Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

"Song Yingxing, you go to Nanjing to establish an agricultural department, then set up a salt factory, and then send commissioners to promote sweet potatoes and potatoes all over the country. "

Your Excellency instructed the national government to actively cooperate with the extension commissioner of the Department of Agriculture.

Zhu Cihong looked at Song Yingxing, and then said: "There is a Wei Mansion in Nanjing, which was seized by Jinyiwei, you go out to find Li Ruolian to ask for a warrant to build the factory in this place." "

Jiangnan, the salt of Lianghuai is the big head, so it is necessary to build a salt factory in Nanjing, and it also saves the manpower and material resources of transportation.

Nan Zhili also wants to get an agricultural department out, because soon, all the land that Nan Zhili has been encroached upon will be his.

"Commandment.

Song Yingxing and Fan Jingwen immediately received the order.

Zhu Cihong waved his hand at Song Yingxing, then looked at Bi Maokang again, and asked, "How many flintlock

pistols are there now?" "Returning to His Highness, there are already 5,000 flintlock pistols, all of which have been issued to the Beijing camp, and the Hongyi cannons are a bit small, only one hundred and fifty have been built at present, and five thousand tiger squat cannons.

Bi Maokang immediately stood up from the crowd to report, and said: "After switching to the assembly line work mode, the production speed and efficiency of the War Bureau have been greatly improved, and there is a system of quality inspection teams, and there are no quality problems, Your Highness is really a genius!"

"Two shifts, overtime, as soon as possible to get out 10,000 flintlock pistols, this palace is of great use."

Zhu Cihong said and said: "According to the current production rate, how long do you think it will take to produce another 5,000 expenditures?" If you

want to have a well-trained musket team of 10,000 people, it will take at least half a year, plus the layout of Jiangnan, it should be about the same, and half a year later, it will be the time when he leads the troops to Nanjing.

"About three months, it should be okay.

Bi Maokang thought about it and said an approximate time.

"Okay, you go down and make arrangements.

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, and then looked at Qian Qianyi.

"The minister has engraved the declaration of the Ming army and handed it over to the Ministry of War to distribute to the National Health Office, and the patriotic articles are also used in the articles used when he went to the southwest to pacify the people, and they have also been posted by the Ministry of Rites to the whole country to be read by the Communist People, and the required reading articles have also been included in the colleges and universities in various places to fully teach the patriotic spirit of the people.

Qian Qianyi saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looking at him, so he immediately stood up to report his work, and hesitated: "It's just that in the past year, the minister has sent people to visit, and the effect seems to be there, but it is not big, please forgive Your Highness." "

This is not something you can control, any kind of culture, ideology, want to penetrate into the hearts of the people, it is not an overnight thing, no matter whether the effect is great or not, the patriotic spirit propaganda work cannot be stopped.

Zhu Cihong said indifferently, when Qian Qianyi was asked to go from northwest Shanxi to southwest Sichuan to care for the people, donating money to help the victims was only incidental, the most important thing was to let this high-mouthed Confucian go to the front-line disaster area, and then open the head of the belief in patriotism.

He didn't think that faith could be done in one step, and it would be basically impossible to have any effect without a few years of rendering, and the propaganda in the past few years has been even stronger, and it must be able to awaken the blood in the hearts of the people before it can be fruitful.

"Your Highness, thank you for your understanding.

Qian Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone was also a lot more relaxed when they heard this, although they were all members of His Royal Highness the Prince, but His Royal Highness acted decisively and ruthlessly, saying that he was not afraid that it was fake, no matter what, he was still a little afraid in his heart.

However, they have been in contact with a lot, and they all have a little spectrum in their hearts, that is, you don't break the law, you can say anything, and Your Highness will not be angry at every turn, but is very reasonable and considerate of their work.

Those officials who died were all guilty of breaking the law, and it was not a light kind of corruption that violated His Highness's bottom line, but when dealing with political affairs, His Highness would not have anything to blame, of course, if you deliberately can't do it well and don't do it, it will not be of the same nature.

"The Ministry of War, send a commissioner down to find out how the guards recite the declaration of the Ming army, and read it every day.

Zhu Cihong looked at Sun Chengzong, and before waiting for the other party to answer, he said: "Whether it is useful or not, whether they do it or not, but the order must be issued, and this system will be formed first, and then the rest." "

Anything must be done immediately, but whether the right thing will be effective or not, we must also open this rule and make this head imperceptible.

"Commandment.

Sun Chengzong stepped forward.

"Feng Ying.

Zhu Cihong looked at the Shangshu of the Criminal Department again.

"The minister is here.

Hearing this, Feng Ying immediately stood up and waited for instructions.

"Decree a law that goes down, fakes, counterfeits are against the law.

Zhu Cihong said.

