Chapter 158: Declaration of War
Since he said so, Apocalypse will no longer mention it......
Actually, Apocalypse really didn't think much about it.
He was still young at this time, and he relied on Yang Xin as the only reliable one, and he was not to the point of suspicion.
Anyway, those people are laborers, and he knows very well that the purpose of his grandfather's doing this is to let Yang Xin take these people to dig rivers and reclaim wasteland, and the land reclaimed will be a reward for Yang Xin. Those reed lands were useless in the first place, and the taxes brought to the imperial court every year might not be enough for Yangzhou salt merchants to set up a table and feast, so Yang Xin wanted to give it to him as a matter of course. But it was impossible for Yang Xin to recruit enough manpower to cultivate the land, and it happened that these de facto prisoners of war convicts were used as free laborers.
To put it bluntly, his grandfather was stingy.
Not only does he want to reward Yang Xin's military exploits, but he doesn't want to take out the money himself, and it just so happens that Yang Xin is willing to do this, so it will be a good idea.
Later, he found out in his conscience and gave Yang Xin a sum of silver.
So that the matter is settled.
Yang Xin commanded the Tongzhi Admiral Dangkou Army with Jinyi Guard, and was also in charge of the Gegu Coastal Defense Battalion.
There were already more than 1,000 sailors there, and the theft and sale of warships was almost gone over the years, and Yang Xin built a shipyard on the spot to build new ships. And Daming's own military procurement actually has a civilian one, so it is just a license for him to set up an arsenal to cast cannons and make guns, and this permission is given to him by the Holy Decree of the Apocalypse. In addition, because the Dangkou army was under the control of the emperor, there was no need to go through the Ministry of War, and the 100,000 yuan was directly sent by the Apocalypse as the cost of Yang Xin's rectification of the coastal defense battalion.
As for the commercial power that Yang Xin originally had......
This was given by Wanli, and of course the apocalypse will continue to admit it.
In addition, there is also a special feature that because Yang Xin was allowed to conduct overseas trade, Tianqi decided to set up Tianjin Customs.
But stationed in Gegu.
However, it was not managed by officials sent by the imperial court, but directly contracted to Yang Xin, who was responsible for collecting taxes, and the contract fee for the first year was tentatively set at 10,000 taels, but this was handed over to the Ministry of Households, and it was officially implemented from next year, but the long-term contract was determined according to the situation in the following year. As for how to collect it, he is also responsible for the anti-smuggling at sea or something, anyway, he is in charge of the coastal defense battalion, and this way of saying whether it is official or private can be regarded as the customs tax package system proposed by Yang Xin before the trial.
Even the tax rate and tax type are determined by him.
In short, Yang Xin did the experiment.
See the results later.
If feasible, roll it out nationwide.
This is a matter that needs to be resolved by force.
Because Tianjin maritime merchants used to be smuggling, there was no customs here, and there was no tariff.
Theoretically, Tianjin did not export and import, because there was no overseas trade there, and overseas trade was only in Guangzhou and Yuegang, in addition, Fuzhou was tributary trade with the Ryukyus, and the Ming Dynasty only had the three provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong to carry out legal overseas trade. However, before Taichang withdrew the tax supervision of Zhejiang and Fujian, the apocalypse has not been restored, and only Guangzhou and Fujian are under civilian control.
There was also trade between Dengju and North Korea.
Originally, this legal trade route did not exist, and the trade between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea was through Liaodong, and it was not until the year before last that maritime contact began, but it was mainly North Korea that bought grain, and there were actually no tariffs.
And only the civilian ships from Jiangnan or Shandong came from the sea of Tianjin.
This is domestic trade.
The most tax paid is the commercial tax paid in Tianjin.
But after going to sea, who knows if they will go to Noboru or Nagasaki?
At present, the Ming Dynasty has no legal trade with the Wa Kingdom, and it is illegal for all Ming merchant ships to go to the Wa Kingdom, but as long as they go to the Wa Kingdom, they are VIPs, because the Tokugawa government cannot obtain the legal trade license of the Ming Dynasty, so they can only do their best to lure the Ming merchants to smuggle. Even the old Tokugawa turtle personally met with the Ming merchants and gave him the seal that only the Japanese merchant ships could obtain, and with their welcome, hundreds of Ming merchant ships arrived at the major ports of Kyushu every year.
It's all smuggling.
Those maritime merchants in Tianjin must have gotten there.
Because they mainly go to Dengzhou, and from Dengzhou to the south of the peninsula, there are coastal currents to push it can easily reach the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the rest is a route with Zhejiang merchant ships, and even go to North Korea to trade in Tsushima.
What the Japanese people have is silver, enough profits, and the hardships and dangers at sea are not worth mentioning at all.
Yang Xin set up a customs office there, which means that these guys will have to pay taxes in the future.
They are definitely going to rebel.
These guys are all part-time pirates, such as the Jiang family last time, and the final solution is still by force.
Fortunately, force has always been Yang Xin's strength.
In this way, Yang Xin and Tianqi negotiated, but these still have to find Fang Congzhe, because Fang Congzhe must draft the will.
