Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Zhu Cihong and his entourage came to a four-storey restaurant, and directly came to the highest fourth-floor attic, which was resplendent in gold, all kinds of gold ornaments, and jade ornaments were dazzling.

Zhu Cihong walked to the balcony and looked at the lake below, there are twelve water pavilions on the lake, and this restaurant can accommodate many people.

The twelve water pavilions are equivalent to high-end consumption, on the other side by the sea of flowers, bamboo forests, rockeries surrounded, two three-story buildings are almost similar to the green building, but more advanced, there are singing, storytelling, as well as the piano house, chess house, book house, painting house everything, the beauty of the talent, in the packaging, so that there is a forced style, a gimmick, only taste.

This Jiang Ming understands very well, he is really a good businessman, and after he clicked it, he completely departed from the thinking of the ancient businessmen.

"Your Highness, the number of people entering the garden has begun to increase, and the palace people are all ready.

Jiang Ming looked at the crowd below and said with a smile: "Business is so hot every day. "

Let's tell, what is the profit for more than a year.

Zhu Cihong returned to the room, came to the stove and sat down, lay on the chaise longue, felt the touch of the tiger skin on the chair, it was comfortable, and simply closed his eyes.

"Your Royal Highness, in addition to the construction of Chongzhen's ten years, recruitment, and the time for building the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, Chongzhen's income for the whole year of eleven years, not counting the payment of taxes, is 14.5 million, and there are more than 30,000 workers in the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, plus the wages of the management personnel, a total of 2 million taels, plus the processing of goods, planting and other material costs, a total of 1 million taels, simply a lot of goods are provided by the Department of Agricultural Affairs, so it saves a lot of money, excluding artificial materials, and earns 11.5 million taels。

Jiang Ming took out the general ledger and began to report: "Most of them are wholesale, and the goods sold in department stores are relatively large, among which fine salt has the largest revenue, at five million taels." "

The back garden is about 2.3 million, but Longmen Department Store is now only available in Taiyuan, Beijing, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, in addition to Taiyuan and Beijing, other places have only been open for less than half a year, Longmen Department Store, very promising.

Zhu Cihong opened his eyes, took the account book and looked at it carefully, and after half a sound, he spoke: "The cost before this, the construction labor principal of more than 3 million, plus the original inventory of the eight houses in Shanxi, these are less than 8 million.

"But there's still a lot of room for development.

Zhu Cihong stood up, there was a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone, he was not dissatisfied with Jiang Ming, but now that the silver is not more than 100 million, he is not satisfied, and he can't stimulate his nerves.

"Your Highness forgive your sins!" Jiang

Ming heard this, his body immediately trembled, and he knelt directly on the ground, and cold sweat broke out on his face.

"This palace doesn't blame you, it's close to the principal of four million, and it's enough to earn back five or six million.

Zhu Cihong raised his hand, walked out of the room again, came to the balcony, took out a clairvoyant mirror, and looked into the distance.

"Your Highness.

Jiang Ming got up and followed behind him, wiped the cold sweat on his face with palpitations, and looked into the distance.

"Your Highness, there is a vacant land behind it, there are some small alleys, and there are some poor people living in it, which can be bought and expanded.

As soon as he saw His Highness's movements, he said guessingly.

"You're smart.

Zhu Cihong turned his head and glanced at Jiang Ming, revealing a faint smile.

This compliment and smile were originally a good thing, but in Jiang Ming's eyes, his heart trembled again, and he hurriedly said, "It's the villain who is guessing." "

Don't be so restrained, this palace is terrible?"

Zhu Cihong really didn't think about beating Jiang Ming, so he simply praised it, and didn't knock the other party at all, speculating on what he meant in his heart.

When Jiang Ming heard this, he didn't dare to answer, after all, he still heard about the rumored His Royal Highness the Prince, and said that he was not afraid that it was false.

Zhu Cihong looked at the more and more crowds below, and he was still very relieved, many of them were staff members who came to work, and the gorgeously dressed people were the rich second generation or the rich generation in the capital.

