Under the New Deal system, the imperial examination is indeed not very applicable, because under the new deal system, a larger number of administrative personnel is needed, and the previous imperial examination system cannot be satisfied.

Although the imperial examination began to decline, being able to obtain a meritorious name in the imperial examination is still a shortcut to enter the officialdom, which means that you can get a relatively high starting point from the beginning, and this is also a matter of gold content.

After the imperial examination and the civil service examination were over, Zhu Youxiao was relatively leisurely, although the amount of government affairs in the imperial court increased rapidly after the telegram, but he really had to deal with less.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao began to devote more time to the state-owned capital consortium, mainly to pay attention to the development of the state-owned capital consortium, correct some mistakes, and provide some ideas.

Not long ago, there was a demonstration in Nanjing against the imperial court's levy of tolls to enter the northern market, in which tens of thousands of people participated.

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, great changes have taken place in the northern provinces, because after the comprehensive reform, the goods of state-owned capital completely occupied the northern market, and the trade barriers within the Ming Dynasty continued to expand.

Such trade barriers have made the external market for Jiangnan commodities smaller.

"Tian Aiqing, what do you think is the inside story behind this parade?" Zhu Youxiao asked Tian Ergeng, very suspicious in his heart.

"I think that there are indeed people behind the scenes." Tian Ergeng said with great certainty.

"As long as it's not messy, the march is whatever they want." Zhu Youxiao immediately smiled, this matter obviously could not be organized by ordinary people. It would obviously not have been possible without the involvement of those capital merchants.

If it was just a demonstration, Zhu Youxiao would still be very tolerant.

Zhu Youxiao can also understand the purpose of these people's demonstration. It is true that the market of the factory owners in the provinces south of the Yangtze River is constantly being occupied by state-owned capital consortia. And squeeze them out of the market through trade barriers. Naturally, it is impossible for a state-owned capital consortium to occupy the entire market. However, after the collapse of Jiangnan Capital, it is natural that private capital such as small and medium-sized enterprises in the New Deal area will be supplemented to give full play to their strong economic supplement capabilities.

"Your Majesty, as the so-called trapped beast is still fighting, maybe the next step will not be as simple as a parade." Tian Ergeng said with some concern, "And the number of unemployed workers in Jiangnan has skyrocketed this year, and it is prone to turmoil." ”

"Jinyiwei strengthens monitoring!" Zhu Youxiao nodded, knowing that the development of the situation could not end so simply.

After all, the state-owned capital consortium has smashed the jobs of many Jiangnan businessmen. Even if they are squeezed out of the market, they will inevitably have to fight, and those Jiangnan chaebols are naturally unwilling to sit idly by.

Yang Guorui is more calm, thinking that those chaebol and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan can't live a good life, but they jump out to rebel directly, at most, they rely on throwing money, supporting some people or creating some incidents, so as to try to disrupt the situation. But to achieve such a goal, judging from the current power of the imperial court. Obviously not easy to achieve.

"Your Majesty, now with the strength of a state-owned capital consortium. There is no longer a need for local trade barriers, and trade barriers in the north can be abolished, so that goods from the north and the south can be exchanged and a truly unified market can be built. Yang Guorui suggested to Zhu Youxiao.

"How so?" Zhu Youxiao asked. Yang Guorui explained: "Today, the state-owned capital consortium has a large number of advanced technologies, and the competitiveness of commodities is already very strong. It is difficult for southern capital businessmen to compete with state-owned enterprises by relying on production technology. At that time, the commodities produced by state-owned enterprises will sell well in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and those privately-funded businessmen will naturally be excluded from the commodity market. However, if many of the goods of the people in Jiangnan cannot be freely circulated throughout the country, their purchasing power will be drastically affected. ”

"Therefore, the removal of local trade barriers at this time can alleviate the problem of unemployment of workers in the Jiangnan area, and at the same time, it will not affect the continued crackdown on the power of private capital."

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and it was obviously not a conflict to open up the market and encircle and suppress private capital at the same time. The Ming Dynasty itself is a complete country, but the current Jiangnan region is occupied by those scholars and chaebols, these forces are relatively large, and a strong local autonomy system has been formed.

But the people in Jiangnan and other places are also the people of the Ming Dynasty.

While cracking down on those nobles and chaebols, we must also take into account the interests of those people. Although the removal of local trade barriers will allow many Jiangnan goods to flood back into the northern market, it is not possible in terms of mainstream goods. However, a lot of small and medium-sized capital with complementary significance will get a way out.

"Then remove this trade barrier and establish a unified market." Zhu Youxiao immediately decided, recently, he feels more and more that no matter what he does, it is always good to leave three points of leeway, and people still can't go to extremes.

Under Zhu Youxiao's decision, the northern trade barrier was finally officially ended after nearly seven years of implementation, and the major newspapers reported on this policy of the imperial court on the same day.

Many Jiangnan businessmen were overjoyed after seeing it, and the tightened noose was finally loosened, allowing them to see hope and breathe the oxygen they relied on for survival.

After the abolition of trade barriers, goods from each province were shipped to any province without any taxes being charged during transportation. Of course, there will be a toll on the highway, just as there will be a toll on the highway in the future. However, the toll on the highway is only within a reasonable range, and usually a heavy carriage full of goods only needs to pay a dozen copper plates when passing through a toll station.

This is a unified market, a truly unified market. It is only the biggest difference between China and India, India has not formed a unified market even in later generations, while China has had a unified market since ancient times.

In this unified market, both the New Deal provinces and the old system provinces can participate in the competition.

Zhu Youxiao dared to play like this, naturally because of self-confidence.

Now that the state-owned capital consortium has successfully grown, who can compete with it?

In terms of finance, a financial operation model with the central bank as the core and several state-owned banks as the main force has been formed.

There is only one, that is, the right to mint money, which makes it unbearable for private capital.

In fact, state-owned capital is already in an invincible position, and what we want to think about now is to toss less, it doesn't matter if the Jiangnan Shi clan and the chaebol are unwilling to accept the reform, first delay it for a few years, and boil it to a certain extent, after the people of Jiangnan see the effect of the reform in the north, they will naturally support the reform, and then the Jiangnan Shi clan and the chaebol will not be able to accept the reform if they do not want to. (To be continued.) )