Seeing Fa Zheng's resolute gaze, Yuan Shu smiled: "Okay, I'm waiting for the day when you can be on your own!" ”

Zhang Liao of Yuzhang County served as the Taishou, Fa Zheng served as the chief historian, and with 20,000 elite soldiers, Yuan Shu felt that it was basically foolproof.

Now that the two southern counties are stable for the time being, Yuan Shu focuses on the upcoming merchants.

Two months ago, Yuan Shu handed over the perfume and mirror business to the Zhen family, and made a lot of profits. By the way, Yuan Shu asked the Zhen family to spread the news that he had other profiteering things like perfume that needed to be sold by others, and said that he would sell these things in Jinling in two months.

The deadline was two days later, and Yuan Shu planned to go to Jinling to preside over it in person.

On the one hand, see the merchants of the world, and on the other hand, take a look at the current Jinling City.

It has been many months since Yuan Shu re-regulated the commercial tax, not only abolished many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but also due to the current situation in Jiangdong, Yuan Shu only levies transaction tax for the time being, thus attracting a large number of businessmen to come to Jiangdong.

You must know that trading in other places not only requires all kinds of tariffs, but also may not be able to sell them, not to mention, and it is easy to be snatched by some local snakes, and eventually lose all your money.

Because of Tian Feng's iron-faced selflessness and the existence of the procuratorate under Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu's family gentry and officials here do not dare to do evil, and the atmosphere is very good.

In addition, Yuan Shu also attached great importance to merchants, not only reducing commercial taxes, but also using the law to protect the basic interests of merchants. Therefore, most of the merchants are willing to come to Koto to do business.

Even the surrounding Jingzhou and Yuzhou have benefited a lot.

In the last month alone, Yuan Shu received 3 million yuan in taxes, which was three or four times higher than the previous annual tax in Yangzhou. When this data came out, Tian Feng was shocked.

Moreover, now that the monthly tax is still growing geometrically, Tian Feng and the others can now be said to be completely convinced of Yuan Shu's decision.

Some families in nearby Jingzhou and Yuzhou were all red-eyed when they saw the current prosperity in Yangzhou, and they wanted to get a piece of the pie.

However, due to Yuan Shu's strength, they were never able to enter Yangzhou and could not succeed, so they could only grit their teeth and secretly make some small moves to hinder the merchants from going to Yangzhou.

It wasn't that the Taishou and Assassin Shi in other places hadn't thought of doing it like Yuan Shu, but they gave up as soon as this idea appeared in their minds.

Because the Maison would not agree, this kind of policy is obviously to improve the interests of merchants at the expense of the Maison, so as to attract merchants to come and raise taxes.

These people are not as strong as Yuan Shu, and they can suppress all the families under their command. Their rule was based on the family, and although they saw the benefits of this policy, they were never able to implement it.

However, although these families were all secretly preventing merchants from going to Yangzhou, they still couldn't stop the merchants' desire for profit.

Since there are more and more merchants in Yangzhou now, it can be said that as long as things are transported to Yangzhou, they can be sold, and because of the small tax revenue, the profits are much more than usual.

This kind of sure-the-money business is a constant trend for every businessman. Even though there are countless checkpoints to intercept, the major businessmen still come up with a lot of ways to bring goods into Yangzhou. Yuan Shu also secretly supported many smuggling ship dealers to do business with these people.

In addition to bringing more taxes, the increase in merchants also brought two benefits to Yuan Shu.

First, the purchase of grain, war horses and other materials.

Yuan Shu has been secretly buying grain and war horses at a high price, after all, the troubled times will come in a year, and there is no harm in hoarding more war materials.

Taking advantage of the fact that the price of grain is not high now, and the war horses have not been monopolized by the warlords on the frontier, Yuan Shu plans to buy more. After all, he is a man who wants to dominate the world, and he doesn't just want to divide one side like the historical Soochow.

Second, it is another big plan of Yuan Shu, Qian Zhuang.

Due to the guarantee of the Yangzhou government as a guarantee for the Yangzhou money village opened by Yuan Shu, some merchants at the beginning exchanged a large amount of five-baht money for silver tickets when they entered Jiangdong in order to facilitate transactions within Yangzhou.

These silver stamps were made by the craftsmen under Yuan Shu's command after continuous experimentation according to the suggestions provided by Yuan Shu with concave and convex marks and security marks.

In addition, the code is printed on the silver ticket, and the one-to-one correspondence record between the large amount of silver ticket and the owner of the silver ticket, Yuan Shu personally verified that this kind of silver ticket can be used for at least several decades.

Merchants who come to Yangzhou exchange the huge amount of copper coins that are easy to carry for silver tickets, so that it is convenient to trade within Yangzhou, and it is relatively safer, and they don't have to worry about robbery or theft by bandits.

Therefore, the businessmen who came to Yangzhou to do business were happy to keep their money in the money bank and wear it as a silver ticket.

Of course, they were also very cautious, and when the transaction was almost complete and they left Koto, they exchanged all the silver tickets for money and took them away.

After all, no one knows if Yangzhou Qianzhuang has really been reliable, and the strength of Yuan Shu and the stability of Yangzhou in a short period of time can still make Qianzhuang more credible, but what if Yuan Shu collapses or something else goes wrong, what if he hacks his own money?

Therefore, these people only regarded Yangzhou Qianzhuang as a temporary transit station, and only a small number of bold or other businessmen had other hidden secrets to store part of their wealth in Qianzhuang for a long time.

However, Yuan Shu was already very satisfied with this, as long as these merchants accepted the existence of Qian Zhuang with full satisfaction.

Now that their strength is weak, it is natural for them to be worried, and when they become strong enough, they will no longer be so cringe-back, and then it will be time for their money bank to be completely formed.

The arrival of merchants concentrated the resources of the entire Han Dynasty in Yangzhou, raised local taxes, enriched the people, and supported the money estate.

There are so many benefits that I can't count the light and dark Yuan Shu.

Therefore, Tian Feng and others admired Yuan Shu's decision to reduce commercial taxes so much.

Because in this era, few people face up to businessmen, let alone see the great power of businessmen.

However, no matter how powerful a merchant is, if he doesn't have basic materials, he is just rootless.

In this era of scarcity, Yuan Shu still focused on agriculture, handicrafts, and animal husbandry, which could create materials.

What Yuan Shu is doing now is to use merchants to absorb the wealth of the entire Han Dynasty to cultivate Yangzhou.

Only when Yuan Shu raises Yangzhou enough fat, can businessmen have a greater role and more benefits.

Again, a virtuous circle is formed.

Merchants absorb the wealth of the Han Dynasty, and the wealth is used to build Yangzhou, and the strength of Yangzhou brings the prosperity of the people and the prosperity of agriculture and handicrafts, thereby bringing more material base, and the existence of the material base has strengthened the merchants again.

Now Yuan Shu has spent a lot of effort to make Yangzhou the best environment, an environment that is enough to support this cycle above.