Chapter 746: Let the common people have no private money to buy
"Rip-off?"
Zhu Jing's expression changed: "Isn't this just sitting on the ground?"
"Who says it's not?" Chu Yuan said solemnly: "Ten dams involve tens of thousands of villagers, several counties, squires, subordinate officials, and county government officials are all involved, all hoping to get cheaper by using salt."
"For a long time, even good people have turned into cunning and cunning people and opposed the imperial court."
"Although the salt merchants are powerful, they cannot reach the tens of thousands of villagers. I heard that these merchants used swords and guns to prevent leakage of salt, and established many village groups. They were so vicious that the salt merchants could only pay the money to buy the road...
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Hearing this, Zhu Jing suddenly thought of Xishan Coal Mine.
At that time, these coal mines were mined to heat the capital. A few months later, there was an endless stream of caravans coming and going, just to collect tolls.
When it concerns the capital, how can we be allowed to be unbridled under the emperor's feet?
There was no need for the Beijing camp to come out at all. The patrol camp of the county government would dissipate as soon as it moved. However, in the past few years, there were still reports of robberies in the villages along the road from time to time.
This is still Shuntian Prefecture, and in this area of Jiangsu, it is probably even more difficult to control.
Clan, yamen, and even the garrison may be involved, and there is no way to start.
"It seems that these tens of thousands of people have become parasites?"
Zhu Jing sighed softly.
"If you borrow troops from Yangzhou, this is feasible."
Chu Yuan looked at his appearance and came up with a bad idea.
"Without His Majesty's decree, soldiers and horses are not allowed to move without permission."
Zhu Jing immediately vetoed the proposal. It was almost courting death. Although the imperial envoy had this right, his political career would probably be over.
He suddenly felt the difficulty of the Huaibei salt field and could only continue to ask: "What about the Huainan salt field?"
"The disadvantage of the Huainan Saltworks is that it costs money..."
It turns out that in addition to the salt tax paid every year, another sum of money, hundreds of thousands of silver dollars a year, will be deposited to serve as public money, so that money makes money.
The money for the envoys of the Yamen of the Salt Censor in Huaihe River, as well as the salary and rice paper for the Yanding and Yunshi clerks, as well as the Puji Hall, the Nursery Hall, the academy, the free school, etc. in the nursing home all depended on his money.
In a sense, tens of thousands of people working in the Lianghuai Salt Administration live off this expense.
Sometimes, if the salt inspector has a big appetite or the entertainment fee is too high, he will ask for an increase in the floating fee.
This money will definitely be added to Guan Yan.
Therefore, the vote-salt law is just a reform in the framework. For example, after the Xinhai Revolution, there was a president and the emperor was deposed. It seemed that things had changed, but in fact it was still the same. The yamen just changed their brand, and the feudal bureaucracy was still the same inside.
Governing the country.
Zhu Jing immediately sat up after hearing this.
Good guys, it's all a hornet's nest.
Chu Yu's words almost extinguished the fire in his heart.
The salt administration is indeed full of difficulties.
"The vote salt method is better than the gang salt method."
Zhu Jing murmured and squinted her eyes: "What hinders the sale of official salt are the bad policies, which make the cost extremely high, while the price of private salt is low."
"That's right." Chu Yu nodded: "That's it. These bad policies are like mountains, weighing down the officials so much that they can't breathe."
"I see."
Suddenly, the corners of Zhu Jing's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a confident smile.
“Since these bad policies are difficult to solve, let’s solve the illegal policies!”
"Without private salt, people can only buy official salt, so salt classes will naturally increase, right?"
"You, you have a point." Chu Yu was stunned and suddenly realized.
This is a different approach! It is also a solution.
Zhu Jing was naturally overjoyed when she found a way, and then she couldn't wait to order people to wave flags and plaques, and swaggered to Xunyan Yamen.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the person responsible for the salt administration was the Lianghuai Capital Salt Envoy Department. It was equivalent to a military household and was independent of the civil administration system. It had its own land, yamen, and governed the people. It not only managed prefectures and counties, but also managed Xiahe water conservancy.
