So the big guy focused his attention on Shaofu Ling Cen Mai.
Although, as everyone knows, this Shaofu Commander is now putting all his body and mind and all his energy into the preparations for Lingyan Pavilion.
The daily work of the entire Shaofu was handed over to the Shaofu Supervisor below.
But it was clear that the young superintendent was not qualified to participate in such an important meeting.
As a result, everyone can only let Cen Step, who has actually left his post and is waiting for the delivery of government affairs to the new Shaofu, take charge.
Cen Mai, but he stood up unhurriedly and accepted the order.
"Chenmai is edicted, don't dare to disobey" Cen Mai kowtowed and took the order, which made countless people's jaws drop in shock.
In the Han Dynasty, when an order was received, it had to be completed.
If you can't finish it, just wait to lose your head Cen Mai dared to accept the edict, which shows that in Shaofu's inventory, there are at least one million stone salts and millions of catties of iron in reserve.
Without this confidence, Shaofu would never dare to accept such an order.
However, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and the servant Yuan An, as well as the general Dou Ying and others, all looked thoughtful.
Zhou Yafu thought of the blast furnaces he saw in Shanglinyuan last year.
Those monsters that smelt thousands of catties of iron a day, if they operate at full capacity, regardless of cost and loss, it is not a problem to have only a million catties of iron.
What's more, now, Zhang Tang has taken root in Nanyang County.
Then, the iron-making base that the Son of Heaven said produces millions of catties of iron every year should also start construction.
Therefore, Shaofu no longer needs to have a special reserve of pig iron to deal with emergencies.
You must know that last year, Shaofu's expenditure has reached an unprecedented 20,000 yuan, which is almost the same as last year's Han military expenditure.
It is normal for such a behemoth to have a reserve of 1.8 million catties of pig iron.
What's more, there are also two relatives of Shu County, Cheng Zheng and Zhuo's full cooperation and help.
It's just a matter of salt.
Zhou Yafu was puzzled. 500,000 stone salt, I'm afraid, the entire Shaofu last year, the output of salt ponds in various places throughout the year.
That's it.
And the salt produced by the Shaofu is to supply the two palaces, the army and the various official offices.
Never take-out.
Zhou Yafu was very curious about what method Shaofu was going to use and what spells he was going to play.
Conjure up 500,000 stone salt.
Therefore, Zhou Yafu couldn't help but ask curiously: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, where does the salt and iron come from?"
The others craned their necks and waited for an answer.
Since the implementation of the salt and iron official camp in Guanzhong, a large amount of cheap salt and iron has begun to flood the market.
The salt and iron yamen under the order of the great farmer opened a salt and iron sales base in five of the nine cities of Chang'an, once every three days.
Unlimited open supply to the market.
The price of a stone of salt is about 500 to 700 yuan, and the price of a pound of iron is about 10 yuan.
This is significantly lower than the market price.
The Yantie Yamen has been established for several months, and everyone has not seen the drawbacks for the time being.
The benefits are available to everyone.
On the day when salt and iron were sold, the princes and lords of Chang'an, the giants of various yamen, and the major wealthy families in Guanzhong all sent their own families and slaves.
Carrying a cart of copper coins, and even directly holding gold, squatting at various sales points.
The cheap salt and iron supplied by the salt and iron yamen, that's all.
It was eaten by various families, forces, and interest groups with such a fair and honest means.
Ordinary people want to buy cheap salt and iron, almost a dream After these people bought salt and iron, they usually increased the price by three to fifty percent, and then sold it to the people.
All of them are full of money.
There are even some smart people.
It was found that with the passage of time, the salt and iron in Chang'an City were not easy to sell.
They shipped it to other counties in Guanzhong, doubled the price, and still made a lot of money.
Recently, the princes who made the most money in this scalping business even earned more than his feudal taxes.
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It's really enviable As a result, the government-run policy of salt and iron has been supported like never before.
In the eyes of the princes and bureaucrats.
This salt and iron official camp has simply become a policy for the Son of Heaven to distribute benefits to everyone.
As long as you go to your home, send a slave, take the money, and squat, you can get unprecedented benefits.
This is faster than risking breaking the law, exploiting and oppressing peasants, embezzling and accepting bribes, and even faster than the money bought and sold in Chang'an City.
After all, there is a risk that the capital cannot be recovered.
But this business is that as long as you use your own name and social status, you can get benefits for nothing.
There are even some undisciplined guys who buy salt, go home and mix it with soil and mud themselves, and then they can still sell it It's just that, with the passage of time, everyone knows such a way to make a fortune.
