Chapter 15: Good luck in opening (4)

Walking out of the Zhuzhiyuan, the merchants looked at me, and I looked at you, sighing.

Wu Tianci said: "I have heard of His Highness the King of Liao that wisely and divine martial arts. In Yingtianshi, he suppressed Lan Ni's rebellion with three thousand iron cavalry under his tent. Who is Lan Ni? That is the most capable general of this dynasty. He has all been to His Highness. What do you think that the King of Liao is not Wu Quxing and descending to earth?"

Zhao Zhengxiong said: "It's not just Wu Quxing descended to earth, it's simply the rebirth of the God of Wealth. The next year I went to Yingtian and bought a fur robe for my concubine. My god, I spent twenty taels of silver.

Why am I just so benzene, holding a golden nest, don’t know?”

Only Chang Kun was calm and said, "Although these things look pretty good, we have to try whether they can be sold or not."

Zhu Zhi specially left Li Dachun after the meal. He also had a special mission explanation: "I know the dangers and hardships of your caravan, but I need you to send more caravans into the grassland and into the white mountains and black waters to do business.

So in the future, the Liaodong Army scouts will be arranged to escort your caravan. If you don’t accept the money for the escort, just let your friends take them to every corner of the grassland. What does Manager Li think?”

Li Dachun was a little confused. Why did Zhu Zhi provide protection for free? Of course he welcomed such things. With the protection of officers and soldiers, it would be of great benefit to their business. Since he couldn't figure out the harm, he would of course agree.

Zhu Zhi had his own idea. This move played a role in killing two birds with one stone. He sent scouts as bodyguards to make Li Dachun's caravan go as far as possible. The transaction between Liaodong and the Hu people was done well will be of great help to Liaodong's business. Going deeper, these scouts are also responsible for the task of drawing grasslands and white mountains and black water topographic maps, which is an important military measure.

Zhu Zhi was unsure of how great these transactions could be, but he showed them a way. He had fulfilled his responsibilities as yy. He could not ask a prince of the Ming Dynasty to do business in person. The censors could kill you even if they criticize you.

But there is one transaction that is definitely very profitable and has been proven to not require market inspection, that is, the salt industry.

Since he brought money with him, Zhu Zhi's mind has been considering the reform of the salt industry. He should not be too ill, but he must change it. Even if Lao Zhu is unhappy, he has to touch the tiger's butt.

Zhu Zhi called Yang Rong and Qian Guan into the account and threw out an immature idea: "The opening-up system is a rule set by the father, and it is hard to say if you are a minister to change it. I think it is better to find some workarounds.

Qian Guan mentioned the cumbersome procedures, and I think it is the only place to start the operation. Do you think this is OK? Liaodong is originally a border area, and there is a salt field here.

It is better to get the materials nearby. The salt merchants transported the grain and grass directly to Liaoyang, and they would issue warehouses. The Salt Transportation Department set up a site in Jinzhou Salt Field to directly issue salt gutters.

After the salt is raised, the salt is raised, and the ship is boarded at the Jinzhou Wharf and it is directly inspected and released by the inspection institute located in Jinzhou. When the release is released, the Salt Department will directly charge taxes on the salt. In this way, the four procedures are carried out at a location in Jinzhou."

Yang Rong thought about it and said: "In this way, it can indeed reduce the time for merchants to accumulate salt intake, but the problem is that the emperor sets the strategy of each part to perform official duties separately in order to reduce the possibility of cheating in series between various departments.

Would Your Highness do this provide convenience for corruption and cheating?"

Zhu Zhi said: "I have considered this, and there may be disadvantages in anything. It is very unlikely to solve it once and for all. But after reducing joints.

Salt merchants from all over the country are naturally willing to come to Liaodong to remove salt. At the same time, we can introduce land policies. If the output of the salt farm can be guaranteed, salt merchants are allowed to buy salt directly with silver money. This part does not require a storing, but a heavy tax must be directly imposed.

This part of the tax can be directly divided into the court, and the local government reserves the part as the local government to maintain the integrity of the bank. At the same time, a regulatory agency is set up to supervise the operation of various departments of Jinzhou Salt Industry. Can the disadvantages be minimized?"

