Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 221

The time spent in Shandong is also a bit long. Seeing that September is coming, Zhu Youxiao can’t stay any longer. , Zhu Youxiao set off directly to the south.

At this time, the commercial tax collection policy in Fengyang area in the south has already begun to be implemented.

When Zhu Youxiao arrived at the border of Fengyang, he saw countless merchant ships moored outside Fengyang City like covering the sky and covering the sun. When the commercial tax was collected, Zhu Youxiao asked the imperial merchants to take the lead in paying the commercial tax.

Therefore, even though the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are not tax-exempt, the governor of Fengyang, Ma Shiying, is naturally grateful for this. In many cases, the tax paid by the Royal Industrial Company is what he Fengyang Governor's Yamen paid that month. One or two percent of the tax collected.

To Zhu Youxiao's satisfaction, Ma Shiying did not impose heavy taxes on all merchants, and not only did not collect commercial taxes on small merchants whose business scale was only enough to support their families, but even helped them obtain low interest rates from the branch of the Royal Bank in Fengyang. The purpose of loans is naturally to encourage them to grow bigger.

Heavy taxes are imposed on wealthy and wealthy merchants, and preferential treatment is provided to small merchants and peddlers. The same is true for lijin checkpoints in other states and counties in Fengyang. In the first year, the collection point is 100 taels.

In other words, if you are just a small farmer who goes to the city to sell some vegetables and fruits, you don’t have to worry about being heavily taxed by the court. If there are guards at the city gate who collect tax money privately, the farmer can directly report to the county government. Soldiers who commit crimes will be imprisoned if they are light, and if they are severe, they will be exiled and sentenced to prison.

Of course, if state and county officials neglect their duties or exploit low-level people, once they are found out, the state and county officials are not only as simple as dismissing their posts, the easiest thing is to report to the Ministry of Industry and then serve for ten years.

In order to allow small merchants and hawkers to have a fixed place to carry out commercial activities, and at the same time to facilitate urban management, the governor's office ordered the prefectures, counties and market towns to set up fixed agricultural product trading markets, and the governor's office allocated special funds to assist in the construction.

In this way, Ma Shiying’s business tax collection policy in Fengyang not only did not affect the lives of small traders, but was more beneficial to them, so the resistance from the bottom was much less, but some gentry and big businessmen complained about Ma Shiying’s policy , because according to the collection policy of Fengyang governor's yamen, no matter whether it is from the hometown of Qianchao Pavilion or the family of Shangshu Shilang, even if they have made a name for themselves, they will all be taxed according to the value of the goods.

Of course, there are those who want to resist forcefully because of their own background, but in the end they are brutally suppressed by Ma Shiying. Ma Shiying is not Yuan Keli. He is a member of the eunuch party. He doesn't care about his reputation. , The means are not particular.

Therefore, there were quite a few caravans with powerful backgrounds who were brutally suppressed by him for a while, and many of them even sued Zhu Youxiao. Ma Shiying will stay in China, even if Ma Shiying is accused of treason.

There are also caravans with military backgrounds trying to use the army to fight against the governor's office, but when these commanders or general guerrillas see that the governor's office can also call the imperial guards stationed in Xuzhou to help deal with some emergencies At the time of the incident, these generals who had a few private soldiers under their hands did not dare to jump up again, not to mention that Ma Shiying was the most powerful civilian here.

For the caravans of some vassal kings, they can only act honestly in accordance with the regulations, and they don’t know what’s going on. He even killed a Fuguo general who was the governor's yamen servant and directly deprived him of his title, and even sent him to the governor's prison.

As a result, Ma Shiying became even more unscrupulous, and the officials and servants of his governor's office were also scolded by these businessmen as cruel officials and huge corrupt officials. The entire Fengyang government is surprisingly unanimous.

The reason is simple. Although the collection of business tax has offended many dignitaries, it can also make a lot of money. In the past, a low-level county now has income comparable to that of a prefecture. The county magistrate naturally supports it, not to mention Ma Shiying allowing them Withholding a certain percentage of tax revenue for self-use, in this way, the enthusiasm will be higher.

As for whether they will be retaliated by the dignitaries in the future, that is not what these local officials are worried about. Anyway, there is Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, who is at the front, and the scholar will only criticize Ma Shiying, even many officials in Fengyang. While scolding Ma Shiying, he tried his best to do things for Ma Shiying.

Zhu Youxiao didn't stay in Fengyang for long, and after a few words of encouragement to Ma Shiying, he went south directly to Nanzhili.

During this period, Sun Chengzong's reform in Shaanxi Province also kicked off.

Shaanxi's commercial activities are underdeveloped, but there are many big landlords, and many of them are military landlords, but Sun Chengzong is the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Tripartite Commander, and he controls the fate of these officers. In addition, Zhu Youxiao also clearly ordered He was assisted by Aobai who was stationed in Shaanxi to train the new army of the Imperial Guard, so no one could stop him.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, it is the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River, but this is the place where the imperial power is the weakest.

Since the seventh year of Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao let Wei Zhongxian, his most trusted eunuch, become the eunuch guarding Nanjing, Zhu Youxiao let Jiangnan begin to brush up his sense of the emperor's presence and control over Jiangnan's wealth and style of writing.

With white walls and black tiles, small bridges and flowing water, Zhu Youxiao stood on the bow of the boat and bathed in the sunset. Lingxin, who was with her, gently brushed off the falling flowers on Zhu Youxiao's forehead. She also didn't expect that when she went out for the first time, One day, I will stand with the emperor and look at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

Seeing that he had arrived at Stone City, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh. When Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor here, he probably never thought that the Ming Dynasty he established would one day fall into the hands of himself, a future man.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, Wang Yongguang, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, Xu Hongji, Wei Guogong, who assisted Nanjing and led the military governor's mansion plus the crown prince Taibao, and other Nanjing heavyweight officials Xunchen are waiting in front. Just wait for Zhu Youxiao to disembark to accept their visit.

In such a rich and romantic place in the south of the Yangtze River, Wei Zhongxian is obviously fatter than in the capital city in the past. Nuo's big belly seemed to burst his silk and satin clothes, but when Zhu Youxiao came, his fat and chubby But he ran to Zhu Youxiao in a very vigorous body, crying like a child who hasn't seen his parents for many years: "The old minister has seen His Majesty!"

"Get up, I can see that your life in Nanjing is going well," Zhu Youxiao couldn't help joking.

　Thank you for the book friend Lao Li next door, the reward of 500 book coins, and the reward of 100 book coins for the Supreme Wang Guowei. Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve, please ask for a reward. I updated a chapter while eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, and I didn’t read it during the Spring Festival.

　　
　
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