Now that the Chinese New Year has just passed, he finally has some free time, and the Tongzhengsi also wrote the memorials of the year.

When he saw these two question books, Zhu Youxiao discovered that the problem of salt monopoly was not solved as he imagined because of the outline.

The "Huai and Guangdong dispute" was caused by the Ming Dynasty's salt law system for the division of salt in the salt law. The so-called division of salt is divided into several major salt areas across the country, and it is stipulated that only official salt marketing is allowed and limited to their respective salt areas.

At that time, the government stipulated that the southern part of Huguang, where Huai salt should be purchased, was because the distance was long and the transportation was not smooth. It was very close to Guangdong, where salt had nowhere to be sold, which formed a very embarrassing situation.

In the second year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty government approved the long-established Guangsal to be sold out of the province, and then Hunan began to buy Guangsal.

However, although the approval of the imperial court solved the cross-border sales of broad salt, the official salt was expensive and difficult to compete with the relatively low-priced private salt, and it caused strong dissatisfaction among the governments in the two Huaihe River areas.

In the third year of Zhengde, Ji'an Prefecture reselled Huai salt. Later, the governor of Nangan requested to expand the sales scope of Guangshen in the Huai area on the grounds of raising military rations, but was forced to terminate the sales scope of Guangshen in the Huai area due to opposition from the governor of Jiangxi.

Since then, the central government and local governments, local governments, local governments, and various forces have mediated or played against each other in order to seek their own interests, resulting in the "Huai-Guangdong dispute" that was barely resolved in history until Chongzhen ascended the throne.

The so-called forced solution is just a compromise between the government or balance of the local government, in order to collect salt courses, but it does not completely solve the disadvantages.

In fact, according to normal thinking, you can think of the disadvantages of salt division sales. That is, the marginal areas of the salt area must cost more, which is far from the salt production area!

However, the competition among official salts is not only for private salts, which has led to repeated bans on private salts, and the water here is deeper.

Zhu Youxiao thought that management cumbersome and official exploitation were definitely important reasons. The development and growth of private salt must be the shadow of some powerful and powerful bureaucrats behind it.

Let’s talk about the “China-Guangdong dispute”. Is it really a struggle between the two major salt districts to complete the country’s salt classes? Or is it a local bureaucrat who wants to use this to seek personal gain? I’m afraid there are those who count, which is an extremely complex game.

Originally, after Yuan Shizhen introduced the outline, the salt administration of Lianghuai had improved a lot. Zhu Youxiao felt that there was no need to bother too much, so he focused on doing important things well.

But now it seems that this matter is not too urgent, and it cannot be delayed for too long. After all, the She'an Rebellion has not been settled yet. In southern Jiangxi and Hunan need to ensure the logistics supply of the Ming army, and it is not negligible.

"The person who came, please call Liu Ruoyu here." Zhu Youxiao had read two questions and was not very clear about the crux of the problem, so he ordered the palace servant to summon Liu Ruoyu.

When the time was not long, Liu Ruoyu rushed to the study. Zhu Youxiao asked him to find the question book of Yuan Shizhen's proposal and prepare to study it carefully.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao ordered the palace servants to find Li Qiyuan, the Minister of Revenue, and asked him to send officials familiar with the salt administration to the palace for inquiries.

Liu Ruoyu's efficiency is very high, which shows that he is very attentive to sort out the memorials of the question book, and soon presented Yuan Shizhen's question book.

The outline was able to make the salt administration in Lianghuai pay millions of taels of silver every year. Zhu Youxiao also knew that it was continued by the Qing Dynasty, so he did not study it in depth.

After obtaining the specific implementation plan of the outline, Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Ruoyu to read and talk. He slowly drank tea and his mind began to run rapidly.

In the early Ming Dynasty, salt monopoly implemented the "Kaizhongfa", which was to ask merchants to purchase materials urgently needed by the state and transport them to designated places. The government issued "salt turbulence", and merchants used "salt turbulence" to support salt in the salt field, and then sold salt in designated areas.

This was originally a policy that each took the necessary one, and both sides benefited, and there was no big inappropriateness.

However, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, in order to gain more wealth from salt monopoly, the court ignored the balance of production and sales and spread salt to attract more salt.

The consequence is that after the merchant gets the salt, there is no salt to cover when he goes to the salt field, and the salt accumulation and stagnation occurs. This problem is most prominent in Lianghuai.

At the same time, the government's treatment of salt farms has also been reduced again and again. Some salt farm owners took risks and sold salt to private salt dealers to make huge profits.

As a result, official salt was congested and private salt was prevalent, so salt tax was difficult to guarantee. The tax supervisor first borrowed salt tax from salt merchants, and then developed to pre-examination of salt tax.

The capital of salt merchants was thus occupied for a long time, and the operating costs increased. In the 43rd year of Wanli, the government forcibly controlled the salt prices at ports (Hankou), forcing some salt merchants to flee at a loss, and the market fell into chaos.

By the 44th year of Wanli, that is, eighty or nine years ago, the tax on the Lianghuai salt was suspended for two and a half years. When many people thought that the salt administration of the Lianghuai salt administration was hopeless, Yuan Shizhen stood up and took on the important task of saving the salt administration of the Lianghuai salt administration.

Yuan Shizhen conducted an in-depth investigation and research on the pros and cons of salt administration at that time, and proposed the "Ten Discussions on Salt Laws" in view of the current situation of salt administration in Lianghuai. He was favored by Emperor Shenzong and appointed the salt administration in Lianghuai and began to rectify the salt administration.

The "Outline" was proposed after Yuan Shizhen arrived in Lianghuai and took office, which was mainly to promote new guises and supplementary guises.

Simply put, the outline is to compile the salt merchants who hold the backlog of salt intakes over the years into ten outlines. Every year, the government exchanges 200,000 old salt intakes to one of the "outlines", which is equivalent to paying off the debt.

At the same time, the government imposed a total of 1.8 million new salt taxes on salt merchants in the other nine "province".

In this way, the country will pay off the debts of a total of 2 million old salts in ten years, and at the same time, it can ensure that new salt taxes are put into the warehouse every year.

Zhu Youxiao raised his hand and signaled Liu Ruoyu to stop first. He had to think about it and digest it. If we talk about this policy alone, it would be a good idea.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youxiao thought there was nothing wrong with it, but the salt merchant seemed to be unprofitable, so why did he agree? With the doubts in his heart, the emperor waved and asked Liu Ruoyu to continue to speak.

After Yuan Shizhen introduced the "Outline", there were indeed not many salt merchants eagerly responding, but most of them were waiting and watching.

Then, Yuan Shizhen introduced the "occupying nest" method to stimulate businessmen.

The so-called "the method of occupying a nest" is based on the current data publication, "stay with all merchants for a hundred years, and be regarded as the home bank", "Every year, the old numbers are listed on the book and sent to the new ones."

In other words, those who are famous in the outline can buy new outlines based on the old outlines in the outline, and then they can go to the designated area to operate salt business. They can also be hereditary, while those who are unknown in the outlines will be excluded.

I'll go! When I heard the word "hereditary", Zhu Youxiao instinctively felt that it was not good. The vassal lords were too big, and it became a heavy financial burden for the Ming Dynasty. Isn't it because of hereditary?
Chapter completed!