Borrow the day to change the day

() "Because if they don't do this, the price of the new salt is lower than the cost of their old salt, and they will not be able to compete with the new salt. Therefore, they need to exchange a lot of grain for salt to reduce their own costs." Zhong Jinwei explained.

These are considered from the perspective of the market economy, which is not common in feudal society. The officials of the imperial court are used to the idea of ​​official standard, simple and direct, so they will consider so much.

"However, there must be a balance between the cost of the new salt lead and the cost of the old salt lead, and the old salt lead holders cannot go bankrupt in large numbers, which will cause strong resistance to the new policy, and may also cause social unrest." Zhong Jinwei said smoothly. , unconsciously took this into consideration.

Wen Tiren listened from the sidelines, stroked his long beard under his forehead, and nodded with a smile. Uncle Zhongxing seemed to have made progress in his life, so he could take this into consideration.

"Are there any other questions?" Zhong Jinwei was like a ringer, waiting for the challenge from the people under the ring.

Bi Ziyan thought for a while, but didn't think of other questions for the time being, so he shook his head.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the reform of the salt administration had almost been sorted out, so he said to the Minister of the Household Department: "Bi Qing, you need to sort out which parts of the country need food as soon as possible, and then give me a list of priorities."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Bi Ziyan quickly agreed.

"Your Majesty, there are still some things to be confirmed." Zhong Jinwei saw that everyone was fine, so he asked questions by himself.

"Oh, Master Zhong, please tell me." Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhong Jinwei to continue as soon as he heard that there were still questions.

"The fixed quantity limit, salt price, sales area, etc. need to be determined by professionals. Any deviation may lead to unsatisfactory effects of salt policy reform." Zhong Jinwei proposed an easy neglected issues.

"What is a professional?" Bi Ziyan was more sensitive about this.

"Oh, you don't have to be a professional, that is to say, you have to go through market research first, and know the current salt quantity, inventory, ri production, official salt price, private salt price, price in each region, etc., all of which must be clear , Only in this way, the determined data will be more in line with the interests of all parties, and the reform of the salt administration will achieve the best effect.”

Zhong Jinwei thought of the so-called professionals in ancient times, probably just a few people in charge of salt who slapped their heads and thought about problems.Simply, I changed the way of speaking, hoping to attract the attention of the decision-makers of the DPRK and China to the basic data.

The reason why Zhong Jinwei attaches great importance to it is because he has understood it before.His college classmates are doing game development, and they are very creative, but because they don't pay attention to all kinds of data, the player experience is too bad and they stop playing.Later, after being acquired by another company, it focused on sorting out the data relationship, such as the experience required for character levels, the damage data of various monsters, etc., to achieve the best balance effect, and the game became one of the most popular games that year.

"Your Majesty, this is very important. It is best to have an investigation result before the announcement of the salt policy reform policy." Zhong Jinwei emphasized again.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that Zhong Jinwei was very concerned about this, and he knew it must be important.Therefore, he said strictly to Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Bi Qing, you must arrange for someone to investigate clearly all the matters that Master Zhong said."

Bi Ziyan has always dealt with numbers. Although he doesn't pay as much attention to it as Zhong Jinwei, he still thinks it is very necessary.What's more, the emperor asked, so he quickly agreed.

Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while, and then said to Wang Chengen, the admiral of the Dongchang: "My friend, Dongchang also sent people to conduct an investigation. Finally, it will be combined with the investigation of the Ministry of Households to confirm each other."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Wang Chengen to agree, he turned to Zhong Jinwei and said, "Master Zhong, do you think this arrangement is good?"

"Okay, okay, Your Majesty is wise." Zhong Jinwei felt that Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement was very good, and flattered the emperor sincerely.

"Then, do you have any suggestions for the reform of the salt administration?" Emperor Chongzhen asked everyone.

"Your Majesty, the previous warehouse bills have been falling in price because the court could not pay for the salt. If the court announced that it would increase the production of salt, people who got the news in advance would buy the depreciated warehouse bills, causing the original warehouse bills to be held. Those who suffered serious losses caused dissatisfaction. Therefore, what I mean is that the reform of the salt administration needs to be kept secret. After it is officially implemented, it will be announced in one fell swoop, and it cannot be copied to the residence newspaper first.”

