Although being transferred to Nanjing to stay in the capital is equivalent to a scattered person, Yang Tinghe is still a minister of the Ministry of Revenue and a person in charge of money. However, his residence is too cold to see.

Four blue brick houses have a small yard. The surroundings are not surrounded by stone bricks, but bamboo blocks. There are various vegetables on the left side of the yard. An old man who looks about fifty years old is hoeing the soil in a brown cloth dress.

On the right side of the yard, bamboo pieces were also inserted into the ground to surround a small chicken farm. A woman was holding corn in her hand and screaming in her mouth, feeding the chickens.

This is the residence of Yang Tinghe, who is famous in history, in Nanjing? Jiang Xia suddenly felt it was a bit unimaginable.

Pushing open the simple wooden door made of several pieces of wood, Jiang Xia walked in with Zhu Houzhao.

The woman in the yard saw the two of them and asked, "Two young men, are you here to look for me?"

"This aunt, I'm here to ask for Mr. Yang."

"emperor?"

As soon as Jiang Xia finished speaking, the old man who was originally hoeing the soil suddenly screamed. The old man immediately knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "My minister Yang Tinghe, please see the emperor!"

As soon as Yang Tinghe knelt on the ground, the woman immediately knelt on the ground and said, "The civilian woman Yang Li, come to see the emperor."

It turned out to be Yang Tinghe's wife. Jiang Xia said in her heart, and after looking at the woman carefully, she felt that this woman must be a virtuous woman and must be very beautiful when she was young.

Although she was dressed simply, Jiang Xia could still feel that she was well-educated and rational. It seemed that she should be from a scholarly family.

"Don't give me a favor, just keep my body calm." Zhu Houzhao said.

Yang Tinghe stood up with his wife.

Zhu Houzhao looked around and said, "Let's talk later when we enter the house."

Yang Tinghe nodded and turned to look at his wife: "Madam, please prepare your meal and make a pot of tea."

"Yes." Yang's wife responded and stepped back.

After entering the house, Jiang Xia felt dim and a little wet.

If an ordinary person saw Yang Ting and the Minister of Revenue who lived in such a house, he would definitely sigh that he was honest and admired by his noble character.

But Jiang Xia was a little dissatisfied. He silently calculated the salary of the Minister of Revenue in his heart, thinking that even if he was not greedy, he should not live in such a house every month as the Minister of Revenue.

If you are so deliberate, you either have a tendency to be self-abuse or deliberately seek fame and reputation.

Jiang Xia was still thinking this way, and Yang Tinghe and Zhu Houzhao had already started chatting. Hearing that Zhu Houzhao came in contempt, Yang Tinghe was very dissatisfied and said with a stern face: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for saying too much. As the saying goes, the son of a thousand gold cannot sit in the hall. You are the king of a country, and you are responsible for the welfare of millions of people in the world and the country of the Ming Dynasty. You."

"Okay, OK, Master Yang, I know I'm wrong. I promise you, what if I don't want to do this?"

Yang Tinghe looked at Zhu Houzhao deeply, sighed slightly and did not speak again.

He knew that Zhu Houzhao was like this. He always admitted his mistake faster than anyone else, but he really did not change it afterwards, so that would be another matter.

Then Zhu Houzhao briefly talked about his intention to investigate the salt administration of Lianghuai and the inviting Yang Tinghe to return to the capital to re-enter the cabinet.

Yang Tinghe naturally would not refuse the one behind, and immediately thanked him after hearing it. However, Yang Tinghe frowned slightly in the previous one and said, "Your Majesty, there must be something wrong with the salt administration of the two Huaihe River. But in the final analysis, the salt administration of the two Huai River involves a lot. If you take action against it rashly, it may be a whole body."

After hearing this, Jiang Xia secretly pointed out the picture. The salt administration of Lianghuai was indeed as Yang Tinghe said. According to the information found by Long Tan of the Jiangxia royal family, Lianghuai salt administration not only involved many ministers in the court. At the same time, the major old families in Jiangnan and several royal relatives who were ranked among them were basically inseparable from the Ming Dynasty.

If you act rashly, it will probably cause a significant rebound.

Jiang Xia, who had not interrupted, suddenly spoke, "What if we don't uproot them, but want to take control of Lianghuai Salt Administration in our own hands?"

Yang Tinghe glanced at Jiang Xia, then she remembered to ask Zhu Houzhao: "Who is this?"

Zhu Houzhao introduced: "Jiang Xia, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion."

"The Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion?" Yang Tinghe looked at Jiang Xia in surprise. He had never heard of such a young Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion in his life.

Yang Tinghe couldn't help but ask: "Has he entered the cabinet?"

Jiang Xia shook his head and said, "The boy is shallow, how can he enter the pavilion?"

Yang Tinghe nodded slightly. Before he entered the cabinet, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion was just a fifth-rank virtual title, which was acceptable. However, he was awarded this title so young and even followed the emperor to visit privately. This shows that this person is very favored by the emperor.

Yang Tinghe clasped his fists at Jiang Xia and said, "I would like to ask Lord Jiang to tell me how to control the salt administration of Lianghuai in his own hands?"

