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Chapter 85: Isn't It Beautiful?

Although Shen Shuren casually uttered such a big truth at the family dinner table, it was quite inappropriate.However, Shen Tingyang is obviously used to his son's foresight.

In the past year and a half, his son often came up with wonderful ideas and refreshed his cognition again and again. No matter what happens now, it is not enough to surprise him.

"Then let's start from the easy and the difficult, and first talk about how to convince the people who pay the money in the local area so that there will be no trouble." Shen Tingyang asked without any psychological pressure.

Shen Shuren: "To solve big problems, you can't talk about qualitative analysis in general. As long as you dismantle, quantify, and divide them into a bunch of small problems, there is nothing difficult to solve.

Your Majesty's lijin reform is essentially only aimed at the reform of the commercial tax collection method in the southeast region. Let's sort out which provinces are involved, and then dismantle them one by one.

Theoretically, after the implementation of lijin, the nine southern provinces and southern Zhili will have an impact.But in fact, the Miao chaos in Yunnan and Guizhou has not been resolved in recent years, and Guangdong and Guangxi are located in the remote border areas. They have little inland waterway communication with other provinces and are separated by Wuling.

Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian remained.Sichuan is relatively the most difficult to control, and it must have been affected by the Tusi Miao Rebellion, and Zhang Xianzhong is now entrenched in Xiongshan (the ancient name of Shennongjia), so the commercial tax in the hinterland of Sichuan may only temporarily maintain the old system in the next few years.

However, Sichuan merchants can guarantee the levy of lijin if they want to go out of Sichuan by water, because they can only enter Huguang from the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

In this way, small Sichuan businessmen who have no intention of traveling far and do not do inter-provincial trade will not be exploited by the new law. Those who can be exploited are at least those who have large ships that can go out of the Three Gorges. The attitude of Sichuan people is not so important. There is no need to oppose lijin.

People are all selfish, if a law can't exploit themselves, but can only exploit opponents who are much richer than themselves, then most people will play it safe. "

Obviously, Shen Shuren took advantage of the boring ten days on the boat to carefully plan these thoughts on the way back to Suzhou.After dismantling it lightly, he first eliminated a few unnecessary provinces, and it seemed that the problem was much easier at once.

Later, he generalized it and analyzed that the idea of ​​dealing with Sichuan can also be applied to Jiangxi and Fujian——

Jiangxi is currently a neighboring province in the south that the Shen family can penetrate and influence relatively weakly, and there are not many political allies there.However, when Shen Shuren took office in Huangzhou before, when he attacked some local gentry who were particularly ugly, he also offended many Jiangxi families who lived in Jiujiang and infiltrated Huguang Nanzhi. Therefore, it is impossible to expect to find a force in Jiangxi that is willing to cooperate. up.

However, the terrain of Jiangxi is almost closed to that of Sichuan, and most of the trade has to go through the mouth of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang and then along the Yangtze River.

As long as the pockets of Huguang and Nanzhili in the east and west are tied tightly, it is ensured that "Jiangxi people will not be levied lijin for short-distance trade in the province, and as long as they leave Poyang Lake from Jiujiang, no matter whether they go upstream to Huguang or downstream to the south. Zhili will be charged lijin."

Then, the local small businessmen and gentry who accounted for more than [-]% of Jiangxi will not take the initiative to resist for the time being.

As for Fujian, there are indeed no inland rivers and waterways leading to other provinces, but if the Shen family wants to take care of Zheng Zhilong's family, so that Zheng Zhilong can also support the Lijin Reform, this is tantamount to taking care of the whole of Fujian by the way.

Zheng Zhilong can collect more than 1000 million taels of flag silver a year, and Fujian is the Fujian of Zheng's family.

"...So, if you want to collect lijin, the imperial court can take a few provinces as a pilot, set up one in between, and take Huguang, Nanzhili, and Fujian. The remaining Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang are sandwiched in between, as long as If you go out of the province by river or water, you will be levied.

In this way, the problem is simplified by half.And the reasons are very good: Huguang and Nanzhili are both provinces affected by thieves, so special wartime business tax management has been adopted.Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang have not entered the country for the time being, so theoretically it has not been implemented. "Shen Shuren finally concluded.

"Is there still chaos in Nanzhili now?" Shen Tingyang didn't realize it for a while, he subconsciously felt that Nanzhili was already peaceful.

However, Shen Shuren pointed out very sensitively: "How could it be that the area under the jurisdiction of Governor Shi Kefa of Anlu is not considered South Zhili? There are bandits in the little mountainous area near Yinghuo Mountain in Luzhou Prefecture of Anqing Prefecture, which means that there are bandits in South Zhili. Thieves, the court is completely reasonable."

Shen Tingyang was taken aback, and quickly said that he had said something wrong.

The most northwest corner of South Zhili is bounded by the Dabie Mountains, so if there are bandits in the Dabie Mountains, it can be said that South Zhili is a war zone.

Although it is a bit of a fuss, there is nothing wrong with the law.

Shen Tingyang continued to analyze how to solve the problem of Lijin support rate in the three key provinces.

"For Fujian, it's still the same sentence. We want to give some benefits and draw Zheng Zhilong further into our warship. Last year, our relationship with the Zheng family was relatively normal, but it was also relatively cold.

That's because we helped Mr. Yang Ge lure Zheng Chenggong to Nanjing Guozijian before.When Zheng Zhilong thought about it afterwards, he must have felt a little pimple in his heart, so in the past year, we basically did not ease the relationship with the Zheng family, at most it was me and Zheng Chenggong himself.

