The governor's yamen sold salt inscriptions in a single piece, which allowed ordinary salt shop owners and ordinary people to feel like they were big merchants. They could go to the salt farm to extract affordable salt. Originally, a pound of fine salt costing fifty or sixty cents, suddenly turned into thirteen cents per kilogram. Among them, the government also had taxes, so even those people who had no money on hand rushed to tell each other.

Many families have begun to raise funds on their own and discuss buying a ingot together. When two ingots are salted, they may not be short of salt at home in the next few years.

There was a lot of rumor in the city.

Although there were officers and soldiers maintaining order, the enthusiasm of the people was too high, and the door frame was almost crushed, and the inside and outside of the official office gate was full of feet.

"Get out of the way, I'm here to buy salt, I have the money."

"You have money, I don't? Let's go and line up!"

...Tang Yin originally wanted to enter through the main gate, but he found that the temporary governor's yamen was crowded with people, and he, a weak scholar, could not squeeze in at all, and could only walk through the side door where his servants usually entered and exited.

When they detoured to the main hall, only Ma Jiu, Zhu Qi and others were selling salt incense. There was no sign of Chen Xi. Tang Yin walked around and finally found Chen Xi in the back hall. At this moment, Chen Xi was holding the book and watching with interest.

Tang Yin bowed: "Is Shen Zhongcheng awakened?"

Chen Xi looked up at Tang Yin, continued to lower his head to study, and said casually: "It's enough to sleep at noon. If you sleep too much, you can't sleep at night. It's really hard to bear the long night... Why doesn't Brother Bohu take a long rest?"

When Tang Yin heard this, he felt angry. You have many wives and concubines, afraid that you will not be able to sleep too much at night. Then, wouldn’t I, a single old bachelor, be even more miserable?

Tang Yin said: "I just walked past the main gate. Now it is very lively. Zhongcheng wants to sell salt to ordinary people, which is a benefit to the people. But if the people cannot lift salt from the salt farm, wouldn't it harm them? In the end, they may spread all their grudges to the governor's office. How will Shen Zhongcheng end?"

Chen Xi raised his head and looked at Tang Yin, looking like he was saying, "You are compassionate." Chen Xi said, "Brother Bo Hu is going to make the decision for the people?"

Tang Yin was actually just angry that Chen Xi would have such a good idea.

When the people flocked to buy salt entries, the plan of the General Administration and the Censorate Department failed. Ten households bought a salt entries. That is to say, when the salt farm went to the salt farm to extract salt, a few young and strong people might go together. Then, after selling thousands of salt entries in the past two days, tens of thousands of young and middle-aged people would go to the salt farm to collect salt.

The closest to Guangzhou Prefecture is Xingshengchang Salt Field in Fanyu County. How can it withstand the siege of tens of thousands of people?

If Xingshengchang refuses to add salt, the distance will be Jingkangchang, Dongguanchang, Guidechang, Huangtianchang and other salt fields in Dongguan County and Dongguanwei.

The current situation is that if the salt farm does not place salt, the people will cause trouble; if the salt farm is added, the salt merchants will find that the magistrate, the prefectures and counties and the salt farm are paper tigers, and they will actively purchase salt in large quantities, and the salt farm will be even more unable to cover up the salt.

Tang Yin said angrily: "No matter what, Shen Zhongcheng cannot use the people!"

Chen Xi smiled and put down the book, saying, "Brother Bo Hu seems to have forgotten one of the notices."

“Which one?”

Tang Yin thought for a while and suddenly remembered one of the ones that turned private salt into official salt. "I'm about to say that this private salt has never been legal, but if you want to turn private salt into official salt, you may be impeached!"

Chen Xi looked up at him and asked in confusion: "Who will impeach me, are you? I have seized a large number of smuggled officials from Guangdong's Salt Course Division. Now there is a shortage of salt in the Guangdong coastal salt farm. This official is just taking advantage of the situation... How could the court mistakenly blame good people?"

Tang Yin thought about it, this move was cruel!

The Governor's Office seized the official salt of the Guangdong Salt Course private salesman in the public eye of the people. The evidence was conclusive and even the Sansi Office had not refuted it. The matter had been reported truthfully.

The excuse found by the Sansi for the salt field at that time was that the Salt Course Testimonials privately printed the salt quota and forced the salt quota to be placed. The Salt Course Testimonials were responsible, but all the blame was attributed to the Salt Course Testimonials, which was a helpless act of a hero cutting off his arm.

Chen Xi made a fuss about this matter. The Salt Course Division was arrested for selling official salt in a large number of people and salt, but the salt farm refused to add salt. I said that the salt farm was attracted by fake salt to remove a large number of people and salt, so it was a "salt shortage" situation!

Now I have turned private salt into official salt, which is only to solve the problem of "salt shortage" in the local area, for the benefit of the people in the dawn, and to gain reasonable and legal income for the court.

Otherwise, if taxation is not raised, it will be inappropriate to affect the government!

Tang Yin thought to himself: "It's linked together. This is a conspiracy between the governor and the prefecture and county government offices and the salt farm... Why didn't I expect it?"

Chen Xi continued: "Since private salt can be turned into official salt, the people can cook salt by themselves if they have salt intake. After all, it is clearly stipulated that if there is no salt intake and they cook salt, they will be treated as private salt. But now with salt intake, the naturally boiled salt is considered official salt. If you take a step back, even if the people cannot cook salt, are there no large amounts of private salt transported from the salt farm in the warehouse outside the city?"

Picking up the book, Chen Xi continued to read it leisurely.

Tang Yin felt that his head was not enough.

Who said there was no salt? There were bags of fine salt in the salt warehouse that the governor's yamen seized before, and those were transported from the salt farm.

