Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 623 Xuyi
Di Renjie looked at Zeng Tai strangely, and called, "Dude."

The guy hummed, but still didn't move.

Di Chun said: "It's really strange, is this guy sick?"

As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the ear of the clerk, and shouted, "Hi!"

The guy jumped up in fright: "What are you doing!"

Di Chun smiled and said, "I thought you were deaf, but you can hear!"

The man said angrily, "You are deaf!"

Di Chun was annoyed and funny: "I've traveled all over the world, and I've never seen a business like yours. All the customers have come in, and you're still leaning there to dry your lice.

Fortunately, your boss can still hire you. If it were different, I would have kicked you out! "

The clerk gave Di Chun a sideways look and said, "I am the boss."

Di Chun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and the others couldn't help laughing.

Di Renjie smiled and said: "Boss, we want to take a break with you and rest. If you are tired, tell the chef to get us some side dishes and two jugs of light wine."

The owner of the store gave Di Chun a look: "Look at how good this old man can talk, and look at you, a dog can't spit out ivory!"

Di Chun laughed and said, "Even if there is ivory in my dog's mouth, it won't spit it out to you."

The shop owner also smiled: "Okay, so you guys are going to be sharp, I thought it was a passerby asking for water again. Old man, what would you like to eat?"

Di Renjie said with a smile: "Arrange any side dishes as long as you can eat enough."

The shop owner nodded and said, "Then I'll go down and make arrangements."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Boss, I want to ask you, is this the county seat of Xuyi?"

The boss nodded and said, "Yes!"

Di Renjie and Zeng Tai looked at each other and said, "Why is the city so depressed?"

The boss sighed and said, "It's a long story, so I'll get you some food first, and I'll talk to you while you're eating."

Di Renjie nodded with a smile.

The boss turned and walked back.

Zeng Tai said: "It's really strange that Xuyi, located at the confluence of two rivers, is so depressed!"

Lu Jiying said: "Could it be that the county magistrate of Xuyi misadministered the government?"

Di Renjie said: "Seeing that all businesses in this city are ruined, businesses are closed, and shops are listed, something important must have happened."

At this time, only a burst of gongs sounded in the distance, followed by loud shouts.

Di Renjie was taken aback, exchanged glances with Zeng Tai, and they stood up and walked out the door.

On the empty street, a group of yamen servants escorted two heavily tied middle-aged men from a distance, and the leader of the yamen servants blew the gong while shouting loudly: "Listen, all the people, Yanxiao Wang San and Du Si, Disrespecting the imperial court's laws and selling salt and three stones privately, was sentenced to death by the county magistrate!
All the people should take this as a warning and cannot imitate it! "

The yamen servants escorted Yan Xiao and blew a gong all the way to warn them to walk through the street, but no one on the street opened their doors to come out to have a look.

Di Renjie looked at the backs of the yamen servants, but did not speak.

Di Chun, who was behind him, said in amazement: "Selling three shi of illegal salt will be punished by death, which is too cruel!"

The owner of the store also stood behind at some point, snorting in his nose and said: "I knew to catch the salt dealer, and when the salt dealer is caught, I don't know what will happen to Xuyi!"

As he said that, he turned angrily into the store, put two jugs of wine on the table, and turned back into the kitchen.

Di Renjie waved his hand, and everyone returned to the store and sat down.

Di Renjie said to Di Chun and several guards: "Di Chun, you don't know that salt and iron have been monopolized by the imperial court since ancient times, and private manufacture and sale by the people is absolutely prohibited."

Di Chun asked, "Then why?"

Di Renjie explained patiently: "One of the reasons is that these two incomes account for about half of the world's regular taxes every year."

Di Chun asked incomprehensibly, "What is regular tax?"

Zeng Tai who was on the side said: "The so-called regular tax refers to all the income paid to the national treasury by all states and counties in the world within one year."

Di Chun stuck out his tongue: "It's amazing! I can't imagine that the salt we eat every day is so valuable!"

Di Renjie nodded and said: "It is precisely because salt is necessary for human beings to eat every day, and the purchase volume is extremely huge, so it is so valuable."

Di Chun said: "Not bad, not bad. Whoever gets into this business can make a fortune."

Zeng Tai said with a smile: "This is the reason why the state wants to monopolize the sale of salt and iron."

Di Renjie nodded: "Controlling salt and iron is only one aspect for the imperial court.

Most importantly, once salt and iron are in private hands, it may threaten national security.

For example, if you are the owner of a salt farm, when the world is suffering from natural disasters and wars, and there is a shortage of salt, you hoard it and sell it at a high price to make huge profits, but the court cannot control it, and the people of the world will suffer. "

Di Chun nodded.

"Therefore, the imperial court brought all the salt fields in the world under the control of the government, and set up a salt and iron transfer envoy to specialize in this matter.

Every year, the table salt produced by various saltworks across the country is exclusively sold by merchants designated by the imperial court, and other sales channels are privately sold.

Moreover, the imperial court formulated a special salt law for this purpose, prohibiting the sale of private salt.

The Salt Law stipulates: "The person who steals two pools of salt and three stones will die, and the spine of the stick with more than five buckets will lose his cart and donkey."

Stealing a bucket of alkaline soil is worth one liter of salt...'

It means that whoever steals or buys and sells three stones of salt will be punished with death.

The spine of the stick with more than five buckets was confiscated, and the cart and donkey that transported illegal salt was confiscated.

Stealing a bucket of alkaline earth used for salt making is equivalent to stealing a liter of private salt. "

Di Chun sighed: "Good guy, no wonder those two salt lords were sentenced to death just now."

Di Renjie sighed and said: "Yes, selling salt is hugely profitable, so many people are willing to take risks in order to obtain huge profits."

Di Chun nodded and said, "That's right."

Before the words were finished, the shop owner brought the fried dishes to the table, took out a pair of chopsticks from the bib in front of him, and wiped them back and forth on his clothes.

Di Chun smiled and said, "Okay, okay, you can keep it clean if you don't wipe it."

Everyone laughed.

Di Renjie also laughed and said, "Are you hungry? Eat quickly!"

Zeng Tai picked up the chopsticks and put a mouthful of the dish into his mouth, but before he could swallow it, he retched and spat out the dish.

Lu Jiying and Di Chun next to them were also normal, opening their mouths and spitting the vegetables on the ground.

Di Renjie asked strangely: "What's wrong?"

Di Chun looked at the shop owner and said, "I said, you're saving too much, you don't even put salt in your cooking!"

Di Renjie was stunned, and hurriedly put the food in his mouth, and it turned out surprisingly light.

The shop owner said with a smile: "I'm sorry everyone, it's the season of light food, there is no salt, everyone can make do with it!"

Di Chun slammed his chopsticks on the table, stood up and said, "Are you doing it on purpose? You don't even have salt and you open a shop, who would believe it!"

Zhang Huan and Li Lang on the side also stood up angrily and stared at the shopkeeper.

Seeing this battle, the shop owner hurriedly said: "To tell you the truth, our people here have lived without salt for two years.

I said young man, don't stare, if you leave my door, let alone salt, you don't even have a place to eat food. "

Di Chun and the others were stunned and looked at each other.

　Thanks for the reward from the heart, the heart, the heart, and the start, and the support of the brothers!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)