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

Commercial taxes can be deducted by banknotes, [-]% of which can be deducted, agricultural taxes can be deducted, and when buying salt, you can pay banknotes!

Zhu Di even used state power to carry out a large-scale recycling!

Is this special girl just sending out messages but not receiving them?

Isn’t this 720 degrees of nonsense?

In the second year of Yongle, the population of Guangdong, Fujian, and Shandong recovered, even the kitchen households who cooked salt.

When there are more able-bodied men to boil salt, the output of the salt industry will naturally increase.

The quality of the salt here is not very good, and the road is not convenient, so there are very few merchants who come to exchange it.

As soon as there were few merchants, the salt in these three places piled up like mountains.

So, Zhu Di ordered:

"Fujian, Shandong, and Guangdong's transportation departments have accumulated a lot of salt, and they ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to temporarily order people to pay in cash."

In other words, because there was too much salt in these three places, Zhu Di specifically allowed people to take banknotes and go to the three places to buy salt.

Zhu Di's original intention was to solve the problem of salt extrusion in saltworks.

They have stated that this is a temporary measure!

Since it is temporary——

After the inventory is cleared, won't it be abolished?

however……

Zhu Di's career as emperor was spent on horseback in foreign campaigns.

He beat Mongolia to the north, but he could not stop the people's hearts.

His fat son, I don't know if he is really stupid or really smart.

The law enacted by the Ministry of Household Affairs became this——

"The regulations of the Ministry of Household Affairs: Fujian and Shandong salt are paid [-] guan for each salt quotation, and [-] guan for each salt quotation in Guangdong."

The temporary measure has been turned into a national policy by civil servants!

The key is that his fat son, who was praised to the sky, still acquiesced...

In this way, you can exchange the banknotes for salt, so who would bother running towards the border!

Especially the powerful officials in the DPRK.

The originally cumbersome opening of the Chinese method was all hard-earned money.

At most, they could only arrange a few small stewards to do this.

The emperor actually "allowed" salt in banknotes?

What are you waiting for?

Go!

Ordinary merchants are no match for ministers.

Whoever got this thing in the end can guess.

And what about the court?

——The frontier army has less food, and the court has more banknotes.

Zhu Di was busy fighting every day, and memorials were written to him by civil servants.

What was reported in the newspaper was that the government issued too many banknotes. How could anyone tell him the truth?

Even if Zhu Di ordered to stop issuing banknotes in the 19th year of Yongle and tried his best to withdraw banknotes, this problem still could not be solved.

The root of the problem is the interim measure from 20 years ago!

Thinking day and night about how to kill Zhu Di of the Golden Family, how could he find the time to clear up the old accounts from 20 years ago.

The next major event was the food shortage problem of the border troops.

If the border troops are short of food, the country will not be stable.

In fact, if you want to change this problem, you only need to implement the original intention of Zhu Di's imperial edict!

However, at this time, the salt merchant, who could buy salt by paying money, had long since become the personal property of the powerful minister!

This is a huge force!

A power so huge that even Zhu Di didn't dare to touch it!

If this continues, the country will be ruined!

In the 22nd year of Yongle, Zhu Di finally decided to take action on this issue.

Therefore, Zhu Di planned to change the "salt with banknotes" to "salt with banknotes"...

What exactly this reform was, there is no record in the history books.

According to the idea of ​​paying taxes in the Ming Dynasty, it is likely that [-]% of the payment was in banknotes and [-]% in silver, that is, silver and banknotes were paid according to a certain proportion for settlement.

however!

The emperor who touches the big cake will only die!

What a huge benefit!

At this time, the banknotes had been manipulated by civil servants until their value dropped to one-thirtieth of the face value!

In other words - almost all the salt is picked up for free!

This benefit is no less than that of maritime trade!

Just imagine, even if the purchase price and selling price are only twice the difference——

This is a huge profit of 58 times!

58 times!

Wen Chen, don’t go crazy yet!

The emperor wants to touch the wealthy family?

Die you!

then--

In this year, Zhu Di died suddenly during the Northern March.

At this point, the "Law of Paying Grain to Open the Middle Kingdom" and "Law of Paying Cash to Open the Bank of Salt" have become national policies.

The emperor could only compromise, not improve.

Whoever changes will die!

The first time the Kaizhong method was broken was in the early days of orthodoxy.

That is, the past few years since Sanyang was in power.

From the second year to the fifth year of Zhengtong, Sanyang revised the "Kai Zhong Fa" twice in succession when there were fewer and fewer participants in the "Kai Zhong Fa".

Originally, according to the method formulated by Lao Zhu, salt merchants had to rush to the border in person, to the salt field in person, and to the sales area in person.

(This last point is to return Shiobiki and get the next chance to hit the target.)

In other words - Lao Zhu formulated the method of opening the Chinese market into "earning hard-earned money".

If Lao Zhu's method is strictly implemented, the wealthy families will really look down on the profit from playing in France.

Because it’s really – it’s so troublesome!

Just imagine using your feet to walk from the inland to the border area of ​​the Great Wall, then to the coastal salt fields, and then to the inland to sell salt.

This trip will take at least seven or eight months.

Detaining people and eating horse chews——

You can’t even make double the profit!

Do powerful ministers care about this little money?

A Bing Jing or a Carbon Jing, that’s not all!

Not to mention - it disappeared as usual...

Even if it was Zhu Di's negligence, it was still okay to hit the target.

Because the two Zhejiang and Lianghuai salt fields, which have the best salt quality and the most convenient transportation, are not within the scope of "paying money to buy salt".

In other words, the core competitiveness of Kuji merchants is still there.

It's a pity that we encountered the Sanyang era!

Sanyang has extended its reach to other salt farms outside Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong by launching "regular shares", "redeeming payment", "accumulation system" and "payment on behalf of others".

In other words, the main target is the high-quality sea salt from Zhejiang and Huaihe.

This is the most important blow to the foundation of the Kaizhong method!

Because the salt here is the best and it is a highly competitive product that people love to buy!

With this blow, the food problem of the frontier army began to go down in the history books.

What's even more amazing is that Sanyang took away the granary in the hands of the army!

This is really going to kill you!

During the Hongzhi period, Ye Qi once again attacked Kaizhongfa.

He stipulated that salt merchants only need to pay silver to buy salt!

At this point, the opening method was completely ruined.

The existence of subcontracting is a doubling of the court's expenses.

The three melons and two dates that Kuhaha at the bottom got in his hands were paid by the top, but they were based on small targets...

……

Since then, grain prices in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, have started to skyrocket.

Finally, in the 14th year of Chongzhen, it finally reached its historical peak - one pound of miscellaneous grains, one tael of silver!

At the end of Wanli period, Yuan Shizhen adopted the "Cross Outline Law" to make salt merchants a hereditary private inheritance system.

At this point, the salt merchants succeeded each other after their father died, and lived a good life that even the emperor could not live.

So, who are these people who become salt merchants?

Can the miserable businessman Zhang San get this incredible wealth?

I want to eat fart!