What Jiang Wan said was actually a small change in the Ming Dynasty's opening of China to France.
In the third year of Hongwu's reign, Shanxi Provincial Government announced that the grain storage in Datong must be transported from Lingxian County to Taiheling. It is a long and troublesome journey. Please order merchants to put rice and one stone into the Datong warehouse, and three buckets of rice, one stone and three buckets of rice and one stone in the Taiyuan warehouse, and give Huaiyan a small amount of salt.
Yin. After the merchants finished their business, they went to the local court with the original payment to pay the money. In this way, the transportation fee was saved and the money was stored on the side. The emperor followed it and called the merchants to transport grain and salt it, which was called Kaizhong. After that, all provinces
On the border, many salt merchants were called in to serve as military reserves. The salt method was used as a border strategy to complement each other.
In the Ming Dynasty, the method of opening up the middle was implemented. The so-called method of opening up the middle is to open the food and accept the middle.
To put it simply, the Ministry of Revenue used the salt monopoly to invite merchants to bid based on the surplus and shortage of grain storage materials for border war preparations, transport military supplies to border towns, and then pay the same amount of official salt according to the actual transportation situation.
This allowed merchants to obtain official salt and sell it legally.
This process is divided into three steps.
The first is "reporting", that is, Kaizhong merchants transport materials to the border garrison according to the items listed in the Ministry of Household List, and then obtain salt.
The second is "Shou Zhi", that is, after the merchants receive the salt, they go to the designated salt field to wait for the salt as required.
Finally, there is "market exchange", that is, after the merchant withdraws the salt, he sells it to the designated area according to the quotation regulations.
Shaanxi was short of grain, but not short of salt. The Ming Dynasty had six salt envoys in total: Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Changlu, Hedong, Shandong, and Fujian.
The Shaanxi side is under the jurisdiction of the Hedong Salt Transport Envoy Si Yamen, and its governance is in Shanxi.
The main output of the salt fields in Shaanxi is rock salt, and the selected green salt is the top grade of salt. At one time, it was even purchased by the internal officials. In the Ming Dynasty, only wealthy people would use this kind of more expensive salt.
The common people basically have no connection with the green salt.
Jiang Wan's meaning is very simple. The Yan'an Prefecture directly recruits refugees to produce salt, and the Yan'an Prefecture directly takes over the rights of "reporting", and then uses the salt produced to exchange for the grain sent by merchants. For Yan'an,
This is a win-win situation for both the government and grain merchants.
The refugees were also resettled and even supported themselves.
Jiang Wan is not sure whether this idea can come true, but now that it has reached this point, he will definitely promote it. As for the lack of grain merchants, he has never worried about it. Compared with Song Gun who stayed in Yan'an Mansion, he
Some of the information I know may not all come from Jin Yiwei.
More importantly, it comes from his foresight on certain major events of this era.
For example, take the "Eight Imperial Merchants" in Shanxi.
This so-called "imperial merchant" is of course not the "imperial merchant" of the Ming Dynasty, but the rewards given to eight large merchants in Shanxi after Hou Jin entered the country and established political power. These so-called "imperial merchants"
, the reason why they were appreciated by Hou Jin and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not because of how good-looking they were, but because they actually participated in the battle between Hou Jin and Ming Dynasty.
help.
These so-called "imperial merchants" smuggled large quantities of grain, clothing, cooking utensils, as well as metals and gunpowder banned by the Ming Dynasty to the Later Jin regime; they even included the military and strategic intelligence needed by the Later Jin Dynasty to invade the Central Plains. In return, the Later Jin Tatars
Zi then exchanged ginseng, deer antlers, animal skins and valuables looted from the Central Plains.
Among them, Shanxi businessman Fan Yongdou is the most typical. Through transactions with the Hou Jin regime, the Shanxi Fan family accumulated a large amount of wealth and became the leader of Shanxi merchants.
These people are truly "traitors"!
For these people, exchanging salt for grain was an inducement. Green salt, as the finest salt, had a good market in the Ming Dynasty. However, there was also a huge market when it was sent to Houjin, and these so-called imperial merchants only
They need to send some of the grain that was originally sent to Houjin to Yan'an Prefecture and replace it with green salt. The cost they paid has not increased much, but the profit from this input and output may be doubled, or even doubled.
times.
Luuring him with a lot of money is the first step in Jiang Wan's plan. Of course, if the other party doesn't cooperate in the first step, he will have to take cruel measures directly.
He, the Nanhai Guard, was ordered to quell the chaos, and found that several businessmen in several places were not only colluding with bandits, but even colluding with foreign enemies. To wipe out these businessmen, what was the difference between killing a few ants? He didn't believe it.
Someone from the Shanxi and Shaanxi Chief Envoys would report this matter directly to Emperor Chongzhen.
Even if he sues, as long as he can produce real evidence that these people colluded with Hou Jin, and then turn over most of the confiscated property, he doesn't think that Chongzhen will think that he did something wrong in this matter.
As the new emperor ascends to the throne, the officials below may still be trying to figure out the emperor's temperament and guess how the emperor will react when faced with various things. However, as Jiang Wan who came from the emperor's side, she is more powerful than anyone else.
Everyone knows how seriously Zhu Youjian takes Hou Jin's threat to heart.
When he didn't even know that he would be destined for the throne, he once sent him to Ningyuan to personally inquire about the battle situation and observe the character and ability of Yuan Chonghuan, who became famous in the First World War. If he didn't regard Hou Jin as a mortal enemy in his heart,
The enemy, he is a rich prince, why should he be like this?
Jiang Wan would not tell anyone these things, and he did not need anyone's affirmation or approval. He only knew that what he did was correct.
"grown ups!"
Feng Wanli walked in: "Li Zicheng outside the city is a bit too talkative. You allowed him to recruit his own soldiers. He seems to have misunderstood what you meant. Today he came to me again to ask for weapons and armor!"
"Is there anything wrong?" Jiang Wan looked at Feng Wanli, who was a little depressed: "He is doing a good job. There are more than 2,000 people outside now. It is normal for him to expand the number of people for his hundred households!"
"It's not about expanding a little!" Feng Wanli's eyes widened: "He asked me for five hundred armors and weapons. Where did I change them? Besides, he has a hundred households, what does he want with so many armors and weapons? Is he rebelling?
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"Jia Jia asked the Yan'an Prefecture's treasury to find twenty pairs of cotton armor for him, and as for weapons, give him two hundred spears!" Jiang Wan pondered for a moment: "These things should be in the Yan'an Prefecture's arsenal. Tell him, right now
That's all!"
"It won't happen!" Feng Wanli hesitated for a moment: "He is a refugee, and I gave him this armor and weapon. If it were true, it would be easy for him to pull up more than a thousand soldiers and horses!"
"Then what?" Jiang Wan laughed: "First of all, the people in the city have to follow him! Secondly, he is really rebellious. I, the Nanhai Guard, are vegetarians, and Xu Qianshi's firearms camp has long been hungry.
We are so thirsty that they can’t fight for half an hour with this few manpower!”
He shook his head: "Don't think too much. He is a little too anxious. However, if he refuses to do anything for a hundred households of the sixth grade, and is willing to be a rebellious bandit, is it that our Ming Dynasty is so unpopular?