Guanning Military Business Group.

In other words, the Guanning Group, which is entrenched outside the customs.

Nowadays, this interest group, which integrates the military, mining, commerce, manor management, animal husbandry and pasture management, textile industry, and industry, after years of development, and under the leadership of Wu Xiang, Cao Wenzhao, Zu Chengxun, and other high-level leaders, humbly learns from the development experience of Xujiazhuang, vigorously introduces the advanced technology of Xujiazhuang, and in addition, the Guanning area has rich mineral resources, and the population that can be recruited is also quite large.

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There are also resources in Liaodong that can be utilized.

Therefore, the annual wealth growth rate of Guanning Group is more than 30%, or even 50%, and it has never slowed down the pace of development, which can be described as full of vigor and vitality.

Even within the Guanning Group, there are many people who oppress people, the exploitation of capital is very serious, and the negative phenomenon of cronyism and talent not being reused is widespread.

There are at least dozens or hundreds of problems that can be singled out.

But it is such a system, but it is full of vitality of development, growing all the time, and even, obviously surpassing the Fujian Zheng Group, more than the Zhejiang Maritime Group, in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in this year, the gross economic product, is expected to exceed one billion silver dollars, reaching as many as 1.2 billion silver dollars.

The profit of the Guanning Group was more than 100 million silver dollars, which exceeded the financial and tax revenue of the imperial court.

Not only is it fully capable of raising 300,000 elite troops, but it can also provide better treatment, buy better weapons and equipment, and have the strong strength to defeat the new army of the imperial court.

That is, in terms of military strength, the imperial court is most likely not the opponent of the Guanning army, and once a conflict breaks out, the imperial court will not be able to make a good profit, but may suffer losses.

Therefore, in the face of Guan Ningjun's reminders and warnings, Emperor Zhu Youzhen was scared and a little cowardly, so he had to order the release of those officials that the Guanning group wanted to protect, pardon their crimes, and allow them to continue to be officials, just to avoid intensifying the conflict with Guan Ningjun.

No way!

Although Zhu Youzhen was very angry in private, his fists were clenched, and he regarded this as a great shame, and secretly vowed that sooner or later he would solve the huge threat of the Guanning Group, and find a way to make them reduce or stop business cooperation with Xujiazhuang, and use various means to weaken the Guanning Group.

But......

Even if he finds a way to destroy the Guanning Group, Zhu Youzhen found that the threat of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Power is just one less, and the Guanning Group, as well as the Fujian Zheng Group, as well as the Zhejiang Maritime Group, as well as the vassal king's interest group, as well as all kinds of commercial forces and warlord forces, are now all existences that cannot be underestimated, and they cannot easily turn their faces and confront them, after all, these families or forces have accumulated and accumulated, and the Ming Dynasty has been hollowed out over the years, and the arrears over the years have not been paid off, and there is no capital to fight a war of attrition with them.

However, after studying by Zhu Youzhen, Lu Xiangsheng, and others, they found that the reforms and changes that the imperial court wants to carry out now, increase taxes, train more new troops, and carry out reform decrees efficiently and smoothly cannot bypass these interest groups, and collisions and conflicts will inevitably occur, and even irreconcilable and uncompromising contradictions will inevitably occur.

Fang Yizhi analyzed at a meeting: "I can get a lot of survey data from Xujiazhuang, which shows that although the development speed of Daming in recent years has brought a lot of wealth, changed the fate of many people, and also made more than one million people become a wealthy class with a net worth of more than 50,000 silver dollars, and more than 30 million middle class with a net worth of 1,000 silver dollars, but there are still 200 million Daming people, who are still struggling on the food and clothing line, engaged in low-income jobs, and have a very low ability to take risks. If you want to get more taxes from the heads of these low-level people, this is unlikely, then each person levies 1 silver dollar, and the limit of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue is only 200 million silver dollars. ”

"If our court wants to collect more taxes, the target can only be those rich people with a net worth of more than 50,000, or the middle class, not the bitter people who occupy the majority, according to the rule of 28, more than 80% of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of 20% of the people, and the remaining 80% of the adults, only 20% of the wealth, and even will continue to decrease, and even face debt, such a phenomenon, called polarization, will appear in the middle and late stages of any dynasty."

