I think that he spent more than 100,000 taels of emperors to repair the city wall, and only gave his son a seven-grade petty official.

And today, the emperor directly rewarded him with a fourth-grade official.

Sipin is already a member of the imperial court.

And what is the Ministry of Commerce.

That's Shang Shu!

Although it can't be compared with the other six Shangshu in terms of grade, at least the name is the same.

This kind of thing, he never dreamed of before. He dreamed of daring to be a county magistrate.

"Your Majesty, are you too fast for Shen Wansan's promotion?" A civil servant said.

"Shen Wansan is just a lowly businessman, let him be an official, and if he says it, he will lose the face of the court." Another humane.

"The old minister is ashamed to be with such people!"

The ministers expressed their dissatisfaction one after another.

Seeing that all the ministers of civil and military affairs were disdainful of him, Shen Wansan was not angry at all. A businessman like him who can do big things is very thick-skinned, and he has the ability to do things on his own, not to mention the ridiculous words?

"You know the!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs. I wanted to say in my heart, if it weren't for Shen Wansan's 50 million taels, would the imperial court have the money to attack Goryeo? Does the imperial court have the money to provide disaster relief, and the money to build water conservancy so that the people can live a good life?

However, this kind of thing obviously can't be said in front of Shen Wansan.

……

"Aiqing is flat." To Shen Wansan, "In the future, you will be in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, and the officials needed by the Ministry of Commerce will also be selected by you." Choose from all the country's businessmen, and choose the kind that can do business and study. ”

"Obey." Shen Wan Sandao.

"Your Majesty, you have just established a land department, and now you have established a commerce department, you are going to turn six departments into eight departments!" Liu Bowen said.

"We just want to break the stereotype of only six ministries in previous dynasties and establish eight ministries." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The old rules are meant to be broken, and the number eight is more auspicious." ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the Ministry of Land should be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, after all, the Ministry of Households has been in charge of land before." Lu Chang said.

"The household department is already a huge and complex affair, so it is more conducive to management and more efficient to let the officials who specialize in managing the land separate." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Now that you are old, let's worry less." ”

"The Sword Comes"

Under normal circumstances, if the emperor said that the minister was old, it would obviously mean to let him resign, but this time it is definitely not the meaning, to understand the specific meaning of a sentence depends on the context and tone

"Your Majesty, the old minister is not old and can barely work for a few years." Lu Chang said, "The officials of the household department are more familiar with the land, and if they have to build a new land department, the officials will be transferred from the household department." ”

"No." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "If the officials of the household department in the past dynasties can manage the land well, there will not be a phenomenon of large areas of land being concentrated in the hands of a few people at the end of a dynasty. ”

"The old minister knows." Lu Chang said.

"May I ask the emperor, what affairs does this Ministry of Commerce manage?" Li Shanchang asked.

"To regulate all business activities in the country, such as grain, rice, cloth, and other daily necessities, as well as overseas trade. and formulate a series of effective measures to standardize business behavior. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "As for important goods such as salt, iron, tea, and horses, they still need special control from the imperial court." In the past, non-governmental chambers of commerce across the country have always been the people of the chamber of commerce, and they have not been regulated. ”

"What the emperor said is extremely true!" Shen Wansan deeply agrees. As a business wizard, he knows the behavior of the local chamber of commerce well, and that's what makes a mess. If he hadn't knocked down all the chambers of commerce across the country, I don't know what the business would have become.

In business, Shen Wansan is a dominant overlord.

"Shen Wansan, what to do to standardize the behavior of merchants is up to you to deal with. After you go back, you draw up a specific statement for us, and we will see it for yourself. In addition, the previous commercial tax will also be changed. What we mean is that we can't let the merchants do too much to threaten the national capital, and we can't let the merchants not develop. How to collect taxes, you can also draw up a statement for us. ”

"Our suggestion is to set different tax rates according to the amount of personal assets of merchants."

"Obey." Shen Wansan received the order and thanked him, turned his head and bowed to the ministers and said, "Colleagues, Shen Wansan is not talented, Shen Wansan knows very well in his heart that you look down on Shen Wansan, a businessman who has no merit. But please wait and see, I, Shen Wansan, will definitely bring a huge amount of treasury revenue to the imperial court in the future. ”

"The amount of gold and silver will definitely exceed your imagination."

"I, Shen Wansan, will do my best to contribute a little bit of my meager strength to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty."

When everyone heard this, they all turned their backs, obviously looking down on them.

"Besides, Shen Wansan." Zhu Yuanzhang said again, "Since you are now a member of the imperial court and the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, then the resources of those overseas merchants under your hands ...... Let's give some to other merchants. ”

"After you join the Ministry of Commerce, you will have to manage and regulate all the businesses of Daming, and you will definitely not have so much energy to manage your own business. The previous merchants didn't develop under your suppression, but now you don't need to do business......"

"Grass...... Wechen, I know what to do. "Shen Wansandao.

He agreed without hesitation, and was ready to hand over all the customer resources in his hands immediately. He even plans to publish a book on business secrets to teach others how to do business.

Shen Wansan had already made plans at this time, and he wanted to be a good official of the Ministry of Commerce wholeheartedly.

Emperor Zhu's promotion of him was unprecedented, and he would never let down Emperor Zhu.

Throughout the ages, businessmen have been looked down upon by the world, and today Zhu Yuanzhang made him a fourth-grade official. He used to be submissive in front of people for half his life, and now he raised his eyebrows and spit out decades of resentment,

How much grace is this, what a great knowledge is this?

At this time, he was already digging out his heart and lungs for Emperor Zhu.

The so-called Shi is a confidant who dies, and Shen Wansan is ready to do his best for the business of the Ming Dynasty, and he will die after death.

"Okay, you can stand aside and listen to the government." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Emperor Xie!" Shen Wansan was excited, he Shen Wansan, he was actually able to listen to politics in Fengtian Palace?

"From now on, we will greatly promote trade with overseas, and we will also give a series of preferential policies for domestic commerce." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The specific preferential law is also formulated by Shen Wansan." ”

"Obey." Shen Wansan said respectfully.

The ministers listened quietly beside them, and the two of them discussed business without interjecting. Shen Wansan is a professional in this area, and it is easy to make jokes when amateurs interject casually.

But what they couldn't figure out was why Emperor Zhu suddenly attached so much importance to business? Didn't he look down on him like everyone else?