In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 267 Salt Tax 4000?
Adult men and women and those under the age of 50, one counts as one, and each person is consistent every month. Suppose there are six people in the family, grandparents, all under the age of 50, two couples under the age of 20, and two children under the age of 14. The basic salary is four consecutive.

In addition, the deputy head of the first team has more than one sprint, the first team leader has more than two sprints, the deputy head has three more slams, and the head of the team has more than four slams.

In the past, the head of the armor was hereditary and would never be changed. Now it is rotated every year.

In addition, based on the number of people, regardless of age, each person in each household is entitled to one dou of rice per month.

For example, the family of six in front can have six buckets of rice every month.

Six buckets of rice is enough for an ordinary family. It may not be enough for a physical job like Shiotou, but you still have wages and can buy it yourself, so basic living security is no problem.

After hearing this, Ma Guangzu raised a question, if wages are no longer paid according to the output, will the kitchen households be put on the back burner?

Of course not, the court has production requirements.

If the production requirements are met or exceeded, there will be additional rewards every month. If the production requirements are not met, money will be deducted.

In fact, these two policies have been used in turn by all dynasties and generations. They sound like they have their own pros and cons. In fact, the most important thing is to see the intensity of implementation.

As mentioned before, the purchase price of Yongli salt from salt households in the Song Dynasty was six to eight cents per catty, and sold for more than 30 cents. In the Yuan Dynasty, salt households were given twelve cents per catty, and sold for 250 cents. Originally, this kind of purchase was based on quantity, and salt households were exposed to more salt. The income is also high, based on six cents per catty. If a household of six people makes one thousand catties of salt per month, they will have six cents, and the income is not bad.

But there is too much difference between your purchase price and selling price, and the salt households will feel unbalanced, and the relevant officials often find excuses to deduct money.

In addition, salt production is not something that can be done every day. At that time, the southeast coast was mainly sun-dried salt, and the northern coast was boiled salt.

Both of them must have good weather and cooperate with the weather.

Therefore, the income is only calculated based on production, and the annual income is unstable. In addition, the price difference between buying and selling is too large, and the kitchen households must be unhappy.

The court's current new policy provides each household with a fixed salary and food, which guarantees the basic living security of the kitchen households.

Therefore, after this new policy came out, it first stabilized most kitchen households.

But some kitchen households will think, then I am very good at making salt. I used to have high output and high income. What should I do now? It’s okay. Now there are rewards for high output. Commission, which greatly encourages the enthusiasm of kitchen households.

There are also drawbacks to this new policy. First, some people will lie down and stop working after completing their monthly tasks. Second, some officials will deduct wages and food issued by the court.

Therefore, no matter what the restructuring is, Zhao Yurui believes that the most important thing is the rectification of officials.

After Ma Guangzu finished listening, when he asked Qu Lai and Tang Bin about the implementation of the New Deal in the salt field, both of them looked at Ma Guangzu with strange eyes.

"Ambassador Ma will find out when he comes to the salt field tomorrow." Qu Lai said directly: "Many things will be clear when you go to the salt field and see with your own eyes."

Tang Bin said directly: "Your Majesty is wise now, so we have to be careful." After saying this, he smiled bitterly.

The next day Ma Guangzu went to the salt farm to watch the salt production.

The Xiasha Salt Field adopts a combination of boiled salt and sun-dried salt, which effectively increases the production of salt.

When Ma Guangzu came, it was summer, so what he saw was the salt-drying method.

The kitchen households first built a dam along the beach, and opened a gate on the upper and lower sides. When the sea level is high tide, the gate is opened, and the seawater pours into the salt pan by itself, and then closes the gate and starts to expose to the sun. (Usually 15.00% to [-]% salt content), then open the upper gate of the salt field, introduce the brine pool from another ditch, then settle the sediment in the pool, and finally pump the clarified brine into the crystallization pool with a pumping car, and continue drying Or steam it (when there is no sun, or in autumn and winter), and it will quickly turn into crystalline sea salt.

But what comes out in this way is coarse salt, which was also the official mass-produced salt in the past, and it is not very tasty.

The imperial court now stipulates that it should be crushed and dissolved in water, continue to precipitate, filter, and then expose to the sun (or boil) for another round, and finally get pure table salt, which is blue-black.

The salt that comes out at this time has no bitter taste, and its quality is worse than that of Xixia's green salt. It was already regarded as a high-quality salt in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This kind of salt used to be used by dignitaries to brush their teeth.

Ma Guangzu was also shocked when he saw the finished salt products on the spot. He did not expect that the quality of salt from Da Song Dynasty is so good now.

The price of this kind of salt used to be quite high, but now the price is not only cheaper, but the quality is still so good, which will definitely affect the living space of other salts.

"Ambassador Ma asked how to determine the output yesterday. Please look at the salt fields." Tang Bin pointed at the salt fields in front of them.

This salt field is considered a large salt field in Xiasha, and Yijia (ten kitchen households) are in charge of it at the same time.

The area is two hundred acres. According to the amount of seawater they evaporate in summer, the amount of seawater that can be evaporated every day is about [-] to [-] tons. Calculated with a salt content of [-]%, five to seven tons of crude sea salt can be obtained.

After secondary processing, you can probably get slightly less refined salt, which is about four to six tons in total. They usually count it as five tons.

The whole process takes about two to three days, that is, about five tons of refined salt is obtained in three days.

Ma Guangzu immediately figured it out in his heart, but he was not from a mathematics background, so he couldn't figure it out for a long time, so it was Qu Lai who handed him a note, which had already been written.

