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Updated: 2O12-11-O9

Despite the calamities in the south, the city of Nanjing at the end of September was full of people, and merchants from all over the country who had won the bidding for the salt works in Guanzhong came one after another, and these wealthy merchants and magnates brought their servants to spend money in the city of Nanjing, which greatly stimulated the market that was slightly depressed because of the death of Emperor Wuding.

"Why did you stop?" A voice came from the small sedan chair carried by the two.

"If you go back to the master, the road ahead is blocked." The servant standing at the sedan looked hostilely at the two-wheeled carriages that filled the road, and bowed down to the windows on either side of the car in response. "It looks like the carriage hit someone, and the patrol is dealing with it."

The curtain covering the sedan window was lifted, and then the passengers in the sedan chair looked at the chaos at the street with a scrutinizing gaze, and an intriguing expression appeared on their faces. That's right, in recent times, horse-drawn carriages originating from Dongning have suddenly become widely popular in Jiangnan, including large cars with four wheels and four horses, medium-sized cars with four wheels and two horses, and small cars with two wheels and two horses and two wheels and one horses. These carriages won the love of merchants and gentry from all over the world with their exquisite appearance and the stability of the far ox carts, but the fundamental reason was that the scene of Zheng Kezang's one-color carriage when he went out on patrol shocked the gentry who greeted him, and made a live advertisement for the sale of the carriage. However, there are still some problems with the use of these carriages, the biggest of which is that the royal hand is not able to pass the pass and pedestrians do not know how to avoid it, so it is common for traffic accidents caused by cars hitting people

Different from the envy and follow-up of ordinary people, the passengers sitting in the sedan chair have actually seen through the inner purpose of Zheng Fan's carriage. Yes, there is a shortage of horses in the south, and there is also a shortage of suitable horse farms for grazing, but if the carriage is prosperous, then the trend of private horse breeding will also be stimulated, so that the Zheng military will be relatively convenient to buy all kinds of horses in the future.

For this kind of means of wanting to capture and indulge, the people in the sedan chair also have some admiration. However, the contradiction between him and Zheng Fan is irreconcilable at all, so the more skillful Zheng Fan's governance skills, the higher his hatred value. What's more, there were several patrol officers from Ying Tianfu at the scene of the accident, and if they happened to be exposed by the other party - although the portrait on the sea capture graphic was not the same as his current appearance - it would also be a troublesome matter.

So the person in the sedan car closed the curtain and ordered outside: "Turn around, go around Fengxiang from here!" ”

"Yes!" The servant standing outside answered, and immediately arranged for the sedan chair man to turn around, and at the same time cursed in a low voice. "None of the guys who hold the stinky feet of the rebels and thieves are good"

Just as the servant in the sedan chair cursed in a low voice, in the Jiangxi Hall in Yingtian City, more than a dozen businessmen with northern Jiangxi accents were talking and laughing about something, but although they were talking very much on the surface, but if they looked closely, there was a trace of anxiety on everyone's faces.

"It's coming, it's coming, Master Lu is back." An outside-in voice broke the communication in the room, and I saw a subordinate in Tsing Yi take three steps and two steps to the outside of the hall, bowing to the people in the room and reporting. "So that a few masters know that Master Lu's carriage and horse have entered the hospital"

Before the next man's words were finished, more than a dozen businessmen poured out in unison, but pushed the overwhelmed him aside

"Rank, rank." Faced with the chaotic situation of more than a dozen people's calls, it was impossible for the businessman surnamed Lu to answer one by one, so after Luo Quan's salute, he spoke. "Please be quiet, be quiet." Thanks to his efforts, the cacophony of questions finally calmed down. "If you have anything to say, the big guy should go back to the house and talk about it."

Most of the businessmen present have also seen the big scene, if it weren't for the news waiting for was too important, it wouldn't have been so unbearable, but now that they have calmed down, they have returned to their original shrewd appearance one by one, and they naturally won't veto Lu someone's proposal. So, the group returned to the room, removed the residual tea, replaced it with new tea, closed the door, and then began to get to the point.

"Tobu, no, the "Salt Tax Collection Regulations" of the Shogunate's Salt and Iron Department have been promulgated." As soon as the businessman surnamed Lu opened his mouth, the question that the people present were most concerned about. "In the future, the salt tax will only be levied from the salt farm, and one stone will be levied, and the copper coin will be 30 wen."

Although everyone present looked calm, the joy between their eyebrows could not be concealed.

It is important to know that although there has been a so-called "Gang Salt Law" since the 45th year of Wanli, according to which the imperial court has withdrawn from the direct production and circulation of salt, it still maintains a monopoly over the production and circulation of salt. The core content of the "Gang Salt Law" is "salt introduction", a salt introduction is normally 300 catties including packaging utensils, how much is the value of these 300 catties of salt? Six taels of silver, four cents, plus three taels of tax silver, and three taels of silver for the minister (transportation), totaling six taels and six cents and four cents. This is still the base price, and when it is sold to the people, the salt is already infinitely high, and the seller has to mix in various impurities to reduce the price.

