Chapter 46: Yao Guangxiao's Observations

Ji Gang didn't know that his promotion had such a background. But he was transferred from the local government to the cabinet, yes. He Xi's private intelligence agency was included in his cabinet. Yao Guangxiao has a cabinet official position, and Ji Gang also has it.

Although the official position has not been promoted, the power is very great, and almost all departments have to give up three points when they meet with the cabinet members.

He cared deeply about the job, and soon showed his talent for intelligence.

was also selected by Yao Guangxiao and became the candidate to follow Yao Guangxiao to Nanjing.

At this moment, he was scared to death by Yao Guangxiao's actions.

He knew that Yao Guangxiao had lived in Nanjing for many years, and now he had some disguise. But such a disguise is hidden from acquaintances. Once he is recognized, it will be a catastrophe. Once something goes wrong with Yao Guangxiao, how can Ji Gang, as the person who protects Yao Guangxiao, have a good end.

Ji Gang said, "My lord, this is too dangerous."

Yao Guangxiao looked at the goods on the market indifferently and said, "Don't call adult, call sir." Then I asked the store very enthusiastically how this thing was sold. And then a lot of bargaining. However, Yao Guangxiao's mind is not on the price.

After a lot of bargaining, I became familiar with the store. casually chatted about the parents. Store prices, how to pay taxes, etc.

In this way, Yao Guangxiao spent several days in Nanjing's major markets.

Ji Gang lost a full circle. He looked suspicious of everyone.

It must be known that what Ji Gang is doing in Beijing is counterespionage work. His direct opponent is Nanjing Jinyiwei.

I have to say that after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, the main officials of Jinyiwei resigned. They understand very well that if they don't resign, the end will be very bleak. But they don't know that even if they resign, their fate will be miserable.

Without him, a problem hovers in the hearts of many people, and naturally it also remains in Zhu Yunwen's heart. The straight question is, who does Zhu Yuanzhang want to pass the throne to?

Others don't know, but Zhu Yunwen feels that the Jinyi guard, who follows Zhu Yuanzhang the most, should know, or there is a rumor.

But what a person Zhu Yuanzhang is. What he does, the people below either don't know, or even if they do, they don't know what they're doing. There are also some people, even if they know what Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to do, they may have such a tendency. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally dealt with such a person. The people who don't deal with it are the ones that Zhu Yuanzhang thinks these people won't say.

As a result, many of Zhu Yunwen's actions have no results at all, or the only results. That is, the old man in the brocade guard was completely cleaned.

Perhaps, Zhu Yunwen himself has such thoughts.

After all, intelligence agencies are important. But there is one problem that Zhu Yunwen has not thought about, that is, intelligence agencies are different from ordinary departments.

There are no certain rules for many things in the intelligence agency, and there are no books that tell people what to do in intelligence work, the reason why Jinyiwei is so powerful is because Jinyiwei followed Zhu Yuanzhang out of the troubled times.

In the midst of the turmoil, they fought each other against each other's intelligence agencies. He even planned a major mission to assassinate an important general. That kind of thing is not comparable to peacetime fighting.

And the resume of the Jinyi Wei official, it can be seen that it is almost the death of the father and the son. Or promoted from the lower ranks of the Jinyi Guard.

This ensures the professionalism of Jinyiwei.

And the people around Zhu Yunwen were not promoted from the brocade guards at all. He sent some outsiders to such a professional department, and it was normal for Jinyiwei's business to be chaotic for a while.

In fact, from this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay much attention to Zhu Yunwen's cultivation, otherwise, Zhu Yunwen would have to cultivate cronies in Jinyiwei, and after he ascended the throne, he would be able to take over smoothly.

But even so, Jinyiwei's combat effectiveness is still very powerful.

This is the feeling of Ji Gang fighting against Jinyiwei in Beijing.

It's just that Nanjing is not very popular here.

Because Zhu Yunwen was not stupid enough to clean up the entire Jinyi Guard, the focus of his cleanup was Nanjing to ensure his own safety.

whereas

Zhu Yunwen also succeeded. In terms of ensuring Zhu Yunwen's safety, Jin Yiwei did a good job. But it's hard to say about the rest. After all, in this era, there is no special system for intelligence warfare, and it depends more on individuals.

