I'm a big dick

Chapter 286
The wages of avarice is death.Zhu Youxiao had to admit that Yuan Shizhen's move was very powerful, and it pointed at the weakness of people's hearts.

In fact, this is indeed the case. After the introduction of the "Guide Law", salt merchants rushed to pay salt taxes in order to obtain the qualifications for hereditary operations.The salt merchants who fled also came back to resume their old business.

There is a problem, although in the short term, the Lianghuai salt administration has undergone earth-shaking changes and increased the income of the salt department.But this hereditary and monopoly is tantamount to a time bomb, which will bring big trouble sooner or later.

After Liu Ruoyu finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao also came to an instinctive conclusion.Without careful study, he knew why the salt merchants were so rich and why the common people's salt was so expensive.

But now it seems that it is not the time to reform the salt policy, or it is not appropriate to make major changes.

First of all, the disadvantages of the guidelines have not been exposed too clearly, and the salt merchants have not yet reached the time when they were as arrogant and domineering as they were in the Qing Dynasty;
Secondly, less than ten years after the implementation of the new policy, the salt import owed by China and France to the salt merchants has not been paid off, and the government is not good at speaking and is not trustworthy;
The last point is the most critical. Zhu Youxiao still doesn't know how deep the water is here.

There are too many things in it, such as how many officials have colluded with salt merchants to form interest groups; how many private salts are crowding out the market for official salt, why official salt cannot compete with private salt...

I am afraid that I will issue a secret decree to investigate the price of salt in various places, and let the eyes and ears of the East Factory inquire more about the situation of officials and salt merchants.

Zhu Youxiao didn't make a decision right away, and the crux of the "Huaiyue-Guangdong dispute" was the introduction of salt into different areas. This problem should be solved first.

After all, it was because they didn't know enough about the Ming Dynasty's salt administration, so it was understandable for Zhu Youxiao to be cautious.

Just as Liu Ruoyu resigned, the officials sent by the household department were called to come.

It stands to reason that after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the system of salt law and Taoism was implemented, that is, "the governor of the capital and the chief secretary appointed a member to take charge of the salt law". Administer salt administration.

But the emperor wanted to inquire, and the Ministry of Households still found officials who were familiar with salt administration, although the official positions were not very big.

Lin Yundai has been working in the Ministry of Household Affairs for more than ten years, and his case is hard, his appearance is older than his actual age, but he is still just a doctor.

The emperor was in a hurry to be called into the palace this time, and he couldn't find a suitable candidate, so he got this opportunity.

Feeling apprehensive and excited, Lin Yundai went in and kowtowed, and unexpectedly got a seat on the embroidered pier, which made him even more frightened.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the size of the official position. He needed to learn more about Yanzheng. He felt that the time was very long, and it was awkward to stand and play.

After thinking about it for a while, the emperor began to ask questions. First of all, it was relatively basic. How many salt-producing areas were there in the country, and how many salt farms were there under the salt areas?

Lin Yundai was really familiar with the salt affairs, so he signed his body obliquely and answered them respectfully.

The emperor continued to ask, some simple, some complicated.Lin Yundai also cheered up and tried to answer accurately so as to satisfy the emperor.

Time passed quickly, and with the understanding of salt affairs, the emperor's questions became more in-depth, and finally he asked about the division of Yinjie.

"I think the division of Yinjie is quite unreasonable. Has no one proposed to change it?" Zhu Youxiao asked with a sip of tea, frowning slightly.

Lin Yundai hesitated, and thought for a while before bowing and cupping his hands: "Long live back, the unreasonable division of the leading boundary is not a new problem. The whole court also knows it, but it is difficult to change it in the end."

Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows and asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Lin Yundai replied truthfully: "The purpose of maintaining the diversion system is to ensure that the tax collection, especially the Huai salt tax, which accounts for a large proportion, cannot be endangered. As for other things, it is difficult to take care of it."

Zhu Youxiao lowered his eyes, pondered for a while, and nodded slightly, "So that's the case, I understand."

The emperor didn't speak for a long time. Lin Yundai saw the palace man next to him give him a wink, and when he thought it was time to leave, he wanted to get up.

"What do you think is wrong with this salt system?" The young emperor suddenly raised his eyes and asked in a deep voice.

Lin Yundai hurriedly sat down on the back of the owed, thinking quickly in his mind, this question is very big, and it is really difficult to answer.

"You can say what you think." The young emperor's tone eased a little, and he said, "There is no perfect system, there will always be flaws."

Lin Yundai swallowed hard, and played back cautiously: "Back to Long live, I think the defect of the salt law and Taoism system is that there is no special permanent organization, and the relationship between the patrolling salt censor and the salt field is not the relationship between superiors and subordinates."

The corners of the young emperor's lips turned up, showing a little smile, and said: "The system is not fully constructed, and it is simply impossible for the Yan Yan Censor to manage the huge Yan Fa Dao affairs by himself."

Zhu Youxiao did not go into detail, except for the ineffectiveness of patrolling the censors and the low efficiency of supervision, the cooperation of the local government is one of the keys to the effective implementation of the Yanfa Taoism.

However, the salt law and Taoism system does not have rigid requirements for local cooperation, which is very easy to lead to local disputes and unfavorable handling of affairs.

Moreover, the relationship between Xunyan Yushi and the salt field is not the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the implementation effect has a great relationship with whether Xunyan Yushi is strong or not.If there are too many human interference factors, it will definitely lead to a large number of corruption phenomena such as collusion between officials and businessmen.

In the final analysis, Yan Fa Dao is not only an imperfect system, but also involves the ability and integrity of officials, which can still be attributed to the issue of official governance.

The taxation authority has not yet been established, and there is still a lot of talent gaps. This is another way of salting the law, and there seems to be more shortages.

Not only these two departments, Zhu Youxiao has long found that the number of local officials is not enough.How many people can there be in a county government, but it also has the functions of the county government, public security, courts, taxation and other departments, it is simply...

"There are too few officials in Yanfa Road." Zhu Youxiao couldn't help sighing.

Lin Yundai thought for a while, then bowed and said: "Long live, since the Wanli New Deal, in order to alleviate financial difficulties, Zhang Jiangling has eliminated a large number of officials. Not only are there very few officials in Yanfa Road, but local officials are also the same."

The sharp reduction of local officials has led to an official having to take on multiple positions in order to maintain the normal operation of local administrative agencies. It is also difficult for Yanfa Road officials to be responsible for their own work.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", an official named Du Shi held as many as seven positions concurrently when he held the post of Yanfa Dao, which shows that the officials in charge of the Yanfa Dao system had many tasks at that time.

Zhu Youxiao smiled wryly, and said, "Lin Yundai, right? He is very familiar with salt affairs, very good. Well, I'm a little tired today."

Lin Yundai got up quickly, saluted and left.

(End of this chapter)