Chapter Ninety-Eight: Snowflake Salt
"Today's welfare is actually salt, the last time it appeared, it was just a rare blind box, this time it is actually a high-quality snowflake salt, and each box will randomly appear in a salt-making aspect, the number of goods is 600,000 boxes, this is completely the era of salt making in the Wan Dynasty."
Salt?
And drawings?
The dynasties blew up!
If there is something that is from beginning to end, from top to bottom, whether it is a high-ranking official or noble, or a merchant who wants to fight for it, it must be salt.
Salt is an indispensable thing on people's tables from ancient times to the present, and it can even be said that those who get salt win the world!
It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled, the first money he got was to obtain economic support from a smuggling salt dealer, so that he could store grain and recruit troops, and Zhu Yuanzhang's opponents Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and others started by selling smuggled salt and quickly pulled up a team.
The so-called one who gets salt wins the world, this sentence is really not just talking!
Not only in ancient times, but also in modern times, there is a terrible profit!
All dynasties, whether it is an emperor or a nobleman, will never want to give up control of salt, this thing is the best weapon for them to maintain their rule, this thing is the best weapon for them to protect their rights.
Li Shimin sat up straight, he had just ascended the throne, because of the change in Xuanwumen, his status was unstable, and those families controlled the government, this salt came at a really good time, not to mention the others, the Cui family could be prepared to be destroyed.
"Who was the most profitable person in ancient times?"
"In ancient times, what was the tax revenue that best generated revenue for the treasury?"
"I think there is no doubt about the salt merchants! Salt tax! β
"The first to put forward the monopoly of salt and iron was Guan Zhong, Guan Zhong's "Guanshan Hai" policy, which made the Qi State develop rapidly at that time, gathered huge wealth, and the reason why Qi Huan Gong was able to become the head of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons was to rely on salt and iron to lay a financial foundation for the Qi State."
"Later, the Han Dynasty set up a salt tax, and even set up a salt official for salt, and although the salt tax was abolished in the Tang Dynasty, there was another major move in the history of salt politics - on-the-spot monopoly, to establish a household registration for salt makers, and become salt households."
"It sounds like a good thing, it's organized and large-scale, but the key is that the private salt households make salt, and then all of them are handed over to the government, and they are not allowed to be kept at all, and if they are kept, they are private salt."
"Then the salt tax has long been included in the price of salt."
"More precisely, it is passed on to the people, the salt they make themselves must be sold at a low price, and they can't keep it privately, and if they need to eat salt, they have to pay a high price to buy it back."
"Under this brutal exploitation of the common people, the Tang Dynasty's salt tax revenue accounted for two-fifths of the total revenue."
And in the Song Dynasty, it became even worse,
During the Song Dynasty, the salt tax supported almost three-quarters of the country's tax revenue, so a new tool for collecting money was bornβsalt induction. β
"As the name suggests, salt introduction is the same as road introduction, only with salt introduction can salt be sold, and salt introduction has become a new round of exploitation."
"Because salt is a consumable that the human body must absorb, the government will also crack down on this kind of salt sellers in various places."
"Despite the blow, there are still many people who take risks because of their huge profits.
And the smuggling of salt is endless. β
"It's just such a small thing, but it has been stuck in the throat of the people since ancient times, and has become the root cause of the people squeezed by the superiors in order to compete for power and profit, enjoy luxury."
"What if the state has no money? Add salt tax!
What if the local princes have no funds? Salt tax! What if there is no money to pay the aliens? Transfer salt tax! β
"Therefore, such a small grain of salt really divides the class hierarchy between the commoners and the nobles, and the control of salt is always in the hands of the imperial nobles, and the people are always the one who is squeezed."
Throughout history, why there are so many officials who have forced the people to rebel, and the salt tax is too heavy, it is also one of them, until today's modern times, the freedom of salt for the whole people has been truly realized, and the price of salt under the control of the state has really made salt a condiment that every household can eat.
So when Zhang Yanxi's live broadcast room sells salt as a product, you can imagine how much movement it will cause, not to mention, in the salt box, there will be a random salt making method, so many dynasties, the last time there were just two salt recipes were not enough to see, this time it was 600,000 copies, and some dynasties could even make up all the salt recipes.
With the formula, stabilize the price of salt, put an end to the flood of private salt, and the malicious price increase of salt merchants, as long as the court regulates it, it will inevitably make salt a condiment that every ordinary person can afford.
The people rejoiced!
The emperors were excited!
The families are panicking!
The salt merchants are furious!
"Ladies and gentlemen, the importance of salt, believe me not to say, you also know that it is not only a condiment on the table, but also an indispensable material component of our human body, which plays an extremely important role in our health."
"It can regulate the balanced distribution of water in the human body, promote digestion and absorption, and enhance the body's immunity. If there is a lack of salt, people will have muscle weakness, dizziness and headaches. β
"But its role is not only to regulate the physical and mental health of the human body, but also has a lot of wonderful uses in other aspects."
"For example, drinking a glass of light salt water in the morning can keep the intestines unobstructed, such as adding a spoonful of salt to the shampoo, which can reduce hair loss, and for example, a sore throat, containing a sip of light salt water can effectively relieve, and if a woman's abdomen is cold, you can fry the coarse salt and put it in a cloth bag, and apply a hot compress to the lower abdomen, which can drive away cold and relieve pain, etc."
"In short, salt is a thing that can penetrate all aspects of our lives, and the salt of our flower family is a snowflake salt developed through multiple processes, with clear particles, snow white and delicate, like snowflakes in winter, clean and pure!"
Zhang Yanxi took out the physical objects that appeared during the lottery of the system, cut open a whole box with scissors, took out one of the packets of snowflake salt, cut the package, and poured it into a small light blue bowl. β
The fine white salt grains, crystal clear, made all the people who were watching the live broadcast look red directly, the salt of the flower family in later generations actually did not have a trace of impurities, and there was no blue hair, this is the real high-grade salt.
"Our snowflake salt, a total of 600,000 boxes, each box has 30 bags of salt, I repeat, these 600,000 boxes of salt boxes will randomly appear in the salt production method of the flower planter, and some salt production methods may not be suitable for that dynasty, or a certain place."
β1οΌ 2οΌ 3οΌ Get in! β
600,000 boxes are sold out in seconds.
"Someone! Find out how much salt you have now! β