Chapter 129 128 My cousin is going to be unlucky

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a relatively complete system was set up, among which the Ministry of Revenue, which was one of the only ones to stay, set up a special yamen for management.

The method of obtaining salt induction in the early Ming Dynasty was mainly to open the middle method. The open the middle method is roughly divided into three steps: reward middle, guarding the branch, and market easing.

The report said that the salt merchants transported grain, grass, horses, even cloth, silk, and silver to the designated border area granary and exchanged salt from the Ministry of Revenue for salt; after the salt merchant exchanged salt, they used the salt to transport the salt to the designated salt field to wait for the salt; the salt merchant transported the salt to the designated area for sales.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the treatment of stove households was relatively generous. They were often distributed to stove households, cultivated land, and were exempted from labor, and were given rice and salt to one stone.

However, after the orthodox period, the stoves became increasingly poor, and their land and pastures were mostly taken away by the powerful, and there was no field to dry salt. Their enthusiasm for production was frustrated and they often failed to complete the task of boiling salt, so they could only go bankrupt and go into exile.

The unstable salt production directly leads to problems in the process of maintaining the support. Merchants pay food and grass, while horses are unable to obtain salt from the salt field for a long time. The entire salt trading cycle is extended and the cost is increased.

At the same time, even if ordinary salt merchants have salt in their hands, they may not be able to line up to get their own salt, because at this time there is still a group of people who can obtain a large amount of salt intake, which is the noble.

Since the Chenghua Dynasty, many nobles and wealthy families have been asking for salt to the emperor for guidance. When they arrived in the Hongzhi Dynasty, such begging has increased. The Zhou family of the Zhou family of Qingyun bought 800,000 yuan of residual salt in Lianghuai, and Zhang Heling, the Hou of Shouning, bought long reeds, and 960,000 yuan of residual salt in Lianghuai.

These powerful people intervened in the salt industry, and the result was that merchants might have held salt in their hands for several years, but they could not mention salt for decades, because the salt was taken away by the powerful.

"There are those who keep the branch for decades and cannot get the branch when they die of old age, but brothers and wives take over the branch."

In this case, some merchants began to directly connect with the stove owner to trade, which is the origin of private salt.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were severe punishments and severe laws, and the life of the stove households was good, so naturally no one took the risk.

But in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, in order to live, the connection between merchants and stove owners inevitably appeared.

Wei Guangde did not only read the Four Books and Five Classics in the prefectures during this period, but also carefully considered the previous court official reports. After all, if he wanted to be an official, he had to understand the changes in the court's policies, and it was not enough to just read the Ming Dynasty's laws.

In the past, Wei Guangde thought that Kaizhongfa was a salt method, but he only realized during this period that tea leaves were actually suitable for Kaizhongfa. The ancient tea-horse road I heard about in the past was actually a businessman who obtained tea guidance according to the requirements of Kaizhongfa and thus transported tea to surrounding areas.

However, in the Hongzhi Dynasty, Ye Qi, the Minister of Revenue at that time, changed the salt law. Merchants did not need to pay grain and grass to border towns for salt intake, but could just pay bankruptcy to Nanjing.

In the short term, this change has allowed the Ministry of Revenue to quickly accumulate millions of taels of cash. Perhaps this is the truth about the so-called Hongzhi ZTE.

Wei Guangde didn't understand these, but he also saw from the Di Daily News that the Ministry of Revenue Taicang warehouse was piled up like mountains.

He felt something was wrong. The merchant's money was not that easy to get, but he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time.

However, this seemingly complicated issue was explained casually by Zhang Hongfu, because the money reached the central government and could be deducted layer by layer when allocating military pay. In the past, the food and grass were directly sent to the border town, and officials from various departments did not receive the money.

There is also the border town, which is probably difficult to eat. No wonder Altan Khan was sent to Beijing because he was afraid that the border troops would not be able to eat enough.

It was only at this time that Wei Guangde realized the problem of Ye Qi's salt law reform, which directly weakened the border defense combat effectiveness.

Now that I suddenly heard that my father and private salt were related, Wei Guangde couldn't help but not want to go more.

"Did that salt merchant find it?"

Wei Guangde asked carefully.

"You are still afraid that he will come to us. If he dares to come, he will be dead or not."

Dad Wei said indifferently, "It is true that the salt merchant has money and power, but it depends on who he meets. The Japanese pirates have taken it away. Who do you ask to take it out? If you have the ability to find the Japanese pirates."

Of course, Wei Guangde was not afraid that private salt dealers would dare to come and retrieve the batch of salt goods. In fact, what he was thinking about was the huge profits of private salt.

By the Ming Dynasty, Wei Guangde had already deeply realized the importance of money, especially when he stayed in Jiujiang during this period, everyone went to Cuixiutang to drink on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, but that place was the Golden Cave.

Wei Guangde truly realized that no matter what era the entertainment industry is in, it is profitable.

Cui Xiutang also mainly plays the card of Qing Gongren, but it is also the most expensive. On the contrary, the prostitutes are not as popular as wealthy businessmen, and most of the red bosses are converted from Qing Gongren, and their business is actually very ordinary.

Perhaps when they were still innocent prostitutes, many wealthy businessmen were willing to throw their daughters into pomegranate skirts, but once they became red prostitutes, well, no one paid for their money to redeem themselves, and the so-called vows would become passing clouds.

Wei Guangde and his classmates were willing to spend a lot of money to win the smile of the innocent, but they were not willing to spend a small amount of silver to make the young master famous because they felt that doing so would lose money.

As for this, Wei Guangde didn't plan to tell his true thoughts. His father was back, so how could he find those private salt dealers?

However, Wei Guangde immediately thought of Zhang Fugui and Uncle Zhang. He was afraid that he and the private salt dealer were wrong. It should be said that the salt dealer was still a bit intimate, otherwise the batch of goods would not be easy to deal with.

"Dad, you are in Zhejiang"

Wei Guangde did not intend to continue the topic of private salt, so he shifted his topic to his father's life in Zhejiang.

"At the beginning, the time was tense, but after conquering Dinghai County, it became stable, and the Japanese pirates did not dare to come.

I should have come back long ago, but several defeated guards were still re-electing military soldiers there, so it took a while to wait."

Dad Wei smiled and briefly introduced his life in Zhejiang.

"It is because Zhejiang's new general Yu Dayou took office that we can escape. This is also a powerful figure. He is much better than your cousin Wu Dong. He passed the exam for scholar at the age of fifteen, and then he won the martial arts imperial examination and passed the martial arts Jinshi, and hundreds of households became thousands of households."

When Wei Guangde heard the name Yu Dayou, he felt a little familiar. Now Wei Guangde has become more literate. When he recalled the names he had read before, he already knew that the famous anti-Japanese general who was similar to Qi Jiguang was named Yu Dayou. He just didn't know that he was a scholar or a martial Jinshi.

"He is a scholar, why did he go to participate in the martial arts? This is not."

Wei Guangde did not say that he was willing to fall into depravity, but he just felt that it was wrong. Who can study these days still join the army?

"He is almost the same as your cousin, and he is the only one in the family. Their family is the same as ours, and they are hereditary positions in a hundred households. His father died, so he can't go if he doesn't go."

Dad Wei smiled and said, "Hehe, this time your uncle will definitely practice Wu Dong hard when he returned to Pengze. He joined the army in his twenties. He has been promoted from a hundred households to a commander in twenty years. Now he is the general of the Imperial Japanese sect in Zhejiang and has the right to command the army."
Chapter completed!