Seriously, the Longmen Chamber of Commerce has created a lot of jobs for many people, which is also crucial, so that at least some people have no land to plant, and they can still come to work to earn money to support their families.

He wants to change the direction of the development of agriculture in the Ming Dynasty, so that it will not make sense for the landlord to annex the land, because even if everyone does not have to farm the land, they can go to work to make money.

However, the premise is that the Longmen Chamber of Commerce must become the largest grain merchant in the Ming Dynasty and turn agriculture into a business, so as to control the grain prices of the Ming Dynasty and completely change the thinking of agriculture.

Combined with the Daming Money Village, the unified currency, the official exchange, the grain reserve department, the unified collection of grain grown by the people, and the sale of grain at a unified price, it can completely change the situation in which the gentry, officials and businessmen use land to annex, and they can persecute and squeeze the people as slaves.

Otherwise, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and poorer, which is one of the reasons why many emperors in ancient times compromised with the gentry group and ruled the world together, because most of the resources are in the hands of these gentry, and if you don't compromise with the emperor, there will be only no money and no one.

But Zhu Cihong's idea is different, he plans to reshuffle the cards, disobedient, all step down, and support the obedient to come to power, so, after the new policy, first of all, is to abolish the forced labor first, so that everyone has income, in order to improve the consumption economy of the Ming Dynasty, the money will not be concentrated in the hands of those gentry groups.

This is the first step, and then slowly move forward, a new thing comes out, always give others a little time to adapt, and when everyone is almost adapted, then launch something newer.

Qiu Zhizhong.

Zhu Cihong put away the clairvoyant mirror.

"The slave is here.

Qiu Zhizhong stepped forward and bent down.

"Send someone to Li Ruolian to ask for a house, reward Jiang Ming, and then send the Jiang Xuezhu sisters to live in the house, so that they don't have to be in the palace.

Zhu Cihong said.

"Yes.

Qiu Zhizhong turned around and ordered.

"Your Highness Xie!" Jiang

Ming immediately knelt on the ground to thank him, so that as soon as he returned to the capital, he would be able to see his two daughters from time to time.

"Let's file my taxes.

Zhu Cihong returned to the room and lay on the recliner.

"Your Royal Highness, according to His Royal Highness's orders, the commercial tax of 1.4 million yuan has been handed over to the Ministry of Households, and the salt tax has only taken two million taxes of salt to try, and it has been handed over to the Department of Agricultural Affairs, because it is not wholesaled to all parts of the country at present, only in the area of Jiangnan and Beizhili to wholesale to small salt merchants, and the hereditary salt merchants who originally monopolized salt have not come to wholesale, and, according to the salt tax of the Ming Dynasty, each catty of salt is about 22.2 Wen, so it is a little little.

After hearing this, Zhu Cihong closed his eyes again, although the Longmen Chamber of Commerce is his industry, he is not a gentry, but a monarch, taxes must be paid, not only to maintain his personal treasury, but also to maintain the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, if his chamber of commerce does not pay taxes, then don't think about promoting the increase of commercial taxes in the future.

However, he also heard some key points from the salt tax that Jiang Ming said, that is, the big salt merchants who originally had a hereditary salt monopoly did not act, as if they were all colluding.

Yes, the household department canceled the salt introduction system and gave the exclusive right to sell salt to the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, resulting in as long as a businessman can come to buy, which greatly damages their interests, and it is normal not to wholesale it.

However, there is a problem here, the salt from all over the country is transported to the Department of Agriculture for processing, and then the Longmen Chamber of Commerce goes to get the salt, takes the salt from the two million tax, and then sells some of it itself, and then wholesals a part to the small merchants in the vicinity.

So apart from the unprocessed salt left by the Department of Agriculture, what do people in other places eat, and the salt that flows into the market is so little, and those big salt merchants either have valuable salt reserves or smuggle salt.

That is to say, after the salt from all over the country was transported to the Department of Agriculture, not many merchants came to wholesale, only small merchants from the vicinity came to the Longmen Chamber of Commerce.

Zhu Cihong opened his eyes, sat up, walked out of the room again, and came to the balcony, but his eyes were looking in the direction of Jingying, and he already had the idea of using the knife in advance!