After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 146 The Ministry of Commerce
I think back then he spent 10,000+ two gangs of emperors to build the city wall, and he only got a seventh-rank official for his son.

Today, the emperor directly rewarded him as a fourth-rank official.

Fourth rank, is already regarded as a high-ranking official of the imperial court.

And it's still a minister of commerce.

That's Shangshu!

Although it is not comparable to the other six Shangshu in terms of grade, at least the names are the same.

This kind of thing, he had never dreamed of it before.How dare he dream of being a county magistrate.

"Your Majesty, isn't your promotion of Shen Wansan too fast?" said a civil servant.

"Shen Wansan is just a lowly businessman. Letting him be an official will bring disgrace to the court." Another person said.

"The old minister is ashamed to be in the company of such people!"

The ministers expressed their dissatisfaction.

Seeing that all the civil and military ministers were dismissive of him, Shen Wansan was not angry at all.A businessman like him who can do big things is very thick-skinned, and he has the ability to do it himself, not to mention the mere sarcasm?

"You guys know nothing!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.I wanted to say in my heart, if it weren't for Shen Wansan's 5000 million taels, would the imperial court have the money to attack Korea?Does the imperial court have the money to provide disaster relief and build water conservancy projects so that the common people can live a better life?

However, such words obviously cannot be said in front of Shen Wansan.

……

"Aiqing is flat." He said to Shen Wansan, "In the future, you will be in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, and you will choose the officials that the Ministry of Commerce needs. Just choose from among the businessmen in the country, and choose those who can do business and study."

"The minister obeys the order." Shen Wan said.

"Your Majesty, you have just established a Ministry of Lands, and now you have established a Ministry of Commerce. You are going to turn six departments into eight departments!" Liu Bowen said.

"We just want to break the old rule that there are only six ministries in the past dynasties and establish eight ministries." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The old rules and regulations are meant to be broken, and the number eight is more auspicious."

"Your Majesty, the old minister feels that the Ministry of Land should be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households. After all, the Ministry of Households used to manage the land." Lu Chang said.

"The Ministry of Household has a lot of affairs, and it is easier to manage and more efficient if the officials who specialize in the management of the country are divided." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Now that you are old, you should worry less."

Normally, if the emperor said that the minister was old, he obviously meant to resign, but this is definitely not what he meant. To understand the specific meaning of a sentence, it depends on the context and tone, okay?

"Your Majesty, the old ministers are still barely able to work for a few years." Lu Chang said, "The officials in the household department are more familiar with the land. If you have to build a new land department, the officials should be transferred from the household department."

"No." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "If the officials of the Ministry of Households of the past dynasties could manage the land well, there would not be a phenomenon in which large areas of land were concentrated in the hands of a few people at the end of a dynasty."

"Old minister knows." Lu Chang said.

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, what business does this Ministry of Commerce manage?" Li Shanchang asked.

"Specifically manage all domestic commercial activities, such as grain, rice, cloth, and other daily needs, as well as overseas trade. And formulate a series of effective measures to standardize commercial activities." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "As for salt, iron, tea, horses, etc. Other important goods still need special control by the imperial court. In the past, private chambers of commerce across the country have always been the people of the chamber of commerce who have the final say and have not been regulated.”

"What the emperor said is very true!" Shen Wansan felt the same.As a business wizard, he knows the behavior of the local chamber of commerce very well, which is called chaos.If he hadn't brought down all chambers of commerce across the country, the business would not have known what the chaos would have been like.

In business, Shen Wansan is a dominant overlord.

"Shen Wansan, it's up to you to deal with the specifics of how to regulate the behavior of merchants. After you go back, you can draw up a specific statement for us, and we will review it in person. In addition, the previous business tax will also be changed. What we mean is, Don't let the merchants do too much to threaten the country's capital, nor let the merchants fail to develop. You can also give us a statement on how to collect taxes."

"Our suggestion is to formulate different tax rates according to the amount of personal assets of the merchants."

"The minister obeys the order." Shen Wansan received the order and thanked him, turned his head to the ministers who bowed his hands and said, "My colleagues, Shen Wansan is not talented, Shen Wansan is very clear in your heart, you all despise Shen Wansan, a businessman who has no fame or reputation, from the bottom of your heart. But please wait and see, I, Shen Wansan, will definitely bring a huge amount of treasury revenue to the court in the future."

"Gold, silver, the amount will definitely exceed your imagination."

"I, Shen Wansan, must do my best to contribute a little bit of my strength to the prosperity of Daming."

When everyone heard the words, they turned their heads away, obviously looking down on it.

"Furthermore, Shen Wansan." Zhu Yuanzhang said again, "Since you are now a high-ranking member of the imperial court and a minister of the Fourth Grade Merchant Department, the resources of the overseas merchants under your control... should be distributed to other merchants."

"After you enter the Ministry of Commerce, you have to manage and regulate all businesses in Daming. You definitely don't have that much energy to manage your own business. Those businesses in the past did not develop under your pressure, but now you don't need to. business..."

"Grass... Wei Chen, I know what to do." Shen Wan said.

He agreed without hesitation, ready to hand over all the customer resources in his hands immediately.He even plans to publish a book of business secrets, dedicated to teaching others to do business.

Shen Wansan had already made a plan at this time, to be a good official of the Ministry of Commerce with all his heart.

It was unprecedented for Emperor Zhu to promote him so exceptionally, and he would never fail Emperor Zhu.

Throughout the ages, merchants have been looked down upon by the world, but today Zhu Yuanzhang made him a fourth-rank official.He used to be in front of others for half his life, but now he raised his eyebrows and exhaled decades of grievances,

How generous is this, how much knowledge is this?

At this time, he was already digging his heart out for Emperor Zhu.

The so-called scholar died for the confidant, and Shen Wansan was ready to work hard for the business of Daming, and then died.

"Okay, just stand by and listen to the government." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Shen Wansan was so excited that he, Shen Wansan, was actually able to rule in Fengtian Palace?
"From now on, we want to expand trade with overseas, and we will also provide a series of preferential policies for domestic business." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The specific preferential law will also be formulated by Shen Wansan."

"The minister obeys the order." Shen Wansan said respectfully.

The group of ministers listened quietly beside them, and the two of them discussed business without interrupting.Shen Wansan is a professional in this field, and it is easy to make a joke if an amateur interjects casually.

But what they couldn't figure out was why Emperor Zhu suddenly paid so much attention to business?Didn't he look down on him like everyone else before?

(End of this chapter)