“…… Three three get nine, three forty-two, three hundred and fifty-one, fifteen,...... 3727......"

Before he reached the house of the three donkeys, he heard that someone in the yard was being multiplied by the formula, Ma Du stretched his neck and looked into the yard, it was the three donkeys themselves who were pacing in the yard with their hands behind their backs, and they didn't know if they were wrong.

Madu shouted into the courtyard, "What kind of fucking hysteria do you have, three donkeys?" ”

The three donkeys turned their heads and saw that it was Ma Du, and opened the door happily, "The little one has seen the Hou Ye, and the Hou Ye can come to the cold house, it is really brilliant!" ”

"I didn't study well in the past, but now I pretend to be a scholar, my sour Benhou teeth have fallen, hurry up and bring your good tea to rinse your mouth."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Hou Ye, please!" The three donkeys hurriedly invited a few people into the courtyard.

Although it is in the same village, this yard is very different, there is no cowshed, chicken coop, but flower beds, fish ponds, not like a farmer's yard at all.

"The three donkeys' house is well tied!"

"Huh...... Occasionally, if you have friends at home who come to talk about business, you naturally have to make it more presentable. ”

"Don't think I don't know, you've bought a mansion in the city."

"Hou Ye's business, I naturally want to support the scene, although the house in the city is large, but if you talk to people about the sale or the family's house, as long as people know that I am a tenant of the Hou Ye's family, there are few deals."

Madu kicked him, "You're a fucking slippery head, if you let me know that you used my name to cheat and cheat, beware that I picked your skin." ”

"How dare the little one ruin your reputation, if you hear the slightest rumor, you don't need to do it, and the little one will screw his head off and apologize."

The courtyard is different from ordinary farmhouses, and the inside of the house is even more different, the same large living room looks empty in Lao Cui's house, and the three donkeys' house is full.

As soon as I entered the house, there was a strong atmosphere of local tyrants, the furniture of Nanyang rosewood, the screen brocade couch, the antique calligraphy and painting, and it seemed that all the good things in the house were taken out and piled up in the hall, for fear that others would not see it, and even the palace had not been so furnished.

"Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng, Master Hou is here, hurry up and take out the clouds and mist of Huangshan Mountain that you treasure at home!" While ordering tea, the three donkeys invited a few people to sit down, and said to Lao Zhu: "I don't know how many honorable names there are?" ”

Lao Zhu sat swaggeringly, looked in the hall with a pair of eyes, turned a deaf ear to the words of the three donkeys, and couldn't see any anger on his face, but Ma Du knew that he should not be very happy in his heart, and Lao Zhu hated the rich in his heart.

"It was a few troubled pedestrians that Ben Hou met on the road, so he was so hungry that he took them to the village to find something to eat, and he just had breakfast at Lao Cui's house, so I didn't come to you."

"Master Hou is kind-hearted!" The three donkeys instructed the wife who served the tea: "Go and pack two ingots of silver, and go back and let these people bring them." ”

"Good guy, you kid is really rich, and you're really generous."

The three donkeys' eyes narrowed into slits, holding the tea bowl and leaning into Ma Du's hand, "The little one is not thanks to you, I only regret that I didn't listen to your advice to study hard, and I can't even understand the contract account book. ”

"Huh...... It's a good thing that you can have such an awareness, if you don't understand, you can go to the academy to find someone to ask for advice, and those who were classmates with you back then can now be your husband. ”

"Master Hou's lesson is that I want to invite a few classmates to help me take charge of things, and the salary will not be less, and I don't know if it will be successful."

"You are willing to spend a lot of money, but I don't want to stop you, I'm afraid that you will rob the various yamen in Beijing." The students of the academy have not yet reached the point of being hired by merchants, and they have long been recommended to various yamen by a few old men.

