Liu Che waved his hand and stopped Chao Cuo from continuing.↖
It seems to be the excitement of the imperial ceremony. Liu Che feels that his imperial censor has been a little eager to show off recently.
However, Chao Cuo cannot be blamed.
Chao Cuo has been under a lot of pressure recently.
Blows and attacks from all sides left him exhausted.
Since the death of the late emperor, Chao Cuo's position as imperial censor has actually become like a penthouse in the sky.
If Liu Che hadn't expressed his position for a long time, and even secretly pulled some strings with Chao Cuo, I'm afraid that Chao Cuo would have faced a situation of betrayal and alienation now.
Not to mention anything else, Taohou Liu She has been shuttling between the East Palace and Weiyang Palace almost every day recently. Almost everyone knows what his intentions are.
"I understand what the Prime Minister said!" Liu Che said, "I have no intention of violating Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's 'Chishanze Salt Pond Order'!"
Although the "Chishan Zeyanchi Order" seems to benefit only the big landowners, big businessmen and local princes and kings.
But in fact, Liu Che understood that the order to Chishan Zeyanchi gave the people at the lowest level a chance to breathe to a certain extent.
According to Chinese tradition, everything in the world is the land of the king, and the shores of the land are the king's ministers.
The right to own these natural gifts, such as mountains, lakes, and salt ponds, of course belongs to the emperor.
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen ordered the Shanze Salt Pond to be built, allowing people to go hunting, logging, mining, and even boiling the sea into salt without government approval.
This allows the people at the bottom, even if they are exhausted, to still obtain the necessities for survival from the mountains, forests, lakes, oceans and rivers.
If it were in the Qin Dynasty, it would be illegal for people to hunt and kill even a wild boar in the forest.
If Liu Che dares to abolish this order, then the saliva of the people in the world will drown him.
There is only one Qin in Chinese history, and there is only one Qin.
Liu Che didn't want to imitate the Qin Dynasty and committed suicide.
Zhou Yafu was slightly confused and asked: "What does your Majesty mean?"
Liu Che chuckled. Is there any policy in this world that has no loopholes to exploit?
Even the little pig's salt and iron policy in history actually spared the Chishanze Salt Pond Order and implemented it through the Su Zhiduwei Yamen led by Sang Hongyang, and established the Shuiheng Duwei's vest in Shanglinyuan.
Come clean up.
Its basic tone is the so-called democratic system, official collection, official sale, and official operation.
In this way, the Chishanze Salt Pond Order was perfectly bypassed.
The government still allows private people to boil salt and cast iron, but does not allow private buying and selling.
All trade related to salt and iron must be conducted through Yanguan and Tieguan.
As a time traveler, Liu Che knows everything about the shortcomings of the salt-iron government-run policy initiated by Xiaozhu, but he also understands a little bit about it.
It is no exaggeration to say that the government-run policy of salt and iron, which started from Xiaozhu, has supported countless officials and businessmen in the next two thousand years.
In many cases, the largest and most powerful official and business group in China is the salt merchants and their attached bureaucratic groups.
Liu Che did not want to take this dead end that was proven by history.
The fault with Xiaozhu's government-operated salt and iron policy lies in the democratic system and the link between official management and management.
The democratic system of officialdom means that only officials and businessmen can engage in this business. Anyone else involved will definitely be swallowed up to the bone.
Moreover, Xiaozhu's government-run salt and iron policy has greatly restricted the development of China's foundry and iron smelting technology.
The steel frying technology and steel filling technology that have already appeared in Shaofu and have begun to take shape will actually remain unchanged in the next thousand years.
Vested interest groups arbitrarily reject and block all technologies and inventions that may harm their interests.
Just as shale gas had just emerged in later generations, the local tycoons in the Middle East used the magic of disintegration to forcefully suppress oil prices to the point where the more shale gas and shale oil were extracted, the more they lost money.
Thinking of this, Liu Che sorted out his thoughts and said: "I will not interfere with folk casting of iron or boiling salt. People can buy and sell as they please!"
"It's just..." Liu Che blinked his eyes and said: "I will create a new post of Salt and Iron Order under the Prime Minister, with a rank of two thousand stones. Under the order, there will be a prime minister, and the county-level yamen in each county will be appointed.
The Salt and Iron Officer is responsible for selling salt and iron products in the market!"
Zhou Yafu was confused after hearing this. He didn't know what the purpose of Tiantian was to do this.
You must know that today's salt and iron merchants are basically local snakes, and most merchants' production costs are actually lower than those of the imperial court.
After all, the actions of the state must be considered more or less for the workers. Except for the sentenced prisoners, the rest of the craftsmen basically have salaries and safety guarantees, and if there is an accident, they need to be compensated.
Even if a prisoner dies while participating in salt boiling and mining, the court will give his family an explanation.
But merchants don't need it.
They hired landless and landless peasants at low prices and used sticks to intimidate them.
If the mud-legged man is dead, just throw him into the mountains. Even if the owner comes to visit him, he can just say "I don't know" and say "I don't know".
Even if you file a complaint with the Yamen, local officials usually won't care about such matters.
When Dou Guangguo, Marquis of Zhangwu, was young, didn't he almost die in such a black mine?
Therefore, the imperial court had to compete with local merchants for salt and iron, and the price was not something the imperial court could afford.
But Zhou Yafu didn't know that with the addition of the Mohists and the advancement of technology, the merchants had completely lost all competitiveness in salt and iron.
The current new generation of blast furnaces can produce thousands of pounds of iron per day.
Although there are some problems with quality.
But both cost and efficiency have surpassed all businessmen in the world.
As for salt?
Under the instruction of Liu Che, the king of Jiangdu, Liu Yan, had started drying salt in Jiangdu.
Compared with boiling salt over firewood, sun salt is not as good as boiled salt even though it crystallizes.
But I can’t stand the huge output of sun-salted salt!
The amount of salt produced from one acre of salt and iron in one month is comparable to the output of hundreds of workers boiling salt day and night.
As for the cost, it is almost infinitely close to nothing.
What can businessmen do to compete with the imperial government's products?
Even if Liu Che wanted to, he could destroy them and defeat them at a price lower than the cost of merchants' cast iron and boiled salt.
However, neither the blast furnace nor the boiling of salt has yet reached a large scale.
Therefore, the merchants can probably survive for a few years.
But this is better.
Boil the frog in warm water is the best strategy to deal with these guys.
The salt fields and blast furnaces waiting for drying of salt have grown in scale. Under the leadership of the government, with the army as bodyguards and the national reputation as a guarantee, the Salt and Iron Order Yamen will crush all competitors.
The only way for merchants to survive in such competition is to imitate the imperial court and use blast furnaces and sun-dried salt.
But, which businessman in the world can have the background of a Shaofu and the authority of an emperor, and can promote technological progress at any cost and cost? (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: The author has suffered from heat stroke in the past two days, has been suffering from vomiting and diarrhea, and his whole body has been numb~
In addition, the lymph nodes are also inflamed repeatedly, but when I went to the hospital for a checkup, there was nothing wrong with it. Even the blood test was normal. Let me rub it~
