"Da Ming Law" stipulates: "Those who break the salt law, buyers and sellers, each have a staff of eighty, the tooth protection is reduced by one level, and the price of salt goods is included in the official."
Selling illegal salt is even more of a serious crime, punishable by death. "Anyone who sells illegal salt will receive a hundred rods and three years' imprisonment."
Officials at all levels have the responsibility to detect smuggling, and those who "collaborate with the escaped persons will be guilty of the same crime as the prisoners."
The procedure for buying and selling salt is as follows: Each of them has its own salt field under the Salt Transport Department, and produces and sells salt in accordance with the quantity specified by the imperial court.
Thirteen people promised the Chief Secretary to go to the nearest place to transfer the salt to the Secretary of State to collect the salt.
Officials in prefectures and counties sent people to collect the salt from the Salt Transportation Department, which was responsible for the administration, and then distributed it to each township and town, and then to the head of the district, who distributed it to the people.
The people bought salt from the village chief by paying a salt tax.
The district chief collected all the salt tax and handed it over to the magistrate. The magistrate collected it and handed it over to the magistrate. The magistrate collected it and handed it over to the salt transportation department of the chief envoy. The salt transportation department handed it over to the salt transportation department. The salt transportation department was called the salt transportation department. Go to the Ministry of Household Affairs, which will collect all the money and hand it over to the treasury and report it to Lao Zhu.
Since ancient times, the salt produced in Huainan is fried with salt, and the salt in Huaibei is dried. The salt produced is called Wu salt or Huai salt.
People all over the world say: "Wu Yan is as bright as flowers and white snow."
Huai salt has a large output, high quality, and a color as white as snow.
Use it to cook, and the dishes will taste sweet and delicious.
All the wealthy people in the palace and the world use Huai salt.
Therefore, although there were several salt fields in the Ming Dynasty, Wu salt's output and trading volume ranked first, far behind other salt-producing areas.
In the previous dynasty, salt accounted for eight-tenths of the national tax revenue, while the Lianghuai salt accounted for half of the world's total.
To this day, the Huaiyan salt tax accounts for one-third of the Ming Dynasty tax revenue.
Since Zhu Bai suggested that Lao Zhu use the "Kai Zhong method", there were salt introductions outside the regulations, and there were officials and merchants who could sell salt outside the daily regulations.
However, this official salt merchant does not want to sell as much as he wants. It is still up to the Capital Transport Salt Envoy Department to make overall planning.
Lao Zhu established the Lianghuai Capital Salt Transshipment Department in Yangzhou, and the salt shipped from the two Huaihe Rivers to all parts of the world was transshipped in Yangzhou.
Merchants from the south of the Yangtze River transported grain and grass to the border and changed the "salt guide" to Yangzhou to get salt.
Because of the massacres and exorbitant taxes of the Yuan Dynasty, when Lao Zhu took over, there were only eighteen families left in the huge city of Yangzhou. Even the government offices were so dilapidated that only the ruins of the walls were left.
But because of the salt transport, Yangzhou became the richest and most densely populated place in the world in just a dozen years! !
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After the court was over, Hu Weiyong waved his hand to Wang Guangyang hypocritically: "Oh, Mr. Wang, it was really dangerous just now. Fortunately, the emperor is merciful. All the subordinates are sweating for Mr. Wang."
Wang Guangyang looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Although I'm a little lazy, I'm not confused at all."
Then he ignored Hu Weiyong and walked away.
Hu Weiyong was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and gritted his teeth at his back: "I originally wanted you to go back to Lingnan. But now it seems that I have to kill you."
As soon as Zhu Bai got out of the morning, he ran to the harem so that he could pack his things.
Zhang Yu and the others secretly complained.
Ever since I followed Zhu Bai, I spent eight days out of ten wandering around. The time spent out in the field is longer than that of generals in war.
I just came back from a trip to the south, and now I am going to Yangzhou again.
Concubine Hu Shun was also surprised when she heard that Zhu Bai was going to Yangzhou.
Lao Zhu actually dotes on Zhu Bai to this extent now?
You knew that he was messing around when he went to Guangzhou, but you still let him go to Yangzhou?
