Sun Fu heard about the advance salt, jumped up and said, "This matter...... This is slander. Wronged. There is no such thing, Uncle Guo clearly investigated. It's a pity that as soon as the man jumped up, he was hit twice and sat back again.

Zheng Guobao sneered: "Although I haven't read all the boxes of things in Meizhuang, I have read a few copies, and I also know a rough idea of what is going on here." If Brother Sun wants to hide it from me, then he can only think that you are not friendly enough, so I have to hand you over to these sons and daughters and slowly concoct it. Are you sure you'd like to have a good chat with them? If you don't want to say it, I'll go back to accompany my lady, it's very useful, and I can serve Sun Dashao for a long time. ”

Sun Dayong grinned: "Uncle Guo, don't worry." We promise to serve the young and young comfortably, so that the son will never forget it in his life. ”

Sun Fu saw that Zheng Guobao was leaving, so he had to shout again: "Uncle Guo stays, I ...... I can't recruit yet. ”

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the salt law was implemented in the middle of the law. The salt merchants transported the military rations to the nine sides, and exchanged them for the huàn salt to draw money and sell the salt for profit. However, later, due to the increasing number of people in the south of the DPRK, they began to seek benefits for their fellow villagers, and the opening of the Central Law was completely abolished for a time. Later, although it was restored, it also existed in name only, and no longer served the role when it was established.

At this time, the salt method was mainly based on the outline of the salt system.

The merchants who hold salt quotations are divided into 1o classes according to the region, each class of salt quotation is 2o million quotations, and each quotation is 3oo catties of salt, which is called "woben", and each quotation pays three taels of tax silver, three taels of silver for ministers, and six cents for salt. The annual salt production is 600 million catties, calculated according to this number. Every year, the imperial court should receive 13,280,000 taels of silver in salt tax. But in fact, the annual salt tax is less than 1.5 million taels of silver, that is. Every year, there are more than 10 million taels of salt tax in the country.

Rao is like this, and there are still people in the DPRK and China who keep speaking for the salt merchants, thinking that the salt merchants are too hard and make too little profit, which will eventually lead to a surge in the price of salt in the entire Daming Dynasty. It is hoped that the imperial court will be sympathetic to the people and exempt from salt taxes to support the people. In the actual trade, there is a guide is the premise of salt, but it does not mean that you will be able to get salt if you have a lead.

Exploitation by local officials. The filial piety of the yamen at all levels, which joint can't be touched, will be stuck for three years and five years. Even the grandfather's generation in the Ming Dynasty got the salt, and there were many people who didn't get the salt in the grandson's generation. Therefore, he had to resell the salt in his hands to the extravagant people who could support the salt, and the salt industry gradually became a monopoly. Among the six major salt farms in the world, the two Huai salt yields the highest. Huaibei salt is of the best quality and the most expensive. Therefore, the Yangzhou salt merchants, who monopolized the two Huai salts, naturally became the richest group in the Ming Dynasty.

These people monopolize the salt flats of the two Huai and the Huai, and all the salt boiled by the salt stove households is taken over by them, and it is difficult for outsiders to get their hands on it. Unless it is a noble and high-ranking official. With the grace of the Son of Heaven to reward the salt lead, these salt merchants may give you a face and give you the salt. If it is the salt that ordinary people buy from the nobles, then don't think about salt at all.

Correspondingly, both Huai and Huai transport salt envoys. That is, one of the richest yamen in the whole south of the Yangtze River, whether it is the weaving yamen in Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, or the two Zhejiang, Fujian and so on, which are also the salt transportation envoys. None of them can compete with it. In the eighth year of Wanli, the Son of Heaven got married, and the treasury was insufficient, so Zhang Juzheng, who was the assistant at that time, instructed the two Huai to transfer salt to the envoy to purchase the utensils used in the wedding, as well as silver, jade, antiques and other items for a total of 150,000 taels of silver.

However, at that time, the transfer envoy of the two Huai capitals wrote to say that now the local finances are tight, and the salt tax that should be paid has been handed over to the state treasury, and the yamen is not financially rich enough to complete such a big task. I implore Zhang Xiang to allow him to pre-sell the salt of the ninth year of Wanli in advance, and use this money to pay for the wedding of the Son of Heaven.

At that time, Zhang Juzheng was vigorously changing the law and implementing a whip new policy, which was inseparable from the support of Empress Dowager Li. And if you want to satisfy the Empress Dowager Li, this Tianzi's wedding can't be too shabby, as long as you can raise money, you can do anything. Therefore, the pre-sale of salt was approved by the imperial court, and the marriage funds of the Son of Heaven were raised in this way. But later, this temporary policy gradually became a rule in Lianghuai, and every year the next year's salt was pre-sold.

