Li Benzhen was also a friend of these people, so he knew the thoughts and actions of this small group.

But in Huang Li's view, Fang Guangchen resented the Qing court because of his affairs, but Hu Guozhu and others did not necessarily have the Ming Dynasty in mind.

They hoped to influence Wu Sangui ideologically and one day launch an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. It was probably to restore their reputation, overthrow the foreigners who were their masters, make Wu Sangui the emperor, and bring their own lives to the top.

"Actually, as long as the empire belongs to the Han people, anyone can be the emperor, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a descendant of the old Zhu family." Huang Li lowered his eyes, but he was not too harsh on this. "My surname is not Zhu, I just use the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty.

That’s all.”

But what cannot be denied is that the Ming Dynasty’s position in the hearts of the gentry and common people is irreplaceable.

Wu Sangui rebelled in history, abandoned the banner of the Ming Dynasty, called himself King of Zhou, and did not support the Ming Dynasty, so he lost the support of many literati and gentry.

"It has only been about twenty years since the Ming Dynasty fell. People who were in their twenties at that time are now only thirty or forty years old. Many people still have fresh memories of the previous dynasty and still have nostalgia. But if there is a chance, these

People will join in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty."

"As far as most ordinary people are concerned, out of the pride of the Han nation, they are not willing to shave their hair, change clothes, and accept the rule of a foreign nation..."

Huang Li felt that his thoughts had been sublimated again, or that he could be integrated into the thinking of people from all walks of life.

"With a population of hundreds of trillions, being ruled by millions of aliens for hundreds of years sounds both humiliating and more like a joke." Chuandong exhaled a long breath and his eyes gradually became dated.

“There are about ten thousand men who carry water,” “men who sail boats are many times as many as men who carry water, and men who carry salt are twice as many.” “There are about ten thousand people who practice these eight skills including saltsmiths, mountain craftsmen, and stoves.”

They provide education and training, but also provide food for half a year, and provide land for farming. That’s a great policy. Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous!

"There are hundreds of families working as metalworkers, carpenters, stoneworkers, and handymen, and thousands of families selling cloth, beans, millet, and hemp, totaling 8.7 million people."

The government is responsible for supplying food for half a year, and has to spend money to buy it in advance. The transportation of salt into Guizhou is also undertaken by the government. He wants to farm and support himself in the land where salt is fried, but the government cannot allocate land nearby, and only collects one-seventh of the tax.

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"He can't communicate with us through letters to see if we haven't restored our ambition for the country." Chuandong said with a smile: "In your opinion, any bloodless Han Chinese would be willing to be a slave of the Tatars, right?"

In the coastal areas, the price of salt at its peak was only 28 cents per catty, but along the Yangtze River to Hankou, the price rose to 80 to 70 cents, or 70 cents per catty. In remote mountainous areas like Guizhou, the price of salt can even rise.

to less than 100 words.

Before Ding Diaoding could get up, he distributed the drafted charter and explained with a smile: "You must delay the decision and cannot go back to study and discuss. There will be another meeting the day before yesterday."

I think it is more convenient to control the source of salt tax, but there are many links and it is cumbersome. That is, salt tax is added to the salt when it leaves the factory. Anyone who thinks it is not profitable can go to the salt factory to buy salt and sell it.

"Shuixi is willing to send thousands of people to mine salt wells, and I hope that villains can simply designate rich salt wells exclusively for Shuixi."

The Huangli government needed to use too few manpower, so it summoned thousands of salt workers to re-open and develop the salt wells that had been abandoned in Yongsai due to the war, and even obtained a small amount of well salt to generate income.

Judging from the intention of the palace, it seems that he wants to keep him by his side for consultation. It is also an inspection to see his ability and loyalty before making arrangements in the future.

After chatting for a while, Chuandong asked Wu Sangui to go in. I need to think about the battle situation and make a plan of action for the next step.

"Little man, can the salt you get be sold to the inside?" A toast asked cautiously: "Or is there no limit to the price of the salt?"

At that time, the price of salt was in the same place, so the difference was very small, mainly due to the low transportation costs.

Although the distance has reached that level now, the less manpower the worse. Li Benshen's task is not to lure as few laborers as possible to Qichuan.

After Wu Sangui finished speaking, he looked respectfully at the palace, waiting for the palace's inquiries and instructions.

Since Wu Sangui has decided to surrender, he has not yet made all kinds of psychological preparations. As a surrendered general, heat storage treatment is also a routine operation, and I am satisfied with everything.

For me, Chang Jinyin is dead, which is not my intention. In Shuixi, I made the judgment that the date was gone.

It doesn’t mean that anyone can be a salt merchant. You need a qualification certificate issued by the government to buy or sell salt.

"Your Majesty wants to recruit as little labor as possible to mine well salt in Huangli. The purpose is only to supply the chieftains, but also to sell the salt to the people of Guizhou, which did not exist in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi and other provinces before."

If you live alone or care too much, the road will become wider and wider, and you will have more and more friends. You may earn more, but the long-term benefits will far outweigh the short-term benefits.

The method that Sichuan Dong discussed with Li Benshen and others was not to collect the tax first. According to the set salt tax amount, if you give the toast as much salt as you want, you will collect less tax. Then, whether he uses it for himself or sells it depends on the date.

All these did not rely on the active participation of the people and chieftain forces along the way, which changed the difficult living conditions of Guizhou people who were "fighting for rice and salt".

You must know that the salt obtained by toast is a bad estimate based on the price. If it is sold internally, it is equivalent to the loss of the government under the salt tax.

Li Benzhen, Ni Shenglong, Ding Diaoding and other chieftains were sitting in the hall, discussing the mining, sales and distribution of salt.

"The bad elephant is not that simple!" An Kun and his uncle An Ruding looked at each other, and they didn't think about the secret.

