Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

This is the source of income for military generals, just like the generals in Linqing who control the water transport of soldiers and horses can collect fees from merchant ships. Cloth and candy, you have to spend money to get dental stickers, otherwise you will not be allowed to trade, and the dental business economy rarely collects taxes. Most of them negotiate a quota with the merchants, and only need to pay a small part to the public. Most of them were swallowed by the dentist.

The commercial tax obtained by the dental bank does not need to be shipped, it is the local tax at that time, the commercial tax collected and the hidden commercial tax are not shipped, and it is divided between the officials and the dental bank. Of course, the merchant does not suffer. Through this Means, they pay a lot less money than the imperial court's quota.

The commercial tax of RMB 60 million a year for the entire Ming Dynasty is just the tip of the iceberg. The more beneficial thing is that in the hands of the civil servants and local tooth banks supported by the civil servants, the entire chain of interests is unimaginably large.

As for the imperial court, of course it is the one that suffers the most, but this is not the only place where Ming’s financial system failed, and the imperial court did not realize that it suffered a big loss... Emperor Wanli seemed to be a little enlightened back then, but his solution was to send eunuchs Tax supervisors, these eunuchs have an advantage over civil officials, that is, civil officials don’t give the emperor a dime, while eunuchs will give [-]% of their income to the emperor. Of course, they have no bottom line in doing things, even carrying baskets and burdens The small people were not spared, and the methods were too cruel, which led to several large-scale riots among urban residents during the Wanli period, and many tax-paying eunuchs were beaten to death.

There may be tampering by local civil servants and gentry, but the hatefulness of the eunuchs is also obvious. Later, Wanli was also afraid of inciting more civil uprisings, so he ordered the eunuchs to return the farmers who sold vegetables and chickens. The shopkeepers with burdens are let go, and only large-scale commercial firms are taxed. [

The chaos in the world during the Wanli period is not a long-term memory, and the current place is not much better. Zhang Pu has traveled six or seven hundred miles in Shandong this way, and there is no private checkpoint that is so far away. Seeing it, what was even more frightening was that he remembered that there seemed to be a dental shop in Jinan Prefecture, and then he came all the way, but he didn't even see a decent dental shop!

Regardless of whether it is a government-run or a private dental practice, none of them even looked at it!

Originally, in a place like the city gate, not only the soldiers guarding the camp, but also many people in the business, the bearers of the sedan chair, the merchants of the tooth shop, and of course the Guigong teapot of the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, Zhang Pu, etc. They came here in a sedan chair. Looking around, there are many vendors and pedestrians. It's just the composition of the flow of people, but it is completely different from other places.

The gap is really too big...

"Taicang, Zhang Tianru..." Just now, Zhang Pu's housekeeper just made things difficult for these guards on purpose, thinking that a soldier from Jiaozhou would know what a celebrity is?Unexpectedly, the officer leading the team brought a few booklets, flipping them quickly with his fingers. Zhang Pu became very curious. Through the car curtain, he saw that the words Taicang and other words were first written on the booklets, and then they were listed according to their surnames. Then the officer turned to Zhang Pu. When the surname was on the first page, he nodded and said with a smile: "There are records, Zhang Pu, several clubs, and reading clubs are mixed into one club, and he is the head of the club. He was elected together with Wumei Village and others. Scholars... Well, your identities can be confirmed, but Mr. Zhang is not subject to inspection. You family members still have to register your name, place of origin, and age one by one. We will record your appearance characteristics. The affair will be pursued to the end!"

Such high efficiency and accuracy really frightened Zhang Pu and his servants. This group of people did not say a word for a while. It is hard to say that Zhang Pu's servants have a good temper. After all, in Taicang or even Gusu And Changzhou, and then to Nanjing, the people who dared to offend the Zhang family in Taicang had not yet been born. Cruel, but there is also an awe-inspiring temperament that makes them follow behind obediently, and only after completing all the procedures, they suddenly wake up.

"Stick out your tongue, please, yes...brother, you are a little angry."

"Yes, yes, doctor, what should I do then?"

"It's okay, just eat more melons, fruits, peaches, pears, and vegetables. Don't just eat meat and no vegetables, haha."

While being taken to go through the formalities, all the servants of the Zhang family were taken aside, and two doctors with medicine boxes came up to meet them, to check their complexion, to test their foreheads with the back of their hands, and to check their tongue coating. Everyone was fine. , only the butler of the Zhang Mansion was told by the doctor that he was too angry and needed to eat more vegetables.

Grateful, the housekeeper thanked him repeatedly, but everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay, really wondering why they had to be checked by a doctor before entering the city.

Even in a wealthy place like Jiangnan, doctors are not so easy to hire. It costs money to sit in a doctor, and even more money to visit a doctor. Buying medicine is also a big expense. Except for dignitaries and landlords and squires, ordinary people really can’t afford it these days. sick.

