"What a fool!" Liu Jian couldn't help it at that time.

A fellow villager was so embarrassed that he slapped him and said, "I want to go home and have a twin! If you don't talk about the disadvantages of opening the Chinese Dharma, do you believe it or not and let you not be able to give birth to it in the future?"

He Jin was slapped and woke up like a dream.

Thinking that I was too immersed in the show just now, I couldn't help but look awkward and said, "In fact, the essence of opening up China and France is to retreat from the country and advance the people, delegate power and concessions."

"Our Ming Dynasty broke through the salt and iron monopoly since Emperor Wu of Han, and transferred the official salt monopoly to ordinary merchants to solve the huge military demand and social supply, which is undoubtedly a great progress."

"It is also because of this that the development of industry and commerce in the Yellow River Basin, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta has been driven. Therefore, there is no method of clear salt, and no one is good at opening the middle."

Speaking of this, He Jin carefully glanced at Emperor Hongzhi's expression, and gave him a vaccination in advance and said, "Your Majesty, what he said next is probably not very nice..."

Emperor Hongzhi sneered: "Do you think what you said just now is very nice?"

After saying that, Longmu glared at He Jin and ordered in a deep voice: "Continue to talk, just say whatever you think in your heart. I won't go back on my word for someone who dares to tell the truth!"

He Jin seemed to have made a sacrifice, and suddenly raised his back and said, "Your Majesty, absolute power has led to absolute fǔbài, which is an unchangeable fact."

"More than a hundred years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, politics has actually become more and more serious. The phenomenon of royal family, nobles and officials using their power to seek rent has become increasingly serious."

He gritted his teeth and opened the old foundation of the court. Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi and the big bosses were still restrained, he continued to say: "In the salt area, the royal family, eunuchs, nobles, bureaucrats and gentry knew that the profit was very great, and even the salt used to take salt was profitable."

"According to the normal process, the amount of salt inductions in progress is issued by the Ministry of Revenue, which is determined comprehensively based on military information, grain prices, routes, profits, etc. However, the list has not arrived, and the powerful families at home and abroad hold letters and request salt in advance." This practice is vividly called "Zhan Wan" by the world."

"If you use salt ingots to sell for profit, the more powerful people get thousands of citations, and the fewer one or two thousand citations, you can get six coins in silver for free. If you accumulate a thousand citations, you can get six hundred gold, and ten thousand citations can get six thousand gold."

"This behavior of reselling securities by privilege has extremely high profits and great harm. At the huge cost of damaging the country's border reserves, it has made a small pile of sycabees rich."

As soon as these words were said, everyone present looked very bad, including Emperor Hongzhi.

In order to make up for the holes in the government, Emperor Hongzhi also asked his eunuchs to intercept salt and make profits. Moreover, he was even more lenient and willing to let the two brothers of the Zhang family and other vassal kings...

Not to mention the remaining ministers, the disciples, old officials, family and relatives, etc., they also participated in the partition of this piece of fat. Those who are better may also give them some filial piety, while those who are worse may not know how evil they have done.

Since the fig leaf has been uncovered, He Jin has to bite the bullet and say: "The price is that ordinary small and medium-sized merchants are holding salt at a loss, but they cannot buy salt because they have no connections. However, illegal and incompetent businessmen who rely on bribery can afford food and adulterate, and even pass the pass without permission."

"In addition, due to the huge profits of selling salt, smuggling has become increasingly rampant. All parts of the salt farm have begun to form cliques, use powerful tools, and fight for profits with lawsuits and arrests. They even dare to build large ships covering the ocean, collude with the Japanese sluts and smuggle salt in the Japanese."

"Behind this scene is no longer small and medium-sized businessmen, but smuggling groups formed by wealthy businessmen, famous families, military and local tyrants, resulting in a large loss of national tax revenue."

Hearing this, the warm pavilion was already silent.

No one expected that the root cause was originally in themselves.

If you rectify it, it will inevitably be difficult to be a human being and end up with a reputation of being mean and ruthless. But if you don’t rectify it, the salt industry has become corrupt to such a situation, and the people can hardly afford to eat salt, and the tax revenue of the court has caused serious disasters. As the helmsman of the country and the country, the bigwigs who are not leading by example, are they still right?

Just as everyone was pondering, He Jin seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and continued to speak: "Actually, behind the soaring salt prices this time is because of the trade and the demand for salt in the market has increased. More businessmen want to flock in and get a share of the pie."

"But the Weichen said before that the salt industry is collusion between power merchants. In order to prevent the influx of merchants, bureaucrats and wealthy merchants from guarding the salt intake, they only enter and not leave. This has led to less and less salt on the market and the price of salt remains high..."

After these words, everyone in the warm chalet looked even more ugly.

