After bidding farewell to the richest man Zheng Zhilong and his elder brother Zheng Sen, the light breeze and drizzle in Nanjing City almost stopped. Zhu Cihong rode a horse with the little beauty Zheng Chagu, and under the layers of guards, he walked on the horse road of Yifengmen Wengcheng to the city wall of Nanjing's inner city, and then walked along the city wall to the Taiping Gate.

The reason why we have to go from the city wall is because the western part of Nanjing City was too prosperous and lively in this era, and the population actually living there had already exceeded one million, and all industries were prosperous, industry and commerce were developed, and all kinds of businesses were opened on both sides of the streets and alleys, so it was very difficult to be vigilant. And Zhu Cihong also did a lot of things to offend the Jiangnan gentry, for fear that someone would harm him, and he didn't want to fight on the street that was too lively, so he simply walked from the Nanjing city wall. Fortunately, the city wall of Nanjing is also wide enough, and there is no problem in running horses on it.

When he was riding a horse on the city wall, because there were prince's guards leading his horse, he didn't need to look at the road, but condescendingly observed this big city of his own. It's already afternoon, and the golden sunlight is shining from the sky, covering the bustling city with a golden veil, giving people a feeling of gold everywhere.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this feeling, Nanjing City is indeed full of gold!

Under Zhu Cihong's nose, this city is naturally the most powerful to control. Soon after the Spring Tournament, under the auspices of the first assistant Wei Zaode and the newly appointed Ying Tianfu Yin Songquan (the former Shangshu of the Criminal Department), it became the first city to strictly levy commercial taxes!

The city's commercial tax is divided into four categories: tax, housing tax, liquor tax, and ship tax. Among them, the tax is to set up a tax card at the water and land gates of Nanjing City, and collect taxes on the vendors who come and go. The residential tax was levied on the shops and workshops in Nanjing. The liquor tax is a monopoly tax, following the method of the Song Dynasty, and the right to sell liquor was granted to 38 liquor stores, known as 38 Zhengdian. The boat tax is a tax on the painting boats in Nanjing, most of these boats belong to the Qinhuai fireworks home, and a boat trip can earn a year's income from the small people, and it is nothing to draw some taxes.

The four categories of commercial taxes are added to one piece, and the monthly income is seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver! Half of it was handed over to the household department, and half was spent by Ying Tianfu himself.

So now Ying Tianfu has nearly 40,000 taels of silver a month to spend on the commercial tax, up and down the days are quite moist, the original small officials who were not in the stream, now they are also busy with a few taels of silver a month......

Of course, the "commercial tax" of 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver a month was not only not a burden for the merchants who made a living in Nanjing, but they were very willing to pay.

Because in the era of "no tax", the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Nanjing also had to take money to pay filial piety, and the money spent was more than the payment of business taxes!

Although he has paid the commercial tax now, Zhu Cihong has kept a close eye on it, and transferred the notorious Yangzhou cool official Ji Kun to be the supervisor of the imperial history of Yingtianfu, and also let the newly appointed Wailang Huang Zongxi, the official of the Ministry of Officials, take charge of the last position of the officials of Yingtianfu......

In short, in today's Yingtianfu, the one who hates Zhu Cihong the most, oh, should hate the treacherous minister Wei Zaode the most, is a group of low-level officials who are "boring officials" - the bad guy who presided over the "Chongzhen New Deal" is Wei Zaode, he is now recognized as a traitor, and every day there are recitals to impeach him from Shandong, Huguang, Liangguang, and Fujian, which Zhu Cihong cannot fully control for the time being, to Nanjing!

However, the traitor is not afraid of impeachment, as long as Zhu Cihong, who supports him, does not call him a small child, his phase will be as stable as Mount Tai.

When Zhu Cihong, who was living more and more carefully, came down from the horse road of Taipingmen, Taipingmen was already under complete martial law. This gate is located on the north side of the imperial city, and ordinary people do not come, and there is no trade. Entering the city gate and turning a corner is Bei'anmen Street, both sides of Bei'anmen Avenue were originally very cold, there are no buildings, desolate and desolate, now it is a little lively, there are a lot of construction sites, one after another, from the vicinity of the Taiping Gate to the outside of Bei'anmen, all of them are the gifts of senior officers in the new army.

