In those days, salt was far more profitable than real estate.

There was no city management in the Ming Dynasty, so no one cared about sleeping in the door and the bridge, but everyone had to eat salt, which was a proper just need. Zhu Cihong enjoyed a good life of a pound of salt for decades in his last life, and suddenly returned to a shijie where salt is a profiteering industry, and he was quite unaccustomed to it, so he deliberately put a lot of effort into making up for relevant knowledge.

It is clear from the old court files that it is precisely because of the change of grain for silver during the Hongzhi period that the tide of salt theft and sale by the emperor's relatives and foreign officials in Zhongjuan began. When it came to Wanli, when King Fu was in the domain, Concubine Zheng Guifei asked for thousands of salt quotations, could it be that King Fu would sell salt? Selling salt, of course!

There is a market where there is supply and demand, and for businessmen, as long as there is a profit margin, reselling salt and reselling salt are actually the same thing. However, for the terminal that sells salt introductions, the imperial court, there are two things of a very different nature. If the market price of salt is high, the imperial court can increase the sale of salt and control the price of salt until the supply of salt is saturated.

Zhu Cihong has been a businessman all his life, and he has been a prince for more than ten years, not to mention his peers, his vision is so wide that he has to be compared to the present in his previous life - Zhu Cihong in his previous life is not qualified to participate in the overall work of even one province.

"As long as someone uses the land to make a profit, there will be people who want it." Zhu Cihong further explained: "Then, let them 'secretly' buy and sell land by themselves. ”

Zhang Shiqi said with a smile: "What His Highness said is exact, as long as the land price does not exceed the land value, someone must rush to ask for it." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled silently.

Zhang Shiqi is still too naïve to know that ten years ago, Europe had staged the first financial bubble collapse in human history.

It was the Dutch who were at the forefront of capitalization, and in the 1630s there was a tulip craze. This ornamental plant, native to Turkey, has won unanimous favor in Europe, from the royal family to the common people. IN 1635, A TULIP VARIETY CALLED CHILDER SOLD FOR 1,600 FLORINS PER PLANT, WHILE FOUR BULLS OR A TRAILER COST 480 FLORINS; A thousand pounds of cheese cost only one hundred and twenty florins.

The second year. A rare variety of tulips sold for four thousand six hundred florins. In addition to this, the purchaser will need to pay for a brand new carriage, two grey horses and a complete set of harness.

In Paris, the price of one of the most haode tulip stems is equivalent to 110 ounces of gold. In Daming, if someone says that they spend sixty-two taels of gold to buy a flower, they will definitely be considered to have been kicked in the head by a donkey. Even the most daring eunuch would not dare to offer such a price to the most idiotic emperor.

Are Europeans stupid?

No. They just believe that the price of this thing will continue to rise, and even if it goes up no matter how high it is, someone will buy it!

Amsterdam's stock exchange has a tulip market dedicated to people trading.

The result is, of course, sad. Merchants who hoard tulips sell their bulbs in large quantities in a short period of time, causing prices to plummet, and common varieties of tulips are not even as good as onions.

This gave birth to a very interesting theory of foolishness in economics.

In the state of not knowing the amount of inventory, just because of the guidance of public opinion, it is put into the market, isn't this crying and shouting for the dealer to wash white?

Liao Xing's "land introduction" was originally just an imitation of salt introduction for value-added speculation, and did not expect to exceed the value of the land. However, now the East Palace has land ownership in its hands, like a hanging bait; There are people who create public opinion - celebrities from all walks of life, who don't want to be the prince's guests? Who won't brag about the content of the conversation with the prince when they go back? Instead of boasting. And you're going to be lewd!

The most important thing is that the crown prince has the right to issue "land citations" in his hands.

The imperial court needs credibility, otherwise it will be like the depreciation of treasure money, completely losing the confidence of the people and unable to promote paper money. But in Luoyang, a strategically important area to be abandoned, an invisible raid was carried out against the gentry class who had the most social wealth...... Even if some Ming people can see the role that the East Palace plays in it, the East Palace can completely pretend to be stupid.

The right time, place and people have been prepared. This is the so-called: if you don't take it, you will be blamed!

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Luoyang in October of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. The north wind is bleak, but the city is in full swing. It's not just the frequent good news on the front line, creating a situation where the world is stable and everything is under the control of the imperial court. There is another incident that has become the talk of the streets, and even the peddlers' pawns can't help but say a few words while resting.

