When Wang returned home, Zhang Zhaohua had just finished teaching Xiaobao's homework. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Wang washed his hands and sat next to the loom, and called Zhang Zhaohua to weave together.

Zhang Zhaohua has to pull the churn up first, and the churn is the cotton gin. The structure of this agitator is that there is a pair of rolling shafts, one with a larger diameter and one with a smaller one; when it is used, it is two people to shake the shaft, Zhang Zhaohua also wants to say that the cotton is placed between the two axes, and the principle that the rotation direction of these two shafts is opposite, so that the cottonseed core and cotton fiber are separated, and good cotton is rolled.

There was a basket of raw cotton rolled before and after, Wang shouted to stop, and the remaining cotton before bounced on the bamboo bow, Xiaobao was choked as soon as he came over, and after sneezing four or five times, a trace of cotton wool was sprayed from his nose.

Wang's now need a lot of cotton to experiment with a new cloth, this cloth is called "twill", they saw in the satin shop in Yongcheng County, it was passed from Kaifeng City, it is said that Kaifeng's sweat towel shop, garment shop, clothing shop and large satin shop are sold, it is woven in Jiading, Suzhou, Wang was shocked at first sight, when he was young, he had seen the old mother in Songjiang weave, and also taught her - and the standard cloth has some similarities, after returning home, Wang devoted himself to recalling and experimenting, and wanted to weave this twill.

After all, this kind of cloth is expensive, even and fine, and it feels like flannel, and each horse can be sold for half a tael of silver;

Although the family is much more generous in silver now, they still can't help the temptation of weaving a piece of silver and a piece of cloth. According to the owner of the satin shop in Yongcheng County, although the clothing system is very strict, everyone wears white robes, green shoes, and silk cloth, but there are good materials that can be pressed to the bottom of the box, and there is a horse of gold and silk satin that can be sold at a good price in any silk and satin shop.

There are all kinds of fabrics in the cloth shop in Kaifeng, such as Daoluo, Hexiluo, and Hualuo; yarn has silver striped yarn, sandwich yarn, and baotou yarn; silk has Luodi silk, cloud silk, and plain silk; brocade has purple and white, and colorful silk; silk has silk machine silk, Rui animal silk; satin has gold threads, makeup, and so on, which are colorful, and it is said that they are also related to craftsmen engaged in gold leaf and gold sales, and these craftsmen specialize in weaving gold on silk.

Of course, it is not forbidden to make these satins, but it is forbidden for people who do not conform to their status to wear them. Ordinary people can buy it if they have money, and keeping the bottom of the box is an option, which can be used as a dowry for the girls in the family.

Under the deception of the owner of the clothing shop, Wang made every effort to prepare a few fine silk for her maid - of course, in Zhang Zhaohua's opinion, this was not necessary, it was not as good as cash silver, but when Zheng took out the silk in her dowry and showed her, she felt that it was indeed a good decoration to have such a few pieces of cloth.

Of course, the price of a woven gold satin is staggering, Zhang Zhaohua carefully weighed the weight of the gold thread on a piece of satin, and used less than one or two gold, these craftsmen are too ingenious, they can twist the gold thread as thin as a cow's hair, and a peony just outlines its edge, but there is a feeling of golden brilliance and boundlessness.

The market price of such a silk is twenty-seven taels, according to the gold and silver exchange ratio at this time is about one to five, in fact, the gold on this woven gold satin is worth about five taels, and the rest of the satin itself plus the embroidery workers are counted at most five taels, and the clothing store will make a net profit of seventeen taels. And satin like this is often in short supply.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhaohua was very depressed - even in the early Ming Dynasty, when everything was in ruins, the profits of businessmen were unmatched. Even if the emperor paid more attention to male farmers and female weaving, this kind of small economy could only create a subsistence, and it was still no match for the benefits that the merchant class could create.

In fact, as early as before Zhu Yuanzhang called King Wu, he collected the money from the store, and even later there were Propaganda Divisions and General Lecture Divisions. In the early years of Hongwu, individual prefectures and counties tax, vegetables and fruits, diet, animal husbandry and other things were forbidden by the emperor's order, and in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, it was ordered that the military and civilian marriages, funeral sacrifices, boats, vehicles, silk cloth, etc., should not be taxed.

Where the commercial tax is taken out of 30, the person who passes it will be punished for violating the order. This kind of commercial tax can be said to be the lowest since the previous dynasties.

