So he actually rushed in front of Emperor Wanli and said, "My lord, what kind of trouble are you doing?"

At this time, Emperor Wanli waved his hand and said, "I know that you are not a messy person, you get up and speak first, and slowly make it clear."

After Liu Haojia thanked him, he got up and said, "The minister visited several places on the nine sides by the way during this patrol, and found a problem, that is, there is a shortage of food on the nine sides! Moreover, the price of food remains high, which makes it difficult for residents in border towns to eat food, especially for soldiers! The salaries allocated by the imperial court have been peeled by those civil officials layer by layer, and when they fall to the border towns, there will be little, and when they are distributed to the soldiers, they will be even less! Not to mention the fishy meat in the family, it is difficult to eat enough!"

Then he described the news he had inquired all the way to Emperor Wanli in its original form. In his depiction, the border soldiers are all heroic and unyielding heroes, even if they are hungry, they have to guard the frontier for the Ming Dynasty! And the civil officials are all vampires, and there is no shortage of money and food in their hands!

In the end, he said: "So the minister thought that he would use these chiefs to make friends with the generals of the border army, and let them protect the minister's food shop, so that the minister could earn some pocket money, and the soldiers and civilians of the border town could eat food, so as to maintain the combat effectiveness of the border town!"

Emperor Wanli knocked on the table with his hand and didn't make a sound, but his mind was thinking rapidly! The current Emperor Wanli is no longer the Wuxia Ameng of the year, and he has a deep understanding of how the Kaizhong Law was corrupted back then?

One of the reasons for this is to the detriment of the interests of the salt monopoly! Let you exchange grain for salt to sell, how can you sell it yourself to make more money! Therefore, those officials deliberately did not give salt to the merchants who grew grain, even if they took the salt and did not sell it, resulting in the merchants in Tuntian losing their grain in vain!

The second thing to offend is those who are high-ranking families! They hoard food and artificially cause high food prices. Because the biggest business in the agricultural society is food, that is, in the modern society, food may not be as profitable as other industries, but it is definitely a good way to make money and make stable money! Therefore, under the two-phase attack, the method of opening the middle will naturally slowly be corrupted!

Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli said, "I see! But if you want to restore the Chinese Dharma, where does the salt come from? Where does the food come from?"

Zhang Jia also said, "Yes, those salt merchants and grain merchants are all standing behind the gentry and high-ranking families, where is it so easy to pull salt and grain out of their mouths!"

Liu Haojia said, "Long live the lord, in fact, this matter is also simple! Isn't it okay to open a salt field in the inner court for the nine sides of salt? Then exchange salt for grain and send it to the nine sides. Moreover, if there is more salt production, the price of salt can be brought down, making it unprofitable for those who sell smuggled salt, so that the salt tax can also increase a lot!"

Zhang Jia said, "Then where are you going to open your salt farm?"

Liu Haojia said, "Isn't there a Changlu salt field in Tianjin? Just open one next to him and you're good to go! As for grain, the minister knew a lot of merchants, and he could let them go to the northwest to tuntian. In this way, the initial period will affect the income of the grain merchants in the northwest at most, and it will not cause too many counterattacks. When the stall grows bigger in the future, maybe the ministers will be able to bring down the price of salt, and then the official salt will be sold cheaper than the private salt, and it will be up to those salt merchants to deal with it!"

Emperor Wanli shook his head regretfully and said, "But how can this salt be produced so easily! Although I have never seen boiling salt, I have also read in books about the process of producing salt, which requires manpower and a lot of firewood, and once it is not handled well, it is easy to gather too many people to cause trouble!"

Hearing this, Liu Haojia said confidently: "Long live Lord, you can rest assured of this! The minister can produce a lot of salt in a relatively small life!"

Emperor Wanli's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "What is the way?"

Liu Haojia said, "Salt drying method!"

When Emperor Wanli heard this, he immediately deflated, shook his head and said, "I also know the salt drying method! But if the salt drying method is useful, it can't be that no one will use it all the time! It can be seen that the salt drying method is flashy and unusable!"

Liu Haojia immediately said, "I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm wrong on this point! The method mentioned in the book is slightly different from the minister's method, because they don't have one thing in the minister's hand, and that is cement!"

After speaking, Liu Haojia explained the plan to make a salt field with cement to Emperor Wanli. At the same time

Tell Emperor Wanli that the salt drying method is actually very promising, that is, it can be done without cement, but no one does it!

In fact, the salt drying method appeared as early as the Song Dynasty, but why was the way of boiling salt still used in the Ming Dynasty? The main reason is that there is no money to build the salt pans.

First of all, in ancient times, when making salt pans, the foundation of the salt pans was almost the same, but after the foundation was built, it was different, and it took a lot of man-hours and money to mix the fine mud and glutinous rice syrup that had been screened out many times, and it took a lot of man-hours and money, so it can be said that every piece of salt pan was paved with silver!

But there are still big problems with the salt pans built in this way! That is, although the rammed earth is smashed very solidly, it is soil after all, and when the salt is collected with a push board, the soil will fall off and mix into the salt, causing the salt to deteriorate!

And no matter how strong the rammed earth is scraped repeatedly by the push plate, these rammed earth will be scraped layer by layer after a long time, and a salt pan will be abandoned and rebuilt in a few years, so the cost of salt produced in this way remains high!

What's more, if you need a large area to build a salt pan, you will need more silver, which is not at all affordable for ordinary people! The tinkling of those poor stove households is naturally unable to build salt pans. And those salt merchants are naturally too lazy to invest money in building salt pans because they have already made a lot of money now. Maintaining a high salt price like this will help them sell smuggled salt and grab more huge profits, so naturally they will not use the usage method!

After listening to Liu Haojia's explanation, Emperor Wanli was angry and his face was flushed, and he scolded! Say that these salt merchant officials really deserve to be killed! Not to mention the fat brains that they ate one by one, they also made the price of salt extremely high, and then secretly sold smuggled salt for huge profits!

But after he finished scolding, he was also weak-hearted! Because these people are not small in courtesy, even Zhang Juzheng does not dare to confront it head-on, so he can only play side balls according to the law! So he really doesn't know if Liu Haojia can succeed this time!

However, he still held on to a glimmer of hope and said, "Liu Aiqing, you can do the salt collection this time, and let the inner court make a will tomorrow, and the salt produced will be directly supplied to Jiubian!" I want to see if anyone who doesn't open his eyes dares to make an idea, and I cut off his head!"