That's the ground.

A square piece of rice paper, with the secret characters printed on it that are only used for ticket numbers. Write clearly that this is a proof of purchase of unclaimed land. Each piece of land can only buy one acre of land, and the imperial court price is five cents of silver, and it is strictly forbidden to resell it privately. And the price of land is also fixed, that is, five taels of silver for the best good land, and three taels for the middle. One or two inferior, three extraneous.

To put it simply, as long as you spend five or five cents of silver, you can buy an acre of high-quality fertile land.

This is Luoyang, Zhongzhou!

It's not Kaifeng that has been flooded by the Yellow River!

It's not Hebei, where the land is given away for nothing and no one wants it!

It seems that in order to stimulate the market, Emperor Chongzhen sent a holy decree very interestingly, exempting a province in Henan from grain tax and forced labor for three years!

When Zhu Cihong received this holy decree, his heart was turbulent for a long time: this was the first time that his butterfly wings caused a storm in a province!

There is only one reason why people flee the land: the burden of land exceeds the income from land.

No one is an idiot, not only did he not save money and food after a year of hard work, but he also posted a sum of money, who did it? Now that there is a holy decree to exempt grain tax and forced labor, then at least three years of farming will be done for yourself! As for what the policy will be in three years' time, that's three years from now!

Due to the inertia of 3,000 years of agricultural civilization, the whole of Luoyang is looking for a piece of paper called "Diyin". If it weren't for the vermilion official seal stamped on the ground citation, I'm afraid that there would be many people who forged the ground citation. As for the "strictly forbidden resale without permission" written on it, because there is no need to register with the yamen, it is completely ignored.

Zhang Shiqi's prefect's yamen was almost squeezed through. The gentry used the simplest and most direct method that conformed to the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty: bribery!

The cost of an additional bribe is as high as two taels for a five-dollar silver quote.

Soon there was news on the market, the first batch of fertile land was swept away, and many families didn't even look at the land, only to see the atlas and hold real money. Among them, the Liao family in Gongxian County won the big head quietly, and bought 500 acres of fertile land in one fell swoop, which made people blush.

The Liao family even let out a word, this is the Liao family's boy Liao Xing won the favor of the East Palace and gave a lot of land citations. In addition to these 500 photos, there are many more at home! Get! Be!

For a while, the Liao family was in full swing, and all kinds of relatives came out one after another. Don't say anything else, I just want a piece of land to lure me to settle down. In the end, the Liao family has a deep local affection, and they can only cut their love out of human affection - of course, the "heart" of the buyer is indispensable.

With the Liao family taking the lead, more and more "local introductions" began to circulate in the market, even to the extent of bargaining in public in teahouses and restaurants!

Under the protection of Min Zhanlian, Zhu Cihong took Wu Fu and Liao Xing out of the Fuwang Mansion through the side door. He was dressed in a cyan Taoist robe and wore a square scarf on his head, and he looked like a rich kid. The three of them left the Fuwang Mansion and went straight to the largest restaurant in Luoyang City, and they didn't want a private room, they just asked for a table near the window, and ordered some water, wine and meat, but no one had the heart to eat a bite.

After the three of them sat down for a while, a man in a brown coat and a small melon skin hat came over, bowed first, and then sneered: "Ladies and gentlemen, are you from other places?" ”

"Who are you?" Liao Xing reprimanded in the local dialect: "Blind your eyes! Want to deceive outsiders? ”

"Oops, the villain is gone, gone." The man smiled but refused to leave: "It's better if Childe is a local, but do you want to buy land?" ”

Liao Xing looked at the crown prince with a smug expression, clearly saying: Look! I'm not lying! Nowadays, buying and selling land is already the trend!

Zhu Cihong has never been a person who pursues low-level satisfaction, he thinks that he is the reincarnation of a successful person, and when he encounters this kind of financial turmoil that he has set off, he should stand on top of the small building, unfold an ivory bone fan, and sing a sentence to the breeze and moon: "If there is love in the sky, the sky will be old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life......

However, he finally came out and came to this red dust full of smoke and fire, and saw with his own eyes the product that did not belong to this land in this era - the financial bubble. Although it is not a good thing, Da Ming has finally chased a step forward on the road ahead. (To be continued......)