Concubine Hu Shun stopped talking.
Zhu Bai comforted her: "Don't worry, Mom, I have my own sense of discretion."
Concubine Hu Shun smiled bitterly: "My son has no choice but to let me go. If my mother is worried, she can only let go."
Zhu Ju hugged Zhu Bai: "Brother, brother, you go to Yangzhou to play, it's so close, so take me with you."
Zhu Bai: "No, you are a child, a girl, go to Qing...Yangzhou."
Zhu Ju: "What do you want to say Qing? Why did you suddenly change again? Do you have something fun to hide from me?"
Zhu Bai: "No, I want to say Yangzhou Qingshan Temple."
Zhu Ju: "No, it's definitely not. Say it quickly."
Zhu Bai: "No, no, you heard wrong."
Zhu Ju grabbed Zhu Bai's lapel and wouldn't let go.
Zhu Bai was anxious: "If you make trouble again, I will ask my father to marry you off."
Zhu Ju's eye circles suddenly turned red, and he pursed his lips and let go.
Zhu Bai secretly thought it was not good and said hurriedly: "Hey, I didn't mean that."
Zhu Ju threw herself into Concubine Hu Shun's arms and cried loudly: "Mother, I don't want to get married."
Concubine Hu Shun looked at Zhu Bai angrily: "Why are you scaring your sister to cry again?"
Zhu Bai said with a mournful face: "I was wrong, you just don't get married. Stop crying, it makes my head hurt."
Zhu Ju twitched and said, "Really?"
Zhu Bai: "Really."
Zhu Ju: "Then you will take me to Yangzhou?"
Zhu Bai: "I can't take you there. I'll play with you today, okay? Let's play slingshot."
Zhu Ju: "It's boring."
Zhu Bai: "There will be no target shooting today. We will hang up the copper coins and shoot them in the eyes."
Lao Zhu came in from the door: "Sir, if you have fun, don't call me."
Concubine Hu Shun was so frightened that she stood up and saluted, and was in a dilemma. According to the rules, she should not appear in Zhu Bai's palace.
On weekdays, Lao Zhu would turn a blind eye if he didn't see him.
Lao Zhu didn't seem to notice Concubine Hu Shun. He took the slingshot from Er Hu and said to Zhu Bai, "Come on, let's play with it as father and son."
Fugui and the others had already hung up the copper coins in the yard.
Concubine Hu Shun knew that Lao Zhu had something to explain to Zhu Bai, so she saluted Lao Zhu and hurriedly led Zhu Ju down.
The other miscellaneous people all retreated, leaving only Fugui and Erhu.
Lao Zhu stood thirty steps away, picked up a marble, and shot it out. It passed through the eye of the coin without the coin shaking.
Fugui and Erhu shouted in unison: "Okay!"
Zhu Bai was wondering what Lao Zhu would say, so he was a little absent-minded and shot it casually. The result was a copper coin with a crisp "ding" sound.
The copper coins were spinning in the air.
In fact, the copper coin is so small, it is quite impressive that Zhu Bai can hit the copper coin.
However, in front of a master like Lao Zhu, he is slightly inferior.
Lao Zhu looked at him sideways and made a pun: "Boy, fight hard. Show your skills."
Then he took out the marble and shot it again, hitting the eye of the still shaking copper coin.
Zhang Yu and the others could see it through the wall and couldn't help but cheer too.
Zhu Bai smiled, took out the marble, took a good aim, and this time it went straight through the copper coin.
Fugui and the others cheered loudly when they were busy.
Lao Zhu nodded slightly: "This time when you go to Yangzhou, you have to keep your eyes open."
Zhu Bai looked at Lao Zhu, not sure whether what Lao Zhu said was the same thing as what he was thinking.
Lao Zhu said: "After these Japanese pirates were killed several times by you and Wu Zhen, they tried to assassinate Wu Zhen many times but failed. Now they have changed their tactics and dress up like me, Ming merchants and common people, and are hiding in the prosperous city of Yangzhou. We dare not burn, kill, and loot on a large scale, but we continue to loot on a small scale. The Yangzhou prefect is exhausted and has repeatedly failed. We suspect there is an insider."
