In the morning, Qin Lang's land tax said that it would increase the income of more than 10 million shi of grain for the court every year. Now he held a salt shaker and said that he would increase the income of 10 million kilowatts of tax for the court in the future.

This is such a big tone.

Dai Zhou couldn't bear it anymore, so he put down his chopsticks and stood up.

"Even if according to the previous speculation of Duke Yiguo, if there are 20 million people today, the tax increase of tens of millions of yuan this year will not mean that each person will increase the tax of half a month? A family based on four people, wouldn't it be necessary for a family to increase the tax of two months? Do you know how heavy a burden this is? How many people can destroy their families?"

"Dai Ganzheng, you are talking about average. In fact, the consumption of salt is not calculated based on average. Although everyone needs to eat salt, in addition to the daily cooking, there are also many other salt consumption, such as pickled vegetables, livestock, etc.."

"Besides, salt tax is not that simple. Salt can be divided into grades according to different origins and different quality, and then different taxes are given. The ordinary salt consumed by the people is low and the tax is low. For example, this green salt must have good quality, higher prices and higher taxes!"

Qin Lang wanted to impose a salt tax, but there were opponents, but it was not very surprising.

After all, the salt administration and salt tax have a long history.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to adapt to the military expenditure of the battle for hegemony, Guan Zhong, the Prime Minister of Qi, initiated the policy of Guanshan and sea, nationalizing the resources of mountains, forests and seas, and salt and minerals were the first to be affected. He created the earliest salt administration in China. At this time, the salt administration was partially monopolized, with the private salt production as the supplement, but the salt in the intervening must be sold to the government and then sold uniformly by the government, and the salt tax was directly included in the salt price.

Qi also used the benefits of salt and iron to enrich the country and strengthen the army, becoming the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After that, the Qin Dynasty's civil salt production was officially taxed, and then the salt and iron monopoly of the Han Dynasty. By the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Wei and Jin Dynasties were a salt monopoly, while the Eastern Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties were a tax system.

It was not until the Sui Dynasty ended the Southern and Northern Dynasties and unified the world, and after three hundred years of chaos and melee, it re-created the world, but implemented a new policy of no monopoly and no salt tax.

Until now, the Tang Dynasty has been inherited.

Historically, from the founding of the Sui Dynasty to the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a period of more than 130 years of salt without monopoly or taxes.

People don’t have to eat high-priced salt, and there will be no private salt dealers who take risks.

From the beginning of the Sui Dynasty to the present, it has a history of more than 40 years. Now Qin Lang says that he will reopen the salt administration, which is undoubtedly a major change.

Dai Zhou was actually right. No matter how Qin Lang's salt administration changed, it would not be separated from the two parts of salt monopoly or salt taxation. These would lead to a rise in salt prices. In the end, it would actually graft the salt tax on the heads of the people, which would become a new burden on the people.

Li Shimin was attracted by the huge number of movements that reached millions of dollars.

"Huailiang, tell me about your new salt policy?"

Qin Lang's salt administration was actually the mature salt administration after the Middle Tang Dynasty, namely the five major links of civil system, official collection, official sales, commercial transportation, and commercial sales. This can save government expenses and use salt merchant channels to expand sales.

The store is a policy of taxing the price. It is a policy of making salt by private parties, and the government acquires it. Then the salt tax is included in the salt price and sold to the salt merchants. After the salt merchant pays the money to get the salt, it will be freely transported and sold. Passing prefectures and counties are not allowed to be taxed.

This not only guarantees salt tax, but also saves government expenses.

In Qin Lang's plan, the court first had to investigate the salt farms in various places, and the government issued licenses to each salt farm and granted salt production licenses, so that they could be qualified to collect salt and make salt. The salt they produced could only be sold to the government, and private sales were prohibited.

Then the government sells the collected salt to the salt merchants and asks them to sell it.

Isolate the salt production and sales of salt, add the salt tax directly to the salt price, and sell the salt to the salt merchant, and the tax has been levied in advance.

In order to prevent salt merchants from raising salt prices and affecting people's livelihood, Qin Lang planned to add Changping salt to Changping warehouses like the grain in Changping warehouses. The supply of salt in remote areas is tight, and the official warehouse directly sells salt at a low price to curb salt prices. In addition, salt warehouses are set up on major national transportation routes, and salt will be adjusted wherever salt is lacking. In addition, smuggling and investigations must be set up to crack down on private salt dealers.

In this way, the court has control over all stages of salt, which ultimately ensures the collection of salt tax and prevents the people from eating too high the price of salt.

"How much is the salt tax?" Fang Xuanling asked.

"As for the most common sea salt, the price of rice before the disaster is one to five, and the maximum can reach one to ten."

During the most stable and prosperous Kaihuang era, rice was often only about twenty cents, and ordinary salt was even worth ten cents per dou, which was half cheaper than the rice price. When it came to the great cause, rice prices were rising steadily, while salt prices slowly rose.

Now because it is a year of disaster, the price of grain is already abnormal. Chang'an is now four hundred coins for half a meter, and salt is now one hundred coins per bucket.

Salt is much cheaper than rice, but this ratio is abnormal.

