At this time, Dongchang and Jinyiwei were simply life-urging charms for those officials and businessmen. With Zhu Youxiao's order, the factory guards once again launched a large-scale arrest activity.

This arrest made those businessmen and magnates involved in the illegal salt business almost unprepared.

Almost overnight, Jinyiwei and Dongchang, a total of more than 30 large and small businessmen and more than 20 powerful people were arrested. The merchants who have been engaged in illegal salt activities around the Changlu Salt Works for a long time have been almost wiped out.

At the same time as the arrest, the house and property were sparsely seized, which was a great disaster. All the businessmen and magnates who were arrested were all like ashes, and they were severely tortured by Dongchang and Jinyiwei at the Labor Reform Bureau, and they confessed one after another.

"Daming Daily" did not report on the crackdown on illegal salt, mainly because it did not want to alarm the illegal salt interest groups in other provinces too much.

At this time, a consensus was almost formed, that is, no matter what the emperor did in Beizhili, but the emperor did not cross the line, and the merchants of other provinces continued to wait and see.

Naturally, there was criticism from public opinion, and the salt merchants of Beizhili were all wiped out, and the smuggled salt merchants and magnates were all arrested and confiscated, and soon spread to the Jiangnan region. The criticism of Zhu Youxiao in the Jiangnan area has once again formed a craze.

The emperor was insatiable and competed with the people for profit. What else is there to profligate, to be poor and extravagant. Various rumors, various versions, are widely spread in the Gangnam area.

On the contrary, the wind rating in the North Zhili area is completely different.

After the start of some construction projects, a large sum of money was smashed. and Zhu Youxiao's improvement of various basic social guarantees in Beizhili. Coupled with the anti-corruption action, the people of Beizhili have a warm support for Zhu Youxiao. At the same time, there are also a large number of factory guards in Beizhili, these market water army. On weekdays, he intentionally or unintentionally promotes the emperor's various wisdom and martial arts, and refutes all kinds of rumors in the market.

The antagonism between the north and the south was a major issue in the late Ming Dynasty. This is related to the formation of a high degree of autonomy between the southern gentry and the chaebol, and the two sides have different interests and needs due to the uneven development. But the common people are all the same, almost all of them are in dire straits. It's just that the people in the south can't die of hunger. But it is also the rich who are endless. There is no place for the poor.

In contrast, the gap between rich and poor in the South is even more terrifying. Because the commercial capital in the north is not as developed as in the south, ordinary people still have a certain place to stand.

The common people of the entire Ming Dynasty. are waiting for Zhu Youxiao to save them.

This time, many Tongzhou merchants and Tianjin merchants were raided, and it also had an extremely serious shock to the merchants of Beizhili, and people were a little panicked for a while.

A merchant in North Naoli. It seems that they have no 'human rights' at all. The emperor can catch it if he wants, and he has no sense of security. After this arrest, some merchants in Beizhili migrated south one after another and never settled in Beizhili again.

Tian Ergeng quickly reported this phenomenon to Zhu Youxiao.

"Tongzhou Chamber of Commerce, as well as Tianjin Chamber of Commerce, after this arrest, most of the remaining businessmen went, and some families went to Yangzhou. Some moved their families to Nanzhili. is still preaching everywhere that if you don't leave, you will lose your head sooner or later. Tian Ergeng reported.

"If they love to go, let's go! It is not that the earth does not turn without them. Zhu Youxiao said indifferently. Tian Ergeng hesitated: "But after these merchants moved, they took a lot of silver with them. ”

"That's a problem." Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think that this phenomenon is equivalent to an outflow of wealth. If we talk about the wealth of a country, it is like a bucket full of water. Once a businessman withdraws a large amount of capital, it is equivalent to an outflow of wealth and a leaking bucket.

These fugitive merchants, the kind of merchants who have no borders, can never be relied upon.

Although Tian Ergeng didn't quite understand the specific theory, he also had a slight awareness.

"Since they want to escape, then they don't want to get involved in the Beizhili market again, and they will be eliminated immediately." Zhu Youxiao immediately decided.

Soon Zhu Youxiao took action and issued several decrees to further reform the tax rate of the tax bureau. This reform is to divide the enterprises in this province into enterprises in other provinces, so as to treat them differently in terms of taxation.

The first is to raise the tax rate of enterprises from other provinces in Beizhili, by 15 to 30 percentage points. Enterprises in this province enjoy more favorable tax rates, but at the same time, various capital flight liquidation policies have been introduced.

Just like the Yankees of later generations, if capital wants to be withdrawn from the United States, it must first be liquidated. If you want to walk, you can first let you peel off the skin.

The liquidation policy of Beizhili is not as strict as that of the Yankees, but the funds withdrawn will also be charged a 20% tax rate.

Such a liquidation must be carried out in cooperation with the bank.

Because the money is in the bank, it can only be pinched when people withdraw funds. But there is currently no paper money, and the bank still can't hold it.