"The same is true of our Ming Dynasty, now the imperial court wants to increase revenue, it has to be in the commercial field, to levy taxes on those who have money, the richer the more they have to levy, only in this way can we achieve a rich country, but in the Ming Dynasty, those rich businessmen either have their own military armament, or collude with local officials, or have backers behind them...... If you want to collect their taxes, it's like asking for their lives, you don't want to take out any more, and you won't give it to anyone to the court, after all, the emperor is too far away from them to give them much security, unless it's around the capital, relying on the protection fee collected by Jinyiwei, you can receive more than three million silver dollars a year, and half of the internal money can be shared, but out of the capital, if Jinyiwei dares to collect money indiscriminately, it is possible to be killed, and the civil officials will also applaud loudly, thinking that this is to eliminate harm for the country. ”

"So the core of the problem lies in the fact that the rich do not want to pay taxes, and the power of the imperial court, especially the power of the royal family, and the lack of manpower, cannot establish authority, and cannot form a deterrent, unless they can kill the heads of the people, use death as a threat, and force the rich to pay taxes, or they will learn from Xujiazhuang, buy many royal industries, compete with the rich, seize their market, and compete with the rich for profit, only in this way can we solve our problems, otherwise, we can only wait until the collapse of the Daming Sheji, and then re-establish it, in order to paint well on white paper, Otherwise, other methods are meaningless and will not have a good effect. ”

Fang Yizhi said the core essence of the problem.

The core of taxation is, in the final analysis, violence, if you don't pay the money obediently, you will face punishment or death, and the cost is extremely huge, then there is only one way to pay the tax obediently.

Either the imperial court or the royal family itself is good at management, owns a large amount of land and industry, and manages it properly, has a high level of management, and introduces advanced technology, produces products, has price or quality advantages, can compete for the market, win a lot of benefits, and make the interests belong to the state.

The rest of the other ways to change the law, in fact, are fierce reforms that require violence to carry out, which will inevitably offend such and such interest groups, and it is difficult to reach the sky if they want to achieve good results, but examples of failure abound, and most of the reformers who propose it will not end well, such as Wang Anshi, who has been hacked in the history books for thousands of years, and has existed as a harlequin for a long time, and it is not long before he becomes a positive character.

However, in the process of discussion, there was also a courtier who put forward another idea: that is, to learn from the king's manor model of Xujiazhuang.

The reason is simple!

Since the taxes of the rich do not come up, then simply do not collect them, and let the rich obediently take the initiative to pay taxes, the imperial court here, mainly controls the promotion and selection of officials, that official can get taxes and hand them over to the imperial court, and he can get attention and promotion, and those who can't get taxes, let alone get reused, can't even be an official for a long time, so each local official is equivalent to a representative who helps the court make money, only allowed to earn, not allowed to lose, if it will make money, it is no problem to work in a certain place for decades in a row, forming a small local kingdom, Unless something is tossed out of the anger of the heavens and people, no one will care.

Then it is to control the important core cities, establish the emperor's manor, introduce advanced technology, vigorously operate, use advanced industry, absorb all the surrounding resources like a magnet, and then use advanced industrialization to earn the profit difference in the middle, and also live extremely nourishing.

There are only about fifty core and important cities in the Ming Dynasty, as long as these places are controlled, and no matter how vigorously they develop, it is difficult not to make a fortune.

Finally, it is to engage in overseas expansion!

You must know that after the end of the global expedition launched by Xujiazhuang, the whole picture of the world is finally clearly presented in front of everyone, and the horizon has been greatly broadened, so that every Ming people know that in addition to the science and technology of Western Europe, the development is slightly better, Daming is the most powerful and wealthy place in the world, and on the world map, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the resources are extremely rich, you can choose to go to the warm South China Sea with four seasons like spring, you can go to the huge area of Australia, you can also venture to Africa and America and other places, In these places, even the agricultural civilization has not developed, there are countless fertile fields, it is not a problem to occupy hundreds of acres at will, if it is the Ming royal family, also go to overseas places, occupy several important mineral veins, in the flat and fertile land, build more royal farms, focus on the development of the anointed land, and when the output comes, it can bring a large amount of grain, meat, minerals, etc., and these are valuable resources and wealth.

