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Chapter 274 Regulating the Merchant
After returning from the museum, Zhu Biao told Lao Zhu the combined profits he and Zhu Yan had made. Excluding the cost, excluding the wages for Shen Qiancheng and the staff of the museum, he got more than 500 taels a day.This era is already considered good.

Lao Zhu tried his best to hide his feelings, but was unsuccessful, because his happiness betrayed him.

While the father and son were happy, Zhu Biao had a new plan.This time at the museum, I saw that those businessmen were really rich. Although they were not as rich as Shen Qiancheng, they were still very rich.

Although the main tax of the imperial court was the agricultural tax, the commercial tax was also collected.

These businessmen are like big cormorants catching fish, they catch fast, but unfortunately they swallow as much as they catch.

There must be commercial laws, which are the natural development of the Ming Dynasty's commercial development, and are used to regulate the behavior of these merchants.

We can't let this group of fat sheep just gnaw grass in one place, but let the imperial court put a rope on them all, with their throats stuck, and leave some fat and water to hand over to the imperial court.

Lao Zhu's one-thirtieth tax does not mean that the people pay one-thirtieth of the tax to the court.The business tax he set is too unreasonable.

The merchants and the gentry class are all rich and unreliable, and the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are not standardized, and they are randomly charged by the gentry class.

According to historical development, Lao Zhu’s business tax was [-] per cent, but he basically stopped collecting it later.

This should be regulated. During the Wanli period, [-]% to [-]% were agricultural taxes, and commercial taxes were only [-]%.

These taxes need to be adjusted according to today's changing conditions.

The imperial court encourages business, but taxation needs to be changed. Except for salt iron ore and tea and silk monopolized by the imperial court, other taxes must be adjusted to a certain extent.

The most important thing is the order of Ming market transactions, business taxes, prices, and the unification of the different weights and measures systems in previous dynasties.

During the famine season, it is not allowed to hoard grain without permission, and it is not allowed to drive up the price.When traveling for business and accommodation, there must also be relevant restrictions...

Encourage Jiangnan merchants to set up shops in the bitter cold places in the north to drive development.

Therefore, Zhu Biao had a detailed and in-depth exchange with Lao Zhu in Qianqing Palace to regulate the benefits of commercial business and the situation that commercial taxes are too low.

The richer those businessmen are, the less they take money as money, but the people who farm the land are urged to pay taxes.

Regarding the commercial economy, Lao Zhu shook his head and said that he didn't understand, but he, Zhu Laoba, was also very satisfied with being able to collect business taxes.

This time, many precious banknotes from the private market were recovered, and at this moment, his son just mentioned it again, and Mr. Zhu did not hesitate to show his support.

Zhidao needs money, and after the imperial power goes to the countryside, the Huangming Pavilion also needs money, and Zhu Biao also wants to win the silver mountain in Wodi.Restore people's livelihood as soon as possible, and let Sanbao start a great voyage.

The straight road was repaired, the trade routes of various places were opened up, great voyages were made, more money was used for research and development of the National Academy of Sciences, and new firearms and cold weapons were manufactured to fill the hardware of the army.

Zhu Biao also wants every prefecture to have a printing station for the Ming Weekly, and every place has a local academy to popularize education and technology, all of which require money.

For Lao Zhu, preemptive strikes are his favorite, just like neighboring countries that are willing to live in harmony.

He has great ambitions, and hopes that the Ming Dynasty will become a kingdom of heaven, and let those small countries hold the Ming Dynasty like the stars hold the moon.

Whoever disagrees, fight.

It doesn't matter if you need money, as long as Zhu Biao doesn't make decisions from the common people, Zhu Ba is very supportive.

He hates those rich Jiangnan businessmen who are rich and oily, and those traveling businessmen from neighboring countries, all of which must be regulated by commercial laws.

"Did you help us think about this thing a long time ago, otherwise how would you have the confidence to let us take back the treasure." Lao Zhu smiled and threw down the memorial: "Liu Bowen is coming back soon, let him and Li Shanchang and the others work together for a good time." Let us figure out the business law one by one."