Fang Congzhe proposed to give the nine thousand years old side to stamp, and then the celebrant sent someone to the six departments, those to the matter for review, if the matter thinks there is no problem, send it to the general secretary, and the general secretary is responsible for sending it to Yang Xin, this is the whole process of a holy decree of the Ming Dynasty from birth to transmission.
During this period, the yamen in the capital would send people to wait in the corridor of the six branches, and the six departments thought that they could make it public by themselves to copy back to the yamen, so the six branches were also the earliest news censorship institutions in the Ming Dynasty to some extent.
Of course, there are also folk transcriptions.
It is nothing more than the person who buys the transcription, and the latter copies one more copy to those who make tabloids outside, and these people take it back to become the kind that Yang Xin subscribed to at the beginning.
Cabinet duty.
"What the hell do you want to do?"
Fang Congzhe asked Yang Xin very directly.
"Elder Fang Ge, what do you mean by this?"
Yang Xin said.
"The old man told you at the beginning, don't try to change anything, everything has its own reason, don't think that you can manipulate your will now, you can do whatever you want, if there is really a mess, it is not something that a few of you can deal with. You want the Li family's silver, this is nothing, everyone knows how Li Sancai's silver came from, and it is indispensable to worry about which new monarch to change, Your Majesty can really want it, just scare him and let him hand over some.
How about a million taels?
The old man personally went to the edict to persuade him!
But why did he have to put him to death, and why did he have to destroy the Li family?
He scolded Shenzong, he was angry with Shenzong, he also scolded the old man, and scolded him in front of the old man, but the old man and the emperor of Shenzong can put up with him, isn't he afraid of making trouble?
He is not alone behind him.
Behind him is the entire Nanzhili gentry, behind him is the Donglin Party with power all over the country, he is not Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, these two people are the pawns who charge into battle, Wang Wenyan is a dog, he is the forward general, the unified army of the Donglin Party in the north, and to move him is to declare war on the entire Donglin Party.
The old man has been working hard for all these years and endured all kinds of infamy, isn't he desperately trying to maintain it, so that all parties can maintain a truce and avoid civil strife? The old man and Emperor Shenzong have maintained it for all these years, and they were destroyed as soon as you came to power, can you know better than us the results of this truce being destroyed? The food and clothing of the court are all there, without their wealth, even the millions of military households in this capital can't eat, you can want some silver, but you can't do this, this will be a big mess. ”
Fang Congzhe said.
"If you mess up, you will be killed!"
Yang Xin said very simply.
Fang Congzhe was stunned.
"Whoever dares to mess up will be killed, and the Donglin Party will raze Donglin Academy if they dare to mess up!
This Ming is the emperor, not the Donglin Party, they must accept a new monarch, even if it is a new monarch who is different from Emperor Shenzong and Emperor Daxing, they have no right to choose. The emperor has the final say in this world, not them, they have to accept it if they don't accept it, if they dare to confront or even dare to rebel because of this, then they will bear the consequences, and the only way to rebel is to raid their homes and destroy their homes.
It's as simple as that.
But does the Donglin Party dare?
It's not that Yang laughed at them, how could there be rebellious gentry since ancient times?
The soldiers dared to rebel, the peasants dared to rebel, but no gentry dared to rebel, although they were the ones who made the most trouble at the time of Chengping, but they only dared to make trouble and did not dare to rebel, and they were the fastest to retreat when the knife was about to go. A group of guys in brocade clothes and jade food and red and green have long been soaked in the wine and can't get up, if they still have such hard bones, then Yang is really impressed by them, but unfortunately the fact is that I only need to cut no more than a hundred heads, they have to be honest.
Couldn't be more.
No matter how much they are, they will really make Yang admire! ”
Yang Xin said with a mocking expression.
Fang Congzhe looked at him in amazement, then took a deep breath and waved his hand, signaling him to hurry up!
Yang Xin, who had to feed his niece tonight, respected his authority very respectfully, and then left the apocalypse oracle behind.
He still has to get Li Sancai's confession......
This is very easy to solve, this kind of old guy is indeed difficult to deal with, but Yang Tongzhi is the best at using scientific methods to solve problems, for example, like his son, just a control point, and then let him be in a state of mental trance and forgetfulness. Then put the made confession in front of him, and then stimulated, or coaxed, in short, used various methods to get him to sign, as long as he signed it, it was over, as long as he signed, he confessed, even if he came to his senses and retracted the confession, it was useless.
Science, we have to believe in science.
As soon as he left, Han Yi came out of the inner room.
"The old man can't do anything, that's all the old man can do, you still tell them, our new monarch is different from before, they don't make trouble anymore, what can they do even if they make trouble? After all, the world of the Ming Dynasty is still His Majesty's! They used to scold Emperor Shenzong for neglecting government every day, but now that they are good, they have got their wish, and an emperor who will not neglect his government is here, but they can't stand it anymore. ”
Fang Congzhe said slowly.
"What is this going to do?"
Han Yi picked up the handwritten edict and said.
"What else can be done? Emperor Daxing removed the tax supervision of the world, of course, the new monarch wants to collect money in a different way, and he can't change the will of Emperor Daxing just after succeeding to the throne, right? That Zi Palace is still in Qianqing Palace! ”
Fang Congzhe said.