The three donkeys sneered: "It's my wishful thinking, although I have earned a few silver coins, I can't help but call them my lord when I see them in the future." By the way, I have one more thing to trouble Master Hou. ”

"Why are you having trouble in business?" Ma Du subconsciously looked at Lao Zhu's black face, "If you bend the law for personal gain, don't look for me." ”

"Naturally not, my father and mother saw that I made a few silver dollars by doing business, so I didn't want my brother to study in elementary school, and wanted him to help me as a buddy, they didn't have much knowledge, I couldn't persuade them, one day I saw my father and mother and asked Hou Ye to say a few words, you know they listen to you the most."

"There is nothing to excuse this kind of thing, and you will definitely not let your brother drop out of school!"

Listening to Lao Zhu's incessant throat clearing, Ma Du knew that he was impatient, put down the tea bowl in his hand and said, "It's not too early, I'll go around another house." By the way, don't forget your roots when you make a fortune, you want to benefit the township. ”

"The weddings and funerals in the Zhuangzi are not less than the money, I want to build bridges and pave roads, but you have already repaired them, you can make beds and sleep, the academies and schools are well built, and there is nowhere to do good things."

"Fucking blame me!" Ma Du slapped him heavily on the shoulder, "Ben Hou shows you the way, the students of the academy often tinker with some gadgets, but not everyone can apply for funding, if you have spare money to fund them, whether you can be a rich man in the rest of your life may depend on them." ”

Lao Zhu took a heavy sip when he went out, "What's so beautiful about such a person, you can see that he is a cunning person at a glance." ”

Ma Du smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, you can't expect the world to be a righteous man and a gentleman, although he is a little slippery, but he has never done anything evil, on the contrary, he takes care of his neighbors." In fact, his family used to be a poor and white family, but in the past two years, he has made a small fortune by selling glass, and the taxes he paid for the court in a year can catch up with an ordinary farm, and his contribution to the Ming Dynasty is not a lot. ”

"I am not happy when I see him living a luxurious life, and I don't often drink the clouds of Huangshan that cost a dozen taels of silver, but he is like a cow chewing peonies, and I don't know what kind of taste I can feel." Lao Zhu walked in front with his hands behind his back and shook his head and sighed, "I have only been a country for a few years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them are as arrogant as them, and they must not be defeated." ”

Ma Du couldn't wait to spit out a mouthful of old blood, it turned out that Lao Zhu thought so, and hurriedly said: "The emperor's thoughts, please forgive Weichen for not agreeing!" ”

"Hmph, what do you think, tell me about it."

Ma Du pondered for a moment before saying: "Weichen, for example, maybe you can hear it more clearly, I heard that the imperial court wants to formulate laws, and merchants are not allowed to wear silk and satin, but there are some of them?" ”

"Yes, I mean!" Lao Zhu generously admitted that he was the initiator, "The businessman earns the difference by buying low and selling high, and does not produce but shares the profits."

In the past two years, there have been many businessmen in the sky, and there are often frauds in buying and selling transactions, and they are indispensable to buy and laugh on the Qinhuai River, and even more rely on their backers to bully the people. Most of the complaints received by the yamen are businessmen's cases, and the people's customs in Yingtian have corrupted them, and I have the heart to suppress agriculture and business, so that they can know their identity. ”

"Your Majesty, where are you valuing agriculture and suppressing business, obviously suppressing business and harming farmers!"

"Nonsense, the matter of agriculture is the foundation of the country, and I am also from a peasant family, how can I harm the peasants."

"I don't know about the agricultural affairs, but if you promulgate this decree, I'm afraid the mulberry matter will be over." Ma Du helplessly spread his hands to explain to Lao Zhu,

"If the merchants are not allowed to wear silk, then they can only be worn by people with official status or fame, and there are only a few of these people in total, and most of the peasants cannot afford to wear them anyway. The demand for silk and satin has naturally decreased, and the need for raw silk has also decreased, so farmers do not need to raise silkworms and grow mulberry, and the income of the family is naturally less.

