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

Chapter 268 It's All the Mongols' Responsibility
Of course, the Qing Dynasty also had "concerns about light food", that is, there were people who could not afford salt.

Therefore, lowering the salt price is currently one of the best ways for Zhao and Rui to increase production.

Before Zhao and Rui ascended the throne, sixty Wen a catty was considered cheap in the market, and two hundred Wen a catty was available.

Now that the exit price has been reduced to fifteen yuan, it is no problem to control the selling price at around thirty yuan.

A few days later, Ma Guangzu successively saw merchants and peddlers coming to wholesale refined salt.

After the reorganization of the imperial court, anyone can approve salt, so compared with the Yuan Dynasty, there are fewer middlemen.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the price was 250 yuan per catty. After the salt merchants got it, they sold it to the shops for [-] yuan, and the shops sold it to the people for [-] yuan. The people in the late Yuan Dynasty tasted the most expensive salt in Chinese history.

Now that the imperial court has been restructured, anyone can criticize salt.

The lowest price is five renminbi for the price of salt, and ten renminbi for tax, which is fifteen renminbi.

For example, the Qu family in Qulai is also a large local salt merchant. He used to buy salt every month, but now he buys salt every few months.

Fifty thousand catties of salt are fed at a time.

Because the imperial court stipulated that the minimum price for importing more than [-] catties of salt was five cents per catty.

The Qu family has its own shop and its own sales channels. After taking it back, the cost price is fifteen yuan.

Without going out of Songjiang, the transportation cost can be ignored.

The Qujia salt shop used to sell [-] yuan a catty in Huating, but now it can only sell [-] yuan a catty, earning [-] yuan per catty.

No way, many shops also come to pick it up.

Some shops do not buy much, and only dare to buy five thousand catties. The purchase price of five thousand catties is eight yuan, and the tax is added to the cost of eighteen yuan. He sells thirty yuan and earns twelve yuan per catty.

The court's new rule is that the minimum purchase price is one thousand kilograms of salt at a time, and the maximum purchase price is ten cents.

The less the purchase, the higher the purchase price, which is to prevent small shops from affecting the interests of large merchants.

At the same time, there are restrictions on salt shops in various counties. Since there are no restrictions on how to buy salt, it is possible that a county will have ten salt shops instead of one hundred salt shops, and everyone will come to sell salt.

Therefore, the number of salt shops in each county is limited to prevent too many from affecting sales.

There are no salt shops in the local area. If you have the ability, you are not afraid of transportation, and you can sell a large amount to other places, or even abroad.

For example, in the Songjiang area, because the purchase price plus tax was only fifteen cents, there were also two Zhejiang University merchants who purchased goods for one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand and sold them by sea to Korea and Japan.

At this time, Song salt was of good quality and low price, and it was very profitable to sell it overseas.

After Ma Guangzu arrived in the local area, he was in charge of the operation of the salt industry company, and at the same time he often recorded the actual situation in the local area with a pen.

What is the monthly output and sales volume? Are salt households (stove households) satisfied with their wages, living conditions, and system? Should the imperial court adjust the price of salt produced?Is there anything else to change.

Before he left Beijing, Emperor Zhao Yurui had a private conversation with him. He needed to write a thesis report for later generations here, and report to the emperor when he returned to Beijing to report on his duties.

The emperor needs to know whether his own salt industry restructuring is reasonable, whether there are any places and problems that need to be reformed, and so on.

This Ma Guangzu is also a talent. After staying in Songjiang Salt Industry Company for two years, he returned to Beijing and wrote a thesis tens of thousands of words long. At the end of the thesis, he made a suggestion to the emperor.

The court tax can also be reduced by five renminbi, which is beneficial to salt merchants and kitchen households, because he found that Song salt is of good quality and low price at this time, and it can completely invade the markets of Mongolia, Korea, Japan and Nanyang, which can further increase production. .
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The three years (1227) to four years (1228) of Baoqing were relatively chaotic years in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yurui surveyed the grain fields in the country and reformed the salt tax, which offended a lot of landlords, officials and gentry, and also offended many scholars because of the Lizhengmen incident. , The landlords and officials and gentry who got it were also devastated. They didn't care about going against the court, and they were thinking about how to get the money back.

So the country seems to be in chaos, but there are no major incidents, and the few disturbances are quickly suppressed.

Then the court stated that it would help everyone recover their deposits.

There is no way, during the period of three to four years, Longteng Bank closed the network in various places, and rich businessmen from all over the place went to the local yamen to collect and report their swallowed deposits. When they reported to the capital in March of the fourth year of Baoqing, the total amount reached 8000 million [-] million guan, really shocked the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty.

It was only then that everyone discovered that my country, Song Dynasty, is still very rich. You must know that these people who save money to the bank may only account for a small part of the rich people in the country.

Among them, Liangzhe and Jiangnan suffered the most serious losses, followed by Fujian and Sichuan.

