When he returned to his residence, Yuwen Wen lay on the couch and couldn't fall asleep. He didn't stay with Yang Ji for too long before he turned back. It was not that he didn't say anything but a little bit of a speculation, but because it was useless to say too much.

If you want to try to open the Chinese and French plank roads, or even attract Shangtun to develop Lingnan by opening the Chinese and French, it will take a lot of time to plan. If you want to consider everything based on a detailed discussion for one night, it is impossible.

More importantly, Yang Ji is right. He doesn't need to put too much energy into Lingnan, so he only needs to let Yang Ji be responsible for the specific implementation of these things. Yu Wen Wen rushed back to sleep because there are still many things to be busy tomorrow.

However, if you have something in your heart, you can't sleep. Once your mind is turned, you can't stop. Yang Ji mentioned the Kaizhong Fa, and Yuwen Wen thought about the Kaizhong Fa. There is a saying that goes: Learn from history to know the rise and fall.

Everything has its pros and cons. The rise and fall of China and France was a very important event in the Ming Dynasty, which directly led to the rise and fall of Shanxi merchants. Therefore, Yuwen Wen wanted to "learn history."

Kaizhong and France originated in the Song Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the Kaizhong and France in order to solve the problem of insufficient food in the border army. He used the method of raising grain to attract merchants to transport grain to the border areas in exchange for salt to attract salt.

Salt trading is a huge profit. The government has solved the food supply problem of border troops, and the merchants were able to trade salt, so they made a lot of profits. It was a joy to everyone, but as time passed, the development of China and France gradually became "changed".

The specific reason, Yang Ji had already said before, mainly that the merchants involved in Kaizhong were "hidden to guard the branch". Over time, the attractiveness of Kaizhong and France became less and less, and in the end they could not be sustained.

Even Yang Ji, who was in the late Ming Dynasty, knew about all kinds of problems. So don’t the guild guilds in the middle of the Ming Dynasty know about them? Didn’t they take measures to remedy them?

Of course, measures were taken, but the results were minimal. The reason was very simple. The biggest reason for the corruption of the Chinese and French was that the rulers did not keep their promises.

Comparing Kaizhong to a transaction, the parties to the transaction are the government and the merchants. The government bids to solve the food problem of border troops. After the merchant wins the bid, the grain will be transported to the destination before the deadline arrives.

After the merchant completed the transaction, the government paid the salt turf, but the transaction was not over yet, because the entire transaction was only completed when the merchant took the salt turf and took the salt.

The reason for the corruption of Kai-China France is that merchants cannot withdraw salt in a short period of time, and there are "trapped guards" that cannot be paid for salt for several years or even decades. The transaction has not been completed and some people have been paying for the debt.

Therefore, the situation of the Chinese and French trapping the branch is actually the government is cheating and fooling merchants with a piece of paper.

This situation is very common even in modern times. Taking the catering industry as an example, the most famous one is that government officials write white slips after dining, and then fail to pay for several years or even more than ten years, dragging down restaurants.

Similarly, the salt turbulence became a white strip. The merchants who participated in the opening could not withdraw salt from the salt field. The capital chain was broken and they were in tears. However, the government said it was assured: I did not say that I would not give salt, but the salt output was not enough. Let's talk about it next year.

When the transaction becomes extremely unfair and when one party starts to be foolish without any bottom line, the fool will make a deal with him.

So, is it because of insufficient salt production that leads to more and more situations of trapping the branch?

No, this is just a small reason. The main reason is that the rulers have no bottom line and are unscrupulous in obtaining the best benefits through salt attractions. Their eating habits are becoming increasingly ugly, leading to the collapse of China and France.

When the maker of the transaction rules takes the lead in breaking the rules, the transaction cannot continue.

The rule of opening the Chinese law is that you must participate in opening the Chinese law to obtain salt turbulence. Theoretically, the salt turbulence will be issued to ensure that the merchants who have completed opening the turbulence can use the salt turbulence to withdraw salt in time.

As a result, the first person to take the lead in sabotage was the emperor.

Everyone wants salt quotations, so it has become one of the emperor's best rewards. Today, I will reward thousands of honored ministers, tomorrow I will reward thousands of quotations, and the next day I will reward someone with thousands of quotations, which will directly allow those who do not participate in the opening to obtain a large amount of salt quotations.

