Although Shen Shuren casually said this big truth at the table where the family was eating, it was quite out of place. However, Shen Tingyang has obviously become accustomed to his son's foresight.

In the past year and a half, his son has repeatedly refreshed his cognition with brilliant ideas, and now no matter what happens, it is not enough to surprise him.

"Then let's go from easy to difficult, let's talk about how to make the local people who pay the money soft, don't make a mess." Shen Tingyang asked shamelessly without any psychological pressure.

Shen Shuren: "To solve big problems, you can't talk about qualitative analysis in generalities, as long as you disassemble, quantify, and divide into a bunch of small problems, there is nothing difficult to do."

His Majesty's reform of the gold is essentially only a reform of the commercial tax collection method in the southeast, let's first sort out which provinces are involved, and then dismantle them one by one.

Theoretically, after the implementation of the lijin, the nine southern provinces of Cana'nan Zhili have an impact. But in fact, Yunnan and Guizhou have not been peaceful in these years, and the two provinces are isolated on the border, and there are few inland waterways with other provinces, and they are isolated by Wuling, and it is not easy to set up cards and levy taxes on sea trade, so these four provinces do not need to be considered.

Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian are left. Sichuan is relatively the most difficult to control, and it has also been affected by the Tusi Miao Rebellion, and Zhang Xianzhong is now entrenched in Xiongshan (the ancient name of Shennongjia), so the commercial tax in the hinterland of Sichuan is estimated to be able to temporarily maintain the old system in the next few years.

However, if the Sichuan merchants want to go out of Sichuan by water, they can guarantee the collection of centijin, because they can only enter Huguang from the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and after the imperial court implements the centijin, they can set up cards in Zigui or Yiling, and they will all be collected as a whole.

In this way, the small merchants in Sichuan who have no intention of traveling long distances and do not do inter-provincial trade will not be exploited by the new law, and those who can be exploited will at least have big ships that can go out of the Three Gorges, and the attitude of the Sichuan people will not be so important, and most people will not be guilty of opposing the gold.

People are selfish, and if a law can't exploit themselves, and can only exploit opponents who are much richer than themselves, then most people will be able to protect themselves. ”

These ideas, obviously, Shen Shuren took advantage of the ten days of boredom on the boat to think about it carefully. He downplayed it, and first eliminated a few provinces that did not need to be considered, and it seemed that the problem was a lot easier all of a sudden.

Subsequently, he extended it and analyzed the idea of dealing with Sichuan, which can also be applied to Jiangxi and Fujian-

Jiangxi is currently a neighboring southern province where the Shen family can infiltrate and influence relatively weakly, and there are no political allies there. However, when Shen Shuren took office in Huangzhou before, when he attacked some local gentry who were particularly ugly, he also offended many Jiangxi families who sat in Jiujiang and infiltrated Huguang Nanzhi, so it was impossible to expect to find forces willing to cooperate in Jiangxi.

However, Jiangxi's topography is almost as closed as Sichuan's, and most of the trade takes place at the mouth of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang and then along the Yangtze River.

As long as the pockets of Huguang and Nanzhili, one east and one west, are tightly tied to ensure that "Jiangxi people will not be levied gold for short-distance trade in the province, and as long as they go out of Poyang Lake from Jiujiang, whether they go to Huguang against the current or go east to Nanzhili, they will be collected."

Then, the local small businessmen and gentry, who account for more than eighty percent of Jiangxi, will not actively rise up to resist for the time being.

As for Fujian, there are indeed no inland waterways leading to other provinces, but the Shen family wants to deal with Zheng Zhilong's family, so that Zheng Zhilong can also support the change of the law, which is equivalent to getting the whole Fujian by the way.

Zheng Zhilong can collect more than 10 million taels of silver a year, and Fujian is equivalent to the Zheng family's Fujian.

“…… Therefore, if you want to collect centigold, the imperial court can completely take a few provinces and set up one by one, and take Huguang, Nanzhili, and Fujian. The rest of Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang are sandwiched between them, and as long as they go out of the province by rivers and waterways, they will be expropriated.

In this way, the problem is simplified in half. And the reason is very sufficient: Huguang and Nanzhili are all provinces affected by bandits, so special wartime commercial tax management was adopted. Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Zhejiang have not entered the country for the time being, so theoretically it has not been implemented. Shen Shuren finally concluded.

"Nan Zhili is still a thief now?" Shen Tingyang didn't react for a while, he subconsciously felt that Nan Zhili was already too peaceful.

Shen Shuren pointed out very sensitively: "How could it be, the jurisdiction of Shi Kefa, the governor of Anlu, is not considered Nanzhili?" There are thieves in the little mountainous area near Yinghuo Mountain in Luzhou Mansion of Anqing Prefecture, which means that there are thieves in Nanzhili, and the imperial court is completely in charge. ”

Shen Tingyang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said that he had said the wrong thing.

The northwesternmost edge of Nanzhili is bounded by Dabie Mountain, so there are thieves in Dabie Mountain, so it can be said that Nanzhili is a war zone.

Although it is a bit of a fuss, there is nothing wrong with it legally.

Shen Tingyang continued to analyze how to solve the problem of the support rate of the three key provinces.

"For Fujian, it's still the same sentence, we have to give some benefits and pull Zheng Zhilong further onto our own warship. Last year, our relationship with the Zheng family was relatively normal, but it was also relatively cold.

That's because we helped Yang Ge Lao trick Zheng Chenggong into Nanjing Guozijian after all. Zheng Zhilong thought about it afterwards, and he would definitely have a little pimple in his heart, so we basically didn't ease relations with the Zheng family in the past year, at most, I just made friends with Zheng Chenggong himself.