Sichuan was one of the top three rich places in the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, and many rich people also suffered heavy losses.

But if they know the history, they should be lucky, because in the original history, Tuo Lei led troops to break through Sichuan, slaughtered millions of people, and plundered countless wealth.

The past two years have also been chaotic two years since Zhao and Rui ascended the throne. Fortunately, they survived without any danger, and Mongolia just went back to compete for the Khan throne. Harmony and domestic chaos were quickly quelled by Zhao and Rui.

In April of the fourth year of Baoqing, when Emperor Zhao Yurui was in power, he announced the results of the investigation on Longteng Bank.

The results of the investigation shocked the ministers and wealthy businessmen all over the world.

Zhao Yurui said that after more than half a year of investigation by Jinyiwei and Huangchengsi, they even sent agents to go deep into the northern countries. (Alluding to Jin and Meng, especially Meng.)
This matter was done by domestic profiteers colluding with external forces. Their mission is to take away the wealth of our Great Song Dynasty and weaken our national strength.

This external force, through propaganda from various places, almost clearly refers to the Mongols.

The imperial court said that after they received the deposited money, they would go north by sea and transport it directly to Yanjing. back.

In mid-April, the ship was first pulled to Qingyuan Mansion, and then to Lin'an, where it toured along the coastal cities.

At that time, the pier was full of people. Everyone saw that it was indeed different from the Song Dynasty ship. It was a northern ship with wounds everywhere. There were also some Mongolians and northern Han people who were taken with the ship. It was said that they were Long Teng. The people behind the bank.

The people roared and threw rotten vegetables and stones on the street, almost killing these people.

Teahouse storytellers from all over the country also talked about the Mongols' shameless means of defrauding the people of the Song Dynasty for money.

Originally, people in China hated the Jin people the most, and hated the Jin people the most. After the propaganda of Emperor Zhao Yurui, some people began to hate the Mongols.

But at the official level, the imperial court has always said that it is the north, and does not explicitly refer to Mongolia.

Only in private, when people talk about it with wealthy businessmen and gentry, they will definitely refer to the Mongols.

The Mongols are so bad, they got us a lot of money, so we can have money to fight gold.

In late April, the imperial court beheaded more than 100 people in Lin'an.

It is said that Longteng Bank was all caught.

In addition, more than 1000 million money and clubs that did not come and were transported away were found. The imperial court will give priority to compensation to some bills that are still there, and the losses are relatively heavy. (In fact, there was no opposition to the imperial court in the previous survey of grain fields, salt tax reform, and Lizhengmen incident.)
The Longteng Bank incident severely peeled off layers of skin on the wealthy officials and gentry of the Song Dynasty. The court acted righteously and recovered a lot of losses. Emperor Zhao and Rui once again received praise from the people.

At the same time, various banks such as 'Bafang Bank' and 'Credit Bank' are also frantically saving money in the Kingdom of Jin and Mongolia.

When Lin'an City was beheading people, 17-year-old Cao Youliang was leaving the teahouse proudly.

Cao Youliang was the younger brother of Cao Youwen, the Secretary of the Imperial City. Historically, he and his elder brother Cao Youwen died in battle in Sichuan.

But at this time, he was still young, and he didn't get a Jinshi. He often went to a teahouse to be responsible for storytelling in the gaps between his studies.

The theme he said today is that the Mongols have no responsibility?
He used a lot of so-called "evidence" in the teahouse, and he almost said that it was the Mongols who were engaged in the wealth of the Song people.

Because the national strength of the Jin Kingdom is now weak and Mongolia is rising, where does the financial resources for the rise of the Mongols come from?

How could a powerful empire, a brave army, and a powerful armament without enough military pay be so strong?

This statement is very popular in teahouses, people who don't know the truth listen to it with gusto, of course, the wealth of the rich is harvested and it's none of the common people's business, everyone is still happy to hear it, but the rich people in Lin'an City are not happy, it turns out that they are all out of Mongolia People are playing tricks.

Today, after Cao Youliang finished speaking in the morning, he suddenly left, and not long after, he arrived at the Jinyiwei Lin'an County Guard under the Imperial City Division.

The Jin Yiwei who guarded the gate were all familiar with him, so they shouted from afar.

"Cao Sanlang."

"Hey, Officer Liu."

After the two parties greeted each other and said a few words, Cao Youliang entered Jinyiwei. Several people who looked like scholars had already entered before him, and everyone gathered in one room.

A member of Jin Yiwei was talking to everyone, and there was some noise in the room.

A scholar said, I followed the script, but when it came to His Majesty's measurement of the field, someone threw something at me in the teahouse, and I almost got into a fight with him.

That head asked with a serious face, "Do you know who it is?"

"The youngest son of Mr. Liu, a wealthy family in the east of the city, has a lot of fields in his family, so he must not like it." The scholar shouted.