Moreover, it also has soldiers, judiciary, civil affairs, and military power in its hands, so it is natural that everything will fall apart.
Therefore, the Salt Patrol Censor was responsible for supervising the salt administration and correcting lawlessness. Later, he was given the right to investigate the affairs of the salt field and to evaluate the salt field officials. The Salt Patrol Censor became the real chief of the Salt Administration, just like back then.
of governor.
The transfer envoys worked hard in Taizhou, Huai'an, and Tongzhou, while the censors enjoyed peace and happiness in Yangzhou.
Ruan Zhao, the censor of the Salt Patrol, was leisurely listening to the play. Suddenly he heard that the imperial envoy had arrived at the Yamen. He immediately lost all seven of his orifices and returned to the Yamen in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, Ruan Zhao, the censor of the Salt Patrol, would like to express my sincere greetings!"
"Holy Holy Gong!"
Only then did Zhu Jing take out the imperial edict.
Only the four words "Feng Tiangaoming" are embroidered on the right side, and the words "Shaowu Five Years" are embroidered on the left side.
It was read out: "Emperor Mingtian Chengyun issued an edict: There are many shortcomings in the current salt administration of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and there has been no reform for a long time. Therefore, Zhu Jing is ordered to be a member of the "Imperial Envoy to inspect the salt administration of the Lianghuai River"..."
After hearing this, everyone in the yamen suddenly realized that this was a reminder.
Compared with the salt patrol censor, this is an imperial envoy in the true sense, that is, a special commissioner.
There were many imperial envoys during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the system was also very complete. For example, the full name of the eunuch of Dongchang was "the eunuch of the Imperial Envoy, the Governor of the Dongchang Official School," and the minister stationed in Tibet was called the "minister of the imperial envoy stationed in Tibet" in the early days.
Temporarily assigned personnel, like Zhu Jing, are responsible for investigating something in a certain place and then withdraw after the matter is completed.
Sitting down with a sword and golden horse, Zhu Jing looked like a warrior: "The salt administration is full of mistakes, and the court and the emperor are very dissatisfied, so I sent someone to come to Jiangnan. You and others must obey my orders and make no mistakes.
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Bitterness——
All officials could only bow their heads and obey orders, and Yushi Ruan Zhao was no exception.
Zhu Jing's first passion was anti-smuggling.
He selected 500 men from thousands of salt soldiers, who were always on standby and fed well.
On the surface, he seemed to have these people as his confidants, but in fact, he was completely uneasy because these people had long been infiltrated by salt smugglers.
Secretly, Zhu Jing relied on his status as an imperial envoy to borrow a hundred people from the garrison outside Yangzhou City.
The troops under the general command of each province are all dispatched from the Beijing camp and replaced every two or three years. Although the total number is only two to three thousand, they are elite field soldiers, much stronger than those patrol battalions.
Jin Yiwei passed the news to him, and finally seized the opportunity to capture dozens of salt ships, more than ten salt dealers, large and small, two thousand illicit salt (three hundred kilograms each), four thousand shi, worth thirteen thousand
The remaining two.
The market price of Yiyin salt is 60 liang and 4 cents, which is called "woben". In addition, tax is 30 taels of silver and minister (transportation) silver is 30 taels. The real value is more than 26,000 taels.
It doesn't look like much, but it's just smuggling.
There are hundreds of smuggling incidents like this every year throughout Jiangnan, and the scale is even larger, with the money lost in this way exceeding tens of millions of silver dollars.
"Get rich."
This is the voice of everyone.
Zhu Jing was not greedy when it came to money. Half of it was given to the hard-working soldiers in the Beijing camp, and the other half went into the public treasury.
In the next few days, the anti-smuggling operation became increasingly fierce, causing the price of illegal salt to rise slightly, and unprecedented pressure hit.
ps: Salt politics is difficult to describe in one sentence. It’s too complicated, so I won’t go into details...