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"Salt, wine, sugar, tea, silk, iron, porcelain, these seven industries are temporarily under the government! The deadline is set at five years! Chongzhen said loudly:

"I discussed the salt tax with you before, and I arranged it for Kong Qing at that time.

A few days ago, Kong Qing reported on the report, and it seems that the effect is quite good.

In Shandong and Gyeonggi, the salt tax in the past two months has exceeded that of last six months.

Kong Qing, you will tell you about the law of salt tax reform. ”

Kong Mengchang listened, straightened his waist, was very complacent, and said loudly:

"I have been supervising the salt tax reform for two months. The newly promoted officials of the three northern provinces were very cooperative with the actions of the ministers, so the reform went very smoothly.

Specifically, the minister first investigated the process of production, transportation and marketing of salt. Before the discovery of the thieves ravaging Gyeonggi, the price of salt was 50 Wen, and the selling price was 300 Wen.

The extra 250 yuan in the middle were intercepted by the salt merchants, the salt gang, the tax officials, and the local officials. Even the salt tax was withheld layer by layer, and the imperial court received less than a quarter.

After the imperial court drove away the thieves, the price of salt soared again, and when it reached 370 Wen, the people had reached the point where they could not afford to eat salt.

Seeing that the situation was so urgent, the minister was worried that there would be a civil uprising, but it was too late to slowly rectify the old diseases of harsh government, so the minister directly took down all the concessionaires and salt gang members and confiscated their assets. ”

Li Banghua was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart: "This Kong Mengchang is really bold!" ”

Chongzhen nodded and said, "Very well done, go on." ”

Kong Mengchang became more confident, "The minister then canceled the concession system. Notices were issued to the people along the coast and near the salt mines, announcing that salt production was no longer a monopoly and that salt production was available to all.

However, it could only be sold to the salt administration department of the imperial court at a price of 50 wen, and then sold by the imperial court to the salt merchants who came to purchase it at a price of 60 wen.

At the same time, the population tax on salt was abolished, and only the commercial tax was collected.

In other words, when salt merchants purchase from the Salt Administration, the salt tax is levied, and the tax can be collected in one step!

The common people no longer participated in the process of paying taxes and supported the imperial court even more.

At the same time, the ministers used the confiscated gold and silver to open four public salt factories, and according to the new law given by the emperor, the salt was made. ”

"A new approach?" Li Banghua asked.

"Yes. Today, sea salt from Dengzhou, Laizhou, Jiaozhou, Tianjin and other places has been mass-produced to stabilize the market and control salt prices.

Now, people only need 100 yuan to buy salt. ”

Hearing this, Li Banghua nodded secretly, "The emperor knows people with a good eye!" Kong Mengchang is really a talent! ”

Chongzhen was very happy and said slowly:

"The salt tax reform has achieved such an effect, not only increasing the tax revenue of the imperial court, but also reducing the burden on the people, and helping local officials reduce the pressure of tax collection.

Since the salt tax is feasible, the reform of the six special materials of wine, sugar, tea, silk, iron, and porcelain can be imitated. ”

Kong Mengchang hurriedly said: "Please take the lead in carrying out the reform of wine, sugar, tea, silk and iron porcelain!" ”

"Good!" Chongzhen nodded, "Your government affairs are quite heavy, and you don't need to be comprehensive in all aspects of reform, you must learn to organize your officials, focus on cultivating newcomers who can take charge of themselves, and only in the future will you be able to promote the reform throughout the country!" ”

"The ministers obey the emperor's teachings!" Kong Mengchang replied seriously.

"Okay, that's it." Chongzhen said, "After talking about reaching out to the people to ask for money, I want to talk about the fourth source of wealth, asking for money directly from the earth!" ”

Asking for money directly from the earth? Li Banghua had some questions, and asked himself, what other way is there besides Tian Fu?

Seeing Li Banghua frowning, Chongzhen didn't want to go around the bend, and said directly: "Open a silver mine!" ”

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a copper coin of "Hongwu Tongbao", and in the eighth year of Hongwu, the treasure banknote was issued as legal tender, but the copper coin shape was indiscriminate, the use was inconvenient, and the depreciation of the treasure banknote was serious, and the monetary system collapsed.

Later, with the development of export trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan and Europe, a large amount of silver flowed into the mainland from overseas, and silver became the main currency for public-private transactions.

Zhu Youjian has been thinking about the source of the silver since he came to the crossing.

Aside from trading and collecting taxes, the only thing he found feasible was mining.

Li Banghua thought that Chongzhen didn't understand mineral deposits, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, my Daming silver mine is already scarce, and there is no silver mine in the north, this, it's difficult!" ”

"That was before, I now know two places, as long as we find the vein, we can ensure that there will be no shortage of silver for three hundred years!" Chongzhen was very solemn.

Shi Bangyao believed in the dream of the first emperor, and when he heard Chongzhen's words, he asked: "The emperor is dreaming again?" ”

Chongzhen laughed, "Don't guess this Aiqing, I said two places, you can send people from the Ministry of Industry to investigate secretly." ”

"If there is really a silver mine, the Ministry of Industry will definitely be able to measure it!" Li Banghua said.

"Good! Both of these places are not far from the current battle, so everything is done with care. ”

"Yes!"

"Be careful to hide so that the enemy doesn't know what we're up to."

"Yes!"

"Keep it a secret and don't let the enemy know where the silver mine is!"

"Yes!"

Several people have already hung their appetites and looked at Chongzhen with blank eyes.

Chongzhen lowered his voice and said, "First, Huairou is 200 miles north of the mountain; Second, Tongbai County is 30 miles north of the mountain. ”

Li Banghua listened to the two places, thought about it in a sullen voice, and said: "If it is true, these two places can be explored immediately." ”

"Huairou 200 miles to the north, has been out of the Great Wall, but there is not yet the boundary of the Mongolian steppe, now they belong to the Ming Dynasty, they can indeed go directly.

Tongbai County is the boundary of Henan, on the north side of Dabie Mountain, although it is not far from Wuchang and Xiangyang, but Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng led the troops over, but it is not very convenient. Shi Bangyao said.

Kong Mengchang was puzzled, "How can the emperor be sure that there is a silver mine there." ”

I said I crossed over, do you believe it? Zhu Youjian slandered.

"I said, you let the Ministry of Industry handle this matter, and don't ask anything else. In addition, I want to tell you that the silver mine on the north side of Huairou has reserves of at least 15 million taels, and some of them are open-pit silver mines, which are easy to mine, and the silver mines on the north side of Tongbai County have more reserves, at least 50 million taels! ”

"Your Majesty, you're not joking......" Kong Mengchang was in a trance, suspecting that he was still dreaming.

Chongzhen smiled, China's silver mines are too small, accounting for less than seven percent of the world's silver reserves, and a silver mine of 50 million taels is the largest silver mine in the country.

You must know that the world's largest silver mine, the Potosí silver mine in southwestern Bolivia in the Americas, has been mined by Western colonists for 300 years since the 24th year of Jiajing, and a total of 500 million taels of silver have been produced.

"How could I be joking about such a thing. Don't worry, if you look carefully, you'll find it. ”

"Obey. Tomorrow Chen urged the Ministry of Industry to start the investigation. "Li Banghua knows the importance of silver mines.

"Oh, by the way, over there in Laizhou, Shandong, in addition to the Linglong gold mine that has been excavated since the Southern Song Dynasty, there are three or four large gold mines, the specific location and output I don't know very well, but it shouldn't be difficult to dig out three or five million taels of gold."

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