As a result, the way to get rich was narrowed.
In particular, when the Dou family, the Chen family, and the Bo family also came down, a large number of people who were not strong enough were expelled from the market Basically, now it's not a courtier, and there's no chance to even go in and get a piece of the pie.
Even the lieges can't squeeze into this food chain.
The marquis of the Han family, and now there are still people with names and surnames and feudal food, almost one hundred and fifty people.
The permanent residence in Chang'an accounts for almost half of the total number of liehous.
Naturally, in Chang'an, the term liehou will be depreciated.
But on the other hand, the princely class has a huge amount of wealth that is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
China's landlords and aristocrats have always been very fond of saving.
Like the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of silver was hidden in their cellars by the landlords and old wealthy, waiting for mold.
The Han Dynasty's liehou class, on the other hand, stored a huge amount of gold.
This gold, in most cases, ends up buried deep underground with these princes.
In addition, as lieges, they also owned a large amount of land.
Especially in their respective feudal countries, like the Tu Emperor, the liehou family with a transcendent status is almost the overlord of the local area.
Their granaries also store a large amount of grain.
Normally, these guys would rather have moldy warehouses in their homes than take out food to help the victims.
After Guanzhong implemented the grain protection price, these princes no longer transported grain from their own feudal state to Chang'an.
The price of grain in Guanzhong is no longer profitable, and of course the shrewd princes will choose to store their grain in the warehouses of the feudal country, and even, some of the smarter guys will choose to put their own feudal slaves and retainers and dependents.
He also brought it to Chang'an to eat cheap grain.
But in doing so, a problem arose that the princes certainly did not want their grain to be sold cheaply, and it was unprofitable to transport grain to Guanzhong.
Then, these grains can only be moldy at home.
Food is not like gold, just throw it somewhere and hide it.
Grain will rot and will become moldy.
It will deteriorate, long-term storage, and more cost.
And if you can't sell it, you can only throw it away in vain, and even have to pay a lot of management costs.
In the past, the princes had no choice but to watch a large amount of grain become moldy and deteriorate in the warehouses of their feudal countries.
Don't say it's them, in the official warehouse of the imperial court, such a situation.
In recent years, it has also happened that even the string of money has rotted.
This situation continues, and many lieges are actually anxious in their hearts.
Watching one's grain rot every day is the same as the capitalists of later generations pouring milk and coffee into the sea.
They desperately need to find a way to preserve the value of their property.
What better way to preserve and increase value than the conditions and policies prescribed by the Son of Heaven this time For the princes, who had a lot of privileges and property, as well as land, it was not a problem at all to transport grain from the feudal state to Pengcheng.
They have a large number of cheap laborers, even the princes of hundreds of households.
There are also dozens or hundreds of slaves in the house.
On weekdays, these people are idle, but it is better to transport grain, and they can also increase their income.
And those grains that are waiting in warehouses for mold.
When it was transported to Pengcheng, it changed hands and obtained salt and iron, which was comparable to hard currency like gold.
Not to mention a hundred stones of grain for ten stones of salt, two hundred catties of iron.
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Even if it is two hundred stones for such a quantity of salt and iron, they also have some earnings As for whether the imperial court will not pay the debt The princes were even less worried.
Three years ago, during the Wu Chu Rebellion, Chang'an's Ziqian merchant Wuyan loaned 5,000 gold to Dou Ying and Zhou Yafu as military expenses.
After the rebellion of Wu Chu was pacified.
Wuyan's even made a profit and earned back ten times the income.
Even the debts of the merchants are not bad in the court.
It will not depend on them, the heroes of the country, and the accounts of the princes who share weal and woe.
The only thing they worry about is whether the amount of salt and iron is enough You must know that any liege may come out with tens of thousands of stones of grain.
In case the grain is transported, but the Shaofu says: Oh, the prince may have to wait for half a year and a year, and wait for me to produce salt and iron.
That's miserable Who doesn't know, what Shaofu is best at is dragging It's possible to drag you for three or five years, or even seven or eight years.
After all, a single liehou can't win a lawsuit with Shaofu, one of the nine Qings.
If Shaofu can really take out so much salt and iron at one time Many princes, and even ministers, calculated their own food reserves in their hearts.
Follow the policy of the Son of Heaven, and there will be meat to eat.
This is one of the experiences summed up by the aristocratic ministers of Chang'an in the past year.
