After Laba, the weather is getting colder and colder, but the smell of the north wind is getting stronger and stronger.

Thousands of people are still fighting continuously in the examination room of the Gongyuan for 600 jinshi places, and several major gambling houses in the entertainment area outside the city of Jingshi have even opened a market for this year's meeting.

There are a variety of gambling handicaps, one of which has the highest prize is to bet on who can be selected by the emperor as the champion in one fell swoop from among the 6,000 reference candidates.

The champion, the leader, the flower, the top three bets on the handicap have the most, followed by the huiyuan who will try, etc. Then there are 600 jinshi places, and it can be said that the gambling houses have regarded this examination as a rare gambling event.

The continuous increase in the amount of prizes has stimulated the people of Beijing more and more, not only those who love gambling are all involved, but also the ordinary people of Beijing have also made a lively comeback for this overwhelming publicity.

The imperial court did not prohibit this matter.

Nowadays, Qinglou gambling houses, as long as you apply for a special license, can operate. The government has a relatively strong supervision of these entertainment industries, and their taxes are also heavier, from 5% to 20% of the ordinary industry business tax.

In the capital division, the Qinglou and the gambling house are all concentrated in a specially designated area in the southern part of the outer city.

It is strictly forbidden to force good people to become prostitutes and set up thousands of bureaus to make usurious profits, and their business projects are also subject to supervision. This industry is now very strictly regulated by the imperial court, but the tax is definitely quite a lot.

As long as they can receive taxes, the government does not discriminate against these industries.

However, gambling is separated,Gambling is strictly forbidden to involve lottery business,Lottery business,It belongs to Liu Jun's reserved business,Royal industry。 Liu Jun sent his own people to operate,Now there are more lottery business projects. There are hope for student scholarship, pension lottery, orphan rescue lottery, disaster relief lottery and so on.

These lottery tickets are issued all over the world, because of the low entry threshold, high prize amount, reliable prize and other advantages, the circulation of each issue is very large, half of the lottery ticket sales in each issue are used as bonuses, and then deduct the cost of issuance, the lottery business has a forty percent profit, quite amazing.

However, Liu Jun got this business under his own name. It's not that I'm greedy for money, I just think that the royal business is better regulated. He set up a special account for all the money he received, and the funds were used for special purposes. If it is said to be a student lottery ticket, then the money obtained will be deducted from the operating expenses, and it will definitely be used to help students, build schools, donate books, pen and ink, and so on. It is said that it is to raise orphans and the elderly, and the money will definitely be sent to nursing homes everywhere. If it is said to be an orphan, it must be given to an orphanage.

Although all this money was spent in the end, the imperial court actually did not lose money, and the cost was withheld in every period. In addition, the winner actually still has to pay taxes, and this tax is not low, you have to pay 20%.

Therefore, this lottery ticket can be said to be beneficial for all parties. A project with a very good reputation.

Many gambling houses are also eyeing lottery tickets, wanting a piece of the pie, and sneaking around. None of them ended well. The imperial court has a very strict history of cracking down on private lottery tickets.

For the imperial court, there are several things that are the most severe, one is rebellion, the second is tax evasion and smuggling, the third is the private minting and printing of counterfeit money, and the fourth is the private issuance of lottery tickets.

The fact that privately issued lottery tickets can be ranked behind privately printed counterfeit banknotes shows the strength of the imperial court's crackdown on this. As soon as they are discovered, they will be immediately sent to a labor camp, where they will dig mines for three or five years, and at least ten or twenty years old. The imperial court also did not execute them, but the longer the labor camp, the more they would be willing to die.

It has snowed several times in Kyoshi, but there has been no case of freezing and starvation. Most of the displaced people who were originally in Beijing were sent back to their hometowns, and the rest had already been resettled in factories on the outskirts of Beijing.

The imperial court is not afraid of a large number of people, as long as you have hands and feet, you can find something to do for self-reliance. Even those beggars, now there is basically not a single one in Jingshi. If he is young and good-handed, he will go directly to mining, and he will not lose a penny of his salary in the mine, he will eat and live, and he will wander around begging and not working, don't even think about it.

Those who are disabled, the elderly, the widows, and the young orphans are also accommodated.

Although it costs a lot of money, isn't this the duty of the imperial government?

The displaced people and beggars have all been resettled, and those who had no jobs before and lived blindly in the three sects and nine streams of the Beijing teachers were also swept away by the government and directly sent to the collective reclamation outside the Guan.

As for the hooligans, ruffians, gangsters, and thieves who beat the hands of the Qing, they are almost extinct.

So many of the newly conquered territories on the frontier are still empty, and the royal and imperial mines and workshops in various places still need a lot of labor.

In a word, the emperor will crack down.

Immediately started from the Beijing Division, and soon swept the world, those three religions and nine streams in various places, who did not do their jobs, mixed gray world, and relied on fishing for deviations, were all **** all of a sudden.

Liu Jun is not polite to them, no matter how you collude with the officials and powerful people in the local area, this strike hard is to start from above, and the officers and troops will be cleaned up.

