Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1070
Gao Wushi didn't stop him right away, and Wu Dui's anger didn't seem to be fake. On his usually gentle face, now he could see the blue veins on his forehead, and his entire face was even distorted by anger.

Wu Xun has always been very courteous and courteous before, just like his name and character, but this time he was very stubborn. Not only did he not get scared off, but he took a deep breath and said firmly: "My nephew thinks that with Shishu's Talent, worry comes from the heart."

Gao Wushi finally smiled, stretched out his hand to stop Wu Dui who had already got up abruptly, and said, "Brother, please calm down, let me talk to Qianzhi."

Although Wu Dui was trembling with anger, he still had to take care of his pragmatism. He gasped for a few breaths, suppressed his anger and said, "This rebellious son is nothing more than incompetent, but he is still so arrogant. It seems that he has been left behind all these years." Shanyin, it's my fault! To be honest, you don't have to take care of my old face, just scold me if you should, if you should beat... beat me hard!"

"Not at all, not at all." Gao Yushi smiled gently, and said, "I think Qianzhi's words are quite a blow."

"Hey? Him?" Wu Dui snorted coldly, and said bitterly: "I think he needs a big shot." But after all, it may be because Gao Yushi didn't seem angry, Wu Dui's tone finally Toned down a bit.

"Qianzhi, you said just now that the nobles and wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River will not accept the dominance of the Jinghua family, and they will join forces to compete with the Jinghua family... What evidence is there?" Gao Wushi turned his head and asked.

Wu Xun shook his head and said: "My nephew is only a scholar from Shanyin, how can I produce any evidence? But my nephew thinks that this matter does not need to be proved, it can be known by deduction."

Wu Dui sneered again when he heard it, but he didn't intervene because it was a high-level question at the moment.

Gao Yushi was noncommittal, but continued to ask: "So, how did you deduce it?"

Wu Xun said: "I heard that Jinghua counts the ports, regardless of the number of ships entering and leaving the port or the total amount of goods, Tianjin is the most, Guangzhou is second, Quanzhou is second, and Ningbo and the newly built Shanghai port are the last two. I wonder if this rumor is true?"

In fact, Wu Xun also missed Qinzhou Port, Jingang Port, Yingkou Port and even Kaiping Port, etc., but Gao Yushi didn't care because he found that these ports mentioned by Wu Xun, except for Shanghai Xingang, were all in the previous high-arch opening period. The official port of the city is also located in the "core area" of Daming. It doesn't matter whether Wu Xun can only get information about these few places.

Gao Wushi said indifferently: "These ports you mentioned are indeed in the same order."

Wu Xun said: "Tianjin relies on the capital, so it is understandable that Tianjin has today's status. However, although Quanzhou has been a seaport in the past, Fujian has been poor since ancient times, its output is not abundant, and its population is far smaller than that of Zhejiang. Why is it more prosperous than Ningbo? "

Gao Wushi asked with a smile, "I would like to hear the high theory."

"Don't dare." Wu Xun said: "Liu Sanbian once said that 'the southeast is shaped better, the three Wu cities are metropolises, and Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times', but according to my nephew, Pingyang is the most important food resource in the northern provinces, and the two capitals and thirteen provinces It is second only to Suzhou (accidentally, the food tax of Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi is the second in the country, and Puzhou, the hometown of Zhang Siwei's family, belongs to Pingyang), followed by Xi'an, Jinan, Kaifeng, Qingzhou, and Taiyuan.

As for the southern provinces, Suzhou pays eleven (one-tenth) of the world's food and taxes with one prefecture, and it goes without saying that it is crowned the top.After that, Songjiang became the top three in the country, and it was also a place of prosperity.Afterwards, there are Changzhou, Jiaxing, Nanchang, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, etc., and here they are ranked in the top [-], but they can't find Ningbo..."

Gao Wushi asked: "Are you trying to say that Ningbo has already declined, so it can't compare to Quanzhou?"

Unexpectedly, Wu Xun shook his head: "Quanzhou is not included, how can we be 'so'?"

