"It's not that I don't have any money."

Peng Wenzheng and Cao Juren's family has a lot of real estate, and it is not even in the book, that is, more than half of the fields that are not in the official record are actually more than half, which is also normal.

The deeper you dig, the more shocking it is, if you only follow the data obtained after extorting confessions under torture, only one county in Jiangyin, sheltered in various big clans, and the fields that do not have to pay taxes have reached one-third, you know, Jiangyin itself still has a lot of official fields, and naturally no one in the official fields to help avoid taxes.

In other words, a lot of government expenses are all on the heads of those who can't find a way to evade taxes.

At the same time, the number of artisans fleeing in this city is also quite large, Zhu Yuanzhang's original idea is very good, these jobs are all done from generation to generation, to protect my old Zhu family's country, the military household does not take money, so he uses his life to be a soldier to defend my Ming Dynasty, the artisan does not take money, but also to work in rotation in the imperial capital, the peasants sound good, but in practice it is the worst.

A very simple corollary, if Jiangnan is really governed smoothly, then where did so many pirates come from?

False prosperity.

The prosperity based on the massive amount of silver overseas was basically a mass labor force for the Ming Dynasty, driven by the ruling group to grow mulberry and weave silk, and finally nothing was exchanged overseas.

What does this cause?

According to the principle of economics, it is the pain of inflation, and part of the productive forces that should be produced and consumed by the Chinese, the grain that could have been produced, turned into silk, and traded for a pile of silver.

And the final fate of this silver is often the pit of the rich and the rich.

In the end, after thousands of years of silver-producing countries, after successive foreign compensations, unrestricted customs, and the traitorous Guo Party, and finally, all the gold and silver were transported to a certain island, China actually fell into a situation where there was no currency supported by precious metals, and only grain was pegged to the currency.

In fact, this is also very simple, Zhu Yuanzhang's model, but I never imagined that there would be a group of foreign businessmen outside to make trouble.

Part of the original grain has become the silk on the foreign people, and the grain has become less and the population has increased, so the rise in food prices has become inevitable.

Of course, according to the original rules of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the grain transportation in the south was nothing, but at this critical moment, the main forces that should have paid taxes began to refuse to give money, the reason is very simple, the power that originally suppressed them was finished.

As far as China is concerned, the three most worthy of investment are naturally the North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, and the Pearl River Plain.

It is not necessary to be competent and good at business to become a competent leader. Like some people, he climbs ladders very fast, but often builds the wrong wall.

Similarly, a very important task of the Guangdong Plain, which can feed a population of more than 100 million, is actually to use the geographical advantage to gather the resources of the entire Southeast Asia and integrate them internally.

In the future, it will be difficult for the elders to open any large-scale factories in Southeast Asia, so the best choice for this kind of exchange and distribution center is naturally Guangdong as the core.

This is almost a perfect colonial model, in later generations, the colonial system with the British as the core, when the colonies just became independent, all fell into a period of chaos, the fundamental reason is that under the deliberate operation of the British, they are all countries based on the export of raw materials or a single industrial chain.

Once you become independent, you will naturally be in chaos.

Of course, it was just labor pains.

The infiltration of Guangdong is a little bit, at least in the case of the civil war in Vietnam, a large number of materials were transported to the battlefields of both sides of the civil war, and even the same businessman received the "tragedy" of purchasing personnel from both sides at one time.

This civil war was later called the Zheng Zhun Uprising, and the business brought to Guangdong was also called Zheng Zhun Boom, anyway, there were all the coal mines in Vietnam, iron ore and gold mines as collateral, and the elders spent money generously enough, and the money was naturally spent on the blade.

An old Chinese sand boat, this kind of ship because of the large flat bottom, is often not suitable for the sea with high wind and waves, or is too old is not suitable, but the draft of this ship is not deep, the skill of operating the sails is good, and gradually sailed into Guangzhou Bay, here is the busiest time of the year, countless sea ships in and out, and the most spacious channel in the middle, naturally those big merchant ships are walking, those big ships are often hanging many colorful flags, and many ships, there is a "Zheng" word flag.

