Daming reckless man

Chapter 355
Chapter 355

Jiajing is very smart now. At the critical moment, he can't stand up to this kid. Otherwise, this kid will really quit. There is no way, who made this kid have a bad temper, but he is very capable, and Jiajing also knows him personality,

Next, Zhang Hao was sitting there, talking to Jiajing about things in Shanxi, including how to deal with the farmland and salt. Jiajing nodded when he heard it, and then talked about the sale of salt across the country.Zhang Hao also shared his thoughts with Jiajing.

"Your Majesty, I've seen this table salt. It's even higher than the tax. It's too high. The cost of all the salt is less than 5 Wen per catty, but it's sold at 50 Wen per catty, and the profit is nine times that. It's terrible. I Estimated the population of my Ming Dynasty, a total of about 4000,

According to consumption, it is about 4 catties per person per year. In addition, there are people who like to pickle food. I also sent people to do a survey. Ordinary people’s homes are not willing to do so. Only those landlords’ homes and those wealthy businessmen’s homes , they need more,
I asked my mother about it, and my mother said that about 100 catties of salt are needed to pickle things in my house a year. In addition, the army also needs a lot of pickled food. I investigated about 100 wealthy families and got The average quantity delivered is about 20 catties per family.
I calculated the population of their family. The average person is about 2 catties. Calculated according to the population, the salt that needs to be eaten needs about 640 million dan, and the salt that needs to be pickled is estimated to need 200 million dan. This is in line with the statistical data over the years Almost, but this table salt can be said to be a huge consumption in ordinary people's homes, it is too expensive! "Zhang Hao sat there and said to Jiajing.

"Well, it's too expensive, 50 Wen is too expensive?" Jiajing didn't believe it,

Zhang Hao heard it, and said to Jiajing with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, you don't know the price of grain. My Ming's grain costs 15 Wen for a bucket. Ten buckets are a load (stone), that is to say, a load of grain is 150 Wen, and the best annual harvest per mu of Daming’s fertile land is less than two dan.
Every commoner in Daming needs about 4 catties of table salt a year, but many people can’t afford so much and are reluctant, but they still have to buy it. Salt is not enough, that is to say, one person needs a load of salt a year more food in exchange for salt,
A family of six needs almost 9 acres of land to buy food. Even if you save more, you still need to use 4 acres of land in exchange for food. Therefore, what the emperor and minister mean is to reduce the price of salt. Down to 20 Wen a catty, although our profit has dropped by 1000%, but it is still very considerable. After a year of profit, there are almost [-] million taels, which is beneficial to the people! "Zhang Hao sat there and said to Jiajing,

When Jiajing heard this, he thought about it with his hands behind his back. Lu Fang sighed when he heard it, and Jiajing looked at Lu Fang.

"Your Majesty, where are you willing to eat salt? Salt is very expensive. People's homes are not willing to buy it by the catty, but to buy some. I remember that when my family was young, there was very little salt, so I was not willing to eat it!" Lu Fang Standing there, he said to Jiajing.

"If you lower it down to 10 Wen a catty, what's the profit?" Jiajing asked Zhang Hao.

"If 10 Wen is enough, the common people will be willing to buy it. In fact, they can sell more. I estimate that it will not be less than 500 million taels!" Zhang Hao immediately said to Jiajing.

"That's 10 Wen a catty!" Jiajing said with determination.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, on behalf of the people of Ming Dynasty, thank you, Your Majesty, long live my Emperor!" Zhang Hao immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jiajing.

"Zhang Hao, get up!" Jiajing immediately went over to help Zhang Hao up.

"Your Majesty, I knew that this child has the people of Ming Dynasty in his heart!" Lu Fang was also crying and laughing at this moment.

"You handle this matter. I am the emperor of Daming, and I am the head of Daming's family. It is my duty to do this for them. In fact, I should have done this earlier, right? But, I don't know, no Knowing that people’s homes may not even be able to afford salt! I was deceived by them!” Jiajing helped Zhang Hao up and said.

"Hey, anyway, with such a sale, I guess those salt merchants will have no chance even if they want to resist. We just give up the profits to the people, so that the people's lives will be better. If the people live, who can rebel, who dares to rebel? People You're not stupid, life is good, whoever rebels will be courting death!" Zhang Hao said to Jiajing with a smile.

"Well, you give Hu Zongxian an order immediately. The salt is 10 Wen a catty. Those who bought salt from them before can refund them!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes, but it may not be possible, because there is no registration for buying table salt. However, registration may be required in the future. I am worried that those salt merchants will continue to hoard salt, that is, send people to buy our table salt, and then hoard it. At that time, there will be no salt in the market. When the salt was gone, they secretly took it out and sold it, although this is a matter of losing their heads, but for profit, many people will still take risks!" Zhang Hao said to Jiajing, cupping his hands.

