On the question of whether or not to re-establish local trade barriers, under the attention of the northern and southern provinces, the ministers above the court quarreled for nearly half a month, and the emperor Zhu Youxiao never made a ruling.

Half a month later, Zhu Youxiao saw that his appetite was almost hanging, so he made a blockbuster ruling.

"Extra, extra, the imperial court reinstated local trade barriers."

"Outside, outside, the imperial court reinstated trade barriers and allowed southern merchants to apply for taxes."

In the afternoon of that day, the major newspapers in the capital printed additional issues one after another, and as soon as these newspapers came out, they were 'looted' by people all over the streets.

"On the morning of the sixth day of the fourth month of the fourth month of the year, after a long debate, the cabinet proposed to the Holy Lords that the trade barrier system be reinstated and that import taxes be imposed on goods outside the New Deal area. In addition, southern businessmen are allowed to take the initiative to apply for tax payment and filing, so that their goods can also be exempted from import and export taxes and enter the market in the New Deal area. His Majesty agreed, and his decree will come into effect in May......"

After the early dynasty, the reporter interviewed the first assistant of the cabinet, Lord Shen Yun, Shen Yu said: Now the administrative system of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty is different, resulting in the difference in the cost of commodity production, the abolition of trade barriers is unfair to the business community in the new deal region, and the restoration of trade barriers is to build a more fair market competition atmosphere. Second, the restoration of local trade barriers is also to protect the fiscal revenue of the imperial court in the New Deal area. At the same time, in view of the fact that the industrial and commercial people of the old and new provinces are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, they should not favor one over the other, if there are businessmen who are willing to take the initiative to report and pay taxes to the tax bureau. Its goods can also enter the New Deal commodity market unimpeded. ”

After the news was reported by Daming Daily. Small and medium-sized businessmen in the northern provinces cheered. The reinstatement of trade barriers in the New Deal region means that external threats have been eliminated.

As for businessmen outside the New Deal area who can avoid this trade barrier after reporting to the tax bureau and paying taxes, they naturally have nothing to say about this, everyone pays taxes the same, and what is there to say under fair competition. If you can't fight like that, then you can't blame others.

As for the merchants of the southern provinces, after tasting a sweetness, they should continue to taste this sweetness. You have to apply for tax and file taxes.

It's like a weird guy who gives the lollipop to the kindergarten child a few bites, then takes the lollipop back, and then tells the child that if you want to continue eating the lollipop, you have to hand over the panties and take refuge in him as the boss......

After this result came out, the trade barriers in the New Deal area were rebuilt again in May of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, and goods from outside provinces entering the New Deal provinces were subject to import and export taxes.

Many small and medium-sized businessmen in the south decisively handed over their 'underwear' and went to the tax bureau of the provincial capital city to report and pay taxes. After this policy came out, the tax bureau only set up one in the capital cities of the southern provinces. It's not so convenient to run around, but you have to run even if it's inconvenient! How else can you eat lollipops?

Such a model is not very efficient in collecting taxes, because these merchants are located in the provinces for reform after all, but it is not important to pay more or less taxes, and the most important thing is to successfully divide the private capital of the unreformed provinces. Let those small and medium-sized businessmen fully realize that supporting the reform means that they can get greater benefits, and that their interests are in conflict with those of the big capital businessmen.

Unlike before, those big capital businessmen in Jiangnan opposed the reform, and the small and medium-sized businessmen below were also frightened to death when they heard that they had to pay taxes, and everyone began to vigorously oppose the reform.

Now the small and medium-sized businessmen who have tasted the sweetness have taken the initiative to go to pay taxes, which is not forced by the imperial court! The exemplary role played is very huge.

In economic activities dominated by state-owned capital, the role of small and medium-sized businessmen is very huge, and their share of the economy is also very large, which can reach about half. And the Jiangnan region is under the control of those big capital chaebols, and ordinary small and medium-sized businessmen also have a large market share.

When the small and medium-sized businessmen in Jiangnan realized that the reform was beneficial to them, they were able to bring together the workers and peasants at the bottom.

The provincial taxation bureaus have just been established, and more and more small and medium-sized businessmen have come to report and pay taxes. Of course, these merchants were factory owners and workshop owners, and they could only break through the trade barriers in the New Deal area after reporting and paying taxes. Those big capital businessmen can hold on, but they may not be able to hold on, since they have found a way to survive, they naturally have to die into it.

The purpose has been reached, the sweetness can continue to be given, and sometimes you can be given a blind eye when collecting taxes, you don't need to be too serious, as long as it can serve the purpose of differentiation.

When the time comes, a group of people will be co-opted, a group will be isolated, and a group of people will be suppressed, and the private capital forces in Jiangnan will be able to deal with them.

Where can those chaebols in Jiangnan not detect the intentions of the imperial court at this time, but this is a very direct conspiracy! It's impossible to prevent.

Public opinion in the Jiangnan area also loosened a lot at this time, after all, under the constant bombardment of the "Daming Daily", it was impossible for the Jiangnan chaebol to monopolize the direction of public opinion.

When the Jiangnan capital merchants were struggling with the question of whether to reform or not, the industrial revolution in the New Deal area was already vigorously unfolding.

The roar of machines is increasing day by day, the number of steam engines is increasing day by day, and of course the problem is that coal burning has caused a lot of smoke and dust, and some industrial areas have become black, but the productivity is directly exploded compared to the past.

Steam engines are also used in more and more fields, and various processing industries and manufacturing industries that need power have used steam engines.

In this year, the first batch of privately-funded businessmen bought steam engines, and they applied them to a larger production field, and their productivity increased by leaps and bounds.

As the saying goes, a single branch is not spring, and while state-owned capital uses steam engines, this thing really needs to be popularized to private capital in order to comprehensively improve productivity.

Moreover, the performance of the steam engine is constantly developing, if the state-owned capital enterprises take the lead in popularizing the steam engine, and the result is that the steam engine production capacity is there, in the end, it will be necessary to sell the steam engine that has already matured technology to the private capital, and the state-owned capital will have to replace the steam engine with a new one.

Therefore, the best route is to popularize it simultaneously and to have the steam engine owned by state-owned capital dominant, so the machinery factory allocates a quarter of the steam production capacity to sell to the private factory.

After these privately-owned factory owners obtained the steam engine, their profits suddenly increased greatly, in contrast, the private capital outside the New Deal area could not buy a steam engine at all, and the banner of the private-funded businessmen in the New Deal area to support the New Deal was held higher. (To be continued.) )