Guo Dan's unprecedented subsidy plan immediately turned into gossip news, and it spread throughout the Central Plains in an instant.

Everyone seems to have forgotten about the new tariff law, and the one million taels that are being talked about are discussed.

The people who eat melons feel very excited.

Of course, at the same time, many people are laughing at Guo Dan for being crazy.

If you don't agree with each other, you will throw a million taels out.

In fact, no madman can do this.

There are also many people who are tired of the cat and know that Guo Dan is going to drag it out, hoping that there will be contradictions within the court.

However, the entire bureaucracy has become more united because of this matter, because in their eyes, Guo Dan is already at the end of the crossbow, and the new policy of the imperial court has just begun, Guo Dan has released this kind of big move, what else can he do in the future?

This is enough to prove that the new tariff law can indeed have a great impact on Weihui Mansion, so that Guo Dan has to scatter all his family wealth to save it.

Now there is no need to do anything more, just continue to strictly enforce the new tariff law, and Guo Dan can't find any excuses, and then pull Wanli out.

Why has the new tariff law been implemented for so long, and the phenomenon of corruption and bribery is almost zero, that is, they are guarding against Wanli, and they can't give Wanli any excuse.

The alliance of the emperor and the merchant did make them a little careless.

From this point of view, Guo Dan really has a bit of a taste of cocooning and self-restraint, whether it is Caoyun or the officials around the canal, they will still be more or less resentful in their hearts, after all, not every official hates Guo Dan, they only care more about their own pockets.

After all, raising a concubine, visiting a green house, and stealing a wife all need money!

But as soon as this incident came out, even these people didn't dare to complain any more.

Guo Dan has reached the edge of the cliff, and who wants to pull the hind legs at this time is really the enemy of all bureaucrats.

It will definitely not be able to mix in officialdom.

Tongzhou banknote customs.

"Grandpa be careful."

Liu Chengbian came to a carriage and carefully helped Liu Zongcheng down.

Liu Zongcheng got out of the carriage, and regardless of Liu Chengchang, he looked directly at the side of the river, only to see that the flags were really fluttering on the river, "Are those all boats from Weihui Mansion?" ”

Liu Chengbian nodded and said: "Since Guo Dan announced his subsidy plan in Weihui Mansion, the goods entering Beijing from Weihui Mansion are increasing day by day, which is unabated compared to before the new tariff law, and maybe there are more ships in Weihui Mansion on the canal than there are ships transporting Cao. ”

As he spoke, he looked confused again: "Grandpa, what is Guo Dan going to do?" ”

Liu Zongcheng shook his head and said: "I've been thinking about this these days, but I still don't have a clue, but one thing is certain, Guo Dan's move is definitely not a willful act, he has already planned." ”

Liu Chengbian said: "Sun Er thinks so too, but Guo Dan subsidizes the caravan so much, he will not be able to hold it sooner or later." ”

Liu Zongcheng was silent for a while, and sighed: "We can't control this, but the more times like this, the more we can't be careless, we must be cautious in everything, you also have to be careful, if someone wants to fish in troubled waters, then they must be severely punished, no matter who the other party is." ”

Guo Dan is pinning his hopes on the internal division of the imperial court, so he must also keep an eye on these banknotes, and if there is a problem, he will immediately complain to Wanli. Many political struggles are often fought either over major events or over inconsequential matters.

"My grandson knows."

Liu Chengbian nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said: "Grandpa, my grandson recently heard about something, that Chen Fangyuan's letter and line have expanded to fifteen in the past three months. ”

Liu Zongcheng was surprised: "There is such a thing? ”

Liu Chengbian snorted: "They Xinxing is now specialized in helping people calculate taxes, and they also cooperate with Qianzhuang, and the business is very good, because today's tax system is very complicated, different goods, different quantities, different starting points and end points, the tariffs are different, many businessmen do not believe in our official teeth, causing everyone to run to Xinxing to calculate taxes." ”

Liu Zongcheng said with emotion: "It can be seen that the whole thing is still in Guo Dan's plan. ”

.....

Compared with Nanjing, the situation in the capital is relatively good, after all, Beijing is not the source of raw materials, and the Jiangnan region is a big market and a raw material production area.

Now Nanjing is about to be crowded by the ships of Weihui Mansion.

Since the Weihui Mansion Court promulgated the subsidy regulations, a large number of goods have immediately gone south, and the main credit is, of course, because those active tooth people and Jin merchants, as far as Weihui Mansion's current commodities are concerned, they don't need to go to the next home first, and they just buy the goods and leave.

In addition, because of the bad market before, all major workshops had a lot of inventory, and they all rushed out at this time, which was very terrifying.

