Simple, brutal!

This is Zhu Youxiao's method of coping with the grain merchants in Tianjin to raise grain prices, and he would rather kill mistakes than let them go. Only by solving competitors in the simplest and fastest way can we quickly stabilize the situation.

The raids continued, and not only the grain shops were sealed, but also the warehouses of the grain stores.

Soon Cao Jinyu also rushed to Tianjin in person to help deal with the aftermath.

The grain of those grain banks was quickly counted and handed over to the Jimin grain bank. The grain shop of Jimin Grain Bank was soon opened, and the confiscated grain was retailed at a price of 1 tael per stone. At the same time, a notice was posted.

"Tianjin grain merchants hoarded goods, raised the price of grain, so that the price of grain rose to four taels per stone, the saint sympathized with the people is not easy, specially ordered Jinyi Wei to raid the grain hoarded by profiteers, in order to stabilize the price of grain, but where the grain is confiscated, the sale of one tael per stone, each person is limited to half a bucket."

After this notice was posted, the people applauded one after another, and soon surrounded the grain shop of Jimin Grain Store with three layers inside and three layers outside.

In order to prevent those powerful people from eating low-cost grain, each person on the spot can only buy half a bucket of rice. Of course, people can come and buy rice after they take it home. If powerful people and merchants want to eat a lot of low-priced grain, the operation will be more troublesome. Although it cannot be completely avoided, the common people can still buy low-cost grain in general.

After some raids, Jimin Grain Bank obtained nearly 150,000 stone of grain, and drove all competitors out of the Tianjin market. After all, the 150,000 stone grain was confiscated, and it is not distressing to sell it at a low price.

Tianjin grain merchants naturally suffered heavy losses, so is this the emperor or a robber?

Ordinary people naturally clapped their hands and rejoiced, but these grain merchants and magnates gritted their teeth and cursed the emperor thousands of times.

Those civil officials also wrote hard one by one, criticizing the emperor's banditry. Just as they attacked the Wanli Emperor's mining taxes, one after another twists and turns fluttered like snowflakes.

The tax bureau opened by the emperor was the core of their criticism.

The emperor bypassed the tax revenue, which meant that the civil servants could not withhold it. Some of the very 'incorruptible' Donglin Party members, as if they had taken aphrodisiacs, vigorously opposed the emperor's bypassing of the civil official group to collect taxes. The Donglin Party is indeed not greedy, but most of the tax revenue under their rule has 'floated'. This kind of drifting means that there is no tax. Not taxing means that the benefits are transferred, to whom? Naturally, it is conveyed to relatives who are doing business, or relatives of other officials.

Relatives have made money, can they be without them?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this division of labor was extremely clear, and if the merchant family had two sons, one might be used to inherit the family business, and the other would be used to gain fame. The brothers worked closely together to revitalize the family.

Generally speaking, in the prosperous areas of Jiangnan, family power is the most common. In Fujian and Guangdong, in this kind of area where the history of comprehensive development is not too long, the clan power is relatively mainstream. The development of the clan must first be in a relatively closed environment.

Most of the formation of families needs the most support from wealth. In the event of a fall, or the death of a respected elder, the family may be separated.

Many officials of the Donglin Party themselves come from wealthy merchant families, so they naturally don't look down on the little money in the officialdom, so they don't need to embezzle, they just need to transfer benefits.

In the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of drifting behavior is obviously a loophole and does not need to be sanctioned.

Therefore, once the emperor bypasses the civil official clique and sends people to collect taxes himself, he will immediately stab the hornet's nest, and a group of officials will pick up the pen and lash out one after another.

During the Wanli period, the economy of the Ming Dynasty reached an unprecedented prosperity, and it is not impossible to say that it was a prosperous era, but under the pen of these civil officials, it has become a poor livelihood for the people.

However, these civil officials are limited to the use of the pen. And ordinary people, they basically don't mix with these civil officials.