"Well, fine, do as you want!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Hao said again, cupping his hands.

"By the way, before Qingming Festival, you are not allowed to leave the capital, just stay in the capital!" Jiajing confessed to Zhang Hao.

"Why? Don't you want to go to Xuanhua?" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing pretending not to understand and asked.

"What's the rush, isn't Xuanhua very good before? There are about 1 taels of tax money every day, and more than 20 taels a month. Don't worry, I want to chat with those princes, I want to see , among them, how many hearts are still in Daming, who of them still remember that they are royal, if they don't remember, then they don't have the qualifications to be princes!" Sitting there, Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes!" Zhang Hao nodded immediately.

"By the way, Governor of Shuntian Mansion, you pick someone and arrange them as soon as possible. There is no need for Governor of Shuntian Mansion to delay your affairs. There is one more thing you have to do, which is Lu Bing's business. Send me into exile." Him! The farther the exile, the better!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Ah, exile Lu Bing, why, what did you find out?" Zhang Hao asked, looking at Jiajing in surprise.

"Why do you say, I was so poor before, and the Shanxi Jin Dynasty was so rich, and they smuggled salt and pig iron, and they distributed tens of millions of taels a year. As for me, I couldn't even get 10 taels. You said he was What the hell did this commander do? He has been lying to me, how can I let him go? If I don't think of his mother as my nanny, I won't keep his life!" Jiajing bit at the moment Gritted his teeth and said.

"Just, that's it?" Zhang Hao heard, looked at Jiajing and asked.

"Isn't that enough?" Jiajing stared at Zhang Hao and asked.

"No, enough is definitely enough, but exile is useless, okay, I'll go and have a look!" Zhang Hao nodded and said, anyway, it's none of his business.

"You deal with it and exile him!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Okay!" Zhang Hao nodded.

"There are no other things. Tell me about the officials who need to go to the local government just now! Lu Fang, please remember!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"No, my majesty, I'm busy!" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing reluctantly and said, Jiajing glared at Zhang Hao.

"Really, I'm so busy, you still find something for me!" Zhang Hao complained over there, but he still walked to the study room,

Lu Fang also smiled and went over to prepare. When Lu Fang was ready, Zhang Hao sat there and talked to Lu Fang,

After Lu Fang finished writing, Zhang Hao went out, and Jiajing looked at it carefully.

"This kid is good. It's not easy to think of these things, and the matter of salt is obviously to re-gather the hearts of the people for you, the emperor! Let the people of the world be able to recuperate!" Sitting there, Lu Fang said to Jiajing.

"Well, this kid has people in his heart. He is different from those civil servants. Those civil servants talk about pleading for the people, but in fact they don't do anything. They say they read sage books, but they never follow the books. There's a lot of male thieves and female whores, and no one is doing it for the common people!" Sitting there, Jiajing scolded, those civil servants were all for their own benefit.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it seems that the profit of table salt is huge. If the people can afford table salt, the people will reduce a lot of expenses and have money to buy food. This is a real benefit, that is, the money is much less! " Lu Fang continued to talk to Jiajing.

"It's okay, it's enough, just one pass in Xuanhua, there are about 200 million taels a year, and this soap workshop is allocated to me every year, so there are 1000 million taels, and the pass is here, wait for me to talk to those princes Well, we will continue to set up in other places. It is estimated that there is a lot of money for these gates, and there are still some domestic taxes. There is no problem in the past few years. Let the people cultivate, otherwise, the world will really It's going to be a big mess!" Jiajing sat there and said,
In fact, he had already calculated it in his heart, knowing that the transfer of this profit would be very beneficial to the stability of Daming's country.

"Yes, Your Majesty. But those princes may not let him go!" Lu Fang continued to remind Jiajing.

"Then try it out!" Jiajing sat there and said with a sullen face.

But at this moment, Zhang Hao went home first, and went straight to Shuntian Mansion Yin with the money. When he arrived at Shuntian Mansion Yin, Zhang Hao didn't find any officials, but Xu Fan was on duty here.

"Well, where are the other officials?" Zhang Hao entered the yamen and asked Xu Fan who was on duty.

"My lord, we're all going down. Spring plowing is about to begin. All the officials are going down to check on the preparations. Everyone is also worried that the officials below will mess around!" Xu Fan stood up and said to Zhang Hao with a smile.

(End of this chapter)