"That's fine, my son will sleep one night at most, write these specifications and send them, and divide them in detail according to the rise and fall of each line, profit, and luxury goods.

During the famine, a decree was issued to prohibit price gouging and hoarding of grain. "

"Then your Daming Wuliang Xuequ Distillery and that sugar factory also have to be collected." Old Zhu said.

Zhu Biao: "Wine is a monopoly, it should be accepted."

When both the distillery and the sugar factory were founded, did Shen know that in order to help him raise money, he would always give him more of the Shen family's profits every time. The raw materials used were all from the Shen family, and he only provided the method and Thoughts, using some little power to escort her.

I always feel ashamed. Yesterday, upstairs in the museum, after he told Shen Qiancheng, he said that they were willing to serve the imperial court. Don't care about that.

Zhu Biao also said that he wanted to standardize the business law, and the businessmen who were summoned expressed their willingness to abide by the law.

I should set an example by collecting those taxes from wineries and sugar factories.

Commercial law appears to raise taxes.

But Lao Zhu entrusted all the policies towards businessmen to himself, and he never suppressed or belittled business.

In history, the Ming Dynasty suppressed and belittled merchants and commercial trade, but from the second year of Hongwu to this year.

Business is getting better and better.

These merchants also benefited from the things that the Salt Bureau, Tea Plantation Bureau, and Weaving Bureau sold to the people.Zhu Biao also used their network of more than ten years to help the court gain benefits, which is a mutual win.

Yang Xian went to the Salt Bureau to check the accounts at the end of the year, and then asked him to cooperate with Daotong to check the accounts of the Weaving Bureau. The income was very good, which shows that this direction is right.

After the father and son finished talking, Lao Zhu asked Yu Yi to bring a sugar jar, removed the sugar, put it in the hot tea and stirred it: "The tea color is clear, we think it will take a lot of time and effort to make it, and it will be a loss in taxes."

Those women in his palace are very rare about this thing, and they will give him a little drink every time they go to bed, saying it is a good thing.

Zhu Biao smiled, picked up the white sugar bamboo tube, shook it, grabbed a handful and threw it into the teapot, making Lao Zhu feel distressed for a while.

"Father, ever since I taught the Shen family that method to make sugar, it's almost common to see, it's not as rare as you said."

After finishing speaking, he specially put some more in Lao Zhu's tea bowl: "Father likes it, so put more."

Lao Zhu snatched the candy box and asked, "Did you know it a long time ago, it's fun to see if we don't know?"

"Father, how did my son know that you think so well about it? What I mean is, just let it go if you like it. In a few years, every household in the Ming Dynasty will definitely have this thing."

"Can the common people afford it? It's so expensive."

"It will be fine in a few years. It will become a necessity in every household."

After hearing this, Lao Zhu didn't feel so distressed anymore. He took a few more sips and said, "The tea is a little sweet, it's not bad. Let's make a bowl for your mother later."

After Zhu Biao went back, he wrote about the business law overnight and showed it to Lao Zhu. After Liu Bowen came back, he was revising it.

At that time, publicize it in the Ming Weekly, just like promoting the authenticity of currency, warm up and warm up first.

After finishing writing, he didn't feel sleepy, so let's go back to the inner hall. Chang Meirong might have fallen asleep long ago, so don't go back. Looking at the brightly lit hall, he wants to enjoy the comfort of home again.

He simply wrote a letter to Xu Miaowei in the outer hall and asked the little eunuch on duty to send it out.Standing in the outer hall in a daze.

Jin'er came over lightly, pointed to the inner hall and said, "Your Highness, why don't you go in, the Crown Princess has been talking about you these two days."

"She's probably asleep."

When I went in, I found that she was still asleep, and she was embroidering something: "What are you embroidering?"

Seeing that it was a fat baby, Zhu Biao grinned: "It looks like a steamed bun, not like a doll."

"Hmph, it's obviously a doll."

After a while Zhu Biao got up to leave, Chang Meirong moved inside and said, "Come up quickly."

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