“…… According to my estimates, there will only be two kinds of merchants in the world in the future, one is the merchant who can pay taxes, and the other is the merchant who cannot pay taxes...... and the merchant who can pay taxes naturally refers to the merchant who can get invoices and pay taxes from me. Merchants who cannot pay taxes' refer to those merchants who have not passed the selection of the tax superintendent, who are not in my hands, and who cannot get invoices, they will naturally not be able to pay taxes, and the fate of these two types of merchants will be related to the national fortune of our dynasty, if the merchants who can 'pay taxes' overwhelm the merchants who cannot pay taxes, it will be a great fortune for our dynasty, and the national glory of our dynasty can be extended; if the unfortunate merchants who cannot pay taxes have the upper hand, then we will not be able to talk about collecting labor, commerce, and customs duties, and the matter will be declared a failure, and there will be no money to pay military salaries. How to resist external humiliation? If there is no money to pay for relief, how can the people be safe? Without the money to pay for all kinds of expenses of the imperial court, I will be Ming for 200 years, and this will be the end of ......"

“…… I still have a detailed plan for cultivating businessmen who can pay taxes over businessmen who can't pay taxes, so I won't repeat them here, and I'll talk about them to Master Xu later, this is just a general policy......"

"The fourth thing, which is also quite important, is also related to Shanghai......

“…… If I want to control Shanghai, I must have a reliable person, I am most assured of Master Xu, but Master Xu is already a minister, and then to be in charge of Shanghai County, it is impossible, therefore, I plan to send Master Xu's side of Shi Kefa to Shanghai as a county, Shanghai to take over, this person has Master Xu's attention, and take him with him to teach, presumably the character is no problem, this son I have also seen, I feel that he is a loyal and reliable person, but a little pedantic, lack of courage, but need Master Xu to teach more, need more things to hone, he day, must become a talent, become the pillar of the country, choose this son to serve as Shanghai County, fill the eyes of the Shanghai plan, I also have another consideration, this person is loyal to the king, I am relieved, in addition, this son is Donglin Zuo Guangdou's disciple, and Donglin is inextricably linked, with this son as the Shanghai county commander, as the Shanghai plan of the array, it is more suitable, want to have this person as the Shanghai county commander, even if I have some outrageous moves in Shanghai, it will not be too much to attract Donglin's opposition, but it is a good lubricant, It can be used as a multi-faceted buffer, and it is an important ......role in maintaining multi-party relations, this son's errand in the Si Nong Division, there is no need to remove it, but still let him do it, I will take Shanghai as the immigration center, and the county order and the errand of the Si Nong Division will help to assist Master Xu in immigration, presumably it will not be too difficult, so that Master Xu can control the ......situation in Shanghai, in addition to the position of the county magistrate, there are also county officials, chief bookkeepers, county lieutenants, these official positions, I also plan to change people, replace the candidates, from those immigration officials, select reliable, Those who have the ability to fill it, the candidate, must be honest, capable, able to endure hardships, this to Shanghai, is a big construction, big development, must be hard, that blindly only know how to read, poetry, enjoyment, I am not eye-catching, bother Master Xu to choose ...... carefully"

“…… In addition to the limited number of officials in Shanghai who need to be replaced by the immigration officials in charge of immigration, those officials should also be replaced by me, and they should be replaced by reliable and capable people, these officials can be selected from those Guozi prisoners and prisoners who participated in the immigration, and I promised those people before that they would give them a way out, although they went to Shanghai County to do the errand of officials, but the imperial court had previously concluded that those Guozi prisoners and prisoners could bring official officials to the errands of officials, that is to say, those officials in Shanghai County could bring official official goods in the future. That is to say, in the future, a large number of people in Shanghai will change from officials to officials, and officials will become ......the norm, which is also one of my ideas, I am ready to expand and promote this model, reform the structure of only three or five formal officials in a county today, and prepare to expand some officials into the structure of officials, formalize officials, and expand the small 'government' into a large 'government'. The government can fully complete all kinds of things assigned by me, otherwise, let three or four chief officials of Shanghai County be in charge of a huge Shanghai County, collecting tens of millions of taxes every year, which is obviously impossible. There must be procrastination, there must be a way to embezzle, etc., there are drawbacks in this, Master Xu must also understand, I will not say more, it can be regarded as a pilot ...... of my reform of our dynasty structure"...,

