However, the emperor's wallet has been pried countless times. Huaiyan salt produces nearly one billion jin, and most of it is in the pockets of the powerful.

Tea and salt monopoly has always been an important fiscal revenue for the feudal dynasty. It reached its peak during the Song Dynasty. The two monopoly income was tens of millions of yuan per year. In the Ming Dynasty, it was divided by those powerful people.

Needless to say, the tea tax is only more than 100,000 taels per year, and the salt tax is also pitifully low, only 20,000 taels per year, which is not equal to the total amount.

To put it bluntly, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were puppets. Although they controlled the power of life and death, the civil servants and the powerful colluded with each other and were always digging for the corners of the country.

Zhu Youjian said before hanging himself: I am not a king who destroyed the country, but my ministers are all ministers who destroyed the country.

This sentence is not wrong. The demise of the Ming court has a great relationship with financial bankruptcy. The civil servants and powerful people are like blood-sucking insects and are constantly snatching profits from the country.

Even if the finances are abundant, what can it be? The money is still not practical. Once the war begins, the opportunity for civil servants to make money will come, and the money will not be used by the soldiers at all.

The reason why Liaodong is corrupt is inseparable from those civil officials. When it comes, civil officials will be deducted, and military officials will also have to bribe them if they want to be promoted.

As a result, more than half of the money was deducted to the generals, and more than one was deducted, and in turn, he bribed civil servants, forming a cycle of evil surnames.

At the beginning of Chongzhen, the officials of the Beijing or local officials in the court were vacant. In addition to being selected by the new Jinshi, they were also selected by the officials of prefectures and counties who had served for a certain period of time. This opened the door to wealth for some court officials.

The criteria for the examination are not based on morality or talent, but rather on the law of favoritism. For example, Lu Mai, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, was a relative of the children and daughters of Zhou Zhengyi, relying on this relationship, he set the price of "Seven thousand seeking Ci Lin (Hanlin official), five thousand seeking subjects (subsidiary), and three thousand seeking Taoism (supervisor)" to publicly accept bribes and seeking officials on behalf of others. If you are not sure, how dare Lu Mai be so openly? The inside story of collusion and fraud in the court and favoritism are not difficult to see.

Anyway, the emperor is a fool, and all civil officials are cheating on the emperor. The emperor's education is presided over by civil officials. The emperor who never leaves the capital all day long knows those tricks. It has formed an eternal wonder of the court ignoring the people and officials ignoring the emperor, and even constitutional monarchy is not as good as.

Zhao Yan directly established a refugee resettlement site in Laizhou Bay, where the first batch of refugees with about 5,000 people were resettled.

After building the simple house, Zhao Yan immediately started to organize personnel to build the salt field.

The technology of salt drying in seawater has appeared very early, and it is also used in many places in contemporary times. For example, salt boiled in Huainan, and salt drying in Huainan.

However, the way of drying salt in Huaibei is quite unique.

There are also long reeds that rely on salt drying, and there are also some scattered salt fields, but this technology has not been promoted on a large scale.

The advantage of drying salt is that it is low cost and the yield is not necessarily higher than boiling salt.

Compared with those simple salt cooking equipment, the output will naturally be higher. However, compared with the salt cooking output in Huainan, the output will be much lower.

Salt merchants in Huainan use large iron plates to cook salt. Five or six people can produce thousands of kilograms of sea salt when they start working at night. However, the cost of iron plates is very high and ordinary salt merchants cannot afford it.

The most high-yield production is the well-santhemum salt drying method that uses underground brine. Laizhou Bay has a lot of underground brine, but Zhao Yan has not yet developed the technology.

Drilling technology is low and pumping efficiency is even lower.

Fortunately, the Bohai Bay has superior geographical conditions, and this is the area with the highest yield of salt drying on mudflats. If all the silt flats in Laizhou Bay are developed into salt fields, the salt production will definitely be higher than that of Lianghuai.

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Xie Yongming's days were not easy, and he was worried all day long. After moving his fat body, he thought about it but still didn't dare to leave his small fort.

After Xie Yongming reached an agreement with Wu Anbang three months ago, he was secretly happy, but a few days later, Wu Anbang was defeated by Baiyanghe.

Within a dozen days, the court arrested Wu Anbang and questioned him. Zhao Yan actually became a guerrilla guerrilla, which made Xie Yongming fall into great panic. He hurried back to Zhaoyuan Pass to guard the fort, paying attention to the wind direction at all times.

During the Zhao Yan's suppression of bandits last month, Xie Yongming was so scared that he had nightmares. Fortunately, the Zhao family seemed to have no idea of ​​his existence.

Maybe Wu Anbang didn’t offer him that idiot!

Wu Anbang did not ask him out, and no one asked about it at all.

But this does not mean that Zhao Yan is not clear about his existence. As Wu Anbang's staff officer, Liu Heng participated in this matter almost throughout the whole process, and he is very clear about Xie Yongming's origin.

Xie Yongming was more tough in the backstage. I heard that there were people in the court. Zhao Yan was more at ease during the tutling period, so he didn't touch him.

More than 600 cavalry were rumbling on the grassy ground and heading towards a village on the outskirts of the city. Four hundred people, and more than 200 horses full of items. Some horses were carrying shells, and some were pulling cannons.

Soon the group arrived at the periphery of the village.

A small fort six or seven meters high was built outside the village, which surrounded the entire village. It was exactly where Xie Yongming lived.

"What a high wall." Lin Yi looked up at the wall of the small fort and exclaimed.

While he was looking, the people in the small fort also discovered them.

"The horse bandits are here, the horse bandits are here, no, the horse bandits are here..." A horrified voice instantly spread throughout the castle...

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I'm going out today, it's too late, I'm just typing out so many... I guess there will be updates tonight... But I can't guarantee... If I come back early...

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