late at night!

In the Zhang Mansion, 99% of people fell asleep.

Zhu Zilong was in his room, but he was not sleepy.

Not only did he not sleep, but before returning to the house, he asked his servant to bring in a small bucket of hot water.

This is naturally not for bathing, because there is not much water.

He used Master Pokang and Uni-President instant noodles as a midnight snack! The modern instant noodles from the Ming Dynasty were brought to the tourist bag, the kind of five-in-one bag.

I have been in the Ming Dynasty for about a week, and there is no electricity, no Internet, and no TV. Even the food is extremely tasteless.

Let’s first explain the salt of Chao first. Not to mention the price, it also has a bitter taste in it.

The "Salt Administration" in the Ming Dynasty records that "in the early days of Jiajing, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanjing areas sold three cents of silver per pound of salt. In the seven or eight years of Jiajing, "there are one cents of silver per pound of salt in Huguang, Jiangxi and Jiangxi areas sold one cents of silver per pound of salt. "

Maybe you didn't understand it, it doesn't matter. As long as you know, one tael of silver was about 300 yuan in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Convert it and you will understand.

In other words, each pound of salt from the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to about 100 yuan in modern times, or a little more. After all, the country is becoming more and more chaotic!

Look, about one hundred yuan per kilogram of salt! If the price of salt in New China in the 21st century is so high, I guess everyone will be gambling at the gate of the politician. The people in ancient times lived a hard life, alas!

Moreover, ancient salt was also low-quality salt. This was no longer a cheating level, but a cheating level at the level of the ancestors’ hometown!

Think about the 21st century modern times, the average price of salt in supermarkets is 20 to 30 yuan per pack, or fine salt. The factory price is cheaper. Compared with the salt from the Ming Dynasty, do you feel instantly that you want to shout a few words about socialism and long live the new China?

Anyway, the dishes that Zhang family has been entertaining Zhu Zilong these days are not only green and pollution-free, but also pretty good. When it comes to the salt and hype in the dishes, it really makes modern people unable to bear to look at them.

What I give Zhu Zilong the feeling is that the landlord’s family has this standard of living?

The dishes I usually eat are just this kind of taste? You guys are really not kidding me? So, these days, Zhu Zilong mainly drinks and eats.

Now I can't stand it anymore, so I remembered that it would be better to make instant noodles by myself.

(Of course, sea salt is divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower. The above mentioned is the best quality. Generally, ordinary people eat low-quality products with a lot of impurities, but compared to the price in the 21st century, it is still considered to be a bad product.)

Seeing that it took several minutes to soak the instant noodles, Zhu Zilong fell into thinking again.

I read various novels and news in the past that in ancient times, every court stipulated that salt and iron tea must be sold officially. Anyone who sells privately is a serious crime, and the degree of this serious crime is basically a beheading.

When I watched it, Zhu Zilong didn't quite understand it.

Now that he has returned to the Ming Dynasty, he understands it very much. If he was the emperor, no, he would be the emperor if he had a clone, even half of the emperor. If anyone became the emperor and became the official government, this salt would have to monopolize the management!

For the human body, it is impossible not to eat salt.

Two-thirds of the human body are water. People weighing 70 kilograms have about 46 kilograms of water, which contains 375 grams of salt.

The sodium ions in salt are essential substances for transmitting information in the nervous system. Muscle contraction and heartbeat are related to sodium ions. Therefore, if the human body lacks salt, the nervous system will be very weak and the person will appear weak. It is also particularly prone to illness!

At the same time, it also ensures the pH and alkalinity necessary for pepsin action, maintains the balance of pH and alkalinity in the body, and normal circulation of body fluids.

So from some perspectives, the role of salt is almost as important as whether you eat or not.

The production of salt in ancient times was limited, which resulted in high prices and amazing profits, which were almost comparable to half of the huge profits of drug trafficking.

Of course, even modern salt is smuggled by people, let alone ancient times?

Such a high profit is a death sentence, and someone will do it. This was like a capitalist market economy in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. For the copycat capitalists in the late Ming Dynasty, profit is life!

It is like sea salt, and sea water is not enough to get gold, and the cost is mainly labor and time. Almost ignored, and the profit is high enough to make people smuggle and fight against the government!

In addition to the collusion between officials and businessmen, officials at all levels and Donglin Party members also secretly took kickbacks to get benefits. The secret smuggling of merchants' private salt was popular in the late Ming Dynasty and could not be stopped. In some places, they even smuggled openly!

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong sighed heavily.

To be honest, there are many reasons for the Ming Dynasty to die, but the most important reason is that the treasury has no money!

It is said that the official public concealment of salt taxes in several provinces will cause the court to lose more than ten million taels of silver every year. This does not include the private salt income secretly smuggled!

What civil officials told the emperor that the emperor would not compete with the people for profit, which is bullshit.

According to historical records, the tax revenue in the year of the late next year was only a few million taels of silver, but the country's various expenditures reached nearly ten million taels of silver, which was obviously not invested. However, the entire country's money did not flow out significantly, so where did the money go?

Well, for modern people, they can understand what's going on with their butts.

However, the emperors in the late Ming Dynasty obviously did not understand very well.

(Emperor Wanli did not attend court for decades, and avoided Qingjing to take charge of the affairs. His eldest son was not valued by Wanli, and he fought for the capital of the country for decades, but he still failed. King Fu finally failed to become the crown prince, but the normal growth of the real crown prince's eldest son was misleading. His grandson Emperor Tianqi became half illiterate. You are so damn, it's so cripple!)

As the saying goes, knowledge changes destiny and vision.

If you want to go to modern times, you are a college student who graduated from a key university. If you ask him to be the president of the country directly after graduation, he will not be confident that he can manage a country well.

The entire Apocalypse Emperor began to manage a huge empire at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and he was an illiterate existence.

This is the fucking foot that insists on turning the Zhu family into a pigpen!

Before Emperor Tianqi died, he found a successor in panic. He was still the stubborn and self-aware Emperor Chongzhen, who was also not very interested. It was so strange that the Ming Dynasty was not defeated!

Zhu Zilong became more and more angry the more he thought about it. Now he was depressed that even instant noodles were boring.

After eating the instant noodles in a few big mouthfuls, I checked my travel bags, and wondered why I didn’t see my laptop?

Bang!

He remembered it when he slapped his forehead. Before coming here, for safety, he followed the principle of safety first, as if he had hidden the laptop and some valuables in his bag in a cave.

Now that I have come to the Ming Dynasty, I have to take a closer look at the recorded movies and documents on the computer.

As Zhu Zilong, who lived in 2020 not long ago, is a worker who likes to read novels and works as a 72-tiered industry worker. It is completely normal to store some favorite materials and pictures (such as stockings and small butt photos) and videos (including A and V movies, haha.) in your laptop!

And there are naturally many relevant information about the Ming Dynasty in this laptop. Isn’t it the time to deepen this memory?
Chapter completed!