Anyway, the policy was introduced first, and things like gold yuan coupons and silver yuan coupons can be done later.

This policy was introduced very quickly, and it can be said that this is a policy that does not have much significance for the time being. However, it is stipulated that enterprises in Beizhili Province must meet two conditions, one is household registration, and the other is whether they are settled in Beizhili.

Many of the merchants who moved out with their families were also registered businesses. These enterprises were soon labeled as 'foreign enterprises', and were levied higher tax rates, and their competitiveness was immediately inferior to that of enterprises in the province.

At the same time, the Civil Affairs Bureau has also carried out strict management of the place of origin. All businessmen from other provinces who want to set up a business in Beizhili must pay 2,000 silver dollars to apply for a 'temporary residence permit' in Beizhili.

The Beizhili market gradually prospered, and some merchants moved out, but more merchants cut their brains to squeeze in. 2,000 silver dollars, similar to the purchasing power of 1 million yuan of agricultural products in later generations.

Beizhili officially became a country within a country.

For businessmen, the temporary residence permit is the 'admission ticket' to enter the North Zhili Nuggets, but it is only an admission ticket. Similar to the green card system in Yankee's later generations, businessmen from other countries have to go to the United States to do business, pay a few million dollars first, and then how many jobs will be created.

To this end, the Civil Affairs Bureau has set up an 'immigration office' to review applications for domicile origin. Immigration to Beizhili requires a threshold. Just for businessmen.

The people of the Ming Dynasty who apply for the origin of Beizhi, as long as they are not in business, can pass for free. These are ordinary groups. If you want to do business. Operating assets not exceeding 1,000 yuan enjoy the same tax rate. But if you want to make your business bigger, more than 1,000 yuan, the tax bureau will classify these people's enterprises as foreign companies for tax collection, and at the same time chase the 'entrance fee' of 2,000 yuan, if you have obtained your domicile for more than 5 years, you no longer need to pay this 2,000 yuan. Nowadays, doing business in Beizhili must be registered and registered. The files of the Civil Affairs Bureau are placed there, and it is almost impossible to get through the customs in a fool's way.

However, these enterprises from other provinces want to enjoy the same tax rate as enterprises in this province. So what to do? Then you can only join forces with royal capital and become part of the royal consortium, and at this time you can enjoy the preferential tax rate for enterprises in this province.

It is equivalent to that if external capital wants to enter the Beizhili to do business, it can only pay higher taxes. Unless it is integrated into the royal consortium. Become a red-capped merchant.

If there is a large-scale influx of southern businessmen into the north to do business, the capital is too terrifying, and the royal consortium is in the incubation stage at this time, and this incubation process is not only the development of royal capital, but also the private businessmen who are supported by royal capital and join forces constitute a royal consortium with royal capital.

The incubation period of a capital consortium is the most fragile stage, and it must be protected by the state apparatus.

The introduction of this policy. On the one hand, it is used to liquidate those merchants who have fled, and on the other hand, it is to prevent the Beizhili market from being hit by foreign capital.

Today's Royal Consortium. It's already preliminarily knitted. However, the territory of Beizhili Province has not been completely digested, and it is still in a stage under the confinement circle.

The Royal Consortium is still in the incubation period for the time being, and its digestion capacity is not strong, and it will take a certain amount of time to digest the entire Beizhili.

When the consortium completely digests the territory, it will produce outward expansion. Just like Germany in World War I. The expansion of consortia is often accompanied by war.

In addition to the North Zhili, the territory is still very large, and it is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it is easier for the consortium to expand, at least when the north expands, there will generally be no war, because the capital power in the north is not strong enough.

The concentration of wealth will lead to technological advances. Many people think that the scientific and technological development of Westerners is caused by the scientific concept of development, but in fact it is completely nonsense. The technology of Westerners is nothing more than technological progress, which allows the consortium to further monopolize wealth, which in turn promotes the further development of technology.

However, the relationship between technology and consortium development is not completely tied. When an advanced technology is developed, if the products made by the lower level technology can still be sold, then the consortium generally will not take out the advanced technology. Instead, they will wait for competition in the market to launch new products.

So there is actually a lot of cash technology in the future, but it's still in lockdown.

Once a powerful consortium emerges in the Ming Dynasty, technological development and external expansion will become natural. Similarly, Zhu Youjiao is creating a big monster of capital.

Once this big monster grows up, those chaebols in the south will definitely be the scum of war.

The import and export tariffs that support the incubation of royal capital have also achieved great results in this anti-smuggling activity. With the intervention of the army, a large number of smugglers were also arrested in this anti-smuggling campaign.

The high cost also sends chills down the hearts of smugglers.

However, import and export smuggling is more difficult to control than smuggling of illegal salt, because the price of salt has dropped all the way to 20 yuan, and there is no longer a windfall profit. However, the tariff on luxury goods in the import tariff is extremely high, so that the smuggling of luxury goods to Beizhili has generated a huge space for profiteering.

