Chapter 3150 Salt Administration Reform

The two children fell asleep after feeding. Sure enough, it is human nature to want to sleep after eating.

Although they fell asleep, they were still carried out to have their hair shaved.

The outside artisan who specializes in shaving the child's hair was hired outside. He shaves the hair gently. Zhou Man watched and felt that the child slept a little more soundly.

Is there any benefit to shaving?

Little Qian twisted a warm towel and wiped their heads. The two children moved, their eyes seemed to open a little, but they quickly closed and went back to sleep.

Zheng shi took out two small hats, put them on with a smile, and whispered, "I made them for them to breathe. Even if they wear them now, they won't get hot, and they won't catch cold."

In addition to the hat, the Zheng family also gave them a little rabbit carved in jade, but unfortunately they are still young and can't play with these toys.

So Zhou Man, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang generously took it for them.

Children fall asleep, and their parental moments are useless.

Zhou Man brought a jade-carved rabbit back to the study, played with it and put it aside, "I've figured out how to write it."

Bai Shan smiled and handed her the ink he just sharpened, "Give it to you."

Zhou Man took the inkstone, put it aside, handed him his empty inkstone, and glanced at the official documents on his case, "Do you still have so many official documents?"

Bai Shan nodded, "The summer harvest is just around the corner, all the Zhuangzi have to make arrangements, and the official salt for the next season is also preparing. This time the preparation time is half a year shorter than before, so there are many things to arrange."

Zhou Man felt that he was not very relaxed, and suddenly became happy, and excitedly began to write his own essays, even the sentences were more lively than before.

After finishing the writing, I polished it up and copied it on the blank booklet and sent it out.

She felt that her writing was very good, and the Ministry of Personnel would probably agree, and the court officials should not object. After all, this is a win-win situation.

Zhou Man happily continued his career of vaccination and medical treatment in Beihai County, while waiting for the reply from the capital.

As a result, she waited for a ten-day without any news, and after waiting for another ten-day, the wheat was all collected, and the officials who bought salt for the second time came to Beihai County, and she still had no news.

Zhou Man was dissatisfied, "When did the work efficiency in Beijing become so low?"

Bai Shan took out a letter and handed it to her, "You've been busy vaccinating recently, and I don't have time to talk to you. Take a look."

"what is this?"

"This is Brother Tang's letter. By the way, I still have a letter from Mr. Tang." Bai Shanyi found it and gave it to her.

Zhou Man didn't read the content, but first scanned the envelope, "It's all for you."

Bai Shandao: "If there is no medical department involved, they naturally won't write to you."

Taking advantage of Zhou Man's time to read the letter, he summed up what happened in the capital, "I calculated the time, and unfortunately, when your letter arrived in the capital, it should have come across the matter of Mr. Wei's letter to reform the salt administration."

The salt administration reform Wei Zhi has been shouting for two years, but he has been preparing for nearly ten years.

Everyone in the court knew that Wei Zhihe wanted to reform the salt administration, especially the salt tax problem in the south of the Yangtze River.

But how to reform specifically, because Wei Zhi has never had a specific upper limit, no one knows except the emperor and a few related ministers.

This time, Wei Zhi went up and down and listed the salt reforms in detail, which naturally included the salt tax reform.

As soon as the book went up, not to mention the officials of the Jiangnan faction, the entire court was shocked, and then there was a loud noise, some who were loudly opposed, and some who were loudly expressing their opinions, but very few agreed.

For such a big matter, Zhou Man's book at this time is not worth taking to the court to discuss in Baiguan's opinion.

Zhongshusheng just glanced at it and gave his opinion "to be discussed". Now that the court is in a mess, this kind of non-urgent matter should be put aside for now.

Menxia Province didn't even have any opinion on this approval opinion. After the review was approved, it was sent to the Ministry of Personnel, with a message saying: "It's something to think about."

That is, you can think about it now.

But just think about it, not to mention whether the Ministry of Officials is happy or not, he is just willing and very active to promote this matter, and the people's family and the central book can turn around and forget about it.

Now everyone's mind is on the salt administration, as well as the officialdom in Jiangnan, who has the mind to focus on other trivial matters?

Like other things, there are old-fashioned rules to follow, disaster-affected, tax-exempt, and this kind of thing follows the old rules. After a quick decision, everyone will continue to "discuss" about the salt administration, and occasionally greet me accidentally. The other's body, morals, and even ancestors...

As for a book like Zhou Man that does not have an old example, if it is not very urgent, it will be put aside first, and if it is very urgent, it will be taken out for quick discussion and a decision will be sent to it.

Therefore, except for officials like Zhou Man, many officials actually feel that the efficiency of Beijing's work recently is very high, much higher than before.

After reading the letter, Zhou Man was stunned, "So this is because I chose a bad time to write the book, and then I got scammed?"

Bai Shan nodded, "I don't think the salt administration reform has been decided yet, so everyone shouldn't be in the mood to discuss your case."

Zhou Man took out Mr. Zhuang's letter and read it carefully again.

Mr. Zhuang wrote down all the key points of Wei Zhi's salt policy reform and sent it to Bai Shan.

Zhou Man asked him, "What do you think of Master Wei's method?"

Bai Shan nodded and said, "I don't know what will happen in the future, but for now, this reform method is indeed beneficial to the country and the people."

Wei Zhi should have wanted to reform the salt administration for a long time, so he was well prepared. Even if Bai Shan looked at the reform with a critical eye, he could not find a few problems.

Zhou Man pointed to the red critique on the letter and asked, "You wrote this?"

Bai Shan glanced at it and nodded, "You don't recognize my characters?"

Zhou Man ignored him, but looked at the lines of red criticism and said, "You set the price of salt so low, I'm afraid the reform will be more difficult."

"I know," Bai Shan said, "but the opportunity is so rare, if you don't pass this time, it will be even more difficult to reform next time."

He said: "It's different now. Now that we have the method of drying salt, the cost of making salt has been greatly reduced. At this price I suppressed, the county offices in various places still make money. Although it is small, it is small and quick to sell. "

"Private salt has been banned over and over again, why is this?" Bai Shan said, "It's because the price of official salt has become very high after the salt tax and the income of various county offices. But the county office is the place to manage the people, not a business name. , and it should not be for profit. If official salt is cheaper than private salt, will the people still buy private salt?"

And when the profit of salt is reduced to a certain extent, how many people will smuggle salt?

Zhou Man pondered, but still shook his head after a long while, "I know what you said is right, but you definitely can't tell the officials in the court like this, and you can't tell the county government about your thoughts, otherwise the salt administration reform will be even worse. Difficult to implement..."

Tonight is too late, there is another chapter to be updated tomorrow morning, go to bed first, good night.