Zhu Yipai decided to personally send Zheng Haizhu and others to Dengzhou.

It was not for Corporal Lixian's purpose, but Zheng Haizhu's mental outlook, which stimulated him to some extent.

The little prince realized that even if such a woman from the grassroots was to wander around and see the world, her ability to think and think, as well as the courage to act, would also be quite impressive.

Therefore, he decided to personally inspect the trade route across the Shandong Peninsula to Dengzhou Mansion, and asked the Dengzhou Governor Tao Lang first whether the Dengliao Sea Road is now as the official announcement of the imperial court, has been barren and desolate, and even the cotton clothes and silver for the Liaodi garrison have gone to the Shanhaiguan side.

It happened that this time there was a matter of smelling incense, Zhu Yi sent a representative of King Lu to discuss with Tao Langxian, who had arrested the small leader of the cult, and the prefect of Yanzhou wrote it to the court in the newspaper, which would not arouse the suspicion of the vassal king on the side of the Jingshi.

Of course, Zheng Haizhu couldn't ask for it.

According to Xu San's experience, Liaohai will be completely frozen in a month, Yanzhou to Dengzhou is nearly a thousand miles, if they can't get to Dengzhou in time, the choice they face will be either to wait in Dengzhou until next spring to freeze, or turn around and go north, go through Tianjin Weichushan Pass, enter western Liaoning by land, and cross the Liao River again before they can arrive in Liaoyang to meet Mao Wenlong.

The latter is not only a matter of long distances, but also has to be exploited by tax cards under various names.

Liu Shimin of the Weaving Bureau reminded Zheng Haizhu, especially from Dagu and Luanzhou to Shanhaiwei, there are many private tax cards set up by Hebei eunuchs along the way, and if you can take the sea route, you can take the sea route, and the road fee for the Dengzhou Patrol Sea Patrol Sailor must be less than the road fee for the eunuch.

Fortunately, now there is a convoy of the Lu royal family, which is not only running fast from Yanzhou all the way to Dongxin, but also has a lot less interrogation and obstruction.

Zheng Haizhu was good at observing words and feelings, and when she was in Yanzhou, she encouraged Guo to go with her husband, and told her very sincerely that in Jiangnan, the wives of the gentry, such as Han Ximeng, the young lady she had first taken refuge into, had considerable freedom of travel. The dignified wife of the general of Zhenguo, why do you want to confine yourself in the back house?

Zhu Yipai also readily agreed.

So, along the way, because of Guo's company, Zheng Haizhu didn't have to care about avoiding suspicion, and could use a lot of time to brainwash Zhu Yipai and explain why Yanzhou Coal Mine was to be made a joint-stock system.

Interest is the best teacher, and Zhu Yipai quickly understood a bunch of new terms: clan shareholder, trading company shareholder, voting rights, dividends, dividends per share, limited liability, funder, manager.

And the most important word: company.

Zhu Yipai simplified his understanding, that is, he needed to persuade Zhu Shouhong, the king of Lu, to divide the members of the Lu clan into the shareholding ratio of Yanzhou Coal Mine according to the size of their power, and share the profits every year.

This seems to be a lot of meat in King Lu's own bowl, but in fact, it is to share the political risk, use money to block the mouths of lower-level clan members, and don't go to the emperor to say bad things because King Lu and King Taixing are enjoying the profits of coal mines.

Wan Mo underestimated the intensity of the intrigue in these domains in the Ming Dynasty, and even the Yibin, that is, the husbands of the county lords, had to be careful.

After all, just more than ten years ago, in the Chu Domain of Hubei, there was a Yibin who exposed that the ninth generation of the Chu King was not a eucalyptus of the Zhu family's bloodline, perhaps the motive was just to get the current King of Chu off the throne and let his eldest brother sit on it.

And Zheng Haizhu wants to rely on the big tree of Lu Fan and try a joint-stock company, her purpose is of course not only to prevent Lu Wang Zhu Shouhong from falling into a "palace fighting drama".

She made bets on Huang Zunsu, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Yuanhua, who represented the present and future civilian power, on Xu Guangqi, who represented the West, on behalf of the West, on Liu Shimin, the eunuch who represented the imperial power, and on Mao Wenlong and Yan Siqi, who represented the military force and maritime trade rights, but these were not enough.

is different from the employee servant who just crossed over and could only start from the Han Mansion, now that she has a little capital and strength, she has to let herself, Mao Wenlong, and Yan Siqi have the right to speak in the "Haoming Trading Company", as well as the shipping insurance company that she has complete right to speak, like the "legal person" shareholders in later generations, through equity infiltration, into the economic empire of Lu Fan.

These days, Zheng Haizhu observed the Zhu Yi faction, even if he had been counted as a clear stream in the clan, he still opened his mouth and closed his mouth, "My Zhu family".

You might as well try a new economic model, will it dismantle the totalitarian shell of the "Zhu family" and "nine thousand years old" little by little.

This mode of copying homework is the company system.

The pioneer of the corporate system in real history was the Netherlands.

And in today's time and space, the cunning and ambitious members of the Dutch East India Company, Zheng Haizhu has already learned in Yuegang, Fujian and Tainan.

It is undeniable that the structure of the East India Company is advanced.

