But what can Cao Huachun do? Cao Huachun is also very desperate.

Now the yield of sweet potatoes is just that, and there are only a few places to grow.

The most important thing is that although Emperor Chongzhen planted a lot of plants in his imperial farm, he let the people steal it. The question is how many people dare to steal sweet potatoes in the imperial farm?

To be honest, this matter is a loss of mind.

Although Emperor Chongzhen ordered that the people would not be allowed to steal sweet potatoes or anything else, as long as they did not steal other things in the farm, as for sweet potatoes and other edible things, they would pretend that they would not see them if they stole less.

But after all, not many people dare to steal this kind of thing.

We can only wait until the sweet potatoes come down this year to see if the nobles keep up. If the nobles start planting this thing in their own farms, then the people will likely spread it on a large scale for follow-up or other reasons.

But before that, it would be better to count on the sweet potatoes near the capital than to count on Shaanxi.

Cao Huachun knew about this, and Emperor Chongzhen knew it very well.

But there is no good idea.

In "Tang Brick", the wise and scheming Duke of Chu, Yun Ye, had no good idea. Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had no good idea if he was a programmer.

Let him go, take one step at a time.

Emperor Chongzhen turned his attention to Xu Xianchun again and asked, "Is that largest salt owl in Yangzhou called Lin Weifeng?"

Xu Xianchun bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise, it is Lin Weifeng, a businessman in Huizhou."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and ordered: "I ordered the Jinyiwei from Yangzhou to come to the door to contact this person secretly. If he is willing to do business for the royal family, he will be rich and honored. If he is not willing, he will forget it and don't worry about him."

Xu Xianchun was very surprised.

I originally thought that with the character of Emperor Chongzhen, even if Lin Weifeng was lucky enough to die, he would have to take off a layer of skin.

But Emperor Chongzhen said he didn't care about him?

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Xianchun found that the root cause might still be in his report.

It was mentioned above that although Lin Weifeng was the biggest salt owl, this guy who controlled the 60 to 100 private salt in Yangzhou gave all the 600 private salt in his hands to the poor to sell them, although most of these poor people were his fellow villagers.

How could His Majesty the Emperor care about where those poor people are? Even if those poor people are Lin Weifeng's fellow villagers, they are still people of the Ming Dynasty after all, aren't they?

It is very likely that the Emperor and His Majesty decided to let Lin Weifeng go because of this reason.

But Xu Xianchun still thought Emperor Chongzhen too simply.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it is true that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, but they cannot ignore their private salt sales just because of this.

In addition to the salt he ate, salt should be a worthless thing in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen.

How much does a pack of salt in later generations cost? One dollar, a little more expensive one yuan and fifty cents.

If anyone in later generations could not afford salt, it would still be possible if it was in the early years. But later I never heard of anyone who could not afford salt. I often heard that some people scolded the chefs in restaurants for putting too much salt.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen himself has done a lot of trouble with this stupid chef who robbed the salt seller? Isn’t it painful to put salt?

But what about it?

In the Ming Dynasty, salt is really a rare thing. People who cannot afford to eat salt must go out countless times more than those who dare to put salt at will.

Even the poisonous salt that Yun Ye, who traveled through the Tang Dynasty, had seen in the Ming Dynasty, was not without anyone to eat.

This made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen was a novice, he at least knew that salt was a good thing.

This thing can be made with normal saline, which can sterilize and disinfect, and cure bacon. No matter how you look at it, you cannot live without this thing.

Especially if you have a cold and a fever, it is definitely very useful to get a bowl of salt water and add some sugar.

Now the salt farm in Denglai area is probably about to be completed. When a large amount of salt comes out, the first thing I will satisfy is not the people of the Ming Dynasty, but the tribes of Jiannu and Lin Danhan on the grassland.

Although this was the order of Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen himself was still unhappy.

The problem of eating salt in the Ming people must be solved first.

But even if you open a few more salt fields by the beach and have enough salt to dry, there are still a lot of problems.

The first thing is how to transport to inland areas such as Shaanxi?

Continue to open Chinese and French? Doesn’t that mean you continue to play with private salt?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen started to have a headache again.

The Jinyiwei was sent to send someone to build a salt farm, which was too much, so why did they go to build an official salt?

This is not very reliable if you think about it.

But what about the eunuch?

Eunuchs are not actually good either. It is okay to send them to stare at the salt farm, but it is also nonsense to sell salt.

If that is the case, the number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty now has to increase by at least a few dozen times, except for the Guancun in the New Century in later generations, where can you get so many dead eunuchs?

Emperor Chongzhen, who was mumbling, had a headache for a long time, simply ordered: "There is a saying that Wen Tiren of the cabinet, Guo Yunhou of the Ministry of Revenue, and Zhuangli of the Ministry of Personnel."

