In daily life, the most indispensable thing in cooking and cooking is salt. For us, salt is a trivial but indispensable condiment, but we are not so worried about it. After all, almost all the shops in the street sell salt. But thousands of years ago, the role of salt was very great. The life and death and poverty of a country are determined by salt.
If there is one thing to describe salt, it may be today's oil. Because salt was so important in ancient times, kings of all dynasties explicitly prohibited the sale of private salt. If someone dares to make salt privately, it is not unusual to copy a door. But strangely, it was illegal to sell illicit salt in ancient times. How about idle fish? There was no refrigerator in ancient times, so ancient people used salt to preserve some perishable things, such as fish, vegetables and meat. So what's the problem? How did the salt come from? Since ancient salt was controlled by the state, the price was naturally not low. Fishermen can't even solve their own food and clothing, and they have no money to buy salted fish.
Without salt, many of the fish caught by fishermen can't be sold, so there is no money to pay fish tax, which is also a loss for the country. So the country has also come up with some ways to sell some salt to fishermen to pickle fish. The Qing government directly issued a clause stipulating that fishermen could directly buy fish salt to pickle fish at a price close to the people. But as long as it is salt, some people have a way to turn fish salt into private salt and sell it to others for huge profits after purification. However, the imperial court was not stupid, and immediately issued an order saying that fishermen must report the number of fish they caught in detail to the relevant departments, and then the departments will issue certificates, so fishermen can only buy fish salt with this certificate. As a result, most people can only get the corresponding fish salt honestly. Later, the Qing government directly dyed the fish salt, and also stated that the unused fish salt must be returned to the relevant departments.
However, there are always some lawless elements who can find loopholes, which is also helpless. However, most people still obey the rules. Compared with the days when they could buy salt at will, they have to sigh that life is better now and people's lives are much happier.