open sea

Chapter 567 Basics
In Qi Jiguang's place, Chen Mu obtained several detailed drawings of Shuntian and Jizhen. The drawing method carved out of a mold made him recognize at a glance that these were made by the students of the Xuanfu Lecture Hall.

On the return journey from Zunhua, Chen Mu did not choose to ride a horse anymore, and was escorted by Qi Jiguang's flag army to Kaiping Zhongwei, Yongping Prefecture, where he took a boat along the Shahe River and went down to Haikou. Dagukou.

This river is extremely convenient, and it is the transportation channel for iron ingots and coke that Chen Mu believes will be extremely prosperous in the future.

Back in Dagu, Chen Mu is no longer impetuous, and carefully arranges his income from this trip. He is about to start investing in merchants and setting up factories. Zhang Juzheng’s unified tax law is not friendly to farmers in the Northwest, but generally they use silver to pay taxes. The advantages are more obvious.

Farmers get more freedom and bring more vitality to towns; industrial and commercial people can get rid of nadine silver if they don’t have land, and also encourage industry and commerce, which provides great help to what they want to do, except that there is a little old Mu is not very satisfied.

Before leaving Dagu, he sent someone to deliver a letter to Zhang Juzheng's mansion. On the one hand, he expressed his idea of ​​doing a big business in the eastern coastal area of ​​Tianjin. He then considered his idea of ​​taking the king of the country abroad.

There is no need to talk about the issue of the clan. Last year, Jiubian consumed 800 million shi in food, and the clan's salary was also 800 million shi. In Chen Mu's opinion, there is no place that can help the court to "clean up" some feudal princes. It would be great to throw them out and become the island owner.

As for commercial taxation, this is where Zhang Juzheng and Chen Mu have the biggest disagreement. Chen Mu advocates collecting [-]% of the heavy tax on some merchants, while the rest related to people's livelihood should be taxed in categories ranging from ten to thirty to thirty. It was a commonplace talk for him, the last time he went to Beijing he talked with the Ministry of Household Affairs about the heavy tax on tobacco.

This time, Zhang Juzheng shelved it again.

Zhang Juzheng didn't mention the clan affairs at all in his reply.

As for the latter, Zhang Juzheng mentioned an idea in his letter. In view of the fact that the Siyang military government has become a foregone conclusion, each coastal province will choose a port to open a port to regulate the management of maritime merchants entering and leaving the sea. Seven taxes and one heavy tax are imposed. The above is to continue Zhang Juzheng's previous taxation standards for maritime merchants, while domestic industry and commerce are still subject to a tax rate of [-] to [-].

Because he believes that heavy taxes on merchants will lead to higher prices and will be detrimental to the people, he cites classics, including but not limited to Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Northern Song Dynasty Wang Anshi, Han Dynasty Sang Hongyang, and "Mencius" to refute Chen Mu's heavy commercial tax.

I still have money. In the past, Taicang’s silver was negative every year, and Longqing only saved more than 80 yuan. The customs tax and the Nanyang Military Government Jingyun added nearly 300 million silver to the court a year. Financial resources are not so stretched. It's comfortable.

If it were to be postponed until now, Chen Mu should have admitted his lack of reading and kept silent.

But I met Xu Zhenming recently, and I was very encouraged by his courage-the court refused to listen because I was not prepared enough, so I will conduct on-the-spot investigations and collect information, and convince you with perfect items and practical plans!
It's not all depressingly bad news, of course.

"In order to set up the Military Weapons Bureau, people with knowledge and experience are needed. Guan Zun's class is in charge of the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau, and Guan Zun'er was transferred to supervise the Beiyang Military Weapons Bureau. Shao Xing and Shao Yong, who used to escort ships and merchants, were also transferred here. Then Send people to Bozhou, ask Ying Long to find me some skilled craftsmen who dig salt wells over there, and then ask him to find fire oil wells over there... there is no glass!"

"Send another letter to Hao Jing, and offer a reward, no matter which country the barbarians are from, the method of making glass, no, the Portuguese are smarter than each other, I am afraid it is not good to want the method; from now on Hao Jing The customs do not accept any glass-like products, and offer a reward to the Portuguese who set up a glass factory in Haojing, hire workers on behalf of them, purchase materials and sell the finished products for five years. After the factory is opened, people will enter and learn their technology, and they will be exempted from tax. I can't do it either."

