Daming Yinghua

Chapter 134
Zhu Yipai decided to personally send Zheng Haizhu and others to Dengzhou.

It was not for the purpose of respecting the corporal, but Zheng Haizhu's mental outlook, which stimulated him to some extent.

The little prince realized that even if such a grass-roots woman wandered around to see the world, her ability to think and think, as well as the courage to act, would be quite impressive.

Therefore, he decided to personally inspect the commercial route across the Shandong Peninsula to Dengzhou Prefecture, and ask Tao Lang, the prefect of Dengzhou, whether the current Dengliao Sea Road is as barren as the imperial court announced, just like Even the cotton-padded clothes and salaries for the garrison in Liaodi were mostly gone to the other side of Shanhaiguan.

It just so happened that this time something happened about Wenxiangjiao. Zhu Yi sent a representative of King Lu to discuss with Tao Lang, who had captured the little leader of the cult. Suspicious about the prince.

Of course Zheng Haizhu couldn't wish for it.

According to Xu San's experience, Liaohai will be completely frozen in one month. Yanzhou is nearly a thousand miles away from Dengzhou. If they can't get to Dengzhou in time, the choice they will face will be to wait until next spring in Dengzhou. If you want to open the cold, you must turn your body to the north, pass through Tianjin Wei and leave Shanhaiguan, enter Liaoxi by land, and cross the Liaohe River again before arriving in Liaoyang to meet Mao Wenlong.

The latter is not only a problem of long distances, the key is to be exploited by tax cards of various names.

Liu Shimin from the Weaving Bureau reminded Zheng Haizhu, especially from Dagu, Luanzhou to Shanhaiwei, there are many tax cards privately set up by eunuchs from Hebei along the way, so you should go by sea if you can, and pay the toll for the sailors on the sea patrol in Dengzhou , It must be less than buying travel expenses for eunuchs.

Fortunately, now that there is a convoy of Lu Wang's clan, traveling all the way from Yanzhou to the east, it not only runs fast, but also saves a lot of interrogation and obstruction.

Zheng Haizhu was good at observing words and deeds. When he was in Yanzhou, he encouraged Guo to go with her husband, and told her sincerely that in Jiangnan, the wives of gentry, such as Han Ximeng, the young lady he had taken refuge in at first, had considerable freedom to travel.Madam Tangtang, General Zhen Guo, why did you imprison yourself in the back house?

Zhu Yipai also readily agreed.

Therefore, along the way, with Guo's company by his side, Zheng Haizhu didn't have to worry about avoiding suspicion, and could spend a lot of time brainwashing Zhu Yipai to explain why Yanzhou Coal Mine should be made joint stock.

Interest is the best teacher, and Zhu Yipai quickly understood a bunch of new terms: clan shareholder, business company shareholder, voting rights, dividends, dividends per share, limited liability, investor, and manager.

And the most important word: company.

Zhu Yipai simplified the complexity, that is, he needed to persuade Lu Wang Zhu Shouhong to divide the shareholding ratio of the members of Lu Fan's clan in Yanzhou Coal Mine according to their power, and distribute the profits every year.

This seems to be taking out a lot of meat from King Lu's own bowl, but it is actually sharing the political risk and using money to block the mouths of lower-level clan members. Go speak ill of the emperor.

Wan Mo underestimated the intensity of intrigue in these domains in the Ming Dynasty. Even Yibin, the husband of the county lords, had to be careful.

After all, just over ten years ago, in the Chu clan of Hubei Province, there was a case where Yibin revealed that the ninth generation Chu king was not of the blood of the Zhu family. Perhaps the motive was just to remove the previous Chu king from the throne and make his uncle Brother sit up.

And Zheng Haizhu wanted to rely on the big tree of Lu Fan and try a joint-stock company. Of course, her purpose was not only to prevent Lu Wang Zhu Shouhong from falling into the "Gongdouju".

She bet on Huang Zunsu, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Yuanhua, who represent the present and future civil power; Xu Guangqi, who represented the eastward expansion of Western learning; Mao Wenlong and Yan Siqi of Quanquan bet on them, but these were not enough.

Unlike when she just crossed over and could only start as an employee and servant of the Han family, now that she has a little bit of capital and strength, she wants to let herself, Mao Wenlong, and Yan Siqi all have the right to speak in the "Hao Ming Commercial Company", and she has a complete The shipping insurance company with the right to speak, like the "legal person" shareholders of later generations, entered Lu Fan's economic empire through equity penetration.

These days, Zheng Haizhu observes Zhu Yipai, even though he has been regarded as a clear stream in the suzerain vassal, he still keeps saying "my Zhu family".

May wish to try a new economic model, whether it will gradually disintegrate the family world or personal totalitarian shell of "My Zhu Family" and "Nine Thousand Years".

This mode of copying homework is the company system.

The real historical pioneer of the corporation system was the Netherlands.

But in today's time and space, Zheng Haizhu, a cunning and ambitious member of the Dutch East India Company, has already experienced it in Yuegang, Fujian and Tainan.

It is undeniable that the structure of the East India Company is advanced.

