The cabinet meeting is not limited to taxes and imperial examinations, Li Xingzhi's personal levy is imminent, although the internal policy of the Yongli court can not be exhaustive, but for the control of strategic resources such as salt and iron, there is still some arrangement.

According to the "Gang Salt System" of the Ming Dynasty, the merchants who held the salt quotation were divided into ten outlines according to the region, each outline of the salt quotation was 200,000 citations, and each quotation was 300 catties of salt, or six coins and four cents of silver, which was called "Woben", and the tax was three taels of silver, and the envoy (transportation) was three taels of silver. Named after "Shengde is beyond the ages, the emperor has nine enclosures", those who have not entered the program have no right to operate the salt industry, so the salt tax revenue has always been one of the main financial revenues of the Ming Dynasty.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, due to the construction of slaves in Liaodong, the imperial court strengthened the control of the salt administration, and Cui Chengxiu was appointed as the governor of Huaiyang, and he vigorously supported the two Huai salt laws Yuan Shizhen to reform the salt law and implement the Gang Salt Law, only the salt tax revenue in the first year of the Apocalypse reached 2.5 million taels, which was the highest salt tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the country.

From the first year of the Apocalypse to the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court relied on the salt tax of Lianghuai alone, and the income amounted to more than 20 million taels of silver.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao Daxing Cui Chengxiu fell, and after Li Sancai, the leader of the Donglin Party and a wealthy merchant in Tongzhou, took over as the governor of Huaiyang, the salt tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty and the two Huai fell sharply to less than one million taels that year, and decreased year by year, to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the salt tax of the two Huai was less than 500,000 taels, that is to say, from the first year of Chongzhen to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the salt tax of the two Huai alone was embezzled by more than 20 million taels.

Li Xingzhi's Huang Wenchang and Yang Biao's march into Huaiyang actually wanted to bring the salt administration of Lianghuai into the control of the Jingbei Army.

Therefore, after exempting the three salaries and the taxes of Beizhili, Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang for five years, Li Xingzhi immediately issued the "Decree on Rectifying Salt", with a total of 7 items and 39 articles. Main contents: Article 1 stipulates that the people can buy and sell freely, and the private production of salt must be approved by the government, and the salt made by private individuals must be stored in the warehouse designated by the imperial court. It was managed by the imperial court to prevent smuggling, and salt was not allowed to be exported abroad without the permission of the imperial court. Article 2 The "shore introduction system" of salt merchants' monopoly shall be abolished, and taxes shall be levied on the spot, and salt farms shall be divided into four classes according to the amount of salt produced. Article 3 The market price of salt shall be announced by the representatives of the salt producers in accordance with the hierarchical system of salt and the supply and demand situation. Salt buyers pay taxes first and then buy salt. Article 4 Salt is divided into two categories: table salt and fishery salt. Article 5 The amount of salt tax: Salt is taxed at five dollars per 200 catties, and no heavy levy or additional is allowed, and fishing salt is taxed at one dollar per 200 catties. Article 6 The salt affairs organs shall be supervised by the imperial court with salt administration yamen and salt patrol yamen, and the local Jinyi guard shall send personnel to supervise them, and each salt-producing field area shall set up salt administration yamen and salt patrol yamen. The Salt Administration Yamen and its Salt Works Office are in charge of salt production, sale, and warehouse management, and the Salt Inspection Yamen and its subordinate branches are in charge of salt tax collection and investigation of smuggled salt. Article 7 The Ministry of Household shall set up an ambassador for salt administration, who shall be responsible for the reform of salt administration and other matters in accordance with this law.

In addition to the salt tax, Li Xingzhi also set his sights on the mining tax, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang in order to restore the people's livelihood, set the commercial tax to the extremely terrifying thirty taxes one, so during the Hongwu period, the mining tax of the Ming Dynasty was only five thousand taels, and during the Yongle period, the politics, economy and military of the Ming Dynasty have developed rapidly, but Zhu Di did not dare to carry out tax reform because of the improper country, and the mining tax of the imperial court was only more than ten thousand taels.

