The popularity of Menghua Record is due to many factors, one of which must be the love between Tianxian and Chen Xiao. It is really super sweet. After many years, Yang Guo finally saw the authentic Xiao Longnu, which is better than Xiaolongbao Too strong. The two of them met in a

Menghua recorded a big hit, thanks to many factors, one of which must be the love between Tianxian and Chen Xiao. It was really super sweet. After many years, Yang Guo finally saw the genuine Little Dragon Girl. Xiaolongbao is so strong.

The two of them met in an accident. Gu Qianfan was drinking tea in Zhao Pan'er's teahouse. Suddenly a group of people broke in. They were desperadoes who were chased by a group of officers and soldiers. They also held Zhao Pan'er hostage with a knife.

This group of people are private salt and traffickers. It can be said that they are all people who are desperate for their lives. Selling private salt is a definite crime. Therefore, most of the people who sell private salt are actually brave and ruthless people. And they all regard gang crimes as equivalent to today's armed smuggling.

Since the Han Dynasty, China has implemented a very strict salt monopoly system. All salt is monopolized by the state because salt is so profitable.

Guanzi once said that the best way to quietly tax subjects is to control salt, because salt is a necessity and everyone needs it. As long as the price is raised a little bit, it will be far more effective than excessive taxation. Collect taxes and get more wealth.

This is also in line with the principle of taxation. Plucking the most goose feathers, listening to the least geese, and controlling salt is the best way. But Marx has long said that as long as the profit exceeds 200%, people are willing to risk everything. risk.

The profits of the salt industry are so huge that since the day the salt industry was franchised, there have been corresponding private salt dealers who dare to steal money from the state. The sale of private salt has always been the most severely hit by the imperial court, but This has formed a phenomenon, that is, those who sell illegal salt are often desperate for their lives. When these people gather together, they may even change history.

The last years of the Tang Dynasty Wang Xianzhi Huang Chao were all private salt dealers. They were not without money, but simply dissatisfied with the court. The entire uprising destroyed the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule.

There is also the famous Wuyue KingQian Liu, who also made his fortune by selling private salt and established a separatist regime.The separatist regime in the late Yuan Dynasty Zhang Shicheng was also a private salt dealer. Once these people get into troubled times, they will never die. The Lord dared to rise up in troubled times and risk his life on the future.

The imperial court often understood that such huge profits had to be made by the private sector. The imperial court also issued a policy that stipulated that as long as you transported grain to the front line, you would be able to obtain a certain amount of salt monopoly power. In this way, , the most special group of merchants in Chinese history appeared, they were the salt merchants of all dynasties.

Zigong, Sichuan, an inland area, is famous for its salt production. The name Zigong itself comes from the method of transporting salt to produce salt. However, there are two kinds of salt wells, one is called artesian well and the other is Gongjing. The place name Zigong was formed.

At the same time, China's largest salt factory was formed in Zigong. There were a large number of workers here and a group of wealthy salt merchants were also produced.

This model has led to the fact that there are two styles of Sichuan cuisine. One is eaten by the lower class, which is heavy in oil and spicy and can satisfy the appetite. Hot pot is the representative.

The other kind is from the salt merchants from the upper class. They eat more refined and lighter food. Boiled cabbage is the typical Sichuan cuisine. Now some people are overcorrecting and saying that the Qing Dynasty is the true face of Sichuan cuisine. This is actually wrong. of.

Zigong produces a large amount of salt, which naturally produces rich salt merchants and poor workers. The tastes are definitely different. For example, the dish of boiled cabbage is not for ordinary people at all. Therefore, Sichuan cuisine is actually made of two of a source.

The government introduced salt to , and salt merchants sold it. Therefore, salt merchants became the richest group in China. Especially during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some salt merchants were as rich as the country.

But because their wealth-making model is completely dependent on the court, because the collusion between officials and businessmen has become the main business method of salt merchants, because money comes so fast, spending money desperately has become a major characteristic of salt merchants, because they know that money The flowers couldn't be sent out, and they were taken away by the court at some point.

Ximen Qing became the richest man in Shandong by selling salt. However, when he died, his family immediately fell into decline. This was because his business relied entirely on connections and the court, so once he died, the business could not continue at all.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the cultural prosperity of Jiangnan was also related to the salt merchants. After the salt merchants got rich, they also wanted to be arty, so they spent money to buy calligraphy and paintings, which directly promoted the prosperity of the cultural market.

Private salt dealers and salt dealers are essentially the same thing, but one is in the open and the other is in the dark, and all they are looking for is profit.