[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Yan Guanying, the original practice is actually the civil system, government income, official movement, and official sales. From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the present, it has a history of more than 500 years, at least.That is because of the long history, there have been many changes in its form. For example, the official sales should have been directly sold to the people by commercial organizations such as tooth banks directly under the government. Firstly, the cost is high, and secondly, it is easy to make salt bar another way for the officials below to exploit the people.

Therefore, the salt bar sold in the salt official camp of the Great Jin Dynasty is actually sold in the salt field.Merchants go to the salt official to pay taxes first, get the salt lead, and then use the salt lead to go to the salt farm to get the salt.

It is because of this model that the cost of salt official camps in the sales process is reduced. As for the actual price of salt in various places, it is not certain.It is a fact that the more remote the area, the higher the price of the salt.

Of course, the staff related to the salt field colluded with others in private, and one piece of salt led to two or more or even more salt. This was the source and essence of the private salt in the Great Jin Dynasty.As for the salt officials, take Lin Ruhai as an example. In fact, if there is no problem with the salt administration, then their task is to keep an eye on the output of the salt farms, and then approve the salt to attract taxes.Salt is the only daily necessities that cannot be self-sufficient, and it has a large demand base and low production costs, especially the sun-dried salt method. In addition to the initial investment in salt fields, subsequent management and labor costs, compared The production of salt can basically be ignored.In addition, people's demand for salt is a little more than a catty per month at most, so people are not as sensitive to the price of salt as they are for grain.

This is the main reason why salt can become a lucrative industry.

Salt looks very inconspicuous, but in the history of many countries, there is a saying that salt tax is equivalent to royal power.

But it is because the people are not so sensitive to the salt price that the country will increase the salt tax rate when it cannot collect salt tax, and then further promote the rise of salt price, and then the illegal salt will become more rampant, and the salt tax can only continue improve.

This has become a vicious circle.

Jia Yan and Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai had repeated low-level discussions, and they felt that it was still possible to reduce the price of salt starting from the transportation.

In the first two years, the salt war was very difficult. The laying of those shops almost drained all the funds in Jia Yan’s hands, let alone those

However, things finally turned around when the emperor gave Zigong to his mother.

Zigong was a land of salt production during the Han Dynasty.However, after Jia Yan took over, he asked Qin Tianjian's Dr. Yin-Yang, Dr. Hydrology, and relevant officials of the Ministry of Yu to conduct a detailed investigation of the local area, and found that in Zigong, the salt associated with it turned out to be natural gas!Moreover, the local usage of natural gas is obviously very, very backward compared with Jia Yan's cognition.

Jia Yan immediately asked the general supervisor to design a mechanism, which looked like a strange cauldron, but it could use steam as power to pump out the brine hundreds of meters deep underground, and then boil the salt with natural gas...

The cabinet agreed with the emperor to give the Zigong to the Queen Mother, because many people believed that since the Han Dynasty, the underground brine in Zigong had been almost exhausted, so the emperor wanted to please his mother, and they also chose to acquiesce.

For them, as long as the empress dowager does not interfere in politics, a small tribute is still okay.

However, with the installation of new instruments on the salt wells in Zigong, the annual salt production in Zigong has skyrocketed. From the local reports in Zigong, it can be seen that in the first year of use of the new instruments, the salt production in Zigong wells is enough for one-tenth of the country. One's population eats it!

It is said that the chief envoy of South Sichuan Province went to Zigong to do some investigation because he did not believe the report, and then sent the report to the cabinet.

The cabinet was stunned.

Because with the soaring salt production in Zigong wells, Zigong directly paid 120 million taels of silver in this year's salt tax!

Immediately afterwards, there was an idiot who calculated an account, saying that according to ancient records, the Lianghuai salt profit income in the late Northern Song Dynasty was between 1500 million and 2405 million yuan, but the tax silver of the Lianghuai salt field last year was only 7 taels. Silver, even less than 10 taels, and when Lin Ruhai was in power, the Lianghuai Salt Farm was able to hand over more than 160 million taels of silver every year.

Then someone publicly stated in the court hall that it was because Zigong salt was conveniently transported. It went directly from the Minjiang River to the Yangtze River and went downstream through the Yangtze River, saving a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, everyone got salt from Zigong. Therefore, last year, the Lianghuai Salt Field income is not good.

Then the idiot said, minus 160 million from the 120 million taels of silver, there is still 40.Where did the 40 go?This has not counted the tax money before Zigong.He also asked the other party whether he was deliberately finding fault with the empress dowager, or if he was covering up private salt.

The whole court immediately exploded.

Because no matter what the crime is, it is not easy to answer.

The court turned into boiling water like a boiling pot. Of course, the three successive Yangzhou inspectors and censors all had bad luck, and all their homes were ransacked for questioning.

In fact, high-ranking courtiers and well-informed people have vaguely guessed that after the expansion of territory, the Empress Dowager is planning to attack the Salt Administration again, probably because of reforms.

Combining the people who moved out of the country before, it is easy to think that this is an all-round and in-depth reform that is oriented to the whole country and involves land and salt administration. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

The ministers who can climb into the cabinet will definitely not be guys who know nothing about history and politics. Economists like Sima Guang are not alone in the Northern Song Dynasty.Almost everyone in the cabinet ministers of the feudal dynasty has their own understanding of the economy and people's livelihood.In other words, although this incident seems to be due to the fact that the Lianghuai salt tax was not collected last year, in fact, it is only because the country has been established for a hundred years, and the imperial court has come to reform, and the salt tax is just a reform. Just a breakthrough.

However, the cabinet ministers are aware of this, but some people don't know it.

Because the empress dowager was involved, things became extremely complicated, and even the harem was involved.

