Shanghai, far away in China, is still in a state of fixed peace and prosperity. This emerging city, www.biquge.info has shown its charm as a magic city, and has begun to attract the wealth, talents and customs of the entire Jiangnan region to concentrate on it. The Tang and Qing trade alone kept the city extremely prosperous. Every day, hundreds of thousands of merchants from all over the country, as well as the guys and workers who serve them, either bring special products from all over the world, or happily transport away all kinds of goods from Datang. Jiangnan people, whose commodity economy has sprouted, are becoming more and more accustomed to using high-quality and low-cost Tang goods. In particular, low-priced fabrics from the Tang Dynasty were dumped in the south of the Yangtze River, and bankrupt handicraftsmen had to seek new jobs, at a time when Shanghai was a city full of various job opportunities and opportunities, and a large number of unemployed people seeking a livelihood went to Shanghai to make a living. And a considerable number of them were finally fooled by the "human traffickers" of Datang into Datang or other overseas territories, and became immigrants.

Even the Qing court was somewhat satisfied with the rise of the city of Shanghai. The entire Jiangnan economy driven by Shanghai also promoted the tax revenue of the Qing State. Even though due to the previous loans, the Qing tariff revenue now mainly falls into the pockets of the Tang people to repay debts, but in the Jiaqing New Deal guided by the Tang people, the Qing people's tax reform is also very huge. For example, the original deed tax has been fully transformed into the current stamp duty, whether it is a farmer buying and selling land, or a businessman trading goods and signing a contract, stamp duty needs to be paid. The surge in commercial activity, coupled with the mandatory conclusion of contracts, has led to a surge in the amount of stamp duty paid. Then there is the commercial tax. Under the Jiaqing New Deal. The national commercial tax has been harmonized. And it avoided the drawbacks of many lower-level officials who wanted to eat and take cards, so that the commercial tax gradually developed.

One of the major policies in Jiaqing's new policy is to abolish the checkpoints involved in various places, and no longer charge customs clearance fees and identity certificates to past merchants. This new policy naturally promoted the movement of people and goods, and of course also provided some incidental convenience for the Tang people to obtain immigration.

At the beginning of the second year of Jiaqing, Liang, a businessman in Suzhou, was blackmailed by local tax officials when he was paying taxes, demanding filial piety. This Liang businessman is not something with a backstage. However, I have been doing business with the Tang people for more than a year, and I have never been blackmailed by Tang officials, and I am not angry that I was blackmailed by corrupt officials in my hometown, so I reported it directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Originally, the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not intend to deal with this kind of matter, but somehow, the Tang officials in Shanghai also expressed concern about this, and even Shanghai's "Declaration" even published a special article, indicating that a Suzhou businessman sued the local tax officials to go to the local Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the matter inevitably became a big problem in the end, and finally alarmed Jiaqing.

Jiaqing was from the time when he was still a prince. I hate all kinds of corrupt officials, and I heard this kind of movement at this time. Immediately from Beijing, he made a compromise and demanded that the Suzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate quickly handle the case, verify the evidence, and severely punish the perpetrators. You must know that now the emperor has his own telegraph office, and a telegram was directly photographed to the Suzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate. Most of the imperial historians of the Suzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate are old bureaucrats, although they are doing new business, they are still the old normal. But as soon as he saw that the emperor's decree had been issued, even the Provincial Procuratorate sent the imperial historian to come over, and he did not dare to slack off, and completed the collection of evidence within three days, and filed a public prosecution against the tax officials involved in the Suzhou Dali Court (court).

The Dali Yuan immediately held a court session and directly sentenced those tax officials who extorted bribes on the basis of the new law promulgated a year ago. Therefore, Jiaqing was also very satisfied, and commended the efficiency of the Suzhou Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Academy. Of course, secretly Jiaqing is still a little dissatisfied, that is, he only has the ability to interrogate about this case and similar cases at most, and how to judge the case, his emperor does not count. If it is due to Jiaqing's temperament, no matter how greedy he is, Jiaqing will behead him. Now the Dali Yuan is sentencing in accordance with the law, that is, the sentence of more than ten years plus exile from the army.

To everyone's surprise, the "Suzhou extortion of tax officials case" was like an introduction, and a large group of businessmen, mainly merchants from Jiangnan and Guangdong, were pleasantly surprised to find that suing officials was a feasible plan, and they became angry and began to submit materials to the local metropolitan procuratorates and sue some local officials for soliciting bribes from them. It's no wonder that some Qing officials are really shameless when they are corrupt, and they will leave a lot of tax payment receipts with questionable amounts, or other receipts and other things. If the local procuratorate does not accept such a thing, I don't know when it will be stabbed to Beijing. Although the newspapers opened by the Tang people in the Special Economic Zone, such as "Declaration" and "Ta Kung Pao", were of the Tang Dynasty, they quickly became popular throughout the region because of their rigor and readability. Moreover, Jiaqing himself also set up a way and made an enlightened style of opening up the way. As a result, if the Metropolitan Procuratorate does not accept the case and Jiaqing knows about it, the responsible person will be punished immediately. However, some Metropolitan Procuratorates believe that dealing with corrupt officials is an absolutely politically correct thing, and that institutions like the Metropolitan Procuratorate have done a lot of such things, so it is all political achievements. Now everyone is moving up and down in one system, if a Metropolitan Procuratorate Imperial History handles cases efficiently, handles big and important cases, reaches the heavens, and is seen by the officials, then his promotion in the future is obviously very promising. From the Imperial Metropolitan Procuratorate to the Provincial Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even finally into the Imperial Metropolitan Procuratorate, this is a majestic road.

Jiaqing did not care at all that his officialdom was shaken by this vigorous and resolute campaign to sue officials, and everyone was in danger, but he felt that his strength in dealing with corrupt officials was unprecedented, and he was quite face-saving. Moreover, in terms of actual benefits, the relatively stable industrial and commercial tax revenue has increased considerably, and even in the first year of Jiaqing, the Great Qing Dynasty, which experienced chaos, has doubled the level of Qianlong's 44 years in this kind of tax revenue, and the upward trend is still obvious. The imperial court is now short of money, and it is short of money for everything, so Jiaqing naturally will not refuse this large amount of income.

As for the Tang people, they were secretly laughing in the back. The rise in income of the Qing Dynasty was not harmful to them, and subtly changing society and people's hearts was the ultimate goal of the Tang people. As the governor in charge of the affairs of the Far East, Bai Nam only needs to follow various plans in terms of economic construction, and various companies and government agencies are enough to deal with it, so relatively speaking, military affairs have become the most important part of his energy now.

In fact, the specific military command has nothing to do with him, after all, there are front-line commanders, and Bai Nan feels that his actual role is actually that of a great steward of the army, providing all kinds of things needed for the troops fighting on the front line. For example, military spending, supplies, or more. (To be continued.) )