After all, Sun Gan could not interfere in his duties and directly helped the court and the Ministry of Revenue decide on the implementation details of the sales.

He could only write a letter to suggest adjustments, but considering that the messenger from Chengdu to Chang'an had to go for half a month, it would inevitably delay the pre-sales for this autumn and winter seasons, so Sun Gan made a little stopgap solution:

While writing the book, he hints the content he wants to write to the wealthy businessmen in Yizhou through informal channels in advance.

Let everyone realize that "the actual pick-up priority of salt quotations and other quotations in the future will be bound to the issuance year of the quotations. The earlier the year, the higher the pick-up priority." This suggestion is very likely to be adopted and officially promulgated by the court. If you want to buy it, it may be too late!

The reason is also very simple. Although Sun Gan was carrying heavy citation sales tasks, these citations were printed by the Ministry of Revenue and distributed to Yizhou for sale.

Even if we consider the amount of levy to the state governors at the beginning and add a little extra stocking, it is impossible to be unlimited.

For example, Liu Bei plans to sell at least 8 billion yuan this year, and the pre-allocation amount for Yizhou is 4 billion yuan, of which 2 billion yuan is 2 billion yuan.

Then, when the households issued the printed copy and entrusted to Yizhou, some remaining amount will be left, for example, 6 billion to Yizhou, of which 3 billion salt will be sold. At that time, only 4 billion will be sold as planned, and then 4 billion will be returned to the court or equivalent materials. If the remaining 2 billion is not sold, it will be returned to the court.

If it has not been sold by the end of the year, it will be recycled, and the printed content will be washed away with pickling, and reprinted into a general ticket with no year number next year, and kept for use next time.

Anyway, the accounts between the Ministry of Revenue and the states must be matched, and the total amount of money and grain that cannot be sold out is certain.

Under this operation, it at least means that the Yizhou administration can sell salt intakes that are not unlimited. Now, 1.2 billion in salt intakes are sold, and 1.8 billion in hand is still there.

After selling this 1.8 billion, there will be no salt indicia for "Zhangwu Year Three Years". Even if it is reissued next year, the interest rate will be reduced by one year. Moreover, the pickup priority must be ranked behind Zhangwu Year Three Years.

More importantly, merchants are an industry that can highly calculate competitors. They are much cunning than the working-peasant class and are good at using the "Black Three Forest Law" to guess the enemy with the greatest malicious intention.

They can easily think that once this expectation is established, their competitors may buy more quotes to monopolize the priority pick-up rights of the well salt in the next two or three years.

Although the court did this matter unauthorized and in fact it was too much for copying, the court did not say that it would not accept it, but just asked the merchants to queue up, so it could not attack the court too much.

What's more, the old system of the Han Dynasty, salt and iron were all in the official business for three hundred years. Now the imperial court has opened an opening for the people to sell as long as they pay the tax on the franchise. This is originally a concession and revitalization of the economy.

When it was first implemented, there was a "rich businessman scrambling to compete for employment opportunities", and thus a "bank run". It is not a blame for the court.

The sales of materials such as salt and iron in Yizhou have ushered in a new climax.

As of September 15th, Sun Gan's memorial was not delivered to Chang'an. In just a few days, he sold another 500 million or 600 million.

However, the dissatisfaction of the wealthy businessmen was gradually becoming fierce. The city of Chengdu was in full swing, and all parties expressed their intention to let the lord and relevant departments come out to give everyone an explanation and answer questions.

Sun Gan also realized that this problem could not be mixed, so he posted a few days in advance that a banquet was held at the yamen of the governor on September 20, and all super wealthy businessmen who subscribed for more than 30 million yuan could send representatives to the banquet.

The court will give you a formal explanation on the same day, answer various policy implementation details, and future acceptance rules for copying.

If you can't buy enough 30 million yuan, then wait for the banquet to inquire with each other. After all, there are so many people in the hall of the governor's yamen.

Everyone can tolerate this reply, so I will last for a few more days and ask for a clear explanation.

...

On September 20th, it will soon be the day to start the Q&A session for the copy.

Sun Gan held a banquet at the yamen of the governor. The water and land were all good, and the wine was excellent. Wuliangye and Jiangyang Laojiao were drinkable for free.

After all, they are all big customers who subscribe to 30 million yuan. It is also appropriate for state-level officials to invite them to drink good wine.

However, it is obvious that the wealthy businessmen are not here to drink, and they are not in the mood to drink too much, fearing that they will be drunk and be confused and will miss any important policy explanations for a while.

After drinking for three rounds, seeing that others dare not speak, a representative of a branch of the clan of Chen Shi, the former prefect of Jianwei County, and a clan leader of a family named Chen Qiu, took the lead in asking Sun Gan.

The four Shu Confucian sects, Dong Ren and Chen Yang, and Dong Ren, had already destroyed the clan, Chen and Yang had a side branch.