I don't know what Emperor Zhu thought about the merchants, he did not put the merchants in opposition to the peasants like the emperors in the past, and imposed heavy taxes on these people; on the contrary, he was earnestly safeguarding the interests of the merchants, in the ninth year of Hongwu, the Shanxi Pingyao chief bookkeeper Cheng Le's term of office expired, and the state government assessed that he had collected all the commercial taxes, and "could restore the commercial taxes", and praised him for entering Beijing to meet him, but was refuted by the emperor, saying that the tax had a fixed amount, and if it could be restored, it was not that this person had outstanding ability, but that he was exploiting the people, but "ordered the Ministry of Officials to transfer the text to the news."

There is also an example in the eighth year of Hongwu, where a merchant from Nanxiong entered Beijing to sell goods, and when he reached Changhuai Pass, the official asked him to pay taxes. This businessman was unwilling to pay, the two sides argued, it dragged on for a long time, this businessman's goods could not be sold, so he sued the official, Emperor Zhu saw this case, but thought that "it is impersonal to insist on staying with it." In the end, he actually convicted the little official who was enforcing the law, and not only reprimanded him with the rod, but also compensated the little official for his money.

Emperor Zhu believed that taxation, especially commercial taxation, was "disturbing the people", and at first Zhang Zhaohua thought that this was a reflection on the demise of the previous dynasty, after all, in the 70 years from Yuan Shizu to Yuan Wenzong, the state tax continued to increase, such as the salt tax increased by 20 times, the tea tax increased by 240 times, and the commercial tax also increased by nearly 10 times. In order to escape the heavy burden of taxation, the people fled or gathered in the mountains and forests to confront the government. Merchants were sometimes forced to strike to resist harsh taxes. Finally, an uprising finally broke out, which can be said to be the direct cause of the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

But the more she observed, the more bizarre she came to her thoughts.

This kind of policy does not come from reflection, but is actually the arrogance of an emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not count businessmen into the main part of the country at all.

No wonder she had heard an analysis of the economy of the Ming Dynasty in her previous life, saying that the tax of this dynasty was the most ridiculous tax in history, and that it only collected taxes from the poor people, but left aside the rich businessmen who accounted for more than 70% of the total social wealth.

Emperor Zhu of this dynasty was the first emperor of the dynasty, and he thought that there was nothing in the world that could not be controlled, and he wanted the people to live forever in a small peasant economy of 'his people were pure', and he also wanted all officials to practice "their government is boring".

But the latter one has already made him frustrated, because no matter how many officials are killed, there will always be corruption and corruption; the former one has not yet seen any drawbacks, and he thinks that this one is immortal, but he does not know that the death of the Ming Dynasty will die at the root of the thirty taxes and one that he himself has set.

Even if there is a thirty tax, there are eight or nine out of ten businessmen who are evading taxes, and the problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang also openly sheltered this group of businessmen who do not pay taxes. She asked this question to the grain chief, who was surprised to see that he thought that not paying heavy taxes was protecting the people.

Merchants do not have household registration, and the people who do business are all military and civilian, Emperor Zhu compiled households for all walks of life, and even ** has a happy registration, but the businessman is excluded, and he does not admit the existence of this profession, so naturally there is no business tax at all.

There are obvious benefits to the smallholder economy, and before natural and man-made disasters came, everyone felt that this model of development was very good. However, natural and man-made disasters came, and the small-scale peasant economy was the first to collapse, because the tax revenue of the countries that did not collect commercial taxes was pitiful and pitiful, and there was no way to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control, and the next to collapse were the big capitalists who relied on the small-scale peasant economy. This is not far from the caricatures drawn in later history books to describe the situation in 18th-century France, where the aristocratic capitalists rode on the peasants, who were overwhelmed by their hard work and contradictions. So the Ming Dynasty really didn't die outside, it did die inside.

But Zhang Zhaohua can only hide this kind of foresight from the lessons of later generations in her heart, and she has no way to change it now, but to enjoy the benefits of this kind of commercial tax first-that is, when Zhang Sheng's business is a businessman, she can get a lot of profits.

Zhang Sheng has developed very well in the past ten years, is a small consul of the caravan, there are twelve or thirteen people under his team, as far as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shaanxi, back and forth to trade thousands of taels of silver, divided down the net profit of five hundred taels, this is the largest amount he earned, the others are small fractions, so this year he went to Shaanxi again, regardless of Wang's obstruction.

Of course, there is a reason why the Wang family stopped him, he is twenty years old, and he should marry a daughter-in-law.