To be an emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty, you must have a thick skin.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly became interested in the twists and turns that were like snowflakes, and took a few books out of the Heart Cultivation Hall to appreciate the writings of these officials who learned the eight strands of literature.

"Write it down, write it all down." Zhu Youxiao looked happy, and said to Qian Guoxing, the eunuch who was serving on the side.

Qian Guoxing was also one of the eunuchs promoted by Zhu Youxiao from the Inner Book Hall, and served as the eunuch of the celebrant Bingbi and the eunuch of the palm seal respectively with Li Chaoqing.

The names of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty are very pleasing, what Jinzhong, Chaoqing, Guoxing, don't think it's useless, if a list is placed in front of the emperor, the emperor may see that the name is pleasing to the eye, and he will be promoted. Therefore, the group of eunuchs in the inner study hall often change their names to a pleasing one.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Qian Guoxing immediately began to classify and register, but all the officials who opposed the taxation were recorded in the records.

The officials who played such a game at the meeting mean that they are part of the vested interests, or lackeys serving vested interest groups, and can be slowly liquidated in the future.

Now Zhu Youxiao feels more and more that eunuchs are easy to use, because eunuchs have no human rights, and they can kill them if they can say anything, but civil officials are different. Even if these eunuchs are corrupt and bribe-taking, they can recover their losses if they are confiscated. So Zhu Youxiao went to the tax bureau again, and sent additional eunuchs to supervise, Dongchang and Jinyiwei supervised each other, and also supervised these eunuchs assigned to the tax bureau.

And the eunuch and the emperor are the same interest group, even if half of the tax is embezzled, at least half can be collected, if it is replaced by an official, the tea tax in Zhejiang during the Chongzhen period even appeared 15 taels, and during the Apocalypse, Zhejiang can pay two or three hundred thousand taels of tea tax every year.

If you want to say that officials are corrupt, people are not greedy, they just float away and are not levied.

With the infiltration of the capitalists into the government, these officials were allowed to preside over the taxation, and even half of the taxes could not be collected, and the tax system was basically paralyzed.

At this time, the Beijing camp had already been preliminarily trained, and Zhu Youxiao could already begin to consider taking the route of armed tax collection, so as to set up cards everywhere to curb the flood of the commodity economy.

What is the danger of the flood of the commodity economy?

If we look at the history of the late Qing Dynasty, we can see that a large number of foreign commodities had a violent impact on the natural economy of the rural areas, making the rural areas poorer and poorer. China was an agrarian country at this time, and most of the population was distributed in the countryside. Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the industrialized goods of Westerners to hit China, the commodity economic activities of urban merchants also had an impact on the countryside, although not so violently, but continuously. As a result, capital is concentrated in the cities and towns, and the countryside is still getting poorer and poorer.

The instability of the lives of ordinary people will naturally become a potential cause of unrest. But when a country is in great turmoil, these potential destabilizing factors are ignited, often when a dynasty dies.

Zhu Youxiao now wants to develop a highly efficient system for collecting money.

A monopoly system has been initially established in the capital between the taxation bureau, the Beijing camp, the salt industry, the commercial grain, and the imperial joint venture.

The system needs to be improved, but it has already begun to expand to surrounding towns.

In the face of a large number of opposition to taxation, Zhu Youxiao was unmoved and began to continue to improve the tax types of the tax bureau. The principle of tax collection by the tax bureau is very simple, the same as in the Wanli period, that is, not to affect the lives of ordinary people. The system built by Zhu Youxiao is actually competing for interests with businessmen and magnates.

On this day, Zhu Youxiao went out of the palace again and began to look for targets that could be taxed. High-end restaurants, hotels, pawn shops, money shops, antique shops, label shops and other shops can all levy business tax. Tea, wine, tobacco, fur, silk, etc., can be subject to commodity tax. After the taxation, what do they like to raise prices, Zhu Youxiao doesn't care, anyway, they pass on the cost to the higher-income groups, and ordinary people are not affected. PS: The second update!