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Zheng-tong: Year 7, Month 6, Day 20

27 Jul 1442

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It was ordered that merchants selling grain for salt in the Jin-chi Command be paid at the rate of one yin of salt for every two dou of rice, and that those in Da-li Prefecture be paid at the rate of one yin of salt for every two dou five sheng of rice. The salt was to be collected from the Huai-zhe, Si-chuan and Yun-nan Salt Distribution Supervisorates. These payments were not to be subject to the usual payments sequence.

Ying-zong: juan 93.5a

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 26, page 1883

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Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/reign/zheng-tong/year-7-month-6-day-20, accessed January 22, 2019