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The night is low, the lights are on, and the whole city of Nanjing is shrouded in night. Nanjing was probably the only city in the world that never sleeps at this time. The Confucius Temple area in the south of Nanjing has always been a place where literati and artists linger. It was not weakened by half because of the war, but because of the war, the number of gentry who fled from the Huai River valley in the north and Huguang Jiangxi increased, bringing a large amount of property, so the Confucius Temple became more prosperous than more than ten years ago.

Nanjing, because Qian Qianyi surrendered that year, was not slaughtered by the Manchus. Later, Zhu Hongsan also fought with Hong Chengchou outside the city, so the entire city of Nanjing was not affected by the war. It has been four years since Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing, and in these four years, the city has become even more prosperous than before. All the streets in the city have been renovated, the main streets have been paved with stone slabs, and the ditches on both sides of the roads have been re-excavated, so that there will be no more mud on sunny days and mud on rainy days.

The lives of millions of citizens in Nanjing have become happier and happier, and the arrival of Zhu Hongsan has brought new policies, and the state will no longer concentrate foreign trade in the hands of the city as before, but will be liberalized by all employees, and the state will only collect 20 taxes and one customs tariff on the wharf.

Now the city of Nanjing is full of white rice, fragrant wood, coal, iron from Qiongzhou, fish skin, fish gelatin, bananas and other tropical fruits from Luzon, as well as the strange-shaped wheat and sweet potatoes from Guangdong. So living in Nanjing, as long as you have money, you can live like an emperor, if you don't have money and a few copper plates and a bunch of sweet potatoes to eat, at least you won't starve to death.

If you are a homeless person in the north, it is simpler, as long as you go to the out-of-town homeless people to report, there will be work for you every day, you will be guaranteed two meals a day, one dry and one thin, and you can still eat meat every five days. If you don't want to stay in the camp and want to make a difference, you can join the army. Zhu Hongsan's treatment of the new army is excellent, and the food is comparable to that of a small local landlord, and he can eat meat at every meal with three dry meals a day. In addition to this, the most important thing is that if you have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, you can get ten acres of land anywhere in the country, and the greater the meritorious achievements, the more points.

Of course, if you don't want to go to the battlefield and work hard, as long as you can endure hardships, you can take the official family's boat to cross the ocean to Luzon and Annam, where the rice crops are four times a year, and each person can get 50 acres of land when he gets off the boat, this temptation is too great.

Thanks to the good national policy, no one has frozen to death in the winter in Nanjing for two consecutive years, and there are rumors of peace and prosperity among the people.

Of course, this kind of prosperity is inseparable from Emperor Zhu Hongsan, in fact, the reason is very simple, Zhu Hongsan knows that he is just a township cadre, and it may be good to be careful, but it is really not good to govern the country. Therefore, when he was in Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan set the basic national policy, which was actually the reform and opening up of the chief designer of piracy.

Zhu Hongsan will liberalize all other industries except for the nationalization of salt and iron, even the foreign trade controlled by the former Ming Dynasty. As long as you have the funds and the ships, you can go overseas and bring back whatever the imperial court doesn't care, the imperial court just sets up customs at the port and collects one-twentieth of the customs duty. And the abolition of banknotes across the country, only once at the source of logistics tax.

As a result, the prices of commodities have dropped considerably, but because of the expansion of the base, customs tariffs are still rising by 10 percent every year.

According to Zhu Hongsan's calculations based on the GDP of later generations, the annual economic growth rate in his jurisdiction is now more than 20 percent, which is very amazing.

One of the benefits brought about by the increase in foreign trade is that the scholars of Nanzhili have returned to their hearts, although the scholars of Nanzhili have some criticism of Emperor Zhu Hongsan because of Ma Mingyuan's new policy in the past few years, but the subsequent comprehensive liberalization of foreign trade will eliminate the dissatisfaction of these scholars and big landlords.

Nanzhili's foreign trade fist products are, of course, silk and porcelain, there were more than 100,000 weavers in Suzhou during the Wanli period, and now it has developed to more than 300,000 people, and there are 560,000 weavers in the entire Suzhou and Hangzhou prefectures, monopolizing seventy percent of China's silk industry. With the silver, of course, those Dashi clans were very satisfied with the new emperor.

However, this kind of scholarly conversion was based on the interests of seizing the new riches of the Huguang faction, and the increase in foreign trade in Nanzhili was bound to squeeze the trade volume of Guangdong, and the silk and porcelain of Guangdong were concentrated in the hands of the Huguang faction and the Guangdong faction. In the three years since Zhu Hongsan went to Guizhou to quell the rebellion, some members of the Huguang faction have begun to unite with the former old enemy Guangdong faction, preparing to suppress the emerging force of the Zhedong faction.

In the past, the leading brother of the Guangdong faction was Chen Zizhuang, but he was framed by Ma Mingyuan and kicked out of the cabinet four years ago. At present, the officials of the Guangdong faction in the DPRK and China are all middle- and low-ranking officials, and the biggest official is Chen Bangyan, the political envoy of Guangxi. So these Dashi people in Guangdong found another Cantonese, this is Zhang Jiayu, who was born in Dongguan, Guangdong.

The Zhang family was originally a big landlord in Dongguan, and the basic interests of those Cantonese factions were the same. At the same time, because Zhang Jiayu is the prince's teacher, he is naturally an ally with Ma Mingyuan, so the arduous task of repairing relations with the Huguang faction falls on Zhang Jiayu.