Only by separating the investor from the manager, separating the business entity from personal authority, turning unlimited liability into limited liability, and turning shares into financial capital that can be transferred or even circulated, can the mentality and vision of the owner or operator of the commercial entity be truly broadened.

The essence of "company" is actually the word "contract", and the establishment of contract consciousness in economic life will inevitably bring about a sense of equality in social psychology.

Monarchy, patriarchy, husbandry...... People will gradually discover that the dignity and inferiority that they once thought were determined by heaven are not so unshakable.

We must not allow those barbarians in the deep mountains and old forests to call themselves "coats" and "slaves".

……

The car of the clan drove smoothly all the way, and soon arrived at Ye County in Laizhou, which was less than 100 miles away from Dengzhou.

Since entering the territory of Laizhou, Zhu Yipai's face has begun to turn cloudy.

When taking a break on an official road in Ye County, Zhu Yipai looked at the wilderness in front of him and frowned: "Why are so many fields barren, even if the soil quality is not as good as our Yanzhou Lu Domain, it is better than the Loess Gobi, isn't it okay to grow cotton?" Isn't it good to plant cotton, spin half of the cloth, half of it to fill the wadding, make winter clothes and summer clothes, and transport it directly from the port of Laizhou or Dengzhou to Lushun and send it to the soldiers of Liaodong? ”

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, the so-called knowledge of the house is leaking and in the world, and the knowledge of the government is lost in the grass, the little prince should come out to see the world outside, in order to understand how the empire can make such a collapse.

She was about to open her mouth to solve her doubts, but she heard Guo Shi say: "This is not simple, cotton farmers also have to pay taxes, pay labor, and share all kinds of miscellaneous taxes." The land of officials, gentlemen, and talented people in various states and counties does not have to bear this, and now that they have more and more fields, there are naturally more and more gaps in the first three things, and they still have to be spread on the heads of those farmers who have their own land? Therefore, they couldn't survive the famine year, and they couldn't survive the harvest year, so they simply fled with their families. ”

What Guo said is that the land annexation problem that began to appear in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is rooted in the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang granted tax exemptions to the elite and the so-called scholars from the beginning, so even an iron-fisted figure like Zhang Juzheng cannot be completely solved as long as he is still crawling in the dynastic system.

Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor who thinks he was born from the grassroots, after ascending to the throne, advocated frugality in a performative manner, but he and his descendants have always treated the grassroots harshly, and the leeks can't be cut anyway.

Zhu Yipai listened to his wife's words, and said silently: "No wonder there is a disturbance about the incense sect." In fact, in this way, the property of our clan is not taxed, and it would be ...... for our children and grandchildren to go down like this."

Guo really had the courage of the daughter of a military general, and Da Ra answered: "Isn't it that the civil rebellion will become more and more intense." ”

Zheng Haizhu secretly opened a barrage for her: You are right.

The last emperor of Gui Daming was hanged in front of Li Zicheng, and now the blessed king who was favored by the emperor and the concubine and spent time in Luoyang also died in the hands of Li Zicheng.

It is said that marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, Mrs. Guo, I see that you have the demeanor of the eldest grandson queen.

Zheng Haizhu then boldly interjected: "Therefore, His Royal Highness is wise and willing to persuade King Lu that after Yanzhou mines coal, he will sacrifice bamboo and wood to collect taxes." ”

Zhu Yipai's complexion softened slightly.

Just as his wife looked down on the royal ladies who could only compare the brocade clothes and the palanquin at home, he had always despised the extravagance of the clan members.

Zhu Yipai couldn't understand where the fun was in the life of buying 50 live chickens, cutting off the cartilage between each flipper and frying a dish, or sending people to search around and spend thousands of dollars to buy a cricket.

He felt that he and his wife usually went hunting outside Yanzhou City, or his wife accompanied him to read while embroidering, which was a good enough pastime.

If there is anything that can really make his heart flutter, it is by no means to see the carcasses of fifty chickens piled up in the mansion at one time, but to see the green ears and yellow seedlings in the vast fields, and the green and white mulberry cotton.

After the horses were full of bean cakes, the convoy headed in the direction of the county town ahead.

Ye County is not as rich as Weifang, and there is only one stone street in the county.

As soon as the Zhu family's motorcade walked onto the stone street, it was forced to stop.

The carriage in which Zheng Haizhu and Wu Bangde and others were riding was at the front of the team, and they quickly opened the curtain to take a look.

I saw a blue-robed official standing in the middle of the road, followed by an attendant who looked like a clerk, only a servant like a scholar.

Zheng Haizhu jumped out of the carriage and stepped forward, but saw that the official was fifty miles away, the sideburns under the official's hat were gray, and his face was dark and rough like a farmer in the field.

The expression is serious, there is a word "Chuan" between the eyebrows, and the lines are so deep that they can trap mosquitoes, which shows that they not only do not smile, but also often tighten their eyebrows.

The bird picture on the other party's chest complement, Zheng Haizhu is familiar with it at a glance, and it is the same as Huang Zunsu's.

A seven-rank official.

I only heard the official say in a deep voice: "The old parents' sedan chair is coming, you go back." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the magistrate of the lord of a county was called "old parents".

Zheng Haizhu muttered, in this way, this duke is not the magistrate of Ye County?