Chu Zhuanglou also said: "Hangzhou County sells more than 300,000 smuggled salt every year, but because it is smuggling, it needs to avoid people's eyes and ears, and the channels are limited, in addition to the official salt, Hangzhou County needs a conservative estimate of the annual private salt, at least more than 400,000 citations, and the imperial court gives me a quota of 300,000 salt introductions, and I will make at least 70,000 salt introductions privately." ”

To put it bluntly, it is to protect the interests of the imperial court first, and then to run private business.

It's also a win-win situation.

Jiang Fuguang bowed: "The water is clear, there is no fish, although the salt production is increased privately, but because of the local demand, it will not make the price of official salt fall, while making money, it also avoids the remaining part of the people to eat private salt, the court took a big head, and gave a little sweetness to the salt merchants, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." ”

Huang Jingzhou carefully calculated, the imperial court did benefit, and his complexion eased.

Commercial salt protects the interests of the imperial court and enables the people to eat cleaner and healthier salt, which does have more advantages than disadvantages.

When it comes to business, no one can compare to Chuzhuang Building: "The imperial court has an annual quota of 300,000 salt quotas to local salt merchants, and if the price is reduced to 200 wen per bucket, each bucket will lose 200 wen compared with before." ”

"However, each bucket of salt collects a fifty percent tax, that is, 100 Wen, 300,000 salt citations per county, which is equivalent to 30,000 taels of silver per county, and the 12 counties of Zhejiang Prefecture have an annual salt tax of 300,000 taels of silver, and the salt tax paid by salt merchants in 100 counties across the country is as high as 30 million or more, and the imperial court does not lose but earns 10 million salt taxes, which is a vested benefit."

The imperial court is willing to issue the private amount to the merchants, not to say that it is a fifty percent tax, even a seventy percent tax is willing to do it.

Salt making is a recipe for profit.

Jiang Fuguang bowed his head: "The tax per bucket of salt is fifty percent five, it can't be lower, cooperation is for a win-win situation, businessmen know and know how to safeguard the interests of the imperial court, and it is not hindered for them to make some private money." ”

"Alone, all the commercial salt that flows into the market must be inspected to ensure that it is clean and healthy, if anyone dares to flow poor quality salt to the market, it will be killed, no matter how the merchant jumps, it will be in the palm of the imperial court."

Chu Zhuanglou couldn't help but lower her head, this was the first time she had seen the ruthless side of killing in this eldest princess, and the faint sentence "No matter how the merchant jumps, he is also in the palm of the court", which is terrifying, but admirable, because she has also seen the big picture of the eldest princess.

She doesn't mind businessmen making private money.

He is also willing to let businessmen make private money.

The premise is that businessmen must be informed and interesting, and do not cross the line and damage the interests of the court and the people.

Huang Jingzhou's brows finally relaxed: "What the eldest princess said is extremely true, there are three purposes for reducing private salt, one is to let the imperial court collect more taxes and silver, the second is to make the people afford to eat salt, and the third is to curb private salt. ”

Yue Chen also agreed.

Jiang Fuguang nodded: "There is Lao Chumao to make a detailed salt tax plan now, Yue Chen wrote an analysis of the pros and cons of commercial salt, and its impact on the Southern Dynasty, Huang Yushi needs to state the dangers of private salt, as well as the situation of the flood of illegal salt in the Southern Dynasty, and the impact and harm on the Southern Dynasty." ”

The three of them responded one after another.

"Tomorrow morning at the latest." When the words fell, her throat was itchy, and she quickly took a handkerchief to cover her mouth, and coughed a few times.

Several people's faces tightened, and they clearly saw a little crimson on the handkerchief, and they all saw the horror in each other's eyes, and their previous feelings were really right.

The eldest princess is terminally ill.

It was because he was worried that he would not have time to do the matter of Shang Yan, so he hurriedly asked them to come over to discuss.

Ji Ruxuan brought a cup of ginseng tea and fed her to drink, but she barely swallowed two sips, and she couldn't swallow it, and the ginseng tea seeped out of the corner of her mouth and flowed onto the placket.

Ji Ruxuan had no choice but to take the ginseng tablets from the box and let her hold them, she opened her mouth, she was so weak that she couldn't even speak.

Chu Zhuanglou and his party had red eyes.

Ji Ruxuan hugged her, and her voice was hoarse: "The eldest princess made a discount to the court, for this disaster in Xin'an County, the people who contributed money and efforts to assist the court in disaster relief asked for credit, regardless of their origins, but those who contributed were all famous, Your Majesty is a benevolent emperor, and he will definitely be rewarded for his merits." ”

"The epidemic has been controlled, and there is no trend of spreading, at most two months, the government will arrange for the return of the victims, Yue Chen temporarily took the post of county commander, and now we must start preparing for the subsidy for the return of the victims, and then report to the imperial court, and the imperial court will arrange it as soon as possible, so as not to miss the people's livelihood plan."

"The dam in Xin'an County should also be newly repaired, so that the victims can work for relief, and they cannot be starved."

"Epidemic prevention is a major event, even if the victims return to their hometowns, they must continue, and they cannot give up halfway."

“……”

Huang Jingzhou couldn't help but burst into tears, these things must have been explained by the eldest princess to the secret guard early in the morning, once she was too sick to speak, let the secret guard convey it word by word.

"Eldest princess," Huang Jingzhou knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty will do your best to provide disaster relief and comfort the people, and live up to the trust, you can rest assured!" ”

Yue Chen and Chu Zhuanglou also knelt on the ground one after another.

Jiang Fuguang showed a pleased smile, and finally closed his eyes, Ji Ruxuan's eyes trembled, and his trembling hand probed her snort, and suddenly pressed her to his chest.

Early the next morning, the news that the eldest princess was critically ill was reported to Beijing.

"The eldest princess coughed up blood, she couldn't eat, she couldn't even feed the medicine, since yesterday morning, after seeing Lord Huang and explaining a lot of disaster relief and epidemic prevention matters, she has been unconscious, relying on the thousand-year-old ginseng offered by the Chu family to hang on to her life, I'm afraid it's ......."

Yu Linwei, who came back to deliver the message, fell to his knees with a thud.

Emperor Nanxing's head was dizzy: "How, how come?" Isn't it only seven or eight days since the onset of the disease? He was furious, "What about the Imperial Doctor? Do they all eat dry rice? Why didn't the eldest princess be cured? ”

"The imperial doctor said," Yu Linwei's eyes were red, and the dignified eight-foot man couldn't help choking up, "It's caused by fatigue, after the eldest princess entered the isolation point, she was worried about the disaster situation in Xin'an County, and she had to insist on handling official documents every day, and it was useless to persuade the people around her, the epidemic in Xin'an County at that time was a critical period of spread and prevention and control, dozens of people died every day, and the eldest princess couldn't recuperate at all. ”

Li Taishou and Wang Xianling were both imprisoned, Huang Jingzhou was a history of disaster relief supervision, and he couldn't interfere too much in the affairs of the county government, although the family helped some from the side, but he couldn't interfere in the government affairs, these things were all pressed on the eldest princess alone, and the life and death of hundreds of thousands of victims were all pressed on her alone.

She didn't dare to rest, and she couldn't rest.

No one dared to persuade her to rest.

Yue Chen temporarily took the position of county commander, and as soon as the eldest princess's tense breath was relaxed, the person fell.

Yu Linwei held up a letter: "This is a private letter from the eldest princess to her subordinates and handed it to Her Majesty, and she has repeatedly explained to her subordinates that she will personally present it to Your Majesty for royal reading." ”