From the 33rd to the 35th year of Tianyou, the rule of the Tianyou court officials was corrupted, and the destruction of various systems put the people of the world in dire straits.

This is especially true of the salt class.

In the 33rd year of Tianyou, Yin Li Ying, the governor of Jiangning Prefecture, was imprisoned, and more than 100 literati who had dealings with Li Ying were all imprisoned and defiled as party members.

In the thirty-fourth year of Tianyou, Duwu and other courtiers were listed as Li Ying's reasoning, and although Li Ying and the "party members" were released, they were strangled into the palace and imprisoned for life.

This time, the dispute between the party and the prince was triggered by the imprisonment and the accusation of adultery, and the dispute between the two kings and one prince was completely brought to the fore.

——Remembering the "Book of Heavenly Blessing History" and the Bingchen month of the year of Yanhe

Xinhai year

Renchen Moon (May)

The imperial court successively brought two bad news to the people.

The first is the endowment.

The name of the additional endowment is that the war in Liaodong is urgent, and the military salary is insufficient.

An additional 3 cents and a half cents per mu are given.

One article = ten cents

Although this is temporary, it will be stopped.

But how long the war will last, how will the people know, only that they will have to tighten their belts again?

The second is that food prices have risen.

When there is war, prices rise, and of course the price of food and salt increases.

The price of rice in the grain shop rose to 15 wen a pound overnight.

The salt rose from 30 wen a pound to 50 wen a catty.

There is still an upward trend.

This news is very bad for the four people who are on the study tour.

They can't stay in Changliu Village any longer.

May 23

Song Huan and the four of them sorted out their belongings and said goodbye to Uncle Gao's family and Li Zheng.

Ah Di said to Gao Sanlang, "You are optimistic about the field of wheat I planted, if they can mature in early July, you can plant the second crop of wheat." ”

Gao Saburo nodded seriously, "I will!" You can rest assured! ”

When it comes to stomach problems, he won't be sloppy!

Gao Saburo said uneasily, "It's very chaotic outside now, you better go home quickly, don't be outside anymore." ”

Brother nodded, "We will!"

Although Ah Di said this, in fact, after they left Changliu Village, they did not go in the direction of Yangjiang Mansion, but continued to Danyang County.

The issue of adding endowment does not affect Song Huan and his party.

As for the rise in food prices, they can bear it at the moment, after all, it is not a disaster, the rise in food prices will not be too crazy, of course, this situation is not impossible, but it depends on the war, for now, the South will be less directly affected than the North.

Besides, there is a salt field in Danyang County, so I don't know if it will be less affected there.

Moreover, they have all arrived in Huiji County, and they will be able to reach Danyang County in a few days. If he returned to Yangjiang Mansion like this, it would be a big pity for Fu Yuanzhi and Ah Di.

Ah Di has decided to go to Beijing with Fu Yuanyi to take the exam, so he will have to return to Yangjiang Mansion for the township exam before January next year, and in October this year, they will have to go back to Yangjiang Mansion.

Now there are about five months to go, and instead of going back to Yangjiang Mansion now, it is better to go to Danyang County to have a look and experience the indirect impact of this war on the people everywhere.

Rather than listening to others, it is better to experience it yourself deeply and authentically.

The salt tax is an industrial and commercial tax.

When Taizu was proclaimed emperor, he established the salt law and implemented a tax system, allowing merchants to sell at a tax rate of one-twentieth of the tax rate, and the salt tax obtained was used to pay military salaries.

After the establishment of the Tianyou Dynasty, the monopoly system was implemented.

The production system of salt in the Tianyou Dynasty, the salt making households are called stove households, and they are counted according to the households, and they are called salt dings.

According to the salt production quota stipulated in D, it is also known as normal salt.

The remaining salt in addition to the normal salt is called residual salt.

In the early years of the Tianyou Dynasty, in order to encourage the production of salt, the imperial court paid attention to the stove households and allocated grassland to the stove households for wood harvesting.

Arable land is allowed to be cultivated by stove households, and stove households are exempted from miscellaneous labor.