Now that the limelight has passed, we can use Zheng Chenggong's career and future as the starting point, bypass Zheng Chenggong, and rely on Zheng Hongkui to trade directly with Zheng Zhilong. For example, let Zheng Chenggong directly donate officials as civil officials as a prisoner.

I am now the prefect of Wupin, and I can find a way to greet Yang Ge Lao and arrange some subordinate officials by myself. When you return to Nanjing, you can also find a way in Nanjing. All in all, it is a promise to Zheng Zhilong.

I know that Zheng Zhilong still hopes that his son will wash away the notoriety of the 'Haikou family' and change his career to become a civil official. As long as he comes from a serious background and is not afraid of being looked down upon by Shilin, Zheng Zhilong is willing to pay a small price.

The Zheng family has a chamber of commerce of 'Shanhai Wulu', and Haiwulu is responsible for the sea trade of foreign countries, and we can't receive any money in the vast sea. However, Shanwu Road is responsible for the purchase, so as long as the Zheng family collects a little money from the merchants who purchased goods in various ports in the mainland of the Yangtze River, it will be done.

We can also promise that all the money collected by the Zheng family will be spent in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and will definitely not be spent on Huguang. In this way, the local collection is used locally, and the people of the Zheng family are also allowed to participate in the distribution of the use of money, giving them a certain right to speak, and they will definitely be willing to pay. ”

Shen Shuren's remarks are also combined with the experience of dealing with the rich in the next few hundred years: if you want to directly ask the super-rich to levy an inheritance tax, you will definitely be severely opposed when you first enact the law.

But if you say, "You can donate money to deduct taxes, and your son can intervene about how the money donated to the trust fund will be spent in the future", then the resistance is much smaller, and it can be regarded as a metaphor for the capital attention idea of "no representation, no tax".

After getting Fujian, Shen Shuren continued to analyze:

"The rest of Huguang and Nanzhili, in Huguang to implement the gold, the key is Yang Ge Lao and Governor Fang's push, there is a very wide spread of thieves, the atmosphere of military and political priority is strong, as long as the leading generals, supervisors are supported, businessmen and gentry can't make any waves.

On Yang Ge Lao's side, I will naturally use my previous relationship to declare the interests and disadvantages to him, and the gold is conducive to the suppression of thieves and is beneficial to Yang Ge Lao. As for Governor Fang, when I return to office after the year, I will also go back to worship according to your previous explanation, and give some benefits reasonably.

On the side of Nanzhili, our Shen family is the largest household in the future, and if we are willing to take the lead in handing it over, we will be able to suppress the opposition of Suzhou Mansion. There is no need to deal with Songjiang, we have cooperated very well with Xu Ge's hometown in the past two years, selling new looms together, and everyone has earned at least hundreds of thousands of taels more.

The rest is a few prefectures around Nanjing, where there are many tax-resistant gentry, and there are a lot of centennial nobles, all of whom have enjoyed duty-free treatment before, and some of them can even be exempted from normal banknote tariffs.

Around Nanjing, the resistance of the Jiangbei Prefecture, I will go to the governor of Anlu, Shi Kefa, to set up friendships, and now the military is also the first. In the southern part of the Yangtze River around Nanjing, it is necessary to win over the Shangshu and Shilang of Nanjing's household department, as well as some powerful nobles.

This is also the difficulty that we should focus on solving when we go to Nanjing after the Lantern Festival. Gnaw this hard bone, and there will be no one in the local area who can resist not paying it. ”

……

Shen Shuren peeled back the cocoon and quickly reduced the problem to the last small piece: as long as the opponents of the reform in Nanjing were gnawed down, the other regions already had a way to deal with it.

That posture is quite a bit of Zhuge Liang's strategizing and "living in peace and five roads".

Shen Tingyang was dizzy when he heard it, and he was no less than Liu Chan listening to Zhuge explain the countermeasures. All of a sudden, the wisdom of the father and son was slightly higher, and there was a reversal, the son was like Zhuge and the father was like Liu Chan, I have to say that it was very joyful.

After being stunned for a long time, Shen Tingyang remembered a question: "When we go to Nanjing after that year, who should we win over?" Have you ever thought about it? ”

Of course, Shen Shuren has thought about it, and he is idle on the ship these days, so he didn't hesitate to throw out a name:

"The child has already learned about the current officials of various ministries in Nanjing, and the child feels that Zhang Guowei, the left waiter of the Nanjing household department, can be wooed. After the Lantern Festival, the father can set up a banquet with his children to entertain Zhang Shilang and show the benefits.

Zhang Shilang is also a person who is loyal to the country, and he once inspected the ten prefectures of Nanzhili and the three Wu water conservancy of Guangdu, and his father should have read the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy" written by him after leaving office the year before last, right?

Zhang Shilang has a deep foundation in Nanjing's household department and the Ministry of Industry, and when he presided over the construction of water conservancy in Sanwu, he mostly apportioned with the noble gentry, and he had the most experience and credit of 'letting the Sanwu gentry donate money to the locals'.

By his appearance, the gentry will believe that their overpayment of centiko is to ensure that the locals benefit - in fact, the three Wu gentry resisted taxes in the most severe years, and they didn't really want to do good deeds locally, the main thing they resisted was that the money in Jiangnan was taken to support Beijing.

And since my father plans to withdraw from the south in the future, I can tell him: The notoriety of advocating the change of the law will be borne by you, father, and the benefits of implementing the law change will be borne by Zhang Shilang.

In the end, things were done well, let Zhang Shilang go to Beijing to be the head of the household department, father, you said that you were voluntarily demoted to the south, and went back to Nanjing to pick up Zhang Shilang's errand, and each took what he needed, wouldn't it be beautiful? ”