Zhu Youzhe ordered Xiao Jing to find out the memorials about salt classes.

In addition to the Ministry of Revenue, there are six other transfers from the Transport Authority.

When it comes to the reform of the Ministry of Revenue, it is cautious and caring from the court to the local government.

Zhang Yanling picked up these memorials and looked like Zhang Heling, who was standing by, came over to study them together. Maybe he felt that this kind of thing had never been exposed to before, and Zhang Yanling seemed very excited. He wanted to use his "talent", but after picking up a memorial, he couldn't understand what the official words mentioned above meant after reading it for a long time.

There were many terms that made him frown.

Looking at my younger brother, he actually read it very seriously. After scanning one book at a glance, he went to read another one.

He thought to himself: "What kind of pretending is this kid? It seems that he can understand it. Brother-in-law is so. What do we do about the salt class? Is this something we should understand?"

Turning his head and continuing to pick up a memorial, shaking his head and looking at it in a fake way.

Zhu Youzhang also explained a little when the Zhang brothers reviewed the memorial: "...Following the situation reported below, the change in the salt law of the Ministry of Revenue before was actually a temporary measure, because local stove households escaped seriously, and local official salt production was insufficient, and local areas had successively broken colors, and different places had different colors to alleviate the phenomenon of stove households escape."

"There are also changed to 400 kilograms of large inlets to 200 kilograms of small inlets. The convenience of cooking and collecting salt in stoves is still a drop in the bucket."

"According to the memorials in the court, we want to increase the price of each salt invocation, and hope to change the status quo."

Zhu Youzhang's words seemed very heavy, and he probably had no choice.

I wanted to promote the reform of the Ministry of Revenue, but just on the issue of salt reform, he could feel many difficulties. The more he promoted, the more he felt that Ye Qi had done a good job in this regard, at least he maintained the income of the court. It seemed that his reform was simply unnecessary.

Zhang Yanling put down his memorial and said, "Your Majesty, if the price of salt is increased, it seems that it can increase the income of the treasury, but if the merchants get salt at a high price, wouldn't they pay the extra part to the salt price?"

"you……"

Zhu Youxiu wanted to say something, but he didn't seem to think carefully, so he stopped talking.

"Besides, the original intention of Your Majesty to reform the Ministry of Revenue was to alleviate the disadvantages of local taxes, not to increase the harvest of the treasury. If the reform was made in the current memorial, the harvest of the treasury in the court was increased, but the price of official salt increased, and the stove households might not receive more harvests, making it harder for the people to eat salt..."

Zhang Yanling's words are pretty straightforward.

Zhou Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had just taken office and was urged by Zhu Youzhu to carry out reforms. In fact, he could not come up with the rules at all.

On the contrary, Zhou Jing established a complete salt administration system before, and the treasury revenue did not decrease. After Zhou Jing took office, he had to give up the previous salt administration, which would inevitably lead to a decrease in the treasury revenue, so he started to think about "salt auction".

Those who attract salt will get the higher price.

This is probably the most stinky trick.

But so many civil officials in the court were born in Confucian classics. How many of them understood the market economy?

They only thought that they could increase the treasury revenue so that the Hongzhi Zhongxing would not destroy Ye Qi's resignation, but they never thought that this would completely lead to the reform of the salt administration.

Zhu Youtang paused for a while before asking, "Yanling, what do you mean?"

Zhang Yanling said: "My intention is to change the color of the fold to the middle."

"ah?"

Zhu Youzing didn't say anything yet, but Zhang Heling, who was beside him, spoke in surprise at first.

Originally, the monarch and ministers, including Xiao Jing and Li Rong, were listening carefully to the conversation between Zhu Youting and Zhang Yanling, but were suddenly interrupted by Zhang Heling's voice. Zhu Youting looked at Zhang Heling and asked, "Heling, do you have any objections?"

Zhang Heling covered his mouth and found that it was too late. He was surprised that his younger brother actually said something like "broken color" and "opening" that he had never even heard of.

"I think what my brother said...is reasonable, but it really makes sense."

What else can Zhang Heling do?

I had to keep hang out.

Zhu Youzhang frowned slightly and looked at Zhang Yanling very seriously and said, "Yanling, I have only found out after I sent someone to investigate that the salt traders have made a lot of money in recent years, but it has also solved many problems in the court. What I originally thought was that it would be good to allow them to spend more money and improve the harvest of the treasury."

"As for the color change and everything is back to its original state, I'm afraid it's not a good idea."

Zhu Youzhe obviously did not agree with Zhang Yanling's suggestion.

Regardless of whether Ye Qi's reform was beneficial to the Ming Dynasty's court, at least on the surface, the salt tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was higher than before, the enthusiasm of the stove households to make salt has also increased, and the treasury revenue of the Ming Dynasty increased.

It's a win-win situation.

After changing back to its original state, Zhu Youzhang did not have any money to build water conservancy. How could he fulfill his pursuit of a wise ruler in the prosperous era?

Zhang Yanling said: "Your Majesty, is it already decided to raise the price of salt intake?"

Zhu Youzing didn't reply, which was a kind of default.

Zhang Yanling thought it was good that it was too late. If he had made a decision afterwards and made a statement, the emperor would probably not obey.

"That's the matter, too." Zhang Yanling suddenly said.

This time it was Zhu Youzhang's turn to be puzzled.

Zhang Heling, who was standing aside, was calm, and Li Rong and Xiao Jing. It was probably thought that even though Zhang Yanling had some skills, he could not make too many suggestions when it came to major problems that even court officials could not solve.