Zhang Jiayu was demoted to Jiujiang as the prefect because he offended Liu Siyi, the governor of Huguang, but because he spoke for the prince on the Wuchang dock, Liu Siyun finally said good things for Zhang Jiayu in front of the emperor, so the emperor brought Zhang Jiayu back to Nanjing when he left Wuchang.

After Zhang Jiayu returned to Nanjing, he went to see Ma Mingyuan as soon as possible, and after entering the house to salute, Ma Mingyuan asked: "Yuanzi, why do you have time to come to the old man today?" ”

"Yuanfu, the next official is here to report to Yuanfu!"

Ma Mingyuan smiled indifferently: "Yuanzi, now that the old man is at home, he is no longer the old cabinet minister, so this Yuanfu is not quite right!" ”

"Hehe, what Yuanfu said is not right, His Majesty was forced to dismiss Yuanfu at home out of desperation, and people of insight in the court know that Yuanfu's reactivation is just around the corner!"

"Oh? Right in front of you? Motoko said to hear it! ”

"Yuanfu, now that Your Majesty has returned to the Beijing Division, there will be a Northern Expedition in March next year! What does the Northern Expedition need? Of course, it's money, but Yuanfu's eldest brother is really not suitable to be the first assistant, in the three years he has been in power, the financial income has not moved at all, and it is several million less than in previous years. Yuanfu is familiar with finance, so he naturally knows that he can't do anything without money, so the lower officials estimate that His Majesty's recovery of Lord Yuanfu is right in front of him! ”

Ma Mingyuan laughed when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, of course he knew what the finances were like now, and he left Chen Zilong as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance for today.

Ma Jiyuan came to power under the banner of opposing Ma Mingyuan's new policy, so after coming to power, he immediately wooed the scholars of Nanzhili, and promised that he would absolutely protect their rights and interests. In this way, there are naturally advantages, that is, the entire Nanzhili people have stood behind Ma Jiyuan, but there are many disadvantages, the biggest one is that the financial revenue of the year immediately dropped.

At present, the financial income of Zhu Hongsan Group is very strange, and eighty percent of the income of the entire group comes from Guangdong, while Nanzhili and Zhejiang, which account for the seventh layer of foreign trade, pay less than 20 percent of the taxes. Among them, most of the taxes in Nanzhili are still land taxes, and there is no commercial tax at all.

Most of the Huguang nouveau riche are not readers, so naturally they do not have their share in the preferential treatment of readers, but most of the taxes are paid by Huguang nouveau riche, so naturally these nouveau riche are not satisfied. In the past three years, many people have come to Ma Mingyuan, hoping that he will come forward as the head of the Huguang faction to fight for justice for his own people.

Although Ma Mingyuan was dismissed from office and went home, his henchmen all held important positions in the court, so he knew everything in detail about the affairs in the court. However, he is not ready to talk to Zhang Jiayu, it is true that Zhang Jiayu is a princeling, but the relationship with him Ma Mingyuan is average, and he has not yet reached the point where he has to talk about anything.

"Yuanzi, this is all a problem that the elders should consider, the old man is no longer official, Yuanzi should go back!"

After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he was about to serve tea to the guests, who knew that Zhang Jiayu said: "Yuanfu, Xiaguan just came back from Wuchang, Xiaguan heard something in Wuchang, and heard that Yuanfu's family occupies 100,000 mu of land around Wuchang?" ”

Ma Mingyuan was still smiling, but when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, his face immediately sank: "Yuanzi, why do you want to threaten the old man?" ”

"How dare you! However, just because the lower officials don't dare doesn't mean that others don't dare! ”

Ma Mingyuan heard what Zhang Jiayu said and asked, "Tell me about it!" ”

"Yuanfu, the lower officials heard in Wuchang that the Wuchang County Order reprimanded the Huguang upstart for occupying land in Wuchang in front of His Majesty, and the Ma family occupied 100,000 mu!"

Ma Mingyuan was frightened when he heard Zhang Jiayu say it, but he knew that the emperor was against land annexation, and the fundamental purpose of wanting to implement the new policy back then was to prevent the merger of land by scholars, and now that someone has sued him, can the emperor let him go?

"Yuanzi, tell the old man, what did the emperor say?"

Zhang Jiayu saw that Ma Mingyuan was so anxious, and said with a smile: "Yuanfu rest assured, Yuanfu's family is still there, and the emperor didn't say anything, but just whipped the emperor's prince Zhao Dequan!" ”

Ma Mingyuan was relieved when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this, as long as the emperor didn't say anything, but whipping Zhao Dequan showed that the emperor was still disgusted with land annexation in his heart, it seems that he had done a little too much, and he would send someone back to his hometown after a while, release tens of thousands of acres of land, and avoid falling into the mouth.

Ma Mingyuan only remembered at this time that it was that bastard who said bad things about himself in front of the emperor, who was that Wuchang County Commander? Why can't I get along with myself?

"Yuanzi, who is that Wuchang County Order? Why can't I get along with my husband? ”

"Hehe, that Wuchang County Commander is called Liang Guan, born in Nanzhili, but he and Chen Zilong raised troops in Taihu Lake to resist the Qing Dynasty back then!"