Tian Yang asked again: "If merchants are allowed to open salt factories, can we salt soldiers do the same?"

Zhao Han smiled and said: "I will give you three franchise quotas, and you can allocate them by yourself. You can also join a joint venture with multiple people and jointly own one franchise quota."

Although the salt factory is privatized, the land of the salt factory is in the hands of the government. Without suitable land, salt cannot be boiled. Even if salt can be boiled, the cost will increase sharply, which means that the government can still control the salt industry.

If you exploit workers excessively or if you are found to have evaded taxes, you should be fined and put in jail. Once the thirty-year period is up, you can’t even think about getting a concession license in the future.

In addition, the salt introduction system was abolished and replaced by a salt monopoly system, with monopolies in each region.

Once a monopoly dealer is found to be evading taxes, they will all be dealt with as selling illegal salt.

Every link of salt production, transportation, and retail must be registered and reported to enhance the government's control over salt.

Although there are still loopholes that can be exploited, it is more advanced than the salt quotation system. Because the salt quotation system is too rigid, it leads to two negative consequences: first, the salt quotation turns into futures; secondly, illegal salt is spread everywhere.

Really, Yanyin became a piece of futures paper in the mid-Ming Dynasty.

The most profitable people are not the salt merchants, but the powerful people who speculate in salt futures, or the financial dealers who are related to the powerful people.
Chapter completed!