"You're this now, it's a bit redundant!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Xiang Hui and said: "Now Jialong is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, his marriage is a state affair, you don't need to worry about it, naturally someone will help you handle it!" ”

Xiang Hui was still a little unable to adapt for a while, and in later life, Cheng Shijie was just an ordinary employee of a state-owned enterprise, his level was not high, and his family was not wealthy. After all, Hanhai is a resource city, with many coal bosses and real estate bosses, and standing in that limelight, pigs can fly.

In fact, the rich people in Hanhai City are also counted, casual and inconspicuous people may have a net worth of more than 100 million, whether it is from the national per capita income or per capita deposits, Hanhai City is not lagging behind.

Whether it is Xiang Hui or Cheng Shijie, the little family property in the later generations is really nothing. But the problem is that it is different in Daming, in Daming Cheng Shijie is not only the regent, not only the most powerful person, but also the richest person.

The Ning Navy Group is currently the largest company in the world, and even if the Dutch East India Company is placed in front of the Ning Navy Group, it is a small thing.

For the time being, the iron mines, gold mines, and other minerals in Zhanzhou, the four ports in Xinming, more than a dozen docks, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Sulu Sea, and even in the Indian Ocean, the Ning Navy controls more than 200 islands and more than 300 small military bases.

At the same time, the Ning Navy Group also has the world's largest private armed company, the leader of this private armed company is Cheng Shijie's eldest son Cheng Jialong's disciple Gao Jie, Gao Jie has a total of eight brigades, each of which has jurisdiction ranging from 6,000 to 8,000, with a total strength of more than 50,000 horses.

Equipped with a large number of equipment and artillery decommissioned from the army, the strength of the security personnel of the Ningbo Navy Shipping Group is even stronger than that of more than 80 percent of the countries in the world.

If Cheng Jialong wants to find a daughter-in-law, then there is no need to worry at all.

Xiang Hui realized that now his son is Tang monk meat, and many people want to take a bite.

The more Cheng Jialong learned, the more he realized that being an emperor was actually not a good career, and he sighed and said, "Dad, I finally know why you don't want to be an emperor......

Cheng Shijie said: "The emperor is indeed not good, any system and policy, once it has been implemented for a long time, there will be people who take advantage of loopholes, just like Jinyiwei, at the beginning, Jinyiwei is indeed the emperor's eyes and ears, but slowly, Jinyiwei has changed, becoming an interest group, they are no longer simply the emperor's eyes and ears, just like Jinyiwei's former commander Luo Yangxing, he is actually the eyes and ears of the cabinet, staring at the emperor!" ”

Cheng Jialong smiled bitterly: "I'm not an emperor now, just a prince, tired and half-dead, no overtime pay and no bonus, just forget it, I finally have a little free time, and I will be scolded when I watch this game, this prince is not interesting at all......"

Xiang Hui asked puzzledly, "How is it possible?" The Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces are united into a city, hundreds of millions of Li people are heartily loved, the border troubles have been calmed, the internal worries are resolved, the treasury is full, and all kinds of waste are thriving, all of them are like this, the imperial school is not good, you see your father, what do you need to do every day? Busy giving birth to a younger brother and sister for you, at most half a year, you should have two more younger brothers or sisters. ”

"I'm completely different from my dad!"

Cheng Jialong smiled bitterly: "Ning Haijun was founded by my father, from top to bottom, no one dares to disobey him, from top to bottom, the officials from top to bottom, fear him like a tiger, they all say that he is more ruthless than Emperor Hongwu, what ...... something"

Without waiting for Cheng Jialong to finish complaining, Cheng Shijie slammed Prince Cheng's head on the table and shouted, "Fuck, give you three points of color and you will open a dyeing workshop, right?" You said that you want to be the emperor, Lao Tzu, I will do everything possible to pave the way for you, and now the enthronement ceremony has been almost prepared, when will you pick a son for me, just like you bear, when will you have the appearance of being a prince? When will you be a serious emperor? ”

"Say it, don't do it!"

