The officials of the Jiaozhi Department of Commerce will be selected from among the officials of the Agricultural Department, the Household Office, the Rite Hall, the Military Department, the Industrial Department, and the Criminal Department under the Jiangwutang Government Affairs Hall.

Although these officials were all born in martial arts, they also experienced hard study in the cold window, and studied in the Xingnongyuan, Xinghuyuan, Xingliyuan, Xingjunyuan, Xinggongyuan, and Legal Punishment Yuan, which correspond to the six halls of the Agricultural Department and the Household Office, and their ability to handle government affairs far exceeds that of those officials who were born in Wenju in the DPRK and China.

This also means that the Jiaozhi Department of Commerce will implement militarized management and be a military management yamen, otherwise it will be unjustifiable.

In fact, not only the Department of Commerce of Jiaozhi, but also in the Jiaozhi governance strategy formulated by Li Yuntian, after the rebellion of Li Li and others was quelled, Jiaozhi would implement semi-military management, so as to strengthen its control over Jiaozhi.

After all, Jiaozhi is located in a remote area and is a wild place in the eyes of the people, so the cabinet, the military cabinet, the six ministries, and the governors of the prefectures all agree with Li Yuntian's semi-militarized management.

After all, no one wants to see a rebellion in Jiaozhi anymore, and no one wants to be an official in that kind of barbaric and barren place, so he simply threw this hot potato to Li Yuntian, and Emperor Xuande naturally issued an edict.

It can be said that Jiaozhi was "abandoned" by the civil and military ministers of the court, and Li Yuntian lost no time in taking over this "chicken rib" and quietly put this chicken rib into the "plate" of the martial arts hall, so that outsiders could no longer touch it.

In addition to the Jiaozhi Department of Commerce, the Yangzhou officials present were most concerned about the specific rules set by the imperial court for the Jiaozhi commercial franchise and mining rights.

In fact, this rule had been posted by the state capitals of Nanzhili a few days ago along with the notice of the sale of Jiaozhi commercial franchise and mining rights, but the businessmen were not at ease, and they all wanted to get closer news from Li Yuntian, and only in this way could they feel at ease.

The rules are simple and pragmatic, and are mainly divided into two parts: commercial franchises and mining rights.

Among them, in the part of the commercial franchise, Li Yuntian handed over the management rights of various businesses in Jiaozhi, such as grain, cloth, and medicinal materials, to two or three merchants respectively.

The Department of Commerce of Cochin will issue business licenses to those who have obtained commercial franchises, and only those who have a business license can operate in Cochin, otherwise they will be severely punished once verified.

Li Yuntian set the term of the business license at 20 years, and he believed that 20 years was enough time for those businessmen to make a lot of money from it.

Twenty years later, the business license expires, and if the businessmen want to continue doing business in Jiaozhi, then they have to renew the business license.

As for what kind of renewal policy the Jiaozhi Commerce Division will have in 20 years, Li Yuntian did not disclose it to the outside world, and he has no way to disclose it, and it will be necessary to make corresponding adjustments according to the actual situation.

Those merchants do not have to worry about someone smuggling those goods, because the Department of Commerce of Cochin not only has a special team to fight smuggling, but also has formulated a complete set of rules and regulations to regulate the purchase channels of each store on the street.

Moreover, if the Cochin Commerce Division encounters a large number of armed smugglers, it can also coordinate with the local garrison to clean it up.

It is worth mentioning that due to the complexity of the shape of Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian did not intend to implement the cantonment system in Jiaozhi, but was ready to take this opportunity to implement the conscription system in order to realize the combination of professional soldiers and compulsory soldiers.

Just as Li Yuntian mentioned to Emperor Xuande before, compulsory soldiers can get a certain amount of land after serving for three years, which can not only increase the enthusiasm of young people to join the army, but also promote the development of agriculture and hide soldiers from the people.