Limited ability.

"But I have another suggestion. Before entering the palace, I drew something and wanted to present it to Your Majesty for the emperor to read." Zhang Yanling suddenly said.

Zhu Youzing said in confusion: "What is it? Just bring it."

Li Rong quickly reminded: "Your Majesty, this is probably unruly."

When court officials submit memorials, they must be performed in formal memorials, even if they are secret memorials, and they cannot just say that they want to take out something like Zhang Yanling, and they must be handed over to the emperor for reading.

Then what should we do with the Ministry of Justice, the cabinet and the Ministry of Justice?

But after being glared at Zhu Youzang, Li Rong quickly stepped down and did not dare to say more.

Zhang Yanling then took out a piece of paper from his arms, drew some things on it, and handed them to Zhu Youting.

Zhu Youzhang looked at it with the candle descendants, and saw the squares on it connected together, and some small words with notes. Not to mention him, Li Rong and Xiao Jing were also confused by the side.

"Lengthenia, what is this?" Zhu Youzhang asked if he didn't understand.

Zhang Yanling said seriously: "This is a drawing of the method of making salt on the beach. If it can be implemented properly, it will greatly increase the output of the Ming official salt in the next few years, especially sea salt, which will double..."

"ah?"

The audience was shocked now.

Their first thought is, do you, Zhang Yanling, take yourself too seriously?

I would like to ask you a countermeasure, you can actually come up with a new salt-making method. Will you die if you don’t brag?

Even Zhu Youting's face twitched a few times, looked at Xiao Jing and said, "Kegong, I have asked you before, why is the method of drying salt not feasible, and how did you say it?"

Xiao Jing said seriously: "Your Majesty, there are too many debris from the salt drying, and the coarse salt is prone to moisture, so it is easy to eat... to death..."

Since ancient times, salt production in China has been used to make salt, but because I do not know how to take salt from the salt many times, the method of drying salt in the salt fields was not implemented until the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The salt and salt households in the Ming Dynasty were called stove households because they used the method of boiling salt with firewood and firewood.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Wang Fengyu wrote "A Brief Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times", citing "Shandong Salt Records", it records: "The method of boiling salt is based on the time of heaven and earth, and it is made with human power. Every spring and summer, the weather is bright and bright. Take the earth and the troughs into the plate. The four corners of the plate are one, weave reeds and block them on the plate, and apply Mirage mud around it. From Zi to Hai, it is called a hukou. The fire is six stems, and the salt is burned for six plates, and the plate is a hundred kilograms."

The manpower and material resources consumed by the decoction method are huge, and the stove owners are in a difficult situation. If the year is not good, it is easy to not be able to hand over the salt they need.

Later, the method of color-shaving was to let the stove not pay salt every year, but to pay cloth and silver, and pay according to the ratio, so that the excess stove could be sold privately.

But this will not prevent the private escape of the stove.

It was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that the beach was developed, which was said to have been invented by Fujian people.

It is also a quote from "A Brief History of Ancient and Modern Times" to quote "Shandong Salt Records": "Haifeng and other fields produce salt, and come out of the Baihai Beach and are made of drying. There is a Dakou River, which originates from the sea and is divided into five schools, listed between Haifeng and Haiying in the deep state. The river body reaches the southeast and goes far away. In the past, a person from Fujian came to report that this water can dry salt. Now the stove house is floating high and it is like a pond by the river, divided into three sections, and watered it in the section in sequence. When the water is dry, the salt is like ice."

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to build three large pools with different heights but connected up and down, use the high tide to bring sea water in, seal the pool, and then every time it evaporates to a certain stage, the water will be directed to a low point.

The solubility of sodium chloride does not change significantly with the temperature. After more than three times of halogen salt extraction, the saturation is increased to remove impurities and increase the concentration.

In addition, Zhang Yanling also wrote many of the secrets of "branding" and "branding" summarized by later generations. It can be said that it is the most complete salt-making guide for salt-making. With this guide, let each salt farm do as it does, increase by a few percent a year, and double the output in a few years.

Zhu Youzing didn't understand these things at all, so Zhang Yanling had to go to the scene to explain.

But even after hearing all the process, Zhu Youting still looked confused and said, "Yanling, where did you learn this? Why do so many great scholars know, but you know?"

Zhang Yanling said: "This method is based on the secret writing of the previous generations and the hard work of my meditation. If Your Majesty does not believe it, you can test it in the capital or the palace in the past two days, and use bitter water with a lot of impurities to imitate a small salt field. If you conduct the experiment, you will know whether my meditation's method is feasible!"

"this……"

Zhu Youzhang obviously did not believe Zhang Yanling's so-called salt-making method for sun-drying.

But seeing how Zhang Yanling said it was so convincing, since the reform of the Ministry of Revenue has not been effective at present, he was unable to make up his mind and could only look at Li Rong and Xiao Jing.

Xiao Jing quickly said, "Your Majesty, since Jianchang Bo has found the secret method of salt made by his predecessors, why not try it first in the capital as Jianchang Bo said? This bitter water is easy to make. You can just put coarse salt, fine salt, sand and dust in it and then use sea water to make such a... structure. If it is a sunny day, it will be known in one or two days to see if it is effective."

Xiao Jing has made many achievements with Zhang Yanling recently.

Anyway, if the experiment failed, he had no responsibility. He just had to push it all to Zhang Yanling. If it succeeded, he would have to make a great contribution, and it might even be kept in history.

He is not stupid, why don’t he follow Zhang Yanling?
Chapter completed!