lied to Kangxi

Chapter 200
In the tax supervisor's yamen, 100 million taels of silver were made by means of fines.

Among them, 90 taels were handed over to the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.The remaining 10 taels belonged to the yamen bonus at Yuzhu's free disposal.

However, after copying Lao Jiu's dozen or so white gloves, Yuzhu has 500 million taels of silver in his hands, as well as a large amount of land, shops and servants.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that most of the 500 million taels of silver would not be kept by him.Kangxi will definitely find various reasons to take it to the palace.

However, no matter what, the money to support [-] taxpayers must be enough.

Kangxi asked for money in many ways. Today he built a rockery, tomorrow he built a pavilion, and the day after tomorrow he had to make up for the unpaid wages of Fengtai Daying. He quickly got 400 million taels from Yuzhu.

In the blink of an eye, Kangxi had all the money for repairing some scenic spots in the Third Yuanming Garden and for the southern tour.

Satisfied Kangxi, many things that Yuzhu wanted to do, also got relatively satisfactory answers.

For example, when the vegetable farmers in the suburbs of Beijing delivered their vegetables to the gate of the city, Yuzhu sent people to buy them and resell them into the city. Kangxi agreed very happily.

Why not just exempt the vegetable farmers from the city gate tax and let them come to the city to sell vegetables?

The reason is actually very simple. There are ruffian street thugs in every street in the inner and outer cities of Beijing.

A single vegetable farmer can't fight these local hooligans at all.

The vegetable farmers went directly to the city to sell their vegetables. In the end, the city gate tax exempted by Yuzhu would flow into the pockets of the bums in the form of seat fee increases.

However, the nature of the government-supervised and privately run cheap food store established by Yuzhu is different.

Any local ruffian who dares to blackmail Yu Zhu's official vegetable vendor would belong to Mr. Shou Xing who hanged himself. I'm tired of it!
The vegetable sellers under Yuzhu's hands didn't take much effort to get them, they were all shopkeepers and fellows who were seized from their homes.

Originally, according to the practice after the imperial court ransacked the house, these shopkeepers and fellows would be resold as slaves.

Now, Yuzhu has given them a way out to live freely, how can they not show their lives?

According to the standard of 1000 meters, arranging a vegetable vendor, Yuzhu's cheap vegetable shop soon covered the entire inner and outer cities of the capital.

In this way, the vegetable farmers in the suburbs pay less tax money, and as long as they deliver the vegetables to the gate of the city, they can take the money and leave.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the vegetable farmers in the ten miles and eight townships, after hearing the news, all smiled and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

As for Yuzhu, who monopolized the vegetable markets inside and outside the capital, and adopted a strategy of small profits but high sales, he wanted to make a small profit no matter what.

The dishes in the morning are fresh and more expensive, suitable for rich people to consume.The dishes after the afternoon application time, because they cannot be stored for a long time, and the quality is also poor, they are sold very cheaply.

In just over ten days, the price of vegetables in the inner city and outer city dropped to one-fifth of the original level.

When the food is cheap, ordinary people can afford it.

The ensuing change is that, in addition to white radish, there are also various cheap varieties in the vegetable baskets of ordinary people.

In this way, a very virtuous circle is formed, and the vegetable farmers, Yuzhu, vegetable vendors and urban residents benefit a lot.

After the cannon was fired, Yu Zhu's cheap rice shop was also spread out quietly.

Rice shops are all copied shops, and Yuzhu didn't spend a lot of money.The shopkeeper and fellows of the rice shop were also captured and belonged to free slave labor.

The food sold is actually the monthly lumim of the bannermen.This kind of Lumi is mixed with so much sand and stones that even the servants refuse to eat it, so they can only sell it.

After Yuzhu bought it, he sent someone to make a sieve for rice selection.This kind of sieve is exactly the same as the sieve used by sand-turners.

The shovel shoveled the rice and sprinkled it on the sieve. After the rice passed, the big stones were sifted out.

Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi was the one who paid the most attention to people's livelihood.The price level in the capital is secretly reported every day and reported to the palace.

It didn't take much effort for Yuzhu to stabilize the prices of vegetables and rice in the capital.

The ruling foundation of the Qing Dynasty became a little more stable, and Kangxi naturally looked at Yuzhu several times.

While playing chess, Kangxi said with a smile: "You have done a good job. From now on, all the grains from Jingcang Tao in Tongzhou will belong to you."

Yuzhu smiled slightly, Kangxi hadn't seen it yet, but he had already grasped one of the biggest cash flows in the capital.

These days, what business is the most profitable?

Neither silk nor cotton, but salt, rice, and vegetables.

Salt, vegetables and rice are what the common people eat every day.

Especially for rice and vegetables, it seems that there is not much money, but the cash flow under the long stream is actually very considerable.

Yuzhu didn't intend to intervene in the matter of salt.The water in there is too deep, if it moves, it will definitely offend a large number of dignitaries.

"Old man, some profiteers are very dishonest, and they often evade taxes. It is really intolerable. However, the tax collectors in the tax patrol camp are very helpless. I plan to rectify them properly, leaving the strong and weeding out the weak. They, recruit a new group of taxpayers."

Since ancient times, any matter involving military power must not be rushed, but must be done slowly.

Yu Zhu did not act recklessly, but laid the groundwork for a long time.

It wasn't until Kangxi saw the huge political achievements and understood the importance of stabilizing rice and vegetables for maintaining the foundation of banner people's rule that Yu Zhu casually said what he really wanted to do.