Now that the limelight has passed, we can use Zheng Chenggong's career prospects as an entry point, bypass Zheng Chenggong, and rely on Zheng Hongkui to directly trade with Zheng Zhilong.For example, let Zheng Chenggong directly donate officials as civil servants as a supervisor.

Now that I am a fifth-rank magistrate, I can find a way to greet Mr. Yang Ge and arrange some subordinate officials myself.When your father returns to Nanjing in the future, you can also find a way in the Nanjing household department.All in all, it is a promise to Zheng Zhilong.

I know that Zheng Zhilong still hopes that his son will get rid of the notoriety of the "sea pirate family" and change his career to become a civil servant.As long as he comes from a decent background and is not afraid of being looked down upon by scholars, Zheng Zhilong is willing to pay a small price.

Zheng's family has a chamber of commerce called "Shanhai Wulu".However, Shanwu Road is responsible for the purchase of goods, so as long as the Zheng family collects a little lijin from various merchants who purchase goods in various ports in the interior of the Yangtze River, it will be done.

We can also promise that all the lijin collected by the Zheng family will be spent in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and will never be spent in Huguang.This kind of local collection and local use also allows the members of the Zheng family to participate in the distribution of money usage, giving them a certain right to speak, and they will definitely be willing to pay. "

Shen Shuren's words are also a combination of hundreds of years of experience in dealing with the rich: If you want to directly ask the super rich to levy inheritance tax, you will definitely encounter severe opposition when you first legislate.

But if you say "you can donate to the tax deductible, and your son can also intervene in how the money donated to the trust fund will be spent in the future", then the resistance will be much weaker, which is a coincidence of "no taxation without representation" Capital attention thought.

After Fujian was settled, Shen Shuren continued to analyze:
"The rest of Huguang and Nanzhili, in Huguang, want to promote Lijin. The key is that Mr. Yang Ge and Governor Fang push hard. The rebellion spreads very widely there, and the atmosphere of putting military affairs first is strong. As long as the leading generals and supervisors are Support, businessmen and gentry can't make waves.

On Mr. Yang Ge's side, I will naturally use my previous relationship to declare my interests with him. Lijin is beneficial to suppress thieves and is beneficial to Mr. Yang Ge.As for Governor Fang, when I return in the next year, I will follow your previous explanation to pay my respects and give some reasonable benefits.

In Nanzhili, our Shen family will be the largest family of Nalijin in the future. If we are willing to take the lead, we will be able to suppress the opposition from the Suzhou government.There is no need to manage in Songjiang. We have cooperated very well with Xu Ge’s hometown in the past two years. We sold new looms together, and everyone earned at least 10 taels more.

The rest are the few prefectures around Nanjing, where tax-resistant tyrants gather, and there are a lot of century-old nobles, all of whom have enjoyed tax-free treatment before, and some of them can even reduce the normal tax on banknotes.

Around Nanjing, the resistance of several prefectures in the north of the Yangtze River, I will go to Anlu Governor Shi Kefa to make friends, and the military is also the priority there now.In the Jiangnan part around Nanjing, it is necessary to win over the ministers and ministers of the Nanjing household department, as well as some powerful nobles.

This is also the difficulty we will focus on solving when we go to Nanjing after the Lantern Festival.If this hard bone is gnawed down, no one in the local area can resist paying. "

……

Shen Shuren peeled back the cocoon, and quickly reduced the problem to the last small piece: as long as the opponents of the reform in the Nanjing area were gnawed down, it would be enough, and other areas already had countermeasures.

That posture is quite a bit like Zhuge Liang's strategizing and "Anju Ping Wulu" scolding Fang Qiu.

Shen Tingyang was dazzled when he heard it, and he was as good as Liu Chan when he listened to Zhuge's explanation of countermeasures.All of a sudden, the father and son were slightly superior in wisdom, and there was a state of reversal. The son was like Zhuge, and the father was like Liu Chan. I have to say that I am very happy.

After being dazed for a while, Shen Tingyang remembered a question: "When we go to Nanjing after that year, who should we mainly win over? Have you ever thought about it?"

Of course, Shen Shuren thought that he was idle on the boat these days, so he threw out a name without hesitation:
"Haier has already got to know the current officials of various ministries in Nanjing. He feels that Zhang Guowei, the left servant of the Nanjing household department, can be wooed. After the Lantern Festival, the father can hold a banquet with Haier to entertain Zhang Shilang, and Chen Ming is interested.

Zhang Shilang is also considered a man of public loyalty to the country, and he once inspected the ten prefectures of Nanzhili and the three Wu Water Conservancy in Guangxi. His father should have read the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book" written by him after leaving office the year before last, right?

Zhang Shilang has a deep foundation in the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing. When Sanwu presided over the construction of water conservancy projects, he often shared with the noble gentry. He has the experience and credit of "letting the Sanwu gentry donate money to the locals".

Only when he came forward, the gentry would believe that the extra lijin they paid was to ensure the benefit of the local people—in fact, in the years when the Sanwu gentry resisted the tax most severely, it wasn’t that they really didn’t want to do good deeds in the local area. They mainly resisted Jiangnan The money was used to support Beijing.

And since my father intends to leave and go south in the future, I can tell him: the bad reputation of initiating the reform will be borne by you, father, and the benefits of effectively implementing the reform will be borne by Zhang Shilang.

In the end, things are done well, let Zhang Shilang go to Beijing to be the servant of the household department, father, you expressed your willingness to be demoted to the south, and return to Nanjing to pick up Zhang Shilang's errand, and everyone gets what they need, isn't it beautiful? "

(End of this chapter)