Wei Liu didn't know that there was an idiom in the world called "asking questions for blindness". If he knew this idiom and understood the meaning of this idiom, he would most likely spread out his hands and shrug his shoulders, and then said to Third Young Master Zhu, "Young Master, you are asking this question." ”

Ask why a running boat revival association will exercise government functions in Wuchang Mansion, how can Wei Liu know where to go.

However, the so-called ignorant are fearless. Wei Liu also dared to answer things he didn't understand.

"Third Young Master, you know how powerful this revival society is. At that time, only Songjiang produced cotton cloth in the world. The cotton cloth of Matsue is sold from south to north at home and abroad. But now, even in the city of Songjiang Prefecture, half of the shops sell cotton cloth from Zhijiang. ”

"In the past, it was said that 'Songjiang cloth, clothes the world', but now this can be changed and has become 'Zhijiang cloth, half of the world'. It's just that our Zhu family's own weaving mills have now changed their charters, and they all use the steam engines and iron looms that Fuxing will sell. Moreover, in the world full of cigarettes, soap, glass, hardware, farm tools, canned food, paper, books, and ......, no matter whether they are fresh or long-abiding, none of them will not be produced by the Revival Society, and none of them will be produced by the Revival Society, which will not sell well or be cheap. ”

"It's the boat we're on here. This is what the Fuxing Society built in the shipyard in Wuchang. The small one also heard that the Fuxing Society can also produce large and small iron ships in the shipyard in Jingzhou. Young master, the ship made of iron is still automatic for burning coal. This kind of thing can be made by the Revival Society! ”

"That's what I thought, as a small one, the Fuxing Society is a trading company that can produce so many things, and can sell all these things all over the world, I think this is a great ability. The villain also has some economic knowledge, but the villain can't estimate how much money this revival will make. ”

"The villain knows that our Ming masters, if you have money, you can buy land. The Fuxing Society is so rich, I'm afraid that the land in Wuchang Mansion has been bought by the Fuxing Society. And the villain also knows, although he doesn't know if the land in Wuchang Mansion has been bought by the Fuxing Society, anyway, the land in Wuchang Wharf is all owned by the Fuxing Society. ”

"It can't be said that it is unreasonable to erect your own rules on your own ground. I think that when the villain went out to sea to run the boat, the sea owners on each sea had to sell flags and share the goods. ”

"And the little ones have heard about it. The imperial grain and national tax of Wuchang Mansion is covered by the Fuxing Society. The Renfu Association and Wuchang Mansion have contracted business taxes, so it makes sense for them to take care of those of us who go to Wuchang Mansion to do business. ”

Zhu Zhiyu knew that he said, "Under the Pu world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister". But Mencius also said, "It is better to believe in books than to have no books." Regarding the theory of kings, land, kings and ministers in the book of sages, Zhu Zhiyu, like the vast majority of today's scholars and feudal bureaucrats from scholars, is very dismissive in his heart.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, scholars and feudal bureaucrats had a more radical view of imperial power. Think about it, too, in the Ming Dynasty, even thinkers such as Li Zhen, who "criticized Confucius and Mencius", and He Xinyin, who openly put forward the idea of "no father, no king, no father, no father, and no king". Then Zhu Zhiyu, as one of the five great thinkers of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the future, will disagree with the theory of Wang Chen and Wang Tu, which is just a normal phenomenon.

Zhu Zhiyu may not agree with most of Wei Liu's words, but as a knowledgeable scholar, he can still understand what Wei Liu said that the Fuxing Society contracted the tax revenue of Wuchang Mansion and had the power to manage businessmen.

After all, Wei Liu may not know, but Zhu Zhiyu knows in his heart that in fact, China has had a tax package system since ancient times. The so-called tax package system means that "the government calculates the total amount of tax payable in the market every year, and asks the local merchants to pay for the contract, and then the big merchants collect it from the merchants and compensate them with their income." ”

This system was born during the Five Dynasties period and flourished in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Until modern China, a special tax system such as the package tax system also existed.

In a certain sense, the Ming Dynasty government's practice of handing over the task of collecting taxes to the peasants scattered in various villages to the large local households because of the weakness of the management capacity at the grassroots level was also a kind of tax package system from an objective point of view. Zhu Zhiyu, who grew up in the Jiangnan region, where the commercial economy was thriving, was able to understand the fact that the Fuxing Society, a business group that he believed could exercise administrative power in Wuchang Province because of the tax package system.

Zhu Zhiyu understood this situation, and naturally accepted this situation, he politely asked the "old Wuchang" Wei Liu to remind him more, and then, together with Wei Liu, he took a few servants to the street together.

Confucian ideology focuses on order and hierarchy. So for Zhu Zhiyu, although he felt that the Fuxing Society was a little too strict in the management of the wharf business district, Zhu Zhiyu's heart was quite comfortable when he saw the orderly appearance of the streets of the business district under the strict management system composed of public cages, small-footed detectives (health inspectors), and black-clothed catchers (police).

Although Wei Liu is not a Confucian believer and does not have a strong sense of the ruling class in his head, he also thinks that it is a good thing for the revival society to be stricter from the perspective of ordinary people.

Don't look at the fact that he has been punished by the Fuxing Society, but Wei Liu, who has lived in a big city for a long time, still feels that no city he has been to has given him such a strong sense of security and comfort as the commercial area of Wuchang Fu Wharf.

As an ocean-going captain, Wei Liu never felt that there was anything wrong with order and rules. After all, from his experience, order and rules are not only the basic guarantee to maintain the operation of a ship, but also an important thing related to everyone's net worth and life.

If you go out to shop by yourself, Wei Liu usually goes to the Renaissance Bank to change money first, and then goes to the Fuxing Society's big restaurant to eat first. The steamed buns and rice made of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes are not very palatable, but they are cheap in large quantities. What's more, as long as you spend a small amount of money, you can order several things such as chicken, duck, fish, meat and eggs.

Under normal circumstances, after Wei Liu finished eating, he would go to the teahouse for a morning. Drinking a small steel hammer and a large pot of tea bags (tea bags produced by the Fuxing Society that wrap the broken tea leaves in gauze), listening to the storyteller's stories about the world (mainly about the Jurchen massacre of Han people in Liaodong) and Yue Wumu's three dozen wild boar skins and other ancient stories, the morning passed.

In the afternoon, Wei Liu spends the whole afternoon and the whole night in the tavern. As long as there are two or three skewers of roast chicken and duck skewers, a large bowl of duck rack or chicken rack soup, five or six roasted potatoes or roasted sweet potatoes, plus a large steel hammer and a pot of sweet potato roast, Wei Liu can sit from noon to evening. Drinking wine and bragging about the boys and stewards in the tavern, not to mention how pleasant it was on this day.

Wei Liu's original plan was very good, but because of Zhu Zhiyu's existence, he had to follow Zhu Zhiyu's steps.

After strolling around the street for a while, Zhu Zhiyu stopped next to the Grand Theater. I heard Zhu Zhiyu ask Wei Liu curiously: "Wei is at the helm, what is this movie?" "Time Gate 1619

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