Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 243 243 Business is a piece of fat meat, we just know

Zhu Biao really didn't expect Lao Wu to think this way.

However, he thought about it carefully and found that this was indeed the case.

No matter what, Lao Wu has no chance of inheriting the throne and enjoying a wealthy life in a fiefdom.

If there was a war, it wouldn't be his turn.

Therefore, the situation where he just wants to enjoy a wealthy and healthy life for a long time can really be considered.

In addition, the father specified that he would not treat his sons badly, and he did not let Lao Wu go to guard the border. The fiefdom was in the richest land of Wu.

What's Lao Wu doing if he doesn't live a good and carefree life?

Wang Buli and he are both the same, and they don't want them to play together.

The fourth child, Zhu Di, is also a king of scrolls, and he has never stopped going on excursions to train troops.

Although the second and third brothers were thoughtful, Zhu Biao thought he could suppress the two brothers, so he didn't take it seriously.

This is a typical national fiscal revenue structure in an agricultural society.

Among them, 25% of the tax revenue, including customs duties, still accounts for the bulk, and huge profits such as salt and tea are simply few and far between.

It can be said that after adulthood, everyone has their own circle, and the prince and other princes are two different classes.

Because according to the income of the Ming Dynasty, the current income from land tax is close to 90, and salt tax and other commercial taxes and miscellaneous taxes account for very little.

These data are until the Hongzhi period, when it is estimated that Tian Fu accounted for 75% of the total revenue of the Ming Dynasty, with other taxes accounting for the remainder.

Lao Zhu actually doesn't care much about business. The ideal rural life in his mind is a relatively stable and isolated village existence.

Just to avoid wasting lamp oil at night.

Therefore, once the land tax of the Ming Dynasty could not be collected in taxes, all of it was intercepted by the officials, gentry and landlords, and the Ming Dynasty could not survive, and it would naturally reach the point of collapse.

No one expected such a thing to happen.

In any case, local officials must draw up a market price list based on actual market conditions in the first ten days of each month as a basis for managing local market transactions.

It is precisely because of the existence of this unified sequence and the transfer of dependent regions that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a series of political and economic systems, there was an order of reward for "meritorious" regions.

Prime Minister Hu Weiyong stood aside, and he also understood what the emperor meant.

"Laws of the Ming Dynasty" stipulates that merchants who drive up prices must be punished according to speculation, and the severity of the punishment depends on the degree to which the high price they sell deviates from the market price.

After finally winning the battle for hegemony, he relied on Jiangnan's financial resources to support his Northern Expedition, and finally unified the world.

Such a picture is in line with the ruler Zhu Yuanzhang's desire for long-term peace and order to achieve political stability.

Due to the development of the commodity economy and the fertile land in the Jiangnan region, the channels for them to accumulate wealth are not just on the land, but also on many industrial operations.

And both men and women must exchange their own products for the products of others that they need.

When Hu Weiyong thought that His Majesty would raise business taxes, he would definitely attack the Jiangnan area again.

The registration of merchants that Zhu Yuanzhang was most concerned about had to be reported to the county magistrate for review once a month, and what he valued most was commodity prices.

Later, the center of governance was moved to Yingtian, and relying on the financial resources of this five-prefecture "land to rejuvenate the king", he competed with Zhang Shicheng of Jiangnan and Chen Youliang of Jiangxi in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Lao Zhu did not try to set the price of a certain commodity, but only asked merchants to buy and sell at equal prices.

He experienced first-hand the inflation of the late Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang made the stabilization of commercial prices a major goal of his regime.

After all, the wealthy families in Jiangnan, represented by Shen Wansan, are damn rich.

How great would it be if these were all from the Ming government?

Hoarding, manipulating the local market, and making huge profits from it will be punished by eighty days of cane punishment.

Zhu Biao watched Hu Weiyong lead a group of people and listened to Lao Zhu talk about raising commercial taxes.

Besides Zhu Biao, who will be taken by Lao Zhu?

Economically self-sufficient, women stay at home to produce the cloth needed by the family, and men go out to tend the crops. Men farm and women weave. It is best not to interact with each other between villages.

The early Ming Dynasty was different from the Yuan Dynasty, which focused on monetary and financial management. Instead, it focused on physical collection and "tax and servitude finance" with obvious "primitive" characteristics.

It is impossible for business to stop and not develop.

Jiangnan is tantamount to the most stable financial support for the emerging regime that has just experienced war.

Although Zhu Biao is currently absolutely suppressing his younger brothers, the brothers have grown up, each has his own thoughts, and they will never be the same again.

But the reality of rural life was very different from what he imagined. Women also had to work in the fields to ensure harvests. As for weaving, older women had to complete it, or they could take some time off to weave during the day.

Although Lao Zhu highly praised static self-sufficiency, he also had some basic understanding of business and gave merchants a certain degree of freedom to engage in the acquisition, transshipment and sale of items other than the few types of goods monopolized by the imperial court. .

Whenever a price dispute arises, it is up to local officials to determine a fair market value.

Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Jiangnan region has been second to none in terms of economic development and also has an absolute advantage in cultural status.

To further protect consumers, he stipulated that merchants could only use standard weights and measures, and they must be genuine.

Especially Lao Zhu's tough attitude, that is, you all should not worry about this position, which is where your eldest brother sits. You can just go to the frontier to defend the royal family.

Then send it to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Lao Zhu will check from time to time whether the local prices have outstanding performance. If there is any outstanding performance, he must pay special attention to it.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the political center coincided with the economic center of gravity, allowing Zhu Yuanzhang to directly and effectively manage Jiangnan's wealth.

