Chapter 473: Fraudulent School Party

Liu Zhouzong followed the emperor's wishes and asked boldly.

"My difficulties are the same as you, I have no money!" Yang Jie sighed and continued.

Liu Zhouzong was choked and died. Isn’t this a waste? The greater the hope, the more painful it will be when it is shattered. The emperor once again stated that he had no money, and Liu Zhouzong’s heart was half cold.

"...How does your family think about the salt merchants?" Yang Jie looked at Liu Zhouzong's disappointed face and suddenly asked.

Salt merchant? Today, for the salt merchant's affairs, I was scared to death. Liu Zhouzong was stunned and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the traitors should be punished..." Since this matter has been argued in the court, Liu Zhouzong can only tell the truth according to the results, otherwise he would have to be with those who were still kneeling.

"Okay! The Qing family really understands the righteousness..." Yang Jing praised it, and then continued: "... Everyone in the world knows the wealth of salt merchants. This case of Tonglu's rebellion involves some salt merchants. Logically, some money should be obtained..." Yang Jing said that he was chasing the house.

Liu Zhouzong felt hope came again, so he stretched his neck and waited for the emperor to give up the money.

"...Originally... I have always supported the school management. This time, when I started a salt merchant, I can always collect some money. I dare not say too much. It is not difficult to share some money to run the school, but I dare not divide the money from the salt merchant's house and run the school!" Yang Jing said for a long time and sighed for a long time, but he still said that he could not share the money.

Liu Zhouzong was almost choked to death by the emperor's words. After a long time of trouble, he still couldn't share it? Why are you talking about it? He sighed, isn't the world rumor? Is the emperor the richest? He can give out tens of millions of taels of silver, but he can't get out only one or two million taels of silver. Could it be that the emperor disliked him? Or what did you want to do? Liu Zhouzong immediately had countless thoughts...

"Your Majesty, why can't you divide the property of the salt merchant to run the school?" Liu Zhouzong was still choking, and Lin Qiong next to him had already asked directly. When Liu Zhouzong saw it, he sighed, the people of this imperial party are extraordinary! Such difficult things are so direct...

"Ah..., it's hard to do it! It's said that ten years of trees and a hundred years of people. This school is a great plan for a long time. It requires a hundred years of hard work, not three days of fishing and two days of drying the net. Once this school starts, it requires continuous investment every year, and it must not be short every year! Otherwise, will it be wasted all previous efforts?... Alas, I also want to use the money from the salt merchants to run the school this time, but it's hard to do it. This year there are salt merchants to copy, so what next year? Who can I find to copy the two million taels of silver? If I find a few salt merchants to copy every year, do you think this can work?..." Yang Jing smiled helplessly.

"Well……"

"ah!……"

Both of them sighed. The emperor's words made sense. This school requires money every year, not a one-time transaction. If we rely on scouting the salt merchant's home to run the school this year, wouldn't the two million taels be lost next year? We have to find the salt merchant to search the house? Thinking of this, both of them felt that the emperor's words made sense. The money that did not divide the house was also worth it.

After the emperor was enlightened, Liu Zhouzong had already understood the emperor's "difficulty". Thinking of the astronomical school payments every year, Liu Zhouzong felt that the school was probably ripped off, and it seemed that there was no chance. As many people said, it was just the smoke emitted by the emperor, which was confusing. The emperor did not really want to run the school. In a blink of an eye, Liu Zhouzong shrank and lived up to his previous momentum.

"... People in the world say that I have money and can spend all the money. In fact, both Qing families know that I have the details, and they mainly rely on Liulizhai to make some money. To be honest, even if Liulizhai makes money, it is actually only one hundred million yuan per year. Even if I am willing to run a school, I will not be able to give you all my money!" Yang Jing said with helplessness and emotion.

Liu Zhouzong was almost disappointed with the school operation and was almost discouraged. When he heard the emperor mention Liulizhai's input, he secretly contemptuous: If you, the emperor, take all the Liulizhai's inputs to run the school, the nobles and ministers who bought Liulizhai's stocks would probably eat me alive. Well, don't talk about it. Just pretend that this school operation has never happened.

