Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 60 New Deal
Nanzhili is already under control, what will you do next?

Of course it's making money!
Taichang came to Jiangnan for the purpose of making money.

Of course, what he meant by making money was not to learn from the late Emperor Wanli.

The late emperor Wanli fished out of the lake, killed chickens to get eggs, he was full and his descendants starved.

This is not a joke. Wanli sent mine supervisors and tax officials to scrape the land everywhere, and the entire Ming Dynasty was sluggish and the people were struggling. The peasant uprising that followed had a certain relationship with this. If everyone has a job and can earn food, who is so? Bored to rebel.

Of course, it is a bit far-fetched to say that the rebellion has something to do with this. After all, natural disasters are the direct cause of the lack of food for a large number of people.

However, there is one thing that can prove that Wanli has exhausted the pond and fished, killing the chickens to get the eggs, which has caused great harm to future generations.

This matter is also related to mines. In the history of the Apocalypse Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty, all kinds of minerals were scary!
For example, copper mines.

To what extent did the copper mines of the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty lack?

For tens of thousands of catties of scrap copper, Wei Zhongxian actually killed Wan Sui, the minister of engineering who was in charge of building the Taichang Mausoleum!
As for the reason, it is actually very simple, because Wan Sui is building a mausoleum for Taichang, and Wei Zhongxian is also building a mausoleum for himself. Both of them need copper to build the mausoleum. No one is mining copper at all. Where does copper come from?

Then look for scrap copper!

Wan Sui found out that there were tens of thousands of kilograms of scrap copper left over from the renovation of the palace over the years in the inner treasury, so he went to ask Wei Zhongxian for it.

Just kidding, Wei Zhongxian is building the mausoleum himself, can you give it to him?
Wan Xie was also a straight man of steel, Wei Zhongxian actually used his power for personal gain in such a way, he went up with a memorial, revealing that Wei Zhongxian had embezzled more than 300 million taels of silver from the internal treasury to build a mausoleum for himself.

Unfortunately, he was destined to be unable to stab Tian Qi, and the memorial was directly intercepted by Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian immediately became angry, and ordered Wan Sui to be caught. This attack lasted for four days and four nights, and Wan Sui was beaten to death like this!

Of course, copper mines were mainly used in various buildings, statues and utensils at that time, and did not affect the success or failure of the war much.

Based on this, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that Wanli has caused misery to future generations.

Cold weapon combat, what is the most important mineral?

Don't ask, it's iron ore!
During the Chongzhen Dynasty, to what extent was iron ore scarce?

According to historical records, for more than ten years, Chongzhen had traded with Dongying's Shibosi, and the main thing they exchanged with Dongying for cloth and porcelain was Japanese swords.

Why did Chongzhen exchange Japanese swords with Dongying?
He can't do anything about it, the iron ore has been completely scrapped by the mine supervisor and tax envoy sent by Wanli, and Daming has no iron to make weapons at all!
Poor Ming Dynasty, the pig iron output in the early years of Hongwu reached more than [-] million catties, more than all other countries in the world at that time combined.

In the Chongzhen Dynasty, there was not enough pig iron to make weapons, and I had to exchange it with Little Dongying for Japanese swords!

It can be seen from this that in Wanli, it is very harmful to fish and kill chickens to get eggs.

Of course, Taichang can't learn Wanli. His method is just the opposite, that is, raising fish and raising chickens to lay eggs.

On this day, before all the censors and the six ministers of the Nanjing Metropolitan Examination Yuan took office, Taichang held another court meeting.

However, this time, it was not the morning court, but the afternoon court. Those who participated in the court meeting were not officials in Jinling City, but merchants from the prefectures of Southern Zhili.

Of course, not all merchants can participate in this conference. Only those merchants with relatively strong abilities, assets reaching a certain level, and relatively prestigious localities can participate in this conference.

Wu Yangchun, Sheng Huaixuan and others were impressively listed, and Ge Cheng was at the forefront of the merchants.

Taichang looked at the densely packed merchants in the square and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, revealing a slight smile.

There are at least a thousand merchants in this square. If each person can contribute 10 taels to the Ming court, that would be hundreds of millions of taels!