After this round of severe crackdowns, it is much clearer today.

There are no more homeless beggars in the capital, nor can I see those ruffians, thieves and thugs, but anyone who has a little criminal record and no formal job is dragged to the frontier to reclaim the wasteland, or go to the mine to mine and labor reform.

Although this kind of crackdown is a bit too one-size-fits-all and too severe. But for Liu Jun, now all parts of the imperial court need manpower, people need to reclaim the land and expand the border, and people need people to mine and work, the country is so short of labor, but you still think about cheating and abduction all day long, and you can let it go.

Anyway, whether it is reclamation or sending to labor camp, it is not abuse, it is self-reliance through labor.

After a few years of transformation, they will either settle in the border gates, or come back after the transformation.

When Liu Jun proposed a strike hard, many officials also raised objections, thinking that the emperor was too harsh, but in fact, what he wanted to say in his heart was brutality.

But after only a few months, not to mention other places, only the Jingshi has completely changed.

Not to mention that after the renovation of the old city in Beijing, most of the workshops were moved to the suburbs of Beijing, and after the renovation of the inner and outer cities, the former low, dirty and messy shantytowns and slums have disappeared, replaced by neatly planned blocks. The streets are neat, the shops are lined with shops, and the residential areas are clean and well-groomed.

In the past, it was the wax moon every year, especially after the snow. Every morning, the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division always had to pull a few carts to lie down and go to the mass grave.

But by this time this year, I haven't met a single one who has frozen to death or starved to death.

There has never been a case of snow crushing houses, and the price of wages and charcoal has not increased in the month of Jingshila, and the government has provided a sufficient supply of charcoal, and every household can receive enough affordable charcoal for a family to survive the winter with their household registration ID card.

In the past, at this time of year, not only the officials in Beijing were nervous and worried about the hungry people, but also the big businessmen. At this time, you also have to help with soup soup and grain, once the hungry people are hungry, not to mention riots, but all kinds of theft and robbery are always difficult to control.

Now, the snow is fluttering, the weather is freezing, but everyone can enjoy the beautiful snow scene with a relaxed mood.

After the winter, Liu Jun's cooperation with the Mongol princes was also prosperous.

The textile factories established in Zhangjiakou and Chengde, Chifeng, Chaoyang and Jianyuan purchased a large amount of wool from the Mongols. The tannery also acquired a large amount of leathers.

These factories work overtime day and night, and before the onset of winter, a large amount of wool and leather is processed. After being transported to customs, it is processed by several large workshops. There are a large number of sweaters, wool threads, leather jackets, leather shoes, etc.

The wool yarn spun from wool is woven into a sweater and wool vest, which is extremely warm, and the leather jacket and leather robe are even more cold and cold. Leather gloves, leather boots, wool scarves, these goods suddenly became a hot commodity in Beijing, and were coaxed by the people of Beijing.

These things are not enough. Thanks to the full liberalization of trade with Mongolia and the large-scale trade, the cost of these furs has been greatly reduced, and it is no longer the high price caused by the Jin merchants who went deep into the grassland to buy and then move all the way back in the past.

Nowadays, any ordinary person can't afford to buy a sheepskin robe, but he can also buy a few catties of wool to weave a sweater and scarf by himself.

At the same time that the fur processing products were selling well, taking advantage of the custom of the Mongols to slaughter a large number of cattle and sheep for the winter before the arrival of winter, the imperial court also began to purchase a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock.

In the past, the vast majority of people did not have the opportunity to eat beef in their lifetime, and cattle were the main livestock for farming, and the imperial court issued a special decree not to slaughter cattle without permission. Even if you are rich, you generally don't have much chance of eating beef.

But now, through the grassland, a steady stream of fresh cattle and sheep are transported to the Central Plains, not to mention processed into canned food and air-dried meat, which can be transported in at a lower cost.

Nowadays, not only the supply of beef and mutton to the people in the north has increased greatly, but even the far south can also get a large supply of meat products.

The people's food baskets were also much richer.

While enriching the people's vegetable baskets, the imperial court naturally collected a lot of money from customs duties, transaction taxes, business taxes, etc.

Thousands of people were nervously taking the exam, but Liu Jun was very leisurely wearing a sheepskin robe and shopping on Ximen Street in Beijing. A large group of guards and pro-army, as well as guards such as Jinyi Wei and Dongchang, were scattered around, either openly or covertly.

In recent days, I have been dealing with various financial and tax reports all day long, Liu Jun is also a little tired, it is snowing today, Liu Jun simply threw down the chapter, and took his son Liu Chenggong and Fu Shan, Liu Yunsheng and other courtiers to pay a private visit to Weifu.

Ximen Street has become one of the most lively areas in Beijing, and the New Year is approaching, and the businesses along the street have begun to stir up the atmosphere of the New Year.

