Ye Zongqing was persuaded to temporarily let Zhu Shunming implement his set in Huangzhou Mansion. Ye Zongqing wanted to see what kind of appearance this Zhu Shunming, who made Fang Kongzhi a little helpless and a little admired, could turn Huangzhou into him.

Could it be that a martial artist knows how to govern a place better than himself, a well-educated man from a jinshi background? Ye Zongqing was a little unconvinced, a little eager to see jokes, and a little expectant.

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Zhu Shunming obtained the taxing power of the entire Huangzhou Prefecture from Ye Zongqing in the form of a tax package, and mobilized a large number of clerks, officials and tax collectors from Changsha Prefecture to establish the Huangzhou Development Department.

The Department of Development first issued a notice requiring merchants to apply for a new business license, and then called on the majority of merchants to pay taxes for the country and levy salaries.

The merchants paid no attention to this new yamen. The prefect's yamen didn't make a sound, who would pay attention to an unknown small yamen?

Zhu Shunming has accumulated some experience when he was stationed in Changsha and required merchants to pay taxes. But the situation in Huangzhou is a little different from the original Changsha Mansion.

When the new policy was carried out in Changsha Mansion, Zhu Shunming went on a killing spree and severely punished the stabs of merchants in Changsha Mansion who were unwilling to pay taxes. But at that time, there were mobs outside Changsha Mansion to do evil everywhere, and Zhu Shunming also used the name of the mob to carry out a bloody massacre of these disobedient merchants.

To be honest, Zhu Shunming's actions at that time were somewhat unacceptable. Up to now, Zhu Shunming's momentum has become complete, and he pays attention to using the general momentum to suppress people. Therefore, Zhu Shunming's taxation in Huangzhou was relatively peaceful.

The west and south of Huanggang County are the Yangtze River, which is the link between Huanggang and the outside world, and is also the main passage for living animals and people in Huanggang. Along the Yangtze River is Wuchang, down is Qizhou, Jiangxi Jiujiang and other places.

Zhu Shunming set up a waterway gold bureau on the Yangtze River waterway in the upper and lower reaches of Huanggang to collect centigold from passing ships.

If there is a waterway gold bureau, there must be a land gold bureau.

To the east of Huanggang are Luotian, Anqing in Anhui and other places, and to the north are Macheng, Huang'an, Xinyang in Henan and other places.

Zhu Shunming set up the Bayi Lijin Bureau in the east and the Huilongshan Lijin Bureau in the Huilong Mountain in the north.

At the same time, tax collectors and soldiers were dispatched to constantly patrol the land and water routes in various parts of Huanggang to strictly inspect the passing goods.

Since the imperial court did not allow taxation, and since Emperor Taizu said that "the royal family and scholars share the world", Zhu Shunming found another way, no longer spending on the word "tax", but in the name of "training", the fact that taxes were collected.

Salary is a special tax set by the emperor today, and this reason is at least legally justified.

Of course, the collection of centigold by the bureau is not arbitrary, but according to the tax that should be paid on the goods, which is equivalent to a disguised tax.

All merchants who did not have a business license and did not have a tax payment certificate had to pay relatively high fines and fines for the entry and exit of goods, which greatly annoyed the local merchants and bureaucrats in Huanggang.

After several bloody clashes, the merchants knew that they could not do it. After all, Zhu Shunming's army defeated hundreds of thousands of rogues and drove the remnants of the rogues out of Huguang, and the wolf-like soldiers under his command were not vegetarians.

"Strike the market," Zhong Dingxiang, the largest grain merchant in Huanggang County, shouted: "A general soldier is not staying in Wuchang, running to Huangzhou to make trouble, and taking the emperor's order to kill the people, we can't give in." Strike the market and make things bigger. Once the people have nothing to eat, they will know that the surname Zhu is not a good person. When the time comes, as soon as we agitate, the common people will take the initiative to drive the surname Zhu away. ”

Zhong Dingxiang has the support of Zhu Ciyan, the king of Jing, behind him, and he is a little arrogant in talking and doing things on weekdays.

A group of salt merchants, silk merchants, tea merchants, and cloth merchants all agreed. These merchants hid in the county town when the rogue was plundering, and the losses suffered were not great.

Therefore, they did not feel the pain of the rogue, and were very resistant to Zhu Shunming's levy of additional salaries, and did not have an intuitive understanding of Zhu Shunming and his army.

Overnight, almost all the shops in Huanggang County closed their doors, especially the grain stores, oil shops, department stores and other stores that were related to people's livelihood all issued a notice of "closure for some reason" and closed their doors.

Only the porcelain shop is still open.

Zhu Shunming was wandering around the cross street, and saw that the lively street in the past was deserted, with a cold face and no expression.

Walking to the door of the "Jingdezhen Porcelain Shop", Zhu Shunming showed a slight smile and paced into the store, curious.

"Shopkeeper, the shops outside are closed, why is your store still open?"

The shopkeeper smiled a little reluctantly, and said softly: "Our Jingdezhen porcelain has not joined the Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce has not notified the store. ”

Zhu Shunming didn't ask any more questions, and turned around to select porcelain.

Jiangxi, which is adjacent to Huangzhou, is a famous porcelain producing area in the country and even the world, especially Jingdezhen in Fuliang County.

Zhu Shunming visited and looked at these exquisite works of art that condensed the essence of the entire nation, and was very impressed by the superb skills of the craftsmen at that time.

The simple and atmospheric furnishings, the exquisite blue and white lady bottles, and the wine vessels that are as thin as cicada wings and translucent...... Even the porcelain bowls and pots used every day look like exquisite handicrafts.

"Good stuff." Zhu Shunming couldn't help but sigh: "It's still the old craftsmanship that shocks people's hearts." ”

Porcelain was one of the most important commodities exported overseas by China during the Ming Dynasty, bringing back a great deal of gold and silver wealth to China. Even the English name of China in modern times is based on "porcelain".

In Zhu Shunming's plan, porcelain, tea, silk fabrics, cotton fabrics, weapons, etc., were important commodities that he intended to export in exchange for gold, silver, and strategic materials.

Zhu Shunming went southeast, and Jiangxi porcelain was an important part of his plan. Now in Huangzhou, seeing Jingdezhen porcelain, which is not valued by local merchants, Zhu Shunming got up and checked it carefully.

Seeing Zhu Shunming's admiration for the exquisiteness of the porcelain in the store, the shopkeeper suddenly became happy and said: "Of course, the masters of the kiln are all veterans with 30 years of experience, and we will not let the unqualified porcelain out of the kiln at all." ”

"Yes, that's the spirit of craftsmanship." Zhu Shunming exclaimed.

The old shopkeeper was even more excited. Speaking of sex, the old shopkeeper approached Zhu Shunming and said in a mysterious voice: "Don't look at the people of the Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce who are having fun now, they have to bow their heads in the end." Today's Huguang Zhu General is not a good match. ”

"Oh, how do you know?"

"My owner has a store in Yangzhou. According to him, two years ago, there was a bitter dispute over salt and grain in Yangzhou. Yangzhou salt merchants and grain merchants suffered heavy losses in that business war and have not recovered so far. ”

"The other side of the business war is the businessmen of Changsha Mansion, and the mastermind behind the scenes is Zhu Shunming, who was still the commander of Changsha Weiwei at that time."

"Now that Zhu Shunming has been promoted to the chief soldier of Huguang, the strength of the shopping mall may be even better. Huangzhou businessmen want to fight him? Overestimate one's strength or oneself. ”

The shopkeeper smiled contemptuously, some people in the world are drunk with the pride of my solitude, and there is a kind of desire to see the excitement.