Yuan Keli regretted it a little, regretting coming to Yangzhou from his hometown in Suizhou.

Thinking that he is a scholar of the military department, he is an absolute celebrity in Suizhou and even in the entire Guide Mansion, living in a newly built spacious mansion in Suizhou City, drinking tea and reciting poems and enjoying flowers, what kind of carefree life is?

It's a good day, but now it's busy working day and night in the yamen of the salt transportation division, what a bother!

Dealing with the arrested officials of the Salt Transportation Division, interrogating dozens of arrested salt merchants, although the actual interrogation work was in charge of Liu Wenzhi and Jinyiwei, the final handling had to be decided by Yuan Keli. He had to write out his opinion on how to deal with it, and leave it to the emperor to decide.

In addition, Yuan Keli was also responsible for the reconstruction of the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division. Since Cai Anfu, the salt transportation envoy, most of the officials of the entire salt transportation department and the yamen have been arrested, and there are only three or two big cats and kittens left in the yamen, and the entire yamen is almost completely paralyzed.

The salt produced in the Lianghuai salt plant accounts for almost half of the world's salt production, and if the salt administration is paralyzed for a few months, hundreds of people will not be able to eat salt, so it is necessary to rebuild the yamen as soon as possible.

Not only the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division, but also the thirty salt farms of the two sub-divisions under its jurisdiction need to be rebuilt! These things are all coordinated and responsible by Yuan Keli.

According to the results agreed upon by Zhu Youzhen and Hong Chengchou and Yuan Keli, at least six or seven hundred officials need to be selected to maintain the operation of the new salt policy. And these six or seven hundred people are all officials with functions, not including ordinary officials.

How can a salt farm that covers an area of tens of miles of coast, has jurisdiction over thousands of households, and has a population of tens of thousands, without dozens of officials? The field director and deputy field director, the chief officer of each bureau in charge of specific affairs, every 100 households will be organized into a team, and the number of team officers is even more needed. And the number of salt farms in Lianghuai is as many as 30, 6 or 700 officials, and the average number of officials in each salt field is about 20 officials, how can they manage it? There will definitely be a need to recruit capable and prestigious people from among the stoves.

The new salt law formulated by Zhu Youzhen was mainly to control the root cause, focus on the production links, severely crack down on the extravagant stoves, and nationalize all means of production.

The specific establishment of each salt farm is: ten households for the stove, 100 households for a team, the team for the chief, and the 100 households for the team officer. The status of the chief is still a stove ding, not separated from production, and only receives a small subsidy, but he has the qualifications to be promoted to the team officer. The team officer is the official, enjoying the treatment of the nine officials, and the responsibility is to manage the production of the team's 100 households. Ten teams are a branch factory, a salt field has several branches, the field is eight products, the field is seven products, and the status is equivalent to the county!

Field-sub-field-team-even, four-level management organization, the salt farm and then set up a bureau to manage various affairs, which is enough to manage the life and production of thousands of stove households! It was enough for the imperial court to firmly control the production of the salt works, and even manage every household of salt.

Of course, the huge bureaucracy means an increase in administrative costs, after all, every official has to pay a salary. And under the new salt law, this is not a problem at all!

According to the set price of salt, the price per catty of salt is more than four times the purchase price of the salt merchants, and the silver obtained from selling salt in the salt factory at this price is enough to feed all the stove households, and it is also enough to distribute money to all officials, and the rest can also hand over a sum of silver to the imperial court. In addition, each salt field also has a large amount of farmland, which can produce some food despite its high salt content and relatively poor land. In short, the life of the stove household will definitely be much better than before.

The income of the stove Ding increased, the salt tax of the imperial court increased, and the only people who suffered were the big salt merchants. And these big salt merchants are now in the prison of the Salt Transportation Division, and naturally no one cares about their feelings.

And for many stove households, if they perform well, they will have the opportunity to become officials, from the captain to the captain, and even have the opportunity to be on the spot! can live a good life, and there is still a chance to be an official, and the stove households naturally support the new salt policy!

Of course, at this stage, a large number of officials are needed, and the field captain and captain need to be appointed, and the field director is okay, but the number of captains is too large, and it can only be temporarily filled by the Praetorian Guard.

There are reserve officials, and there are hundreds of Shandong clans and Shandong scholars who follow the holy car. If it is insufficient, it should be selected from the stove household.

The selection of officials has never been a simple matter, although those clans and scholars have been trained and trained, but after all, they do not understand the matter of salt making, they must have the help of stove households, and some officials must be selected from the stove ding.

And everything about this salt government reform, Zhu Youzhen handed over to Yuan Keli to be responsible, it can be seen how big the burden is on Yuan Keli's shoulders, and it is no wonder that he regrets coming to Yangzhou. After all, the seventy-year-old man is still working day and night for state affairs, which is really unbearable.

Fortunately, although Yuan Keli is old, he is old and very capable, inspecting the scholars of the clan, selecting candidates for field chiefs and officials at all levels, and not selecting a group of officials, and then these officials will go to various salt fields under the protection of a team of Praetorian Guards. They had to organize the salt factory government in the shortest possible time, crack down on the arrogant stove and confiscate all the means of production, and then quickly organize production.

And that's not all, because it's just production.

After the salt is produced, it has to be shipped to the prefectures and counties for sale, which of course is what the salt merchants do. No matter how strong the government's ability is, it cannot control every aspect of salt. So recruit salt merchants too!

Because he copied the homes of more than 20 big salt merchants with nests, rumors spread throughout Yangzhou City. So much so that many small and medium-sized salt merchants hid for fear of being raided. Yuan Keli was very worried about whether anyone would come to recruit salt merchants.

First, the merchants in the city were panicked, and second, the profits left for the salt merchants were too thin. It seems to set aside double the profit, but if you throw away all kinds of costs, the net profit may only be 20%, which is really pitiful compared to the profiteering business of salt.

Therefore, Yuan Keli was dealing with the affairs of the Salt Transportation Division, and at the same time, he was also concerned about whether anyone signed up to apply for salt merchants.

So when he heard that someone took the initiative to sign up to be a salt merchant, Yuan Keli was overjoyed after hearing it and ordered it to be handled quickly.

Businessmen pursue profits, since some people are willing to come, it means that these two percent of the profits can still attract people, and Yuan Keli's heart finally calmed down.

Sure enough, soon more people came to sign up, and then more and more people signed up.

On the third day of the notice, hundreds of merchants gathered outside the yamen of the salt transportation department, shouting that they wanted to sign up to be salt merchants.

Although the profit of 20% is not high, it is definitely not low compared to other industries. The most important thing is that the threshold for becoming a salt merchant is too low, and you only need to pay a deposit of 30 taels to be eligible to sell salt. The threshold is low, as long as you have a little strength, you can do it. Specializing in salt merchants, or selling a batch of salt ballast warehouses while doing other businesses, as long as they are transported to the destination, they can make a fortune by changing hands, and it is very easy to make money, so why don't they do it?

The officials who received the salt works were dispatched, and more and more people came to the yamen to sign up for the qualifications to sell salt, and if this continued, it would only take one month for the reform of the Lianghuai Salt Law to be completely completed.

ps: I'm so tired today that I can't open my eyelids, and there's only this chapter. Fortunately, there is no need to go to the hospital in the future, and the update will stabilize. We also ask for your continued support.

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