Happy New Year to all How much is a pound of salt, and how much salt will be overissued by the imperial court Li Shimin directly asked people to announce the decree, summoned the prime ministers into the palace, and asked for their opinions.
At this time, it was evening, the prime ministers were all on duty and went home, and they were about to have dinner, when they received an edict from the emperor, no one had to delay the third and fourth like Li Chao, and they were all in a hurry to enter the palace.
Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui met at the gate of the palace, dismounted and entered the palace together, and while trotting, he wondered if the Turks had already called When he entered the palace, Li Shimin talked about salt.
A Chinese scholar made a waiter, and the second monk was puzzled. hurriedly summoned the prime minister to the palace to talk about salt "If there is no salt tax, there will be no Datang" When Li Shimin opened his mouth, he said a sentence that shocked the two prime ministers, and when the other prime ministers arrived, Li Shimin said it again, and everyone was shocked by this.
No salt tax, no Datang But the salt tax is only a million a year Then Li Shimin naturally talked about the salt tax reform, what kind of salt brand salt leads to salt debts, over-issuance, private property, official collection and sales, etc., a series of new terms, in fact, they have just been learned here by Li Chao, but the results of the current sale are good.
Fang Xuanling looked directly at Li Chao, the meaning in his eyes was obvious, this must be another famous hall you got it, Li Chao smiled.
"I think it can be overissued, with a demand of 3 million leads, and a direct 10 million leads.
After listening to the causes and consequences, Gao Shilian felt that salt introduction was a good way, since the emperor said that he needed 30 million yuan, then make it simpler.
One quote is 100 catties, and it is sold for 3,000 yuan, which is 30 yuan per catty.
"It's too expensive, in the early years, a pound of salt was only ten cents, even if it has risen a little in the past two years, it is not so much."
Yang Gongren felt that the price was too high, a pound of salt cost 30 yuan, this is only the price of the government's unified sales, and there is distribution and retail below, what will be the price at that time, and the people will not eat salt That's how much is appropriate Everyone started talking.
It is not easy to set the price, and it has to be considered comprehensively, not only considering the affordability of the people, but also considering the fundraising of the imperial court, as well as the interests of salt merchants and salt farmers.
Some people suggested that the imperial court should simply run the salt factory and sell the salt by itself, so that the interests of all links would be obtained by the imperial court.
However, as soon as this layman's words came out, Li Chao immediately objected.
The imperial court is the administrator, the overseer, not the operator.
If you really want the court to do it, it may not be stronger than the businessman, just like a simple truth, the court does it, it is a big pot of rice, and the enthusiasm may not be high, and it will bring a big management cost problem.
Li Chao insisted on stressing that it is necessary to follow the path of private enterprises collecting and selling business, and we must not change it.
"On the issue of salt prices, I think we can set the price in different areas."
Seeing that everyone was arguing, Li Chao put forward his own opinions.
If you don't come out with some dry goods, it is estimated that the prime ministers will not be able to fight for anything for a long time.
"I think we can divide Datang into four salt areas: northern, southeastern, Jiannan and Guangnan."
Li Chao said that there is a reason why Datang is divided into four salt areas, and it is not southeast and northwest, but northern, southeastern, Jiannan, and Guangnan.
Nowadays, in the north of Datang, the main marketing products are Jieyan, Hedong salt, Northeast salt, and Haiyan from Hebei and Henan.
According to the type of salt, there are pond salt and sea salt, and if it is processed, it can be divided into grain salt and end salt.
Grain salt is coarse salt that has not been processed and refined, and final salt is processed fine salt.
In general, granular salt is cheaper than fine salt, and sea salt is cheaper than pool salt.
Among the salt eaten in the north, the salt in Hedong Jiechi has the most production and sales and the highest price, followed by the salt in the northeast of Hedong.
Northeast salt is famous for its large amount of sea salt, but sea salt also has a disadvantage, that is, it is on the northeast coast, and the cost of transportation to the north inland is high.
It is not as good as the salt of the Jiechi, it is close to the Yellow River, in the center of Guanzhong, Hedong and the Yellow River, and it is also close to Hebei.
Li Chao remembered that in the Tang Dynasty, the salt monopoly was originally engaged in salt monopoly, which was ten yuan per pound of salt, and then the tax was increased Baiwen, and in the late Tang Dynasty, the price of salt was more expensive, which led to countless illegal salt dealers taking risks, and finally those rebel leaders in the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi, Wang Jian and other heroes, almost all of them were born as illegal salt dealers.
Ten pounds of salt is not too expensive in the Tang Dynasty, but the tax of ten times the price of salt is very high.
Li Chao remembered that salt was also quite expensive in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the price of salt in the north was generally forty or fifty wen a catty, and there were multiple grades of salt, but it was probably forty or fifty yuan a catty.
In Shuzhong, because of the narrow land of salt, in order to ensure the profit of salt, the imperial court set the price of salt very high, 400 wen per catty of salt, which is directly ten times the price of salt in the northern region.
During the period from Taizong of the Song Dynasty to Taoism, the imperial court uniformly stipulated: "All grains of salt and the end of the salt are bucketed with five catties."
The selling price of salt ranges from forty-four to thirty-four dollars per catty, and there are three grades.
The selling price of salt at the end ranges from forty-seven to eight cents per catty, and there are thirty-one grades. ” Later, the imperial court ordered the price of salt in Shuzhong to be halved, and the high price of 200 yuan per catty of salt has been maintained since then.
As far as the northern region is concerned, there is not much difference in salt solution, the quality is better, and there are many differences and grades in sea salt.
At that time, in the northeastern part of Hedong, salt ponds in Honzhou or Fenzhou in Hedong were mostly used, and because of the poor quality of the salt in these salt ponds, the price of salt purchased by the government from the salt people at that time was only 6 to 8 wen per catty, but the price of selling it to the households was 36 wen, and the profit was five or six times higher when it changed hands.
The southeast salt area drawn by Li Chao refers to Huainan, Jiangxi, Jiangdong, and Shannan, all of which are salt from the southeast coast, and the price in the Song Dynasty was slightly lower than that in the northern region.
In the Song Dynasty, the people in the southeast had to use more than three buckets of rice to buy a catty of salt, which shows that the price of salt is also very high.
Guangnan, in fact, is Lingnan, the price of salt in Lingnan is much cheaper, there is more salt there, so the price of salt is low, several times cheaper than the southeast, the salt in the Song Dynasty is calculated according to five catties a bucket, and the price of salt in Guangnan is about ten cents.
In the Song Dynasty, it can be said that in different regions, the output of salt was different, and the price of salt was also different.
The cheapest is Lingnan and other places, a catty is only about ten Wen, then the northern region, a catty of salt is more than 40 Wen, and again in the southeast region, a catty of salt is more than 50 catties, and the most expensive is Shuzhong, a catty of salt costs 200 yuan.
"The purchase price per catty of salt, how to unify the five texts" Li Chao put forward an official standard for salt collection.
Although the price of salt varies from place to place, Li Chao feels that for now, it is better to directly set a unified purchase price.
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Du Ruhui shook his head.
"In the past, salt farmers didn't need salt licenses, and there weren't many taxes, so it was still profitable to sell salt to salt merchants at a lower price.
But if we want to get these salt cards, and we have to levy business tax on them, etc., then the purchase price of five wen per catty is a bit low.
The price should be raised, or who would want to make salt."
Nowadays, all kinds of prices are unstable, and it is indeed difficult to get food.
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