Salttax was one fourth of total tax income in the time and so it was very important to the selection, appointment, supervision and examination of salt officials.
两淮盐税占当时税收的四分之一，因此对盐官的职责、选拔和任用、监督和考核、奖励和惩处极其重要。
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Yet their plight was made worse by a series of 19th-century changes, including rapid deforestation, which stopped them from hunting, and the imposition of a tax on salt, which many had traded.