In ancient times, there was a saying that a bucket of rice buys a pound of salt, and in a normal year, it may only cost 20 yuan for a bucket of rice, but now a bucket of grain is at least 200 yuan, so this price is not easy to handle.
"Now the price is really expensive, it is better to do this, tentatively set 300 catties as a citation, each quotation of 10,000 yuan.
The purchase price for salt farmers is 2,000 yuan per quote," Li Chao thought for a while.
One lead is 300 catties, and the purchase price is 2,000, that is, it is less than 7 cents per catty, which is nearly 2 cents higher than the five cents per catty just mentioned, which is an increase of nearly 40 percent, and it cannot be said to be less.
Everyone then reckoned with each other.
One lead 300 catties, the official unified price is one lead two yuan, and selling to salt merchants is one lead ten yuan, one in and one out, and the government earns eight times a lot.
The people need at least one million salt a year, that is, they can earn 8 million.
If it is overissued by two or three times, it will be able to raise about 20 million yuan of salt at once.
This is not counting the business tax levied from salt farmers and salt merchants, and it is estimated that it will collect a lot.
Even if it's less than 30 million, it's still 20 million, and it's exciting to think about.
"One quote of ten thousand, the official sales price is more than thirty-three wen per catty, and the salt merchant has to increase the price, so how can the price of salt be forty or fifty wen a catty, if this law is implemented, I am afraid that the people will suffer a lot."
Fang Xuanling said worriedly.
"I don't think it should be divided, if it is divided, then the official sales price must be different, and then the imperial court should not implement zoning sales for salt merchants If zoning, how to ensure that salt merchants do not sell to each other across the border, whether the purchase price and sales price of each district of the imperial court should be adjusted In this way, the management cost will be greatly increased, I propose, or the unified purchase and sales, the uniform price of all salt, every two thousand yuan to buy, the unified price to sell, every ten thousand yuan to quote."
Li Shishi suddenly interrupted Fang Xuanling's words at this time and asked, "What about the salt tax, how to collect it?"
The prime ministers were silent one by one.
In fact, what you just said about selling for 10,000 yuan per 300 catties of unified sales means that taxes are already included in it, so that an average of 33 yuan per catty is more than a little money, which is not cheap.
But now Li Shimin suddenly asked about the salt tax, obviously meaning that he was not satisfied with this price.
The reason why Li Shimin was dissatisfied was very simple, according to this plan, the imperial court could raise a maximum of 20 million yuan, which was still a case of several times more salt.
Li Chao lowered his head and didn't want to speak.
It is said that the price of salt in the Northern Song Dynasty is high, but according to the records of the Song Dynasty Currency Chronicle, the salt is quoted for each sheet, and the salt is 1165 catties, and the price is six times.
In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, more than 300 million catties of salt were produced a year, and under normal circumstances, the annual salt tax was more than 10 million yuan.
Now Li Chao and the others plan to oversend the point, plus the high price of salt, to get 20 million yuan a year, but Li Shimin is not satisfied.
It's really a bit of a lack of people's hearts.
"I think thirty-three wen a pound of salt is too cheap, and now the rice is two hundred wen.
It is said that the rice is a pound of salt, or we will come to the price of salt and rice."
As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, the faces of the prime ministers changed.
Fighting rice and salt, that is the normal years, now it is the famine years, the price of this grain has gone up to the sky, it is a very abnormal time, how can it be according to the price of rice at this time However, Li Shimin insisted on raising the price.
In the end, everyone was a little helpless.
Li Chao felt that he could make some concessions, the unified sales price was 40 wen per catty, 300 catties was 12 guan, and after the cost of 2,000, there were still ten guan.
The imperial court issued 1 million salt citations, and you could make a profit of 10 million yuan.
If it is doubled, it is 20 million.
"If there are too many over-issuances, there will be endless troubles, so it is better to simply increase the price."
"In this way, the unified purchase is still 2,000 for every quote, and the unified sales are 12,000 for every quote, plus double the tax, and for every 24,000 for the salt merchants, it will be doubled."
Li Chao immediately came up with a number in his heart, according to Li Shimin's method.