Wen Tiren and others felt a headache when the eunuch came to Xuan and the other two to come to the palace to see the emperor.

No one knows what kind of demon moth this emperor has come up with again.

If it were Beijing Camp, a large number of people had been dealt with, and the rest were outside the capital, so it was not so fast to deal with it, right?

But besides this, what else can be done to get the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel to get together?

Shaanxi?

It’s almost done that Shaanxi has completely calmed down. Except for some officials who may be in trouble, there should be nothing left?

While guessing, the three of them headed towards the palace.

But after meeting Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen's words really surprised the three of them: "I intend to set up a salt farm on the southeast coast to dry sea salt and sell it to the people at a low price. I wonder what the three dear ministers think?"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said that, the three treacherous and sly guys probably knew what was going on.

His Majesty the Emperor was thinking of selling salt to the people, and he did not intend to play any Chinese and French, but he clearly could not trust the governments in various places, and was worried that the local governments would do whatever they wanted.

Guo Yunhou bowed and said, "I will report to Your Majesty. If you say that you have sold sea salt to the people, this matter is really a benefit to the people. But you don't need to open China and France, how can you price the salt price?"

Emperor Chongzhen knocked on the table and said lightly: "The Ming Dynasty has a price of 50 cents per pound."

Emperor Chongzhen's words meant to be a bit shocking.

When it comes to the salt price mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen, we must first start with the current salt output of the Ming Dynasty.

What was the salt production in the Ming Dynasty? According to "salt production", the merchants holding salt citations were divided into ten citations by region, each citation was 200,000 citations, each citation was 300 kilograms of salt, or 6 cents of silver and 4 cents of silver, which was called "woben". There was another tax of 3 taels of silver and 3 taels of silver (transport) 3 taels of silver.

The annual salt output was 600 million jin, and at that time one jin was equivalent to 596 grams of later generations, and the total amount was equivalent to 700 million jin in later generations.

This data is an official statistics from the Hongwu and Wanli periods, with a population of 60 million, the same as in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, for every six taels and six cents of silver, the salt tax of 13.28 million taels of silver should be received. In fact, at most, only 2.5 million taels of silver was lost, and the salt tax was lost in large quantities.

But this price is very fucking.

What was the price of salt in the Song Dynasty? Fifty-month per pound.

But by the Ming Dynasty, the price rose a little.

During the Jiajing period, according to Zhu Tingli's "Salt Administration" records, "In the early days of Jiajing, Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanjing, sold silver for three cents per pound of salt in Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanjing. During the seven or eight years of Jiajing, "When Huguang, Jiangxi, each salt in one cent and five cents per pound of salt, and the Nanjing area sold silver for one cent and two cents."

What we are talking about here is the market sales price of Huaiyan.

In other words, in the Ming Dynasty, the time and place are different, and the price of salt is also different.

Theoretically, technology should improve with the advancement of time.

Don’t think that Moore’s Law is only suitable for kicking. At least in other industries, the more advanced the technology, the lower the original price and cost should be.

Although there is basically no technical content problem with salt, it is normal to slowly reduce the price as time goes by.

But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, this law was invalid and the price increased even more than in the Song Dynasty!

As for the reason, Emperor Chongzhen felt that he couldn't understand it and was too lazy to figure it out.

But I can play with the salt drying method since the cement was made out, I have been thinking about how to use this thing.

In the end, I found that in addition to building roads and cities, it can also be used to dry salt.

This is good news.

As long as the salt farm can be expanded on a large scale, are you afraid that the salt price in the Ming Dynasty will not be reduced?

Emperor Chongzhen felt that the price of salt was not a problem, but Guo Yunhou had a headache: "Your Majesty, the fluctuation of salt prices is actually a spontaneous act of the people. If the price is forcibly set, then the original salt merchant?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and then said, "Reden."

I bought the salt turf from the original price of the salt merchant. I knew that there were many bastards who had gained benefits by themselves, and the price of selling salt turf was similar to that of giving.

However, they were all redeemed at the official price, and the salt field will be specially sold in the future. Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commander and other salt transport envoys will be recalled to the capital, and the Salt Transport Censor will not move for the time being."

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply said murderously again: "Forget it, there is no need to recall it. Xu Xianchun?"

Xu Xianchun bowed and replied, "I am here."

Emperor Chongzhen ordered: "I will condemn the Censorate to send the Censor to investigate the salt transport envoy of Lianghuai, and secretly investigated the Jinyiwei. The East Factory reviewed. If there is no problem, the Ministry of Personnel will transfer it back to the capital. If there is any problem, the Jinyiwei Lock will be taken into the capital and thrown into the imperial prison."
To be continued...