Xiang Hui watched Cheng Jialong grin when Cheng Shijie was pressed by Cheng Shijie, and shouted: "Ouch, ouch, don't do it!" ”

Cheng Jialong saw that his mother was supporting him, and hurriedly said, "Oh...... Pain pain pain pain, dad light, I know it's wrong, I can't change it! ”

Cheng Jialong sighed and said, "Can you blame me?" You don't know what you've come up with, the Ning Navy Group is now the same as the Dutch East India Company! In fact, it is not the same, the Dutch East India Company has almost no influence in the Netherlands, but the Ning Navy Group is different! ”

Cheng Shijie immediately understood, Cheng Jialong was waiting for him here.

As the largest monopoly industry group in China, Ning Haijun has 90 percent of the steel, 100 percent investment in the construction of railways, as well as the construction of countless reservoirs and dams, and a huge army.

For example, the current Ninghai Ocean Shipping Company, built the largest Fu ship as long as 25 zhang 7 feet, about 5 zhang 7 feet wide, that is to say, 80.955 meters long, about 18 meters wide, full load can carry 3 million pounds of heavy objects, so that with heavy ocean sailing ships, a build is 25 ships, so far, Ninghai Ocean Shipping Company, has more than 8,000 stone more than 3,600 ships.

According to the Ming Dynasty, each stone is about 150 catties, 1,000 stone is about 75 tons, and 8,000 stones is about 600 tons. In other words, the Ninghai Transport Company now has more than 3,500 transport ships of more than 600 tons, which is more than the whole of Europe combined.

In addition to the Ninghai Transportation Group, there is also the Ninghai Navy Salt Industry Company, which can produce more than 1.6 million tons of sea salt every year, in addition to a part of it for the consumption of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and a considerable part of it is made into salted fish or dried meat and other things for export.

Ninghai Machinery Factory has more than 60 subordinate factories alone, covering all mechanical fields, from large steam engines to small carriages and pumping machines.

The Ninghai Agricultural Reclamation Group now owns the entire Zhan Prefecture, including a part of Xinming, Luzon, Indochina, Ceylon, and part of the Mughals, and part of the East Indies.

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Jialong and said, "Do you want to split the Ning Navy Group?" ”

"Splitting is inevitable!"

Cheng Jialong said: "Otherwise, what can I do in the face of such a behemoth?" ”

"You also came from that era, and you should also know the necessity of preserving these state assets!"

Cheng Shijie said: "If you want to split, I won't agree!" ”

"Then take a step back!"

Cheng Jialong said: "You must support my new tax bill!" ”

Cheng Shijie once again understood that Cheng Jialong's real purpose must not be to split up the Ninghai Group, nor to be unwilling to be the prince, but to prepare to implement a new tax law, Cheng Jialong's new tax bill, which has abolished many taxes, including the poll tax for more than 2,000 years.

In the feudal era, since Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, the agricultural taxes of all dynasties were not heavy, even if they were ten taxes, the peasants could fully afford them, and the biggest problem was that there were too many miscellaneous taxes.

Fu is the rent of the official and private fields, divided into regular and additional. Theoretically, there is a certain collection benchmark, but the system of the Ming Dynasty is too rough, and the tax rate varies greatly from place to place, but in general, the south is higher than the north, the official land is higher than the people's land, and the large households such as the military guards are nearby, and the tax rate is much higher than that of the slightly farther away, and there is no fixed number at all.

In addition to the positive endowment, there are all kinds of consumption, and there is no fixed number of this thing, and the people need to bear the freight of transporting it to the designated granary after paying the grain. The first system was for large grain payers to undertake this work, and it was obvious that such a move would lead to rapid bankruptcy.

In particular, the relocation of the capital to Beijing is a heavy burden of transportation, and this work is not something that ordinary grain chiefs can undertake, and they cannot afford it. The strange financial design of Ming Taizu made the people of the Ming Dynasty busy as porters, which was bound to delay the agricultural time.

The Xuande reform finally formed a conversion system, in which a part of the tax grain was delivered in the prefecture and county, paid a certain fee, and was transported by the soldiers, which was the conversion system, forming a system of coexistence of military and democratic movements.

In addition to regular and tax, there are also gate taxes, dam and ship taxes, banknote duties, customs duties, and so on.