"It is also necessary to offer a reward in the country. If there is a person who makes glass in the country, the method should be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver."

In the back hall of a hundred yamen in the Dagukou Fortress, Chen Mu and his staff gathered together. On the table, there were several maps scattered on the table, covering Gyeonggi, Bohai Bay, Huanghai Bay, Liaodong, North Korea and other places, among which the maps of Liaodong and North Korea It's not accurate, there is only a general picture on a large overall map, and that large map is a map of coastal routes.

At this time, Chen Mu drew several large and small triangular areas on the map with charcoal pencils. The starting point of each triangular area is Dagukou, Tianjin.

Glass is used in many things, and the only substitutes for glass in his hand are crystal and colored glaze. Crystal can only be cut and cannot be re-fired. The manufacturing process of colored glaze is cumbersome and expensive, and it is not something that can be popularized... In his According to the plan, preliminary upstream and downstream industries will be formed in the Tianjin area. The glass factory is not the key, but it will be used in many places.

Especially because Chen Mu wanted to set up a chemical experiment bureau in Beiyang.

"Beiyang will be a whole. This place has the benefits of both water transportation and sea transportation. Most of the resources are easier to obtain than other places, so I want to set up the Beiyang Seventh Bureau here." Chen Mu said, looking up at the surrounding Juniper, Xu Wei, Xu Zhenming, Zhao Shizhen and the others took the white paper and wrote while saying: "Ordnance Bureau, Breeding Bureau, Shipbuilding Bureau, Military Medical Bureau, Gunpowder Bureau, Experimental Bureau, and Steam Machine Bureau."

"All industries are aimed at the Seven Bureaus first, and they can make profits at the same time. The factories to be established around are all owned by four officials and six people. Domestic and foreign, the taxes payable must not be omitted. The first is the timber processing factory, which is under the jurisdiction of the logging forest farm. For the time being For construction, when it is not needed, it will specialize in wood processing, as well as brick-burning factories and cement factories."

Chen Mu marked Beiyang on the map here and had just marked wood processing next to Beiyang, when he heard Juniper say, "Marshal, the forest farm is closed, where do you get the wood from?"

"There are a lot of cash crops nearby, and there is no shortage of cotton and cloth. We have a quilt factory to supply the army and produce cotton clothes for the north to wear, and they can also be sold to North Korea. We get wood from North Korea. This route is very convenient. Less than two thousand miles."

"Iron slag used in cement plants can be supplied by the iron smelting plant affiliated to the Military Weapons Bureau, and casting and forging are also solved; then paint and rubber, oil extraction and refining, brick and pottery making, paper making and printing, and leather goods weaving are formed, and the upper and lower industries are formed. In the supply and demand chain, the downstream first guarantees the supply and then expands the production capacity, and then sells to the four parties to obtain profits; the upstream industry has high technology and high profits, and there is a market and there is a profit.”

"The rest is breeding. The main purpose is to supply supplies to the Banner Army, and guard the Changlu Salt Farm next to it. All of this will not only allow Tianjin to have a larger scale, but also allow Beiyang Dongyang to have enough power to drive the North and relieve the Nanyang Army. Given the pressure from the government, Nanyang needs to develop as much as the Eastern and Western Oceans.”

"In addition, when various factories are built, many disciplines for industry can also be established, and the best technologies and development lines of skilled craftsmen from all walks of life in the world will be integrated and further developed in our hands. We will compile a book to tell the world about the connection between governing the country."

"Annan and Burma are the granaries of Ming Dynasty, Sulu in Luzon are the mines of Ming Dynasty, North Korea and Japan will be the forest farms, mines and markets of Ming Dynasty. Later generations will say that the initial industrialization foundation of Ming Dynasty is the era in which we stand in the world Laid down, this picture is just the starting point.”

"The imperial court is responsible for the present of Ming Dynasty, and Beiyang is responsible for the future of Ming Dynasty."

"When the foundation of this starting point is laid, we will travel across the ocean and land on the land of Xiyi, learn from them, lead them, and suppress them... 500 years!"

(End of this chapter)