Emperor Xuande has realized the limitations of the military system and the damage caused to the Ming army, so last year he asked the officials of various ministries and imperial historians to clean up military affairs in various places, but it is obvious that this is a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, not a long-term solution.

The military system involved the interests of the nobles of the court and the officers of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the ancestral system set by Emperor Hongwu, and Emperor Xuande did not dare to touch it lightly even as the Son of Heaven.

Now that a rebellion broke out in Jiaozhi, not only was Jiaozhi unable to exterminate it, but the counterinsurgency army sent by the imperial court also failed one after another, and even lost several civil and military ministers, which gave Emperor Xuande a chance to show his strength.

Emperor Xuande wanted to see if Li Yuntian could give him a breath of air and put down the rebellion in Jiaozhi, so that he could take the opportunity to promote a new generation of nobles and expand the influence of the nobles in the court, but he also wanted to know how effective the conscription system would actually be.

Therefore, for Li Yuntian and Emperor Xuande, this counterinsurgency in Jiaozhi can only succeed, not fail.

It must be explained that the commercial monopoly of Jiaozhi is not intended to ban the local merchants of Jiaozhi, nor is it to prohibit businessmen from other places from entering Jiaozhi to do business.

If it is summed up in a popular sentence, the commercial monopoly of Jiaozhi is actually to create the general distributors of Jiaozhi, and the goods of large and small traders in Jiaozhi must be imported from these general distributors, and they cannot be purchased from other places in private, otherwise it will be illegal.

In this way, the profit in this is very considerable, enough to tempt the merchants of Nanzhili, and the period of twenty years is enough to ensure their interests.

As for the mining rights, it is even more tempting for those merchants, and the business license is also twenty years, which mainly refers to iron ore, and the rest is precious metals such as gold and silver.

During the Hongwu period, the craftsmen of the government-run iron smelting industry were brutally oppressed by the craftsmen and foremen, so they continued to flee, sabotage, and even rioted, resulting in the opening and closing of the official iron smelting, and increasingly embarked on the road of disintegration and decline.

Therefore, in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu ordered the abolition of official smelting everywhere, allowing private individuals to mine and smelt freely, and paying taxes by two-thirds of the output.

That is to say, two catties of the 30 catties of pig iron smelted were handed over to the government as taxes, and the remaining 28 catties of pig iron belonged to the smelters.

It is worth mentioning that before the Ming Dynasty implemented the "one whip" tax law, taxes were not paid with silver taels, but taxes were paid with whatever business was done, referred to as tax in kind, also known as material tax.

For example, a farmer who farms the land pays for the corn harvested in the field, a farmer who grows an orchard pays the fruit from the orchard, a gardener who cultivates the garden pays the bouquet of flowers in the garden, and so on.

It's okay to talk about food, but fruits and bouquets can't be stored for a long time after they are collected, and they are not easy to circulate, so a lot of them are wasted.

In addition, officials at all levels take the opportunity to pick and choose the fat and the thin when collecting such taxes in kind and make profits from them, which is an important means for officials to make money.

Li Yuntian prepared to carry out a reform of the tax collection in Jiaozhi, and like those military and civilian households in Jiangwutang, in accordance with the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, the property tax was converted into silver taels to be paid, which was not only concise and clear, but also avoided the tax officials from using the power in their hands to prey on the common people.

This means that the smelters in Cochin will no longer pay taxes on the metal they smelt, but will convert it into silver taels corresponding to its value.

According to the tax policy of 2 out of 30 for the iron smelting industry, the tax rate is 6. 7. In order to encourage the development of the iron smelting industry, Li Yuntian lowered the tax rate to 5 to benefit business.

Actually, 6. The tax rate of 7 seems to be a bit small, but it is not low for the iron smelting industry, because the merchants engaged in the iron smelting industry have to bear not only the cost of smelting, but also the cost of mining.

In ancient times, both mining and smelting were troublesome things, requiring a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, so the cost was very large.