The main reform aspects of the new tax law implemented by Cheng Jialong include three aspects, the first is to completely abolish the poll tax, as well as various miscellaneous taxes, such as horse tax, dog tax, eagle tax, chicken tax, duck tax, goose tax, pig tax, sheep tax, cattle tax, etc., and the people only need to bear personal income tax, deed tax, stamp duty, and appreciation.

The second is the abolition of fire consumption, within a year of the implementation of the new tax law, all the silver and gold held by the people need to go to the bank to exchange for silver or gold coins, from then on the people do not need to bear the fire consumption, and there is no longer circulation of broken silver and silver ingots, as well as messy silver coins.

Finally, it is to increase some tariffs, for raw materials to Daming, resources on the basis of the original tariffs, reduce the tariffs by half, and increase the tax rates of Western countries.

Cheng Shijie said: "You should go to Yun Niang for this matter......"

"Dad, Aunt Yun listens to you the most, you tell her ......"

"No talk!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "She is a person who has a clear distinction between public and private, if you ask her to borrow money, she will not even count less interest on a penny!" ”

Cheng Jialong sighed.

"To be an emperor, you must first learn to unify your opinions and eliminate differences!"

Cheng Shijie said: "There are some things that you need to deal with yourself!" ”

Cheng Jialong said: "It's no problem for me to reason with them with a gun, right?" ”

"Nope!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Your method can't actually scare those stunned people!"

"Wait!"

Cheng Shijie asked, "Why do you have a gun?" ”

"It's so easy to build a gun!"

Cheng Jialong said: "Let's Hanhai, how many small hardware factories do you guess?" ”

"Fifteen hundred!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "I know about this!" ”

"The parts of your pistol can be made from any small hardware factory!"

Cheng Jialong said: "The core parts are custom-made, some parts that you don't dare to look at, now we can do these too, the only thing we can't do is bullets!" ”

Cheng Jialong immediately took out a very classic desert eagle and said, "Dad, I should be able to make this gun if I let them imitate it, right?" ”

"It's difficult, some technical conditions still can't be broken!"

……

Catherine took the consul Francesco Erizzo to the house in Dongzhimen, this mansion is only one alley away from Cheng Shijie's original mansion, and the first courtyard into the gate is very shallow, which is the outer courtyard.

The street gate faces east, and on the east side of the outer courtyard there is a row of seven upside-down houses facing the alley, one for the porter, one for the living room, and four for the manservant's living room. There is also a storeroom.

Passing through the weeping flower gate is the main courtyard, the five rooms in the north are built tall and facing south and sit in the main house, there are three wings on each side, the tall courtyard wall in the south is separated from the people in the south, the wings, the main house and the hanging flowers are connected by the corridor, the lotus pot and potted flowers that are high to the waist are placed in the patio, and an osmanthus tree is also planted.

Passing through the main house to the back is the backyard, there is a row of south-facing, low back cover rooms, generally used warehouses, miscellaneous rooms, maids, mothers-in-law live. The whole house has a total of 30 rooms plus the ear room, and no matter where it is placed or what era it is placed in, it will be considered a mansion.

The whole house had just been renovated two years ago, made with the most traditional techniques, carved beams and paintings, and Francesco Erizzo exclaimed: "Catherine, is this your castle?" ”

The courtyard wall is more than four meters high, like a typical castle, the courtyard has a certain defensive function, and this three-hall courtyard is a castle in the eyes of Francesco Erizzo.

Catherine smiled bitterly: "What kind of castle is this, it's just an ordinary three-entry mansion, I have another mansion in Golden State, which is bigger than this one!" ”

Looking at the living room with Ming furniture, as well as fine porcelain, Francesco Erezzo looked at Catherine and said: "Now there are no outsiders here, I want to ask you, is it good or bad that our Venice has become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Your Excellency, there is no turning back now!"

Catherine said: "There are hundreds of vassal states in the Ming Dynasty, including tributary states, vassal states, vassal states, vassal states, vassal states, tribute countries, screen domains, feudal screens, and many other categories! ”

Francesco Erizzo asked, "What is a tributary state?" ”

"This is actually a relatively distant relationship, that is, nominally to the Ming Dynasty, the independence is relatively strong, only three or five years will have a chance to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming will reward some property!"

"If these tributary states are attacked, will the Ming Dynasty take care of it?"

This is Francesco Erizzo's primary concern.