For example, last year, the Son of Heaven included wheat in the grain protection price policy, and the nobles who received the news in advance bought a large amount of cheap wheat in Guanzhong and even in Guandong, and sold it to Shaofu, earning 50 percent for more and 2 or 30 percent for less.
Then, the Son of Heaven promoted the waterwheel.
Everyone gritted their teeth, paid the money, and set up a waterwheel in their own manor.
As a result, the people below rejoiced that many of the lands that had already been fallow or even had been reduced to lower fields because the land had been exhausted had become upper fields, and the crops grew very well.
Through the erection of the waterwheel, the tax rebate obtained from the internal history has purchased many convenient and advanced agricultural tools for free.
These farm tools are very easy to use and greatly improve the production efficiency of the farm.
For example, in the past, it took four men three or four days to plough 100 acres of land.
Now, two oxen and one plow can plough more than 200 acres in one day Many noble ministers, thus benefiting immensely.
This time, if there really are 500,000 stone salts and 1 million catties of iron.
The big guy thinks that there is no need to trouble the businessmen and landlords of the world.
You can solve it in-house It's just five million stone of grain You can do it with your eyes closed Liu Che tapped his fingers lightly and answered Zhou Yafu's question with a smile: "Shaofu opened a hundred hectares of salt fields in Jiangdu last year, and now, just in Guangling City, there are no more than one million stone of salt reserves."
As soon as these words came out, countless people were shocked. salt pan Can salt still be planted, not boiled or marinated?
Everyone felt that their brains were a little insufficient.
But Liu Che didn't want to go into too much detail.
For the time being, the state needs to monopolize salt-drying technology and blast furnace ironmaking technology in order to amass wealth.
Only when the next stable source of money emerges will the restrictions on such technologies be lifted.
Of course, it's just a matter of letting go.
The state's control and strong control of salt and iron are still needed.
Salt is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and iron is the cornerstone of strategy.
These two, no matter what era they are, are still better controlled and promoted by the state as the main body.
Allowing the people to develop and manage freely is doomed to become a tragedy Shaofu Ling Cen Mai also smiled and said: "Since the beginning of this year, the salt reserves in Ao Cang have also approached 800,000 stones."
That's a total reserve of 1.8 million stones The breathing of countless ministers and nobles became rapid.
Since even salt can be conjured up so much like magic, it is not a problem to make millions of catties of iron.
Now, everyone's thoughts have changed from whether Shaofu has so much salt and iron, and whether Shaofu can give more salt and iron There is a huge gap in salt and iron in the world These 500,000 stone salt and 1 million catties of iron, not to mention the whole world, even Guanzhong, can be digested Transform the food that has nowhere to go at home into salt and iron that can be exchanged for money immediately.
For the noble princes and ministers, this was simply an irresistible temptation Liu Che looked at these ministers and nobles who were looking at him with a flattering look, and he also laughed in his heart.
The wealth, manpower and material resources of the princes were, in fact, also part of the national strength of the Han dynasty.
It's just that in peacetime, these forces are wasted.
What's more troublesome is that these guys, who don't have any concept of investment, are like a miser, guarding their wealth and resources to mold, and finally take these things together and go to the ground to rot.
Such a situation is very common in feudal society.
For example, during the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of American silver poured into China, but the Ming government caused a silver shortage, which is really laughable.
The same was true of the Han Dynasty, where the entire upper floor had a large amount of gold.
If this gold is put to good use, it will be enough to implement the gold standard.
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But on the contrary, from the emperor to the nobles below, everyone prefers to bring gold underground.
Later, Wang Mang played an unsuccessful gold and copper coin exchange mechanism.
This time, Liu Che plans to teach these guys a good lesson.
Let them know that wealth has power only when it is circulated.
Inevitable wealth is, at best, a pile of useless metal.
At the same time, it also let the Legalists know that staring at the land is no longer able to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
In the new era, the source of strength comes from the combination of industry and manpower, and it is a combination of iron and blood.
S: Wang Mang's reform of the new dynasty has a historic decision, that is, to stipulate the exchange rate of gold and copper coins, and one pound of gold is worth 10,000 yuan.
However, this is not an egg.
Basically nothing worked.
Because the nobles of the upper class don't need copper coins.
They can mint money themselves What's even more troublesome is that after Wang Mang's trouble, when he arrived in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the majority of nobles and elites felt that money was really the root of all evil So everyone slapped their butts and decided that from today onwards, we don't need any money As a result, the Eastern Han government abolished coins in the early and middle periods Cloth and grain were used as general equivalents instead.
As a result, the power and power of the Eastern Han government were greatly weakened. t1706231537: