Jiang Lin said loudly: "Master Hou, what are you going to do?"
Liu Haojia said: "It's very simple! We are planning to set a fixed price for salt in the future based on the production cost price plus tax and a small amount of profit, and then sell it! There is no need for salt at all, who will buy it? You can sell the salt! This way you can prevent the above situation from happening!"
Jin Pu heard this and said loudly: "Wonderful! In the past, the court's salt tax was added to the sale, but now the Marquis has included it in the cost of salt. As long as you buy salt, you have to pay tax to the court, so there will be no Tax evasion has occurred!"
Wu Jifeng also nodded and said: "It's more than that! If Mr. Hou can abolish the salt supply, there will be many people selling salt, so the price of salt everywhere will not be so high! In this way, those who sell private salt will With no room for survival, the common people will be able to eat cheaper salt!"
Jin Pu frowned at this time and said: "To complete the Marquis' plan, the amount of salt required is not a small amount! Marquis, can your current salt farm support such a huge output?"
At this time, Liu Haojia waved to the back and saw a man emerge from the crowd. He walked to the table and saluted Liu Haojia. Only then did the scholars see clearly that the person who suddenly appeared was a man dressed as a eunuch. They couldn't help but feel a little strange, and many even had disdainful expressions on their faces.
However, Liu Haojia pretended not to see it and introduced directly: "This man's name is Zhang Zhi. He is the minister in charge of the palace. He is now responsible for the operation of the Tianjin Salt Farm. You can ask him to explain to you the current and future development plans of the salt farm. And Now the salt farm is an inner-court property, and it will require a lot of manpower after expansion!"
The reason Liu Haojia said this was because he had begun to seduce these scholars to join the work of the salt field. Although these scholars all hope that someone will be born in a righteous way, judging from their level, except for Jin Pu, who has already obtained their status, most of them will probably just be a scholar in their lifetime! It is extremely difficult for a person to enter the officialdom!
But there is another channel that allows them to easily enter the officialdom, and that is to become an inner court official! The so-called inner court officials are officials who specialize in serving the royal family and are also officials officially recognized by the court! As long as they become inner court officials, they have entered the officialdom! And if you have the opportunity in the future, you can also be transferred to a local official.
It's just that the number of inner court officials is relatively small now, and most of them are directly occupied by eunuchs who came from the inner study room. Moreover, many scholars are unwilling to serve in the inner court because they feel it would be a loss of status, so this path is very narrow!
But things are different here in Zhang Zhi! Because the inner court had no interest in the salt farm business from the beginning, it only arranged for seven people to come over, which can be said to have left a lot of space! Especially after the salt farm is expanded and expanded according to Liu Haojia's plan, its status will definitely increase year by year!
Therefore, if these scholars do not occupy their seats as soon as possible, those seats will be taken away by people from the inner court when the people from the inner court come to their senses. And Liu Haojia never wanted these positions to be occupied by people from the inner court. Because the people in the inner court are not of the same mind as him!
The eunuchs in the inner court are either Feng Bao's subordinates, Zhang Jia's confidants, or other people's godsons and grandsons, but they always have little to do with him! And Liu Haojia needed to hold the salt field completely in his hands, which required many people who were not from the inner court, so he began to seduce these people who were not from the imperial court or even scholars!
And just as Liu Haojia guessed, the temptation of becoming an official is very powerful for these people! After Liu Haojia said his last words, many people's eyes lit up. It seemed that they understood Liu Haojia's hint!
These people have been wasting their time in the capital for many years and have almost given up on the way to enter the imperial examination. Now that you have the opportunity to become an inner court official, it is also a way to get ahead! What's more, once the position is secured, and then the Marquis can be asked to help him become a local official, he will be considered a successful person!
At this time, Zhang Zhi raised his hands to everyone and said, "Everyone, our family is polite here!"
Seeing Zhang Zhi salute, others returned the salute one after another. After a few polite words, Zhang Zhi had the drawings of the salt farm hung up! In the entire plan, the future salt farm will be seven times larger than the current one, enough to meet the salt demand in the area north of the Yangtze River! And Zhang Zhi has already taken the time to draw up the plan!
Sure enough, when the scholars saw it
So excited about such a huge plan! Because looking at the scale on the drawings, a lot of officials are needed. Then they slowly listened to Zhang Zhi's introduction of the current situation and future plans.
But less than a quarter of an hour after Zhang Zhi's introduction, someone suddenly shouted loudly from far outside the courtyard gate: "Master Marquis, please be merciful and don't hurt those scholars! They all belong to the country." A pillar of strength!"
Then a figure burst open the door and rushed in! As for Liu Haojia, she already guessed who it was when she heard his shout, and secretly grinned involuntarily! In fact, he didn't want to laugh at first, but he couldn't help it! Fortunately, everyone's attention was not on him, so they didn't notice his smile!
The person who rushed in was Wei Sining, the county magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture! However, this county magistrate is a newcomer who has just been in office for less than a year. The previous county magistrate cooperated with Liu Haojia to collect taxes in the capital city, made enough money by dividing the spoils, and then bribed Shangguan and then became a local magistrate!
When he was transferred to a local magistrate under the restriction of appointment, he was also reluctant to let go. It was because he was given too much money! But there is another saying in official circles: "Three lives of misfortune, the county magistrate will be attached to Guo; three lives of evildoers, he will be attached to the provincial capital of Guo; if he is full of evil, he will be attached to the capital of Guo!"
The so-called "magistrate is attached to Guo" means that the magistrate and the magistrate are in the same city. In this way, his every move will be controlled by the superior officials. He is completely exhausted and loses the prestige of a "parent official". As for the "Fuguo Provincial City", it means that the county magistrate, prefect, and governor are all in the same city, so the restrictions are even greater! Needless to say, Fu Guo Jingcheng is full of powerful people, and no one can afford to offend him!
So anyone who can sit firmly in this position in Shuntian Mansion is either an extremely smart person, an extremely profound background, or an extremely unlucky person! After all, no one likes to have thousands of people directing everything, nor does anyone like to kowtow to everyone!
But since Liu Haojia started collecting taxes, this job has become a fat job! The previous county magistrate felt that his background was not strong enough to secure his position, so he took the initiative to make room for someone else! So he spent a sum of money to work as a free official somewhere!
