Chapter 161 Transported back 200 million taels of silver at once!The day of becoming a marquis has arrived!
Lao Zhu was like a happy child at this time, taking the large stack of letters sent by Chen Han, more than 30 letters, and reading them one after another.
Because on each cover, Chen Han wrote who would receive it.
After Xia Yuanji and Princess Jiangdu arrived, Lao Zhu spread the large pile of letters on the desk.
"Come on, come on... take a look, everyone gets his own. This little monkey has been here for more than half a year, and this is the first time he has handed over all the letters and memorials.
This was more than three months after they arrived there, and we received it half a year later.
Everyone comes and takes a look, and everyone takes their own.
My eldest granddaughter, your husband has written you four or five letters. Here, this is yours! "
Lao Zhulai personally distributed the letters and handed four thick stacks of letters to the delighted Princess Jiangdu.
To be honest, she missed him very much after not seeing him for half a year.
Then Lao Zhu handed Xia Yuanji three letters to Xia Yuanji.
Xia Yuanji also took the letter and stepped aside to sit down and take a good look at what Chen Han wrote to him.
Then there are three letters from Zhu Biao and three letters from Lao Zhu. The rest are some summaries of the entire Eastern Expedition Army by Mu Ying and Chen Han.
Zhu Biao, Xia Yuanji and Princess Jiangdu opened their letters separately.
Just because the old man is old, someone needs to be around to read these letters for him.
Therefore, a civil servant was specially summoned from the Hanlin Academy to read the letter for him.
After more than half an hour, they finally read all the letters Chen Han gave them.
They are all very emotional.
Chen Han's letters to them were all pretty much the same except that the letters to his wife were different from others.
It mainly tells the story of his people who went to sea from Ningbo Port and arrived at Hepu Port in North Korea, and the current situation of Hepu Port.
In fact, it is to state the current economic situation of North Korea.
Analyze what commercial methods can be used against North Korea.
What kind of goods are they lacking here? According to Chen Han's narrative, after more than ten days of various inspections of Hepu Port and surrounding Busan, Chen Han came to the conclusion that the area is now narrow and has few people and lacks basic daily necessities.
Since the entire North Korea currently lacks a large number of crops and self-sufficiency in various daily necessities, dumping cotton cloth to them is a very profitable business.
Then it was mentioned that the only thing North Korea can import is food.
Since agriculture in North Korea is only suitable for growing rice, years of accumulation have given them relatively generous reserves.
Then it tells the story of what happened after arriving on Tsushima Island and killing the Japanese pirates on Tsushima Island.
We learned from the Japanese pirates that they robbed Korean merchant ships and smuggling merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that there were many smuggling merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty, and there was conclusive evidence that a large number of merchants on the southeast coast were smuggling.
Then he talked about the construction situation in Wonu Tangli.
From just landing to the immediate launch of the war, and then the annihilation battle of 5000 people with the Ouchi clan, everything was written in detail in the letter.
It also informed Chen Han and others of the form of the executive committee of the Japanese slave branch of the Ming colonial area committee established by the Japanese slaves. Although it did not refer to the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy, it also clearly explained the role and efficiency of this kind of executive committee in the colonial area.
Because the work of each department is directly divided into details and assigned to each responsible person.
Even though these supervisor and team leader-level figures may not all be literate scholars, they still do their jobs successfully.
It also tells about the bombardment of the entire Ouchi clan's territory this time, the destruction of Zhou Fangguo, the destruction of the name of the Ouchi clan, and control of the entire Ouchi clan's territory.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he shouted: "Well done, well done! This Houzi's marquis is stable. Pinglu Marquis, Houzai, it's not in vain. It will be announced at the court meeting tomorrow!!"
After hearing the words of his imperial grandfather, the monarch of Jiangdu felt as sweet as honey.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang explained to Zhu Yuanzhang and the others in detail the situation that Ouchi was now a puppet.
Zhu Yuanzhang was quite pleased when he read Chen Han's letter: "This monkey boy is very good, very good. The Eastern Expedition Army he proposed is actually also thinking about establishing the Eastern Branch of the Ming Dynasty Chamber of Commerce.
Mu Ying could be the president of the Oriental Branch this time, but he didn't expect that after landing, he would immediately put the so-called executive committee there, probably based on the bureaucracy system he had in the original world.
Very good. Judging from the facts he is stating now, the execution efficiency of this committee is faster than our current government.
Even though the population of what he calls Daming City now reaches more than 20, it can still carry out detailed division of labor.
It can be seen that this thing can be promoted in other colonial areas.
What he means is that we will approve his regulations and let us form a law, which can be copied in other colonial areas in the future. "
Zhu Biao agreed after reading Chen Han's letter to him, "He did mean that, and he told you directly in the letter to the child that he wanted me, the father-in-law, to help him speak.
Now that the executive committee has been well practiced in Wonufen, it can be replicated in other places.
As for the prototype of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Business Association, how is Xia Aiqing preparing for it? "
Xia Yuanji put down the letter Chen Han sent him.
In fact, the contents of Chen Han's letters to him were quite similar, but they contained encouragement for Xia Yuanji.
First of all, he affirmed the reform direction he proposed now and the colonial direction he proposed.
It also talked about the current prospects, so Xia Yuanji was also encouraged.
Xia Yuanji is currently in charge. In addition to helping His Royal Highness handle national government affairs in the cabinet, he also takes up the banner of reform.
With his efforts, the reforms were implemented in accordance with Chen Han's instructions.
At present, tax reform has initially formed regulations.
All the people discovered at this time that they took advantage of using treasure money as a tool to pay taxes.
They had always thought that treasure money was just a piece of waste paper.
But they didn't expect that the imperial court would actually start to be so democratic and let them use treasure money to pay taxes.
