Yang Ji's words made Yuwen Wen suddenly realize. After thinking about it for a while, he began to discuss with Yang Ji many problems that need to be faced in the trial implementation of China and France. The first thing to bear is salt production.

Kaizhong France uses salt as a medium for material exchange, that is, use salt as hard currency. Then the materials or money that can be raised in "kaizhong" depends on how much salt can be cashed.

Overall, this is a fair transaction between the government and merchants. Merchants transport designated materials or grain to designated locations as required by the government. Then, as remuneration, the government must induce the agreed salt to the other party.

Then the merchants used salt to attract the salt farm to withdraw the fixed-quota salt and sold it elsewhere to obtain high profits. Therefore, the key to the problem is whether the merchants can withdraw salt in full in time and with salt.

This question is divided into two aspects: First, whether the government is trustworthy and let merchants withdraw salt by relying on salt; second, whether there is so much salt in the salt field, so that merchants can withdraw it in time and in full.

The former is relatively easy to solve, but the key is the latter: Can the salt production in Guangzhou salt farms support enough materials to "open" and build a plank road with grain?

According to Yuwen Wen's plan, the output of several salt farms under Guangzhou will reach 200,000 hu of next year and 500,000 hu of the year afterwards. It is still unknown whether this plan can be realized. Therefore, if the Chinese and French pilots are launched, the amount of salt added to salt must be taken into account the actual annual salt output of Guangzhou salt farms.

If China and France are to be piloted this year, the salt turf issued by the government will not be fulfilled until next year, and the amount should not exceed 100,000 hu, because if the salt turf on merchants cannot be withdrawn in time, it will easily shake people's hearts.

The word "timely" has some special considerations. How quickly does it take to get salt to be called timely?

Arriving in Fanyu in the month, and taking salt from the month with salt withdrawal is an ideal state, but it is actually very likely that it cannot be done. Then, the withdrawal of the next month is more suitable and still has higher requirements.

Because this requires the problem of centralized withdrawal. If several wealthy merchants arrive at Fanyu with huge amounts of salt at the same time, in the order of first and then arrive, they must withdraw first and then go to the next one. Then when it is the turn of the next, the salt stock in the salt field is most likely to be insufficient and need to be "made now".

Once the withdrawal peak occurs, the date of delivery of salt must naturally be postponed, which is related to the output, and the output is related to the weather. Once it encounters rainy weather, the progress of salt drying will naturally slow down. Therefore, merchants holding salt will wait outside the salt field to "maintain support".

If you encounter large-scale centralized withdrawal, or bad weather causes a decrease in salt production, and even if you "maintain the support", everyone can understand that you will not be panic. The problem is that if you "maintain the support" due to other reasons, it will be bad.

The so-called "hidden guarding the branch" means being trapped by guarding the branch. According to the situation in the Ming Dynasty, merchants took salt outside the salt field and waited for several years or even decades, which directly led to their inability to turn over their funds. In severe cases, the capital chain would break and their families would be destroyed.

The reason for this situation is nothing more than man-made disasters.

With salt ingestion, you can withdraw salt, and you can easily make huge profits when you sell it elsewhere. Of course, everyone wants such a hot salt ingestion. However, the salt production in the salt farm is so large, and the amount of salt ingestion is limited. What should I do if there are too many monks and less porridge?

It’s easy to deal with, and then people in the backend will be given priority to jump to the line. As for when ordinary businessmen who are powerless and powerless can withdraw salt, haha.

In a salt farm that produces 500,000 hu of salt annually, the total amount of salt ingot issued by the salt ingot can reach more than one million hu every year. Then, the powerful and backend people can grasp the salt ingot through operation, and they can always give priority to the withdrawal. Then the salt produced in the salt farm in a year will be quickly divided up by them.

The businessmen who are powerless can only "maintain the support" outside the salt field. However, there is no salt this year, and there is no salt for next year or even in the next few years. They can only use the salt to trap outside the salt field, in order to guard the support.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Kaizhong Law was implemented. Because Emperor Hongwu hated corrupt officials very much and would peel off anyone who dared to do anything randomly. Therefore, the administration was good and he established a system to only allow merchants to obtain salt, so there was basically no problem of trapping the branch.

Since the Yongle period, the court relaxed restrictions, not only because merchants engaged in "Kaizhong" to obtain salt intake. This hole was out of control after it was opened, and the powerful and powerful intervened to get a share of the pie. The number of salt intakes became larger and larger.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of trapping the branch became more and more serious, resulting in many merchants going bankrupt or severely injured. The government was "opened" again, and not many merchants came to take on the job.

When Yang Ji said this, he did not question the corruption of the government and the governor of the government at this time. As the general manager and governor of Guangzhou, he had a great chance of becoming a regular person. Therefore, during his tenure, there would be no situation where merchants "hiddenly guarding their subordinates" due to the corruption of the government.

The problem is that in the future, in fact, the trial of the Chinese law was to solve the urgent need to repair the plank road, and it ended thereafter. Yang Ji was worried about what to do if a special situation occurred.

"King, if the senior officials follow the previous plan, they may not be able to serve as the Guangzhou General Administration Office for a long time. If the successor officials engage in ill-in fraud, it will most likely lead to the problem of "being trapped" and the construction of the plank road may be greatly affected."

"The cost of building a plank road is about one million guan, which is calculated based on the completion of the work within one to two years. More than half of the labor used is a slave, so you have to buy it with money, otherwise you think I'm full of money?

Yuwen Wen did not think this was a problem and expressed his judgment: "You always have to be in office for one or two years. When you leave, the plank road is almost done even if it has not been completed yet. Even if the successor Guangzhou General Manager is corrupt, it will not harm this project."

"King, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. The planned things may not be completed as scheduled. The official is afraid that the plank road has just been halfway through when he leaves office, so he did not make any rash suggestions after considering this before."

Yang Ji felt very sleepy, but Yuwen Wen was in high spirits at this time. How could he say "I'll discuss it tomorrow", so he directly pointed out the key to the problem, and the other problem was the contradiction between salt production and demand.

Yuwen Wen just made a promise not long ago to reward several merchants and families who actively participated in the government and performed well, and asked them to buy salt in Guangzhou salt farm at a price of ten cents per bucket. These people are related households and must use their efforts to eat salt, and they can get as much as they can.

Then the government introduced salt intake, which directly led to a sharp increase in the demand for salt. At that time, there will be a conflict between demand and supply. How to resolve it?

Yuwen Wen wants to win people's hearts, so the emergence of franchise-related households, but in the future, many ordinary merchants will inevitably get salt intake. At that time, everyone is excited to Fanyu to withdraw salt, but they can't. What should I do?

"One of the reasons why Kaizhong and France are trapped in the siege of the branch is that the large number of related households appear, which squeezes out the original withdrawal amount of ordinary merchants, resulting in them not being able to pay salt for years or even decades."

"If this problem is not solved, the trial implementation of China and France will also ruin the reputation of the king."

Yuwen Wen said in surprise: "If this matter is not done well, how can it ruin my reputation? Shouldn't it be yourselves being criticized by thousands of people at that time?"

Yang Ji, who claimed to have seen many big scenes, was also lost in sleepiness by these shameless words, and almost choked with saliva: "Master! This matter must be approved by the king to implement it. Why do you think that if something happens, you can get rid of it?"

"So!" Yuwen Wen spread his hands and said with a smile: "If I mess up and cause a civil rebellion, of course I will not be able to escape. I was besieged by ministers in the court but speechless. I could only pretend to be crazy and spit on my face, and then I was fined for several years, etc...."
Chapter completed!