I have to admit that after ten years of painstaking accumulation, silence has woven a huge network. Its strength is beyond anyone's imagination...... Although we all know that he is very strong, he is only exposed to the tip of the iceberg, and you can't feel his true strength at all, so you are always confused by his harmless appearance.

Could it be that he has passed the test again and again, relying on luck? Apparently not.

Take this time to deal with the Qin Mission, before Wang Zhen left the capital, Shen Mo had already obtained all the information about him and Imperial Doctor Jin, and after careful analysis, he found the line of Jin Xueqi and Cui Yan.

By asking Cui Yan, Shen Mo knew that this person's ancestral house was occupied by Zhu Mujin, the king of Ruyang, and he had been fighting a lawsuit to come back, although the king of Ruyang was not a big bird, but it was not something that a small medical officer could shake, and Imperial Doctor Jin had been depressed about this matter.

So Cui Yan wrote a letter to Jin Xueyu and told him about the ancestral house, and Shen Jingluo would help him handle it, of course, his premise was that Shen Mo had the opportunity to return to Beijing, and speaking would work. When Jin Xueqi received the letter, he naturally made the meaning of the question clear, not to mention that the relationship between teachers and students was there, so he cooperated with Shen Mo to fool Wang Seal over.

In fact, Jin Xueyi's medical skills are very good, and after careful looking, hearing and asking, he knew that Shen Mo's illness was pretended, and if Shen Mo didn't buy him through, it would definitely be difficult to pass the test; If you do it, you can't hide it from the shrewd Wang Seal. Although it seems that Shen Mo can always pass the test without much effort, in fact, his kung fu is in a place that ordinary people can't see, and those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, which is what it means.

The return date is certain, but Shen Mo is not in a hurry, he can probably feel that he will not come back in a few years after leaving Jiangnan this time, and he must seize the last time to complete his huge arrangement.

The first is the layout of officialdom. In fact, over the years, his peers and students have long been all over the six southeastern provinces, but most of them have low official positions, and most of them have just reached the level of Tongzhi in the same year, or held positions in the province, and only a few have already held important positions such as prefects. But this allows Silent to calmly let his people occupy half of the southeast without making a big move.

Although he does not have the power to appoint officials above the sixth grade, he has absolute allocation power over the officials of the six southeastern provinces, and he only needs to hand over some face-revealing tasks to his own people, and even as long as he touches the edge, he can take the tailwind boat of the victory of the bandits, and it is logical to add officials to the knighthood, and the current official secretary Guo Pu is Gao Gong's fellow townsman, the two are seeking to enter the cabinet, and want to unite all forces to compete with Xu Jie, of course, they will not let go of this opportunity to sell well to Shen Mo...... Although Guo Pu didn't know Shen Mo, Gao Gong knew his power very well, and thought that if he exchanged a little official position for not helping him, even if he earned it.

Of course, his focus was only on the coastal areas and some important cities along the river, which was not conspicuous in the large-scale purge of officials by the Xu Party, and none of his people served as governors, or even political envoys, so it was not obvious.

Shen Mo was not carried away, he knew that his people were generally not qualified, although last year to this year was indeed a golden time for officials to be promoted, but pulling out too quickly, it was tantamount to pulling seedlings to grow, and there was no benefit. Therefore, it is still a step-by-step approach, don't underestimate the work of shortening only three or five years for them, which will be an unparalleled advantage in the future.

In addition to politics, the layout of industry and commerce is in full swing, although the industry and commerce of the Ming Dynasty are booming, but the problem is also very serious. It should be noted that during the Song Dynasty, the last peak of China's industrial and commercial development, the government-run economy dominated the country, and the private sector could only be supplemented. However, in this dynasty, the situation changed, and an important feature was that private industry accounted for the majority of production, and government industry was basically incomparable.