"Your Highness, there is this article in the Da Ming Law.

Feng Ying said with some embarrassment.

"Then issue a strong notice, all fakes, counterfeits, and those caught will be fined 100,000 taels of silver.

Zhu Cihong didn't feel embarrassed, but reprimanded Feng Ying, saying: "Since there is this law, that is, the management of the criminal department is not strict, and the punishment for counterfeiting is not high.

There are also bandits, wanted criminals, illegal gangs, these are everywhere outside, is this palace asking you to arrest anyone

, what are you doing in the criminal department, you are a candle, you can't light it if you don't light it!" Zhu Cihong scolded Feng Ying directly, what he was most annoying about was spending money to raise waste, either you would make money for him, or you would have to be busy and manage the stability of the party.

"Now the Longmen Chamber of Commerce has come out, everyone knows, Hubu, tell me, how much tax is paid by this Chamber of Commerce this year?"

Before Feng Ying could ask for guilt, he looked at Ni Yuanlu again and asked.

"Back to Your Highness, the Longmen Chamber of Commerce has paid taxes, one million four hundred thousand in commercial taxes and two million in salt taxes, but the commercial taxes have been paid too much.

When Ni Yuanlu heard this, he stood up and said, but for the commercial tax paid by the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, it is obviously very strange, but there is money into the treasury, and he doesn't need to worry about it, and he feels that there are people in the Longmen Chamber of Commerce who are covered, holding Jinyiwei's driving sticker, and it is the commander's handwritten driving sticker, what is the situation of Jinyiwei now, everyone knows it, and they dare not find trouble with this Longmen Chamber of Commerce.

"Feng Ying

!" Zhu Cihong looked at the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and scolded again: "You heard, who can reach the tax paid by the Longmen Chamber of Commerce in a year, you hurry up and fight fakes, and get rid of those profiteers who pretend to be the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, and once caught, you will be directly fined 100,000 taels of silver!" "

If the catch is not fast enough, the palace will transfer people to you, you go down and discuss with Dali Temple, how many people are needed, report it!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand at Feng Ying and motioned for Feng Ying to go down.

"The minister is guilty, and he will go down immediately.

Feng Ying retreated with a bitter face, and he was trained every time.

After Feng Ying left, everyone was very curious about the Longmen Chamber of Commerce that emerged in a year, and now many people in the capital will go to Longmen Department Store to buy things, and they will also go into the back garden to play.

They all know that the Longmen Chamber of Commerce makes money, but they actually pay more than one million taxes, is this Longmen Chamber of Commerce a little too stupid, it is obvious that the taxes are too much, they don't understand.

"The commercial tax of the Longmen Chamber of Commerce is one out of ten, which is the price of taking the Jinyi Guard's handwriting, the price of exclusive salt, and the price of many privileges.

Zhu Cihong didn't explain too much about the Longmen Chamber of Commerce paying more taxes, but just explained casually, according to the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty, it is one out of thirty, that is, three percent, which is much lower than the agricultural tax and the per capita tax, so he plans to raise the commercial tax to ten percent, but this is all a later matter, and it is not yet the time to reform the commercial tax.

Things have to come one by one.

During the Wanli Dynasty, those ministers in the cabinet also proposed to reduce the commercial tax to 1.5 percent, directly by half, which shows how greedy these literati, gentry, official and business groups are.

The Longmen Chamber of Commerce is doing this, just to let the household department have a concept, a process of adaptation, and after tasting the benefits, it is much easier to raise the commercial tax.

As soon as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said this, several people understood, it turned out that the Longmen Chamber of Commerce had a relationship with His Royal Highness the Prince, but the tax of one out of ten was really high, and this Chamber of Commerce was really so honest, but after thinking about it, the Longmen Chamber of Commerce's revenue last year was more than 10 million?

This is much more than the silver collected by the treasury in a year, is the businessman really so profitable?

A few people kept thinking in their hearts, a few of them did not go to business to open a shop, so even if they knew that the current businessmen made money, but there was no number in their hearts about how much they earned, and those who touched the business were some nobles and nobles, and the clan, they just had more land at home, and they didn't want to do business in the past.

Do you want to talk to Your Highness and increase the commercial tax?

In this way, the treasury will also have more revenue, and the life of the household department will be better.

Suddenly, Ni Yuanlu suddenly had such an idea in his heart, but after thinking about the interest group again, he dispelled this idea, and he couldn't afford to offend.

The clans, the gentry, the nobles, and the magistrates from all over the country are all reaching out to business, using their privileges not to pay taxes, and the merchants who are still paying taxes are just some hawkers.

"Alright, now it's time for the Cabinet.

Zhu Cihong said that the previous work was carried out smoothly, and the decree was issued to the whole country, and no one would resist the decree, because these did not harm the interests of the local gentry.