One salt profit is ten, and the tax is twelve, and the cost can be almost ignored.
If it is sold for 1 million yuan, it will be 22 million, and if it is overissued, it will be 44 million.
It's really a way to make a fortune.
The problem is that if you do this, the price of salt will not rise by a fraction.
The wholesale price that the salt merchants get is more than 66 wen per catty, how can they sell it at a higher price, a catty is definitely more than 70 wen, it is estimated that it will be more than 70 wen a catty, if the imperial court levies their business tax again, it is estimated that they will also transfer this part to the people, and finally a catty of salt is estimated to be 80 wen.
That's the least.
From 10 wen per catty to 80 wen per catty, it skyrocketed sevenfold.
What will the people think?
Li Chao said that it had risen too much, and it suddenly rose so much, I was afraid that the people would complain.
But this time Li Shimin did not listen to the advice, thinking that now that the national crisis is at the head, the imperial court used to pour relief for the people, and now the northern Hulu threatens, and the imperial court must resist it with all its might.
The so-called taking from the people is also used for the people, and the money collected is not for him to enjoy.
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When he said this, Li Chao couldn't persuade him anymore.
What Li Shimin said also has some truth.
As for the price of salt, if a household eats forty or fifty catties of salt a year, it originally cost four or five hundred yuan to buy salt that year, but now it has three or four thousand yuan.
It's going up very high.
But Li Shimin also said that now prices have risen sharply, and a bucket of rice is 200 yuan, and a stone of rice is 2,000 yuan.
A pound of salt sells for sixty or seventy yuan, which is not high.
Li Chao thought about the reform of the salt law in the Tang Dynasty and directly increased the salt tax ten times on the price of salt, and thought about the high salt price in the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, and knew that this was actually the inevitability of development.
The imperial court needs money, and it can always find a way.
However, Li Chao still felt that the rise was too sudden and too high.
"Your Majesty, in fact, I still have a follow-up plan, and I haven't had time to talk about it just now."
"What is it, tell me about it" Li Chao didn't want to say this, so he had to say it at this time.
"The minister thought that the imperial court could set up a company in the salt industry."
"Company" Li Shimin frowned.
Isn't the company another name for a commercial house, an unprecedented thing for the imperial court to run a commercial house.
"That's right, the imperial court established a company, but it was controlled by the imperial court.
The imperial court could raise share capital by issuing shares and selling them to merchants.
For example, if the imperial court issues new shares for the first time, it can raise more shares, for example, raise 10 million or 20 million yuan. ” "Just like Sihai Trading Company" Li Shimin already knew that Sihai Company's stock circle was very powerful, and the shareholders of other commercial banks had to pay dividends every year.
The stocks of Sihai Company are good, there are various levels, and many people have no decision-making power at all when they have stocks in their hands.
And the company does not promise to pay dividends every year, which means that they can share if they want to share if they don't want to share the stocks in your hand for the time being.
Although owning stocks is a shareholder, this kind of shareholder is really eye-opening.
If the imperial court also set up a Tang salt company, issue stocks, take out one or two percent of the shares, issue shares to raise shares, and then take the money to the imperial court for war purposes, wouldn't it be good. embezzled the shares raised by the Tang Salt Company to the imperial court to fight, Li Shimin felt that it was justified that the Tang Salt Company belonged to the imperial court.
As for dividends and dividends to shareholders, we will talk about it when we have money in the future.
"That's a good idea."
Li Shimin was very satisfied.
"Your Majesty, is it okay to consider not raising the price of salt so high for the time being?"
Li Shimin thought for a while, "Wenyuan, are you asking for your life for the people, then the unified purchase is still two thousand, the unified sales are twelve thousand, and the tax is three thousand." ” In this way, the official wholesale price of a pound of salt is 50 wen, and the distribution and retail price of salt merchants is estimated to be within 60 wen.
A pound has lost more than a dozen dollars.
Li Chao was not very satisfied, but Li Shimin had already waved his hand.
"Okay, this matter is settled, first print 1 million citations, and then overissue 1 million, and then set up this Tang Salt Company as soon as possible, and then take out 10% of the shares to issue and raise 10 million shares."