Although the amount of salt is not large, it may not be enough to put it in the hands of those big salt merchants at once, but this time Chen Xi transferred the salt to ordinary people who only bought twenty kilograms of salt on average per household.

Twenty kilograms of salt in the warehouse can be exchanged for a household to go to the salt farm to cause trouble.

It seems that a pound of salt is used to pay two cents of silver. It seems that the Governor's yamen lost money, but the problem is that the salt used by the Governor's yamen was obtained by Chen Xi for nothing. Chen Xi was equivalent to "discounting" the salt in the warehouse outside the city, and a pound of salt earned thirteen cents.

Tang Yin smiled bitterly: "Shen Zhongcheng, you are... You are leaving the people in the local yamen and salt farms with no way to survive."

Chen Xidao: "I mean to Brother Bohu, is he avenging them for their grievances?"

Tang Yin smiled and bowed: "I don't have this intention. I just think that Lord Shen's move is extremely clever, but there are still flaws. But you say that when you sell salt turf, you always sell one less. In the end, you will lose two cents of silver if you want to lose one small turf?"

Chen Xi finally looked at Tang Yin with admiration this time, and thought to himself that you, the talented man of Tang, have also started to calculate the small accounts. It is rare.

If you sell salt stored in the warehouse outside the city, it seems that you make a net profit of thirteen cents per pound, but the amount of salt on Chen Xi is on hand is certain. If you sell one less, Chen Xi will have to pay the capital.

Chen Xi nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "What Brother Bo Hu said is not bad, but Brother Bo Hu ignored a problem. If the people raise salt from the salt farm and the salt is brought into the hands of the salt farm, the salt farm will then issue a proof of investigation. The salt farm will collect all the salt and then transfer it to the court. The court will allocate money and grain to supplement the expenses of the stove households. However, if the people raise salt from the cargo warehouse outside the city, or cook salt by themselves, the salt will be transferred to the end, and the salt will only fall into the governor's office."

Tang Yin has nothing to say now.

Wherever people extract salt, they will bring it to whom, and then use the proof of the conjunction to transfer the place. However, the salt of the Guangzhou people is not for sale, but for themselves, and there is no need for external transportation, so those proof of the conjunction cannot be used.

Salt is sold to the people, and the people take salt to the salt farm to cause trouble. If salt is not added, the people can take salt to the warehouse outside the city to collect salt, or cook salt by themselves. The salt is brought back to the governor's office after going around.

Chenxi earned two or six cents of salt from each small amount of salt. After getting the money, the salt immediately returned to his own hands and sold a piece of salt many times.

It seems that the more Chenxi sells, the more he loses, but in fact, the more Chenxi sells, the more he earns, because the tax on each salt can only be paid once.

Tang Yin asked in surprise: "When the salt farm should take the initiative to put salt? To prevent you from making more money by making more money?"

Chen Xidao: "It can't be said that the salt in the warehouse outside the city and the people cook salt by themselves are always small. The most important thing is to sell the salt in large quantities, forcing the salt farm to put salt. It will only take two days to sell it at a loss. Even if there is a small loss, it can be considered to resolve the current dilemma."

Tang Yin was amazed. No wonder Chen Xi had to set a deadline. This was to prevent the more the salt field was in the case of harming others and not being beneficial to oneself, the more the governor's yamen sold, the more he would lose.

Even within these two days, the salt cannot be sold in large quantities to salt merchants, otherwise it may cause chaos.

But Tang Yin still couldn't figure out something. Chen Xi's idea in front of him looked pretty good. It not only made the people cheaper, but also made the governors, prefectures and counties, and salt fields full of trouble. But to the problem itself, how did Chen Xi earn military expenses by selling salt?

Money all the salt in the warehouse outside the city, and let the people cook salt to fill the gap in salt, it is just a drop in the bucket!

Chen Xi had no words, and Tang Yin was embarrassed to ask again, because Tang Yin felt embarrassed to ask again. Since Chen Xi could come up with such a vicious trick to deal with local governments and salt fields, there would definitely be a way to make money.

Tang Yin asked for instructions: "Shen Zhongcheng, I wonder what can I do to serve in the past few days?"

Chen Xi pointed to the front yard: "Go out and help. After selling the salt intake in the past two days, I will have the money to pay Brother Bo Hu. Don't be too late!"

Tang Yin was excited for a moment and finally got his salary. Now he has been by Shen Xi for two months. Isn’t it thirty taels that time? His enthusiasm has instantly increased.

After thinking about it for a moment, Tang Yin couldn't help feeling sad. Chen Xi first raised his salary to him, with the purpose of mobilizing his enthusiasm. But the salary of thirty taels was extremely tempting, which made Tang Yin willingly use it.

"It's so vulgar. Even though I know I'm being used, why don't I even have the courage to resist?"

Tang Yin went to the front hall with a hint of sentimentality to help Ma Jiu and Zhu Qi. Compared to the two rough people, he is much better in literature and composition and arithmetic. With him, the efficiency of selling salt indices has increased rapidly.

On the afternoon of the first day, the governor's yamen sold more than 800 small cigarettes, and each small cigar was pieced together by five or six families. In other words, at least more than 4,000 people would go to the salt farm to raise salt and cause trouble in the next few days.

As the news spread, Tang Yin believed that more people would come to buy salt in the next day, and they could sell three or four thousand salt in two days, that is, more than ten thousand people would go to get salt.

Tang Yin thought in his heart that the governor and the Censor Office would definitely go crazy when they saw the vast salt-raising army.

The salt indices are bought back by the people with real money. If salt farms are not added, they may turn into a civil unrest at any time. That is not something that the local three officials can afford.

Chen Xi didn't seem to be worried about the possibility of civil rebellion.

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