Not only iron ore, but also merchants who have obtained mining rights can also mine precious metal mines such as gold and silver mines in Jiaozhi, and these precious metal mines are government-run in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming, and private mining is not allowed.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the merchants who have been granted mining rights can mine the mines in Jiaozhi, but they must be equipped with a smelter that meets his requirements.

The reason why he allowed the merchants to mine those precious metals was naturally to develop and improve the exploration and smelting technology of gold, silver and other minerals, and also to increase the country's tax revenue.

Obviously, private mining is much more efficient than government-run institutions, and it will play a great role in promoting mineral exploration and smelting.

For those smelted gold, silver and other precious metals, Li Yuntian adopted two tax rates, 46 kai and 37 kai, that is, in the first ten years of those merchants' business licenses, the smelted precious metal merchants and the government accounted for 46 percent, that is, the merchants accounted for 40 percent, and the government accounted for 60 percent.

In the next ten years of the business license, the proportion of businessmen and the government will be adjusted to 37 kai, that is, the businessmen account for 30%, and the government accounts for 70%, so as to protect the interests of the country.

Under Li Yuntian's patient and meticulous explanation, at the end of the banquet, the Yangzhou officials present had a relatively clear understanding of the commercial franchise and mining rights of Jiaozhi, and they all realized that there were huge business opportunities contained in them.

It is a pity that although Li Yuntian's business plan in Jiaozhi is good, Jiaozhi is now turbulent and war-torn, and the rebellion in Jiaozhi is only a flash in the pan before it is quelled, and it is out of reach.

And because of the complicated situation in Jiaozhi, those businessmen must be cautious about investing in Jiaozhi's commercial franchise and mining rights, so as not to let their money go down the drain at that time, which will undoubtedly greatly affect the implementation of Li Yuntian's plan.

Due to the tiring travel along the way, Li Yuntian and Zhang Ben went back to their residence to rest after the banquet, and it is worth mentioning that the two did not live in the same place:

Although Zhang Ben was the second assistant of the military cabinet, he had a strong civil official imprint, so he lived in the Yangzhou Mansion, and Li Yuntian chose the Yangzhou Wei Command Envoy Yamen because he was going out to fight Jiaozhi as a general in Dingnan this time.

"Big brother!" Not long after arriving at the Yamen of the Yangzhou Wei Command Envoy, just as Li Yuntian and Han Hu were chatting with laughter, a man in a brocade robe walked into the house, and he smiled when he saw this and got up to greet him.

The man in the brocade robe is Zheng Wanrou's eldest brother Zheng Boxin, Li Yuntian's eldest brother, and now serves as the president of the Yangzhou branch of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, and is deeply respected and trusted by Li Yuntian.

Zheng Boxin's visit this time is naturally also for the commercial franchise and mining rights of Jiaozhi, because the battle situation in Jiaozhi is extremely bad, so the members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce are worried about whether Li Yuntian can win this battle, so Zheng Boxin came to Li Yuntian to probe the situation.

Han Hu knew that Li Yuntian and Zheng Boxin had something to discuss, so he said goodbye and left with interest.

After learning of Zheng Boxin's intention, Li Yuntian was keenly aware that the merchants of Yangzhou City were pessimistic about the Jiaozhi war, and in order to reassure the members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, he gave Zheng Boxin a clear answer to the Jiaozhi war, saying that he was seventy percent sure that he could pacify the rebels in Jiaozhi.

At the same time, Li Yuntian also made a temporary decision, preparing to invite those famous businessmen in Yangzhou City in the evening to answer their doubts in person, so as to dispel their concerns about investing in Jiaozhi, so that the commercial franchise and mining rights of Jiaozhi could be sold smoothly.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, tomorrow morning he will sell the commercial franchise and mining rights of Jiaozhi in a teahouse in Yangzhou City, and the day after tomorrow morning he will leave for Dinghai County in Ningbo Prefecture, and the itinerary is very intense.