Yang Rong said: "This is also a solution. But how can the emperor pass through it?"

Zhu Zhi said: "I will find a way to find a way to this problem. For the sake of Liaodong, this tiger must touch its butt."

Everyone discussed stopping. Zhu Zhi ordered Qian Guan to escort at least 30,000 stones of grain and grass to Liaodong at the beginning of next spring. Is there any problem? Qian Guan looked puzzled: "The little people don't have that much capital."

Zhu Zhi thought for a while and said, "In this way, I will lend you 10,000 taels of silver as your startup capital, and you can find a way to find other money yourself.

If this road is open, the prospects are worth looking forward to. What do you think?" Qian Guan was naturally grateful and went back to Dengzhou with Zhu Zhi's money.

It is expected that in Liaodong commercial land development, Zhu Zhi specially adjusted the tax system to a certain extent, such as combining banknote tariffs and commercial taxes, rectifying the Liaodong tax department, and establishing the four tax departments, Guangning, Jinzhou, Phoenix City and Liaoyang, are responsible for levying unified commercial taxes.

The layoffs and revoked the Ministry of Health and Law Officer Yuli investigated his corruption situation, and immediately became an army once he caught a handle. Those with innocent wealth would be sent to Jinzhou, becoming a reserve of talents for the salt industry that was ready to be established.

In this way, a piece of goods will only be charged once for sale, namely sales tax. The past transit tax (lijin in later generations) is equivalent to being cancelled. This adjustment is also to reduce the tax link and provide convenience for industrial and commercial owners.

After a month, the merchants made several items according to Zhu Zhi's style. Zhu Zhi looked at it and did a good job, especially the fur coats for his mother and Zhu Yuanzhang. The one who gave his mother Han was a coat sewn with white fox fur and Lao Zhu was a tiger fur coat. Although the tiger skin was precious, it was a bit inappropriate when it was made into a coat. However, Zhu Zhi knew that Lao Zhu valued his intentions and had no big problems.

Zhu Zhi counted the things clearly and prepared them for other important ministers, and ordered Yang Rong to be the envoy. Xiao Chenzi led his army to escort for escort. In addition, the merchants also sent out capable staff to prepare some goods and went to the capital to open a semicolon.

After sending off the birthday party, Zhu Zhi finally got a rare vacation. He threw everything to the people below and accompanied Xiao Guo Xiu, who was giving birth to a new life for him.

This was the case with women in ancient times. It was the right thing for men to do things outside, and they should be at home to teach their children. However, when Guo Xiu saw that his husband gave up his business and went home to visit him, he still liked him very much.

On that day, Guo Xiu said to Zhu Zhi: "Husband. There is something that Xiu'er wants to discuss with you."

Zhu Zhi was happy to Guo Xiu every day and said, "What's the matter? Tell me."

Guo Xiu said: "Why should you take a concubine? I have been married for three years, and I am the only one in my husband. Xiu'er doesn't want to be poked by others and said that I am a jealous woman."

Haha, Zhu Zhi thought it was even more interesting. You said that women in ancient times were virtuous, but I didn’t expect her to be so virtuous. Her husband was not in a hurry, but she became anxious. Zhu Zhi said: “My kiss is so Xiu'er, as long as you are one, it’s enough.

"As he said that, he kissed Guo Xiu gently on the forehead. After more than a year in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhi never relaxed for a moment. He always had to deal with pressure from the emperor and all aspects in Yingtian Mansion; in Liaodong, there were so many things that needed to be sorted out.

Zhu Zhi had no time to consider taking a concubine? And a person from later generations still had some monogamy influence in his mind.

His "mother" Han has reminded Zhu Zhi more than once, and even chose the sister of Huang Zicheng, the grandson minister. But Zhu Zhi tried every means to refuse. What kind of happiness can he have with a woman he had never had before. Guo Xiu is an exception.

But like winning a lottery, how many good times can you have? So Zhu Zhi avoided this question more or less. But for a prince, there is only one woman who is not only a strange thing, but even gets criticized.