He couldn't help smiling and said: "Everyone, I'm here today to talk about one thing. Simply speaking, as long as you cooperate with the court and contribute more than 10 taels to the court, each of you can earn money." A Zhongshu Sheren of the seventh rank."

Ah!
As soon as he said these words, even his father-in-law Wu Yangchun's face changed.

It's not that Wu Yangchun didn't have the 10 taels, the main reason for the emperor's doing this, most of the merchants present were probably selling their sons and daughters, and they couldn't make up 10 taels if they sold all their property!

10 taels is not a joke. It is estimated that there are less than a hundred merchants in Nanzhili who can really come up with 10 taels, and most of the less than a hundred merchants have to go bankrupt to come up with 10 taels.

He wanted to say, this is impossible!
Your Majesty, aren't you forcing everyone to die?

Fortunately, before he even opened his mouth, Tai Chang realized something was wrong.

What's your expression like?

He froze for a moment, then slapped his forehead and explained: "Maybe what I said was too simple, and you misunderstood. I didn't ask you to donate 10 taels each to the court, but to let you work hard to make money, and each of you created money for the court. Pay 10 taels of tax. There is no time limit for this, ten to eight years, ten to twenty years, as long as your cumulative tax payment reaches 20 taels, you can earn the status of a Zhongshu Sheren .”

10 taels of tax?
If the 200th tax is 150, then you will earn 100 million taels, if the [-]th tax is [-], you will earn [-] million taels, even if it is the highest ten tax, you will still have to earn [-] million taels!

Your Majesty, are you joking with us?
Your cake painting is too big, besides your father-in-law, there are several people who can earn more than 100 million taels!

When a group of merchants heard this, their expressions changed again. At first they were stunned, but now they are stunned.

Everyone earns more than 100 million taels?
This kind of thing is simply impossible!

The emperor's idea is simply too peculiar to be realized at all!
Is it impossible?

Taichang looked at the dumbfounded expressions of the merchants, smiled slightly, and then motioned to Cao Huachun beside him, read!
Cao Huachun immediately took out a scroll, unfolded it, and said loudly, "The trial version of "Da Ming's New Deal in Commerce and Trade"."

New Deal for Commerce!

The merchants were stunned again. The Ming Dynasty had never promulgated any new policies for this group of merchants.

Cao Huachun then said: "One, immediately withdraw all mine supervisors and tax envoys."

Very good!
No wonder the dead eunuchs are packing their bedding, it turns out that the imperial court wants to withdraw them.

A group of merchants finally stopped stunned, and everyone's face was full of joy.

These dead eunuchs really hurt them badly.

Cao Huachun continued to read: "Second, local prefectures and counties must not levy extortionate taxes in any name."

This!
This is good or bad, but is it possible?
Before there were no mining supervisors, the most feared thing for merchants was extortionate and miscellaneous taxes.

This kind of thing cannot be avoided.

You know, in the three years of Qingzhi County, [-] snowflakes of silver!

How do local officials make money?

Just rely on these extortionate taxes!
Many merchants couldn't believe that local officials would not levy any extortionate taxes.

Cao Huachun continued to read: "Third, the censors of the prefectural censorship inspect the censors, and all the censors of the censorship are stationed in the local area for inspections, which will be changed once a year. Anyone who violates the new policy can appeal to the censors of the censors. , those who did not take office as the censors of the prefectural censorship, can also make a petition to the censors of the next censorship."

This?
Very good!
As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. What merchants are most afraid of is that local officials play this trick.

In the past, no matter how much people played, they would have nowhere to complain!

Now that's it, they finally have a place to redress.

Cao Huachun continued to read: "Fourth, revoke the road guide certificate, all merchants can pass the Quartet with the payment of tax certificates, and the inspection department of any place shall not investigate, create difficulties, block, and detain without any reason, so as to extort extortion."

This?
Great, great!
Once it can be unimpeded, business world, and make big money, that is a must!
After Cao Huachun finished reading, he immediately put away the scroll and stood silent.

The New Deal is about these four items for the time being, but all of them are for merchants to consider.

Taichang then asked, "How about it, do you have the confidence to earn the position of Zhongshusheren?"

Ge Cheng, Wu Yangchun and Sheng Huaixuan looked at each other, and immediately led everyone to kneel on the mountain and shouted, "Your Majesty is wise!"

(End of this chapter)