Only by separating the investor from the manager, separating the commercial subject from personal authority, turning unlimited liability into limited liability, and turning shares into financial capital that can be transferred or even circulated, can be the owner of the commercial subject or the operator. Well, the mentality and vision can be truly broadened.

The essence of a "company" is actually the word "contract", and the establishment of a sense of contract in economic life will inevitably bring about a sense of equal rights in social psychology.

Monarchy, patriarchy, husband's authority... People will gradually discover that the status they once thought was destined by God is not so unshakable.

Not to mention those barbarians in the deep mountains and old forests should not be allowed to call themselves "coated" and "minions".

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The clan's car drove smoothly all the way, and soon arrived at Ye County in Laizhou, which was less than a hundred miles away from Dengzhou.

Since entering Laizhou territory, Zhu Yipai's face has turned cloudy.

While resting for a while by the side of an official road in Ye County, Zhu Yipai looked at the wilderness in front of him, frowned and said, "How come so many fields are barren, even if the soil quality is not as good as our Yanzhou Lufan, it is worse than the Loess Gobi, right?" Isn’t it okay to grow cotton? After planting cotton, half of it is spun and half filled with wadding, and it’s made into winter clothes and summer clothes, and it’s shipped directly from Laizhou or Dengzhou ports to Lushun, and it’s not good to send them to Liaodong soldiers.”

Zheng Haizhu thought to himself, the so-called knowing that the house is leaking is in Yuxia, and knowing that the government is losing is in Caoye, the little prince should come out to see the outside world, so as to understand how the empire has become such a mess.

She was about to open her mouth to explain her doubts, but she heard Guo said: "This is not easy. Cotton farmers also have to pay taxes, pay corvees, and share various miscellaneous taxes. The lands of the officials' families, the gentry's families, and the scholar's families in all states and counties are all There is no need to bear these. Now that they have more and more fields, the gaps in the first three items are naturally more and more. Don’t they still have to be spread to those farmers who have their own land? So, they can’t survive the famine Even the good years couldn't last, so I simply ran away with my family."

What Guo said is that the problem of land annexation that began to appear in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was rooted in the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang gave tax exemptions to powerful groups and so-called scholars from the very beginning. There is no way to completely solve the problem even if we struggle within the system.

An emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, who considered himself a grassroots, advocated frugality in a show-like manner after ascending to the throne, but what he and his descendants always treated harshly were still grassroots, anyway, there are endless leeks.

After hearing his wife's words, Zhu Yipai was silent for a moment and said, "No wonder the Xiangjiao is making a fuss. In fact, in this way, our vassal's property is not taxed. If it goes on like this, it's not like..."

Guo Shi really had the guts of a general's daughter, and said boldly, "Could it be that the civil uprising will intensify."

Zheng Haizhu secretly opened a barrage for her: You are right.

The last emperor of Gui Daming hanged himself in front of Li Zicheng, and now the King Fu, who was doted on by the emperor and his concubine and spent his days and nights in Luoyang, also died in the hands of Li Zicheng.

It is said that marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, Mrs. Guo, I think you have the demeanor of a grandson empress.

Zheng Haizhu then boldly interjected: "So Your Highness is wise, and is willing to persuade the King of Lu to offer bamboo and wood to collect tax after coal mining in Yanzhou."

Zhu Yipai's complexion softened slightly.

Just like his wife looked down on those royal ladies who could only compare with the brocade clothes and sedan chairs at home, he has always despised the excessive extravagance of the members of the clan.

Zhu Yipai didn't understand that the life of buying fifty live chickens and frying a dish with only the cartilage in the middle of each flipper, or sending people to search around and spending thousands of dollars to buy a cricket, was fun. where.

He felt that it was good enough for him and his wife to go hunting outside the city of Yanzhou, or for his wife to accompany him while embroidering and reading.

If there is anything that can really make his heart ecstatic, it is definitely not seeing fifty chicken carcasses piled up in a mansion at a time, but seeing the green seedlings with yellow ears, mulberry green and cotton white in the vast fields.

After the horses were full of bean cakes, the convoy headed towards the county town ahead.

Ye County is not as rich as the Weifang area, and there is only one stone street in the county.

The Zhu family's motorcade was forced to stop as soon as it walked onto the flagstone street.

The carriage of Zheng Haizhu, Wu Bangde and others was at the front of the team, and they quickly opened the curtain to take a look.

I saw a blue-robed official standing in the middle of the road, with no entourage who looked like an official, only a servant who looked like a book boy.

Zheng Haizhu jumped out of the carriage and stepped forward, but saw that the official was fifty years away, the hair on the temples under the official hat was already gray, and his face was as dark and rough as a farmer in the field.

He has a serious expression, with the word "Chuan" between his eyebrows, and the lines are so deep that they can kill mosquitoes. It can be seen that he is not only serious in speech and smile, but also has tight eyebrows.

Zheng Haizhu was familiar with the pattern of birds on the patch on the other's chest, just like Huang Zunsu's.

A seventh rank official.

Only the official said in a deep voice: "The old parents' sedan chair is coming, you step back."

In the Ming Dynasty, the magistrate who was in charge of the head of a county was called "old parents".

Zheng Haizhu muttered, so this gentleman is not the magistrate of Ye County?
(End of this chapter)