Wen Tiren was very dissatisfied that the things that were still being discussed in the court were copied to the mansion newspaper and spread all over the world, and even military reports from various places were copied all over the world in the first place.Taking this opportunity, Wen Tiren raised the issue of confidentiality.

This is the first time Zhong Jinwei has heard that major events discussed in the ancient court will be reported at any time.This Daming is too advanced!

So, Zhong Jinwei asked Wen Tiren what happened.Wen Tiren expressed all his dissatisfaction.

Zhong Jinwei was taken aback. No one with a brain would do this.Some are state secrets, how can they be spread all over the world?

In fact, Zhong Jinwei didn't know that the Confucian scholars in the opposition were unwilling to be lonely, and often commented on the government and state policies.One is to raise prestige, the other is to gather popularity and form gangs.The most outrageous thing is that it is said that in the later period of Emperor Chongzhen, "Fushe" put Zhou Yanru back into the position of chief assistant, and then provided a list to let him exclude dissidents from the court.Therefore, there is a folk saying that there were two emperors in the Chongzhen Dynasty, one in the Forbidden City and the other in the southeast.

With such a huge demand for news, there have been many people who sell news, and the speed is more important.In addition, the civil official group and the Confucian scholars in the opposition are inextricably linked. Once they come and go, the news that the Emperor Chongzhen has not known may be leaked by the officials who dealt with it.

The famous phrase of the Donglin Party members, "Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, and everything is concerned." It is not without background.But these people often have no political experience or practical experience, they can only talk verbally, and they don’t have to take responsibility, so they mess up public opinion and affect officials in the court. The prestige was able to enter the court and become an official, and this bad habit was brought into the court.In the end, it was full of civil and military affairs, and there were not many people who could do practical things.

Zhong Jinwei thinks that this kind of situation is a good thing in the mature min zhu society of later generations, which have the needs of their own political party programs and represent a class and a region.

But now in the Ming Dynasty, there is only a certain percentage of people who are literate.Those in opposition represent a very small number of people, or simply criticize the government indiscriminately for their own future interests.Become a character who is not enough to succeed, but has more than nothing to do.

But it cannot be denied that this is a budding of later generations of political parties. Zhong Jinwei’s thinking diverged from Wen Tiren’s words, and he thought a little too much. He decided to go back and sort it out, and see how to guide it would be better.

However, the secrecy of policy and military situation must be said, so he said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I also think that what Wen Ge said is reasonable. There is one thing that needs special attention here, that is, policy and military situation." And other similar very important news, you need to keep it confidential."

Emperor Chongzhen began to listen attentively to Zhong Jinwei's speech.

"Your Majesty, for example, if I am a prisoner, I only need to send a few secret agents to the capital, or in the territory of Daming. You can read the mansion newspaper, and you will know the trend of the Ming court and the military situation in various places. It is easy to do. Know yourself and know your enemy. How can the soldiers in the front fight against the Jian captives?"

This is an exaggeration, but the importance of intelligence cannot be denied.

"Also, which big salt merchants have money. After hearing the details of the reform of the salt policy that are being discussed now, and knowing that it is not good for them, will they pay to bribe courtiers to influence this policy, or modify it, or oppose it. This situation is possible Will it happen?"

Emperor Chongzhen knew that among his courtiers, few of them were disciplined about silver bullet attacks.So, he said: "Okay, Master Zhong, I understand this point. This matter needs to be kept secret first. In addition, next time I will discuss a confidentiality regulation with the six ministers and the cabinet ministers to keep all kinds of things confidential." Classification, Master Zhong, do you think this is appropriate?"

There is no stupid person, and everyone in the court can infer other things from one instance.Of course Zhong Jinwei had no objection.

Wen Tiren was also very happy to see his proposal passed, and the result was better than he thought, thanks to Zhong Jinwei's push.

Now that the discussion on this matter is over, Wen Tiren said to Emperor Chongzhen again: "Your Majesty, I have one more thing to say about the policy of reforming the salt administration."