But He Jin, who was ignorant of his life and death, looked more and more relaxed, and then continued: "In fact, not only at this time, when His Majesty had just succeeded to the throne, he also found that the salt law was blocked. In order to reverse the crisis, His Majesty vigorously rectified the salt tea. Ma Zheng decided to start cleaning up the salt law from the largest Lianghuai Salt Field in the country."

"Soon after, Li Si, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, reported that the Lianghuai Transportation Bureau said that the number of salt intakes exceeded 1 million years, and the merchants paid a slight diversion angle and the number of points of the diversion points was completely different. If it was not strictly prohibited, the profitable businessmen would be speculating endlessly and the salt law would be even worse."

"In other words, only 20% of the salt in Lianghuai Salt Field is used to open the businessmen's nano salt, and most of the rest has been seized by officials and merchants."

"Therefore, the Ministry of Revenue suggested that each salt administration agency should, in addition to reporting the amount of salt inductions every year, the merchants must also record the entries paid by the merchants at the same time to prevent the salt administration from deceived and concealed the subordinates and made two accounts."

"But this move can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. It can only ensure that salt is used for salt trading, and it cannot prevent the salt government from using tricks. Instead, it also makes the Ming Dynasty officials and businessmen grow bigger and bigger, excluding some small and medium-sized merchants who have no way out. The Ming Dynasty's salt industry has gradually been regarded as a ban on food by the power merchants."

When he arrived here, the faces of the people in the warm pavilion were hard to see, but He Jin still chatted: "As a result, in the fourth year of Hongzhi, the court had no choice but to change the method of opening the country again. He asked the merchants to invite the Silver and Fortune Department to resolve the Taicang and allocate them to each side."

"In other words, the merchants no longer pay grain to the border, but directly send the Bank of Communications to the Salt Transportation Department to uniformly explain the treasury. Then, through fiscal transfer payments, the silver will be transferred to the border town and distributed to the soldiers to buy grain and food supplies."

"But the border area was short of materials, so merchants needed to transport the border. After changing the method of opening, the border area was in bleakness, and the military households fled... It was from that time that the border troubles in the Ming Dynasty frequently occurred and the court was in a mess."

Hearing this, everyone also reacted: Yes, it seems that the border has accelerated its degeneration after changing China and France, and Mongolian tribes have repeatedly come to rob.

After He Jin made some trouble, after the Ming Dynasty opened up border trading, merchants gathered in the border areas, and silver goods were everywhere, and the market gradually flourished.

After hearing such a detailed discussion that hits the current problems, Emperor Hongzhi closed his eyes and slowly passed He Jin's statement in his mind.

Once again, he felt that business was a tangle of one's own strength. It could not only benefit the people invisibly, but also harm the country invisibly. With the empty and pale sacred morality alone, such complex national problems could not be solved at all.

And the entire Ming Dynasty, He Jin is the only one who can understand these things so profoundly.

Recalling his many words just now, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized that this kid had been using the method of inciting himself: he deliberately explained the essence of the salt industry so thoroughly, just to see if he and others had the determination to burn their boats to rectify the salt industry in the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Hongzhi was still very confident about this.

After all, the monarch and ministers have known each other for many years, and these ministers may have omissions by chance and relaxed their constraints on their disciples and family confidants. However, for the welfare of the entire country and the country and the people, they will inevitably respond sincerely without regrets.

So, he slowly looked around the ministers again, and after seeing everyone nodding firmly and earnestly under his inquiring eyes, Emperor Hongzhi made a decision.

"Okay, since you are so affectionate and worried about the Ming Dynasty. I will give you a chance to break through the rules of my Ming Dynasty's use of materials and officials, and let you go to the local area to rectify the salt administration!"

But at this time, He Jin's expression became a little strange, and he seemed to be embarrassed. He asked in a daze: "Your Majesty, is this serious?"

"You have no jokes." Emperor Hongzhi replied slowly as he was as deep as water.

In this regard, he felt that he was still very qualified. He rarely regretted what he said. As for those who could not be said, just like what he wanted to teach He Jin a lesson before, he would... hold it back halfway.

However, He Jin, who got what he wanted, still looked hesitant: "Your Majesty, I actually thought about it carefully when I was just talking. This trip is not to destroy some official rules, but to cut off the wealth of many people, which is tantamount to killing parents..."

"And I just said that the smuggling group has colluded with Japanese pirates, so it is lawless. I still have a pair of twins that have not given birth. Otherwise, let's just forget it first?"

In an instant, the inkstone that Emperor Hongzhi had always held could not help but smash it out: I was so excited that I was thinking about getting away from the middle of the way?

He Jin and He Runde... In your words, you are playing with fire!
Chapter completed!