After the completion of the two items of Juntian's release of slaves and the establishment of county and township local government offices, the situation in Jiangxi was completely stabilized. With their own fields, the people will not make trouble, and they will cultivate with peace of mind.

At the same time as the local government, peasant associations and village militia organizations were formed. Basically, the young and strong men of every township will join the township soldiers, and these township soldiers will take time out to train during the slack season every year, and have simple weapons such as bamboo guns and bamboo bows.

Township soldiers have the obligation to maintain local law and order and help the government to arrest bandits, and they are the reserve of the Praetorian Guard, and the Praetorian Guard selects a certain number of people from each county and township soldier to enlist in the army every year.

In order to prevent the emergence of local factions in the army, future Janissaries will recruit troops from the provinces. In border towns like Xuanda in northern Shaanxi, the number of troops to be recruited will gradually decrease, and after the threat on the grassland is completely resolved, all border towns will be changed to normal prefectures and counties, and Zhu Youzhen believes that it will not take many years to completely solve the grassland problem.

Not only do you have good treatment when you become a Praetorian Guard, but you also have a great chance to work in the county and township government after retiring.

Township and town governments, peasant associations, and township soldiers' organizations meant a complete change in the status quo in which imperial power did not go to the countryside, and it meant that the imperial court's control over the local areas was greatly enhanced.

However, there was another important thing that worried Zhu Youzhen, and it also slowed him from leaving Jiangxi.

It is Jiangxi's industrial and commercial economic problems.

In the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi's population has always ranked among the top in the country, and Jiangxi's economy is the same, providing the imperial court with a large amount of money, grain, and taxes.

Jingdezhen's porcelain is the first in the country and is exported to Europe, and the value of Jingdezhen's porcelain alone is almost the same as the national treasury income every year. There is also Jiangxi's paper industry is extremely prosperous, because of the mountains and rivers, almost half of the counties have paper workshops, the province's total annual paper output accounts for one-fifth of the country's total, and the paper used by the country's official institutions is basically from Jiangxi.

Textile industry, printing and dyeing industry, Jiangxi's strong business atmosphere is no less than Jiangdong Zhejiang.

And most of these businesses were controlled by the gentry. Now the gentry have been taken down, and the workshops and trading houses to which they belong have been confiscated, but what to do with them is a troublesome matter. Once it is not handled well, Jiangxi's prosperous economy will be rapidly depressed.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen and the minister's secretaries who accompanied him discussed for a long time, and finally came up with an opinion on how to deal with it.

For Jiangxi's commerce, there are generally two methods: selling out and state-controlled holding.

Some small workshops or shops will be valued by specialized personnel and then sold directly, of course, the price of the sale is lower than the original value. In principle, anyone with the money could buy these workshops that originally belonged to the gentry, but in practice they tended to sell them to the stewards or shopkeepers who were in charge of running the shops.

The gentry and their immediate family members were guilty, but they could not be implicated in the treasurers they hired, even if these people had the status of slaves, and the slave release order suddenly became free.

These people were originally the operators of the shop workshops, and they had a lot of experience, so it was most appropriate to leave them to run them.

Of course, only a few shopkeepers or stewards have enough money to buy a shop, and most of them can't afford to spend that much. But it doesn't matter, they can borrow money from the Royal People's Bank for only three cents of interest.

Well, with the pacification of Jiangxi, the Royal Bank also opened here, and there are branches in every province. The Royal Bank is now a behemoth, employing tens of thousands of employees alone.

Large workshops or commercial houses cannot be dealt with in the form of sales, but adopt the state-owned holding system. That is to say, these businesses are all state-owned, and the workers in the workshop and commercial houses will be employees of state-owned enterprises in the future, and the enterprises will hire special managers to be responsible for management, and give the managers a certain amount of dry dividends. As for the manager, he is generally the shopkeeper or manager of the original firm.

These enterprises are all self-financing, and everyone has bonuses when they make money, and they are hungry if they lose money, and they will not be treated particularly preferentially because they are state-owned enterprises. The government will not interfere in the management of enterprises, but will regularly send people to audit the accounts to prevent corruption. Of course, the enterprise has to hand over a certain percentage of its profits to the imperial court every year.

Of course, whether it is a buyout type of shop workshop or a state-owned commercial house, it is necessary to pay commercial tax according to the proportion, and the commercial tax is divided into national tax and local tax, and the amount of tax levied belongs to the imperial court and the local government respectively.

All business activities must be taxed, even if it is a royal business, this is the principle formulated by Zhu Youzhen.

It is conceivable that with the huge commercial scale of Jiangxi, once the commercial tax is increased in an all-round way, its tax revenue will far exceed the field tax. I'm afraid that the commercial tax of Jiangxi Province alone will exceed the entire annual income of the imperial court!

And this is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen has not left Jiangxi for a long time, he wants to ensure that everything in Jiangxi is on the right track.

Too many confiscated workshops, too many shops, too many trading houses, and while disposing of the gentry, the whole of Jiangxi came to a standstill, and this situation also had a chain reaction, affecting all parts of the country. For example, the Beijing Imperial Court sent a note, and an official of the Ministry of Household said that the court was now in urgent need of paper, and asked Jiangxi to hurry up and ship the paper north, knowing that the entire official paper of the court came from Jiangxi.

There was also news from the Fujian Haimao Commercial Bank, saying that the quantity of porcelain received last year was seriously insufficient, and that the shortage of porcelain originally planned to be sold to English merchants was too large, which had constituted a breach of contract

However, the business reshuffle of the whole Jiangxi has been designed to too many aspects, and once it is not careful, it will cause huge losses, so it has to be cautious.

The biggest obstacle to doing this is the lack of talent.

Although there are more than 100,000 troops in their hands, there are not too many people who understand business management. Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to issue an order to urgently transfer manpower from the Maritime Trade Firm, the Textile Firm, the Royal Bank, the Taxation Department, the Industrial and Commercial School, the Royal Academy of Sciences, and other places to do so. And these are delayed for a long time.

Originally, Zhu Youzhen wanted to leave Jiangxi and return to Nanjing in the spring, but it was delayed.

Fortunately, in April, an official examination was held in Jiangxi. Zhu You's inspector issued a separate paperbook related to business, and recruited more than 1,000 talents who know how to operate business, so that he has enough manpower, most of these people are partners and even managers of commercial banks, and they are very familiar with business operations.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's June, and it's the hottest season of the year. Zhu Youzhen refused the request of his concubine Liu Ru, who had just been admitted to the harem, to go to Lushan for summer vacation, but decided to return to Nanjing immediately, and then return to Beijing, which was too long.

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