Since then, the kings of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to disobey the ancestral teachings of the Ming Taizu, so the mining tax and commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty to the Wanli Dynasty remained at thirty taxes.

In order to change this situation, the Wanli Emperor issued a clear decree that the people and merchants should preside over the mining industry, and the imperial court collected tax profits, the so-called "mining to help the poor". Later, due to the successive wars of the imperial court, the financial consumption of the inner court was very serious, and the national finances faced difficulties.

Therefore, in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, Mingshenzong ordered "mining and tax collection, because the three halls and two palaces are not completed, and the treasury is empty, and it is expedient to use." After that, a large number of mine supervisors were sent all over the country and began to collect taxes on local mines. Most of these mine supervisors are eunuchs in the palace. At first, these people only carried out mining and tax collection in some areas directly under the central government, but soon spread all over the country, and the reform of the mining system by Emperor Wanli greatly increased the financial revenue of the imperial court, so the imperial court had the strength to win the famous Wanli three major expeditions.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian fell, and the Donglin Party returned to power, that is, on the grounds that the mining tax harmed the people and the court fought with the people for profit, he asked Chongzhen to take back the mine supervisors and Jinyi guards in various places.

At that time, not long after Chongzhen ascended the throne, in the right to give the head, Haiyan Heqing, Zhongzheng won the dynasty, and the praise of the reign of the Holy Son of Tomorrow, Chongzhen agreed to take back the Jinyi Wei and the mine supervisor's article, so that during the Chongzhen period, the imperial court had almost no mining tax and commercial tax to collect, so in the face of the situation of the Eastern Prisoner and the Liukou, Chongzhen had to impose military salaries on the peasants at the bottom of the society, so that countless people were displaced, and finally became the de facto anti-thief, the official forced the people to rebel, and had to rebel.

In order to change this situation, Li Xingzhi officially promulgated the "Rectification and Reform of Mining Tax Order".

Its main contents are: the minerals in the Ming Dynasty are owned by the imperial court, and mining rights are not allowed to be mined without obtaining mining rights in accordance with this law; Article 2: Mining Rights. It stipulates the nature, utility, creation, alteration and transfer, extinction, mortgage and other issues of mining rights; Article 3: Imperial Court Mining, the Imperial Court Mining Household Department manages or is handled by the Ministry of Household Affairs with the approval of other yamen, and the Imperial Court's mining is allowed to be privately invested and leased; Article 4: For small mining. The conditions, deadlines and procedures set by the small mining industry are regulated; Article 5: Land use: the conditions for the use of other people's land, the procedures to be carried out, etc., are stipulated; Article 6 Mining tax: It is stipulated that the mining tax is divided into two types: mining tax and mineral tax, and stipulates the tax rate and collection method of these two taxes, of which the mining tax is ten taxes and two, and the mineral tax is also ten taxes and two; Article 7: Mining supervision, all minerals shall not be approved by the department, shall not be sold abroad, violators shall be dealt with for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and the same shall be jointly supervised by Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Households.

"Prime Minister, the salt tax is fine, but the mine is owned by the imperial court and the mining tax is increased, which may violate the ancestral teachings of Taizu, and the lower officials may cause a civil uprising."

Liu Lishun, the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Sizhi, the second assistant, Li Banghua, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Wu Gan, the secretary of the household department, changed color at the same time, they have been in the imperial court for a long time, and they know that the backstage of these mines is basically in the court, as well as the gentry group in Jiangnan and the clan of the Ming Dynasty, and the mines will be returned to the imperial court, although this will not dig the roots of the gentry group, but at least it will make them feel painful, and no one knows what moths these people will make out.

"Civil uprising? Is there still less popular unrest now? Li Zicheng and others have gathered millions of people, will they still care about their civil change? When Emperor Jian vigorously promoted the mining tax, who was the opposite? Who dares to oppose it? ”

Li Xingzhi waved his hand, Enke and the salt and iron tax were implemented at the same time, in fact, it was to pull a group and fight a group, for the enlightened gentry group, that is, the gentry who supported the rule of the Jingbei Army, Li Xingzhi did not refuse, and he would also hold high the butcher's knife for those who resisted the rule of the Jingbei Army.

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