Chapter 204: Let go of the rope around the merchant's neck
What is the biggest obstacle to economic development?
After listening to this question, friends of later generations may give countless answers in an instant, and even write a paper. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zheng gave Jiang Mingda, Wei Boyuan, Zhou Yun and Zeng Kaiyu such an answer, the biggest obstacle to economic development is the toll tax!!
The existence of toll tax and tax card is the biggest obstacle to the circulation of goods, if there is no such obstacle, then the economy of the Ming Dynasty will take off directly.
Even if the Ming Dynasty plans to change the thirty taxes to ten taxes, it is impossible to stop the take-off of the Ming Dynasty, because my Ming businessmen are really the most shrewd businessmen in the world, and they are the real ancestors who play tax evasion.
"If you want to thoroughly develop our Shandong, you have to completely let go of the rope tied around the neck of the businessman, as long as our goods are circulated, then in a short period of time, you will see very huge changes, how short this short time is, if you put it in Linqing, you will see it within ten days, if you put it in Qingzhou, more than a month, look at the entire Ming Dynasty, at most half a year!"
"At that time, if you are a person who is idle at home, you will find that all the rice you eat in Qingzhou has become Jiangnan rice, and you will see the leather goods from the north entering thousands of households in Jiangnan!"
"If you are an official, then you will find that one month's business tax silver may be worth as much as all your taxes in previous years and one year combined!"
"This is the change brought about by the circulation of goods!"
This is also in the Ming Dynasty, everyone does not know the truth of economic development, but in later generations, even a child will be very serious to tell you countless strategies for economic development, and the poor-mouthed child will tell you that I will tell you a joke and take out a loan to build a highway!!
Friends in the future generations don't know that if the Yankees plan to completely blockade our Great Holy State, the consequence can only be their own economic collapse, and the people of our Great Holy State can still live freely, the reason is that we are rich in land and resources, self-sufficient, self-produced and self-sold, and no country on this planet can dare to shout to the world, come on, block me, there is no other country except the Holy State.
In the Ming Dynasty, even if he has begun to lag behind Western countries, he is still the economic center of the world and still accounts for a very huge proportion of the world economy.
"I said that there is no tax on banknotes, it does not mean that all provinces and counties do not collect commercial taxes, and if the taxes on banknotes are removed, all prefectures and counties will be able to make up this tax in less than a month!"
"The biggest advantage of controlling the banknote customs is not here, but as I said before, you can find out the economic trend of the entire Ming Dynasty, and you can clear customs duties and calculate how much silver the imperial treasury can have in a year!"
"Knowing how much silver the court has, it is equivalent to knowing how many soldiers the court can move, knowing this, do you think we will be afraid that the court will come to encircle and suppress us?"
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, even the well-informed old man was shocked: "Lord, is it really as amazing as you say?" ”
Even Zeng Kaiyu, a person who knew Liu Zheng's intentions, asked in surprise: "The lord, since you don't plan to collect taxes, how can you calculate the treasury of the Ming Dynasty?" ”
Liu Zheng said happily: "I said that I don't collect taxes, and I didn't say that I don't register the goods, where does the ship come from, what goods are transported, and where are they sent, all of which have to be written down one by one. With all this, you still can't count how much business tax is collected in various places? ”
"With the tax system of the imperial court, the silver that really reaches the hands of the emperor is only the silver that enters Taicang, and a large part of the silver in Taicang is commercial tax, banknote tax and goods tax!"
Zeng Kaiyu nodded, and stopped talking, it's true, take Shandong as an example, a whole year's agricultural tax comes up, and the silver handed over to the imperial court into Taicang is only more than 8,000 taels! ”
Liu Zheng planned to play like this, he really wanted to touch the real foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the data in his heart came completely from the network of later generations, and there were too many things that were difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty has no internal money, the treasury is the internal money, the world is the old Zhu family, and the treasury silver is naturally the old Zhu family's silver treasury, but in fact there is still a distinction between the internal treasury and the treasury, most of the money in the three major levies of the Wanli Dynasty is taken out of Wanli's own pocket, and the irony is that Wanli's pocket is earned by Zhang Juzheng, the person he hates the most.
Zhang Ju is a generation of famous ministers, this history has been evaluated, whether it is a sunspot or a washing theory on the Internet in later generations, Liu Zheng does not approve, and at the same time agrees, he belongs to a middle school, and he is also witty, he thinks that Zhang Ju is good, but he doesn't understand what Daming really needs, and this step is too big, and it hits the ball.
When Liu Zheng has real data in his hands, he can make the next plan, because according to the current situation, if he resists the elite who came back from the Korean battlefield, what will be the direction of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zheng has no bottom in his heart, because the variables are too great.
