Jiajing is very smart now. At the critical moment, he can't be the best with this guy, otherwise this guy will really stop doing it. There is no way. Who made this guy have a bad temper? But he has great ability. Jiajing also knows his personality.

Next, Zhang Hao sat there and talked about Shanxi with Jiajing, including the treatment of farmland and salt. When Jiajing heard this, he nodded repeatedly, and then talked about the national salt sales. Zhang Hao also talked about his thoughts to Jiajing.

"Your Majesty, I have read this salt. It is even higher than the tax, and it is much higher. The cost is less than 5 cents per catty, but if you sell it for 50 cents per catty, it is terrifying. I estimated that the population of my Ming Dynasty would be more than 140 million in total.

According to consumption, each person is about 4 kilograms per year. In addition, people like to pickle food. I have also sent someone to do a survey. Ordinary people are reluctant to leave their homes. Only those landlords and those wealthy businessmen have more to them.

I asked my mother, and my mother said that my family needs about 100 kilograms of salt to pickle things a year, and in addition, the army also needs a lot of pickle food. I surveyed about 100 wealthy families and the average number found was that each family needs about 20 kilograms.

I calculated the population of their family. On average, each person is about 2 kilograms. According to the population, the salt needed to be consumed costs about 6.4 million dan, while those that need to be pickled cost estimated to be 2 million dan. This is similar to the data counted over the years, but this salt can be said to be a huge consumption for ordinary people. It is too expensive!" Zhang Hao sat there and said to Jiajing.

"Well, it's too expensive, 50 cents is too expensive?" Jiajing was a little disbelief.

When Zhang Hao heard this, he smiled bitterly and said to Jiajing, "Your Majesty, you don't know the price of food. One dou of my Ming Dynasty is 15 cents. Ten dou is one duct (stone), which means that one duct of grain is 150 cents. The best harvest of one acre of land in the Ming Dynasty is less than two ducts a year.

Every people in the Ming Dynasty needed about 4 kilograms of salt a year, but many people could not afford so much and were reluctant to let it go, but they still had to buy it. It would be impossible not to eat salt. In other words, a person needs to need more than one pound of grain a year to exchange for salt.

A family of six people needs about 9 acres of land to buy grain. Even if you save it, you still need to use 4 acres of land to exchange for grain. Therefore, the emperor, what I mean is to reduce the price of salt to 20 cents per catty. Although our profit has been reduced by 60%, it is still quite considerable. After a year's profit, there are about 10 million taels, which will benefit the people!" Zhang Hao sat there and said to Jiajing.

When Jiajing heard this, he was thinking about it with his hands behind his back. When Lu Fang heard it, he sighed, and Jiajing looked at Lu Fang.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to eat salt there. It is very expensive. People's families are reluctant to buy it at a pound, but to buy some. I remember that when I was a child, I had very little salt, so I was reluctant to eat it!" Lu Fang stood there and said to Jiajing.

"Reduce it again, reduce it to 10 cents per catty, how much profit is?" Jiajing asked Zhang Hao.

"If 10 cents are already available, then the people will be willing to buy it. In fact, the amount can be sold more. I guess it will not be less than 5 million taels!" Zhang Hao immediately said to Jiajing.

"Then 10 cents per pound!" Jiajing said with determination.

"Thank you, I am for the people of the Ming Dynasty. Thank you, Long live my emperor!" Zhang Hao immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jiajing.

"Zhang Hao, get up!" Jiajing immediately went over and helped Zhang Hao get up.

"Your Majesty, I knew that this child had the people of the Ming Dynasty in his heart!" Lu Fang also cried and laughed in tears at this moment.

"You can do this. I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the head of the Ming Dynasty. I should do this for them. In fact, I should do this earlier, right? But I don't know, I don't know that people's homes may not even afford salt! I was deceived by them!" Jiajing helped Zhang Hao up and spoke.

"Hehe, anyway, after selling like this, I guess those salt merchants don't have a chance to resist. We just give benefits to the people and make the people live better. If the people live, who can rebel and who dares to rebel? The people are not stupid. If life is better, whoever rebels is seeking death!" Zhang Hao said to Jiajing with a smile.

"Well, you immediately give Hu Zongxian the order that salt costs 10 cents per pound. Those who bought salt from them before can refund them!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes, but it may not work, because there is no registration for buying salt. However, registration may be required next time. I am worried that those salt merchants will continue to stock up on salt, just send people to buy our salt and then stock up. At that time, there is no salt on the market, they will secretly sell it. Although this is a brain-losing matter, many people will still take risks for profit!" Zhang Hao bowed to Jiajing and said.