“…… Expand the 'government', reform the structure of our dynasty, let the officials bring official products, officially become officials, let the officials regularize, let the officials have a channel for promotion, and there is another reason, I need a lot of official positions to 'wholesale' the people who follow me, and I am not afraid to tell Master Xu that I want to change my current fatigue, change my current decadence, and change this world that is about to slide into the abyss, and there must be a large number of people who follow me to work together and help me...... Especially the scholars, if the group of people who follow me do not get developed, they will definitely abandon me, they will definitely not support me, and they will not be able to support me, so I need a large number of official hats to 'wholesale', and today's official position is a turnip and a pit, if I want a few official hats, it is not difficult, but I need a large number of official hats. Wholesale', but it is also extremely difficult, therefore, I can only put the idea of the idea of the official to the official, fortunately, this matter has been agreed by the imperial court before, there is no need for me to bother, at this time Shanghai is in accordance with this rule, it is not difficult, this is also a means for me to win people's hearts, although this means is a little dark, Master Xu will definitely scold me, but, in this extraordinary period, I have no choice but to do so......"

“…… After the formation of the new Shanghai 'government', I believe that under the full promotion of me, within two years, the economy of Shanghai County will develop rapidly, and the annual tax payment will easily exceed that of a state or a prefecture,...... This is my initial idea, when Shanghai is changed from a county to a 'province', then the official position can be changed from the seventh rank to the third grade, or even the second grade, in this way, it can be regarded as giving the officials and officials who follow me a channel for promotion, so that they feel that they have a head start with me, so that they will be serious in their work, they will be willing to work hard, and I will have a place to borrow, otherwise, with me and a few masters and a few other people, even if it is a great ability, there is no power to return to heaven......"

"When Shanghai's model achieves certain success, it can be promoted to other regions, such as Tianjin, Yantai, Qingdao, Guangzhou and many other maritime trade outlets, on the one hand, to consolidate this new 'government' model and lay the foundation for collecting more taxes, and on the other hand, to provide more development space for more people who follow us......

“…… The success of the Shanghai model, I think, this is inevitable, I want to have behind the full promotion, it is difficult to succeed, once Shanghai succeeds, it must be extraordinary, if you want Shanghai to bear ninety percent of the world's tax revenue as a county, enough to make Shanghai a model in the world, become the pearl of the empire, then it is not difficult to transfer the officials in Shanghai to other places, so, in addition to broadening more room for improvement, but also to promote the Shanghai model to the whole world, thinking of that time, collecting taxes from the world, it is not a problem......

“…… All these strategies will be related to Shanghai, and if Shanghai succeeds, I will be lucky; If Shanghai loses, the country loses, and the success or failure of victory and defeat is in this move, and I hope that Master Xu will work hard......"

"In addition, I am rambling on some trivial matters, and I also have to bother Master Xu's ......"

“…… Regarding the question of the salt merchant's wealth, now listening to Master Xu's words, there are more than 30 million silver, and the rest are fields, houses, shops, boats, etc. Those fields, but can be sold slowly, the question of who to sell to, this, mainly depends on who gives more silver, if you can't afford the silver, I'd rather put it there, anyway, the field won't run, it's best to sell it to those merchants I support, in order to help those merchants grow ............, I said, in the future, it will be a battle between the two kinds of merchants, and the merchants who can pay taxes must win, but I prefer not to sell, Master Xu's agricultural division can temporarily take care of these fields, The land rent collected can be directly used as food for disaster relief for immigrants, there are so many fields in my hands, and I am not afraid of his soaring food prices, which is also beneficial to suppress food prices, the so-called 'food in hand, do not panic in my heart', how to do it, Master Xu himself considers ...... "...,

“…… As for the control of the 'tax-payable' merchants, this is left to Er Xizi, and his tax supervisor naturally has a way to distinguish who has problems among these people and who is playing tricks, and Master Xu only sells ......"

“…… As for the shop, it is best to sell it completely, and it is best to exchange the shop for money, and in the same way, it should be sold to a merchant who can pay taxes......"