But in ancient times, it is not so easy to know a girl. Zhu Zhi came to the Ming Dynasty for so long and met a Korean woman. Although she was very beautiful, she just couldn't touch Zhu Zhi's heartstrings.

Guo Xiu's words interrupted his thoughts: "Husband, you should at least take another room, otherwise Xiu'er will make the decision for you."

Zhu Zhi quickly said, "Oh, stop, stop, I'd better make the decision on this matter myself." Seeing that Zhu Zhi was so serious, Guo Xiu had to sigh and no longer want to force him.

After some initial preparations, Liaodong's transactions were fully opened.

The immigration project, which has always been complaining, has been turned into a model of good civilian land by Yao Shan. Thousands of households moved, but no one was killed or injured. Each household was assigned 50 acres of land beside the water, and under the leadership of the local people. New immigrants took advantage of the winter before they arrived.

He immediately devoted himself to the hard work of reclaiming land and resting and recuperating water conservancy. But he spent a lot of money, and the settlement cost nearly 20,000 taels of silver. Each household had five stones of grain, which was calculated to be nearly 20,000 stones of grain.

However, Zhu Zhi believes that these costs are worth it. Once they take root in a new place, they will bring more benefits to Liaodong.

While Zhu Zhi reported to the court, he asked more immigrants next year, while ordering Yao Shan to work harder to continue to choose a place for new immigrants.

Population growth is not a problem that can be solved in one or two days. It seems that there is little hope for the self-proliferation of Liaodong in the short term, so I can only look forward to Lao Zhu Duoduo’s help.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu seemed to have a habit of immigrating. Historically, it was recorded that a total of nearly one million mainland people moved to the border during the Hongwu dynasty.

The population and field survey finally came to an end. Guo Ming and Qu Yuan partnered with each other and were quite efficient. In four months, they had already looked through the population and field under the Liaodong Dusi system.

Zhu Zhi was shocked when he saw it. During the past ten years, the population of Liaodong had increased to 510,000, of which 243,000 men were 4.7 million mu of land, and each person had an average of nearly ten mu of land.

This is almost the same. Zhu Zhi took the report and said that more than 200,000 males could be requisitioned, and the number of people was not large, but it strengthened Zhu Zhi's policy of elite soldiers.

Think about the Jingnan Campaign in history. The 500,000 Southern Army was just like a native chicken and a tile in front of the 100,000 Yan Army. The large number of people was not the most important factor in fighting.

However, the extra figure of people who have acres will not bring any taxes to Zhu Zhi within two years. There is no way. In order to encourage the people to reclaim wasteland, no tax will be exempted.

In the Ming Dynasty, measuring the land location and population were always a troublesome. This was the case when Zhang Juzheng was like this. In order to measure the land in the world, he offended many people. Later, after Lao Zhang died, Wanli came out and personally ordered that no more than purgatory activities would be allowed.

The reason is very simple. Most of the land in the world is concentrated in the hands of a small group of dignitaries and royal families. These people have deep-rooted political foundations. Who wouldn’t deceive tens of millions of acres of land from it? Isn’t it equivalent to digging their wealth? So in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang tried every means to calculate the landowners, and to stop land occupation were destroyed by his incompetent children and grandchildren.

Now Liaodong has completed this major project in less than four months, but it is not because it is located in a desolate place and has few large households in Liaodong.

Land annexation has always been an unsolvable problem in ancient feudal society. This problem directly leads to political instability. When the people really cannot tolerate such robbery, there is only one way to rebel.

Thinking of this dead knot, Zhu Zhi had no good idea for the time being. He could only hope that after the industry and commerce were started, some farmers on the encroached land could be diverted to become industrial workers.

The winter in Liaodong is coming, and the goose feather-like snowflakes swept and wrapped the entire field into white. Zhu Zhi tightly wore the fur coats sent by the merchants, and walked freely on the vast field.

After half a year of busyness, Liaodong's affairs finally had a foundation. They were naive and the land was really big. Liaodong was like a piece of white paper, allowing them to be written.
Chapter completed!