"No!"

Francesco Erizzo asked puzzledly: "Then Luzon was invaded by Spain, why did the Ming Dynasty send troops to attack the Spaniards?" ”

"This Luzon is not a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!"

Catherine introduced: "In 1405, the Ming Dynasty had canonized the Jinjiang overseas Chinese leader Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon, overseeing the political, economic, military, and cultural power of Luzon, Luzon Old Port Propaganda Division, Burma Propaganda Division, Dagu Thorn Propaganda Division, Diwula Propaganda Division, Laos Propaganda Division, and Jiaozhi Bu Political Envoy Division are all Ming territory, just enjoy a high degree of autonomy, Luzon slaughtered the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, expelled the Ming officials, which is considered a rebellion, when the Spanish invaded Luzon, the Ming sat back and watched, and the Ming Dynasty became strong again! ”

When Catherine explained clearly the differences between the vassal states, vassal states, service states, tribute states, Ping domains, and vassal screens of the Ming Dynasty, Francesco Erizzo said: "We Venice have become the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, so we will still enjoy a certain degree of autonomy?" ”

"The biggest difference is that we have to reflect our value, otherwise Daming will not always support us!"

Catherine continued, "The supreme leader of a vassal state is no longer a governor or consul, but a vassal king!" ”

"Can't you rely on elections? Can it only be hereditary? ”

"Elections are possible!"

Catherine said: "The elected vassal king, can not be automatically appointed, but the Ming Emperor canonized, can be compared with the king of Korea, North Korea is the nearest vassal country of the Ming Dynasty, trade is very close, Koreans in the Ming will not be discriminated against, Koreans can also be officials in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, in addition to Korea, occupy the land, Annam people can participate in the Ming imperial examination, as long as they pass the township examination, they can go to Beijing to take the examination, regardless of the number of selection."

Francesco Erezzo said: "Can we Venetians compete with the Great Ming Scholar on the same stage?" ”

"If it's fair, there will definitely be no competition, but in order to show fairness, the Ming Dynasty will admit some exceptions, such as Jin Tao from North Korea, who once won the Jinshi and was awarded Dongchang Mansion Cheng!"

Catherine said: "Fu Cheng is the adjutant of the prefect, that Dongchang Mansion has jurisdiction over one state and nine counties, which is almost equivalent to our thirty Venices, by the way, the population is a hundred times as much as ours!" ”

Francesco Erizzo thought for a moment and said, "We have become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that there is no other loss except for paying a part of the extra tax?" ”

"Yes, in terms of diplomacy and military affairs, you need to be consistent with the Ming Dynasty, if in the future, the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish Empire are at war, or even start a war, we must follow the Ming Empire and declare war on the Spanish Empire!"

Francesco Erezzo said: "Then we are not going to face a total blow from the Spanish Empire?" ”

"When the Ming Empire declares war on the Spanish Empire, do you think the Ming Empire will give the Spanish Empire a chance to resist?"

Catherine said: "We will send the Northern Gandia to the Ming Dynasty, as a military port, the Ming will garrison at least sixty warships in the Northern Gandia, no less than eight thousand elite soldiers!" ”

"Eight Thousand ......"

Francesco Erizzo looked surprised: "This is more than half of our Venetian troops......"

"It's only eight thousand, you don't know anything about the strength of the Ming Empire!"

Catherine said lightly: "The Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty is currently divided into eight fleets, the ocean-going fleet located in Madrid is only one of them, and it is a relatively small one, the largest fleet of the Ming Dynasty is stationed in Lushun, how many warships there are, I don't know, anyway, there are countless warships, dense, in addition to the navy, there are millions of army troops, just fifteen miles south of the capital, more than four years ago, there was a battle, the Ming side invested eight brigades, nearly 200,000 horses......"

"Two hundred thousand horses!"

Catherine said: "This is just a battle, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there have been several decisive battles of five or six hundred thousand horses, and they are even protecting hundreds of thousands of troops in Siberia now, and there are also hundreds of thousands of troops in Central Asia, and there are even more troops in the Indochina Peninsula, no less than six or seven hundred thousand people!" ”

"Oh God!"

Francesco Erizzo couldn't describe his mood in words at this time, except for shock. (End of chapter)