"...This is a good way to increase the land tax to run schools, but I really can't bear to put too much burden on the people of the world. Now I can't bear to add taxes to migrants for disaster relief, let alone this natural disaster is not a year or two. Otherwise, if I don't need to migrate the disaster relief, it may not be impossible to transfer the additional land tax to run schools..." Yang Jing continued.

Lin Qin was listening "seriously", but Liu Zhouzong was no longer interested in running the school, and was even more disappointed. He was already disheartened. He heard the emperor keep saying "verbally" about the school money, and couldn't help but reply: "Don't your Majesty sells the stocks of Liulizhai?" Liu Zhouzong no longer expects the emperor to get the money. Seeing that the emperor was still "verbally", he replied.

Yang Jing was stunned. Unexpectedly, this old scholar had a few tricks and didn't fool him! Then he smiled and said, "It's not that I refuse to use the money from selling stocks to run a school. The money from selling stocks is actually the same as the money from scouts. It can't rely on this year's money every year! It will be sold out every year. What should I do if I sell it? I can't run the school this year, and it will be disbanded next year. How can I make a joke about the money from millions of taels of school every year! It's hard! It's hard! The century-old plan cannot be interrupted halfway, otherwise it will be a blasphemy to the career of the saint..." Yang Jing said with emotion again.

Liu Zhouzong was convinced by the emperor, and this was not possible, and that was not possible. He also had to find a deal that would be stable for hundreds of years for school funds... Is there such a cheap deal in the world?

Yang Jie looked at Lin Qiong and Liu Zhouzong with his head down, and Liu Zhouzong looked discouraged and held back his funny face, saying, "Actually, I have a long-term consideration for this school payment. Two million taels of silver a year, or even more, is not a problem..."

After hearing the emperor said it was not a problem, Liu Zhouzong immediately raised his head. The emperor was indeed a good emperor. It seemed that the school money was settled and he could dodge his arms and run the school. That momentum came again.

"How is it true if you dare ask Your Majesty?" Liu Zhouzong couldn't help asking.

"…But…” Yang Jingwei said again.

"Your Majesty, so what?" Liu Zhouzong was already unable to bear the torture.

"Your family should have heard of the salt class, too..." Yang Jingwei said.

Salt Class? Liu Zhouzong suddenly remembered that today's discussion, the cause of such a big change was for Salt Class. Could it be that the emperor intended to use salt Class to support the running of schools? In this way, this is really a good source of income that is stable, stable income, and stable income from drought and flood, and can support the entire school plan.

"...Your Majesty, is your Majesty's intention to support the operation of the school with salt classes? In this way, Your Majesty is truly a great virtue. All the students in the world will be grateful. Your Majesty's reputation will be passed down for thousands of years..." Liu Zhouzong immediately flattered him.

"I do intend to use salt classes to support the operation of schools. The salt classes are stable in terms of income from drought and flood, the source is stable, and the quantity is considerable. It is really safe to use salt classes to run schools. However, there are problems here!" Yang Jing sighed again.

"Your Majesty, what's the problem? Now the salt merchant will definitely pay the remaining 4 million taels of salt classes! I guess he won't dare to owe him in the future..." Liu Zhouzong asked impatiently. Isn't this because the salt merchants owed salt classes today? He originally said that he would pay less than one million taels of salt classes for five million taels. If the emperor could collect the salt classes for enough, the annual salt classes for five million taels would be used to support the school, but it would be enough. Not to mention that they would all use them to run the school, the 40% share of the money was still 2 million taels, which would be enough for the school expenses. Liu Zhouzong couldn't think of anything else.