In addition, any salt that does not have a salt intake or a salt intake is regarded as private salt, and if it is found, it will be confiscated.

As a result, the sales of official salt have to have the problem of high price and quality, and the illegal salt that was originally tried to be curbed cannot be stopped because of the huge profits, and then the legitimate income of the official salt seller is encroached.

Now Zheng Kezhang is engaged in the so-called ban on salt, and the businessmen can directly cooperate with the stove households (that is, sell the salt field), the stove households only manage the production in large quantities, the merchants sell directly, and the profits are distributed according to the share capital, and the imperial court only sets a maximum price that is actually impossible and collects extremely low taxes after the production of salt, and no longer intervenes in the production and sales links, which is equivalent to loosening the two links at the same time, and in fact blocking the channels of private salt, how can this not make the businessmen present gear up.

Of course, after the legalization of illegal salt, the price of salt will inevitably fall sharply, but this part of the income was not in the salt merchant's plan, but now it can be used to make up for the original loss.

"In addition, the Ministry of Salt and Iron also came up with a booklet, which shows the salt production of Jiangbei Salt Farm, Songchong Salt Farm and East Zhejiang Coastal Salt Farm over the years, at a price of 50 yuan, and I also bought it by myself." When some people were still thinking about the pros and cons, the businessman surnamed Lu continued. "This booklet is nothing to the two Huai salt merchants, and the numbers in it are not necessarily accurate, but I think it is still worth it for us laymen."

Everyone nodded in agreement, after all, with these figures, they could discuss how to mark the price, not to mention that compared to the huge cost of bidding for the salt farm, the cost of fifty guan was not even a dime, so naturally no one would raise objections.

"Lu Chaofeng." At this time, a merchant stood up and asked. "When you first bought the corn, didn't you say that if you can't bid for it, you can start your own salt factory? What is the statute of the Ministry of Salt and Iron? ”

"I also asked about this, and several adults from the Ministry of Salt and Iron said that the lot of the self-opened salt factory will also be sold this time." Lu knew that some people were not ready to bid but directly opened their own salt farms, so he admonished. "The land price and start-up fee are indeed much lower than the existing salt works. However, the price is low, but the price is a penny, and the location will never be much better. ”

There began to be some voices in the room, so the businessman surnamed Lu took a sip of the tea bowl, waited for the sound to subside for a while, and then spoke again: "This time, our Jiangxi businessmen have a total of six direct bidding and two joint bidding opportunities, but each bidding opportunity can only invest in one salt field, so it must be agreed clearly, after all, we can't compare to the head snake in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and northern Zhejiang, if we miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, someone will regret it in the future." ”

That's right, Zheng Jun's appearance on the battlefield made everyone believe that even if Zheng Kezhang could not clear the Manchu Qing from the land of China, at least one of the Northern and Southern Dynasties would not be able to escape, in this case, then what could be hesitated, those present were either strong or ambitious, and it was naturally impossible to let go of this opportunity

On the first day of October in the fourth year of Wuding, the bidding meeting for the sale of salt farms in Jiangbei and other places was finally held in Yingtianfu City. A large restaurant in the city was contracted by the Ministry of Salt and Iron as a bidding venue, and a total of 197 gentry and giant businessmen from Jianghuai, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places either attended the meeting in person or sent representatives, and the scene was extremely enthusiastic.

Before the beginning of the day, the auction began. It is said that it is a bidding for salt farms, it is better to say that it is the ownership of the beach flat area and sandbar along the south bank of Sheyang River in the north and Tongzhou and Chongming in the south, as well as the ownership of similar tidal flat areas in some coastal areas of Ningtaiwen and Songjiang, among which not all areas are suitable for salt production, especially the terrain of Ningtaiwen area is complex, and the salt-producing land is very divided and messy in history, which is far inferior to the Jiangbei and Songnan areas of Pingchuan, so there are many differences in price.

In addition, according to Zheng Kezang's request, the bidding silver actually consisted of two parts, one was the start-up fee for the government, and the other was the redemption silver for the stove households. After the bidder pays the redemption money, the residence of the stove in the pasture in the salt area and the privately cultivated land will be owned by the bidder, and the successful bidder will negotiate with him whether he is willing to continue to accept employment in the future and at what price.

At the end of the two hours, the auction ended, and all the existing salt works and the coastline of the coastal counties except the existing fishing ports and fishing villages were successfully sold, and a total of 1,233,416 and 427 taels of silver were raised, of which about 390,000 kan of income would be used to pay the salt of the stove, and the rest would be the net income of Zheng Fan.

When the news reached Beijing, the Qing court considered following suit in order to make money, but was eventually forced to cancel it due to threats from the sea. Kangxi was depressed because the final result of his many years of banning the sea and relocating the people was that Zheng Fan obtained huge benefits, and even had a minor illness because of it.

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