"Then what do you mean?" Gao Wushi was a little curious.

Wu Xun said: "Huzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, these four prefectures in Zhejiang, surrounded by Qiantang, are all on the list, but Ningbo is also on the edge of Qiantang, but it has not been among them. Doesn't Uncle Shi feel a little weird? Oh By the way, I don’t know if Uncle Shi knows. Although both Suzhou and Hangzhou are on the list, Suzhou’s grain tax is as high as more than 250 million shi, while Hangzhou’s is only 23 shi. As for Ningbo, which is not on the list, it is even less gone."

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and said, "You mean to say that when the Kingdom was first established, there was either a huge gap in strength between Suzhou, Hangzhou and Suning, or...Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places seriously concealed their economic strength? "

The word economy has existed since ancient times, but its original meaning is different from that of later generations.However, after Gao Gong and Gao Yushi vigorously promoted practical learning, this word was gradually used in Daming, and now it is close to the meaning of later generations, and Wu Xun naturally understands it.

Who knew that Wu Xun smiled slightly, and said: "It is not impossible to say that it is necessary to conceal it, but in fact, in my nephew's opinion, it is not so much a concealment, but the court voluntarily gave up."

Gao Wushi's heart moved, and he vaguely guessed what he was going to say.

Sure enough, Wu Xun curled his lips lightly, and said: "At that time, the imperial court divided household registration, and merchants were neither registered nor taxed (business registration was only acquired later, and their status was very low). Not in the fields, but in silkworms and merchants, but these silkworm farmers are not rich, and the real rich are all merchants, so when the yellow book was fabricated, the food tax in the Qiantang area was far lower than that in Suzhou."

Gao Wushi knew that although what he said was true, the reason why Suzhou's food tax was so high was that Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang's number one enemy in the early days, used Suzhou as his base camp, so Zhu Yuanzhang especially levied heavy taxes on Suzhou.

Of course, it turned out later that Zhu Yuanzhang’s overall taxes were set too low, so that Suzhou paid the highest food tax in the country, and Suzhou people could say with disdain: I don’t care about breaking the tax.

However, the food tax in the Qiantang River area seems to be too low, and even taking the situation Wu Xun just mentioned into account, Gao Pragmatism still feels that something is wrong—if you think that the economic levels of Suzhou and Hangzhou are roughly the same, is it true that Hangzhou Should the business tax be as high as nine times the grain tax?This is too exaggerated.

Even if it is discounted in half, it is considered that the economic strength of Hangzhou during the founding of the Ming Dynasty was only half that of Suzhou, and the commercial tax that should have been paid should have reached four or five times the grain tax. This seems to be a bit too much.

Wu Xun saw Gao Pragmatic's doubts, and he was more confident at this time, and he talked with eloquence: "Uncle Shi, whether it's Hangzhou or Ningbo...especially Ningbo, it has been a commercial seaport since ancient times, and there are many merchants who go to sea. , Guochao first refused to recognize merchants, and then banned the sea. Could these people quickly switch careers and return to farming on land? Obviously not.

Therefore, they just transferred from the stage to the off stage, and the maritime merchants turned into pirates. Later, the so-called Japanese pirates invaded our seas and territories for more than a hundred years, but how many real Japanese are there?Most of them are "maritime families" along the coast. "

Needless to say, Gao Yushi was not surprised that there had been a public discussion on this for a long time. What he noticed was that Wu Xun deliberately emphasized the tone of "maritime family".

Gao Wushi nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "You mean, the development of Ningbo Port has not been smooth so far because of these 'maritime families' obstructing it?"

Wu Xun also laughed, cupped his hands and said: "Uncle Shi is a sensible person, that's exactly the case." Then he paused, and said: "These maritime merchant families, my nephew is in Shanyin (Shanyin County belongs to Shaoxing, so I don't know who I am.) Next door to Ningbo, Shanyin and Kuaiji counties were merged into Shaoxing County during the Republic of China) and I have some understanding.”