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, and the emperor takes the lead in "not being lowered as an example". Of course, the powerful and powerful should also "not being lowered as an example". If all kinds of related households do not participate in the opening, they can obtain a large amount of salt induced, and the consequence is that the salt induced is excessive.

Related households can take advantage of their power to get salt from the salt field and give priority to the salt. The merchants who are honestly driving are led to the salt field with salt to line up to wait for salt. The result can be imagined.

In order to solve the problem of "hidden leadership", since the Yongle year, officials have been constantly working hard to take measures to rectify. Some advocate rectifying the administration of officials and punishing corrupt officials who manage salt affairs, and some advocate vigorously cracking down on private salt transactions, but they all treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

It’s very simple. The government is not trustworthy and slutty. This is the cause, but who can cure it?

The emperor wants salt to attract, and the powerful people want salt to attract. Dare not to give it to the salt administration? Dare not to send it to the extra money? Dare not to give it to the relevant households to give priority to withdraw it?

In the era of imperial power, this was an unsolvable problem. The credit of the government was first related to the emperor's moral bottom line, secondly, the financial issue, and finally the official administration issue. Just rectifying the official administration was actually useless to alleviate the "dangers".

Yuwen Wen couldn't help but think of reality. If he operated in multiple ways and asked the court to approve the trial of opening the Sino-French in the Guangzhou General Administration, would there be a problem of trapping the branch?

Related households have appeared now, but that was licensed by Yuwen Wen. In return for enthusiastic support of various businesses and families, he was not stupid and did not let the other party cover all the salt in Guangzhou salt farm.

As long as he keeps the bottom line, this problem will be easy to solve. If you want to use Kaizhong and France to promote Shangtun in Lingnan, the time span is large, and there is indeed a risk.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains courts have focused on agriculture and neglected businessmen. With the long-term influence of the official-oriented idea, officials have basically no ideological burden on oppressing businessmen. This is a chronic disease and can basically not be changed.

In view of this, Yuwen Wen did not dare to issue bonds, so as not to avoid being noticed by the court and becoming a tool for making money. He would be thrown away like a chamber pot when he was used up. The credit he had finally established was gone.

The trial of China and France in Guangzhou General Administration is expected to be very popular. So will the powerful and powerful reach out? I'm afraid not, because Guangzhou is too far away.

For the powerful people in Bashu, Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Henan, and Huainan, the well salt in Shu and the pond salt in Hedong, from Cangzhou to the eastern coastal sea salt in Wujun in the north, are the most convenient salt production areas. Compared with that, Guangzhou, a place with smoke and smoky, has too low attraction.

As long as the successor Guangzhou general manager is not stupid or bad, and deliberately corrupts the government's credit for some purpose, then the opening of China and France can be implemented smoothly. If it really changes, it will happen decades later.

However, this problem is not just one, but because of the "learning from the past", Yuwen Wen should beware of another negative impact.

After the collapse of China and France in the Ming Dynasty, the court could not guarantee the grain supply of border troops in Xuan and Da, and could not lay off troops, so it could only make a compromise and entrust Shanxi merchants to solve the grain supply problem of border troops.

This cannot be a loss-making transaction, so Shanxi merchants have to have income to make up for the losses caused by the transportation of food and grass. However, Shanxi does not produce salt, so how should they make up for it?

Very simple, smuggling.

Who are you smuggling with? Of course, it is a smuggling transaction with the enemy, the Mongols.

The consequences are very serious. The Shanxi merchants and the border army formed a community of interests. The army that should have guarded the border for the country participated in smuggling. Whoever dared to investigate would die. Even if the court knew, there was no way to do anything: kill all the Shanxi merchants, who would provide food to the border army? Kill all the border army, the new garrison would be the same.

And as time goes by, a larger smuggling partner appears, that is, the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Using history as a guide, we can know the rise and fall of the rise and fall. Yuwen Wen did not want to indirectly lead to the emergence of smuggling groups because of the implementation of China-French development. This is not his unfair concern, because if we want to try to open China-French development, we must expand the area of ​​salt farms to increase the salt production. Sooner or later, the salt-drying method will be learned by the local tyrants in the coastal areas of Lingnan, and the output of private salt will also rise slowly.

It is conceivable that with the increasing prosperity of salt trading in Lingnan, the proliferation of private salt will lead to more and more cases of smuggling salt. If private salt dealers want to do such beheading, they will inevitably choose to armed smuggling.

In this way, a serious instability factor will arise: the salt owl.
Chapter completed!