Weichen once visited the silk workshop in Suzhou and Hangzhou, many of them lived by spinning and weaving silk, and no one bought silk in the future, they had no work to do, and I don't know how many people would starve to death.

Silk textile is an important economy in the Ming Dynasty, and the commercial tax will naturally be less when there is less business, and eighty percent of these undercharged taxes will be passed on to the farmers......"

"Say no more!" Lao Zhu shook his head and waved his hand, "This will be put aside in advance and discussed later." ”

Just kidding, silk textile is the pillar of the Ming Dynasty's economy, and Lao Zhu actually wants to destroy it with his own hands. When Ma Du visited Shen Wansan's workshop, he found that there was already some budding capitalism at this time, but why did the history books state that it only existed in the middle and late dynasties, was it cut off by Lao Zhu, a bastard who did not allow merchants to wear silk and satin?

Looking at Lao Zhu's appearance, it seems that he has woken up, but he doesn't want to admit it for the sake of face, especially in front of Bo Qi.

Ma Du felt that he was taking advantage of this time to add a fire to Lao Zhu, "Does the emperor know how much of the Tianfu tax was accounted for last year?" ”

"I don't know, Ying Tianfu has no statistics, but the total tax revenue of Ying Tianfu is clear, and it is several times more than in the first year of Hongwu."

"There is a student named Qi Tai in the academy, his graduation thesis is written on Ying Tian Tax, they spent three months running through various dental shops, turning the houses of Ying Tian Mansion upside down, and only then did they calculate the proportion of commercial tax, the emperor can guess."

"Sancheng, in the past few years, you have been making waves in Yingtian, and Yingtianfu will naturally follow."

"Weichen doesn't have that much ability, and he doesn't have such a thick family background to pay taxes to Ying Tianfu." Ma Du stretched out his hands and gestured: "Forty into seven, which is close to half of the total tax revenue." ”

Lao Zhu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, "There are so many?" ”

"In the future, there can be more, and when this ratio reaches sixty percent or seventy percent, the commercial tax alone will definitely far exceed the current total tax revenue, and then the emperor will be exempt from the agricultural tax of Ying Tianfu!"

"Exempted from Tianfu agricultural tax?!" Lao Zhu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and the steps under his feet also stopped, Bo Qi, Yuan Sheng, and Han Cheng also turned their heads and stared at Ma Du with a suspicious face, as if they were listening to him say a ridiculous and bizarre joke.

"Why can't it be avoided, the peasants of China have been supporting the emperor, the family, the bureaucrats, and the wealthy for thousands of years, they are too tired and too hard, why doesn't Your Majesty change the object of blood sucking?"

Lao Zhu didn't cheer or applaud Ma Du's crazy idea at this time, but just said lightly: "The taxes of the heavens and the earth can't support the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, and Xuanzhong thinks too much." ”

"My Daming is not only the heaven and the earth, but also hundreds of state capitals, more than 1,000 counties, plus the benefits of maritime trade, may not be impossible to achieve. If it is done, the emperor will be the holy lord of the Ming Dynasty who far surpasses Yao Shun, and his name will be remembered for eternity! ”

Lao Zhu is crazy, crazy people are naturally more able to accept crazy ideas, he doesn't care about being a Ming monarch, and he doesn't even care too much about his reputation, but he longs for the eternal inheritance of the Ming Dynasty.

From the temples to the fields, no one will want to overthrow a country that does not collect agricultural taxes, but will only support it with all their might! Merchant? Lao Zhu is also well-versed in ancient and modern times, and he has never heard of any businessmen rebelling against overthrowing a dynasty, and businessmen will always be the object of slaughter.

Old Zhu's dark face was glowing red, and his eyes were slightly excited, he stretched out his hand and patted Ma Du's shoulder and said, "This one seems to be very far away and long, and it is indispensable for Xuanzhong to be my companion and walk all the way!" ”