Although the Chen family was weakened twice, especially when the first reform of the renting and mediocre law six years ago, a branch of the Chen family colluded with other Ba County tyrants and wanted to increase leverage and stock up on the grain and stock up on brocade. Taking advantage of the low grain and high money after the autumn harvest, the people must have money to pay taxes. The opportunity to let the market exploit the people.

As a result, Li Su and Zhuge Liang opened up the goods to provide Shu Jin, which broke their capital bank. Those who participated in the hoarding and speculation did not have that much capital to catch the huge amount of Shu Jin sold. Not only did they lose a huge amount, but even the mortgaged land manors were confiscated. At one time, even the land merger problem in Yizhou was greatly alleviated.

However, Chen Shi's family has been operating in Shu for three hundred years, and there are too many branches, and several of them were wiped out by the court, and there are always law-abiding people.

Chen Qiu, who spoke this time, was a relatively law-abiding businessman, just wanted to make some money while taking advantage of the new salt method.

Chen Qiu asked: "Empress, the imperial court started selling salt and iron quotes at the beginning, but said that it could be exchanged for full amount of salt and iron monopoly. Now the imperial court sells too much, resulting in a run-and-pickup in the next year, and there is insufficient supply of goods, which will damage the court's trust and backfire.

I also ask the king to convey his feelings to the superiors. The new law is first implemented, so we must not lose the faith and righteousness of the court. We are all obedient to the people of the court, and it is nothing to make less money. We are afraid that this will make people from far away confused and keep going, and dare not participate in the grand event together, which will lead to a big mistake."

Chen Qiu still knew his duty when speaking. He did not dare to say that "the court has no credit and we will make less money, and the money runs are not right." He just said, "It doesn't matter if I lose, I'm afraid that people from farther away will not trust the court enough, and are afraid of the new law because I see that I lose."

This clever statement directly put Sun Gan on the steps and was not easy to go down.

Fortunately, Sun Gan had fully discussed and prepared. He knew that there should be no ambiguity in the credit of the court, so he immediately came up with a countermeasure:

"Don't worry, first of all, I need to clarify: the court has no intention of being too out of the way. I will print more in the first year. On the one hand, to be honest, the court is indeed short of money this year and next two years, and the world is about to reunite, so where should we not spend money?

On the other hand, copy printing does require a lot of cost. Every time the carving, engraving, and spinning of each batch of specially made copy printing fabric is a cost.

Therefore, producing more at one time can dilute these costs. The imperial court also wanted to save money printing losses, so it did not want to print every year. It is best to print more years at a time after starting the machine, and print one wave after a few years.

If you print more than two years ago, you might only print the ordinary version without interest without the year number in the next year. So in theory, there is no problem of super printing and over-issuance. It was originally planned to use it up for everyone in three years.”

After Sun Gan finished explaining, the person who asked the question at the beginning had not digested the information for the time being, but soon other wealthy businessmen asked questions:

"Eunuch Sun, what you said makes sense, but we businessmen also have difficulty turning over money. Now the imperial court sells it for several years at a time. If we follow up and buy more money for small businesses with a property of only 100 million yuan, we may have another unknown gap in the business next year and the turnover will not work.

Since the court sold the citations, it should give a way to redeem them at any time and turn them into money. How could someone say that it would be available at any time after buying them, but in fact, it would have to wait for two or three years?”

When Sun Gan heard this, he sneered in his heart. These guys really make excuses. The family's assets are only 100 million yuan, so he dares to say that he is a "small business". When did the threshold for the small business of the Han Dynasty have such a high level?

It can be seen that it is His Majesty’s wise and that Sikong and Liu Ba are good at financial management and encourage private industry and commerce. In just nine years, they have become rich around Chengdu and Jianwei County!

Fortunately, Sun Gan was also prepared. He signaled to the Yan and Iron Captain Wang Lian to answer this question, which seemed a little more professional and appropriate.

Wang Lian stood up and explained to the wealthy businessmen: "Don't worry, the court knows that what you are worried about is that once the quotation is run, the redemption period is too long, which may lead to poor turnover.

However, with Sikong and Liu Shangshu's foresight, they must have thought of this issue. The court added a franchise to this end, that is, if there are shortage of resources, the merchants who can't accept the corresponding goods because the stock is out of stock, will be allowed to use the run to collect the other taxes.

Let me give you an example, such as salt, iron and soju, the output is limited by the court, so these three types of attractions may have runs in the year of out of stock.

However, the imperial court never restricts the scale of the industry by firing porcelain, weaving of Shu brocade and cotton cloth. As long as you have money to build your own loom and magnetic kiln, you can expand the production as much as you want, as long as you can sell it yourself.

Therefore, when the resource-based shortage of citations is released, the court will admit that you are used to pay loom tax, magnetic kiln tax, and even pay patent fees for related technologies. If you want to transfer to other industries that are not limited by production capacity, you can transfer to industries that are not run in equal amounts.