Li Shimin calculated, 1 million salt quotes, that is, 15 million guan, in addition to 2 million capital, there will be 13 million salt profits, double the overissuance, then it will become 26 million, and then issue 10 million salt shares, that is 36 million.
Well, so much money, enough to do business with the Turks.
"Okay, now that the matter of money has been settled, let's discuss how to deal with Tongye Hu and the Turkic white-eyed wolves."
Li Shimin flicked his sleeves and came to the map.
The latest news, the little Khan of Tuli has indeed defected to Tongye Hu.
For him, although Tong Yehu was the Great Khan of the Western Turks, the Western Turks were also a branch of the Turkic royal family that went out to explore the Western Regions, and it was better to defect to him than to defect to the Tang Dynasty.
So far, Tuli doesn't understand that he was put on a table by Datang.
Therefore, he would rather defect to Tong Yehu than to Tang.
And the Tiele people in Mobei, in the last battle with Tong Yehu, were greatly injured, and now they are far away from the north.
Datang has no other choice now, Tong Yehu is coming soon, and this battle is inevitable.
"Let Tang Jian send an envoy to Mobei to see if he can delay Tongye for a while and send him some gold silk jewelry.
Negotiate the conditions with him, no matter what conditions Tong Yehu proposes now, we can pretend to agree to him for the time being. ” Although Li Shimin decided to start fighting, the more this happened, the more careful he became.
Li Chao is right, Tong Yehu is now strong and strong, and it is the time to win the ocean, so he can't be tough, he has to find some way to outwit him.
Yu Wenshi proposed that he should send someone to contact the Yi Nan of Xia Xue Yantuo.
"The Yi male soldiers are defeated, what's the use of looking for him" "Although Yi Nan was defeated, the wars on the grassland were almost the same, even if he lost, he would not be defeated all at once, as long as he packed up his soldiers and horses, Yi Nan's strength was not much of a loss.
The key is whether he has the courage to fight again, as long as we Datang contact him and show our determination and attitude to start a war with Tong Yehu, I believe that Yi Nan will definitely send troops to cooperate with us.
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There are Yi Nan in Mobei, who can contain a lot of troops for us to protect the leaves. ” Yu Wenshi and Li Chao who said these words were impressed, and they couldn't imagine that this old man would have such a powerful side.
Li Shimin nodded, feeling that it was always good to have multiple helpers at this time.
Still, he raised a more important question.
"I'm going to send Sun Wuji back, and if something so big happens, it's not suitable for him to continue to stay in Shuofang."
Speaking of this, his gaze swept among the prime ministers, and finally stopped on Li Chao's face.
"Wen Yuan, I chose you to be in command, and you will command this battle in the north, do you dare to respond?"
Li Chao was not surprised and excited, and said lightly, "The minister recommends Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo, who is old and strong, a late bloomer, and uses soldiers like a god, so he can be handsome." ” Li Shimin shook his head, "I have entrusted Hedong to Li Jing." ” "The minister recommended the British Duke Li Ji again, General Li Ji is good at strategy, and he can be the commander if he uses the army."
"I handed over Hebei to Li Ji."
"Nachen" "The prince recommended you as handsome, I thought about it for a long time, and I also felt that you were the best candidate for the command this time.
You don't have to excuse yourself, this is the time when the court appoints people, not to give you a reward for being an official, you don't need to push back and forth and say whether you should or shouldn't" Having said that, Li Chao just didn't want to respond and had to respond.
"The minister has an order, but there is a request, the minister borrows two martial gods from His Majesty."
"It's no problem if you want the second general Shubao and Jingde to be the deputies, I will not only send the second general to you, but also give an order to let Li Jing, Li Ji, Chai Shao, and all the governors of all the provinces be controlled by you and be dispatched by you.
I have only one request for you, to win this battle."
Controlling the marshals of the six provinces of Hexi, Longyou, Guannei, Shuofang, Hedong, and Hebei is a great trust of the emperor, and Li Chao feels that his shoulders are very heavy.
"The minister will not fail in his mission, please rest assured that His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince" t1706231537: