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Princess highness way: ”look at the young Yang's school, nor is it from salt deficient place.”

Is his salt standard too wasteful in ancient times?!

Xue Lang reflected silently. Princess

looked at Xue Lang's thought at a glance, and said, ”just now, I heard that the young Yang was taxed. I thought the young Yang knew. Now it seems that the environment of young Yang growing is quite different from that of my great Tang Dynasty, so I can not understand the salt policy. I think you don't know much about it, do you? ”

”Your Highness is wise.”

It turns out that Liu female officials do not understand. The two men waited for the royal highness of the princess to dispel doubts. Princess

, Her Highness, said, ”the output of salt in my Tang Dynasty is sufficient, if only the supply of the population is used. Only a large proportion of the consumption of the population will be used for animal husbandry. Livestock also need salt. In addition, the areas where medicine, farming and craftsmen also use salt, the production of salt will be more than enough, and the supply will be inadequate. It is because of this that people eat light food in leisure time and salty food in wartime and busy farming

Xue Lang suddenly realized that no matter people or livestock, lack of salt will have no strength. The use of salt in ancient times was wider than that in modern times. However, due to the production technology and transportation, the output of salt could not keep up with it. No wonder the amount of salt used should be limited.

Hear this, Xue Lang understood! Xue Lang asked, ”since the output can't keep up with the demand, the price of salt should be high. Why did the court set the price of salt so low?”

Princess highness way: ”for thin Fu, let the benefit of the people, recuperate.”

Xue Lang understood: ”Your Highness means that the price of salt is related to taxes? Is salt price a means to control taxes

”Yes

nodded his royal highness.

Xue Lang suddenly realized. In essence, the ancient feudal society was a society of farming civilization, dominated by small-scale farmers and local economy, with little economic circulation.As the main body of the state, to control and influence the economic development of the country, as well as to regulate and control the national economy and the people's livelihood through taxation, there is no more appropriate thing than the price of grain and salt, which everyone needs.

There is also a north-south difference in grain. The North likes pasta while the South likes rice. This salt is what everyone needs, East, West, North and south. It's no wonder that the salt government was in charge in ancient times.

The low salt price in the Tang Dynasty was obviously forced by the court to lower the price, which affected the reduction of taxes, and then affected the price of grain, so as to benefit the people and get the chance to recuperate. Later, people's life became better, so the salt tax was raised accordingly.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty, which had a low price of salt, did not mean that there was no shortage of salt. It was only due to the national policy that the salt tax was set low.

Xue Lang understood. However, in the principle of prudence, he did not rashly propose ways to increase salt production. Since salt price is the basis of a country's taxation, it can not be changed rashly. Especially when the Tang Dynasty was just established, it could not withstand so many ups and downs.

Especially the people who have just experienced the war have little ability to resist risks. To govern a big country is like cooking a little fresh food and moving the whole body. Xue Lang said it was very simple. It was a good thing for the country and the people to think about whether it was a good thing.

Just like Wang Anshi's political reform, Wang Xianggong's original intention is certainly good, and the country also needs it. However, whether the people accept it or not and whether they adapt to the people's conditions and people's livelihood, Wang Xianggong did not consider it thoroughly. The result of the failure of the reform is hard to calculate the damage to the country.

Xue Lang didn't want to go through the ordeal. Instead, he became a criminal in history. Xue Lang wanted to make the Tang Dynasty better, not worse.

only had the right to speak in the presence of many investigations, and the principle of real knowledge came from practice. Xue Lang asked his royal highness many policies and regulations on Salt Policy in Tang Dynasty. After that, she went back to the salt that her royal highness gave him.