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Lin Jiading and Chen Jitai were polite to Li Daoying, and Li Daoying was also polite to them.

He is a fourth-generation student in the military and political class taught by Liu Sheng himself.

I quite understand Liu Sheng's temper and principles of doing things.

He knew that Liu Sheng might be partial to the early Yuan heirs and old subordinates, but he definitely had principles and bottom lines.

Liu Sheng will never tolerate anyone who dares to violate issues of principle or touch the bottom line.

Rectifying the salt industry is the first major government issue for the imperial court this year. Liu Sheng must attach great importance to it. As the local chief official, Li Daoying does not dare to neglect it.

After the Yamen serve tea.

Li Daoying expressed his attitude first.

"You two are on business in Yangzhou this time. If you need my office's cooperation on anything, please feel free to speak up. Within your power and responsibilities, I will never shirk."

Lin and Chen were slightly surprised by Li Daoying's straightforward way of talking.

They had been officials for several years in the former Ming Dynasty and were accustomed to the more euphemistic way of talking in officialdom. Even after entering Dawei, this trend still continued in the officialdom.

But I felt relieved when I thought that Li Daoying was an old man from the Wei tribe and was originally a military and political officer of the Wei army.

As the general office and co-organizer of the "Dawei Huaiyang Salt Company", the two of them work in Huainan and South Zhili provinces, but they choose to go to Yangzhou for business. Naturally, there are places where the Yangzhou government needs to cooperate.

Lin Jiading simply got straight to the point.

"Prefect Li should know that we were ordered to handle errands for the Huaiyang Salt Industry Company. The work area was said to span the two provinces of Huainan and South Zhili, but in fact it involved Huai'an and Yangzhou."

"There are more large and small salt fields of Huaihua Salt in Yangzhou. Therefore, we decided to set up two branches in Yancheng and Rugao, and the head office will be located in Yangzhou..."

When describing some things about the company to Li Daoying, Lin Jiading couldn't help but recall the scene when he played in Tianxin Palace.

He was a native of Putian, Fujian. He was promoted to the imperial examination in the third year of Chongzhen's reign and became a Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign.

The top pick on the same list is Liu Lishun.

However, Lin Jiading's ranking is not high, only ranked 2nd and 52nd.

He successively served as a traveler, county magistrate, and director of the Ministry of Rites, and later moved to become a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Then he went to Beijing to negotiate the Jiujiang tariff.

This pass was one of the ten major banknote passes during the Chongzhen period and was quite important.

At that time, due to the continuous war, the road between Jingxiang and Xiang was blocked by war, and Sichuan and Huguang were impassable by boat. It was difficult to complete the customs duties on time.

However, the imperial court added a tax of 10,000 taels to Jiujiang on the grounds that it had no money to pay salaries to the clan.

From today's perspective, the tax amount of 10,000 taels of silver is nothing.

But in the Ming Dynasty, most banknotes could only collect tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. The sudden increase in the tax amount by 10,000 taels will undoubtedly make the taxation task even more difficult.

Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible to rely on additional tariffs to complete the tax task.

Lin Jiading used his consumption to offset the increase, and the merchants were delighted and went through the customs to pay taxes.

Only then was Jiujiang Chaoguan able to complete the imperial tax task.

However, his move offended many colleagues and even big shots in the DPRK.

Because consumption is money in the pockets of these officials.

Huo Xian is the collective name for Huo Xiao and Xian Yu.

Huoyu refers to the loss caused by the resmelting of silver, while Xianyu refers to the part that officials deliberately collected in addition to the taxes designated by the court to attack the royal family.

In the early Ming Dynasty, consumption was not much, and it was basically within a reasonable range.

But by the middle of the early Ming Dynasty, the consumption was as high as 20 to 30% of the regular tariff.

During the Tianqi and Chongzhen years, some bank officials even dared to charge double or even two or three times the regular amount!

However, the income gained from spending money basically went into the pockets of local officials and court bosses, and all the money given to the royal family was small, and the national treasury was not even a penny!

Therefore, officials care more about consumption than taxes.

The most painful thing for businessmen when passing customs is the cost of envy, not the positive tariff.

Lin Jiading decided to "use consumption to offset the tax increase", which actually means charging less or even no consumption.

This means that merchants actually need to pay less money to pass the customs than in the past, so merchants are rushing to pass the Jiujiang Banknote Pass - merchants also understand that in the Ming Dynasty, this policy was temporary and could not last long.

that's the truth.

Lin Jiading had only collected enough taxes for one year in Jiujiang Chaoguan, so the government issued a transfer order to transfer him to the Ministry of Rites and sit on the bench to prevent him from getting involved in tax matters anymore.

However, before he took office, the Tai army moved southward from Runing and Nanyang, and successively captured Hubei, Hunan, Huainan, and even Nanjing.

Lin Jiading was disappointed with the Ming Dynasty and simply returned to his hometown to live in seclusion.

Unexpectedly, in just over a year, the Yi army captured Fujian.

He was recommended by others and simply joined Da Wei.

After studying politics in the Da'ei court for a period of time, he first served in the Ministry of Finance, and later he was ordered to be responsible for handling salt fields and salt taxes.

The Holy Spirit intended to vigorously rectify the salt industry this year, so he established the "Da'ei Salt Industry Group".

The group's subsidiaries include "Huaiyang Salt Company", "Changlu Salt Company", "Southeast Sea Salt Company", "Sichuan Jing Salt Company" and "Northwest Salt Company".

Among them, Huaiyang Salt Company is the most important.

Therefore, after the beginning of the new year, Liu Sheng’s conversation with him in Tianxin Palace was so heartfelt that he still remembers it vividly——

"Han Zong (Lin Jiading) not only served in the Ministry of Household Affairs of the former Ming Dynasty, but also made bold changes in the customs taxation. So, do you know anything about the salt tax, which was the largest commercial tax in the former Ming Dynasty?"

"Weichen has some understanding."

Lin Jiading didn't know what other people actually wanted from studying, but he really wanted to help the country and save the people by studying.

In addition, he once served in the Ministry of Household Affairs, so he actually studied the salt tax issue in depth.

Therefore, he felt that this answer was relatively modest.

But when he continued to chat with Liu Sheng, Lin Jiading discovered that compared with Liu Sheng's understanding and understanding of salt tax, the little things he had studied were simply not worth mentioning.

Thinking back now about his self-effacing attitude at that time still made him blush.

Liu Sheng not only had a profound understanding of the changes in the salt tax system of the Ming Dynasty, but also studied the changes in salt tax in the past dynasties.

"As far as I know, as early as before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, salt was just an ordinary commodity and was not worthy of the state's special tax policy."

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong carried out reforms in the Qi State and implemented a series of strategies to enrich the country and strengthen the army, such as the 'Guan Shan Hai', and then began to specifically tax salt and even make it a monopoly by the state."

"Later, various countries competed to imitate it after reform. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented a 'salt and iron monopoly' policy in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army."

"However, this policy caused a lot of controversy in the former Han Dynasty, and it was implemented repeatedly after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty."

"At the time of Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty, he shared the world with the powerful clans and completely abolished the salt and iron monopoly policy, established salt officials and levied salt taxes."

"During the hundreds of years of chaos in the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, when various countries were competing for power, they would not give up on the huge profits in the salt industry. Most of them focused on monopoly, and even strictly prohibited people from boiling salt privately."

"When Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty unified the world, in order to allow the people to recuperate, he not only lifted the salt ban, abolished the monopoly, and even exempted the salt tax."