The owner of the ship was blackened, he looked at the black flag viciously, knowing that the flag was sold by Zheng Zhilong, the sea hero, ranging from 1,000 taels to several thousand taels, especially after the change of dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong was still alive and kicking, not only that, but also connected to the high branches of the imperial capital, his ship could run from the Bohai Bay to the vast sea area of the seas of Southeast Asia, although this monopoly behavior has been severely warned, and it is no longer possible to monopolize Japanese trade, but the sea power has not fallen but risen, and the root cause is to continue to curry favor with the benefits brought by the imperial capital.

In history, Zheng Zhilong was killed after being trapped, although the reason behind it is also a two-sided bet, and he was killed after being promised by my Qing Dynasty, but this person is by no means a person who can fight for the world, according to the elders, it is just that it can be eaten at any time when it is cold.

At least Zheng Zhilong is here, and all the pirates along the coast of China have been exterminated, the reason is very simple, after entering the customs, I in the Qing Dynasty naturally do not need to build the Great Wall, relying on smashing and grabbing land as a handler, and the first blow is other people who want to rely on smashing to be a handle.

According to the black man's knowledge, this kind of Zheng character black flag will stop selling next year, and it will be replaced by a new type of Chinese black flag for tax payment, of course, he can hear this, and it is also because others told him, but why, Zheng Zhilong retreated here, it is also very simple.

The elder's version of the Great White Fleet, starting from afar, crossed the Taiwan Strait, and after staying in the waters of Guangdong for a period of time, it headed towards Vietnam, the speed of this fleet, as well as the power of the cannon, although it was under the banner of friendship, but it greatly shocked Zheng Zhilong, although the imperial capital kept saying that it could be sold to his ship, but the conditions proposed were not low, and one of them was that the ship passage standard.

In later generations, the shipyards of the British Empire were basically finished, and shipbuilding orders were basically monopolized by China and South Korea, but all kinds of technical documents, and even trial laws, followed British laws and British standards, and for this alone, countless money was lost, for the simple reason that Britain colonized the whole world, and its maritime laws were also exported to the world, and although those colonial countries were independent, they basically continued the laws of the past.

The pirate group in this era is a bit similar to the joint-stock system in later generations, how many people make a boat, how many ships are mixed, and everyone makes money together, and Zheng Zhilong is the biggest pirate leader among them.

Thinking of the sea-like money flowing outside, and the purpose of his trip, the man in black was even more angry.

The sea water in summer, the steaming water vapor makes everyone's body wet, but fortunately, they eat this meal all year round, and this little thing can still be endured.

It took a lot of time for the sand boat to dock, and the sun was about to set, which made the man even more dissatisfied, he kept urging, anchored, tied, and lowered the sails, and waited until the toss was over, and after it was counted, there were still people waiting under the slipway.

"Xiaguan, Zhang Cizhong, the director of Guangdong Kneel Yue, has seen my lord."

A flattering civil official kowtowed in front of him, the man walked over and accepted the kneeling salute, but his face was even more unsightly, and he suddenly kicked Zhang Cizhong to the ground and said: "Fuck, grandpa I have been waiting for so long, why don't you empty the dock for me, I don't know if I should be allowed to dock." ”

Zhang Cizhong slammed on the ground and said, "The grandfather of Vietnam is angry, he is really a little incompetent." ”

The black-skinned man watched Zhang Cizhong get up with a hippie smile again, wiped his shoes with his official clothes, and said, don't kick me, the little one will dirty grandpa's shoes again...... also laughed and scolded slightly: "Grandma, if you don't serve grandpa well, Lao Tzu will let Vietnam be incorporated into China, and let you kneel and do it directly, I'm afraid." ”

"The little ones obey the adults."

"How much military money have you prepared, and where is the New Year's currency that we are waiting for, the front-line army is asking for money, but there are people in Guangdong who dare to send military funds to Zheng Zhun's rebels, what are you going to eat."