Because they use a combination of sun-cooking and cooking, you can continue cooking as long as it doesn't rain and the weather isn't very cold.

Usually, it rains and gets extremely cold weather here in Songjiang for about half of the year.

That is to say, you can dry and boil salt for six months every year. Considering that there are cloudy days and insufficient sun, the time will be slower.

Based on a five-month calculation, their required output for the whole year is one armor (ten stoves), which is 40 tons, or about [-] catties.

One lump weighs 400 million jins
The salt industry company has five salt farms and six teams, about 3000 households, about 400 people, with an annual output of [-] million kilograms of refined salt.

This output has surpassed that of the Song Dynasty, but not as good as that of the Yuan Dynasty.

However, this is the output stipulated by the court. Under the influence of rainy weather throughout the year, sometimes light rain, and even snowy days, it can be cooked, so it is basically beyond this output, but even if there is sunshine in snowy days, the salt drying time will be longer. long.

Qu Lai said at this time: "The weather was hot last month. Sometimes it rained but the sun was shining. You can continue cooking."

"The output last month was 32 catties, which was 12 catties more than the output stipulated by the imperial court."

"The imperial court's reward policy is one-fifth."

"That is, one-fifth of the selling price of 12 catties is a commission for the kitchen households."

"The other fifth is rewards from the Salt Industry Company and all officials, including Ambassador Ma."

"...Me too?" Ma Guangzu couldn't believe it.

Ma Guangzu walked around the salt field, and he knew that the imperial government's policy was quite good, and the implementation of the government was also strong, because you can't enrich your own pockets and embezzle corruption like before.

The imperial court issued a manual for each kitchen household to operate and distribute the kitchen, explaining in detail what they should do, how much money they could allocate, and how much grain they could distribute. If they could not get their share, they could report it to the local Jinyiwei or the government office at any time.

Every month, the officials of Jiaxing Prefecture and the Jinyiwei of Jiaxing Prefecture would come to the salt field to randomly check the kitchen households, did the officials of the salt field pay the money on time, did they pay correctly, did they provide food on time, and was there any shortage of food?
From time to time every year, Jin Yiwei from Lin'an and other places would come to inquire.

To be honest, at first Qu Lai and Tang Bin thought they could use excuses to deduct wages as before, but now they found that the imperial court was very strict. In the first two months after the salt tax was reformed, many officials were killed in the Liangzhe Salt Factory.

From then on, the two of them could only act honestly and follow the court rules.

Moreover, the salt factory itself distributes the money, and the local government officials distribute the grain. They dare not and cannot deduct money even if they want to.

Will the whole family lose money if the imperial court raises the kitchen household?

of course not.

In terms of Yijia (ten stoves), the annual output is at least 40 jin, and the minimum selling price of the imperial court is [-] guan.

There are ten households in Yijia, and each household is counted as five people. Even if they are all adults, the court's monthly expenditure is five guan of money and five measures of grain.

Yijia's salary for the whole year is about [-] guan of money and [-] shi of grain.

Then the imperial court will give a part of the bonus for the completed production. At the end of each year, each household will receive about ten guan qian and five shi grains.

In this way, the annual expenditure is only 100 yuan and more than [-] stone grains.

Compared to the [-] guan the imperial court received, it was only about ten percent.

For the excess output, the court can get three-fifths, and the kitchen households and officials are rewarded.

So now the salt company has regulations.

After each month's sales, one-tenth of the money is left to pay wages, and one thousand guan is left for company expenses. The rest of the money is turned over to the Procurement and Commercial Tax Department, and is turned over every three months.

Only then did Ma Guangzu know that he still had [-] yuan of expenses to use.

And the Jiefeng meal Qu Lai and the others treated him to yesterday was in this Qian Guanli.

"A thousand strings a month?" Ma Guangzu stared.

"No, it's [-] guan for the whole year." Qu Lai and Tang Bin smiled wryly.

"Then you have to save some money." Ma Guangzu said immediately.

Qu Lai and the two laughed.

At this time, the income generated by his own salt company basically appeared in his mind.

In addition to wages and rewards, about [-]% of the rest must be paid.

One armor is 30 guan, and Songjiang Salt Industry Company has five saltworks, a total of six regiments, [-] guan, and about [-] guan are handed over to the imperial court throughout the year (this is the lowest number), and more may actually be handed over.

Because the price he sells is not all fifteen cents per catty, but also twenty cents, or even 25 cents.

Songjiang's output is about 3000 to [-] million catties.

The last time he tested his strategy, the output is expected to reach 20 billion to 30 billion catties after the imperial government's restructuring. This is very likely to be achieved, because the price of salt has been lowered and the quality of salt has been improved, which will help increase sales.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the population was not as large as that of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the national output was about [-] million catties.

In the early days of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the population was 7000 million, equivalent to the population of two Southern Song Dynasties. The annual salt production reached 23 billion catties. In the 19th year of Qianlong’s reign, the imperial salt tax was more than 700 million taels of silver, equivalent to an average tax of about three Wen per catty of salt. , compared with now, it is considered a low tax.

Zhao Yurui's salt tax is relatively high, but compared with the previous ones, it is very low.

At this time, Ma Guangzu thought that if the output of salt in the Southern Song Dynasty could reach 30 billion catties and all of them could be sold, it would be no problem for the court to tax 3000 million to 4000 million guan.

Even if the output is only half, 15 billion catties, the court tax can still maintain more than 1000 million guan, which is enough to set a record in history.

(End of this chapter)