Chapter 7                                                              

Zhou Mengchen understood too much that at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty, some people were struggling on the line of life and death. Zhou Mengchen rarely had contact with these people because he was in contact with all the upper class of society, at least the middle and upper class.

What kind of gentry and famous scholars are all local celebrities.

The lower class people could not walk in front of Zhou Mengchen at all. But Zhou Mengchen could not think that they did not exist. He did not say anything else. The situation he saw on both sides of the Yellow River before, for these people, as long as they could live, they would not mind doing anything.

Even beheading.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen expressed sympathy for these people. He was just the people who were forced by life to take the road of selling private salt. Those generations were not like this. Official salt was actually just poaching the country's corners with corrupt officials. He did not know how to sympathize at all.

Now, because of the changes in the salt administration, these people have taken the right path and no one has committed personal salt. This is also a great benefit.

Zhou Mengchen asked the old man some questions again, and the old man knew everything. For example, where should the old man's salt be delivered?

It was not long-distance transportation, but from the salt farm to the dock, but it was one or two hundred miles away. After one trip, it could make a hard-earned money. In a month, it was already quite good for ordinary people, such as them.

However, Zhou Mengchen estimated that such a good thing would not be possible. It was not that Zhou Mengchen cursed the old man, but that he really had no technical content. It was estimated that a large number of idle laborers were joining, and there were even people from other places to do this.

In the end, there is only one hard money.

As Zhou Meng expected, the old man said: "Sir, you know something, and now the policy of selling the goods is released. The qualifications of salt merchants have been released. Almost all the idle people in Yangzhou City have gone to sell salt."

Although Zhou Mengchen knew that this situation would not last long, Zhou Mengchen was happy to see it happening.

For a large amount of wealth gathered in the hands of a few salt merchants, he hoped that wealth could gather in the hands of a large number of salt merchants.

Seeing that the sun was no longer poisonous, the old man was going to sell salt again. Zhou Mengchen ended the conversation between the two sides.

He Xinyin said to Zhou Mengchen: "Sir, if I remember correctly, there are actually these things in the report I gave you. It is even more detailed than what this old man said."

Zhou Mengchen said, "That's different."

For Zhou Mengchen, it is indeed different.

The feeling of words gives people is completely different from the feeling of talking to people face to face. The information expressed in words is limited. However, the information felt by talking to people is infinite.

For example, Zhou Mengchen can feel hope from this old man, the hope of making money to support his family, and the hope of actively striving for progress. Zhou Mengchen likes it very much. He even hopes that every Ming people can feel this hope. If there really is such a day, Zhou Mengchen can be worthy of it.

Zhou Mengchen had a strong desire at this moment, not for anything else, but just wanted to check out the accounts of the Salt Administration.

Before, the salt tax in the Ming Dynasty was fixed for a long time by about one million taels. Now after the new policy, I don’t know how much salt tax in the Ming Dynasty can reach. You should know that the salt tax in the Song Dynasty could reach one thousand two million taels. Although there are great differences between the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial and the sacrificial

After all, the question of the details of the value of money is the problem of economists.

And Zhou Mengchen just needs to be very different.

Before entering Yangzhou, Zhou Mengchen caught up with the convoy and then came to Yangzhou City in a mighty manner.

The prefect of Yangzhou, Yangzhou notified, and other officials came to see Zhou Mengchen with Lin Run.

Zhou Mengchen smiled in his heart when he saw the respectful look of the prefect of Yangzhou.

The reason why the whole Yangzhou is like this is not only Zhou Mengchen's identity, but also because Zhou Mengchen interfered with the two prefectures of Yangzhou and Huaian in the past year. The most important interference was wasteland and water conservancy.

The officials of these two palaces who tortured were almost indecent.

In fact, what Zhou Mengchen did was infringing on the power of the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing. But as mentioned before, the same authority can produce different effects in the hands of different people.

Some people are the Minister of War in Nanjing, but they are just the Minister of War in Nanjing, and some people are the Minister of War in Nanjing, so they can be regarded as the lord of the south. Zhou Mengchen has only violated the power of his colleagues, so what's the point?

