Congratulations on getting rich, get the red envelope!

The eunuch brought paper, pen, ink and ink.

Picking up the pen, Li Chao first wrote a big word salt on the jute paper that he paid tribute to Yizhou.

Li Shimin looked at the word, curled his lips and held back his smile. Li Chao's calligraphy has been like this for several years, but it is still so ugly. Compared with his calligraphy of quill pen, pen and pen, it is far worse.

"Your Majesty, salt is not uncommon in itself. You can boil salt directly along the coast. There are salt ponds and salt lakes in the mainland. In Shannan, Bashu and other places, you can also dig salt wells to cook mineral salt. Although salt ponds in the mainland are not as convenient as salt mines along the coast, in general, the cost of salt is not high. If you control these links, the cost of salt is much lower than that of growing grains."

"Growing grains is also affected by the seasonal time. Although salt is also affected by the seasonal time, it is much less affected. Moreover, people eat salt, which is not as good as eating grain. A diced person has to eat several stone grains a year, but ten kilograms of salt is enough."

During the Sui Dynasty and Wude period, the court did not control salt and allowed private salt to be sold. Therefore, salt was actually very cheap before. A pound of salt was only a pound of grain, and the people did not say that they could not afford salt. At most, in some places where transportation is inconvenient, salt is more expensive, which is limited by the cost of transportation, not other things.

But such a small amount of salt became a major income in the court after the Middle Tang Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, salt tax even reached more than 30 million guan. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, salt tax was also an important source of fiscal revenue for the court. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the richest businessman in the world was the salt merchant.

The court's policy on salt is relatively simple now, which is to allow merchants to contract salt farms, etc. and apply for a certificate. Then, if the salt produced is sold, you need to pay taxes to the court first, and the tax is not too much.

Li Chao is now planning to make a fuss on salt to increase the income of the court.

"We can change the way salt is produced, transported and sold. We will control salt more strictly!"

“How to change?”

"The civil system, official collection, then commercial transportation, commercial sales."

Separate several links and prevent merchants from working in one-stop and strengthen control. For salt farms in various places, they still have to apply for approval and issue licenses. For salt farms without licenses, they must resolutely crack down on and ban them, and check for each discovery.

The task of producing salt was handed over to the merchants and the people, and they were allowed to register the licence and operate the production, but it must be supervised by the court. The salt they produced was not allowed to be sold privately, and a large pound of a pound must be sold to the court.

Salt was purchased and sold by the court.

Of course, the court collected salt and did not sell it directly.

Another point is that merchants have to register a salt farm, and the salt brand must be restricted, and the salt brand is allowed to be held for generations or transferred, but the salt brand license must be expensive. This is just like the salt merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties. They wanted to sell salt, not only had salt inlets, but also salt nests. This salt nest is actually a business qualification and is very valuable.

With a salt card, the court can immediately collect a large amount of money.

From now on, you can also conduct annual reviews of salt cards every year, and you can also get a small amount of money.

Secondly, even if you have a salt brand, the salt farm will have to collect a business tax based on their output every year.

"What else?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"The court established a special salt yamen to be responsible for the salt yamen in the world. Branch yamen were set up in various places to be in charge of salt yamen. After the salt production in the salt yard, it must be purchased by the court, deposited into the salt yamen in various places, and then distributed to large salt yamen. At this time, the court can bid from the merchants in the world and let them come to the court to buy salt yamen."

"Salt ray?"

I just heard of a salt sign, and now I have another salt invoice. Li Shimin said that he doesn’t quite understand.

"Salt brand is a certificate for the salt field to obtain salt production qualifications, and salt indices are the certificates for obtaining salt."

Salt yin is a powerful thing. At the beginning, it was just a certificate. If a salt merchant wants to sell salt, he must first buy salt yin from the government. Each yin number is divided into two volumes in front and back. After stamping, it is divided into two parts from the middle. Then it is rolled to the merchant. It is called the simplified paper and the simplified stub is called the simplified root.

When a merchant wants to buy salt, he must first buy salt from the court. Only when he has salt can he go to the salt warehouse to get the salt, and then transport it himself. When transporting and selling, salt must be provided for inspection by the government. If there is no salt, it will be considered private salt, and private salt vendors must be confiscated and punished.

"Your Majesty, there is another advantage of salt quotations, which is that the court's salt and quotations are separated. While paying money to sell quotations, the quotations are collected and quotations are collected. The quotations are managed separately from the salt quotations, so as to avoid problems such as ** and better supervision. At the same time, when the court sells quotations, it directly imposes salt taxes on the quotations. In this way, every time the quotations are sold, the court will directly impose a salt tax."

Li Shimin couldn't help twisting his beard, which is indeed what he meant.

"That way can you raise 30 million yuan?"

"Of course not." Li Chao replied directly. Just this, how could he get so much money?

The key is combination.

Li Shimin still wondered. His mind was always a little unable to keep up with such complicated things, especially those in digital games.

The salt inventories in later generations were actually not just a certificate of buying salt, it was also a bond.

In dynasties, salt yin was not so honest and they were basically super-launched.

In other words, there may be 30 million people in the Tang Dynasty. Based on the average demand for ten kilograms of salt per person, 300 million kilograms of salt may be needed a year. If one kilogram of salt is drawn, then the market needs three million kilograms of salt a year.

It is just right to give three million salt to the salt merchants.

But the court sold salt and became rich, so for the sake of money, it was super paid.

The market only needs three million to induce salt, but the court issued 10 million to induce salt. The merchants paid money to buy salt, paid salt tax, and then went to the salt warehouse to get the salt. As a result, they found that there was not so much salt in the salt warehouse, or the salt was obtained, but the market was saturated and could not be sold.

In most cases, the salt production in the salt farm is also limited, and it cannot keep up with the amount of salt entries issued by the court. Therefore, more commonly, salt merchants have to queue up in the salt warehouse to get salt, which is the same as excessive official hats, and officials have to be short of Hou.

There is salt, no salt.

At this time, the salt induction is actually equivalent to a kind of salt debt, which is the nature of a bond.

If the amount of over-issuance is controlled well, it is actually very beneficial, but if the amount of over-issuance is too much, the salt market will be chaotic and will inevitably lead to a severity phenomenon.

However, what the court needs most now is money, so Li Chao proposed the salt brand and salt invoice.

In detail, the salt administration is very complicated, such as the opening of China, the outline of the salt method, the ticketed salt method, etc. Some are sold in different regions, and some are sold in unlimited boundaries.

Li Chao did not intend to sell the area, but could sell it as long as there was salt. Whether it was sold or not depends entirely on the ability of the market and merchants. The court only cared for salt and unified sales. As for specific full sales, profit and loss were ignored.

Therefore, Li Chao's salt administration is actually similar to the salt system after the salt reform in the Qing Dynasty.

"Does three million kilograms of salt be used for one entries a year? How much does the imperial court price each entries?"

What price should salt be set?
Chapter completed!