As long as it is not a hungry year, salt will always be more expensive than rice.

"Your Majesty, the cost of mining and drying of salt is not high. A bucket of ten yuan can already include all the costs of mining and drying and transportation, and even include a lot of profits."

Qin Lang planned to comprehensively rectify the salt industry, first of all, to nationalize the salt farm. If those merchants want to produce salt, they must first apply to the court to contract the salt farm, and then obtain a license and a business license. The court collects contract fees for their salt farms based on production.

In addition, all salt production can only be sold to the court.

"The court purchased salt at a basic price of 100 cents per pound of salt, and then increased the tax by 100 cents, and sold it to salt merchants for 110 cents of salt."

A ten-month book will be taxed one hundred.

This tax rate made Li Shimin breathe.

Many ministers such as Dai Zhou were even more opposed, thinking that it was too ridiculous and that it was simply a robbery of money.

"A dou of salt purchase price of ten cents, and a tax of one hundred and ten cents will be sold to salt. Then the salt merchants will have to pay more for transportation and sales, and they will definitely have to increase the price. How much does it cost to the people?"

Qin Lang said bluntly, "Businessmen must make money. They will probably sell about 134 to 15."

"A ten cents are produced, but the people buy salt but make 150 cents?"

Qin Lang didn't care, "Dai Gong, please note that the court does not sell or pay taxes, but does not care about the salt industry. The result is that the salt market is chaotic and disorderly. Now the salt price is as high as a hundred coins. The salt ate the people, but the court has not obtained any benefits, and it has been all for merchants. Even the salt bought by many people is of poor quality."

"The court can also use it for the people after taxation. Although the price of buying salt is higher for the people, the court can control the quality of salt through supervision in various links to combat those fake and inferior salts."

Salt is actually a disguised count tax. Which emperor and important ministers don’t understand!

Qin Lang’s land tax is essentially a tax on land acres, and taxes are levied on land acres. Now a salt tax is actually a tax on the head of the population.

By the way, a salt farm tax was imposed on the owners of the salt farm, and it was even possible that Qin Lang would have to impose another commercial tax on the salt merchants.

The people have to bear the high salt price of more than 100 yuan per bull, but the court may receive a salt tax of tens of millions of yuan a year.

When the two sides were compared, the emperor couldn't help but waver.

The price of salt is high, but the price of salt is not taxed, and the people also eat hundreds of coins per dou of salt.

The price set by Qin Lang cannot be said to be crazy. It was also based on the facts and needs. I took an intermediate value. After all, the current price of salt is more than 100 yuan, but it is definitely much higher than the normal year.

The proportion of salt is relatively high. A dou of salt is converted into a pound of about 21 pounds in the Tang Dynasty. So according to the final market price of 151 pounds, the actual cost of buying salt for the people is about 7 cents per pound, and the tax on a pound of salt in the court is about 5 cents.

Much cheaper than pork.

Compared with the salt tax and salt prices in the middle Tang Dynasty in history, as well as the salt tax and salt prices in the later Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were much lower. You should know that the average salt tax in the Song Dynasty reached about 23 cents per catty. Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the salt tax reached a high of 30 million taels of silver a year.

Qin Lang promised the emperor that after implementing the salt monopoly system, the court could control the salt market so that it would not cause chaos or disorderly rise or fall, and could better ensure the quality of salt, and at the same time allow the court to obtain valuable salt tax.

Salt is a must-have, and taxation is also a must.

As long as the quality of 607 cents per pound is ensured, people can still afford to eat it. Although salt is expensive, it consumes less.

An adult man may have to eat six or seven stones of grain a year, but at most ten kilograms of salt.

If it is a good year, the normal price of grain should be about twenty cents per dou, and one stone of rice is 200 coins, and one stone of rice can be exchanged for about thirty kilograms of salt. This ratio is always much lower than the price of salt in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, the newly added salt tax was huge for the Tang Dynasty, and it may have far exceeded the current income from rent and regular taxes in the court.

The court is the biggest beneficiary here, so who is the party to lose?

Of course, the owners of salt farms will also cut profits due to restrictions. All the owners of salt farms and salt merchants were actually controlled by the nobles and gentry and powerful people behind the scenes. In other words, Qin Lang's knife actually cut off the entire current interest group.

After the salt monopoly is sold, there will definitely be iron monopoly, wine monopoly, tea monopoly, and mineral taxes such as gold, silver, copper and iron will follow.

Behind these industries, there are actually the same group of people.

Why did the Sui Dynasty dismiss the salt and iron and not impose a mineral tax? In fact, it was the compromise that Yang Jian had to obtain the support of those noble and powerful groups after he usurped the throne. Yang Jian did not impose a tax on it, which was equivalent to giving them many benefits in disguise, especially the tax system of renting and mediocre adjustments, which was actually a policy of giving full play to these noble bureaucrats and powerful people.

Under this compromise, Yang Jian received support from all parties and quickly usurped the Northern Zhou world, created and consolidated the Sui Empire, and won the Kaihuang era.

But now, Qin Lang is holding a knife to challenge this behemoth.
Chapter completed!