Yun Xi hurried back, rested in the bedroom for a while, changed clothes, and went to the study to meet Xia Yuanji and Hu Guang, who were already waiting here. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Yun Xi saw them, he said without waiting for them to salute: "In private, there are only three of us monarchs and ministers, so there is no need to be polite." The merchants in Hangzhou have already been contacted? ”

"Your Majesty, several major merchants in Hangzhou City have already been contacted. Merchants in Hangzhou, such as the Shen family, who deal in silk, the Lu family, who deal in tea, and the Zhou family, who deal in embroidery, have all been contacted by merchants in Hangzhou's 'high-value' industries. All of them have agreed to relocate their industries to the park after the park is officially established. Natsuhara said.

"That's good, I've already told you about the rest of the arrangements, and there are no other points, just follow them. There is just one thing to pay attention to, don't be hasty and rash, don't be greedy for merit, and don't rely on the government to force merchants. Yun Xi instructed again.

Xia Yuanji and Hu Guang agreed.

Yun Xi told them a few more words and said to them, "Do you have anything else? ”

The meaning of Yun Xi's words is very clear, that is, let them take the initiative to say goodbye, similar to the meaning of 'play early if there is something to do, and retreat from the court if there is nothing', but it is just a polite sentence.

But today some people take this polite sentence seriously. Xia Yuanji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, if you have any doubts, I hope Your Majesty will answer them." ”

Yun Xi looked at his expression, very serious; Observing Hu Guang's expression again, he was a little helpless and frightened, and probably understood what Xia Yuanji's doubts were about.

He cleared his throat and said to Xia Yuanji: "If Xia Qing has any doubts, I will answer them." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister recently carefully studied the historical materials of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and knew that the annual industrial and commercial tax and tariffs in the Zhao and Song dynasties were enough to account for nearly seventy percent of the Zhao and Song taxes, and the country's annual taxes were enough to reach 70 million yuan, and although the Zhao and Song dynasties first lost the Central Plains to Jin and then died in the hands of the Mongols, they could still be called the people living and working in peace and contentment. Therefore, the minister agreed with His Majesty to re-establish the Shanghai City Shipping Division before that, and to set up the Bao'an City Shipping Division, and to encourage commerce without violating the guidelines. ”

"But Your Majesty has been touring the east for more than a month, and most of the time he is thinking about encouraging business development, is it not that some of them only pay attention to the trivial matters?" Xia Yuanji said.

Yun Xi listened to Xia Yuanji's words, looked at Hu Guang again and asked, "What does Hu Qing think?" ”

Hu Guang knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, minister, I don't quite understand Your Majesty's approach. However, the minister knew that His Majesty must have a deep meaning. ”

Hu Guang's answer was very slippery, but this was not unexpected by Yun Xi. Similarly, Xia Yuanji's question was not unexpected by Yun Xi. In the 21st century, although no one thinks that what Yun Xi is doing is trivial, how many people think that this is the first thing to do?

Yun Xi sat down, let Wang Xi make a pot of tea, poured a cup and took a sip. Well, the authentic West Lake Longjing, or the West Lake Longjing produced by Shifeng before the Ming Dynasty, this is the tea specially supplied to national leaders and foreign friends in later generations, and I am fortunate to be able to drink it, which is really a creation and trickery.

Yun Xi put down the teacup and said to Xia Yuanji: "What do you think, what is the biggest difference between Da Song and Da Ming?" ”

Xia Yuanji thought for a while and replied: "Your Majesty, Zhao Song abolished the military with literature, and the soldiers were all people with tattoos on their faces, and the army had no fighting spirit and no skills; And the Ming Dynasty has a balanced civil and military balance, which is the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Zhao Song Dynasty. ”

"Wrong! If it develops normally, in a few decades, the Ming Dynasty will be the same as Zhao and Song, using literature to control the military, and the status of the seven-rank civil official will also be on the three-rank command; Although the soldiers are not black-faced tattooers, the soldiers of the guard have been farming for generations without food, and sooner or later they will not know how to fight like ordinary peasants. ”

"I'm here to tell you the difference between Da Ming and Zhao Song; Before the Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants was extremely low, and there were even no merchants, and at the same time, the commercial tax was extremely low, and the state finances depended on agricultural taxes; The commerce of the Great Song Dynasty was extremely developed, the commercial tax was relatively moderate, and the national taxes were mainly industrial and commercial and tariffs, which was the fundamental difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty. ”

There is another difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, that is, the method of the imperial examination system. Zhao Song imperial examination system as long as not in the jinshi is not allowed to be an official, and there is no privilege to raise people, show the fame of talents, every time you want to participate in the examination, you must retake the township examination and other examinations, so that Zhao Song can not rely on the country's preferential treatment like the Ming Dynasty to concentrate on the examination.

