Chongzhen's original intention was to be a gentleman who loved the people like a son, which was really good. But what are the prerequisites for wanting to be a Mingjun? The answer is that you have to be rich and powerful. In order to achieve this goal, all the means are not important, so Chongzhen does not mind becoming a big tyrant first.

Just like some dynamic groups in Hong Kong in later generations, when you are the boss, you are all poor, and you still expect a younger brother to mix with you? Isn't it just a picture of returning to the hometown and honoring the ancestors? If you want to achieve these two things, don't you still have to have money in the final analysis?

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen is now very eager to get money. In order to get a big basic plate for himself, the front foot blew out the that will never be endowed, as the Son of Heaven, the teeth must be able to be used as gold, and it must not be able to take back the fate, so there is no hope for this endowment - even if he counts, in fact, the common people at the end of the Ming Dynasty are too poor to open the pot, and they can't collect a few big sons - if they can live, who is willing to risk losing their heads to rebel?

Therefore, after thinking of the practices of some dynamic groups in later generations, Emperor Chongzhen decided to learn about it, first set up a chengguan yamen with Jinyiwei and assigned it to Dongchang, and then began to collect protection fees, booth fees, urban health management fees, etc. for all merchants in the capital......

Our Emperor Chongzhen, who has crossed over, thinks of the master who will do it as soon as he comes out, thinking that he is also a newcomer, and he is not familiar with these people in Jinyiwei and the East and West Factory at all, so let's just let Cao Huachun and Wei Zhongxian do it, anyway, no matter which film and television drama they are in, these two guys are not good things, their reputation is already stinky, and no matter how stinky it is, it is like that, which is called not itching if there are more lice, and not worrying if there are more debts.

After summoning Cao Huachun, Emperor Chongzhen immediately instructed Cao Huachun face-to-face: "There is a shop in the capital, so let's find out their income first, and give me a layer and a half every month as a protection fee, which is called a booth fee, urban health management fee, and public security fee." Half of the floor was left for the Chengguan Yamen, and the first floor was handed over to my inner treasury. It doesn't matter whose business it is, what kind of prince of the country's marquis, you can't be soft when you should collect it, if you collect less, I can't spare you. ”

"One merchant counts as one, especially those of the foreign tribes of Fanbang. In this way, all Han people will receive one and a half layers of profit, if they are Fanbang or non-Han merchants, one will be counted as one, and all will receive two and a half layers! Half of the floor is reserved for the urban management yamen, and the rest is escorted into the inner guard. ”

Cao Huachun was also stunned, didn't this emperor believe in the Donglin Party? Why is this less like a personal thing than Wei Zhongxian's things? Immediately asked: "Emperor, if it is the ...... of the Guozhang family?"

"You don't care who he is, if he doesn't pay, he will be smashed by me, be sure to let him pay honestly! Whether it's the prince or the prince, I don't care about it, as long as I see the silver and can't collect it, I will take your dog's head first! As soon as Chongzhen talked about collecting money, he immediately became murderous, especially when he heard Guozhang, he was even more angry.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen did not let go of his father-in-law was not because he set an example or treated everyone equally, but because he had a great opinion on his father-in-law! After all, the original "Renjun" Emperor Chongzhen, who believed in the evil set of the Donglin Party in history, saw that he was about to finish the game, so he wanted to find the old man to borrow some silver to deal with the emergency, so that he could transfer the Guan Ning army into the king of Jingqin, but the old man cried poor, and finally took out 13,000 taels like a person who asked for food, and sent Chongzhen away! Later, after the army entered Beijing, how much did it get out of this Zhou Guozhang? That's 530,000 taels of silver! Other treasures have pulled dozens of carts! No matter how you look at this matter, Zhou Guozhang is unkind first, in this case, can this Chongzhen not look at his father-in-law differently? You have to scrape the skin off the old thing!

"You listen to me, what I want is a layer and a half of their profits, and you are not allowed to collect more, but you can't take less. Even if there is more or less of a big son, it will not work! If you encounter someone who doesn't pay, let Jinyiwei or your own fan, go to me every day to beat, smash, and make trouble, so that they can't do business! As for those who have paid the money, no one is allowed to harass them anymore, and if there are green skins to make trouble, even if they break their dogs' legs, they will be thrown to the Huangzhuang to work as coolies! At the beginning of each month, send me some money into the treasury! Speaking of silver, Chongzhen's eyes began to glow green.

"Your Majesty, if you do it like this, will someone impeach your subordinates and compete with the people for profit?" Cao Huachun is still worried.

As soon as he heard Cao Huachun's words, Chongzhen immediately reprimanded angrily: "Bastard! You old thing, have you been messing around with those people in the Donglin Party for a long time? Competing with the people? With which people do you compete for profit? I just announced today that I will never give more, why do I compete with the people for profit? With those merchants? Didn't the princes of the court say that they should value agriculture over business? Never add to it is the best heavy farming! In the same way, collecting protection fees from these lawless businessmen is also the best light business! Those who have backers do not pay taxes, and those who do not have backers will be exploited by Qingpi, and in the future, the merchants of this capital will be exploited by me, and they will be much happier than being exploited by Qingpi! Remember, you are my house slave, not the house slave of the Donglin Party! "The naked declaration of exploitation, the vicious tone, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like what a saint should do, right?

"Also, if someone impeaches me, let Dongchang and Jinyiwei join forces to investigate! Look at this kind of adult who is actually "mercantil" and wants to ask for the life of the "people", how much money he has, and how many people he has in those restaurants and green buildings! If corruption comes, first give him to me to raid the house, and then peel the skin, solid grass! Don't they like the ancestral system, so they use the ancestral system of Emperor Taizu Hongwu to fulfill them! When will this Ming still lack people who want to be officials? It's a big deal to open Enke next year, just recruit more people! ”

When Cao Huachun retreated, Chongzhen began to instruct Wei Zhongxian again: "The tax supervisors in various places can't stop!" Keep the taxes up for me! Whoever is against it, go and check! There is also a salt tax, and those illegal salt merchants must also be investigated, and they must be well checked! Let the people of Dongchang work hard to put the salt tax on me! Whoever dares to sell smuggled salt or evade taxes and evade taxes will be killed, and those who should be raided will be killed, and they will not be allowed to kill mistakes, let alone let go! If the people sell their own food, turn a blind eye! In short, it is a sentence, to make it convenient for the common people and to make trouble for those local tyrants and inferior gentry! However, no matter what the tax is, if you dare to receive the mud legs, you can also cut it yourself! ”

After the fire was over, Chongzhen remembered something again, and said to Wei Zhongxian: "Catch up with Ming'er, give me your nine-thousand-year-old title!" Let people tear down your ancestral halls and replace them with silver money, and you don't need to send them in, you just take this money and recruit people, and in the future, the manpower of the East Factory will no longer be drawn from Jinyiwei, and it will be self-contained, understand? ”

"The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost. The way of man is to lose more than enough. I am walking in the way of heaven! Emperor Chongzhen, who drove away Cao Huachun and Wei Zhongxian, began to babble again: "I really love the people like a son......"