Such a profiteering space is enough to make people take risks. However, a slightly larger scale of smuggling requires Ma Zai, and the high reward for reporting has basically curbed the phenomenon of smuggling in the tariffs of Beizhili.

The import and export of all commodities are declared and taxed first, and then passed. Tariff revenues suddenly increased by a large margin.

Import and export tariffs are basically lower export tariffs and higher import tariffs. Among them, grain and cotton have high export tariffs, and import tariffs are not high.

After some anti-smuggling activities, the annual tariff revenue has increased by at least about 1.5 million yuan, and with the growth of the economy, the completion of the three industrial zones, and the rise of various manufacturing industries, the tariff revenue will increase. In terms of salt sales, the income increased by about 2 million yuan. The toll of Caoyun can probably increase by 500,000 or 600,000 yuan throughout the year.

What surprised Zhu Youxiao the most was that after the seizure of those businessmen and powerful people involved in illegal salt, nearly 6 million yuan of assets were confiscated.

In just over a month, Zhu Youxiao has earned nearly 10 million yuan in income, which can obviously be increased to this year's budget expenditure.

That's another windfall!

Numerology has a cloud: partial wealth is the wealth of many.

This kind of wealth comes and goes quickly, in modern terms, it is the link of 'wealth redistribution', some people get a windfall, it is likely to be just a 'passing bridge' of 'wealth redistribution', so that the money flows in the hands of people who can keep the windfall, so some money will be hot, if you don't spend it, you will break the door and let you break. Therefore, this kind of wealth usually appears to be spent as one dollar when using ten yuan, spending a lot of money and spending money like dirt, which is not like the careful calculation of positive wealth.

This phenomenon was quickly verified on Zhu Youxiao, and the silver here had not yet been hot, and the White Lotus Sect rebellion suddenly broke out in Shandong over there.

At this time, it was May of the second year of the Apocalypse.

Without any warning, the White Lotus Sect rebelled. The Shandong local government was in an urgent hurry for 800 miles and sent the concert to the capital.

There is a god stick named Xu Hongru, who called himself Emperor Zhongxing Fulie, called the first year of Dacheng Xingsheng, and used the red scarf as a banner to capture Yuncheng, and Cao and Pu shook for a while.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly summoned Shen Xiao, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Sun Chuanting, the secretary of the military department, to hold a pre-imperial meeting in the Yangxin Palace.

"Smell the incense? What is this thing? Zhu Youxiao asked Shen Yu and Sun Chuanting in confusion.

"Your Majesty, this so-called Smelling Fragrance Sect is the remnants of the previous White Lotus Sect, but it just came out under a different name." Shen Yan directly pointed out that the Wenxiang Sect was just the 'vest' of the remnants of the White Lotus Sect.

"White Lotus Sect?" Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised and asked, "Why is this kind of deceptive thing repeatedly banned?" Why would ordinary people be fooled? ”

"Your Majesty, this kind of cult is good at collecting incense and fire power, so as to use these power to perform some tricks or cure people. The people in the market don't know the reason and can't understand this kind of thing, so they will naturally be deceived. Shen Yan explained to Zhu Youxiao.

Sun Chuanting then continued: "Some people didn't believe it at first, but after watching it on the spot, they also believed it. The more people who believe in this kind of thing, the faster it spreads. ”

Confucianism is very familiar with the energy field generated by this kind of faith, so the Chinese emperor has not been fooled by this kind of thing since ancient times.

That is, the old witch of Cixi was fooled by the Boxers. The Boxer Rebellion at the end of the Qing Dynasty was actually the vest of the White Lotus Sect. The invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition can also be regarded as a religious war. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the invasion of Christianity encroached on the inherent 'trust market' of these White Lotus Sects, and then the Boxer Rebellion violently killed missionaries.

"Incense letter? Is there really such a thing? Zhu Youxiao asked in surprise, and at the same time, he thought of a certain master Wang who had stripped the pants of the Three Realms of Film, Politics and Business in later generations.

Shen Yu and Sun Chuanting both nodded, obviously as an emperor, at such a height, what they could understand had gone beyond the level of official propaganda before the crossing.

"What then? How to curb it? Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Although the White Lotus Sect is good at collecting faith and developing believers, but the army is the main killer, those spells are useless in front of the army, as long as the army arrives, although it is not invulnerable, it is all floating clouds, but a group of rabble." Sun Chuanting said, "The emperor only needs to take advantage of the situation before it expands, and immediately send troops to Shandong to suppress it, and the White Lotus Sect will be dispersed in an instant." ”

Zhu Youxiao stroked his forehead helplessly, as soon as this army was dispatched, it was obvious that he would have to spend money like running water. As soon as I had some silver, Shandong made trouble with the White Lotus Sect, can I still live a little in peace! (To be continued......)