Jiang Xia had actually considered this matter on the way here. At this moment, Yang Tinghe asked, Jiang Xia said, "Actually, the boy's idea is this. In salt administration, we can implement the 'specialized business system' and the 'salt price specific system'."

Then, Jiang Xia explained these two systems to Yang Tinghe.

The main sales of official salt in the Ming Dynasty were the method of induction, opening the Chinese method, counting and combining salt, outline and ticket method.

The induction law is a licensing system for salt. The induction law stipulates that "induce merchants", which means that merchants who allow the state to transport and sell salt. It also stipulates that "induction boundary" - that is, areas where salt is allowed to be sold.

Kaizhong and France: When the country has insufficient food and salary or a certain area of ​​flood, drought and famine, it recruits merchants to transport food, grass and other necessary products to the designated area. After completing the task, the government will send them salt to the place of origin. The merchants use "guiding" to get salt and then sell it to the designated location. At that time, Kaizhong and France included: nano-salt salt, nama salt, nabu salt, nabu salt, nabu salt, nabu salt, nairite salt, nairite salt, and other forms. It is to transport rice, horse, cloth, banknote, and iron to the designated location and receive salt.

The method of calculating salt mixing: The "Yousi" is to issue household registrations from the states and counties under its jurisdiction, and send people to the "Salt Envoy Department" to take salt back to the county, and then distribute salt to each household, asking them to pay nanometers, grain or money to serve military pay.

Ticketing Law: It is to implement ticketing laws in remote mountainous areas that salt merchants are unwilling to go to, as well as prefectures and counties where private salt is prevalent near salt farms. The ticketing law stipulates that 8 cents of silver are paid for every 100 kilograms of salt, and the indigenous merchants will receive the tickets for the bank of payment and transport and sell them. Because ticketing salt is cheaper than induced salt, it will be sold faster.

In the salt monopoly system in the early Ming Dynasty, the production and sales system was relatively complete and the salt service order was relatively good. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty government made a huge profit from salt.

However, in the later period, China and France had been in trouble for a long time. Salt merchants and officials colluded with each other, and salt was incurred. Or officials sold salt to salt merchants without salt induction, or salt merchants randomly raised the salt price and sold inferior salt salt together with salt owls to wantonly sell inferior salt.

Today's Daming Salt Administration has indeed reached the point where it cannot be changed. The salt administration reform in Jiangxia is very simple, which is to include salt merchants in the official system, and only some salt merchants are issued "specialized merchant sales licenses". Only those who have obtained these qualifications can buy salt and sell salt.

This is equivalent to depriving the interests of most people and giving them only to a small number of people. In order to maintain their own interests, this small number of people will definitely stand closely in the same camp as the court, because everyone is a community of interests.

They will not allow the salt owl to compete with themselves for profit, nor will they reveal a handle for others to catch them, otherwise there will be many people waiting to replace them.

This group of people will be inspected by the court once a year. The quality of the salt, the tax amount, and the price of the salt will be included in the inspection. If the inspection fails, the salt merchant qualifications may be deprived of the qualifications of the salt merchant and then recruit others to fill it out.

The salt price will no longer be set by the salt merchants in the future, but will be set by the imperial yamen. After the yamen is formulated, it will be announced. If the salt merchants raise the salt price and sell the people with their power to go to the yamen to sue, once they are verified that it is true, they will immediately deprive their professional qualifications.

After Jiang Xia told her salt administration reform plan, Yang Tinghe was silent. After a while, Yang Tinghe spoke: "Jiang Xia, you want to break the sky."

Indeed, Jiangxia's salt administration reform method is indeed an effective method, simple, practical, and easy to supervise and operate.

After all, it is much easier to manage a small number of people than to manage most people. However, if you want to fully realize Jiang Xia’s idea, you must first abolish the original transfer department and the salt transportation department.

It would be difficult to implement such an action just in the two Huaihe Rivers. If the two Huai Rivers have effect and have to be promoted nationwide, then I am afraid that what I will face will not be the rebound of one or two forces, but the rebound of the surrounding people. I don’t know how many people will.

Jiang Xia looked at Yang Tinghe with a smile on his lips.

Yang Tinghe suddenly understood, and he shook his head and said, "You kid actually put your ideas on me. Well, I am not afraid of trouble if I have a handful of old bones. If I can help the people of the Ming Dynasty and consolidate the country and country of the Ming Dynasty, what's the harm?"

Seeing that Yang Tinghe agreed with his thoughts, Jiang Xia felt that Yang Tinghe was indeed a courageous person as recorded in history. Although the original creator of this salt reform plan proposed by Jiang Xia was Jiang Xia, the final implementation of the future cabinet chief in front of him must be the future cabinet chief in front of him.

After chatting for a while, talking about the details of the salt tax reform. Yang Tinghe's wife knocked on the door and entered the house, asking if the meal could be started.

Yang Tinghe asked Zhu Houzhao with his eyes. After Zhu Houzhao nodded, Yang's wife began to serve the dishes.

The food was all over, and Jiang Xia was sitting carelessly with Zhu Houzhao, while Yang Tinghe and Yang's wife stood aside. They waited until Zhu Houzhao's approval before they sat at the table.

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