This is literally a life saver for them.
Another policy that followed was that the imperial court would use treasure money to buy their food, although this time it seemed that the money was back in their hands.
But the nature is different.
First, they paid the tax, and second, they sold the grain, which is a profit for both ends.
In this way, although the treasure banknotes are only flipped twice, the purchasing power of the treasure banknotes is no one can explain clearly how this increases the purchasing power of Baobao.
But the common people found that the treasure banknotes became more and more valuable in this year.
After the first tax on treasure banknotes, the treasure banknotes on the market went from being worth only 250 cash to a regular banknote being worth [-] cash.
In the past six months, after the imperial court bought food and stimulated consumption, Guanbao banknotes can now be exchanged for three hundred copper coins.
Recently, the imperial court has placed various orders to workshops everywhere.
First of all, cotton, of course, goes to great lengths to produce.
It led to the planting of mulberry trees and the increase in silkworm farmers in the surrounding areas.
The same imperial court also stipulated that food must be grown there in order to prevent more and more people from raising silkworms from encroaching on people's fields.
In order to eliminate the problem, people cannot get as much benefit from growing food as raising silkworms.
The imperial court even increased the purchase price of grain.
The imperial court directly stepped forward to increase the purchase price of grain, which greatly reduced the imbalance in the hearts of the people.
There are even more people willing to farm.
More businessmen began to cooperate with ordinary people and began to rent their fields for farming.
Because after calculation, they found that growing grain was a business, and even if they occupied more fields, the taxes they paid were not high.
So after all this calculation, since the tax paid is not high and it can generate a lot of profits, why not do it? Since the imperial court issued a large number of orders, whether it was shipbuilding, road construction, or purchasing grain, a large number of manpower, material resources, and workers were needed. Therefore, a large number of workers felt that they could make more money by working for the imperial court, so they started to From farming to industrial workers.
As for the land at home, it is cultivated by grain merchants who are willing to contract their land, and they charge a small amount of land rent.
The money earned from working can completely offset the small amount of taxes paid on one's own land.
As a result, a large number of industrial workers were formed.
The reason why they have the confidence to become industrial workers is that after careful calculation, they found that the money they earned from working was more than enough to buy food.
Now they found that the grain merchants on the market were all imperial shops, but there were no private grain merchants.
why?
Because the grain sold in the imperial court's shops was much cheaper than that sold by private traders.
And their acquisition price can be higher.
Therefore, those private grain merchants turned to contracting fields and producing grain to sell to the court.
As for the imperial court, after obtaining these grains, they sold them to the people at very low prices to ensure that the people could eat cheap food.
In this way, this is actually subsidizing the entire agriculture in disguise.
This also gave rise to a large number of professional grain merchants.
They no longer sell in the market, and they no longer rent shops in the market. Instead, they go to the countryside to contract a large amount of land, grow food, and hire people to work for them.
The grain they produced was sold to the court at a high price, and the court was willing to cooperate with these traders because it was stable and large in quantity and easy to transport.
In this way, these traders get benefits, and the people can eat cheap food.
Although the imperial court gave grain merchants great advantages, they could make up for it in commercial taxes.
So everyone is happy.
After this year's tax reform, Ming Dynasty has undergone such earth-shaking changes.
Xia Yuanji fully affirmed Chen Han's reform measures.
In particular, these reform measures that benefit the country and the people are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The common people have received real benefits. After the commercial circulation, the court no longer focuses all taxes on agricultural taxes, and can get more benefits from commercial taxes.
Generally speaking, after this tax reform, ordinary people can pay less taxes, have somewhere to work and earn money, and no longer just focus on the land.
At the same time, the price of food on the market is much lower than before and stable.
With the huge hand of the imperial court controlling the grain trade, the common people finally no longer had to worry. Only when there was a good harvest would they have cheap food to eat. When the harvest was bad, the price of food would skyrocket.
Even with the guarantee of this measure, even in times of famine, the people became more confident and more convinced of the court.
Because they saw with their own eyes that the imperial court charged a very high price, but the price sold on the market was much lower than the purchase price.
So everyone knows that the court is providing money to ensure that everyone can eat.
Who would not support such a court? As for the businessmen, although they knew that the tax had been increased, it had been raised from thirty to one to twenty.
But they don't have so many restrictions and can do business on a large scale.
Every time you go to a place, you only need to go to the Yamen to register that you are a merchant.
Then indicate what transactions you want to make. The tax regulations issued by the government clearly indicate how much tax you have to pay for each commodity.
As long as you list all the businesses you want to run, hand them over to the government when the time comes, and the government will keep a copy of the bottom file, and keep a copy in your own hands. Then you will pay as much tax as you have done for the business you have done. That is quite a lot. clear.
In addition, in order to prevent these businessmen from being made trouble by the local officials, the imperial court would leave some instructions at the inns and inns whenever the tax rules were updated.
Not only is there a detailed list of taxes and how much tax must be paid on each product at the gate of the yamen.
Even if you stop for a cup of tea while passing by, there may be promotional materials about this in the teahouse.
Let every businessman know in time how much tax he has to pay for each transaction, so that he can have a record in advance and have a sense of confidence, so that he will not be made things difficult by the court officials.
Such transparency prevents a large number of officials from making things difficult for businessmen in this regard.
So Xia Yuanji now respects Chen Han's reform measures very much.
It is even more clear that according to Chen Han's reforms, Ming Dynasty will definitely become very powerful.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang shared Chen Han's letter to him, telling him how much profit he was making from the Japanese slaves.
"I really didn't expect that this monkey boy would earn millions of taels of silver in one fell swoop. Now he has brought us 200 million taels of silver and 15 taels of gold in one shipment. Mining has not started yet. It was only collected within the territory of the colonial Ouchi clan.”
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(End of this chapter)