"My lord, I really tried to find a way to do it, and I arrested a lot of people, but as soon as the boat left the coast, where did it go, I really can't control it."

Zheng Wenhao said angrily: "You won't follow every ship, tell you, the reason why you kneel and go to the Yue Office can exist, and you can also receive a large amount of money every year, where you go, directly requisition materials, just one sentence for the reunification of Vietnam, is because our Vietnam has not been reunified, once it is reunified, then your days of glory and wealth will be over!" ”

Zhang Cizhong shuddered, this is obviously the biggest nightmare of these kneeling Yue office officials, rabbits and dead dogs cook, birds are hidden, the work that could have called the wind and rain, and the scenery is infinite, once Vietnam is really included in the mainland, then how to cancel the kneeling Yue office This unit.

It turned out that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was natural to take Vietnam, the old land hundreds of years ago, but the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty was still the former threat to Mongolia, so for Vietnam, it was still ready to deal with the northern enemy first.

But this Huairou, that is, to give the Vietnamese some preferential treatment to the Ming Dynasty, but the preferential treatment is bad.

Some Vietnamese killed people in the Ming Dynasty and ran back directly, and the Vietnamese government naturally refused to cooperate with the arrest of the Ming Dynasty, and afterwards triumphantly, claiming that this was the victory of Vietnam's judiciary, and if it is unified, you will not have the opportunity to commit crimes and rape Ming women at will.

At the same time, some places in Vietnam have also become the front-line base for defrauding the Ming Dynasty, a large number of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, their lives are simple, and they say the same, how can there be Vietnamese people who are incorruptible and shameless, and are proud of defrauding people of money? With the education of the Yue (tai) people, what they received from the primary school teacher was that it was natural to deceive, kill, and rape the Ming people.

In order to help them, the Daming government wants to set up a Vietnam office to help Vietnamese people live and work in Daming, which is a good intention.

But the Vietnamese said strange things, you see, there are so many benefits if there is no reunification, but there is nothing left after reunification, so you must oppose them, the more you oppose them, the more they will give you money! So, kill me with me.

At the same time, because of the huge power, the kneeling and Yueban department is not only all over the territory of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the central government of the imperial capital, or the provincial kneeling and Yueban, which is directly under the governor's yamen, and the kneeling and Yueban, which is subordinate to the prefect.

So, the rent-seeking of power began, and at the beginning, it was still some scum of the Ming Dynasty, pretending to be Vietnamese, and reaping all kinds of welfare benefits, and kneeling down to do it yourself is also a lot of benefits.

Do you remember the banker's son's question, Dad, we open a bank, and the money is all from other people, so how to make money.

The banker ordered his son to go to the refrigerator and take out a piece of fat, and then put it back again.

Although Zheng Wenhao was dissatisfied, but still swaggered to the arranged accommodation, his trip was naturally to ask, why the Celestial Empire suddenly interfered in their own internal affairs, due to the start of the war, the Hanoi side felt more and more difficult, and the two sides are difficult to have any secrets with each other, the material support from Guangdong, even food and weapons support is also red fruit, at least the emperor will not transport cold weapons or all kinds of iron weapons over, these are all purchased in Guangdong.

As the Ming Dynasty resisted to the end, the corpses of the slaughtered city were piled up out of a large city, at this time Guangzhou was much more happy and peaceful, the reason is very simple, in the past few years, because of the weakening of European demand, resulting in the reduction of foreign trade quotas, with the construction of Tianjin Port, although the maritime trade route is also groping, but a little bit of the beginning, many people who benefited from the presbytery in the early stage and went to wealth, as a real basic plate, were inspired to start such trade.

There are many kinds of things transported from the north, but the real benefit is that the local production of Guangdong has a place of consumption, such as the inkstone of Duanxi, the stone of Yingde, the iron wood, rosewood, and red sandalwood of western Guangdong, and the pottery, ironware, bronze, and pewter with various patterns, and even various decorations of the handicraft industry, and finally have a place to buy.