"Well, okay, do as you want!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes, the emperor!" Zhang Hao bowed his hand again and said.

"By the way, before the Qingming Festival, you are not allowed to leave the capital, just stay in the capital!" Jiajing explained to Zhang Hao.

"Why? Don't you want to go?" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing with disbelief and asked.

"Why are you anxious? Isn't Xuanhua a good place before? There are about 10,000 taels of tax every day, and more than 200,000 taels a month. Don't worry, I want to talk to those princes. I want to see how many of them are in the Ming Dynasty. Who still remembers that they are royal? If they don't remember, then they don't have the qualifications to be princes!" Jiajing sat there and said to Zhang Hao.

"Yes!" Zhang Hao nodded immediately.

"By the way, Shuntian Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture, you can make arrangements as soon as possible. There is no need to do it. There is one thing you have to do, which is Lu Bing's business. Exile me! The farther you exile, the better!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Ah, exiled Lu Bing, why did you find something?" Zhang Hao asked in surprise when he heard this.

"Why do you think, I was so poor before, the King of Jin in Shanxi was so rich, and they smuggled salt and pig iron, and they paid tens of millions of taels a year. I can't even take out 100,000 taels. What do you think he did as this commander? I have been deceiving me, can I let him go? If I don't think that his mother is my wet nurse, I will not keep his life!" Jiajing said gritting his teeth at this moment.

"That's it?" Zhang Hao heard it and looked at Jiajing and asked.

"Isn't it enough?" Jiajing stared at Zhang Hao and asked.

"No, it's definitely enough, but exile is useless. OK, I'll go and take a look!" Zhang Hao nodded and said, it's not his business anyway.

"You go and deal with it and exile him!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"Okay!" Zhang Hao nodded.

"There are no other things. Tell me about the things that the officials just needed to take up their posts! Lu Fang, go and remember them!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao.

"No, I'm busy, my master!" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing reluctantly and said, and Jiajing stared at Zhang Hao.

"It's true, I'm so busy, I'm still asking for trouble!" Zhang Hao complained there, but he still walked to the study room.

Lu Fang also smiled and went over to prepare. After Lu Fang was ready, Zhang Hao sat there and talked to Lu Fang.

After Lu Fang finished writing, Zhang Hao went out, while Jiajing took it and started to read it carefully.

"This child is good. It is not easy to think of these things. There is also this salt matter. It is obviously for the emperor to gather the hearts of the people again! Let the people in the world rest and recuperate!" Lu Fang sat there and said to Jiajing.

"Well, this kid has the people in his heart, unlike those civil officials. Those civil officials said they were asking for orders for the people, but in fact they did nothing. They said they were reading books of sages, but they never did what they did. They were full of thieves and prostitutes, and no one was for the people!" Jiajing sat there and cursed. Those civil officials were all for their own interests.

"Yes, Master, the profits of salt seem to be very high. If the people can afford to eat salt, the people will also reduce a lot of expenses and have money to buy food. This is a real benefit, that is, the money is much less!" Lu Fang continued to speak to Jiajing.

"It's okay, enough, just Xuanhua's checkpoint, which is about 2 million taels a year. This soap workshop is distributed to me a year, and there are 10 million taels. Moreover, after I negotiate with the princes, I will continue to set up other places. I guess there is a lot of money at these checkpoints, and there is still domestic tax revenue. There will be no problem in the past few years. Let the people cultivate it. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos!" Jiajing sat there and said,

He had actually made up his mind and knew that giving up this profit would be very beneficial to the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

"Yes, the emperor. But those princes may not let him go!" Lu Fang continued to remind Jiajing and said.

"Then try moving!" Jiajing sat there, with a gloomy face.

At this moment, Zhang Hao went home first and took the money to go straight to the prefect of Shuntian. When he arrived at the prefect of Shuntian, Zhang Hao did not find any official, but Xu Fan was on duty here.

"Well, where are the other officials?" Zhang Hao entered the yamen and asked Xu Fan on duty.

"Sir, I've gone down, and spring plowing is about to be soon. All the officials are going down to check the preparations. Everyone is worried that the officials below will do whatever they want!" Xu Fan stood up and said to Zhang Hao with a smile.
Chapter completed!