Seeing that September was coming, Zhu Youxiao could not stay any longer, and after the official gentry began to implement the integration of grain and met with a group of new local bureaucratic collectives in Shandong 0, Zhu Youxiao set off directly to the south. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the commercial tax collection policy in the Fengyang area in the south had already begun to be implemented.

When Zhu Youxiao arrived at the boundary of Fengyang, he saw countless merchant ships anchored outside Fengyang City like a cover of the sky, many of which included ships from the Royal Industrial Company transporting goods to the south and ships from the Royal Weaving Bureau transporting goods to the north.

Therefore, even though the chief official is a squire-level, the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau are not exempt from tax, and Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, is naturally grateful for this, and many times the tax paid by the Royal Industrial Company is one or two percent of the tax collected by his Fengyang Governor Yamen that month.

To Zhu Youxiao's satisfaction, Ma Shiying did not impose heavy taxes on all merchants, and not only did not levy commercial taxes on small traders whose business scale was only enough to support their families, but even helped them obtain low-interest loans from the Royal Bank's branch in Fengyang, with the natural purpose of encouraging them to become bigger.

Heavy taxes were imposed on the wealthy and tycoons, and protection and preferential treatment were provided to small traders and hawkers, and the same was true at the centijin checkpoints in other prefectures and counties in Fengyang, where the levy standards for the levy of centi, which were personally determined by the governor Yamen, were revised once a year, and this year was the first year of implementation, and the levy point was 100 taels.

That is to say, if you are just a small farmer who goes into the city to sell some vegetables and fruits, you don't have to worry about being heavily taxed by the imperial court, if there are soldiers guarding the city gate who collect taxes and money privately, the farmers can directly report to the county government, once it is true, the offender will be imprisoned or exiled and sentenced to imprisonment.

Of course, if state and county officials neglect their duties or exploit the people at the bottom, once it is discovered, the state and county officials are not only dismissed, but the lightest is to report to the Ministry of Industry and serve for ten years.

In order to allow small traders and hawkers to have a fixed place to conduct commercial activities, and also to facilitate urban management, the governor's yamen explicitly ordered all prefectures, counties and market towns to set up fixed agricultural product trade markets, and the governor's yamen allocated special funds to help build them.

In this way, Ma Shiying's commercial tax collection policy in Fengyang not only did not affect the lives of small traders but was more beneficial to them, so the resistance from the bottom was much smaller, but some squires and big businessmen complained about Ma Shiying's policy, because according to the collection policy of the Fengyang Governor's Yamen, whether it was the former court's hometown or the Shangshu Shilang's family, even if they had a reputation, they were all taxed according to the value of the goods.

Of course, there are also those who rely on their own background to resist strongly, but in the end they were brutally suppressed by Ma Shiying, Ma Shiying is not Yuan Keli, he is a member of the eunuch party, he doesn't care about his reputation, he only cares about the outcome when he does things, and the means are not exquisite.

Therefore, there were many caravans with powerful backgrounds that were brutally suppressed by him for a while, and even many of them sued Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to pay attention to it, and directly issued an order to the celebrant supervisor, and all those who impeached Ma Shiying in the future will not be released, even if they accuse him of Ma Shiying's rebellion.

The caravan with a military background also tried to use the army to confront the governor's yamen, but when these commanders or generals and guerrillas saw that the governor's yamen could summon the Praetorian Guards stationed in Xuzhou to help deal with some emergencies, these generals who had a few private soldiers under their hands did not dare to jump up again, not to mention that he Ma Shiying was still the most military civilian official here.

For some of the caravans of the vassal kings, they can only honestly follow the charter, and they don't know what's going on, Ma Zhongcheng's performance is very good, and every time an imperial relative is impeached, the above can immediately make an approval and even kill the auxiliary generals of the governor's office, and even put them in the governor's prison.

In this way, Ma Shiying is even more unscrupulous, and the officials and servants of his governor's yamen are also scolded by these businessmen as cool officials and huge greed, and there are countless people who scold Ma in major newspapers and periodicals such as "Daming Daily", but the entire Fengyang government is surprisingly consistent.

The reason is very simple, although the collection of commercial taxes has offended many powerful people, but it can also make a lot of money, a low-class county in the past now has an income comparable to that of a government, and the county prefect is naturally supportive, not to mention that Ma Shiying allows them to withhold a certain percentage of the tax for their own use, so that the enthusiasm is higher.

As for whether it will be retaliated against by the magnates in the future, it is not what they and local officials are worried about, anyway, there is Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying in front, and Xiucai only scolds Ma Shiying if people want to scold him, and even many Fengyang officials are scolding Ma Shiying while doing their best for Ma Shiying.

Zhu Youxiao didn't stay long in Fengyang, and after encouraging Ma Shiying a few words, he went directly south to Nanzhili.

During this period, Sun Chengzong's reform of paving the land into mu in western Shaanxi also kicked off.

The commercial activities in western Shaanxi are not developed, but there are many large landlords, and many of them are military landlords, but Sun Chengzong is the secretary of the military department and the trilateral general system, and he controls the fate of these officers, plus Zhu Youxiao also explicitly ordered the assistance of the new army of the Praetorian Guard stationed in western Shaanxi, so no one can stop it.

More than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it is the richest in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is the weakest place in the imperial rule.

Since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao made his most trusted eunuch Wei Zhongxian the eunuch of Nan0 Jing, and Zhu Youxiao began to brush his sense of existence as the emperor and his control over Jiangnan's wealth and literary style.

Pink walls and tiles, small bridges and flowing water, Zhu Youxiao stood on the bow of the boat bathed in the sunset, Lingxin with him gently brushed off the forehead of Zhu Youxiao, and she also went out for the first time She didn't expect that she would one day stand with the emperor, looking at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

Seeing that he had arrived in Stone Town, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh, when Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne here and became the emperor, he was afraid that he would not think that the Ming Dynasty he established would one day fall into the hands of his future people.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch guarding the town of Nan0 Beijing, Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the military department of Nan 0 Beijing, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei Guo, who assisted in guarding Nan 0 Beijing and leading the military capital and the title of prince and prince, were already waiting in front, waiting for Zhu Youxiao to get off the ship to accept their visit.

In a rich and elegant place like Jiangnan, Wei Zhongxian is obviously a lot fatter than in the capital in the past, and Nuo's big belly seems to be about to break his silk and satin clothes, but when Zhu Youxiao came, his fat body ran to Zhu Youxiao very vigorously to cry like a child who hadn't seen his father and mother for many years: "The old minister has seen Your Majesty!" ”

"Get up, you can see that you have a good life in Nan0 Beijing", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but quip.