The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Yan Song calmly stood up and said loudly: "Liu Weishan, what you said is wrong!"

Liu Weishan sneered and said, "Why is it wrong?"

Yan Song said coldly: "You said that the price of salt in our dynasty was the highest in all dynasties (good ones). This is true. The price of salt in my dynasty was 300 Wen, while in comparison, the price of salt in the Song Dynasty was only 50 Wen. The price of salt in our dynasty was six times higher than that in the Song Dynasty! According to the consumption of 10 catties of salt per person per year, an ordinary person would have to spend two thousand and five hundred Wen more a year! It is really ridiculously expensive!"

Jiajing frowned, thinking what did Yan Song want to say?Doesn't that prove Liu Weishan's argument?

Hearing what Yan Song said, Liu Weishan was even more excited, he laughed loudly and said, "That's right! It's rare for you, Mr. Yan Ge, to understand that the price of salt in my Ming Dynasty is really ridiculously expensive!"

The people around were very angry when they heard that each person had to pay so much more salt every year.

"The price of salt is six times higher than that of the Song Dynasty."

"too expensive!"

"Although the price of salt is very high, but..." Yan Song suddenly changed the subject.

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Chapter 220 The truth covered up by salt merchants and officials [3]

(It was so difficult to check the information, I almost vomited blood.)

"The price of salt is ridiculously expensive, but it's not caused by taxes!"

Yan Song said coldly to Liu Weishan: "Our dynasty has a population of 6000 million, exactly the same as the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty's salt tax revenue is ten times higher than my dynasty's!"

Everyone was stunned.

Liu Weishan was dumbfounded.

He did not expect that Yan Song had prepared so well for his homework, and had studied the salt tax system of the Northern Song and Ming dynasties so thoroughly.

The people began to talk about it.

"How is this going?"

"The price in our dynasty was six times that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the salt tax was only one-tenth of that in the Song Dynasty?"

"Where did the extra huge benefits go?"

Emperor Jiajing's tiger eyes suddenly revealed a sharp light, and he moved forward, listening carefully to Yan Song's words.

He felt that there seemed to be a lot of content in it.

The price of salt in our dynasty is six times that of the Song Dynasty, the population is about the same, the consumption is about the same, but the tax is only one-tenth of the Song Dynasty?

Even if you are a fool, you also know that there is a lot of tricks in it.

Yan Song talked eloquently: "In terms of tax rates, the Song Dynasty taxed about 30 renminbi per catty of salt, but I only collected 990 renminbi per catty of salt, which is 22.2 renminbi. Our salt tax rate is even lower than that of the Song Dynasty. Consider The retail price difference is six times, and the salt tax rate in our dynasty is actually only one-eighth of that in the Song Dynasty."

The public was in an uproar.

Liu Weishan jumped and cursed: "This is impossible! You are lying!"

Yan Song said indifferently: "These are all recorded in the Northern Song Dynasty's "Continued Literature Tongkao" Volume 20, "Zhengyan Yantie", you can read it yourself."

Emperor Jiajing felt that he had been greatly fooled, so he gritted his teeth and ordered, "Where's the book? Bring it to me!"

The "Tongkao of Continued Documents" of the Northern Song Dynasty was handed over to Jiajing, after Jiajing finished reading it, his face became more gloomy and ashen, and angrily hit Liu Weishan on the head: "What a Liu Weishan, open your dog eyes wide and show me! Who did I take the blame for?"

Jiajing felt that he was the one who took the blame, and was furious.

Yes, the tax rate is only one-eighth of that of the Song Dynasty, and you still say that my tax rate is high?

I will not carry this pot!

Liu Weishan read the Northern Song Dynasty's "Continued Documents Tongkao", and the cold sweat dripped down.

Folks, it's fried.

"What? Is this true?"

"Six times the price, the tax is only one-tenth, and the tax rate is only one-eighth?"

"So, in fact, the price of salt is high, and the problem does not lie in taxes."

"Even if the salt tax is increased by six times, the price of salt should not be so high."

Yan Song said loudly: "The bigger problem is that the annual output of salt in my dynasty is 6 million catties. According to the thirty one tax, the court should have received a salt tax of 1328 million taels of silver, but in fact it was only 130 million taels, only ten one!"

This was an even bigger bomb, and Jiajing's head was so hot that it exploded. He suddenly stood up and said angrily, "Yan Aiqing, is this true?"

The people were also dumbfounded.

For such a large court, the salt tax is only 130 million taels a year?

Is that too little?

Yan Song nodded and said: "According to the retail price of a catty of salt and three qian of silver, 6 million catties is 8000 million taels of silver. In addition to the negligible compensation for the salt households, the imperial court should tax 1328 million taels a year! The salt tax receivable and the actual There is a huge gap in the salt tax collected, and the salt tax collected is only one-tenth to one-fifth.”

Jiajing was furious.

Public grievances boiled over.

Liu Weishan and the others turned pale.

The great salt merchants who watched the excitement on the shore hid in the crowd in fright.

They realized that Yan Song was about to uncover a huge black hole of interests hidden in the marketplace in the Ming Dynasty.