"Oh?" Gao Wushi became interested, and said seriously, "I would like to hear the details."

"Actually, these aristocratic maritime families have now turned into three shares, the weakest of which has already been invested under Jinghua's banner. Ningbo Port can have today's situation, and they have contributed a lot."

Gao Wushi nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

Wu Xun continued: "However, compared with the other two forces, their strength is very different. The two forces are now arguing about two points: one is to gather their own strength and form a new Zhejiang alone. The maritime alliance is to compete with Jinghua's strength in Zhejiang; the second is to join hands with Nanjing Xungui to create a wider Nanjing maritime alliance to compete with Jinghua's Beiyang maritime trade alliance."

Gao Wushi would not be so stupid as to ask Wu Xun where he got the news, but after a moment of silence, he asked, "Then how can you know which faction has the upper hand?"

Wu Xun said simply: "Zhejiang school."

Gao Wushi smiled, shook his head and said, "Short-sighted."

Wu Xun also laughed, and said: "Uncle Shi's evaluation really hit the nail on the head, but Uncle Shi and my nephew think that although the Zhejiang faction still has the upper hand at the moment, sooner or later, the Nanjing faction will overwhelm the Zhejiang faction. The Maritime Trade Alliance is likely to appear, Uncle Shi, please don't be careless."

Gao Wushi didn't answer directly, but asked after thinking for a while: "What role did the Duke of Wei's mansion and Marquis of Linhuai's mansion play in this?"

This question may be a bit out of line, Wu Xun shook his head and said: "Sorry, Uncle Shi, my nephew is only ordered to guard the house in Shanyin, these are too deep, my nephew has no way of knowing."

Gao Yushi thinks about it too, Wu Dui's hope for him should be to become an official, the best course is to take the imperial examination, if that doesn't work, Enyin's position as a Jinyiwei and his own martial arts examination can still make do.Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Wu Dui to give him much power to hand over Nanjing Xungui. If there is one book, it will be a show.

You must know that Nanjing Xungui and Yanjing Xungui are not in the same line, and they guard one side alone, not under the emperor's eyes, so civil servants interacting with Nanjing Xungui is much more dangerous than interacting with Yanjing Xungui , it is easier to get involved.

The reason why Gao Yushi has traveled through more than ten years is that among the nobles in Nanjing, there are only two reluctant friends, Xu Bangrui, Duke of Wei, and Li Yangong, Marquis of Linhuai. This is also one of the important reasons.That's because he had meddled with the Xu family's internal affairs and helped Li Zongcheng in the past.

"However, if we only look at the external situation, it seems that the Marquis of Linhuai's Mansion doesn't care much about wooing Zhejiang maritime merchants, and even deliberately avoids it. As for Wei Guogong's mansion... Uncle Shi, with the status of Wei Guogong's mansion, it is not until the end. For a moment, they can not express their views - because no one dares to ignore his family, and no one dares to force his family to express their views."

Gao Wushi nodded, expressing his understanding.Wei Guogong's status among the nobles of Nanjing is like Duke Cheng's status among the nobles of Yanjing.

If he doesn't speak, you can only guess. Even if you discuss some benefits here, you still have to count him in if he doesn't say a word. This is the "habitual prestige" formed after the continuous blessing of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. It's useless to be envious or jealous.

Gao Yushi decided to ignore this issue for the time being, and turned the topic back, saying: "It seems that the maritime merchants of the Zhejiang faction are able to gain the upper hand now, mostly because Wei Guogong's mansion did not speak out, and Linhuaihou's mansion did not get involved. So, Qianzhi, you just suggested that I hand over the sea trade to you, it seems that there is a way to deal with it?"

Before Wu Xun had time to speak, Wu Dui couldn't help interjecting this time: "Please, don't listen to his nonsense. I don't know how much money this scoundrel only manages in Shanyin? Put it all together." It’s less than [-] mu of land, and the other is just a few shops, let him manage Jinghua Haimao? It’s a joke, he doesn’t even know how big Jinghua Haimao’s plate is!”