"The difficulty is also here! I mean to find an absolutely safe source for the school fund. I have said that the career of the saint is the most supportive and attentive. Although the salt merchants will pay all the salt classes this year, what about next year? What about the next year? Those salt merchants have forgotten the pain after their scars, and are afraid that they will have to make a decision to owe to the salt classes again. After a few years, the salt classes will be young every year. After seven or eight years, I guess that this salt class will return to the old path. Wouldn't the school fund be gone again? Without the school fund, isn't the career of the saint absent? Wouldn't this school be a joke?...Does I shout and beat and kill every day for the salt merchants every day? Even if I can force the salt classes from the salt merchants, it will be difficult for me to be a human being..." Yang Jing sighed again, saying his own difficulties.

"Uh!..." Liu Zhouzong was choked up again. The emperor's words made sense. According to the virtues of the salt merchants, they would definitely be the same as the emperor said. After healing the scar, they forgot to hurt. In two years, the salt classes would be too few. The emperor might do it once or twice, but it would be unreasonable every year. This is indeed a bit difficult. What's more, there is still a meaning that the emperor is strong now and can force the salt classes. If he changes other emperors, he may not have a way to deal with the salt classes. By then, even if he uses all the salt classes to run schools, it would not be enough. What's the matter? The emperor is still young and is still early to die. No, the emperor who died at a young age in the Ming Dynasty is not a two...

"What should you do according to Your Majesty's wishes?" Liu Zhouzong turned the emperor's words several times in his mind, weighed the pros and cons, and understood what the emperor was going to do. He also knew that the emperor was probably really interested in running a school. Liu Zhouzong's perception of the emperor changed again. An emperor who was willing to spend millions of taels of taels every year to carry forward the cause of a saint, no matter what, he was a good emperor...

"Haha, in fact, my meaning is very simple. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the salt merchants and the salt politics to change, so as to eliminate the leakage of salt classes. In this way, there will be a large amount of salt classes of millions or even tens of millions of taels of salt classes every year to support the operation of schools and disaster relief. The income of this salt class is stable, and the income is stable, and the amount is quite considerable. It is best to use it as the source of school funds... Once the salt administration is changed, the problem of salt classes being arrears can be solved again. In this way, the matter of running schools can last for a long time and cultivate people for a hundred years! By the end of a hundred years, I will be full of talents in my Ming Dynasty and China, and there will be no white people. There will be great harmony in the world as the sages said!" Yang Jing's beautiful yearning.

"Your Majesty!..." Liu Zhouzong's thoughts had changed countless times when he heard the emperor's words, and thought of too many things. After saying this, he said, "Dare you ask Your Majesty how to change the salt class?" Liu Zhouzong had already agreed with the emperor's words. Although what the emperor did hurt him or some interests related to him, as the emperor said, if he could really take out real money and silver to run a school, Liu Zhouzong felt that it would be a waste of time to come to this world. People should still have some ambitions, some ideals, and achieve something in life!

"I won't talk about how to change the salt course for now. I will first calculate how many salt courses I can receive every year with the two Qing families." Yang Jing said with a smile. Kicking the salt merchants overturned the salt merchants does not mean kicking the salt courses. Salt merchants, salt classes, and salt administration are different. Kicking the salt merchants overturned the salt courses without changing the salt courses at most will just copy some property and collect more salt courses. This is to change the soup and not change the medicines. In the end, I have to go back to the old path. I have to take advantage of the opportunity of kicking the salt merchants to change the salt courses, but I still need to find another way. Someone else needs to advocate and build momentum, and someone needs to promote and implement it. Now this school-running party is suitable for this role, with motivation and ability. Liu Zhouzong is even more a key figure.

"Please tell me your Majesty." The two of them hurriedly said, preparing to see how the emperor calculated the salt class.

"Do you two know, do you know how much salt a person eats every year?" Yang Jing explained carefully to these two people due to the importance of these two people and the importance of running a school party.

"I don't know this, I beg your Majesty to tell you." The two of them looked at each other and then said.

"A ordinary person eats about ten kilograms of salt every year." Yang Jingwei said with a smile.

The two looked at each other and said nothing.

