The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 277 Zhu Yuanzhang's Royal Chamber of Commerce
In the early morning of the next day, Lan Yu went from the Dudu Mansion to the Wucheng Bingma Division.

The current General Department of Public Security of the Ming Dynasty has been established institutionally, but no new yamen has been established. Now the Wucheng Bingma Division has been merged into the General Department of Public Security of the Ming Dynasty. yamen.

From the Commander's Mansion of the Chinese Army to the Bingma Division of Zhongcheng, Lan Yu looked at the somewhat ordinary gate in front of her, with mixed feelings in her heart.

Compared with the Dudu's Mansion, the Wucheng Bingma Division is naturally extremely low-end.

Especially Wucheng Bingmasi, who has been dealing with the common people for a long time, the environment in the yamen is naturally worse on weekdays.

Sapphire, who had just arrived here, was stopped by the hustle and bustle inside.

This yamen is very busy.

When walking slowly, he was so busy that even the yamen servant didn't notice Lan Yu.

Sapphire listened to the voices.

Either this family lost a chicken, or that family lost a duck, or there were conflicts between neighbors.

In Sapphire's view, these are mostly trivial matters.

But this is the duty of the Wucheng soldiers and horses.

Suddenly, Sapphire felt like being cheated.

It was correct to promise His Royal Highness the eldest grandson to sit in the head of the Daming Public Security Directorate.

"Zhang Yi, the commander of the Zhongcheng Bingma Division, paid a visit to the Duke of Liang, but he never greeted him from afar. He also asked the Duke of Liang to forgive him."

Zhang Yi, the commander of Zhongcheng soldiers and horses, knelt on one knee and said.

The cold sweat on the forehead has already burst out.

These days, Zhang Yi is not feeling well. Ever since he was reprimanded by His Highness the eldest grandson last time, he has been worried.

Whatever you do, you have to be careful, for fear of being remembered by His Highness the eldest grandson.

In the end, there was really no other way, and he went to get twenty court rods by himself, and his buttocks were beaten to death, so he felt a little relieved.

A few days after he recovered from his injury, he heard that Bing Ma Si had left the Ministry of War and was directly merged into His Royal Highness Changsun, who was directly under the Chief of Public Security.

This time, Zhang Yi was so frightened that he didn't get a good night's sleep.

The day before yesterday, the document came down, saying that it was the newly-appointed governor of the Daming Public Security Department, and that it was His Royal Highness the eldest grandson, the prince of Liang Guogong.

Good guy, Zhang Yi almost died on the spot.

Originally, he was still waiting for Liang Guogong's message to arrive, but he did not expect that he had just received a report from his subordinates that Liang Guogong had already appeared in the yamen.

Then why hesitate, just ran over to pay a visit.

Lan Yu just turned her head slightly to look at Zhang Yi, without saying anything, and walked directly towards the lobby inside.

Zhang Yi panicked immediately and didn't dare to speak, so he could only silently follow Duke Liang.

In the lobby, Zhang Yi didn't dare to sit down, so he could only bow and stand.

"Ben Gong ordered that all the people in the yamen be expelled. This place has been requisitioned by the General Department of Public Security of the Ming Dynasty. If they have anything to do, they should go to other places to handle it."

Sapphire didn't hesitate, and spoke directly.

"This"

Hearing this, Zhang Yi didn't know how to answer.

You must know that these people are not ordinary people. It can be said that almost all the people who can live in the capital are rich.

And the relationship behind it is also very messy.

He, Zhang Yi, is only a sixth grade, Fangyan is the whole capital, and he is not a fart.

Once these common people go to the Yamen of Yingtian Mansion to sue, they can't afford to eat and walk away.

"Why, you are deaf, can't you understand what the father said just now?"

Sapphire frowned and scolded directly.

Feeling Liang Guogong's unfriendly tone, Zhang Yi dared not offend, and said quickly: "The subordinate will go immediately."

"Don't worry, I still have a few things to explain." Lan Yu continued, which made Zhang Yi stop.

Looking at Zhang Yi, who seemed to be listening attentively, Lan Yu went on to say: "Following the order of His Highness Changsun, the Five Cities Military and Horse Division will be merged into the Public Security Department. In addition to the existing five major yamen, there will be another Public Security Department."

"The Public Security Department has a regular establishment of 20 people, and each street in the capital is set up to be in charge of all matters in the area, and handle things according to the previous responsibilities."

