Nanzhili is already under control, what are you doing next?

Of course it's making money!

The purpose of Taichang coming to Jiangnan is to make money.

Of course, his meaning of making money is not to learn from the late emperor Wanli.

The late emperor Wanli fished out of the lake, killed chickens and picked eggs, and after eating his own fullness, all his descendants were hungry.

This is not a joke. Wanli sent mining supervision to scrape the land everywhere, which made the entire Ming Dynasty depressed and the people were living in poverty. The peasant uprising later also had a certain relationship with this. Everyone had to have work to do and earn food. Who would be so bored to rebel?

Of course, it is a bit far-fetched to say that rebellion has something to do with this. After all, natural disasters are the direct cause of the large number of ordinary people having no food to eat.

However, there is one thing that proves that Wanli fished out of the lake, killed chickens and took eggs, and caused great harm to future generations.

This matter is also related to mines. The Tianqi Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty in history are scary and scary!

For example, copper ore.

How short of copper mines were there in the Tianqi Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty?

In order to make tens of thousands of kilograms of scrap copper, Wei Zhongxian actually killed Wan Yi, the doctor in charge of building the Taichang Mausoleum!

As for the reason, it is actually very simple. Because Wan Feng was building a tomb for Taichang, Wei Zhongxian was also building a tomb for himself. Both of them had to use copper to build a tomb. Problem, the copper mine was scrapped by the mine supervision and taxation, and no one mined the copper mine at all. Where did the copper come from?

Then look for scrap copper!

Wan Feng discovered that the inner warehouse had tens of thousands of kilograms of scrap copper left by the renovation of the palace over the years, so he went to ask Wei Zhongxian for it.

Just kidding, Wei Zhongxian himself is building a tomb, can he give it to him?

Wan Feng is also a straight man in steel. Wei Zhongxian actually used his power for personal gain. He went up with a memorial and revealed that Wei Zhongxian had privately embezzled more than three million taels of silver in the inner treasury to build his own mausoleum.

Unfortunately, he was destined to be unable to expose the Tianqi, and the memorial was intercepted by Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian was immediately angry and ordered people to catch Wan Yi and beat him. This board was beaten for four days and four nights, and Wan Yi was killed by a stick like this!

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

Just based on this point, it is really an exaggeration to say that Wanli has harmed his descendants.

What is the most important mineral in cold weapons combat?

Needless to ask, it's iron ore!

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, how short of iron ore was?

According to historical records, the Chongzhen Dynasty had traded with Japan's Maritime Warehouse for more than ten years. The main thing they exchanged for Japan's cloth and porcelain was the Japanese sword. The Chongzhen Dynasty exchanged Japan with Japan for more than 200,000 Japanese swords!

Why did Chongzhen exchange Japan for the Japanese sword?

He had no choice. The iron ore was scrapped by the mine supervision commission sent by Wanli. The Ming Dynasty had no iron to build weapons at all!

Poor Ming Dynasty, the pig iron production in the early years of Hongwu reached more than 18 million kilograms, which was more than all other countries in the world at that time.

In the Chongzhen Dynasty, there was not enough pig iron to build weapons, and I had to exchange it with Xiao Xiaodong to get the Japanese sword!

From this we can see that the harm of killing chickens and taking eggs in Wanli is so great.

Of course, Taichang would not learn from Wanli. His method was the opposite, which was to raise fish and raise chickens and lay eggs.

On this day, the Censor of the Nanjing Censorate and the Six Ministers of the Ministry of Justice had not taken office, and Taichang held another court meeting.

However, this time it was not the morning court, but the afternoon court. The officials in Jinling City were not the officials in Nanjing, but merchants from various prefectures in southern Zhili.

Of course, not all merchants can participate in this court meeting. Only those merchants with strong abilities, assets reach a certain level and more prestigious locally can participate in this court meeting.

Wu Yangchun, Sheng Huaixuan and others were all in the list, and Ge Cheng was even at the forefront of the merchants.

Taichang looked at the densely packed merchants in the square and couldn't help but raise his lips and smiled slightly.

There are at least thousands of merchants in this square. If everyone can contribute 100,000 taels to the Ming Dynasty court, that would be hundreds of millions of taels!

