the Tartars!

Even the Tartar accomplice shouted out, and he almost used the knife directly, and the door was transferred to this point, which official dared to come out lightly, if he didn't do it, he would be beaten into a traitor and ruined!

For a time, reforming the salt administration and working hard became the hottest topic. But Ding Huizhen and the others are not worried, after all, so far, Gu Zhenhua's family has not proposed any reform plans.

To put it bluntly, most of this is Gu Zhenhua and they are poor and crazy, and they want to find a few fat pigs to start, so they set their sights on the salt merchants. Since this is the case, let's give up a few and fill Gu Zhenhua's appetite, as long as they don't shake the foundation of Yanzheng, they can still enjoy wealth just as much.

These officials put on an ostrich attitude, no matter how loud the shouting outside, they just don't do anything, and don't even deal with normal affairs, which is also the usual method of court officials.

Neglect of government! Passive confrontation!

This trick was tried and tested for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. However, when they ran into such a ruthless person as Gu Zhenhua, they miscalculated again.

Just when the wind was rising, the salt merchants Wang Shouzhong and Fei Honglin, together with seven salt merchants, went to the court together. They said that the salt government had countless evils, all sides exploited it, the people were affected, and the salt tax of the imperial court was lost. With a heart of public loyalty to the country, they were willing to hand over the nest book and assist the imperial court in cleaning up the salt administration.

In order to show their determination, the two of them also took the initiative to donate 5 million taels of family property as military expenses.

The fortresses are all broken from the inside, and as soon as these salt merchants speak, if the hundred officials want to play silence, then they can't! How many people are also wondering, these two brains are pumped, or they have taken the wrong medicine, how can they dig their own graves!

No matter what others think, these two are frank and unrestrained, and they have donated five million family assets.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked, there are at least a dozen salt merchants of their level in Yangzhou, and their family property alone adds up to tens of millions, no wonder people will target them, this is the innocent of the horseman!

Of course, outsiders don't know that this money is actually just a left-handed to right-handed one.

Gu Zhenhua will not swallow this silver, but to use the money as a start-up fund for overseas trade, he has already sent someone to Shanghai to investigate, light up this Oriental Pearl in advance, and it is also the era of officially opening the ocean.

Gu Zhenhua's actions must be more than these, after Wang Shouzhong and them went to the book, An ** immediately rushed to the Ji family and controlled all their houses.

The Ji family has been passed down for five generations, all of them are engaged in salt, and they don't know how much silver they have. Walking into the gate of the Ji family for the first time, these soldiers of An ** were dumbfounded!

Good boy! The place where the emperor Lao Tzu lives is nothing more than that!

What is called a fairyland on earth, here it is!

Strange flowers and plants, strange rocks everywhere, layers of pavilions and pavilions, gurgling clear water, all reveal the wonderful thoughts of the master's family. The plaque couplets hanging everywhere are all from the hands of famous artists in the world, making friends widely, and the hands and eyes are up to the sky.

Ji Xueru's second brother Ji Xueru is in charge of the affairs of the family, his brother is not there, he is also worried, An ** suddenly came, and he was also stupid.

"You, why did you trespass on my Ji family?"

"Hahaha, since it's a trespass, that is, you have a private family in your family! Your Ji family has committed the sale of illicit salt, so let's just tie it up! (To be continued......)

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