Zhou Hong has always been vigorous and resolute, since taking office, he has sprinkled all the scouts under his command to all parts of the Lianghuai Salt Affairs, not only has a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the Great Wei Salt Affairs, but also has an "in-depth" understanding of the details of the Lianghuai Salt Affairs officials. [Full text reading. 】

After he discussed the reform of the salt tax on the two Huai provinces, and few of his subordinates responded, everyone soon received a "secret letter", and the person who displayed the letter was not without cold sweat.

Qiao Liping's confidant was very afraid that he would be robbed and imprisoned by the salt transport envoy the next day, even the former wall-riding faction reacted quickly, and everyone unanimously expressed their loyalty to Zhou Hong, expressing their support for the salt transport reform cause, and wanting to contribute to the salt transport industry of the Great Wei Dynasty, and never die!

Zhou Hong convened a meeting of his subordinates again, and this time he received a warm response from everyone, praising the benefits of the salt reform, and Zhou Hao, who was a sycophant, opened his eyes, and after sending these people away, his face was full of contempt: "My lord, I really didn't expect that the civil officials are all villains who see the wind and steer the rudder!" The subordinates are an eye-opener! ”

"What's so strange about that? When it comes to their own interests, they wish they could get more out of their purses. Naturally, he did everything possible to obstruct the reform of salt affairs, and when he was convinced that obstructing the reform of salt affairs might lose his official position, he naturally had to hurry up to support the reform. Zhou Hong got the result he wanted, he was in a good mood, so he simply gave himself a short vacation and went to Yefu for a vacation.

Ye Zhiqing has recently repositioned the relationship between the two people, and Zhou Hong is treated normally when he comes, just treat him as a cohabiting friend of a man and a woman who is in love, as for marriage, it is exempt, everyone is not in the right household, so as to save trouble with each other.

Everyone in the Ye Mansion turned a blind eye to Zhou Hong and Ye Zhiqing's cohabitation, and acquiesced in their relationship, but Zhou Qi was the only one who disagreed, and asked Zhou Hong after him: "Big brother, you really don't plan to marry Sister Ye?" If you live in her house and let her follow you without a name or a share, won't it become an outer room? What if I give birth to a little nephew, and the little nephew doesn't even have an identity at that time? ”

Zhou Hong was more distressed than her: "You don't want to marry her?" But Ye Zi is unwilling to marry, what can I do? Anyway, I only like her one, and I also think that I will only marry her, if God intends to let her have a child, look at the child's face, maybe she will be willing to marry me! ”

Zhou Qi: "......" always felt that something was wrong.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion: "Sister Ye is so powerful!" She is a maverick so far, and she doesn't care about the eyes of others, she actually makes her eldest brother fall in love with her, and if she doesn't marry, she is about to look up.

Zhou Hong: "...... She's all used to pinch me! ”

The salt reform was carried out smoothly, and with Zhou Hong's toughness, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were canceled after verification, and the collective protests of the salt merchants could not withstand the sharp drop in the price of official salt, which made the people praise each other.

Now a large number of people come to the gate of the salt transportation department every day to thank Zhou Hong for bringing them the gospel on top of the salt reform, so that they no longer have to worry about the high price of salt and work hard.

With the cancellation of the nest merchants, field merchants, and general merchants, the shipping merchants have also been liberalized to let private shipping companies compete, and the entire salt price has completely dropped.

He even created salt strips, so that after paying a certain percentage of taxes, the common people could go to the salt factory to get salt for trafficking.

The government encouraged private individuals to participate in the sale of salt, and the common people who were not wealthy also gathered the strength of a few families to participate in the salt selling business, and the whole Jiangnan blew a drum of salt selling fever.

Xiao Ye had long been concerned about Zhou Hong's reform of salt affairs, but now he was a little confused, and when he mentioned this matter to Shang Jingyun, he was still confused: "What is Zhou Qianke's mind thinking?" Now he is making a mess of the salt business, anyone can participate in the salt sales, and even the salt farmers in the salt works have money to take it, so won't it be chaotic if it continues? ”

Shang Jingyun pondered: "If you want to say that Zhou Qianke is not stupid, he is thankless in reforming salt affairs, and he is really stupid to say." I don't know how many people hate him for hating, and he has cut off other people's financial routes this time, and I am afraid that these two Huai salt envoys will not be long in coming. But let's say that he is not stupid, he even knows that he has written a note to be handed to the emperor, and no one with a salt strip can smuggle it through the mirror, this is to prevent selling smuggled salt to Yidi. In the end, he is a military general, and knowing the peace of the frontier is more important than anything else. ”

"How long will the two Huai Salt Road stalls be messed up?"

"It's not good to say, maybe it will be straightened out soon, maybe...... It's going to take another year or two. After a rule is lifted, if the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, the people will be able to adapt quickly. If the harm outweighs the good, it may become more and more chaotic. Whether he will succeed in this trick or not, it will take some time to know. "Even he can't say anything about the unprecedented reforms.

In all dynasties, salt, iron, gold and silver deposits belong to strategic materials controlled by the state, where can they be casually allowed to be trafficked by the people?