The biggest variable is Yang Yinglong in Banzhou, according to the historical trajectory Yang Yinglong will be in public chaos next year, but after he came to the Ming Dynasty, he knew that Yang Yinglong still had another force hidden inside, that is, the descendants of King Ning, the young master's group, if there is no army to suppress the border, Yang Yinglong's rebellion will further expand its power, or start to fight in the nest, it is difficult to say.
The second change is external troubles, Li Rusong will hang up next year, as soon as Li Rusong dies, no one will be able to suppress the Mongols, and there will also be Nurhachi, what will happen to my Qing Dynasty, according to the regular history of the establishment of the Eight Banners system in the next few years, without Li Rusong, and he Liu Zheng poked holes in the Central Plains, will it rise more rapidly? These variables are not within Liu Zheng's control.
The third change is the rebel forces in various places, such as the river thieves in my Great Netherlands, originally in history, they gathered thousands of people in Wanli for 24 years to raise an uprising, and then they were quickly suppressed, but because of Liu Zheng, this group of people is still alive and well.
The fourth change will have something to do with the third change, the mine supervisors and tax envoys have already provoked the anger of the people, and the civil uprisings in Wuchang and other places, what will happen? On the Shandong side, Chen Zeng and Ma Tang were frightened by him Liu Zheng before they could make waves, what about other places?
With so many changes added together, history will take a complete turn, and countless things will be beyond Liu Zheng's expectations and control, and the chaos in the world is not what Liu Zheng wants, he wants to keep the foundation of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible.
Rebuilding a new dynasty on the ruins would have held him back and would not have caught up with the bloody feast of the West.
"Linqing is still from the imperial court, and the silver will be sent to Taicang for a penny, no, it can't be a penny, but more should be given, so that Wanli can rest assured that the nobles are stationed in Linqing, so that it becomes a situation of two benefits!"
Speaking of this, Liu Zheng paused slightly, and then said: "These are all things to be done later, the first thing we have to do at the moment is revenge, Brother Liu Kou can't die in vain, Ma Ning can't die in vain!" ”
As soon as they heard Liu Zheng talk about this, everyone's faces were suddenly full of murderous energy, especially Jiang Mingda, the deaths of these two people were directly or indirectly related to him, Ma Ning's death was because he accidentally caught the assassin's way at that time, and Liu Kou was captured alive because he wanted to retrieve his two treasure robbers.
"I, Jiang Mingda, don't poke a hundred holes in those bastards, I won't be surnamed Jiang!"
As soon as the words fell, the murderous aura in his body dispersed in an instant, Wei Boyuan reached out and patted Jiang Mingda's hand gently, Jiang Mingda was slightly stunned, and then he understood, and the momentum of his whole body was retracted, and the murderous aura dispersed cleanly.
However, while Jiang Mingda collected his murderous aura, he also muttered in his heart, there is one thing that he has been secretly investigating these days, Liu Zheng was injured by the assassin, but he didn't let him take revenge after waking up, what to say is not to blame him, this matter made Jiang Mingda feel extraordinarily strange, there must be something in it that Jiang Mingda is not clear, but he knows one thing, that is, this assassin, it seems that his nephew knows, not only knows but is also very familiar.
This made Jiang Mingda think about it, he thought that the person who assassinated him was from the rivers and lakes, and he couldn't deal with his nephew before, at least he had been to Juyizhuang and lived in Juyizhuang for a while, so during this time, he intentionally or unintentionally asked Zhou Yun and others to find out who had been in Juyizhuang, what was very special, with very high martial arts, and no one by Liu Zheng's side.
He already has a few goals, but unfortunately he doesn't know, he completely wants to left.
Everyone talked about revenge for a while, and Wei Boyuan suddenly led the topic to the treasures that Liu Zheng asked Luo Sigong to take away today.
Liu Zheng laughed and said: "Those things are not valuable, the half-body treasure mirror is a slightly larger glass, and then use a special method to coat the mercury on it in the back, this mercury is poisonous, harmful to the body, of course, the toxicity is very small, it is okay for a while, and you can feel it after a long time of contact, but it is not a big deal, this thing is too poor in reflection, and the real treasure mirror is still a lot worse." ”
"The rest of the medicinal jade or something, they are all glass products, this glass is hundreds of times worse than the real medicinal jade, the medicinal jade is too precious, and it is a work of art, what is this glass This fucking industrial product, the gap between the two is really a heaven and an underground!"
"Although that thing is very bluffing, it is not worth much, of course, it is still difficult to get those high-purity glasses nowadays, but the other ones with dark colors are really not worth much, just now those craftsman workshops in Boshan, you can produce more than a dozen or twenty a day!"
"Fortunately, now we are the only one in the world, and there are no other branches, so those that can be sold at a good price and have a high purity, some of them will be pulled to Jiangnan, and a branch will let Luo Sigong pull them to Jingshi, and they can be sold for thousands of taels of silver in Jiangnan, or even tens of thousands of taels, and they can be sold for a thousand taels at most in Beijing, but when they are sold to Jingshi, we are not purely for trading, you should understand this!"