As a daughter-in-law, Empress Feng's feelings for Jia Yan have not lasted for a day or two. She thought she was hiding it well, but she didn't know that many people had guessed her thoughts.

Whether it is Concubine Xian or Concubine De, they all quietly said to the left and right: "Look at our empress, she is just thinking about those things in the hands of the empress dowager. The secret guards, the royal sea caravan, and now there are more of them. Salt. Among other things, no matter which one it is, it is enough to make people greedy. Not to mention that the empress dowager has three in her hands! Unfortunately, these three are set up by His Majesty Renzong and the first emperor. It’s just the person who took over. The sea caravan was built by the first emperor and the empress dowager with the dowry of the empress dowager. It should have belonged to the empress dowager. As for the salt in Zigong, it was made by the empress dowager after she rested. Our empress, who has no merit except for giving birth to a prince, dares to think about what the empress dowager has in her hand!"

These concubines would say that, how could they not be greedy for what Jia Yan had in their hearts?It's just that they are only concubines, not queens, so that's all they can do.But this didn't prevent them from taking the opportunity to do a little trick to embarrass Empress Feng and benefit themselves by the way.

In this way, on the surface, the action of impeaching the Queen Mother for intervening in politics actually started to dig a hole for Queen Feng. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

Yushitai is a speech officer, and there is a tradition of listening to the news. Therefore, many low-level censors in Yushitai are proud of impeaching others. In addition, many of them are new to the officialdom, young and energetic, Nature is more fearless.

Although it is said that Empress Feng came from a lord's noble family and has nothing to do with Qingliu, but the children of Feng's family ate flower wine outside, and then the wine got on their heads. They were tempted and said things they shouldn't have said, and then , was overheard...

In the era of opaque information, it is really too easy to smear a person.As long as there are enough people who have dealt with it, it is enough to confuse the public.Empress Feng had a grudge against Jia Yan, which was a well-known thing in the harem.

The most important thing is that as early as when Emperor Xiaozong was still there, the emperor knew that Empress Feng was dissatisfied with her mother.

From the emperor's point of view, it was simply treason for Empress Feng to have such an idea.

You are an empress. In this palace, no one can miss you. What do you mean by coveting the secret guards and the royal caravan in the hands of the empress?Even if the queen mother wants to let go, she will also leave it to me!How could I give it to you!If it's just a royal caravan, anyway, the sea ban is already in name only, and your natal family can also form a caravan, or let the merchants who came over from the vassal send you a few dry shares.You don’t have to worry about eating, drinking, and spending money, and you still think about the meaning of these things!

Now I miss the salt in the mother's hand again!Don't even think about it, just relying on your little heart and vision, what can you do if you are really given these things?Just don't make trouble for me!

With Jia Yanzhuyu in front, the emperor looked at Empress Feng again, and his nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes.Now that he was burned by this fire again, someone whispered a few words in his ear, and more importantly, as soon as the "in-depth" investigation report from his secret guards and Yushitai was sent to him, the emperor was completely furious.

He directly put Empress Feng in confinement, and also accepted Empress Feng's phoenix seal.

The eldest prince heard that first he went to the crown belt and begged his father, but the emperor directly asked someone to drag him down.The eldest prince couldn't do it, so he went to Qingliang Palace to ask his mother again, but Empress Feng hugged her son, crying and saying that she might make her son look at the reed flowers.

The emperor was even more angry.

He directly asked people to take away Empress Feng's central palace notes and book treasures, and cut down the maids and palace maids around the empress.As for the female officials and servants of the leaders of the Six Bureaus and Six Shangs, they are no longer responsible to the queen, but directly to the emperor.

The queen does not give up.

If the emperor directly and publicly stated that he wanted to order the world to abolish the empress, the officials would definitely object.But the emperor did not publicly express his intention to abolish the empress, and all the powerful families in Beijing knew that this was because the empress coveted the things in the queen mother's hands, and those things in the queen mother's hands should have been passed on to the emperor. It is almost equivalent to standing on the opposite side of the emperor and becoming the emperor's political enemy.

How dare the ministers persuade?

Empress Feng, who had her book treasure taken away and couldn't even see her son, knew it was wrong, but she still had no strength to recover.This winter, he contracted the wind and cold, and because of the intentional negligence of the people around him, he died before Xiaonian!

The eldest prince cried until he died, but it was already too late.

Empress Feng was buried with the ceremony of a nobleman, which is a sacrifice and enjoyment, and it is also an example of a concubine.This woman who was once envied by the whole world and married into the palace from Suzaku Gate in a sedan chair like Jia Yan disappeared like a dewdrop.

Apart from her own parents and her son, no one in Jingzhong cares about her ending.Because the current emperor is only in his early thirties, a new queen is bound to be needed in the palace.What's important is that the emperor is in the prime of life, and the queen who marries into the palace at this time will have the possibility of inheriting the throne by the first son born to him!

Thinking about the treacherous political | situation | of Emperor Renzong in the middle and late period, and the human lives filled in, and thinking about the smooth transition between Emperor Xiaozong and the present, a fool knows which choice is better.

In the first year of Tai'an, the Great Jin Dynasty began another round of selection of concubines. Civil and military officials knelt in front of the Qinzheng Hall of the Summer Palace, imploring the Empress Dowager Jia Yan to come forward and preside over the overall situation.

The Ministry of Rites and Zongzheng Temple can handle the selection of concubines, but the selection of queens must be made by the highest elders of the royal family.

Jia Yan is the empress dowager, and she is the most honorable elder of the royal family.

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The author has something to say:

Personally, I think that in a real harem battle, you must not make a move, but if you make a move, it will definitely kill you.

In the real history, it is absolutely impossible to fight three hundred times with that kind of concubine.