The monsters that came this time went to Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou, where Qingyang Sect was located, but Jizhou and Yangzhou that were rarely visited.

It is said that due to the current relationship, there are few monsters living outside Jizhou and Yangzhou, and their strength is relatively weak. I don’t know what nerves they have this time, but they actually hit the coasts of these two states in broad daylight.

Although nearby monks arrived in time to prevent further atrocities from these monsters, they still caused great damage to the coastal towns of Jizhou and Yangzhou. The merchant also specifically mentioned the salt farms along the coast of Yangzhou...

"Brother, is there enough salt in your house?" Li Ziren suddenly asked a strange question.

"Uh?" His elder brother was also stunned, a little unable to keep up with his younger brother's ideas. He talked about the East Sea Demon Calamity, why did he say that the salt had come up?

The six-year-old brother showed a worried expression that was completely inconsistent with his age and said, "Hey, the salt farm is gone, will you not buy this salt?"

Then he frowned and said seriously to his elder brother: "Let's say to their parents and mothers and let them buy more to save. Save that the dishes cooked at home will not be salty in the future. How can you eat this dish without taste?"

"ah?!"

Looking at the foodie guy who was worrying too much, Li Zisheng was really amused. He laughed and said, "Renyizi, you kid! This salt will definitely not be sold without it. Haha...hehe...hiss!"

Mr. Li laughed happily a few times, suddenly gasped, hurriedly took the business information recorded by the reporters under his side, and quickly read it.

"How could this be so?" Li Zisheng looked at the information in his hand and said to himself.

As mentioned in the previous document, Zhongzhou is not a country ruled by an executive centralized government, but there are countless local regimes, and there are no conditions to implement monopoly operations like the salt monopoly system of the ancient Celestial Dynasty.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no big salt merchants in Zhongzhou. There are many big merchants in Yangzhou, and almost all of the nine Tiantongmen masters are running salt business.

This is because some people have long developed a salt drying method in Zhongzhou that does not require fuel. Of course, Yangzhou, which is located in the south, has a hot climate and a long light time per year, has unique conditions to become the largest and most important salt production in Zhongzhou. The local wealthy families in Yangzhou naturally have large salt farm owners and large salt merchants who integrate production and sales.

However, before the Battle of Heaven, like the salt monopoly system that our world has always implemented, the salt production and sales in Chixian Zhongzhou were also controlled by the royal family of the previous dynasty. The governments in both the mortal and the heavenly realm wanted to do this to make huge profits.

The salt monopoly system has a long history in the Celestial Empire in our world. From Guan Zhong, who was praised by Confucius during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period as "Micro-tubes. I will put on my hair and left lapel" to the implementation of "official mountains and seas" until the dynasty's decisive world, it almost accompanied the entire development process of the history of the Celestial Empire.

The monopoly of salt in all dynasties has been used as an important source of fiscal revenue. The "New Book of Tang? Food and Memorandum" records that "the world's tuition is half of the profit, the palace, military pay, and the salaries of all officials are all given to them." This sentence means that after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the proportion of profits from the monopoly of salt in the government's revenue increased significantly, and even half of them.

There is a question here. Since monopoly operations can bring huge profits, why did the ancient Celestial and Zhongzhou dynasties not implement the grain monopoly system like salt?

On the surface, grain and salt are the same. They are both commodities with high demand and low demand price elasticity. The so-called "demand price elasticity is very small", which means that no matter how high the price is, consumers must spend money to buy the lowest quantity of necessities to maintain their lives.

Yes, monopoly management will bring huge profits to the government, but this type of business also requires extremely huge costs.

In theory, salt production can be controlled from the source, but how can grain production be controlled from the source?

And there is a saying that no one does a loss of money business, and no one does a beheaded business.

Ma Laozu also has a famous saying: Capitalists are afraid of no profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of vacuum. Once there is a suitable profit, the capitalists are bold. If there is ten percent profit, he will guarantee to be used everywhere; if there is twenty percent profit, he will become active; if there is fifty percent profit, he will take risks; for one hundred percent profit, he will dare to trample on all human laws; if there is three hundred percent profit, he will dare to commit any crime, or even risk hang.

However, his words are a bit biased, and it would be more accurate to replace capitalists with most humans.

It was also from the Middle Tang Dynasty. Even if the government established severe punishments and harsh laws, the risky sales of private salt were still rampant in the Celestial Empire, and it became more and more intense. The more powerful the government ban, the larger the scale of private salt sales below.

Moreover, the biggest problem with private salt is not that it undermines the salt monopoly system and causes economic losses to the national government.

Private salt sales are often jointly organized by local tyrants and outlaws. In order to fight against the state machinery, they often use armed escort when selling private salt, which can easily make such gangs a paramilitary organization, and once the power is huge, it will become a social instability factor.

Huang Chao, who "burned into a beautiful gray sky, walked all the bones of the ministers and ministers", and Wang Xianzhi, who died in battle before, was born as a private salt dealer.

The situation at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was even more interesting. Such a large number of rebels who raised an army against the Mongol Tartars, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and Fang Guozhen, made a living by selling private salt in their early lives. Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who killed them, had entered this industry.

Perhaps it was because of this reason that Emperor Hongwu hated and deprived him of his private salt after he won the country. Because of this crime, he sentenced his son-in-law Ouyang Lun to death.

This is the amount of salt that uses far less than the "necessary products for life" food. If a grain monopoly system is really established, there will be no wars everywhere. "I wonder how many people will be called emperors and kings."

Until the first powerful government in the Celestial Empire could extend its dominant tentacles into the grassroots level, only such a government could implement unified purchase and sale of food.

It is almost the same here in Zhongzhou. Even if there are cultivators who can fly across the world, it is too difficult to monopolize grain management by administrative means.

Of course, if administrative means are not good, it does not mean that market and financial means are not good. Otherwise, how could there be Tiantong Gate?

However, Tiantongmen is not as powerful as it is. They have mastered the right to price grain by relying on food coupons, which does not mean that they can monopolize the salt industry.

Because although salt and grain have some similarities, they are still different commodities after all.

First of all, the amount of salt is much less than that of grain. Ordinary adults need to eat at least one pound of grain a day, while salt only takes a few grams.

Secondly, even if someone does not eat salt for ten or half a month, at most, his hands and feet are weak, and his face is pale and thin, he will not die. Which mortal can not eat for ten or half a month?

Finally, grain production is much more troublesome than salt production. And it is not that Yangzhou can produce salt, and there are more people in the world who dry salt. Although the power of Qingyang Sect is now mainly concentrated in Qingzhou, there are also Tianfu Sect and Tianzhi Sect, and even the Tiandan Sect in Xuzhou. Naturally, there are a large number of people operating salt under these sects.

Based on these reasons, Tiantongmen issued food coupons, not salt coupons.

The salt business is indeed a very profitable business in Tiantongmen, but it is not the main business. Moreover, most of their salt production is nearby, which is not close to the sea and does not produce salt.

You should know that they are like the American empire in our world. They can buy supplies everywhere with printed paper and exchange them for Yuanshi stones when they turn on the printing press.

Where is the world more profitable business than printing money?

Because the salt in Jingnan is mainly supplied by Tiantong Gate, the salt sellers here are all grain stores. Of course, these grain stores have some relationship with Tiantong Gate.

Since Li Zisheng’s grain shop only sells grain around Lishan, the store does not sell salt.

The price of salt in the business information report that the boy saw now was extremely abnormal!
Chapter completed!