All in all!

Tax the rich by force!

Royal Factory.

Intensify efforts to colonize overseas.

In front of Emperor Zhu Youzhen, it seems that there are only a few options left, there are no extra options, either it is to break the jar, the Buddha is tied up, take the king's manor model, and only care about their own enjoyment, and now the development of all fields in the Ming Dynasty is thriving, and the probability that the people will not survive to rebel is extremely low, as long as the pressure exerted by the government is not too great, Guozuo can continue for at least another fifty years.

If the royal family can be generous and announce the exemption of all agricultural taxes and capitation taxes, then for the majority of ordinary people, it is simply the holy king alive, and must be grateful to Dade, Guozuo can be extended for at least a hundred years, or even longer, the people are grateful after all, for such a good court, who dares to mention rebellion, will get the fate of being reported instantly, this is the long-term way to ensure the Ming Guozuo, the only flaw is that the real power has lost a lot, and the income may be less, but the wealth will definitely not weaken, and it will be more loved.

After listening to these analyses.

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a moment, wanting to grab his hair, feeling very entangled, his brain was in chaos, and of course he was extremely unhappy and unconvinced.

Could it be that the so-called change of law will really fail with a high probability, and if you really take those interest groups, there is no good way, you can't eliminate them, kill them, and you have to be generous to continue to make false promises with them, and have some stammers, at least you can't be too offended, otherwise you will suddenly have to give the royal family eye medicine and come to a profound lesson, then it will greatly blow the prestige of the royal family.

As for the so-called "King Manor Model", it was promoted in the territory of Daming, this matter, Zhu Youzhen didn't even want to consider it, and directly vetoed it, because choosing the King Manor model means completely abandoning the vast number of ordinary people, which is equivalent to a kind of stripping, just like a fish leaving the water, then the fish lives better, but without the existence of water, no matter how powerful the fish is, it will not be able to survive for a long time, and sooner or later it will dry up and die, in short, the connection between the fish and the water cannot be broken, otherwise it is not for the fish or the water, It's a huge damage and loss.

So in the end, Zhu Youzhen found that in the past four years of his hard work, he seems to be doing a bit of useless work, although it has played a certain effect and brought certain achievements, but who knows if this is the result of his own efforts, or if he does not work hard, according to the annual growth rate of 120 percent, it can also bring growth, and his efforts may be a kind of useless work.

So...... Failed.

Reform efforts in the past few years may be described as failures.

Of course, if you don't give up, you can continue to go to the deep water area, ignore the threat of any force, no one has to be afraid, just kill the corrupt officials, spread the fear, continue to implement high-pressure rule, and kill all those who are not satisfied, and the 300,000 Guan Ning army will not be able to come.

But the current Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is not the hairy young man before.

After being an emperor for thirteen years, he turned thirty years old this year, and he is already very mature and stable.

And his small life over the years is not bad, he has lived several fat years in a row, and he is usually accustomed to the luxury life of high consumption, and he can no longer return to the simple life of green vegetables and radishes, and he has also gained 1670 pounds, and finally has the majesty of the emperor, at least from the point of view of body shape, it makes people feel that he is a nobleman.

Now let Zhu Youzhen do an extremely risky period to offend the major interest groups that are not easy to provoke, to be honest, Zhu Youzhen has no bottom in his heart, does not dare to make a desperate bet, acts radically, and many of his thoughts have been inclined to be conservative.

Then, in the end, there is only one way, which is placed in front of him, and it has become the path that can be chosen.

Factories.

Set up more royal factories to increase the source of profits.

For example, the five royal factories owned by the royal family can now bring in a profit of 10 million silver dollars a year, accounting for one-fifth of the royal family's income.