Of course, Gao Wushi would not let Wu Xun take the helm of the huge Jinghua Maritime Trade just because of Wu Xun’s words. few."

The so-called Taicang here by Gao Yushi is not limited to Taicang. Ming people often use Taicang to refer to the treasury, and Gao Yushi also means this here.

He felt that there was no need to hide the Wu family's father and son about this matter, because Jinghua paid taxes in a serious manner. The estimates of profit and profit are not very accurate, but the general scale is obvious, and those who are interested can check the general situation by checking it, and there is no need to hide it.

But this amount is still astonishing. Although Gao Yushi was only talking about posting, not profit, but the posting of silver exceeded Taicang, that is, at least 600 million taels of posting.

The profit of the sea trade can be guessed from Wu Xun's understanding of the sea trade in the Qiantang area just now. With some reservations, Jinghua's annual billing in sea trade is almost twice that of Taicang.

Although this posting amount is not even comparable to Brother Zheng Zhilong's annual profit later, and if you count Jinghua's current net profit, it is far less than Zheng's, but this is not Zheng Zhilong's time after all, and the Wu family father and son are all given this amount. The shock was not light.

Of course Wu Dui knew that Gao Wushi was rich, but he didn't really know how rich he was, and he didn't even know that Jinghua's maritime trade alone was so amazing that he was stunned for a while, and it took a long time before he gasped. He took a breath, and sighed: "Now I finally know why Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and the other Huahua Taisui obey you in everything, and they almost become your helpers in the capital... The Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, at least a year can Give them some 10 taels, right?"

Gao Wushi smiled, but he didn't take the blame, but said to Wu Xun, "Qianzhi, do you think you can help me manage Jinghua Maritime Trade now?"

Wu Xun's face turned pale, and he quickly waved his hands and shook his head again: "No, no, no, how can my nephew afford such a big deal, it was my nephew who was arrogant before, so arrogant... Please ask Shishu to be careful." Forgive me."

Gao Wushi chuckled, and said, "The words you just said are very insightful... well, if you really don't want to be an official and want to work hard in the business world, I can give you a Ningbo port manager here. I don't know if you can Willing to give in?"

Tongguan is actually the supervisor's deputy. This statement has a strong "Da Ming style".Although Gao Wushi felt that what Wu Xun said just now was indeed insightful, after all, he hadn't really done anything, and it might be hard to convince the public to be directly in charge of a port. Maybe it would cause discord between the old and the new in Ningbo Port, so let a deputy check it out first.

After hearing this, Wu Dui still felt that it was too high, and was about to decline on his behalf, but Wu Xun gritted his teeth and said, "My nephew is willing."

Before his father got angry again, he took the initiative to say: "Please give my nephew three years, if the ranking of Ningbo Port in Beijing's ports does not improve within three years, there is no need for Uncle Shi to ask, my nephew will come to Uncle Shi." Plead guilty."

Wu Dui's face was a little ugly, but he finally held back and didn't say anything.

Gao Wushi smiled at Wu Xun and said, "It's a deal."

"It's a deal!" Wu Xun's expression looked as if he had just settled for life and death.

Gao Wushi laughed, and suddenly asked, "Do you have a name for Qianzhi?"

Wu Xun was startled, shook his head and said, "If you fail in your studies, how dare you call yourself that."

Gao Wushi turned his head to Wu Dui and said, "Senior brother, my younger brother gave you the number one gift to Qianzhi, what do you think?"

Wu Dui was taken aback for a moment, as if he had guessed something, he said with a wry smile: "You are a teacher, so of course you can, but this scoundrel... is actually awarded the number one scholar of six poems, brother Yu really doesn't know what to say."

Gao Wushi laughed, looked at the excited Wu Xun, and said with a smile: "Your name is modest, and the character is Qianzhi. This word agrees with the name, and it is also true for Yan Shen, but I have to give you this number, but I have to object— — don’t let it go.”

Wu Xun was overjoyed, and said: "Do my part, this is what my nephew wishes in his life! My nephew, thank you uncle for giving me the number!"
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