As far as the medical efficacy of Chinese medicine is concerned, it has matured during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the prescriptions are much more mature than those in the Han, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. They have matured in many details such as the combination of medicines, monarchs, ministers, assistants, and so on. Of course, in medical theory Going to Chinese medicine is not modern medicine, but more based on experience. For the same disease, the prescriptions prescribed by experienced doctors are effective, but quack doctors are enough to kill.

Therefore, there are a large number of students of Fushan Medical Center. After fully studying the guidelines, pills and decoctions, the rest is continuous practice.Help check at the city gate to see if there are patients with plague and typhoid... These diseases were very common at that time, and a small plague would break out if you were not careful. When Zhang Shouren was guarding Jinan, historically at the same time There were too many refugees and too many dead people, and a strong plague broke out. The leader of Zhenghong Banner, Yue Tuo, also contracted the plague in Jinan City, and died of illness shortly after returning to Liaodong.

At least, here in Jiaozhou, Zhang Shouren doesn't want anyone to die because of these common epidemic diseases, he can't change the whole Ming Dynasty, but at least in front of his own eyes, he really changed a lot.

"Thank you, thank you doctor."

Although he didn't prescribe a prescription, the doctor pointed out a few minor problems in his body and gave some suggestions. According to traditional customs, young doctors are not cared about. The doctors in Fushan Medical Center are all young and vigorous. Originally, the housekeeper He didn’t really trust him, but he found that many passers-by came to ask for a doctor, and many of them came to thank him after healed up. Only then did he know that he had indeed met a good doctor for free. ran back.

When he came back, all he could see was Zhang Pu's expressionless face.

"Master..."[

The housekeeper who felt that he had done something wrong stood awkwardly in front of Zhang Pu's sedan chair, wanting to explain.Zhang Pu waved his hand and shook his head again.The things in front of him were obviously the same as the farm he saw, subverting the entire morality... Not to mention a housekeeper, even he was shocked by this seemingly simple scene.

After completing these procedures and stamping them, the Fushan officer who led the team said with a smile: "Welcome to Laizhou Prefecture. If there is any theft, theft, or encounters with extortion, you can report to the security booth at any time."

"When the time comes to find you, you will disappear."

"No, the law and order in Jiaozhou is coordinated by the Land Patrol Battalion of Dengzhou Township, with the cooperation of a small number of local sheriffs and land patrol officers and soldiers. They often patrol and handle security cases. Whether they are locals or foreigners, we will treat them equally. There is a pavilion every five hundred steps in the city, and there is a pavilion every three to five miles outside the city, and you can go to the pavilion for help in case of trouble. Well, that’s it, everyone, please.”

When the officer was speaking, the people in the Zhang family saw the emblem on his military cap, and knew that anyone with this emblem was the security officer in charge of security robbery and the officers and soldiers of the land patrol battalion. When entering the city, it was obvious that there was a flag pavilion on the left side of the city gate. It seemed that these security officers and soldiers came from here.

"Let's go quickly!"

Zhang Pu was in a state of confusion, and he had already made an appointment with someone near the Town God's Temple, so he kept urging him and ordered the porter to quickly pick up the sedan chair and leave.

He was burning with anxiety, but the bearers and attendants seemed to be enjoying it.Counting it, Zhang Pu always took them with him when he went abroad to travel and study, and then the rural examination, the Beijing examination, to Nanjing, Beijing, and other cities except Fujian, Zhejiang, Huguang, and the big cities on both sides of the canal on the north-south passage. I've been there...nowhere can compare with Jiaozhou!

Here in Jiaozhou, because there are waterways such as the Jiaohe River and the Baihe River for convenient transportation, and unlike the inland areas of Laizhou Prefecture, it develops much faster than the interior counties such as Laizhou Prefecture and Pingdu Prefecture. Although Laizhou is a prefectural city, Jiaozhou is in In the past few years, Laizhou has been left far behind.

Even from the perspective of Jiangnan people, Jiaozhou is already a prosperous commercial city.

Every year, more than 200 million shi of high-quality salt are transported from Jiaozhou to ships. There are thousands of merchants, laborers, porters and boatmen in the salt industry that they saw along the way. Push the packaged salt package to the pier, then send it to the ship, and then drive the ship to leave.

The original card along the river has been canceled by Zhang Shouren. At that time, when he started his business, he had to do it even if it was to kill chickens and fetch eggs. Besides, his prestige was not established at that time, and many salt merchants did not buy his account. The only way to go at that time, of course we can't do these vicious things that affect the image now... If Zhang Pu knows that Zhang Shouren is not as bright and upright as he imagined, but he doesn't know what he thinks?

Along the way, of course, the most people deal with salt, and then there are all kinds of businesses, tea and cloth, sugar and silk, confectionery, porcelain, jade, and all kinds of utensils closely related to life. Beyond the imagination of Zhang Pu and others.