The emperor first raised his troops from Huaixi, relying on the manpower and financial resources here to send troops to the left of the Yangtze River, capture Taiping, and cross the river to capture Yingtian, Zhenjiang, Ningguo, Guangde and other places.

In the long run, the cultural status of Jiangnan will also occupy an absolute advantage, and Jiangnan people will inevitably gain an advantage in the ruling class soon.

After the emperor opened the imperial examination to obtain scholars, in order to prevent the "southern people" mainly from Su, Song, Jiangsu and Zhejiang from completely occupying the imperial examination quota, the imperial examination has now been stopped and replaced by the imperial examination.

Because when these people become powerful, they will control everything in the city where they live, including official positions, income, and consumption.

They have all become ancient aristocrats and use all means to strip off the people around them. This is something that the emperor cannot tolerate.

After Lao Zhu died, these people inevitably developed and expanded their economic activities directly to maritime trade.

Most of the wealthy households in Jiangnan earned their income from industry and commerce, and agriculture was mostly fixed. Even people like Xu Jie did not own 100,000 acres of land in one fell swoop.

This is Hu Weiyong's inner thoughts at this time.

After all, you are too wealthy, and His Majesty will be concerned about you.

The most important thing is that Hu Weiyong and Zhu Yuanzhang were of the same mind at this time.

Jiangnan is not his hometown. His Majesty can treat him however he likes.

He wanted to let many people board the pirate ship and keep his position as prime minister, but he did not want to unite to overthrow Lao Zhu's rule.

Hu Weiyong himself did not dare to think of this idea.

In terms of fighting, he couldn't beat Lao Zhu at all.

Not to mention there are so many proud soldiers, why should they listen to him alone?

Counting on the few marquis who served as his younger brothers, Hu Weiyong didn't think they could defeat Xu Da and others, and maybe even Li Wenzhong couldn't defeat them.

Rebellion, he really hasn't thought about it at the moment.

He could not break through the palace gates.

Because Hu Weiyong is familiar with Lao Zhu.

He worked as an official under Lao Zhu for many years, and then he climbed up step by step and became the second-in-command of the Ming Empire, under one person and above ten thousand people.

Those difficult opponents such as Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, Wang Baobao and the even more difficult Mongols were all defeated by Zhu Chongba. He, a Huaixi petty official, was really no match.

Hu Weiyong even understood Zhu Yuanzhang's governing philosophy.

The emperor wants to restore and develop the small-scale peasant economy.

The big landowners in the south of the Yangtze River will naturally be attacked. It is best to let them all become small farmers, and more wealth will be collected by the Ming Dynasty.

On this point, Hu Weiyong supported Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because the court really has no money.

Poor.

Just make more money.

Money does not come out of thin air, it can only be plundered from others quickly.

Suppressing the big landowners in Jiangnan is the fastest way.

At the same time, opening a brothel for wealthy businessmen to come and spend money was also a way for the emperor to actively contribute to them.

In the end, they didn't give him face. If Ye Qinhuai hadn't appeared out of nowhere, this group of people would have been recorded in Lao Zhu's little notebook.

Hu Weiyong thought that the emperor probably felt that the money was coming in very slowly, so he wanted to increase commercial taxes.

At present, the emperor has been asking various local officials to renovate post roads and post stations in order to better convey news and control local news.

The most important thing is that the emperor further expanded the organization of the Zhayan Department, renamed it the General Affairs Department, and ordered that everyone can write directly to the emperor, regardless of civilians or government officials, as long as the matter is important.

The common people no longer need to come to the capital in person to beat the drums. If you want to sue your parents, just submit a letter directly to the inn, and I guarantee that it will be sent to the emperor's desk as quickly as possible.

Zhu Yuanzhang was just on guard against Hu Weiyong's situation of connecting up and down, teasing the emperor together, and knew nothing about the affairs of the people.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he found that the Chief of General Affairs had not reported several trivial matters, so he became furious and punished him severely.

These things must be reported in newspapers and recorded in the actual records in the future.

After the emperor reviewed the memorial, it was compiled into the "Chaobao" together with the imperial edict, and the summary was also required to be published in the "Dibao" and disseminated in the form of manuscripts.

These memorials and edicts took up most of the space of Di Bao, but in addition, other news related to state affairs was also reported.

The rise and fall of officials, military affairs, diplomacy, natural disasters, etc.

Local officials outside the capital were very keen to know what was happening in the political center of the capital.

Therefore, some provincial yamen set up special offices in the capital, hired people to copy the "Di Bao" and sent it to the provincial capital for copying by local officials there.

Transcripts of Di Bao were archived in the two capitals for use by those who compiled the actual records, which recorded the court's laws and policies and began compilation after the emperor's death.

Now that the imperial court began to use printing, the Di newspaper basically said goodbye to handwriting and was directly delivered to various provinces through inns. The provinces were then responsible for distributing to various prefectures and counties.

Ensure that everyone at the county level can receive news from the central court to prevent anyone from distorting and spreading rumors.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang was very concerned about the affairs of the inn.

It was not only a channel for people to complain to the officials, but also was responsible for the transmission of information. It also had the multi-faceted function of transporting grain and other tax collection items, and dispatching soldiers and laborers.

And Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet discovered that when he ordered the renovation of post stations and post roads, he developed the transportation system in disguise, thereby improving the speed and environment of the flow of people and goods, business will only become more active.