However, no matter how slow Jinyiwei's reaction speed is, Yao Guangxiao will find out sooner or later if he continues like this.

Yao Guangxiao also knows this.

Yao Guangxiao has already gotten what he wants.

That is, Nanjing's certain reforms have not been implemented.

He Xi's reform is multifaceted. Different people have different observation points, Yao Guangxiao's observation points are different, he thinks that there are many state-owned enterprises in Beijing, but Yao Guangxiao believes that this is not the point. The real point is nothing else. It is whether the imperial court can collect commercial taxes from the market.

After all, before the Ming Dynasty, the collection of commercial taxes was two models. One mode is very light. There are almost no taxes. The imperial court nominally collects taxes, but in reality they do not. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that there was no tax on the materials necessary for the people's daily life. It is also not allowed to disturb the people with taxes. At the same time, there is no fixed amount for the collection of commercial tax.

That is, there are too many taxes, there are no rewards, and if you make things happen, you have to take the blame.

Therefore, in the original system of the Ming Dynasty, there was almost no commercial tax levied. Everybody's just meaning it.

What can really be enforced is the tariff, but the tariff on the inland river gradually came later, and there were very few during the Hongwu period. This is also the time when Zhu Yuanzhang formulated policies, the war was closed, and all industries were waiting to be developed. Under such circumstances, the increase in commercial taxes increased the burden on the people.

It's a nominal burden.

The other mode is very heavy. It is the actual burden of the Ming merchants. To do business in a place, you need to worship the pier and dot up and down, otherwise you can't do business. In addition, you need to find the backstage. In this case, it is a testament to the realistic logic that with power comes money.

That's it.

In addition to this, they must also bear the burden of the government. The government's nominal commercial tax, in fact, the government buys it when it needs it. Pointing merchants to bear. In this case, it is a life talisman. Without him, the purchase price is set, and I don't know when it will be set, but it doesn't match the market price anyway, so that's it. In many cases, even this price is given to you in name. In fact, not a penny. The imperial court may have allocated funds. However, it is not possible for this money to reach the merchant. But the imperial court nominally gave. But the merchant cannot supply goods in name, he must supply the court in real terms, or even in excess.

As a result, many merchants are bankrupt, not to mention that they cannot afford to sell their children and daughters. Sometimes, once it is assigned to a certain merchant, the merchant returns home, kills his whole family, hangs himself.

In Yao Guangxiao's view, the model of collecting commercial tax formulated by He Xi can at least use a suitable method to collect commercial tax from below, which is a good model.

According to Yao Guangxiao's investigation. Nanjing's prosperity is not as good as Beijing's, after all, Beijing's development time is too short, and it is not as good as Nanjing's and Suzhou's great heritage. If Zhu Yunwen can complete the same reform as Beijing, then it is normal for Nanjing, a city, to have several million taels of commercial taxes.

Suzhou, Ningbo, Yangzhou, Wuchang, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and other big cities add up to tens of millions of taels of commercial taxes, all of which are possible.

However, Yao Guangxiao found that Nanjing's tax collection model had not changed at all.

It's even darker than it was before it was cast.

Without him, Nanjing is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and Zhu Yuanzhang does not rub sand in his eyes. And Lao Zhu also has a habit, that is, micro-service private visits. That's right, Kangxi Weifu's private interview is fake. There were no less than three thousand people around him who were protected by his old man. And Zhu Yuanzhang's private interview with Weifu is true.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang only visited Nanjing Weifu privately, and he has not been to many other places.

Therefore, the Nanjing officials did not dare to go too far. When it reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, there was no good fruit to eat. But this was not the case after Zhu Yunwen came to power. Zhu Yunwen's attention to the people at the bottom is far less than that of Zhu Yuanzhang. Not to mention, Zhu Yunwen does not have Zhu Yuanzhang's authority, and he is more indulgent to the upper elites.

So much so that these people look ugly.

Yao Guangxiao was very relieved when he saw this.

In his opinion, the victory and defeat of the north and the south have been divided.