"Five million catties of salt and five hundred thousand agricultural tools were just the beginning.
Next year, those numbers had to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple!
First things first, drive down the price of salt.
In the Middle Ages, salt was something that could be used for military salaries.
Due to its expensiveness and scarcity.
But the nobles could surely afford salt.
Or rather, for the nobles, consuming salt was essentially free, because the salt tax was several times the price of salt.
Even nobles who did not produce salt had to buy it, but the salt tax they collected would offset the cost of the salt.
If one were cruel enough, not only could consuming salt be free of charge, but one could actually make money from it—of course, excessive and ruthless taxation would attract the attention of the Black Iron King—the salt tax was mandated by the court, and although it varied by region, it was generally the same.
