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Since the salt monopoly began, salt merchants have always been the richest people, bar none.
Although salt merchants usually do not end well, they only last a hundred or two hundred years at most, and decline in at least ten or twenty years. However, the temptation of huge wealth still makes people want to become salt merchants one after another.
The salt merchant system of the Dakang Dynasty roughly followed the previous dynasty, and implemented the salt system of the Gang, which was divided into twelve Gangs according to the regions of the country.
However, in the Dakang Dynasty, each salt quota was 2,000,000 jins, and each quota was equivalent to one bucket or 120 jins of salt. This was somewhat different from the previous dynasty's 200,000 jins, which were five buckets or 600 jins each.
The main reason is to disperse the salt industry as much as possible to allow more salt merchants to join in, so as to prevent the salt price from skyrocketing after a monopoly.
Today, the price of salt gates to salt merchants is one or two dollars of silver. The price received from the stove households is two dollars, and the profit is as high as six times.
The converted price of salt is twelve cents per liter, but in the hands of the people, the price of salt in the nearest Jiangnan area is around twenty cents, and in the most remote northwest, it is as high as fifty cents per liter.
But this price is much lower than at the end of the previous dynasty.
When the previous dynasty was about to collapse, the price of salt in the south of the Yangtze River was as high as 60 cents per liter, and in the northwest, northeast, southeast and other regions, it was all 200 cents per liter, which caused widespread complaints and frequent uprisings.
The Dakang Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the previous dynasty, and has been vigorously suppressing the price of salt. It also actively developed economy and commerce to allow the people to make more money, so that the pressure on the people was not too great.
As a voucher for going to the salt field to collect salt, Yanyin is certainly not for white-collar workers.
The Yanzheng Yamen has an "outline book" on which the names of merchants who can sell salt are written. From this, they have a "nest book", which is equivalent to a qualification certificate.
What does nest mean?
Many history books are not detailed.
In fact, it means "not to move the nest in the outline". Just like a rabbit, if you occupy a nest, others can't get in.
Only merchants with a strong foundation can sell salt, and only then can they buy salt and sell it in designated areas.
"If you don't have a foundation, that is, if you are not in the "outline", you are not qualified to be a salt merchant. Such a big business will not be possible for you.
Theoretically speaking, nests can be passed down from generation to generation, but from ancient times to the present, the length of time that nests stay in one family is only two hundred years at most. That one is a royal relative, and the family has two queens and two queens. A prime minister and seven ministers, but with the emperor's purge, they lost their salt after falling into despair.
Such a solid relationship can only last for two hundred years, let alone ordinary people.
Those who can hold on for thirty years are considered to have a solid background. Those who can hold on for fifty years must have a strong family.
¡°There are countless people who were lucky enough to get a nest, but then it collapsed due to various reasons within a few years.
But the salt merchants did not die happily.
There are many people who decisively abandoned the salt industry after making money and became big landowners or businessmen in other industries.
This is a smart person.
Those who can retreat from the cusp of the storm and are willing to retreat are all people with great wisdom.
Today, the group of big salt merchants sitting in the study of the Minister of Salt Affairs includes all kinds of people.
As soon as Bai Hengwang returned to Yangzhou, he immediately ordered his subordinates to call all the top five salt merchants in Yangzhou to the Yamen for discussion, regardless of the fact that it was already night.
From the beginning, he explained the meaning of Emperor Jinghe's "increasing temporary salt issuance" and "thoroughly investigating excessive and indiscriminate salt issuance and rectifying salt affairs."
"Everyone, the storm is about to come." Bai Hengwang spread his hands, "Now is the time for us to work together and tide over the difficulties."
"Master Bai, if I remember correctly, when we supported the Yunmengze flood, we have already donated 500,000 taels, right?" Yuchihong, the third salt merchant, said in a deep voice: "The imperial court is in trouble, we You can consider donating, but if you do it again and again, is it too much? The tax we pay every year is the highest in the world."
"right!"
Long Yi, the fourth-ranked salt merchant, nodded repeatedly: "I just built a garden and spent more than half a million taels of silver. Now I have no way to support it!"
"What do you mean?" Bai Hengwang frowned, "You smile when you are making money, and push back and forth if you want to contribute? You must know that the emperor is serious about it this time. If you don't think of a solution??, how do we reason with them? "
"Are you just giving in?" Cai Xinfeng said in a sharp voice: "This time it is 12 million, yes, we can all come up with it. But what about next time? The next time it will be 24 million What about taels? Thirty-six million taels? What should we do then? We can¡¯t just give those stinky bumpkins the money we¡¯ve worked so hard to earn all our lives, right?¡±
Cai Xinfeng has always been stingy, but his words still touched everyone's heart.
Jiang Yuan, the second generation of salt, immediately agreed: "I think we should not buy it. Whoever wants to buy these new salts can just let them do it. In the case of the salt industry, it is not just a matter of buying salts, hum! "
Long Yi also smiled sinisterly, "Yeah, if something happens in the middle, and the cooperation of the water merchants, it may not be good!"
They all have been in the salt industry for many years, have a huge network of contacts, and have their own methods.
If someone really breaks in regardless, they don't mind punishing these stupid young people severely.
Jia Ziming looked at their vicious looks and snorted coldly in his heart.
They are all a bunch of idiots who only care about money!
"Who do you think you are if you dare to go against the imperial court?"
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Note: It took me a day to check the price of salt, the outline, Dayin, Xiaoyin, Woben etc., and read many records of ancient people, such as "History of Ming Dynasty: Food and Huo Zhi", "Zheng Que¡¤Salt and Iron", " "Salt Policy Chronicles", "Fuxing Chu Zhong's Official Letter on Salt Prices", "Ten Comments on the Salt Law Issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs", "Chinese Historical Archives (Salt Industry Chapter)", etc., but they are contradictory to each other. Very little, especially the price of salt.
For example, in the same era, one said that the price of salt in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places in the early Jiajing period was 300 to 50 cents per catty, and another said that it exceeded 300 cents.
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