It was just a mere Shui Ding battalion, with no artillery, no blunderbuss, no armor, not even a bow, and only a few hundred people.

More importantly, Yuzhu is not a Han Chinese, but a nobleman under the banner of Zhenger Bajing, and he is a proper person of his own.

Kangxi, no matter how sophisticated and shrewd he was, was constrained by the environment of the great era, how could his insight be on par with Yuzhu?

This time, Kangxi was really careless, completely unaware of the far-reaching significance of the military and political university at the foot of Pagoda Mountain, and rashly agreed to all of Yuzhu's requests.

After Yu Zhu left the palace, he sent Sun Chengyun to personally handle the matter of re-recruiting Shui Ding.

Yuzhu's request is actually very simple, no one from the city wants it.As long as there are three or four cubs that cannot be raised by farm laborers in poor mountain villages.

No matter what era it is, city people are much more cunning than country bumpkins.

An urbanite with a lot of insight, wide knowledge, and a bit of family background is naturally not suitable to follow Yuzhu to do great things.

This is not a question of class origin, but a question of interest.

Those who have permanent property generally do not have the foundation to do great things.

After all, what Yuzhu was going to do was extremely risky.Once something goes wrong, the whole family will die.

It only took ten days, and Sun Chengyun brought back more than fifty young men who looked pale but were powerful.

These young men stood in three rows.Although the formation is not neat, the spirit is still strong.

"Everyone, take off the straw sandals on your left foot." The first time Yu Zhu gave the order, he encountered an embarrassing thing, and everyone didn't understand what he said.

Young men, you look at me, I look at you, with a look of ignorance and a little at a loss.

Yuzhu thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but burst into tears, he was wrong.The sense of direction of front, back, left, and right has long been taken for granted by modern people, but the ancients did not know it.

"Let me demonstrate by taking off the shoe on this foot." Yuzhu squatted down and took off the official boot on his left foot.

"Okay, follow my example and take off the shoe on this foot together." Yuzhu pointed to the left foot, which was only wearing white tabi socks, and asked everyone to take off the shoe together.

However, some people took off their left shoes, while others took off their right shoes, which looked weird.

Yuzhu understood, he was facing the crowd, and everyone had no sense of direction, front, back, left, and right, so it was easy to make mistakes.

"Wu Sheng, stand over here." Yuzhu was always not afraid of difficulties, he called Wu Sheng, and asked him to stand at the front of the crowd with his back turned.

Yuzhu squatted down and took off the cloth shoe on Wu Sheng's left foot, leaving him bare.Then, when Yuzhu taught everyone to take off their shoes, very few people made mistakes.

After several repeated corrections, the young men all had their left feet bare like Wu Sheng.

"The side with bare feet is the left side. The side with shoes is the right side." Yuzhu repeatedly taught everyone the difference between left and right.

There is no way, because they are all illiterate, it took Yuzhu more than two hours to teach them to recognize left and right.

The so-called all things are difficult at the beginning, while Yuzhu is educating everyone, he is also constantly summing up experience and lessons.

After letting everyone know the left and right, Yuzhu began to train everyone and learned a few simple military training passwords.

"When I say everyone has it, everyone does it." Yu Zhu quickly put his legs together and made a gesture of standing at attention.

However, it took more than an hour to practice just the action of standing at attention, and there are still many people who make mistakes and make fools of themselves frequently.

Although there were not many people at the scene, Yuzhu had to correct the wrong actions of more than fifty people one by one, and he was not only physically tired, but also mentally tired.

During the break, Yuzhu felt that he was a bit like Zhao Kuo who was talking on paper.You can talk about it with your mouth, and you can talk clearly and logically, but when it comes to actual training, you still encounter many problems that you have never seen before.

For example, many passwords in modern military training cannot be copied directly, and improvements that suit everyone's situation need to be made.

A good memory is not as good as a bad pen, so Yuzhu simply picked up the pen and began to write his own first military book "Shui Ding Cao Dian".

It is obviously inappropriate to have all of them. Yuzhu pondered for a while and simply changed it to: All pay attention.

Stand at attention, no need to change.Align to the right, no need to change.Cross column, which means almost the same as standing at attention, is still too cumbersome for these illiterates, so it is deleted.

When Yuzhu was writing the exercises, the young men sat in a circle, talking and laughing loudly as if no one else was around.

Well, there is still a need for a special person to enforce military discipline, Yu Zhu's heart moved slightly, and he took a pen to add this.

Training illiterates is definitely not the same as training young intellectuals.

After entering the new century, junior high school students are no longer recruited in the modern army.However, these people under Yuzhu are almost all illiterate.

Once the idea of ​​hitting the army sticks came to Yu Zhu's mind, it could never go away.

In addition, the army is a highly hierarchical place, so how can it be possible that officers and soldiers are treated the same?

After gathering the team again, Yu Zhu shouted loudly: "Niu Tai, come here."

Niu Tai took big strides, walked up to Yuzhu, bowed his waist and said, "Please tell me, master."

"Here, this is for you." Yuzhu stuffed the thick wooden stick in Niu Tai's hand into Niu Tai's hand, and ordered, "For the afternoon drill, anyone who makes a mistake will be hit three times on the buttocks." , I will leave this matter to you."

(PS: Zhu Gong’s coaching team has started to practice, and the monthly ticket has nothing to do with it. It’s time to reward it.)
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