In the Ming Dynasty, people in the mainland ate sparingly because salt was too expensive.

The reason why salt is expensive is not only because of the high salt tax, but also because too much bureaucratic capital is raking in money from the salt administration.

The average price of salt from the Chongzhen Dynasty is as high as 30 to 40 cents per catty. It is cheaper along the coast, but the price in the interior is relatively high.

According to local drying salt, the cost of one pound is enough.

Of course, Huang Yi also had to collect salt tax, and the conscience price was five cents per catty. The government-run salt shop in the base area sold green salt to the common people, and the price was ten cents per catty.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty official announced that the salt tax for one salt tax was only about six cents of silver, and one salt tax was two hundred Ming Dynasty market jins. In total, one catty was less than five cents.

But that's official, just like the planned supplies, not everyone has the ability to get them.

In fact, the taxation of the Ming Dynasty was really not high. Even if we include the Liao rates, the Lian rates, and the Suppression rates, which were criticized by later generations, they were not high.

The bad thing is that with the extra taxes at all levels, the taxes that the people have to bear in the end are even several times the regular tax.

In the final analysis, it is because of excessive corruption. It is simply fishing in a dry lake. The high-ranking officials are arrogant and extravagant, and ordinary people are living in poverty.

The prosperous people in Jiangnan had to bear excessive taxes, so they had no feelings for the imperial court, but more resentment.

In fact, the court could only get a quarter of the taxes they paid. It was really not that the court didn't care about the lives of the people, but that the corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry were raping their bones and sucking their marrow.

Who is to blame? What caused this phenomenon?

This is not unrelated to the fact that the head of the empire, Emperor Chongzhen, was unable to recognize and employ people.

This is also related to the fact that the Donglin Party controls the situation in Jiangnan and keeps saying that the court cannot compete with the people for benefits. In fact, it is to safeguard the Donglin Party's own interests.

Huang Yi knew the history of the late Ming Dynasty very well and knew that it would be difficult to transform an old world, but it would be relatively easy to break it.

Therefore, we chose to open up base areas outside the country, start by teaching the people in the base area to read and read, and gradually cultivate soldiers who dare to revolution and civil administration who can integrate with the grassroots people.

We need money and food to support soldiers and civilian officials. How can we do this without taxes?

Taxation alone is definitely not enough, state-owned enterprises must also be supported to make money.

Of course, it is too early to talk about state-owned enterprises at this time, and they can only be regarded as public-owned enterprises in the base areas.

The self-operated salt shop in the base area is this kind of public enterprise. The wholesale quantity of salt is also the same as that of the imperial court's salt quotation of 200 jins. The wholesale price is eight cents per catty, and Li Weida is given a preferential price of seven cents per catty.

It was cheaper for Li Weida to get green salt at this price than to buy it with salt, and his profit could be doubled, so he bought more and more.

Among the goods his family purchased from within the customs, there was one thing that other merchants simply couldn't understand.

For hundreds of thousands of years, I have never seen anyone trafficking large amounts of moso bamboo outside of the country.

Alas! There is no way, there really is no bamboo outside the customs.

Steel production is too low. Unless part of the steel bars are used for important load-bearing beams, the remaining concrete parts are replaced by bamboo strips that have been baked to prevent corrosion and insecticide.

Because the base produces cement and uses concrete for pouring, building small and medium-sized reservoirs can get twice the result with half the effort.

Even though it's the middle of winter and all outdoor projects have been suspended, work is still going on in the base area, with tens of thousands of strong men and women busy in full swing.

There is no way. There are no excavators or crushers these days. Extracting stones, crushing them and transporting them to the cement plant stockyard requires too much labor.

The farmers have time, so the team leader, the captain, and the captain organized the young adults to open the mountains and stacks near the city city.

This is not to launch labor, do not dispatch labor in the base area, organize a large -scale production campaign to adopt an employment system, and issue work money with reference to the completion of the workload.

Revolution must of course be reflected in many aspects.

The base area has already launched the wheel revolution and started research. Oh no, it is not a research, but to make steel bearings, steering shafts, etc. according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yi.

The base area implemented the measurement and balance standards forcibly promoted by Huang Yi at the end of last year.

It is one of the auxiliary tools in Huang Yi engineering shovel handle. One handles have taken one meter -long steel roll meter.

Even if there is a unified size, it is impossible to succeed in accurate drawings. It is difficult to make the shaft tile part. It must be a master of craftsmanship.

The requirements of the materials are also very high.

The steel produced by the base area used the wind temperature technology because the burning coke was used, and the furnace temperature increased by nearly two Baidu, reaching more than 1,300 degrees of melting point that exceeded the steel.

Therefore, it is enough to melt the raw iron and cooked iron to a full liquid state, and it is no longer the most common hemorphinity in the seventeenth century.

Therefore, the quality of steel has been greatly improved.

Then there are heavy hammer forging to remove impurities and increase the density of steel.

Lan Jinkui, Qi Dashan and other experienced masters, such as adding fluorite to the steel water to increase the liquidity of the fuse, remove the harmful impurities sulfur and phosphorus.

This is of course taught by Huang Yi, but Huang Yi doesn't know how much it should be added. The final proportion is explored by the masters.

Huang Yi not only proposed to add fluorite, as well as limestone, lime, iron oxide skin, iron ore, sintering ore, etc.

Anyway, Huang Yi records relevant information. The additives that can be recognized in this era have been said.

It also explains the hardness of the steel with decarburized and carbon and carbon.

With Huang Yi pointed out the basically correct direction, and because of good treatment and respected, the great craftsmen who actively work and work together are good.

Of course, the quality of steel produced in the base is getting better and better, and there are more and more varieties.

With the qualified steel manufacturing reed and hammering, Qi Xiaoshan's hairpiece was finally reached nearly 80 % of the fire rate and started mass production.

Of course, this amount is not large. Thirty or forty a month can increase production by 30 % per month.

After producing steel that can make qualified reeds, Huang Yi drew drawings and asked the masters to start making spiral spring shock absorbers.

He has a four -wheeled carriage in his mind, ready to create a comfortable and light stool.

The base city is not suitable for designing hydraulic machinery, because the river flows, the water in the lake is either freezing or flowing.

But there is a unique great benefit of the base -far more animal power than manpower.

So there are hundreds of pounds of animal power, and the jack sledgehammer has emerged.

The charging sledgehammer is not Huang Yi's golden fingers, Qi Dashan, Lan Jinkui, Liu Han and other big craftsmen have seen it before and even used it.

It's just that the animal power sledgehammer in the base is much larger than what they had seen before.

Lan Jinkui, Liu Han and other big craftsmen felt very large, very shocking animal hammer, not worth mentioning in Huang Yi's eyes.

The sledgehammer of the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty requires six horses or three -headed cows to pull, improve, and look more powerful.
Chapter completed!