The whole society of this dynasty presented a picture of the growth of private industry and the shrinking of government industry. For example, in the silk weaving industry, the three major weaving bureaus of the government have 100,000 horses every year to solve the task of providing rewards. In fact, the burden is not very large, because Suzhou alone can produce more than one million pieces of silk every year. But even so, it is difficult for the weaving bureau to complete the task, sometimes less than half. It is in contrast to the vigorous private weaving capacity.

And contrary to people's daily cognition, the weaving quality of the government is far inferior to that of the private sector, so that every royal thing is entrusted to the people, and they dare not do it themselves.

Another example is the government-run weaving and dyeing bureau, after the completion and Hong, it gradually declined, not to mention that its scale is not compared with Wuhu, that is, compared with the private dyeing and weaving fields in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is far inferior; There is also the porcelain industry, the development of the kiln is very fast, the capacity is much larger than the official kiln, taking the green kiln as an example, the official kiln has more than 200 pieces of firing plate and dish utensils per place, and the folk kiln can burn more than 1,000 pieces of utensils per house. The kiln body and output per kiln of Jingdezhen are three or four times larger than that of official kilns.

Shen Mo has made statistics, in the forty-three years of Jiajing, among the 3,000 kilns in Jingdezhen, there are only more than 100 official kilns. The products of Cui, Zhou, Chen and Wu kilns sell well at home and abroad, and the quality is far more than that of the official kilns.

Even the mining industry, which was tightly controlled by successive dynasties, has undergone drastic changes. On the whole, the mining ban policy of the Ming Dynasty was not very strict, except for gold and silver, it was opened to private enterprises very early; Although the official mines and official metallurgy have been up and down, after Xuande, there has always been a downward trend, and after Zhengde, it has been rapidly clothed and even closed in a large area. Only about a few official mines in Yunnan and other provinces still insist on operating, but there is no big profit.

On the contrary, the private iron industry has developed rapidly, Wuhu has gradually become a private smelting center, and professional ironmaking steel mills have been expanding.

There are more than a dozen large private steel yards such as the famous Pu Wanye Steel Mill in Wuhu alone, each of which is thriving and responsible for half of the country's steel supply.

Even the ban on private mining of gold and silver mines has also created a dead letter, because most of the mining areas are deep in the mountains, and it is almost impossible to prohibit illegal mining. In fact, the 'theft of mines' has spread throughout the provinces. Some of them dug secretly in the mountains, some used their power to occupy the mines of the official family, and some even established armed forces to openly confront the government, such as the Quzhou Mine Rebellion, which is a typical example. And this kind of example is not uncommon, in Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou and other places, it is much more powerful than Zhejiang.

Finally, even the salt industry, which has been regarded as an important source of finance for thousands of years, is increasingly losing its original role. Because the price of official salt, which was the object of taxation of the imperial court, was very high, and the sales volume was shrinking day by day, the tax area became narrower and narrower, and of course, the tax revenue was also reduced accordingly. This is because of the impact of private salt, salt merchants rely on private salt trading to make huge profits, it is no secret, the national demand for salt is about 1.8 billion catties, and the official salt sales volume is only about 500 million catties, seven of the salt market has become the monopoly of private salt, seriously affecting the salt tax revenue.

Since the Jiajing Dynasty, the imperial court has been trying to increase the sales of official salt by increasing the number of people and increasing the number of catties, in order to increase the revenue of salt tax. However, people cannot eat salt as food, the salt market is limited after all, and cheap and high-quality private salt is better than expensive and inferior official salt in the market competition, and all the efforts of the imperial court have ended in failure.

All the above changes have nothing to do with silence, and if you insist on talking about it, at most it will accelerate its development. It can be said that in the last years of Jiajing, the government-run economy, which was the source of the royal family and the imperial court, was on the verge of collapse, and the vast majority of the market was completely occupied by the private sector.

Sadly, the vigorous development of the private economy could not bring much fiscal revenue to the Ming Dynasty, because compared with the Song Dynasty's 'one out of every five' tax rate, the Ming Dynasty's 'fifteen taxes one', or even 'thirty taxes one' commercial tax was too low; what is even more helpless is that even with such a low tax, tax evasion and tax evasion have reached the point where they are blatant and rampant, and it can be said that the imperial court can obtain very little benefit from it, and a large amount of huge wealth xxxsw.net small hands flow into those wealthy families, gentry and wealthy merchants.