"Then you go and inform all the commanders and deputy commanders to come here to the council tomorrow morning, and I will personally announce the establishment by His Royal Highness Changsun about the constitution of the Department of Public Security."

After Zhang Yi listened, he didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly said: "I will obey the order."

Lan Yu nodded, and finally said: "Have someone tidy up the room where I work, and I will come back tomorrow."

Zhang Yi heaved a sigh of relief, bowed and saluted, "Mr. Liang, go slowly."

Looking at Duke Liang's leaving figure, Zhang Yi only felt a feeling that the mountain and the rain were about to come and the wind was blowing over the building.

Not because of himself, but because of the entire capital.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. There are some things that drastic reforms will cause bad influence.

For these, Zhu Ying is very clear, not all the systems of later generations can be moved to Daming immediately, most of them will only be unacceptable.

The source of all this, first of all, is the control of the grassroots people.

There is also a talent training system that is loyal to itself.

In today's Daming, under Zhu Yuanzhang's personal prestige, everything seems to be extremely stable.

But if you don't follow, you don't need to eat, and the whole family is buried.

In the entire court, only Zhu Yuanzhang's voice can be heard, regardless of right or wrong, anyone who resists will die.

In the words of Zhu Yuanzhang, it is not easy to kill you today, but it will definitely kill you tomorrow.

If you are disobedient, why leave him?
Recently, Zhu Yuanzhang was in a very good mood because of the return of his eldest grandson, but it does not mean that he will be soft-hearted towards corrupt officials.

One by one, according to kill.

In this regard, Zhu Ying naturally would not say much.

Corrupt officials, kill them as soon as they are killed, just to make room.

Clean up the palace,

It was noon, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just returned from the Huagai Palace, was only interested in watering the seedlings.

In the front yard of Qianqing Palace, many flowers and plants were moved away, and three open spaces were cleared.

These three open spaces are planted with corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

And these were all cultivated by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, loosening the soil and sowing the seeds.

Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the crops that could satiate the vast majority of people in Ming Dynasty, so he planted a batch in the front yard for observation.

Not long after, Zhu Ying came over.

Kunning Palace has left and right sides, and the front yard is connected with Qianqing Palace.

You can bypass the Qianqing Palace and enter through the side door, but Zhu Ying rarely does this, and every time he deliberately passes through the Qianqing Palace.

"Dasun, we heard that the business of the entire capital has prospered several times recently. You have earned a lot of money here. Let's talk about what you plan to do next."

"Let's study hard like you, this is about business experience."

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the eldest grandson coming, greeted him to sit on the gazebo next to him, and then asked with a smile.

Zhu Ying replied: "Grandpa, don't say that. My grandson only understands a little bit. Now that the capital's business is gradually developing, according to my grandson, we can also strengthen the collection of business taxes."

"Nowadays, the business tax in the capital is too low. My grandson received hundreds of thousands of treasures that day, but until now, I haven't paid the business tax for a copper coin. Such a prosperous business, our Daming treasury can't get any benefit."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think much about it, and said with a smile: "This world belongs to both of us. It doesn't make any difference whether we hand over or not. It's nothing more than going out from the pocket on the left and entering into the pocket on the right."

After hearing this, Zhu Ying smiled wryly.

He knew that the old man thought that he had resorted to tricks to evade the tax.

However, this is not the case.

So he explained: "Grandpa misunderstood, grandson didn't order that he should not pay taxes, but calculated it, so he really doesn't have to pay taxes."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's smile stopped immediately, and he asked with some doubts: "What do you mean by your grandson's words?"

Zhu Ying replied: "According to the current taxation and collection method of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the business tax, it only needs a certain number of talents, and the tax can be easily exempted."

"It's said to be a tax of [-] yuan, but no one has checked the accounts at all. In addition to the amount that can be reduced or exempted, even if there are hundreds of thousands of treasures in the account, there is no need to pay taxes."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face became serious.

He knew that there should be some tricks in it, but he didn't expect it to be so outrageous, it was simply appalling.

Not paying taxes on hundreds of thousands of income is actually in compliance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, which only shows that there are big loopholes in the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

But after thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little helpless.

He could only turn around and ask: "According to Dasun, how should this law be restricted?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Ying said: "In terms of commercial taxation, the privilege of tax exemption should be abolished, and a separate commercial department should be established to strengthen the jurisdiction of all parties' taxation."

"As for the tax payment, my grandson thinks it should be cancelled."

In fact, Ming Dynasty's commercial taxation system is extremely sound. It stands to reason that even if it is a tax of [-] yuan, it should be a lot of money.