The water transportation of Zuanjiang River, Yongning River and Chishui should be developed and constructed with great efforts. Generally, Chishui is the most convenient channel with the shortest distance, the smallest transportation volume and the highest cost among the Qixiaochuan salt ports entering Guizhou.

An Kun calculated very slowly and came up with a rough estimate, which he found acceptable.

Wu Sangui's face turned red, and he bowed in agreement, knowing that the emperor was mocking him, which made him feel relieved.

"Each salt well can produce 700 to 800 jins per day, and the family can get less than 100 jins. It is not 87,000 jins per month, or even less. Besides, the salt well is still one..."

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"Although the Ming army now only occupies Huangli and will be able to occupy Guizhou very slowly, the situation is not favorable to the Ming army, usually in the southwest. With the prince, will the Qing court still doubt the Yunnan generals? Is it possible?

La!"

"Your Majesty, Renyi, has come up with a solution for you. He only sends people to teach you how to fry salt, and you can also use salt to offset taxes and salt to offset grain. The specific regulations are like this..."

"There is a leader among all the dragons. Is there any one with enough prestige to replace the prince? It is difficult to unify the opinions, so how can we sincerely split? It seems that there is no strength, but the hearts of the people are united, but it is just a mess."

As a member of the Wu Department, Wu Sangui's understanding of the Wu Department officers and generals, as well as the changes in the situation before Fan Yasheng's death, did not include his own analysis and judgment.

I had an object of allegiance, and before I was helpless for a brief period of confusion, I made a choice while facing the pressure of the small army, and the date came up in my mind.

"Wusa is also willing to send a thousand people, and also wants to own a well. This will not only facilitate the calculation of output, but also require the government to send people and efforts."

That is not the ticketing method that has been delayed for a hundred or two hundred years: each ticket carries a certain amount of salt; whoever buys the ticket can collect the ticket for transportation and sales as long as he pays taxes according to regulations.

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The salt merchant just has much less capital, and the quantity he buys is the same. He cannot buy a few thousand jins or ten thousand jins, and a big merchant will refuse to buy a hundred or two hundred jins.

Moreover, the ancient artificial brine mining and salt production requires a small amount of manpower and material resources. In addition to the workers who directly serve the salt wells, the number of those who indirectly serve the salt wells is many times less.

"Everyone -" Li Benzhen raised his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty must be very pleased to be so active and enthusiastic. The number of salt wells is an important issue. The key is that the labor force sent by you will need food to live in Qichuan for a long time.

You need daily necessities..."

Other chieftains like me are so small and powerful, but they also got the agenda of the meeting later, discussed the method in private, and all said that we have not yet united, and if we can provide 2,000 people, we hope to cover two salt wells.

"Yunnan is doomed." Fan Yasheng turned around the back door, retreated from the front door into the house, comforted his family, and then sat in the house deep in thought.

"Without Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, how could there be another Southern Ming Dynasty that could compete with the Qing Dynasty?"

At the same time, the rich copper, lead, coal, iron, lime, tea, grain, wood and other materials in the hinterland of Guizhou can also be transported out of the mountains to realize two-way trade.

Anyway, the palace felt that it was perfect enough, and Li Benzhen and others could seize the time to re-think the details of the negotiation, which was to slow down the process of reaching a final agreement with the chieftains.

If they want to support a group of salt merchants, Sichuan East still has no idea, but they just don’t have a rough idea.

Then a question arises. The chieftains sent people to open wells to fry salt. The salt obtained according to the proportion agreed with the government must exceed the amount of salt in the chieftain's jurisdiction. Are we allowed to become salt merchants and sell it to the outside world?

There was a faint smile on Li Benshen's face, and he did not express his stance on the bidding of the chieftains.

However, if Huangli Government undertakes the transportation, the smaller the quantity, the more money will be saved.

Governor's Yamen.

If you are willing to pay less for salt wells and want to be a salt merchant, Eastern Sichuan is also happy to see it happen. I have always believed that the fewer links controlled by the government, the harder it is to breed corruption, which can actually benefit the people at the bottom.

Langdai Chieftain Long'an Fan and Kaiwai Chieftain also agreed, hoping to get the same treatment by virtue of the small number of troops sent.

That is mutual benefit, the best of both worlds, and it is also the principle that Sichuan East has always adhered to - a win-win situation.

Seeing the appearance of Governor Luo Huijin, Wu Sangui felt happy in his heart.

Li Benzhen was recalling the key points explained by Shandong in his mind, and was also thinking about the method discussed by Ni Shenglong and others.

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It is responsible for how many salt wells he has built to ensure a certain output. One-seventh or one-eighth of the salt produced is given to the toast, and the rest is given to the Fan Ya government to serve as salt tax.

That was the number of people at the peak of the Ziliujing Salt Industry in history. It was an emerging industrial city that relied on the salt industry for its livelihood.

Wu Sangui stood up and walked behind the window, looking at the flower garden and pavilion, squinting his eyes slightly. No matter what, it was probably the wisest decision to save his life and not have a family.

It is possible for a salt well to produce seven to eight hundred kilograms per day, and there is no record of producing one thousand kilograms or several thousand kilograms. That mainly depends on how much manpower and animal power it has, how much brine it can lift, and how many frying pans it can.

Ni Shenglong smiled faintly and said: "I'm sure the salt is not so poor that we can't use it up, so we can't sell it to the outside world. But they have to pay taxes to the government. If you give them any amount of salt, they have to pay tax by the kilogram. But before,

Whether they sell within the jurisdiction or across the street is up to you."

Huang Li's new base area was newly opened, and the most lacking thing was not labor. There was too little wasteland, and the people had all gone to farming. How could there not be many people digging wells and frying salt?
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