Successive emperors and Shoufu wanted to change this situation, but the spokesmen of these interest groups have spread all over the court, and every time they have not yet been executed, there is a lot of opposition in the court, and the big hats of "competing for profits with the people" and "taking the opportunity to exploit" are buttoned up, and the proposers are all scolded as misfortunes like Wang Anshi and Sang Hongyang, and they are even surrounded and spurned by others...... So much so that no one dared to help the emperor do this.

As a result, there has been a strange phenomenon of industry and commerce becoming more and more prosperous and the country becoming poorer, and it has been regarded by some old scholars as evidence that industry and commerce have misled the country. But with his silent position and position, he can't completely reverse this situation, because in the final analysis, he is the biggest spokesperson for industry and commerce, and if he betrays industry and commerce, he will definitely be abandoned by those big families and big businessmen, and even become the object of their extermination.

But he didn't want the Ming Dynasty to be like this all the time, if he couldn't get energy from the development of industry and commerce, the status quo of the country's poverty and weakness would not change, although he had been committed to the development of the southeast, Shen Mo did not forget the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the exiles and the Jurchens, it was precisely because the Chongzhen court was poor and unable to provide disaster relief that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others had erections; It was also because the imperial court was weak that it was unable to cope with the two wars, and was finally cut off by the Manchus.

Therefore, if industry and commerce should develop, the national strength should also be improved, which is a silent policy and his guiding ideology. After a long period of research on various industries and a clear understanding of their current situation, he dared to launch it carefully, and only after the pilot project was implemented in various provinces and industries.

First of all, in the field of production, 'the people are advancing and the officials are retreating', since the government-run industry has already existed in name only, there is no need to occupy social resources. As early as nine years ago, he changed the weaving task of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau from "official weaving" to "official weaving", that is, the official bureau subcontracted its own tasks to private workshops, and allocated the capital and silver first. On the premise of greatly reducing costs, the official bureau can also complete the task with quality and quantity, and the court's use is also satisfied, which can be said to benefit many parties.

This practice of separating the government from production and only being responsible for subcontracting and supervising is in fact excluding the government from production, and it seems that it is superior, but in fact it puts the government and the private sector on an equal footing...... At the beginning, the eunuchs of the weaving bureau took advantage of the authority of the imperial court, and inevitably reduced the silver taels, filling their private pockets, and the large households saw that there was no profit, so they used the excuse that the price of the material was not enough, and asked for additional money, otherwise they would not start work. At this time, the authority of the imperial court did not play much role, and the internal supervisors could only give money obediently...... After all these years of observation, this method could indeed satisfy all parties, and Shen Mo ordered the weaving and dyeing yamen of all the departments to 'take out their respective official weaving farms, and change them to collar weaving as needed, and negotiate reasonably without squeezing the weavers.' He's probably counted that's all. If it is implemented in the southeast, it can reduce the annual expenditure of 600,000 taels for the palace, although it is not much in the southeast, but it is already a huge saving for the most humble Ming royal family in history.

Of course, the biggest profit from this is the private textile industry, which not only took over a large number of orders that originally belonged to the government, but also deliberately made trouble for the government to protect the government, and the business naturally became more and more vigorous. However, Shen Mo was not completely laissez-faire, he ordered that all looms must be registered with the weaving bureau before they could be produced, so that the government could control the number of weaving from the private sector and provide a reliable basis for taxation.

The business tax of thirty taxes must be paid, and no one has the face to say no. Of course, he did not forcefully promote this matter, but was ready to see the situation first and wait until the time was ripe. So this incident did not cause much turmoil, on the contrary, everyone praised him, and many of them were all handed over.