Therefore, although Zhao Song admired literature and suppressed martial arts, countless people who failed the imperial examination could still only engage in other professions to support themselves; At the same time, it is also impossible to maintain the order of the countryside by the gentry such as Xiucai and Juren, and in the case that no one is an official in the court, the people are still whose fists are big and who speaks, so the style of folk martial arts in the Zhao and Song dynasties is far better than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Song Dynasty also had many problems, if the Great Song Dynasty and the historical Ming Dynasty are measured on the same plane, the Great Song Dynasty is stronger than the Ming Dynasty in most aspects. Not much else to say, just when it finally perished, the Southern Song Dynasty fought against the invincible Mongols in the world for more than 40 years after the fall of the Jin State, and the Ming Dynasty completely lost the country only 18 years after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. And the funny thing is that Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others who supported the Ming Dynasty in the end were all former rebels, and the Zheng group was an international pirate (maritime) gang dominated by Han Chinese, and the former government army of the Ming Dynasty had already surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And what kind of bullshit regime was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what strength did it have, during the Kangxi period, the banner soldiers who were still fighting and stayed in the northeast defeated the Russians with twenty times the strength; When the Mongols conquered Eastern Europe, they often defeated the Slavs by 100,000 with 20,000 or 30,000 men.

Therefore, the system of the Ming Dynasty is very problematic, if it is not reformed, even if the final outcome of the small reform is not much different from the historical one, even if it is not for Huaxia Lu Shen, the Zhu family's regime will not be maintained.

But Yun Xi has no way to talk to them about many problems, so he can only talk about the financial problems that he can say.

And the financial problem is indeed a big problem.

"When any dynasty is finally going to die, its problems will be concentrated in the form of financial problems. The Zhao and Song resisted the Mongols for more than 40 years, and in the end the financial revenue could not pay for the military expenses at the front. The government had to raise taxes to maintain military spending. But at this time, all the energy of the Zhao and Song courts was spent on fighting against the Mongols, and they were inevitably lax in other aspects, so these taxes were imposed on the powerless people. As a result, the people were in turmoil, and finally Zhao and Song perished. If there is such a day in the future, most of them will be the same. ”

"Your Majesty!" Hearing Yun Xi's last words, Xia Yuanji and Hu Guang hurriedly knelt down and said.

"You don't have to say anything, if the current tax collection system continues, sooner or later the imperial court will have a serious financial crisis. Therefore, I must open a market and encourage commerce, so that the Ming Dynasty and Zhao Song will mainly focus on commercial taxes and tariffs, supplemented by agricultural taxes. ”

And all of this must be reformed immediately, and when everything is customized in the court in a few decades, it will be difficult to return. Maybe when the time comes, the city will open a shipping company, and only a few thousand taels of silver will be collected in tariffs a year; Even if business is to be encouraged, I am afraid that it will not be of much use under the shackles of officials at all levels. ”

"Your Majesty, don't stop here." Hu Guang said.

Yun Xi looked at their backs, didn't speak, just laughed twice. Historically, after the opening of the sea in Longqing, the tariff was only a few thousand taels of silver a year, which was recorded in the history books.

Therefore, it is more important to carry out these reforms now than how much land is seized and how many countries are conquered; If Huaxia still does not conform to the system of the times, even if it seizes more land now, sooner or later it will not be able to hold it and let outsiders take it away. The Tang Dynasty once extended its sphere of influence to the vicinity of the Caspian Sea, but then it didn't even lose the Western Regions?

Yun Xi said a few more words and said to them: "Whether you understand it or not, I can only say so much. But," he said in a loud voice, "whether you understand it or not, carry out my will." ”

Xia Yuanji and Hu Guang understood the reason why Yun Xi had been busy with business recently, but they were only skeptical of Yun Xi's words. They felt that what Yun Xi said made sense, but it seemed to be a bit absolute.

However, they will no longer ask His Majesty questions, and they will not slack off in carrying out Yun Xi's will.

Before they went out, Yun Xi advised: "Except for what I just said, you must not say it to anyone else, especially your family members and subordinates. ”

Although the two of them were strange, they still agreed and bowed down.

Yun Xi sat down in his chair and reached out to wipe his sweat. Although it was not physical labor, his head was still covered in sweat.

He drank all the tea in the teacup in another sip, and he couldn't quench his thirst, so he drank half a pot of water into the spout to stop feeling thirsty.

Wang Xi ran in at this time, saw Yun Xi's appearance and was busy serving Yun Xi, and ordered someone to replace the ice cubes that had been completely melted, and at the same time asked the maid to fan him.

Yun Xi looked at Wang Xi and suddenly said, "If only the ministers were just like you and just worked hard and didn't ask why, I wouldn't have to bother answering questions." ”

Wang Xi didn't know what it meant when he heard Yun Xi's brainless words, but he seemed to be appreciating himself, so he smiled and said, "Your Majesty appreciates it." ”

Yoon-hee laughed, but didn't speak.

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At the same time, Zhou Zhibao, the head of the Zhou family, who is engaged in embroidery, instructed at the meeting of the entire family: "Fourth, the industry of your house will be put into the industrial park first. ”

"Yes, big brother." Old Zhou Zhifu agreed. They don't have the best embroidery techniques in their hands, so they naturally want to move their property into this house. In private, Zhou Zhibao also discussed with him.

"Although I am so cautious, our embroidery business is special, and it should be fine." Zhou Zhibao said.

"But in order to add an insurance, each room, remember that from now on, if the best embroidery is embroidered, whether it is a screen or a shirt, whether it is made by an official or not, it must be left and not sold. During the Chinese New Year, I have a lot of use. ”