"Seventh place in the Taiyuan Prefecture Township Examination in the 6th year of Longqing's reign."
Talking and talking.
Tian Hong felt a little lack of confidence, so he lowered his voice and said: "This is a bit difficult to handle... This Li Huai is a cousin of Zhangge's uncle, so he is really not easy to mess with."
Shen Lie nodded.
He took the book of impermanence and looked at it.
I understand in my heart.
This Li Huai's status is equivalent to the chief steward of Zhang Siwei's house.
In large families in this era, such people are actually very common. Such people may have some talent when they were young, and they were spotted by the big bosses in the family.
then.
So they gathered their family's efforts to cultivate this person carefully.
This person relied on his family connections to pass the exam and became a Juren master. This was a very prominent status in the eyes of ordinary people.
He didn't take the imperial examination either.
He also failed the exam.
Because there are many talents in a big family, the family will only concentrate its resources to cultivate the best among them and the most promising top talents in the imperial examination.
It seems that this person who was not sure of passing the Jinshi examination has gained fame and protection since he passed the Juren examination.
Then, as a member of the family and a relative, he would work as a master, steward, accountant, etc. for the family bosses who were high-ranking officials.
You can also be prosperous and wealthy in this life and have a good future.
This is the so-called clan, and during the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli Period, such clans were like crucian carp crossing the river, occupying every city on this land.
"Puzhou Salt Store."
Tian Hong took out the eyebag pot, lit a load of cigarettes for himself, and said worriedly: "This is the lifeblood of Zhangge's hometown!"
It's not easy to handle.
Shen Lie felt awe-struck in his heart and held the book of impermanence tightly in his hand. Naturally, he understood the weight of these words. The three generations of the Zhang family in Puzhou were the largest salt merchants in the Jiubian area.
A great family of salt merchants!
Lush branches and leaves.
Tangled and intricate.
And this Li Huai is considered the core figure in the Zhang family.
With a slap on the table, Shen Lie stood up suddenly and uttered a few words through his teeth: "Start the war!"
If you don't even dare to move an acting chief assistant who is about to lose power.
Why do you think you are a factory guard hawk?
This was what all the generals under his command were waiting for. After hearing this, they stood up one after another, rolled up the sleeves of their official uniforms, and then tightened their grip on the Yan Fei Dao at their waists.
"Walk!"
When speaking.
Shen Lie strode out of the government office.
"Go meet this Li Juren!"
Half an hour later.
Inside Zhengyangmen.
In the hustle and bustle.
Qianmen Street is crowded with people and pedestrians, which is different from the restaurants, restaurants, brothels and brothels that gather inside and outside Chaoyang Gate.
This is a civilian area with many small shops and grocery stores.
There are densely packed small shops on both sides of the street, selling firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, red candles and yellow paper needed by millions of people, as well as everything needed for weddings and funerals.
Shen Lie, with a sullen face, wearing the imperial flying fish uniform, led a group of people to walk quickly along the long street, and arrived in front of a large salt shop at noon.
Murderous.
Pedestrians around them dodge, hiding in the distance and talking...
In the alley.
Several Dongchang fans who were responsible for keeping track came quickly with their long entourage, saluted and reported to Shen Lie, Tian Hong and others.
"See my lord."
Shen Lie nodded and said softly: "Where is Li Huai?"
Several fans winked at the big salt shop and whispered: "It's inside."
Shen Lie stood under the bright sun.
Looked up.
Look at the four golden characters "Puzhou Salt Store" with a sharp look.
There were ripples in Shen Lie's heart.
nowadays.
This is the largest salt shop in the entire capital. There are at least a thousand salt shops in the entire capital, large and small.
As the "Da Ming Huidian" says.
"There are more than tens of thousands of salt merchants in the world, and there are more than tens of thousands of salt shops in the world."
Everyone knows that the salt industry is extremely profitable, but to what extent are these huge profits?
Definitely beyond the imagination of future generations!
In the long years since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, in this vast land, whoever dominated the salt trade would become richest in the world.
From the Yangzhou salt merchants who were as wealthy as the country in the early Ming Dynasty to the richest man in Puzhou after the rise of Shanxi merchants, they were all as wealthy as the country!
This is the salt merchant in ancient times.
Those who are really poor only have salt and money.
And no matter what period it was in, the salt industry and the taxes it brought were the lifeblood of a dynasty.
"Half of the world's blessings are benefited from salt."
As early as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the development of the salt industry was already quite prosperous. At that time, salt tax had become one of the main sources of national fiscal revenue.
These salt merchants paid a large amount of salt tax. Whether the emperor built a palace or the court supplemented military pay, they all relied on salt tax.
Sometimes it can even be worth a whole month's salary of a court official.
The same was true in the Song Dynasty.
Even the shrewd people of the Song Dynasty invented salt yin, which was invented by Cai Jing, the most traitorous official in the Song Dynasty...
even.
This extremely talented and treacherous minister also divided the Yanbian into long-term Yanbian, one-year Yanbian and half-year Yanbian.
What's this?
This is clearly the earliest national debt in human history!
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
After the salt monopoly was launched, salt production and salt consumption were controlled by the imperial court. Salt consumption was not only restricted to special supply channels, but also sold at fixed prices.
Don't worry about selling smuggled salt.
"Da Ming Law" says this: "Those who break the salt law, buyers and sellers, each have eighty sticks, their teeth are reduced by one grade, and the price of salt goods is incorporated into the official."
Even the buyer has to be beaten eighty times. How can anyone survive after being hit with such a big stick?
to be honest.
Those who buy and sell dead salt will be beaten to death with sticks!
Confiscation of homes!
But success is also a salt tax, failure is also a salt tax.
Today's salt administration is corrupt.
When the sons of salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty openly controlled the government and the public, they began not to pay taxes, so half of the world's taxes were suddenly wiped out!
Is this okay?
Thinking of the pitiful salt tax of hundreds of thousands taels, Shen Lie frowned slightly, as long as the imperial court had salt tax revenue.
Do the millions of Ming troops still need to beg for food? Do they have to add millions of taels of taxes every year to the poor farmers?
"Walk!"
A wave of hand.
Shen Lie then strode in with Fanzi, Captain Jinyi and a large number of helpers.
In the shop.
A sturdy guard became alert and instinctively came up to him. He smiled at Shen Lie and said, "Is this man buying salt..."
aside.
Tian Hong's eyes widened and he shouted angrily: "Get out of here!"
Taking a step forward and pushing the guard away, everyone saw a middle-aged scribe sitting at the salt counter.
The scribe was unhurried and was fiddling with his abacus with his head lowered. Not only did he not raise his head to greet them, but he looked as usual, obviously not taking Shen Lie and his party seriously.
Surrounded by factory guards, his popularity remains very stable.
This picture...
Shen Lie felt very awkward. He really looked like the villain in a martial arts novel, and this master of the people's education really looked like a persecuted gentleman.
"Are you Li Huai?"
At this time, Tian Hong was furious and stepped forward and cursed: "Get up... why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf!"
Tian Hong wanted to step forward and pull the scribe out of the counter.
But Shen Lie raised his arm to stop him.
"okay."
Shen Lie waved his hand and walked towards the counter casually.
Hands behind back.
Lower your head.
He looked at the wolf hair in the scribe's hand and the densely packed accounts in the gold-sprinkled ledger with majestic eyes, but said nothing.
I was just moved when I saw that the method used by this scribe to keep accounts turned out to be the double-entry accounting method invented by Shen.
