Chapter 381 The gentry and wealthy businessmen are really rich, and Tong Chengchun is so angry
"I'm rich..." Old Daiyi was sent here again because of his tacit cooperation with Mr. Zhang last time.
He was accompanied by the Ordnance Construction Bureau, including the Construction Department, the Junshu Department, the Foundry Department, the Three Divisions, the Fifty Top Craftsmen, and the Four Hundred Craftsmen.
The 800 auxiliary craftsman has a luxurious lineup and full of confidence.
It was because Mr. Zhang asked Xie Yutian to find out the situation of the person in northern Guangdong and sent a secret memorial to Emperor Hongzhi.
It is clearly stated: Uncle Emperor Shi, our chance to get rich is here!
Choose an official from the inner treasury to organize a group of experts from the Third Department of the Ordnance Construction Bureau. The people here are stupid and there is a lot of money. Come quickly!!
Without saying a word, Emperor Hongzhi issued an order to let the Imperial Navy, who was anchored in Tianjin for training, organize and escort the craftsmen to northern Guangdong.
Fortunately, the three major shipyards have now been injected with funds and have been strictly supervised.
He also took out the shipbuilding drawings, but the craftsmen had not built a giant treasure ship for too long.
Now we can only try to produce the drawings little by little. The Yongle Encyclopedia also has many records in ancient books.
What I sent them this time was the newly-organized fleet.
"It's really... rich!!" Zhang Xuanying, the governor of northern Guangdong, looked at the amount that was finally summarized, and Tianmu and his mouth were trembling.
The officials returned by the gentry and merchants in Yangcheng alone had more than 400,000 acres of land!!
And they finally sold nearly four million taels of silver on the newly built wharf. What does this mean?!
The annual peak of the Taicang Silver Deposit of the Ministry of Revenue was only four million taels!
Damn it! The gentry and businessmen in Yangcheng, northern Guangdong took out four million taels of cash!
How can this not make Zhang Xuanying tremble?!
There are also those acres of land, which I once knew that they had swallowed a large number of Guantun Second Fields.
Even the governors, censors and even the chief censors did not interfere too much in this matter.
Even when Liu Daxia visited northern Guangdong, he only suppressed bandits and tried the case, and did not touch the invasion of the second fields of Guantun.
Until now, when I was directly lifted up, everyone took a breath!
More than 400,000 acres, what does this mean?!
According to Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu", Hong Xi'an Zhou Gan said:
"For example, the land in Kunshan, Wujiang, etc., the old tax of a mu is five liters, and the small people rent a wealthy house and rent a private stone for a mu."
The rent of the wu, the per mu should be 2 shi.
These are all official fields and military farms, which means that the production of these more than 400,000 mu of land belongs to the national treasury!
Even if it is a little more loss in the middle, it will be more than 400,000 stones of grain per mu for one stone to pay for the national treasury!
"This is just a place in Yangcheng. I don't know how many 'imperial foundations' are in the northern part of Guangdong and even the entire empire!"
Mr. Zhang was not surprised at all. This group of gentry, business scholars were the biggest cancer of this empire.
The Ming Dynasty was taught to everyone in Chinese history, and the most important lesson of showing its hideousness and greed.
These "scholars" and "cultural people" use their right to speak and tax exemption to constantly suck blood from the empire.
Even one and two people rushed to dig the corners of this empire, hoping to break the entire empire and move it to their homes.
Finally, the empire was broken by them and moved back home as they wished.
But what followed was the backlash brought by this greed.
The King of Chuang was not the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Without hesitation, he chose to raise his knife and take out the silver from the pockets of these scholars.
It was also at this time that the Qing Dynasty outside the pass came.
Some scholars still hope to continue to exist, which allows them to enjoy money and control the Ming Dynasty, but they have no choice but to have the flowers to fall.
The emerging Qing Dynasty knew very well what these scholars had and what virtues they had, and they were not ruthless in taxation.
The tax protesters' ending without exception: Kill!
During the Ming Dynasty, the scholars who were able to kill emperors and tax collectors without permission, and even beat to death to be proud of their conscientious officials who were sent to collect taxes...
I found out for the first time, but my bones were not as hard as I imagined.
At the same time, they also knew that the Qing Dynasty was not the Ming Dynasty who indulged them.
More than 10,000 scholars were directly stripped of their fame and fortune and directly destroyed the dust.
This made them lower their heads and honestly pay taxes to the Qing Dynasty.
During the Ming Dynasty, when the empire collected a little tax, Jiangnan, who was clamoring for not being able to survive, actually lived a better life than the Ming Dynasty, which was more ruthless in the Qing Dynasty.
No more scholars dare to yell at the tax collection...
"Pong ~!" Tong Shang was trembling with his mouth, and he kept trembling while sitting on the chair.
Two million taels, two million taels!!
The Tong family robbed people, murdered people and set fires, went into the sea without any restrictions... After several generations of people, they only got the money.
There are also the 150,000 mu of fertile land, and the hearts of children and merchants will be constantly thrusting when they think of the 150,000 mu of fertile land.
"Mr. Cheng Chun, it's too late to say anything now! The most important thing now is the stocks of this wharf!"
Liu Bozhang's black fat man's teeth were chewing, and they were just a little late and were not the first to pay.
The result was that they paid more money than Hong Zhou and the old ghost, but they got less shares!
Hong Zhou and Qijia invested 600,000 taels, and later increased to 700,000 taels to account for 100,000 taels.
Tong Shang Tong Chengchun spent 150,000 acres of land and 2 million taels of silver to occupy 10% of the shares!
Needless to say, Liu Bozhang and others each invested between 100,000 taels and 500,000 taels.
However, they all account for only 30% of the wharf shares. Who can convince them?!
"I don't believe that there is no place to argue in the world. The jade dragon tiger won't give me an explanation... I will go to the capital to beat the drum!"
When Tong Chengchun heard this, his eyes slowly turned to the old man who was talking.
He snorted coldly: "Do you think this is still the national dynasty from several years ago?! The censor, the minister can show his views for us?!"
The old man couldn't help but stop saying this. Only then did he remember the censor in the court, and it seemed that he was all in a hurry.
Either dig silt on the river or mine in the mine.
It is said that many of the Tianjin Fortress died, and the Hanlin Academy is now empty, with two or three kittens in the inspector.
All the ministers of the cabinet and Emperor Hongzhi asked for the addition of Hanlin, Censor, and ministers... such memorials were kept at Zhongzhong and never issued.
Because they found out... without this birdman, the government was dealing with the government much faster!
The time spent on everyone's quarrels is almost gone.
Since this is the case, why do you have to make it unhappy for yourself to replenish these people?!
And now all departments are short of people, and they are very short of people!
Chapter completed!