Because it was too profitable, it had to be in the hands of the court.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, salt tax revenue could even be close to half of the fiscal revenue.

People can do without iron utensils, but they cannot do without salt.

Considering the population base of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of salt consumed every year is very staggering.

Correspondingly, the salt tax that should be collected will also be a huge sum of money.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the salt tax in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River reached more than 15 million yuan.

Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a far lower population than the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, and the salt tax was more than 5 million taels. In the later period, it was as high as more than 13 million taels.

How much was the salt tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty?

Lianghuai Salt Class has 670,000 taels of silver!

Compared with previous dynasties and later generations, the gap in salt tax revenue is dozens of times.

The annual salt output of the Ming Dynasty was as high as 670 million kilograms. At this time, due to the soaring prices due to successive disasters, the price of salt in the Jiangnan region had soared to a high of 30 wen per kilogram.

This was not even the highest. By the end of Chongzhen's reign, the price of salt per kilogram was even as high as eighty Wen.

Calculated at thirty taels per catty, the people of the Ming Dynasty spent more than 20 million taels on salt every year.

The Ming Dynasty's income from the salt industry was only a mere 670,000 taels, not even a fraction of it.

A question that struck straight to the soul arose.

Where did all this money go?

If you look at the extremely prosperous city of Yangzhou, look at the salt merchants' houses filled with beauties and filled with pavilions, rockery and pools, you may be able to get a general idea.

Li Yunze decided to rectify the salt affairs, and rectify it from the source, completely abolishing the extremely chaotic salt introduction system.

This is also the important thing he must do when he goes to Jiangnan this time.

In order to win this war with the salt merchants, Li Yunze not only brought Longxiang's army, but also ordered the largest amount of salt in the modern world.

Li Yunze, who is backed by the industrialization era, is not afraid of fighting a material war.

Next year we will produce 670 million kilograms of salt, which in the modern world is around 300,000 tons.

In the modern world, China's salt production alone reaches tens of millions of tons.

This is the power of the industrial age!

In the modern world, Li Yunze ordered 300,000 tons of salt through an offshore company, and the total price was just a little over a small target.

He brought hundreds of kilograms of gold from here and was able to get it easily.

Li Yunze came straight to Yanzheng Yamen with one thing in mind.

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