People die for money, and birds die for food. Zhu Youxiao had to admit that Yuan Shizhen's move was very powerful and pointed directly at the weaknesses of people's hearts.

In fact, this is true. After the introduction of the "Outline Law", salt merchants rushed to pay salt taxes in order to obtain the qualification of hereditary business. The escaped salt merchants also returned one after another to return to their old business.

There is a problem. Although the short term has brought earth-shaking changes in the salt administration of Lianghuai and increased the income from salt courses, this hereditary plus monopoly is equivalent to a time bomb, which will sooner or later bring big trouble.

After Liu Ruoyu finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao also came to an instinctive conclusion. Without careful study, he would know why salt merchants are so rich and why ordinary people eat salt so expensive.

But now it seems that it is not the time to reform the salt administration, or it is not appropriate to make major changes.

First of all, the drawbacks of the outline have not been exposed too clearly, and the salt merchants have not yet reached the time of being so arrogant and domineering in the Qing Dynasty;

Secondly, the new policy has been implemented for less than ten years, and the salt induction of salt merchants owed by China and France has not been paid off, and the government is not willing to speak out;

The last point is the most important thing. Zhu Youxiao still doesn’t know how deep the water is.

There are too many things included in this, such as how many officials have colluded with salt merchants to form interest groups; how many private salts are squeezing the market for official salt, why can't official salt compete for private salt...

I am afraid I will issue a secret order to investigate the salt prices in various places, and to let the Dongchang hear more about the situation of officials and salt merchants.

Zhu Youxiao did not make a decision immediately, and the crux of the "Huai-Guangdong dispute" was to draw salt in the division of districts, so we should solve this problem first.

In short, he did not understand the salt administration situation in the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Youxiao was cautious and could not bear it.

As soon as Liu Ruoyu surrendered, officials sent by the Ministry of Revenue were summoned to come.

In theory, after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the salt law system was implemented, that is, "the governor, the Censor and the Senate of the General Secretary appointed a member to take charge of the salt law." The Ministry of Revenue only cared about putting salt courses into the warehouse and did not directly manage the salt administration.

But the emperor wanted to ask, and the Ministry of Revenue still found officials familiar with the salt administration, although the official position was not very large.

Lin Yundao has been in the Ministry of Revenue for more than ten years. He has worked hard in the document and looks older than his actual age, but he is still a doctor.

This time he was summoned to the palace, and the emperor was worried that he could not find a suitable candidate for the moment, so he got this opportunity.

He was both nervous and excited. Lin Yun came in and asked for advice, and unexpectedly he had an embroidered pole seat, which made him even more frightened.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the size of his official position. He needed to have a good understanding of the salt administration. He felt that it was a long time, so it was a bit awkward to reply while standing.

After thinking for a little while, the emperor began to ask questions. First of all, it was relatively basic. How many salt fields are there in the country and how many salt fields are there under the salt area.

Lin Yundae is really familiar with salt affairs, and he sets his body down and answers one by one respectfully.

The emperor continued to ask, some were simple and some were complicated. Lin Yundae also cheered up and tried to answer accurately so that the emperor could be satisfied.

Time flies quickly, and with the understanding of salt affairs, the emperor's questions became deeper, and finally he asked about the division of boundaries.

"I think the division of the induced boundaries is quite unreasonable. Has no one proposed any changes?" Zhu Youxiao asked with a sip of tea and frowned slightly.

Lin Yundai was a little hesitant and thought carefully for a while before bowing, saying, "Long live back, the division of boundaries is unreasonable, and it is not a new problem. The court also knew something, but it was difficult to change in the end."

Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "Why is this?"

Lin Yundai replied truthfully: "The purpose of maintaining the shore system is to ensure taxation, especially the amount of Huaiyan tax that cannot endanger the significant proportion of Huaiyan tax. As for the others, it is difficult to take into account."

Zhu Youxiao lowered his eyes, pondered for a while, and said, "So that's it, I understand."

After a long time, the emperor did not speak. Lin Yundae saw the palace servant next to him wink at him, thinking that it was time to leave, so he wanted to get up.

"What do you think is wrong with this salt law system?" the young emperor suddenly raised his eyes and asked in a deep voice.

Lin Yundai hurriedly sat down his owed butt again and thought quickly in his mind. This question was very big and it was really hard to answer.

"Say whatever you think." The young emperor's tone eased a little, and he said, "Without a perfect system, there will always be flaws."

Lin Yundae swallowed hard and replied carefully: "Long live back, I think the flaw of the salt law system is that there is no special permanent organization, and the salt inspector and the salt field are not related to superiors and subordinates."

The young emperor's mouth curled up, and he smiled a little, and said, "The system is not completely constructed. It is impossible for the salt inspector to manage the huge salt law affairs alone."

Zhu Youxiao did not explain in detail. In addition to the lack of clones of the salt inspector and low supervision efficiency, the cooperation between the local government is one of the keys to whether the salt law can be effectively implemented.

However, the salt law system does not have any rigid requirements for local cooperation, which is very likely to lead to local disputes and unfavorable affairs.

Moreover, the salt inspection censor and the salt field are not related to the superiors and subordinates, and the implementation effect has a very large relationship with the strength of the salt inspection censor. Too many human interference factors will definitely lead to the emergence of corruption such as collusion between officials and businessmen.

After all, the law of salt is not only an imperfect system, but also involves the ability and ethics of officials, but also a matter of the administration of officials.

The tax authorities have not been established yet, and there are still many talent gaps, which has created a salt law, and there seems to be more lacking.

Not only these two departments, Zhu Youxiao has long discovered that the number of local officials is insufficient. How many people can a county government can kill him? However, he also has the functions of the county government, public security, courts, taxation and other departments, which is simply...

"There are too few officials in the Salt Law." Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh.

Lin Yundae thought about it and bowed and said, "Long live back, since the Wanli New Policy, in order to alleviate financial difficulties, Zhang Jiangling has cut and eliminated a large number of officials. Not only are there very few officials in the Salt Law Road, but also local officials."

The sharp decrease in local officials has led to an official having to hold multiple positions in order to maintain the normal operation of local administrative agencies, and it is difficult for officials from the Salt Law Road to be responsible for their work.

According to the "History of Ming Dynasty", an official named Du Shi also held up as many as seven positions when he was in charge of the salt law system. It can be seen that the officials in charge of the salt law system had many tasks at that time.

Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly and said, "Lin Yundai is right, I am very familiar with salt affairs, it's very good. Well, I'm a little tired today."
Chapter completed!