He couldn't help but smile and said, "Everyone, today I'll talk about one thing. Simply put, this matter is that as long as you cooperate with the court and contribute more than 100,000 taels to the court, each of you can earn the status of a seventh-rank Zhongshu Sheren."

ah!

As soon as he said this, even his father-in-law Wu Yangchun's face changed.

It’s not that Wu Yangchun doesn’t have these 100,000 taels. The emperor did this. Most of the merchants present were afraid that they would sell their children and even if they sold all their property, they wouldn’t be able to make up 100,000 taels!

One hundred thousand taels is no joke. It is estimated that less than a hundred merchants in Nanzhili can afford 100,000 taels, and most of these less than a hundred merchants have to lose their money to afford 100,000 taels.

He really wanted to say, this wouldn't work!

Your Majesty, don’t you force everyone to die if you donate like this?

Fortunately, before he spoke, Taichang found something was wrong.

What are your expressions?

He was stunned for a moment, then slapped his forehead and explained: "Maybe I'm saying it is too simple. You misunderstood. I didn't ask each of you to donate 100,000 taels to the court, but let you work hard to make money, and each of you create 100,000 taels of taxes for the court. This is without a deadline. It can be done in ten or eight years, or more than ten or twenty years. As long as you accumulate the taxes you pay up to 100,000 taels, you can earn the status of a Zhongshu Sheren."

A tax of one hundred thousand taels?

Twenty-one taxes, you have to make two million taels, and fifteen-one taxes, you have to make one million taels. Even if it is the highest ten-one taxes, you have to make one million taels!

Your Majesty, are you kidding us?

Your cake is too big. In addition to your father-in-law, there are also a few people present who can earn more than one million taels!

When the merchants heard this, their faces changed again. At first, they were stunned, but now they were stunned.

Everyone makes more than one million taels?

This kind of thing is simply impossible!

The emperor's idea is simply too mysterious and cannot be realized!

Is it impossible?

Taichang looked at the stunned expressions of the merchants, smiled slightly, and then signaled Cao Huachun to the side, and said!

Cao Huachun immediately took out a scroll, unfolded it, and said loudly: "The trial version of the "New Trade Policy of the Ming Dynasty."

New trade policy!

The merchants were stunned again. The Ming Dynasty court had never issued any new policies specifically for the merchant group.

Cao Huachun then recited: "One, immediately withdraw all mine surveillance envoys."

Very good!

No wonder those dead eunuchs were cleaning up the bedding. It turned out that the court wanted to withdraw them.

The merchants finally stopped being stunned, and everyone's faces were filled with joy.

These dead eunuchs did hurt them badly.

Cao Huachun continued to recite: "2. Local prefectures, prefectures, counties and government agencies shall not collect intensive taxes in any name."

this!

This is good, but is it possible?

Before the mining supervision taxation was not allowed, the merchants were most afraid of expending heavy taxes.

Such things are inevitable.

You know, the Qing magistrate in three years has 100,000 silver silver!

How do local officials make money?

Just rely on these harsh taxes!

The merchants really couldn't believe that local officials would not charge any taxes.

Cao Huachun continued to recite: "Three, the inspector of the Censorate, and all the inspectors were stationed in the local area for inspection, and they were replaced every year. Any local officials who violated the new policy can anyone tell the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of the Censor of

this?

Very good!

As the saying goes, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom, the most feared thing about merchants is that local officials play this trick.

In the past, no matter how much people play, they still have no way to complain!

Now that they finally have a place to seek justice.

Cao Huachun continued to recite: "Fourth, revoke the road invoice certificate, and all merchants can pass through all parties by paying tax certificates. No local inspection department shall investigate, make things difficult, block, seize, or blackmail for no reason."

this?

Great, great!

Once you can move around the world without any obstacles, you can make a lot of money by doing business!

After Cao Huachun finished reciting, he immediately put away the scroll and stood still.

There are only these four new policies for the time being, but all of them are for merchants.

Taichang then asked, "How is it, are you confident of earning the position of Zhongshu Sheren?"

Ge Cheng, Wu Yangchun, Sheng Huaixuan and others looked at each other, and immediately led everyone to kneel down and shouted, "The emperor is wise!"
Chapter completed!