"Okay, he dares to throw something at you, don't worry, I will ask the Imperial City Secretary to teach him a good lesson this afternoon, dog, is this against the imperial policy and His Majesty's will?" All heads put down the harsh words fiercely, the scholar listened very satisfied.

At this time Dutou took a string of copper coins from the table: "This is today's, three hundred Wen."

"Thank you, Dutou Liu." The scholar happily walked out of Jinyiwei with three hundred copper coins on his back.

These people are the same as Cao Youliang, helping Jin Yiwei to tell stories in various teahouses, three hundred words a day.

As long as it is said that in the morning, you can get nine guan coins a month, and only copper coins are issued. This salary is quite high now.

But Cao Youliang doesn't have much time, and he speaks about ten times a month.

Liu Dutou also knew him very well, so he greeted him first and gave him three hundred Wen.

Cao Youliang took the money and went out, still wondering why the officials did this?

As far as he knew, there were storytellers not only in the capital, but also in all important state capitals across the country. Jin Yiwei, a subordinate of the Imperial City Division, was responsible for distributing the money, which cost a lot of money every month.

Every time they receive the money, they need to sign and draw a deposit. Last month, someone from the Imperial City Department came to ask if he had received the three hundred cash each time, and whether the Jinyiwei had withheld it.

But Cao Youliang could see that after the government's publicity, the people of Lin'an City now have another hobby, which is to go to teahouses to listen to books.

It seems that the officials attach great importance to the Mongols and are on guard against the Mongols.

He thought that the themes he talked about today were all manuscripts given by Jin Yiwei, which obviously wanted to arouse the hatred of the Mongols among the people.

He couldn't help but think that the next imperial examination might take this exam?
Cao Youliang walked halfway, bought a chicken and went home, and found that the price of chickens in Lin'an City had now risen to ninety renminbi.

Recently, prices have become more and more expensive. It seems that ordinary people are richer.

It should be that the meeting is worth more, and everyone's spending power has increased?

As soon as Cao Youliang brought the chicken back to the door of the house, bang, he saw the door opened and someone rushed out.

With quick eyes and quick hands, he grabbed it.

It was Cao Chi, the ten-year-old son of the elder brother Cao Youwen.

"Where are you going?" Cao Youliang grabbed him and shouted, "Don't you have class today?"

Cao Chi was holding something in his hand, and he shook it vigorously, but he couldn't shake it off, so he could only say, "get out of class ends early in the morning."

"I'm going to take to the streets to promote it."

Cao Youliang asked, "What are you promoting today?"

"Tax reduction and exemption will benefit the people."

"Tax reduction?" Cao Youliang was taken aback when he heard it. Now it is rumored that the emperor will impose heavy taxes after measuring the grain fields. Why is the tax lowered and tax exempted now?

Then it is estimated that the content of storytelling will also be tax-free in the future?
Just when he was stunned, Cao Chi shook him hard again, directly throwing him away, thud thump, and ran away with strides.

After a while, Cao Chi met several teenagers at a street corner.

"Li Tingzhi."

"Cao Chi"

The leading boy on the opposite side is Li Tingzhi, who is younger than him.

The two parties said hello to each other, and then began to trot down the main street, yelling as they ran.

"Your Majesty's new policy, tax exemption and tax reduction, Tian Shao's people are blessed."

"For the first time in the history of the founding of the country, it is rare in history, and the Song Dynasty is exempt from taxes."

"Your Majesty is a sage, an eternal king, exempting the people from taxes."

The teenagers ran along the west side of the street to the east side of the street, and then at the intersection of the street, they found the other teenagers coming from the other side. The two sides laughed and cursed a few times, and then separated again.

The teenagers ran for about half an hour, their voices were almost hoarse, and people stopped them from time to time on the road, asking what kind of tax was exempted.

The teenagers shook their heads, they didn't know, they were waiting for the new policy of the imperial court.

These teenagers often ran around calling out on the streets of Lin'an, and now everyone in Lin'an City knew that they were the weathervane, once they called out something, the court would basically do something.

There are also other teenagers who tried to yell indiscriminately, and their legs were almost broken.

The teenagers who can shout on the street all have uniform clothes, and they are students from the junior class of Lin'an Taixue.

This youth class was established after the emperor ascended the throne. It specially selected young nephews and nephews from among the confidantes to study for free, and there was a unified imperial uniform.

They shouted in the street, which basically represented the new policy behind the imperial court.

The tax exemption thing this time really shocked everyone in Lin'an City.

After running for half an hour, Cao Chi and the others were exhausted and came slowly to a restaurant.

This is one of Qin Zhuo's many restaurants in Lin'an City.

Someone at the door saw them and yelled: "Young officials are here, let's serve."

Several teenagers ate a full meal inside, and before leaving, each of them got another ten Wen, and went home happily.

(End of this chapter)