When Zhu Cihong rode his horse to the vicinity of Bei'anmen, he suddenly faintly heard a crackling sound, and he frowned: "This is the new army outside the city shooting targets?" ”

"Chitose, this is the sound of firecrackers." It was still Zheng Chagu who heard it clearly, "It came from inside Bei'anmen." ”

"Bei'anmen Inner ......" Zhu Cihong thought for a while, "Who is doing a happy event in the guard camp?" ”

Inside Bei'anmen is the barracks of the left and right Yulinwei, and the left and right Yulinwei are long gone, and the barracks are also returned to the guard camp.

The officers and men of Zhu Cihong's guard battalion were rotated, and they were all veterans drawn from the new army. Naturally, all the fields were divided around Nanjing, and they also divided the homestead land and built a house in the east of Nanjing.

After having a house and land, of course, you have to marry a wife and have children.

Therefore, during this time, there were often people in the barracks area of the guard camp who set off firecrackers to distribute fruits, and Zhu Cihong gave a red envelope of eighteen taels of silver to others every time to buy people's hearts.

But today he doesn't remember sending red envelopes, did he forget?

Qin Mingtao, the new foreman guard, immediately stepped forward and replied, "Master Chitose, there is no happy event in the guard camp today. ”

"Then this firecracker ......" Zhu Cihong said this, and he had already seen Huang Xiaobao trotting out of Bei'anmen.

"Chitose Lord, the slave maid has congratulated you." Huang Xiaobao said "Dao Xi" in his mouth, but there was no joy on his face, but a sad face.

What is your expression...... Zhu Cihong was stunned, "What kind of happy event?" ”

"You've got an extra brother......"

"There is one more brother...... Zhu Cihong also frowned, it is indeed ...... What a happy event! I have an extra brother, and Emperor Chongzhen has an extra son, how festive! There are successors to the Ming Dynasty!

"Who gave birth?" Zhu Cihong asked again.

"It's Wei Xuan's waiter!"

The big belly of Emperor Chongzhen's harem is not only Wei Qinghui, but also Wu Wanrong is almost due to give birth, and several Shandong girls are also pregnant.

In a short time, Zhu Cihong will have a bunch of younger siblings...... The younger brothers will have to help him start a family in the future, and they will have to give them a share of glory and wealth! And the dowry of the sisters has to be his brother!

Emperor Chongzhen is in charge of birth, no, he is not born by him, he is responsible for the seeding! The money spent in the future is all Zhu Cihong's...... It's really irresponsible!

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"Hahaha...... Brother Chun, you came just in time, come on, look at your brother, you are Brother Dachun, he is Brother Xiaochun, look at how handsome he looks, much better looking than when you were a child......"

Since he was seized power by his son, Emperor Chongzhen has never been as happy as he is today, not because he has a son, but because he won Zhu Cihong once on the issue of giving birth to a son! No, not just once, he can continue to win. Because he has more wives than Zhu Cihong and has more big bellies, the probability of having a son is also high!

He is the emperor, and the sons born are all princes, even if he does not seal it outside, the city of Nanjing has to be given a palace, and he has to give him a fortune and a land. Therefore, for every son born, a rebel son has to break a fortune. If the rebel son cannot give birth to a son, then one of his younger brothers may inherit the throne in the future...... It's fun to think about!

Chongzhen was happy, Zhu Cihong was of course even more "happy", smiled and took his brother from Chongzhen's hands, held him in his arms, the little guy closed his eyes and was sleeping. Zhu Cihong took a closer look and found that he didn't look good at all, the color was not right, he was red, and he was very fat...... I don't know if I will be as fat as King Fu in the future? By the way, King Fu has no son, why don't you pass this child on to King Fu? In the future, someone can also give Fat Fuwang a pension to the end. Well, that's it!

Chongzhen looked at Zhu Cihong with a stiff smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Brother Chun, you have to hurry up a little too...... Don't always stare at Wu Sanmei, Ning Xiangyu, Fei Zhen'e, and Zheng Chagu are all rare beauties! ”