The price of this salt pre-sale is greatly discounted. According to the original price, it was only sold for two taels because it was in a hurry to raise funds during the pre-sale, and this price later became the fixed price. Large-scale salt purchases like the eight major salt merchants will also be given discounts and reductions on this basis. The money attracted from this purchase was used in the declaration of the imperial court, and it became a donation from a salt merchant, saying that he would repay the reward for his pleasure and loss, and he was indiscriminately invited to praise. and the remaining items that should be used for transport were also swallowed up and not delivered.

Over the years, the two Huai salt politics have long become a big hole, the income from the pre-sale of salt, the treasury has not seen, nor has the inner treasury, and the salt merchants have evaded taxes on a large scale, but also received the imperial court's commendation. Many of them have received the title of prisoner or have been given the rank of loose official. Relying on this purchased identity, he evaded taxes more openly and brightly, and did everything possible to shirk the salt tax that should be paid.

Lianghuai ran the yamen, and also used the silver money attracted by the pre-sale of salt as his own small treasury. In addition to ushering in the official entertainment sent to him, it is to divide up the officials up and down. The successive salt inspectors and imperial histories also shared the profits in it, and even the Nanjing Household Department and the Beijing Household Department were involved. According to simple estimates, the part of the salt merchants who fled alone was more than 10 million taels of silver.

The salt merchants did these things, and the people in the government were indispensable to help them, and they had some contacts with each other. The salt merchants in Yangzhou are always afraid that someone will suddenly turn back on the water and spoil everyone's good deeds. And some of the vouchers of this advance salt, as well as the account books, were kept for protection. It's just that I'm afraid that my home is not safe enough, so I thought of Meizhuang in Jiangnan.

This is a place where literati gather elegantly, and people from all walks of life jointly protect it, whether it is the government or the green forest, they dare not provoke Meizhuang. The salt merchants are also the big financiers of the four elders of Meizhuang, and the funds for running the Yaji every year are paid by the salt merchants, and the reimbursement afterwards does not look at the stamp, and the four elders say how much is how much. The relationship between the two is the most reliable, so if you save the evidence here, you are not afraid of losing it, and you are not afraid that a certain family will suddenly turn against the water and take your own evidence to sue.

Sun Fudao: "Since the change in Meizhuang, we are afraid that these things will fall into the hands of Uncle Guo, so we have to use money to dredge the joints. The damn nursing homes reported that everything was burned, and although we were skeptical, we still thought that if it really burned down, we would have escaped. Unexpectedly, I still can't escape. ”

Zheng Guobao slapped the table case "escape? More than 10 million silver, how do you want to escape the law? How much tax is collected in a year in the current month of Hong Kong? You are more than 10 million pieces of silver at once, and I will not spare anyone who will spare you. I'm chasing this money! Come on, let Sun Dashao press this handprint for me, and then take it down to treat me. As for Yang Denglong, let's try him again. ”

In the past, he was heroic and extraordinary, and Sailuo became Yang Denglong, who was crisscrossing the rivers and lakes with one person and one gun, and he was not a human at this time. Zheng Guobao is used to seeing Jinyiwei's persuasion and education scenes, so he doesn't care much about it. Just circled around him twice, "Look, what kind of virtue has a god-like figure become now?" Anyway, Fleur's innocence was preserved by you at the beginning, and I have to be this favor? In this way, as long as you take care of everything, I will give you a good time and promise that you will not be sinned in life, what do you think? ”

Yang Denglong now has no strength to scold anymore, and he can't raise his head, so he lowers his head so softly and doesn't say a word. If it weren't for the signs that he was breathing, I would have thought that this man was finished.

Zheng Guobao snorted: "What a hard bone." Okay, don't you say it, I'll tell you for you. Banzhou Yang, who lived in Banzhou, was favored by the imperial court and appointed him to take charge of Banjun and guard one side. They did not want to contribute to the country and repay the emperor's favor, but instead planned misdeeds, privately hoarded salt and iron, and recruited dead soldiers. He also sent people to assassinate his own officials, which was clearly intended to plot rebellion. What kind of thing do you have one person, one vote, and vote for consolation, you don't think I don't know. Tell you the truth, Banshu has my people. ”

Yang Denglong was already dying, but when he heard that there was an undercover agent of the imperial court in Banzhou, he was shocked, and his body moved again. "General Yang, it's all at this time, and I'm still thinking about my family's power. But what is the use of me telling you who the inner ghost is? I'm not an idiot, I'm stupid enough to let you go and give you a chance to get revenge. I'm not afraid to tell you that the person named Tian Boguang is actually a person from our brocade clothes, and he wants to act according to my orders. You said that he was in Banzhou, am I still afraid that I won't understand the news? ”

Yang Denglong heard Tian Boguang's name, and his body moved even more, as if he wanted to pounce and die with Zheng Guobao. It's a pity that he still has the strength now, Zheng Guobao picked up the soldering iron and stabbed him violently, "Be honest, just have such strength, don't move blindly." The old grandson, turned around and asked him to press the handprint, confess, and even those boxes, and sent someone to send them to Jingshi, and handed them directly to Luo Tou'er. He knows what to do. ”

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