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Chapter 280 Solve the problem of people eating salt
During the Song Dynasty, industry and commerce developed rapidly, and various trading towns sprung up like mushrooms, and the earliest banknotes used in the world - "Jiaozi" appeared in Sichuan.In the major cities of the Song Dynasty, teahouses, restaurants, smoking, and street corner vendors intertwined into an unprecedentedly prosperous civic culture. The song lyrics with great literary value in the singing and dancing jubilation lasted for a long time, and a large number of familiar names emerged among them.

Next, Jiang Chen will vigorously develop industry, foreign trade, agriculture and cultural industries.

This is an era when supply is less than demand, an era when supplies are scarce, and even entertainment is scarce.

So Jiang Chen must vigorously develop the economy and cultural industries.

Although the agricultural tax has now been abolished, the commercial tax has been increased, especially the tax on foreign trade.

Minerals and salt are under the unified management of the state. Now it is necessary to adjust the price of salt so that everyone can afford it.

There are two main reasons for the high price of salt in ancient times: one is the high cost of salt production and transportation; the other is the high salt tax and the monopoly of officials and businessmen.

[-]. High extraction cost: In ancient China, salt was boiled with sea water.

Calculating taxes and granting salt makes people lose money, and the government suppresses the allocation of salt, and the salt money is paid together with the two taxes in summer and autumn.The salt class is based on the amount of money produced by a small amount of salt, and the salt is converted into money.At the same time, the government bought salt lands for sale, and salt farmers also levied taxes on selling private salt, which was called floating salt money.

Therefore, there are comprehensive reasons for the high price of salt in ancient times.

Illegal salt refers to table salt that is produced, transported, and sold privately in violation of relevant government prohibitions.The emergence and proliferation of private salt is usually closely related to the government's salt policy, especially the salt monopoly policy.Generally speaking, in the period when table salt was freely produced, transported and sold by the people, there was no official salt monopolized by the government, and naturally there was no such thing as private salt. Therefore, private salt can be said to be a salt monopoly system to a certain extent ( policy) as a direct product.

So something as important as salt must be controlled by the government.

In order to solve the cost problem of salt.

The production of sea salt generally adopts the sun-drying method, also called "beach-drying method", which is to use coastal beaches to build dams to open up salt fields, attract seawater to fill ponds by absorbing tides and pumping water, and then evaporate into brine after sunshine evaporation. When the temperature is 25 degrees, sodium chloride is precipitated, which is the original salt.The production of raw salt by solarization has the advantages of energy saving and low cost. However, due to the influence of geography and climate, it is impossible to build salt pans on all coastal tidal flats and to solarize salt in all seasons.The air is dry, the sunshine is long, and the evaporation is large, so the yield of salt is high, otherwise, the yield is low.In the northern saltworks of our country, only March to November is the season for drying salt.

The raw salt is produced by the sun drying method, and its technological process is generally divided into four major processes: moisture absorption, brine making, crystallization, and salt collection.

Jiang Chen announced the method of making salt that he knew.

The government agencies that control salt should focus on inspecting corruption and illegal salt.

For this reason, Jiang Chen specially assigned the Audit Bureau to settle in these departments to investigate the accounts of these departments.

What Jiang Chen hopes to do is to sell salt at the cost price, so that the pressure on ordinary people to eat salt can be reduced a lot.

It was very difficult to do reform in ancient times. It was not easy for someone as strong as Jiang Chen, let alone other kings.

Jiang Chen can only try his best to change the system of this country and create a country with a high sense of happiness.

Moreover, Jiang Chen wants to publicize that the Chinese nation is the most outstanding nation in the royal newspaper, so that future generations will have a sense of superiority as a Chinese, and will not worship foreigners.

Ethnic individuals judge other groups to be related to their own group or culture, especially language, behavior, customs, and religion.This sense of ethnic superiority defines each ethnic group's unique cultural identity.Attachment to in-groups, in-group preference over out-groups, should be a universal feature of human social life.

Only by always instilling a sense of national superiority in the people, so that the people will not have the idea of ​​slavery.

Jiang Chen is building a relatively equal society.

Jiang Chen told his son about his ideal, and let his son become the emperor to work hard towards this direction.

Jiang Chen knew that he could only create a foundation, and this wish could not be realized in his generation or even in his son's generation, it could only be achieved by several generations working together.

Jiang Chen told his son this wish, hoping that his son would tell his son this wish and pass it on from generation to generation.

Of course, Jiang Chen can't see what will happen in the future, he can only do well in front of him, at least leave his name in history.

Lu Hanyan and the others are going to give birth in two months. It's really a blessing to have more children.

I just don't know if there will be brothers fighting for the throne in the future, and I hope this will never happen.

There is no war in the country now, and now it is time to restore the economy and maintain social stability.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there are still ten days left.

Just when Jiang Chen finished his official duties, he suddenly heard a report that Guo Jing and his wife had come to the palace.

Jiang Chen immediately got up to meet them, he hadn't seen them for a long time.

When I came to Guo Fu's palace, I not only saw Guo Jing and his wife, but also surprised to see Yang Guo and his wife.

How long has passed, and they have heard nothing from them, and now they finally know to come and see themselves.

"Greetings, master and mother!"

"Meet the emperor..."

They wanted to kneel down, but Jiang Chen couldn't kneel down while supporting them with both hands.

"Master and mother, don't be too polite, we are a family."

"Long time no see, Chen'er, your skill is getting more and more unfathomable."

"This time you are here, you must stay for the New Year."

"That's exactly what we mean."

"Brother Yang, you have been a fairy couple for so long, and you are enviable."

Yang Guo was embarrassed to scratch his head.

"We think that you have a lot of things to do when you are the emperor, and you don't have time to care about our little things."

"Bullshit, the emperor is not busy all day long, he doesn't even have time to read your letters."

"Ha ha……"

Instruct the imperial dining room to cook more delicious food. In the evening, except for Mo Chou, everyone sits down and eats together.

Sometimes Jiang Chen felt wronged by Mo Chou, but Mo Chou felt that he was very good, compared to the bloody life before, he was much better now.

She only cares about whether the child and Jiang Chen still love her, other things can be ignored.

It is worth mentioning that there is no news about Hong Lingbo so far, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead.

In the evening, many people sat together, and there were more than 100 dishes in total, which was an eye-opener for Guo Jing and the others.

"Master and mother, please don't misunderstand. You are the ones here today, and the food is so rich. Usually it is just a few dishes. I am very opposed to waste and extravagance."

"That's good. Judging from the current situation, Chen'er, you, the emperor, have done better than I imagined."

"Yes, now the people outside are praising your merits."

"Actually, if someone praises me, someone scolds me, as long as you have a clear conscience."

Sitting next to Huang Rong, Guo Fu looked like a child who couldn't grow up. They were very satisfied to see their daughter doing well.

(End of this chapter)