“…… About the house and residence, this can not be busy for the time being, I and Lin Zhu, Liu Zongzhou they have a promise, will support them to run a school, an annual investment of no less than two million taels, this time and the salt merchant fighting law, they also made a lot of efforts from it, in the future it is my helper, I simply do it to the end, the salt merchant those houses and houses with them to run a school, as a school, the salt merchant money is all by sucking the blood of the people of the world, and now with their houses for the world to train future generations, it can be regarded as the end of a period of cause and effect, a good story, Master Xu can pay attention to this, leave the house suitable for the school, wait for the news, and hand it over to them to run the school in the future, this is a century-old plan, and it is worth investing more now......

“…… As for the boats, too, they were sold in general to support the ...... of the merchants."

“…… Master Xu can pay attention to the fact that Wang, Liang, Guo and other families, as I said before, need to take them out of this case, and I also need to show their merits, Master Xu can return some family property to them as appropriate, mainly shops, to help them recover quickly, land and houses, just to say, not to give more, especially land, it is better not to give, in addition, all the family wealth sold by the salt merchant this time, even if it is to be supported' I will send the salt merchants to Shanghai to educate this time, and I am ready to select some people from among them to support, but I must also support a group of more reliable, relatively clean and easy-to-grasp businessmen, otherwise, it is not a good thing to let these old salt merchants dominate the family, these old salt merchants need to be supported, and they need to be more vigilant, and now I am out of helplessness, and it is too time-consuming to support small businessmen from an early age....... I can't catch up with the trip, there is no way to do this, this matter needs to be handled by Master Xu......"

“…… After the sale, it is estimated that there should be 40 million silver money, first allocate 5 million taels of silver to Master Xu to make up for the immigration money owed last year, for Master Xu's immigration, and the remaining silver money, I am ready to use it as a reserve silver for the issuance of banknotes, I have now run a small banknote system, that is, military tickets, before my reserve silver is insufficient, the action is not too large, can only run in a small range, now the reserve silver has enough, but you can try to issue the banknotes in my Daming, although the scope of the military tickets is small, But it can be paid in full and in a timely manner, and it also has a certain reputation, and the common people are not too resistant to military tickets, and I am ready to expand the scope of issuance and circulation on the basis of military tickets, and I want to fight in the north this year, the cost may be as high as 10 million taels, if I take all the silver to pay, this is really a pain in my flesh, if I can pay with paper money such as military tickets, then I may only need to spend 5 million silver to go out......"

“…… After the sea is navigable, I will send a new army to escort it, and in addition to the five million taels of silver given to Master Xu, I will also leave an additional 10,000,000 taels of silver in the Southern Bank for the bank's backup and other expenses. The other 25 million taels were shipped to Beijing, and I was going to build a huge glass cover with glass outside Liulizhai and pile the silver in the glass cover, so as to show that my reserve silver was sufficient, and that the military tickets had enough silver to cash, and began to focus on promoting the promotion of paper money, although this method was a bit too child's play, but it was also the fastest and most effective method at present,...... I think that this year's war in the north has started, and I have to spend nearly 10 million silver to go out, if all the silver is used, I have no choice, I need to use the fastest way to make the military tickets pass on a large scale, otherwise, 20 million taels of silver, but it really won't take two years ......, of course, I don't plan to let all the paper money replace the silver at once. …… Silver, copper coins and paper money will also coexist at the same time, I will not force the common people to use paper money, but will only let the imperial court, the army and other expenses gradually force the use of paper money, so as to promote the circulation of paper money, I understand the disadvantages of my Ming Dynasty's previous use of paper money, these I will pay attention to, will not force, force everyone to use, this, please Master Xu rest assured, I have the confidence and means to control ......"...,

“…… Originally, I had to send a new army to the south of the Yangtze River to transport the silver, but Master Sun has been trying to prevent me from sending the new army to the south of the Yangtze River, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and intensify the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, so it will be delayed until this time, thanks to Master Sun's persuasion, otherwise, the matter of the salt merchant will not be as peaceful as today...... alas, and he said that the salt merchant went down, so he didn't say more......