"How many people are there in our dynasty now?" Yang Jingwei asked again.

"Your Majesty, I know that it should be 60 million." Lin Qiong replied. This number is the official number of the Ming Dynasty. The Salt Administration formulated the salt outline based on this number.

"Very good. Each person eats ten kilograms of salt every year, 60 million people. How much salt should they need every year?" Yang Jing inspired in an enlightened way.

"Your Majesty, you should be 60,000 kilograms." Lin Qiong continued to answer. Regarding the numbers, it was obvious that Liu Zhouzong, a great scholar, was quite unfamiliar with him and didn't understand for a while.

"Based on the one million taels of salt in our court today, how much is the tax per kilogram of salt?" Yang Jing asked with a smile again.

Speaking of such a huge mathematical problem, the great scholar Liu Zhouzong's forehead began to hurt. This number was too big, so big that his head was almost cracked.

"When you go to your Majesty, one million taels of silver, calculated at one thousand coins per tael, it should be worth ten thousand coins, and 60 million kilograms of salt are sold every year,..." Lin Qin was an honest man. He was shocked when he saw Liu Zhouzong, so he had to start calculating slowly. The front was fine, but the huge math question behind it really made Lin Qin sweat. After calculating for a while, he couldn't figure it out. This number was too big.

"Remove that, calculate it by six kilograms of salt, and pay ten cents of tax." Yang Jingwei saw that the two of them had worked hard to settle the accounts, so he kindly reminded him.

"Your Majesty, you should have a salt class of 6 or 7 per pound of salt." After receiving the emperor's reminder, Lin Qin immediately calculated that the salt class, and the math within ten was relatively simple.

"Haha, it's not bad. The salt class I actually receive every year is one 6 ounces of salt per pound. Can you tell me how much is this salt sold per pound?" Yang Jing asked with a smile.

"When you go to your Majesty, there are differences in salt, from the cheapest dozens of cigarettes to dozens of cigarettes, hundreds of cigarettes." Liu Zhouzong was not good at calculating the numerology, and he made an embarrassment in front of the emperor. When he saw the emperor ask again, he immediately came out to answer the questions.

"Yes, Liu Qing's family is right. It ranges from more than ten to hundreds of quotas. If you don't say the bad ones, you won't say it. If you don't say it's too good, just count it as ordinary. How much should it be?" Yang Jing asked with a smile. Looking at the old man who was rushing to answer, Yang Jing smiled.

"When you go to Your Majesty, it's about thirty to fifty cents. This salt is also divided into the distance and cannot be generalized." Liu Zhouzong began to speak out loudly.

"Okay, not bad, you two know, does this salt household produce a pound of salt, how much does it cost?" Yang Jing continued to ask carefully.

"When you go back to Your Majesty, this minister is not clear about it. However, it is estimated that it can be as low as six or seven articles, and if it is more than ten articles, I think it may be possible." Liu Zhouzong shook his head and said. The emperor "talked" with him in such a kind manner that he felt that this had the ancient meaning of a wise ruler asking for advice from his ministers.

"Okay, not bad, even if it's eight cents, plus one penny and six cents, it's at most ten cents. The salt merchant sold it, even if it's thirty cents per pound. Two, how much did this salt merchant earn from it?" Yang Jing continued to smile.

Ah! Two scholars who are well-read about poetry and books are as if struck by lightning. Especially Liu Zhouzong, they were so surprised that they couldn't stop. He also knew that salt was making money, and salt merchants were even more of a symbol of wealth. But he had never carefully calculated why salt merchants were so rich. Only after calculating like this did he truly feel the terrible and outrageousness of the salt merchants. No wonder the emperor wanted to take action against the salt merchants. If I replaced me, I would have to take ruthless actions! It was really outrageous.

Liu Zhouzong had already started sweating and asked in panic: "Your Majesty, this..." Liu Zhouzong couldn't believe that this was true.

"What do Lin Qing's family think?" Yang Guifei did not answer and instead asked Lin Qin.
Chapter completed!