The rest of the industries will basically follow this official comprador and commissioned production method, but the details are different and will not be repeated one by one. Even for the more special mines, the government no longer produces directly, but adopts franchising to protect the exclusive right of the concessionaire, and in return, the operator completes the production tasks of the imperial court on behalf of the government and pays the tax in full. This has been considered feasible after being piloted in Fujian and implemented in Quzhou, and will be extended to the entire southeast in the near future.

He was not worried that this would attract criticism, because in the early years of Jiajing, he had issued an edict: ▲ All mountain farms, gardens, lakes and ponds, pits, flowers, fruits and trees and other pieces were originally part of the people's industry, and they were once taken by the government. This general edict was never thoroughly implemented, but it was enough to silence those who opposed it.

If it is said that he is still cautious in his silent treatment of the government and private industries, then he is making drastic moves in the layout of various industries in the southeast, because the senior officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee are not yet aware that this reform will profoundly change the face of the country.

To put it simply, he will be dozens of major industries in the southeast, combined with the advantages of each region to re-arrange, the slogan is 'reduce blind investment, avoid vicious competition, promote cooperation and win-win'0 of course, the original Ming Dynasty has Susong Nanjing as the center of the silk weaving industry, Wuhu as the center of the printing and dyeing, steel industry; Huzhou as the center of the raw silk industrial zone, as well as Jingdezhen porcelain industry, Fujian shipbuilding industry, Geshan iron industry, and other large and small more than a dozen professional industrial towns. Someone can come out to reintegrate and optimize the combination, which is what businessmen can't ask for, but the deeper impact can only be seen in the future.

Finally, in terms of foreign trade, Shen Mo asked the imperial court to open three city shipping divisions in Ningbo, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, and allowed private individuals to go to sea for trade. In a foreign country, it was easy to change things and make a profit.

More and more people regard the waves as a strange place and rely on the sails as the straw, especially the poor children in Huizhou, Fujian and Guangdong, who have thrown themselves into this dangerous livelihood in order to live a prosperous life. The maritime team of the Ming Dynasty has completely occupied the route east of Malacca, which of course stimulated the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry, near the coastal ports, there are large shipyards working day and night, and the increasingly skilled sea ships have not yet been launched, they have been snapped up by the maritime merchants.

However, on the blue sea, there are not only merchant ships that create wealth, but also many pirates, and the power of the Japanese is still not small in the South China Sea, and the pirate ships of the Francos and the Dutch are often cruising in the South Seas, trying to plunder the wealth of the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

So without a strong fleet escort, it is absolutely impossible, at present, the main one in charge of the South Sea route is the Xu Hai fleet, and the Daming coast is in charge of Wang Zhi, but this is just the right and right, the two of them have long been tired of it, and Shen Mo is even more worried about them.

He pinned his hopes on Daming's own sailors, and this matter was handed over to Zheng Ruozeng to operate behind the scenes, with the sailors established by Yu Dayou as the team, and recruited 20,000 soldiers, and planned to build 200 warships with strong firepower and perfect protection in advance. With the addition of more than 100 old-fashioned warships, a small hand-to-hand xxxsw.net is enough to build the strongest fleet east of Malacca, but it is impossible for the imperial court to afford this military expenditure. The silent design is that the coastal provinces will pay a part, let the sailors earn a part through the escort, and the rest will simply go out on their own...... Of course, in the name of a collective donation from the wealthy people in the southeast.

The reason why he was in such a hurry to build a fleet was not only to escort ships, but also because, according to Xu Hailai, the Spaniards landed in the northern part of the Luzon Islands and established colonies there.

Silence knew these notorious colonists very well, and knew that their next step was to fight the whole of Luzon.

At this time, more than 20,000 overseas Chinese had settled on Luzon Island, and the golden opportunity he had been looking forward to would come in a few years. Of course, now Luzon is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and King Suleiman has gone to Beijing to pay tribute, so we must be patient and wait for the right time, and at the same time be prepared for everything.

Tomorrow for the New Year, Xiao Shen will return to Beijing for a reunion......