Chapter 139: Those with meritorious status are exempt from taxes? Another deceptive thing!

Author: Demon Dao Ben Yao

Chapter 139: Those with meritorious status are exempt from taxes? Another deceptive thing!

"Actually, I don't think there's any need to worry about going to see the venue..."

A little above the bumpy carriage, Chu Ze, half kidnapped by the two brothers Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen, successfully got into their thief's carriage.

Looking at the Zhu Di brothers who were in high spirits and even a little overly excited, Chu Ze silently reached out and pressed his stomach.

"You two bastards, why don't you just wait for me to have a meal?"

Chu Ze, who hadn't even eaten dinner yet, had his stomach growling.

However, Zhu Di just patted him on the shoulder indifferently.

"It's just missing one meal. It's not a big problem. Lao Liu and I haven't eaten all afternoon. Let's go. We are about to reach the city gate. The road after leaving the city may be a little difficult."

Chu Ze, who was already a little depressed, suddenly wanted to kill these two bastards after hearing Zhu Di's words.

If you haven’t eaten yet, can’t you let me eat first?

After the carriage left the gate of Nanjing City, Chu Ze truly realized what Zhu Di meant when he said it was difficult to leave.

The uneven road surface required the carriage to jump at least four or five times every meter it advanced.

Several times, Chu Ze, who was sitting on the carriage's splint, was almost thrown off because of the bumps.

When he finally arrived at the place, Chu Ze felt as if his whole body was about to fall apart.

"I won't come out with you next time, even if I beat you to death, I won't come."

As soon as he arrived, Chu Ze got off the carriage and sat down on the grass.

The muscles all over his body were shaken excessively, causing him to feel soreness all over his body even if he moved casually.

"Your health is not good! Look, we all came here in a carriage together. There is nothing wrong with me and Lao Liu."

"How about this? Come with me to the military camp for training tomorrow. It will take at least half a month. You will definitely be much stronger than you are now. What do you think? Do you want to go?"

"roll"

Seeing Zhu Di's face full of gloating after jumping off the carriage, Chu Ze easily grabbed the clod of soil on the side and threw it directly towards him.

However, it was a pity that his whole body ached as if he had run ten kilometers in one breath.

The clods of soil thrown out by his hands were completely harmless, and Zhu Di easily dodged them.

"Okay, okay, the place Lao Liu and I chose is just ahead. We also had people clear a place there and make roast lamb legs in advance. Come on, let's go over there and have something to eat first."

"You still have some sense of conscience and know how to give me something to eat."

After being helped up from the ground by Zhu Di, everyone walked forward with a large number of guards, while Chu Ze also observed the surroundings.

There are huge exposed stones everywhere on the ground, and the surrounding weeds look a bit withered and yellow.

Just by looking at it, you can tell he is malnourished.

This place is indeed not suitable for growing food.

The surrounding terrain is barely flat, and it doesn't take much effort to lay a solid foundation.

Compared with the surrounding areas, the terrain here is also higher. If the river rises, this location will not be easily flooded.

After observing his surroundings, Chu Ze couldn't help but nodded.

It would not be impossible if a bullet manufacturing plant was built here.

After all, only boilers and stamping equipment need to be installed here.

It is close to the river, and the water flow of this river seems to be quite large.

Just build a row of water trucks and water power can replace manpower.

"How about it? Is the location we picked suitable? Today Lao Liu and I traveled all over the upstream and downstream areas within a dozen radius. This place is the most suitable. And have you seen the mountain next to it?"

"That area of ​​​​the mountains is full of poisonous salt veins. Where poisonous salt mines exist, the surrounding areas are basically not suitable for growing crops, so if we build an ammunition production site here, it will basically not disturb the people's farming!

"

"This place was tailor-made for us."

After Zhu Di noticed that Chu Ze nodded from time to time, he also began to brag about his great achievements.

Although this guy felt a bit needy when he spoke, I have to say that the place he picked was really good.

But compared to the venue they chose, what made Chu Ze more curious was the poisonous salt mine mentioned by Zhu Di.

"You mean the mountains over there are all salt mines?"

After seeing Chu Ze pointing to a mountain not far from the venue they chose, Zhu Di also looked in the direction of his finger.

Then he turned around and nodded firmly.

"We have already sent people to do a rough survey. There are only some ferns, ducks and other shrubs growing around the mountain, and they are also very sick. At a glance, we know that this is a place of poisonous salt.

Mine."

But after hearing Zhu Di's affirmative words, Chu Ze's eyes couldn't help but narrowed slightly.

Mineral salt veins!

How could he forget this thing?

"When purchasing a venue, take down the mountainous area as well."

"No. You don't want to tell me that you want to sell those poisonous salts as table salt!"

"No, this matter is absolutely not possible. If my father and eldest brother knew about it, neither my fourth brother nor I would be able to live without food."

When he heard that Chu Ze wanted them to take down the poisonous salt mine, Zhu Di looked at Chu Ze in horror, frowning and trying to make sure he had said something wrong.

Zhu Zhen on the side shook his head crazily at this time.

He formed a caravan privately. If his father knew about it, he would be beaten at most.

But what if he dared to sell this life-threatening poisonous salt as table salt?

If his father knew about it, he might really beat him to death in a fit of anger!

So this is absolutely something that cannot be done.

Especially if the poisonous salt is sold as table salt, the people are not stupid.

You can tell the difference in taste just by tasting it.

Doing this kind of thing is completely thankless and stupid.

He won't do it.

"This thing is a treasure mountain. The reason why you call it poisonous salt is because you don't know how to operate it."

"This mineral salt is a good thing. There is such a small, almost open-air salt mine here. It's like a golden mountain, isn't it?"

"Have someone go get some pieces and take them back. I'll teach you how to get them later."

"If only I had known there was a salt mine here."

Chu Ze originally wanted to say that if he had known that there was a salt mine here, Zhu Di would not have had to worry about money before. He could just take over the salt mine and mine it directly for money.

Not to mention one ammunition dump, even ten can be built!

But halfway through his words, he realized that it seemed inappropriate to say such words at this time.

After all, Zhu Zhen has already joined the game. If you say this at this time, isn't it just disgusting for him?

So after Chu Ze was halfway through speaking, he quickly forcibly reversed the rest of his words.

"If I had known there was a salt mine here, I would have asked your elder brother to get some for me in advance so that I could get out the salt."

"When the time comes and I have mineral salt as an economic income, the funds at my test site will not gradually become tight!"

After the conversation changed, Chu Ze did not forget to glance at Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen beside him.

"By the way, hasn't the Ming Dynasty been resuming production? Why is your eldest brother's finances still tense? Although I have indeed spent a lot of money these days. But it's not like I can't support my consumption, right?"

After hearing Chu Ze ask about these tax matters, Zhu Di directly spread his hands.

Asking him about this kind of thing is simply a waste of time.

He himself is not interested in these things, so naturally he seldom cares about them.

Zhu Zhen on the side was a little more reliable than Zhu Di who was only thinking about fighting.

After hesitating for a moment, he spoke.

"The main reason is that my father wanted to encourage scholars to obtain fame so that students from all over the world can be used by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he set up rules. Anyone who has fame does not have to pay taxes or perform corvee service."

"It was nothing at first, but in recent years, there has been a clear downward trend in the royal court's taxes. Although it is very small, it is very obvious."

"In recent years, there have been many disasters in various places, and the national treasury has basically been busy providing money for disaster relief. This has made Big Brother's side a little nervous."

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To be continued...