Even if it is not as high as the agricultural tax, it is not necessarily too low, and it is still possible to stand against each other.

The problem now is that, in terms of the current proportion of the entire annual revenue of the Ministry of Households, the commercial tax is really pitifully small.

But does the business tax get less?
In fact, there are still a lot of them, but the money has not entered the national treasury's annual revenue.

At present, Daming has a residence tax, a tax, a tax for official stores, and money for stores.

This means that all those who open shops, pass by, stay in goods, and stay in accommodation need to pay taxes.

In the open space in front of the street shop in the city, there is a branch fence to set up a stall to sell groceries, and those who sell groceries will take it back later, and lay it out early.

It can be said that as long as you go out to do business, you have to pay taxes.

It's just that these big tax money have been exempted, but the taxes of the ordinary people are collected instead.

The method of exemption is actually very simple, it is nothing more than name.

Like Zhu Ying's Ping'an Tea House, it has always been named Yan Wang Zhu Di. From its opening to the present, it has made a lot of money and has not paid a cent of taxes.

The capital set up a publicity department, and the prefecture, state, and county set up a general course department.

The Department of Propaganda and Classes uses ambassadors to control its taxes, and is called the Ambassador of the Department of Propaganda Classes, from the ninth rank.

Could it be that a tax collector from the ninth rank was knocked on the head in the middle of the night to collect taxes from His Royal Highness King Yan?

The capital is already like this, not to mention the general education department of the prefecture, state, and county.

Especially in the county seat, similar to these taxes, basically no report is made to the imperial court, and the money received is basically used by the local area, which is similar to the form of land tax.

The reason why Zhu Ying proposed to cancel the tax is because it is too heavy for businessmen.

Paying taxes does not mean that when you pay in one place, it is over.

But every time you go to a place, you have to pay it once.

For example, the goods from Suzhou are transported to the capital, and there is no background relationship.

Among them, all the checkpoints that the goods pass through need to pay taxes once. When the goods are parked, there is also a residence tax to pay, and finally to the capital to start selling, and to pay the gate tax.

In this way, the small and medium-sized businessmen will be killed directly, and those who can run the business are big businessmen with deep backgrounds.

On a business road, if you say hello, the tax is basically exempted. Of course, they also pay favors to all officials who have this business road.

It's just not worth mentioning compared to commercial taxes.

In this case, there is no comparison between small businessmen and big businessmen at all, and they cannot form competitiveness, which leads to more serious monopoly and the concentration of wealth to a few people, which can be called huge profits.

"We originally thought that if we want to increase the business tax of the Ming treasury, we should strengthen the collection. Now it seems that we should reduce the collection of categories in order to increase the revenue of the treasury."

"As for the business tax, let Dasun take full power to reform it. Anyway, our Da Ming's business tax is not too much. If there is less, Dasun, you can pay money from your own pocket to make up for it."

"Also, in the recent period, due to the distribution of the Ministry of Finance's finances, most of the expenses related to the Gunpowder Department, Xuanjiawei, and various colleges have been paid from our internal funds."

"We looked at the accounts yesterday, and our internal funds are a bit clean now. You have burned so many treasures, so please help us replenish our internal funds."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed a little at first, and then said to his grandson with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhu Ying was a little speechless.

The precious banknotes he burned were all broken or damaged.

Because Daming's Banknote Lifting Department did not recall this function, Zhu Ying did it.

It seems that the old man was misunderstood.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Ying said straightforwardly: "Grandpa, this is a bit troublesome, why don't grandson directly include the Qunying Chamber of Commerce in the internal funds."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Is your grandson willing?"

Zhu Ying laughed and said, "There's nothing to be reluctant about. It's like what grandpa said, this Daming belongs to both our grandpa and grandson. What's the relationship between grandson's and grandpa's?"

"Furthermore, there are quite a few expenses in the palace now. To save Grandpa from always arguing with the household department, the expenses in our palace will be earned by our chamber of commerce."

"Those merchants have earned the money, and they may even do evil and hoard goods. If we earn money from within, we can help if there are any difficulties."

"That's why my grandson thinks it's better to let our old Zhu's family become the largest chamber of commerce in Ming Dynasty."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't care about his reputation, he just doesn't know how businessmen make money.

From a beggar to an emperor, he has never been in business.

What he did now was exactly what he wanted.

Besides, in this big world, which chamber of commerce would dare to compare with the Royal Chamber of Commerce?

(End of this chapter)