Swoosh!
Li Shimin was a little angry when he heard Yap Liangchen say that controlling the salt industry would lead to national subjugation.
Zhen kindly helped you get the post of Salt Commissioner, and you actually said that the Great Tang was about to be destroyed.
This kid was even more detestable than Wei Zheng.
Pah!
Since Yap Liangchen was able to get into the Imperial Capital University of Arts, his history would not be too bad.
He knew the disadvantages of controlling the salt industry.
During the Song Dynasty, the imperial court monopolized iron, salt, and tea.
During the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court monopolized iron, salt, wine, tea, vinegar, and aluminum.
This policy was fine at the beginning, as it could increase the revenue, but in the middle of the dynasty, the policy would change.
Take salt for example. The current market price was ten wen per bucket. If the imperial court monopolized the salt industry, the price would be fifteen wen.
Every time the common people bought a bucket of salt, the court earned a net profit of five wen of salt tax.
However, after a period of time, the imperial court would have no money to help the refugees, so they would raise the price of salt to twenty wen.
The imperial court did not have the money to buy armor, so it continued to increase. Thirty wen…Fifty coins…100 coins.
Rise, rise, rise.
To put it bluntly, monopolizing salt was a means to exploit the people.
The people's money had been used to buy salt, where would they have the money to buy food? Sooner or later, they would rise up.
Thus, controlling the salt industry and setting up a salt tax was the first straw that crushed the people.
Yap Liangchen thought about it and said to Old Li,""Old Li, this regulation of the salt industry can increase the tax revenue of the court in the short term, but it will definitely be a disaster in the long run.”
Heh.
Li Shi Min chuckled. This kid was still too young. He said,
"That Huo Qubing went deep into the desert, killing the Outsiders and spreading the might of the Great Han.”
As soon as these words were said, there was silence. Uncle Black, who was nearly 60 years old, was burning with passion. He was convinced by Old Li that the imperial court should control the salt industry and that it was fine for the commoners to pay some money.
Yap Liangchen had finished reading it since junior high school. He said casually,"
"Old Li, then I want to ask you. In his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to punish himself. After years of war, the salt tax gradually increased, causing the people to complain endlessly.”
"The people almost rose up because of the heavy taxes. Is this a sign of national subjugation?”
"Fortunately, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stopped at the brink of death. In his later years, he issued an edict to admit his mistake and recuperate.”
Li Shimin was speechless.
"If we rise, the people will suffer. If we die, the people will suffer.”Yap Liangchen didn't. He had stayed in the Ye Family Village for a few months, so he was very familiar with the situation.
The commoners just wanted to eat their fill. Whoever did not let them eat their fill, they would kill whoever was forced into a corner.
Li Shi Min was the Emperor, so he was not willing to be convinced. It would be embarrassing. He asked,"Then do you think that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was wrong to expand his territory?”
Remembering the news he had heard in the tavern, Yap Liangchen smiled and said in a low voice,"
"Old Li, is the national treasury out of money again?”
He then said calmly,
He looked at the child with great confidence.
Li Shimin finally calmed down and thought about it carefully. Fang Xuanling's salt tax seemed to increase the finances, but it was actually exploiting the people.
In the Qin and Sui Dynasties, taxes and corvee were too heavy, causing the people to rebel. This uprising from the bottom up was the most terrifying.
Unfortunately, the decisive Du Ruhui isn't here. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so conflicted.
The other party had introduced him to a job, but he had said that the salt commissioner was not good. This was too heartless.
Old Li muttered,
"If we don't set up the Salt Administration Department, how can the Imperial Court be rich?”
Suddenly, Li Shiming looked at Ye Liangchen with a burning gaze." I forgot that this kid is a celestial. He has the ability to turn water into ice. He can turn stone into gold."
"Liangchen, do you know how to turn stone into gold? Turning stones into silver was also possible. One tael of silver could be exchanged for one coin.”
If Yap Liangchen wasn't Li Shiming's son, he would have sent the Imperial Army to lock him up in a small dark room and make him turn gold out every day.
At that time, the imperial court's finances would really be endless.
Yap Liangchen: "???"
That's saltpeter to make ice. If I could turn stone into gold, I wouldn't have opened a small shop to support my family.
"Old Li, let me tell you a secret.”
"In a few days, the Ye Family Village will have rice ripen.”
Isn't it normal for rice to ripen? Li Shimin asked with a puzzled look,
"And then?"
"Those rice grains are all new varieties, and they can produce 3000 catties per mu.”Yap Liangchen said.
Li Shi Min was shocked and then picked his ears.
"Three thousand jin!"
Yap Liangchen told this secret to Old Li. After all, Old Li and his aunt had helped him decide on the position of salt commissioner. He was full of love and said,
"My idea is that monopolizing the salt industry is only to compete with the people for profit and plunder the wealth of the people. It is not the way to strengthen the country. If you want a strong country, you can only farm."
Li Shi Min felt that it was possible when he saw how confident the other party was. He said in a trembling voice,
"Liangchen, where did these new varieties of rice come from?”
"If we can really produce 3,000 mu per mu and change the entire Great Tang, then I, Old Li, will have to take my wife and children to the fields to transplant rice seedlings.”
"Liangchen, are you really a disciple of an immortal family?”
"Hey! Why aren't you saying anything?"
Yap Liangchen didn't mention anything about the new type of rice. It was related to the System, so he couldn't tell anyone. He just drank his tea.
Looking at this handsome and refined white-robed youth who was sipping his tea carefully, he was like a banished immortal.
First, there was the ability to congeal water into ice, and now it's 3,000 per mu. Stop pretending. You must have been taught by an expert.
My son Liangchen has a military strategy in his heart, and he is the son of an immortal.
Li Shi Min felt very happy as if he had picked up a treasure.
If the Ye Family Village could produce 3,000 catties of grain per mu, why would they have a Salt Bureau?
Looking at it this way, Liangchen really had the bearing of an emperor!
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