“…… By the way, the sailors will also take Shanghai as one of their home ports, Shanghai will have to bear the burden of tens of millions of taxes in the future, and I naturally cannot ignore the security issue,...... In addition to the navy, I will leave an additional new army in Shanghai to protect the ,...... of Shanghai."

“…… Finally, let's talk about Shanghai's planning and development......"

“…… Shanghai is now just an ordinary small county, to become the pearl of the empire, the annual tax collection of more than 10 million super city, must be well planned, such as how wide the street should be, how to lay out the drainage and flood control system, where the port should be, business districts, residential areas, factory areas, etc., all need a good layout and division, in order to better meet the development needs of Shanghai, otherwise, can not meet the needs of urban development, year after year of reconstruction, will delay the development of Shanghai, therefore, we should pay attention to the layout and planning in advance...... ”

“…… Regarding the planning of Shanghai, I think Master Xu was born in Shanghai and grew up in Shanghai, so he must be very familiar with Shanghai, and the planning matters will naturally be handed over to Master Xu, and I will only give some advice, and I will talk about it in detail after the draft plan is ......"

“…… As for my requirements for the new Shanghai, for the time being, there are a few points: first, the streets must be wide, as the pearl of the empire, the streets must be able to walk at least four carriages at the same time, if it is a main road, it needs to be able to take six or even eight carriages, otherwise, it will definitely drag down the future development, when Shanghai is regarded as a super city with an annual tax of 10 million, the population will definitely reach 1 million; Second: On both sides of the street, there must be a sufficient amount of roads for people to walk, which I call sidewalks, and I want to be the pearl of the empire every day, and people and cars travel together, and there must be collisions at all times, so it is necessary to separate people and horse lanes; Thirdly, there are necessary drainage and flood prevention measures, not to mention drainage, I don't want to soak the imperial pearl in the water as soon as it rains and the tide rises, once the city is flooded, the damage should be immeasurable, so this must be taken seriously, even if it is worth spending more money in advance; Fourth, about the city wall, I mean, Shanghai does not build the city wall, to make a new type of open city, in order to save money, the heavy task of defending Shanghai, I handed over to the new army and the sailors, I believe them, I have always thought that active defense is better than passive defense, to nip the problem in the bud, is the best, rather than waiting for the enemy to knock down the door before passive defense, I thought, if the enemy hits the door, even if there is a city wall, this pearl of the empire will be dusted, therefore, I decided, the new Shanghai will not build a city wall......"

[After hesitating for many days, I finally decided to be wordy, some book friends feel that the book treats the salt merchant too gently, it should be tough, iron-blooded, kill to the end, it shouldn't be so soft, and compromise with the salt merchant, look boring, in this regard, I can only smile bitterly, at the beginning, I also planned to let the protagonist be tough to the end, iron and blood to the end, kill to the end, but after deciding on iron and blood, deduce the future development, and find that there is a chaos, the organization and plot of things are not connected at all, and the result of the deduction is that the handling of things is too blunt, and there are too many troubles, Therefore, it has been revised several times to change to the current state, and it is necessary to compromise. Previously, I have not had a good understanding of the consequences of the turmoil in the salt industry, thinking that as long as the people's hearts are on their side, as long as the army is in their own hands, and the righteousness is on their side, there is no problem in dealing with salt merchants, and they can deal with it as they want. If it is not dealt with in a timely manner, there is a tendency to become more and more intense. The problem of eating salt, even today, is still quite fragile, so in the Ming Dynasty, where transportation and communication were not developed, in the Ming Dynasty where it took half a year to walk from south to north, once the problem of eating salt had a storm, I don't know how far it would go, and book friends have also experienced this year's "salt farce", so we might as well start from here, deduce the "salt problem" of the Ming Dynasty, and substitute the consequences of the turmoil of eating salt in the Ming Dynasty, ...... with a wry smile, the problem of eating salt is far more fragile than imagined and cannot withstand the wind and rain. 】

[For this issue, I have talked with some book friends, and some book friends also expressed their agreement and understanding, and I am very grateful for this book, which has come to this day with everyone's support. 】

[For the problem of "hehe", try to play as little as possible in the future, no way, write to the happy place, and hit two hehe, everyone forgive me] ......,