Nanjing banknote customs.

"Yo! Isn't this the big housekeeper of Kou? ”

I saw a thin man with a loose goatee smiling at Kou Yi who was walking towards him.

This person's name is Sun Buyan, he is a famous evil tooth in the capital, and he also helped Li Shouqi pit Xu Jirong at the beginning, but then he was severely punished by Guo Dan, with the rise of Guo Dan in the capital, he didn't dare to stay in the capital anymore, so he ran to Nanjing.

Now it is really time to operate, in view of his grievances with Guo Dan, the imperial court promoted him to an official tooth, mainly responsible for Nanjing's banknotes.

Kou Yi and he are also old acquaintances, walked over, and said: "There is no way, now ninety percent of the ships here are the goods of Weihui Mansion, and I have to come over often to take a look." By the way, didn't you say last time that it would be difficult to see the ships of my Weihui Mansion in Nanjing in the future? ”

During that period, Kou Yi's life in Nanjing was very difficult, Sun Buyan mocked him several times, and now he had to find this time.

Sun Buyan was not annoyed at all, and said with a smile: "The big housekeeper has a lot of forbearance, I really don't know Taishan, I didn't expect your uncle to be so rich, throw out a million taels, don't even blink an eye, I just don't know how many million taels your uncle can throw." ”

"You don't have to worry about it."

Kou Yi snorted coldly, and then commanded left and right: "From today onwards, you are here for me to watch day and night, and if anyone dares to deliberately target our Weihui Mansion ships, tell me immediately." ”

Sun Buyan's expression changed, and he said coldly: "What does the big butler mean by this?" ”

Kou Yi raised his head and said, "I don't mean anything else, I just don't believe you thin monkey." ”

"You're ......!"

Sun Buyan just opened his mouth, his expression suddenly changed, and he laughed, "Lady Kou is too underestimated by my Sun Buyan, just your little trick, but it can't anger me, I will collect as many goods as you come from Weihui Mansion, I want to see how much money you have to fill in." ”

Just as the gunpowder was full, a man with teeth ran over and whispered a few words in Kou Yi's ear.

"I see!"

Kou Yi nodded, and said to Sun Buyan: "I'm sorry, there are a lot of people who save money in our money bank today, and they are all too busy over there, I have to rush back to take a look, you show me carefully, if something happens, I only ask." Ha ha......! ”

He got into the carriage and drove away.

This made Sun Buyan angry enough, he really wanted to burn all the goods in Weihui Mansion with a fire, but unfortunately the headquarters was telling him to enforce the law impartially, and he must not let Guo Dan seize the handle.

At the same time, there are many people from Liu Zongcheng and the superintendent of the imperial history who are supervising here.

Therefore, no matter how many goods there are in Weihui Mansion, as long as they pay taxes, they will not dare to stop them.

Along with this, of course, the remittance of the two places has become very frequent, and the deposit of silver in the bank here is also increasing, and many merchants' silver will not be taken out immediately when it arrives here, because it may have to be remitted immediately.

However, Kou Yi and Sun Buyan didn't notice that there were two small businessmen on the side who had been watching them all the time.

One of them said: "Brother Xu, how is this good? ”

"Straight thief, we were deceived, and what did we say that Nanjing's goods should be produced by our Nanjing people, this time it's good, Weihui Mansion came to so many goods at once, and the price is so cheap, if it goes on like this, our goods can't be sold at all."

"If I can't sell it, I'll be finished, but I asked the Jiang family to borrow more than a hundred taels!"

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Of course, the most popular of them is Weihui Mansion.

In view of the transportation system agreed upon by Jigui and Mao Shen, the Daimyo Mansion could no longer meet the needs of the Weihui Mansion. There are too many shipments in Weihui Mansion, and with such a small number of ships a day, the rivers of Weihui Mansion will soon be filled with ships.

Guo Dan and Li Tong adjusted the transportation plan and decided to attack from all sides.

In addition to going to the Daimyo's Mansion, a lot of goods were arranged to go to Hema and Kaifeng.

For this reason, Guo Dan also called all the horses, mules, and donkeys in Weihui's mansion.

Fortunately, the trade with the Mongols over the years has yielded a lot of horses, which is enough to cope with the current situation.

However, Guo Dan's recent move really surprised everyone.

I saw that in a vacant lot in the center of the city, there were many workers busy, and there were many stones and timber piled up on the side.

This immediately attracted a lot of onlookers.

"Whose family is going to build a workshop?"

"What kind of workshop, have you forgotten that there are no more workshops in the city, and you can only rent other people's houses if you want to buy and sell."