What's more, if you are more conservative and do not want to expand production, but as long as your family has a fertile land estate, you can use this kind of citation that occurs with a run and pay the court's rent and tax transfer.

A large family that includes tenant slaves and thousands of people, according to the annual rent and transfer of 1,800 yuan per person, the annual rent of 5,000 people in the clan will cost nine million yuan to pay the regular tax a year. Buying an extra 20 million yuan of salt will only be enough to pay the regular tax for the family for two years. Are you afraid that you can't spend it?"

After Wang Lian's policy was explained clearly, the opposition from wealthy businessmen in the venue immediately became much lower.

After all, the court was very thoughtful, "If there is a run, the ticket will be transferred across banks, and even agricultural tax will be discounted." This will make the credit guarantee even higher.

In other words, citation is a more advanced existence than money. You can transfer money at any time if you want to transfer money. As long as there is a run, the government will recognize it when collecting any taxes.

Now, many wealthy businessmen thought about it and focused on the three items of salt, iron and soju, which were obviously short of goods, and immediately added purchases and quoted them. Many people directly expressed their intention to buy them at the wine table.

Of course, they could not bring so much gold and silver with them. Some of them took the deeds that had previously purchased materials for the government and offset the accounts that the court had not paid.

The sales situation will be improved immediately by copying the corresponding materials that are most likely to be shortened.

After snatching these quotations, the wealthy businessmen noticed several items that they had not paid much attention to, but the court also marked them as "possibly shortage".

They saw that the two items of "white porcelain citation" and "white sugar citation" were also listed by Sun Gan as "prone to pick-up runs, please pay attention to the risks."

Before, merchants from Shu rarely bought these two types of citations, mainly because they had not seen two goods, white porcelain and sugar in large quantities, so they planned to wait and see.

White sugar was mass-produced in Bowang County last month, and white porcelain was only successfully tested, but the large-scale porcelain kiln has not yet been built and the output is very small.

So a wealthy businessman asked: "I dare to ask you, why are the two citations of white sugar and white porcelain also classified as "limited production and easy to run"? We also produce porcelain and sugar in Yizhou, so brown sugar is not too expensive.

Although celadon is expensive, it is mainly because the 'patent fee' collected by Zhuge Envoy was higher when he was in the past, but as long as the patent fee is given, it can be privately owned. Will white porcelain and sugar be classified in this way, and will not deliberately create scarcity?"

Sun Gan signaled everyone to be quiet and answered leisurely: "This question is like this. The court is indeed short of money this year, and these two things were invented by Sikong and Zhuge Prefecture. There is no need to be surprised at this.

They are willing to share the worries of the court, saying that they expect the industry to produce 2 billion yuan per year and tax hundreds of millions of yuan in the next few years. If no one subscribes to the distribution of these materials, they are willing to monopolize the subscription for ten years.

Once they monopolize the subscription, the court will stipulate that no one in the world is allowed to produce these things in the next ten years. If they want to resell, they have to buy goods and copying from the Li family or Zhuge family, and this one is the only one.

As we all know, the patent system implemented by the imperial court before was to allow others to enter the industry to produce after giving a patent fee, regardless of whether the technology was leaked.

If the Zhuge family chooses to buy out the ten-year white porcelain tax this time, it means that no one is allowed to produce it. The court gives them ten-year exclusive franchise, and you can't give it anyway.

If you produce illegally and have official titles in your clan, you can also reduce the title and pay the penalty and at the same time, you will be fined three to five times the infringement income.

If a private businessman who does not have an official title deliberately commits a prohibited infringement... Then don't blame the imperial court for not saying anything ugly, and the same crime as selling private salt, and the house can be confiscated and beheaded.

Of course, Sikong and Zhuge Prefecture Order are kind. They are not people who compete for profit with the people. This time they share the worries of the country. If no one buys them, they will only buy them for ten years. This time is limited to the end of the year, that is, by the end of the year, they are still much short of monopoly, and they buy the remaining ones that have not been sold out.

Before this, if the people are willing to buy it, the people will be given priority.”

Li Su and Zhuge Liang's attitude is very noble: we do not pursue direct monopoly, the people should let the people go, and the people do not want us to monopoly. After monopoly, don't regret it. At that time, it will be a monopoly under the protection of the camp. Whoever secretly commits the ban on production will be waited for the house to be searched.

When the wealthy businessmen in Chengdu heard this, they were stunned: Damn? Is this a chance to see if we win or not? If we don’t catch it, we won’t give the medicine for regret?

Anyway, if there is a run, it can still be converted into a copy of other materials that have not been run, and it can also be used to pay agricultural taxes and 10% of the interest per year... Forget it, buy a little, don't miss it when you walk by.

Within the next half month, Sun Gan's copy of all the inexpensive materials that could be picked up and sold out successfully.

The wealthy businessmen did not turn over enough money, so they used Shu brocade and other hard currency to discount them. The government also admitted it at the official price and received it without delay.
Chapter completed!