The amount of salt in the salt field is only a little money, and the extra salt is the key. The price of a stone of salt is about 600 yuan per silver coin, and the salt factory produces millions of stone of salt a year, which is millions of imperial silver coins.

If the production increases by hundreds of thousands of stones, it will be at least hundreds of thousands of silver coins, or even millions of silver coins. Compared with the previous mere 20,000 silver coins, this is worth the hands of those people.

It was only at this time that Wang Che understood how big those people's appetites were, and this Yancheng Salt Farm was still a salt farm in Daqian, and this salt farm was still the most trusted salt farm of the royal family.

Now this salt field is facing Wang Che a big blow.

There are no more than one or two people involved in this salt farm, even if he doesn't send someone to investigate now, the entire salt farm is almost all involved.

"Your Majesty is angry!" Seeing that the emperor was angry, Du Hao, the attendant beside him, hurriedly persuaded him.

Wang Che slowly closed his eyes, restrained his anger, and then said: "Give Luoyang a decree, and order the imperial captain, Dali Temple, and Imperial Doctor to come to check the affairs of the Yancheng salt farm, and after checking Yancheng, the other salt farms will be checked one by one!" ”

"Yui!" Du Hao hurriedly took out a pen and paper and began to write the edict on behalf of him, and after Du Hao finished writing, Wang Che signed and sealed it after reading it, and then sent it to Luoyang quickly.

Wang Che deliberately did not dispose of the Yancheng Salt Farm himself, and did not even record the situation of the salt farm that he knew, on the one hand, he wanted the imperial court to deal with it in accordance with the "Great Dry Law", and on the other hand, he fished. He wanted to see if anyone dared to meddle in such a big case.

After the Guanzhong case, Wang Che discounted the trust of officials in the officialdom, so he began to use this way to make a nest to see if he could catch a fish.

If someone takes the bait, it is just right to clear them out and send them to the Western Regions, Lingnan, and Ryukyu, so that they can go to the places where they are most needed to build the Great Cadres and contribute to the national integration of the Great Cadres.

Wang Che stayed in Yancheng for a few days, and asked the secret guard to secretly check the entire salt field and find the salt drying field secretly opened up by the salt field. What people didn't expect was that these salt farms were not in Yancheng, but in another place.

After the secret guard had almost finished checking, Wang Che left Yancheng and continued south to Gusu.

All the way down the canal to the south, the speed of the ship was very fast, and it only took a few days to come to Gusu City. Gusu City was built by Wu Zixu in that year, and after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it is still majestic and magnificent.

Gusu City is rich in silk, which is the first class of silk embroidery in Daqian, and at the same time, because most of the sugar cane in the Great Ryukyu Plantation is from here, countless merchants gather here, making Gusu City more and more prosperous. It has become an important town of wealth for Daqian.

After Wang Che came here, he summoned the noble officials and the local merchants. Because of the imperial court's development of the Great Ryukyu Islands, the nobles here gained a lot of wealth from them, so they were grateful to the imperial family.

Of course, Wang Che knew very well what these people thought, and they just wanted to continue renting plantations on the Great Ryukyu Island. After all, these plantations are just too profitable.

For a thousand acres of plantations, there are at least 5,000 imperial silver coins in a year. Over the years, a lot has been cultivated one after another, and each noble family does not have an income of tens of thousands of silver coins every year.

Wang Yun recently wrote to the imperial court, suggesting that the imperial court set up a tax supervisor here to collect taxes. Wang Che also came here this time with these meanings.

In June of the second year of Daqian Yuanxing, His Majesty the Great Emperor came to the city of Gusu, which he was loyal to. Wang Yun had also come to Gusu City at this time and came to meet the emperor.

Wang Yun is in charge of overseas, and the navy has tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of ships, of course, the ships in this refer to the big ships that can go to sea for more than 300 materials, and those small ships are not counted.

Wang Che met Wang Yun in the Gusu Palace, the palace of Gusu City was left during the Huai Wang's invasion of Yue, and it was repaired several times after the establishment of the Great Qian. It was used as a palace for the emperor to travel.

At this time, Wang Yun was reporting to Wang Che the current situation of the Great Ryukyu Island.

"Your Majesty, there are 3,000 households of dry immigrants on the Great Ryukyu Islands, most of whom are immigrants from Qidi, Zhaodi, and Song Land, and have established 12 urban gathering places, 4 ports, and 2 shipyards, which can repair ships and manufacture offshore ships, and have allocated 120,000 acres of land to plant more sugarcane, and after harvesting sugarcane, rice will be planted. That land is fertile. ”

In addition, there are 400,000 acres of Xungui plantations, which can produce 450,000 stones of cane sugar and about 500,000 stones of rice every year. In addition, there are 12 sugar mills and 1 salt factory on the island. ”

"One stone of cane sugar can be sold for more than 7 imperial silver coins in Luoyang, even in Gusu, it is also 5 pieces, and the Great Ryukyu Island, only one cane sugar, can make a profit of 2 million imperial silver coins every year."

Although he already knew it, Wang Che was still surprised, two million imperial silver coins, you must know that the imperial court produced more than three million imperial silver coins a year.

"Your Majesty is requested to set up a customs customs supervision in Gusu to collect taxes on overseas imports."

Wang Che did not intend to snatch the benefits of two million, after all, this was promised back then, and with the help of the benefits given by the development of the Great Ryukyu Island, the imperial court did not collect taxes on these sugars. But now if these cane sugars are to be sold in the big dry areas, they will naturally have to collect taxes.

Many of the nobles in the main hall who came to visit also had different expressions, and everyone looked at the Wu family and the Zhao family, after all, the Wu family and the Zhao family had the largest plantation on the Great Ryukyu Island.

But whether it was the Wu family or the Zhao family, the heads of the two families were like puppets, sitting quietly in their positions, unmoved at all, as if everything had nothing to do with them. The Wu family and the Zhao family are very sober, they are not fascinated by those goods, it is normal for the imperial court to collect taxes, and now they are sitting on the plantation is already covetous, how can they go to the imperial court to hard-top?

Everyone was anxious but there was no way at all, and the last few people looked at each other, and they were reluctant to give up the money, so they stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the first emperor once said that there was no tax on renting land on Ryukyu Island, why do you want it now?"

"Chen Gong's words are wrong, the first emperor said that he would not collect taxes on renting and planting land on the Ryukyu Islands, but after the Ryukyu Islands entered the Great Dry, they needed to pay customs duties!" The Taifu Ling Chen Yan next to him said directly.

"If Chen Gong doesn't want to pay the tariff, it's okay, as long as the materials produced in Daryukyu are not transported into the land of Daqian!"

If you don't sell it to Daqian, who will sell these cane sugars to? This era was not a later generation, trade was developed, the population was at its peak, and it was possible to trade all over the world. Now within the scope of Shenzhou, except for Daqian, who can digest these sucrose, which country can digest it?

Even if these nobles are reluctant in their hearts, the two largest ones don't come forward, and in the end they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

(End of chapter)