After that, the salt factory set up a chief urging officer, who was responsible for running the salt class and supervising production.

The chief urging official has been stripping the stove households for many moments, resulting in the poverty of salt, and God blessed ten years, the stove households are unbearable to the exploitation of the chief urging official, and they have fled, migrating, and the salt output has been greatly reduced.

The salt method is getting worse, and the salt profit is decreasing.

The salt monopoly of the Tianyou Dynasty mainly implemented the method of private → official collection → on-the-spot monopoly.

The opening of the law is one of the monopoly systems.

Open the middle of the law - salt to introduce tokens.

It was to recruit salt merchants to transport grain to the border gates, and then exchange the salt in their hands from the hands of the various feudal officials.

The purpose of this law was to enrich the grain reserves in the frontiers.

God bless the fifth year, August.

Youzhou to Dai County stored grain, from Qingzhou Pingshou County to Youzhou Taihe Ling, the road is far away and the cost is huge, it is recommended to make the merchant in the Dai County warehouse to lose rice one stone, Taiyuan warehouse to lose rice one stone three, afterwards to Huai salt a small lead.

Salt quotation means that the salt merchant pays money or goods to the imperial court, and the government issues a quotation ticket, and then uses the quotation to support the salt seller on the spot.

The large lead is 400 catties, and the small lead is 200 catties.

After this incident, the Tianyou Dynasty began to open China and France, and in the past 20 years, various border areas have followed suit.

After the implementation of the Kaizhong Law, the country has saved a lot of transshipment costs, and the grain and salary in the frontier have also been guaranteed. ”

Due to the remarkable effect of the Kaizhong Law, not only grain, but also all materials urgently needed by the imperial court caused merchants to lose Chinese salt, and many new systems were derived, such as Nama Zhong Salt, Nabu Zhong Salt and so on.

In short, whatever the imperial court needs, it will open it, and salt will become a medium for the imperial court to trade with merchants anytime and anywhere.

There are two sides to everything.

There are pros and cons to opening the China Method.

The main reason is the corruption of officials that has not been eliminated.

When the residual salt was opened and good salt was entrained, unscrupulous businessmen bought high-quality salt at a low price, encroached on the salt class, and also broke the salt law.

Not only that, but there are also official eunuchs who use the unfinished surplus salt in the opening and the surplus salt sold by the confiscated stove households to loot salt profits.

In addition, if the government personnel do not open the middle school on time, it will cause the price of rice to soar, the price of salt to increase, and the cost of cooking households is less than one-tenth of the price of salt.

The stove household pays the salt class, and every 400 catties of salt is introduced, and the work is worth rice, which is equivalent to two taels and five hundred wen. In some areas, such as Jian'an County, the silver money is two taels.

There is only one Wu County between Huiji County and Danyang County.

This time they are no longer as unhurried as before, nor are they in the middle of the two.

On May 27, the group entered Yicheng within the boundaries of Wu County to replenish some supplies.

The price of food in Yicheng was five wen higher than the price of food in Yuecheng when they set out.

There was only a four-day gap between the routes.

Ah Di gave full play to the essence of his social cattle to inquire about the situation from others, and came to the news that Yicheng got earlier than Yuecheng, and the time for the price increase was also earlier than Yuecheng, but the difference was not much, that is, only two days.

The price of Yicheng increased on May 19, and the price of Yuecheng increased on May 21.

In this way, the time of eight days (Changliu Village, which left two days after the price increase in Yuecheng) has increased by five Wen, and the speed is not particularly fast.

Much better than being hit by a disaster.

No hoarders have been found.

On the third day of the sixth month, the group finally arrived at their destination - Danyang County

The area and prosperity are not comparable to Jian'an County.

The street is wide enough to accommodate six horse-drawn carriages side by side, and the restaurants and shops on both sides are lined up one after another, and the wine flags are waving in the wind, and the smell of rice, wine and the sound of intermittent singing and dancing spreads to all directions, which makes people feel a little intoxicated.

Thank you to the treasures who voted for the recommendation today~ (^^)

See you tomorrow at 13 o'clock~

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