Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Chu Xianzhang mentioned Zheng Yuanxun.

Zhu Wanhua's expression changed and he couldn't help but look around.

His face was full of panic.

Today at noon, he came to Zuimanlou for dinner, but was brought here by a servant.

Zhu Wanhua naturally knew that not only the top floor, but also the four floors below were all Eunuch Chu's people.

Even so, Zhu Wanhua still looked around.

This shows how much energy is behind Zheng Yuanxun's incident!

After confirming again that no one was around, Zhu Wanhua sighed:

"The general understands what the Governor means."

Zhu Wanhua understood what Chu Xianzhang wanted to say.

——There are bad people in Yangzhou!

Zheng Yuanxun was beaten to death in order to raise military pay.

Who is the beneficiary behind this matter?

Qing court!

If Zheng Yuanxun had succeeded and collected military pay for the army - Dorgon would have burned incense if he had not been attacked by the Ming army, not to mention attacking Yangzhou!

Once Zheng Yuanxun was killed, no one mentioned the matter of donating military salary.

The final beneficiary was the Qing court!

To put it more clearly - there are people from the Qing army in Yangzhou City!

Moreover, he can still kill Zheng Yuanxun, the leader of the salt industry in the country!

In other words - those people are within the group of salt merchants!

They must all be top figures who directly compete with Zheng Yuanxun!

This is inevitable.

People don’t need to eat grain, and wild vegetables can survive.

Who dares not to eat salt?

Without salt, it would be fatal!

Donglu are all barbarians. Not to mention drying salt, they can't even boil salt!

After so many years of rebellion, who supplied Donglu’s salt?

The largest salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty were all in Yangzhou!

Yangzhou monopolized [-]% of the Ming Dynasty’s salt ration!

Then, the group of people who supplied salt to Donglu must be among the group of Yangzhou salt merchants!

He is Donglu's old friend!

Zheng Yuanxun wanted to raise military funds to fight against the Donglu, but could he survive?

Zhu Wanhua's face looked extremely ugly.

Isn’t this the same as Shanxi merchants!

Isn’t this the same as Yuandudu?

He understood everything Chu Xianzhang meant.

Zhu Wanhua immediately said:

"What the Governor means is - there is nothing to worry about the Qing army outside the city. What needs to be guarded against is the salt merchants and gentry in the city!"

Chu Xianzhang glanced at Zhu Wanhua approvingly:

"A few days ago, I told you to return to your father-in-law.

But you insist on staying here, saying that you want to protect the governor. "

Chu Xianzhang patted Zhu Wanhua on the shoulder.

This kid foolishly found him a few days ago and told him that Yangzhou was too dangerous and asked him to leave quickly.

Chu Xianzhang laughed at that time.

There is no guarantee that the manpower he deployed in Yangzhou could completely annihilate the Qing army.

However, it was easy to kill half of Dorgon's men and save Yangzhou.

This child is already on the list of His Majesty's ministers who must protect him.

And you care about him so much. This kid is a loyal person!

Now that this child has shown his mentality, let him leave this den of right and wrong.

Therefore, Chu Xianzhang ordered Zhu Wanhua to return to Zhu Dadian.

Who would have known that this guy actually told him that the Yangzhou War was about to begin, and he had given up civil service and embraced martial arts. Since he was a military general, he had to protect Governor Chu's safety.

Just this sentence made Chu Xianzhang feel endless warmth in his heart.

No wonder this person's name was on the list the emperor gave him.

I have been in Jiangnan for so long and have seen so much darkness in people’s hearts. How have I ever seen such a pure person?

Based on his words, Chu Xianzhang would protect this child as long as he didn't die.

Zhu Wanhua naturally didn't know what Chu Xianzhang was thinking.

He scratched his head naively:

"Duke, please stop making fun of me.

At that time, little one knew that there was such a powerful army hidden in the Du Gong business!

Speaking of which, they are all just boys who are blinded by a leaf and do not realize that the true God is right in front of them.

I still think that the crooked melons and cracked jujubes under the boy are still a powerful force! "

Chu Xianzhang was noncommittal and returned to what happened just now:

"Since the salt merchants are going to take this step, all the consequences will be their own fault!"

Zhu Wanhua raised his eyebrows:

"The Governor wants to take action against the salt merchants?"

"Ha ha!

I am just a hawk dog beside the emperor. "

Chu Xianzhang smiled:

"Long live the Lord has already made his decision.

Your Majesty means - there will be no shioiki system in the future. "

"No Shiohiki?"

Zhu Wanhua was stunned.

Subconsciously, he was about to say - in this case, the court's already low tax revenue would be reduced by several hundred thousand taels!

However, in the next moment, he suddenly realized.

The Lianghuai Transportation Department stipulated by the imperial court originally had only 67 taels of silver in tax revenue every year.

Even if three rates were increased, there would only be 156 million taels of silver.

(Note: This is the prescribed amount of salt tax. In fact, the tax for escorting people to Beijing is discounted.)

And which Yangzhou salt merchant’s property doesn’t amount to tens of millions?

What's more, the emperor has established a Hanjiang business group, with a daily income of tens of thousands!

Naturally, he looked down upon Yan Yin's small money.

Zhu Wanhua was wrong.

He thought that the emperor who had become rich no longer looked down on the small amount of salt tax.

Little did he know that what the emperor wanted was to cut off the roots!

The emperor is going to flip the table!

"What do you need salt for?"

Chu Xianzhang sneered:

“Since they all cry about poverty, they say they have no money, and they say that Long Live the Lord cannot compete with the people for profit.

Then flip the table!

From now on, there will be no more Shiohiki system!

You are in Jiangnan, but you don’t know that the New Deal implemented by His Majesty does not have a system of salt introduction and salt merchants.

The Emperor has already made it clear to the world that all walks of life, as long as they are not criminals, can rush to the salt field, buy salt, and traffic the place.

The imperial tax was only collected from the salt fields where salt was produced and the shops where it was sold.

If a peddler wants to sell salt, he must buy it from a shop. Otherwise, if the anti-smuggling team inspects the salt, he will be severely fined.

As for the intermediate transshipment link, there is no tax. "

The cement has been made, but the salt merchants still have trouble?

On the long coastline of the Ming Dynasty, there are many places where you can bask in salt!

Build more salt fields and the output will be endless!

If the salt merchants want to crack this problem, in addition to rebellion, they need to swallow the salt produced with real money.

Then he kept it in his hands and did not sell it to the outside world, so as to force the people to rebel and intimidate the emperor.

With cement and an army, the emperor is still afraid of salt merchants hoarding goods?

Just let them go and stock up on salt.

If they save one stone, they will burn two stones!

There will come a day when they can’t eat anymore!

The emperor often said something - in the industrial age, all materials are getting cheaper and cheaper.

Ways to collect strange things...

He lost all his pants!

As long as we keep an eye on the salt fields and prevent private salt drying, we won’t be able to get a penny out of the salt tax!

……

“Then doesn’t it mean that everyone can be a salt merchant?”

Zhu Wanhua's expression changed.