"That's... So what is this doing? ”

"This is a bell tower built by Guo Dan in cooperation with the priest of Nafrang."

"The Clock Tower? What is it? ”

"It seems to be used for timekeeping."

"There are timers in the workshop!"

.....．

"How much money has Guo Dan made in recent years?"

Rao is Zhou Feng also didn't understand this.

Cao Da also wondered: "Yes! They just took out a million taels over there, and they want to build this dispensable bell tower here, which really doesn't look like they are short of money! ”

Qin Zhuang smiled: "This is a good thing for us, this proves that Guo Dan did not lie to us, and we don't have to worry about his money at all." ”

"That being said, but... Hehe... We are all blind and worried about feelings. ”

The merchants all shook their heads with wry smiles.

Before, they were more or less worried about Guo Dan, but they didn't expect that Guo Dan was still in the mood to do these things, and if they wanted to worry about Guo Dan, it would be really lacking in heart.

However, what they didn't expect was that at this time, Guo Dan was sitting in the teahouse on the side with two beauties, watching them.

"Hehe.....!"

Guo Dan held a cup of tea and said to Aunt Xu with interest: "Layman, believe it or not, those guys are definitely not saying good things about me." ”

Aunt Xu smiled: "Maybe I have the same idea as them." ”

"But the layman's concerns are by no means self-inflicted."

Guo Dan's expression changed, and he said seriously: "The reason why I can sit here and drink tea with the laymen now is because the real battlefield is not here, but in the lower Jiangnan, and what can affect Weihui Mansion is actually not the capital, but the Jiangnan region, so we have to go to Jiangnan for a walk." ”

Aunt Xu nodded slightly, why did the new tariff make Weihui Mansion face a huge crisis for a while, it was because of the sudden loss of the Jiangnan market, there were still a large number of goods transported to the capital at that time, but it was very difficult to go to Jiangnan, because Jiangnan was fertile with water and grass, and there were enough materials, basically everything had to face high tariffs in the past, and asked, "When do you plan to go?" ”

"Set off in two days, this raptor will cross the river after all."

"So fast?"

Aunt Xu was slightly surprised, "Then what should I do here?" ”

With such a large subsidy plan, which has just begun to be implemented, you are actually leaving, how much experience do you have?

Guo smiled lightly: "I have spent so much money here, if I want to get up early every day and be greedy for darkness, then what is the point of me spending so much money?" You see, I've been so idle lately, and I'm going to stay here for fear that it will give them the illusion that the crisis is over. ”

"That's just as well."

Aunt Xu nodded helplessly.

She didn't even understand where Guo Dan's confidence came from, and Wanli didn't have so much money for him to squander.

Guo Dan suddenly asked: "Can lay people know about the officialdom in Nanjing?" ”

"Nanjing......!"

Aunt Xu suddenly asked, "Aren't you from Nanjing?" ”

"Uh...?"

Guo Dan blinked, yes, I am from Nanjing, I am not a raptor crossing the river, I am returning to my hometown, this slogan can't be shouted wrong. His face did not change and he said, "Do you think I would have paid attention to those things before?" Even if you pay attention, it's only a little bit of a scratch about it. ”

Aunt Xu pondered for a while, and still explained the situation in Nanjing to Guo Dan.

Although Nanjing is the most accompanying capital, but in fact, its officialdom atmosphere is not so strong, far less than the capital, this is because the officials of the six departments of Nanjing, there is not much power, and most of them are retired, they are old, they have no ambition, compared to dealing with government affairs, they are more willing to place their affection on the landscape.

Once the government lacks control, the people will naturally be freer, and the power of the people will naturally be stronger.

That's bound to get more complicated.

In terms of ideology, Confucianism is divided into the school of heart and the school of practice, as well as the school of etiquette.

There are many factions in this.

In terms of class, there is the bureaucratic class, the scholar class, and the industrial and commercial class.

These forces are all intertwined,

Many of the officials came from merchant families, and many scholars and doctors were also merchants.

It is very complicated, unlike the capital, where the control is very strict, the imperial court is always the center, and the struggle comes from within the imperial court, and it has little to do with the people.

"Hearing you say that, I want to go there early, let's leave the day after tomorrow." Guo said with a smile.

Although he said it very relaxedly, he was not joking, early the day after tomorrow, before dawn, he secretly took a carriage with Aunt Xu and Yang Feixu to Jiangnan.

If it weren't for Aunt Xu's reminder, he wouldn't have realized that this was his first time back to his hometown.

Now the whole Weihui Mansion is so busy that no one pays attention to his departure at all.

As long as the money is in place.