The Minister of Revenue is unwilling to confront him in person?

It is obvious that Zhang Ao, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was unwilling to offend Zhou Mengchen and devoted himself to the elderly and ignored anything.

Yangzhou Prefecture and Huai'an Prefecture are basically the part of Jiangbei of Jiangsu Province in later generations. Of course, there are many differences, such as the lack of Xuzhou, and the specific demarcation is different, nor is it that the Yellow River pushes hundreds of miles into the sea for hundreds of years in the Qing Dynasty.

However, things have to be done one by one, and then Zhou Mengchen sent these people away and invited Lin Run in.

Zhou Mengchen saw that Lin Run's temperament had some changes.

Lin Run - used to be more bookish. Now her face is a little dark, but she has more of a simple and capable temperament. Zhou Mengchen knew that this was something Lin Run experienced within this year.

Zhou Mengchen said: "I heard that the price of salt is only three cents, but I don't know how much tax is there?"

Lin Run said: "Sir, do you guess?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "One article?"

Lin Run said: "It's two words."

Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said, "Two articles?" This surprised Zhou Mengchen. In this way, the people of Ming Dynasty ate salt, which was clearly taxable. Zhou Mengchen hurriedly asked, "Is it enough? Did those salt fields agree?"

The reason why Zhou Mengchen said this was that according to the previous arrangement, most of the salt farms would be managed by the powerful and the Ming Dynasty just collected salt from the salt farm. If there was a tax of two cents, it means that the salt farms must be sold at a price of one cent per kilogram.

Zhou Mengchen was very suspicious of whether the salt farm could do this.

Lin Run said: "Xiaoguan is in the salt field for three months and is sure that if he does not encounter a major disaster, the cost of every ten kilograms of salt in the salt field can reach about five cents."

Zhou Mengchen said: "That's the cost of 0.5 cents per kilogram of salt?"

Lin Run also had some understanding of Zhou Mengchen's mathematics, so he could naturally understand what Zhou Mengchen said. He said, "That's right. In fact, if you think about it, you will know that the salt farm is very large. The salt farms under Lianghuai Salt Transportation Bureau have hundreds of acres or even larger. If the weather is good, a salt farm will produce hundreds of thousands of kilograms of salt in a month, or even more. Their cost is not much, it is nothing more than the yard fee and labor cost. These are all extremely low."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Wait, the ticket fee? And this one?"

Lin Run immediately said, "Please forgive me. I'm arguing. I'm not trying to sell the salt farm, but I'm trying to sell the leasing rights of the salt farm, usually once a year. If there are people behind them, you can surround them. If there are no ones, you'll have to bleed heavily."

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "This is a smart person."

Lin Run immediately learned the methods Zhou Mengchen used in salt administration.

Yes. When Zhou Mengchen treated the vested interests of the Salt Administration, he seemed to cut sausages and shook all the players who had no power and strength. For example, before the Wei Duke's Mansion, no one knew how much money he made from salt every year, but everyone knew that the Duke of Wei was a fool, and because of the issue of the Salt Administration, he scolded Zhou Mengchen at home for several days, which showed that he felt extremely painful.

Lin Run followed suit. If he had power, he would be like the people in Huang Jin Palace. They could just give him a little, a penny or a liang every year. But one day, some people lost their power and were not like this. They would either pay a big price to maintain it or reshuffle the new powerful people. The first year they had to pay a big price.

There are even various operations such as killing two peaches and killing three soldiers.

Zhou Mengchen had to admit that in terms of power struggle, his ability is just qualified and not outstanding at all. Lin Run-had never thought about it before, but now when he thinks about it, he makes it clear.

Xu Jie even made Zhou Mengchen clear arrangements, which made Zhou Mengchen more or less depressed.

Zhou Mengchen sighed in his heart. He cheered up and asked the question he wanted to ask the most and most important. He asked: "How much salt tax can be there in a year from last year to this year?"
Chapter completed!