"The renovation of the southern city has been quite successful, and I think the inner city can be renovated next year." It was Liu Jun's brother who spoke, the governor of the Shuntian Mansion of the Han Dynasty, and as the governor of the Beijing Division, he was far more powerful than the ordinary local governor.

Zhang Guowei, the governor of Zhili, also nodded, "With such a transformation, the place is more beautiful, neat and smooth, and more prosperous." The imperial court invested a lot, but it made a lot of money when it changed hands. If the inner city is renovated in this way, it will be possible to make a lot of money at that time. ”

"Not only that, but the old city of Jingshi has been renovated, the neighborhood shops have become more tidy, and the imperial court has also made money. In this process of transformation, the house was demolished to build a house, which required all kinds of bricks, stones, sand, wood, etc., which also stimulated the demand, and the merchants and ordinary people also made a fortune. ”

Fu Shan also said, "The urban renovation project is huge, and there is a lot of labor, and many people in Gyeonggi can also come to work in their spare time and earn a lot of wages." ”

"When the renovation of the merchant contracted the project, after the renovation of the merchant people rented to buy shop houses, in this process, the imperial court has to collect taxes, every circulation of a link, the imperial court can collect a tax, the whole project. The imperial court collected a lot of taxes. ”

Liu Yongsheng also pointed out an important point.

The tax of the Han Dynasty, except for those small business owners, is basically taxed at the tax rate. In the era of the Ming Dynasty, the commercial tax was basically a tax package and a fixed tax, and the taxes collected by officials would not be rewarded, but would be called the exploitation of businessmen.

However, the tax revenue of the Han is that the more prosperous the commercial activities in the market, the more taxes they receive.

Liu Jun strolled all the way through the streets, looked around, and asked for the price from time to time. Buy one or two items.

For what the ministers said, he knew better than everyone else that it was not a very unusual thing. In later generations, city management was understood by every local official.

Of course, this also has to be supported by the environment. If you don't have a stable environment, it's hard to run a city.

When the Han Dynasty was founded and Vientiane was renewed, many old drawbacks were naturally removed. The old network of interests has been broken, and many new systems have been introduced. Many new things are able to survive.

In particular, the emergence of silver dollar bills and silver and copper coins has laid the foundation for commercial prosperity, and silver dollar bills have greatly increased the amount of money in circulation, and transactions have of course become more convenient. Business is also becoming more and more prosperous.

The emergence of banks, especially their ability to absorb the scattered money in the hands of the people and store it, and then release it to the merchants to lend, helped them to do business stronger.

The refresh of the new dynasty officials. The attitude of supporting business is promoting the prosperity of business.

When many conditions came together, Dahan's commercial market finally completed a qualitative and quantitative breakthrough at this time. The result is this prosperous scene today.

The prosperity of industry and commerce has increased the tax revenue of the state, which in turn has strengthened the country.

With such a prosperous scene, the old city renovation project of the imperial court can of course be so smooth. The imperial court did not levy the people to be unpaid servants, nor did it let the local government provide all kinds of materials and materials, but used the taxes received from the common people and merchants, took the money, invited bids from the merchants, and purchased various materials from the merchants who won the bidder.

Take the money to resettle the residents of the old city and compensate the merchants.

He hired the people to work and paid them.

In these links, there is no coercion, they all abide by the laws of the market economy and cooperate fairly.

After the renovation project was completed, the old towns, which were originally low and dirty, were like a piece of renovated furniture, which suddenly appreciated several times in value. Through the sale of value-added shops and houses, the imperial court returned the funds, deducting various input costs, and also made a lot of money.

Others may think that this whole process is very magical, and it also violates the rules of the government since the previous dynasties.

But Liu Jun feels that in fact, things are not troublesome, governing a country, sometimes it is enough to treat him as running a company, and many places are common between the two.

If the imperial court changed the traditional way to renovate the old city, forced the people in the old city to relocate, and conscripted the people to work and serve free of charge.

On the surface, it doesn't seem to require much money, but in the process, it is necessary to collect more people from all over the country, not to mention the low efficiency, and it will also attract the people to complain.

At that time, the imperial court repaired the outer city, but in the end, only one southern city could not be repaired, why, it was their wrong way of doing things.

According to the method of renovating Liu Jun's old city, not only can the outer city be repaired on all sides, but the imperial court can also make a lot of money.

If you build an urban area, build shops along the streets, and build residential buildings in the city, the price will not rise sharply.

Fix it up, and the money you earn will be used as start-up funds for the next urban construction project.

However, after carefully watching the situation in the southern outer city, Liu Jun decided not to rush to start the construction plan of the east, west and north outer city for the time being.

The South Outer City has just been renovated, and a large number of shops and residences have been added all at once, although it is very popular, but it has not yet been fully digested. If the imperial court starts the plan to build a new city at this time, then these vacant real estate shops will not be so easy to sell for a while.

According to the laws of the market economy, Liu Jun felt that it was better to wait first, and when the market in the southern city was saturated and the merchants and people had more needs, it would not be too late to start the construction of the next new outer city.

There has to be a demand for a market. (To be continued.) )