Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 57 Tax Reform
  A few more days passed.

The books were finally printed, and the two volumes were printed in quantities of 5,000 each.

Zhu Song brought two copies back to the main hall and gave them to Zhu Xuan for review. The quality was good and the printed handwriting was clear. Zhang Wu showed his care.

"Little Yunxuan thinks, how should we sell it?"

Zhu Song asked.

The bookstore has already started operating, but now it sells the classics of saints, or pens, inks, paper and inkstones. It is starting to make a profit, but as a newly opened bookstore, the profit will not be very high for the time being.

All the money they invested was earned from these storybooks, and storybooks were the bookstore's main source of profit.

"The first volume, 5,000 copies, will all be given to those Imperial College students or others who want to read story books. Then we will print another 3,000 copies of the first volume. After these 5,000 copies are given away, we will officially sell these two volumes. Book." Zhu Xuan said.

"Why give it away for free?" Zhu Song asked puzzledly.

Five thousand books, all given away for free, is equivalent to giving away money to others.

He will feel bad!
  "Sending out the story books is equivalent to helping us with publicity. Uncle Twenty, just imagine, if 5,000 people get the first book, after they finish reading it, we will have 5,000 potential customers."

"As long as our story is attractive enough, it should be no problem to convert 3,000 customers out of 5,000 people. Then 3,000 people will be willing to spend money to buy the second book."

"Among these 5,000 people, they have read the first book and thought it was good, and they will definitely help us promote it."

"It can also help us develop the next batch of potential customers and attract more people to buy books."

"The books we give away will not be given away in vain."

Zhu Xuan no longer pretends. Sometimes in front of Zhu Song, he says whatever comes to his mind. He no longer deliberately makes excuses for himself and hides his knowledge of many such things.

Anyway, Zhu Song is used to it.

Zhu Song's eyes lit up after hearing this. It turns out that sending books has such benefits, and said: "I will ask for leave and leave the palace later. Xiao Yunxuan, do you want to come with me?"

"I'll spare it!"

Zhu Xuan was worried that he had asked for too much leave, so he let Grandpa Huang know that this would be bad, and said: "But Uncle Twenty, I suggest that we think of a symbol."

"What symbol?"

"It is a symbol or logo that can represent our bookstore. It is made into an engraving and printed on our books. Those with this symbol are genuine. Someone will definitely pirate our books in the future."

"Dare they?"

"They will definitely dare."

Zhu Xuan said calmly: "Uncle Twenty, don't be angry, they want to pirate, steal at will, fatten them up, make more money, let Mr. Jiang go for a visit, you know!"

Hearing this, Zhu Song smiled.

The little nephew is a bit bad, but he likes it.

After finalizing the matter, Zhu Song was unambiguous and directly asked for leave to leave the palace and make arrangements according to Zhu Xuan's instructions.

"Brother, what are you and Uncle Twenty doing recently?"

Zhu Yunxi asked.

During this period of time, they had been hanging out together, which made Zhu Yunxi very curious.

Zhu Xuan did not hide anything from his second brother, and handed him two books, and said: "Uncle Twenty and I cooperated to open a bookstore. Hou Xian next to me can write story books. Uncle Twenty will pay for it, and I will publish the stories." , make money together.”

"You are doing business, don't let Grandpa Huang know."

After hearing this, Zhu Yunxi didn't think there was anything wrong, and he didn't doubt him.

As far as he knew, other imperial uncles also opened some shops secretly, all without telling Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu was very kind to his descendants and was willing to spend a lot of money to support them. However, no matter how much money Ming Dynasty had, it was limited. Those imperial uncles had to find ways to make their lives easier.

Doing business secretly is the best way.

"Thank you, second brother, for the reminder." Zhu Xuan said.

Zhu Yunxi was also very interested in their books and opened them for a while.

It was okay not to read it. After reading too much, he quickly became addicted to it. The writing was indeed beautiful, and the content was much better than other chivalrous novels.    If it weren’t for his inappropriate status, Zhu Xuan would also like to write some colorful books, describing things like plum blossoms and futons, which can instantly beat the little pornographic books of this era.

"Pity……"

Zhu Xuan could only let go of this idea.

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After the establishment of the cabinet, Zhu Yuanzhang rarely came to Wenhua Pavilion and usually worked in Jinshen Hall.

Today he was going to propose an order related to tax reform. During this period, he had arranged everything and was ready to take action at any time, so he went to the cabinet and asked them to discuss it.

There were only three officials in the first batch of cabinets, namely Yu Xin, Zhan Hui and Zou Jin.

"His Majesty!"

When they saw Zhu Yuanzhang coming in, they all stood up and saluted.

"sit down!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly.

Zhan Hui first asked: "May I ask what your Majesty's orders are when he comes to the cabinet?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "The salt reform is almost complete, right?"

Yu Xin nodded and said: "Everything that should be arranged has been arranged. Distribution merchants have also been found. The salt transport department has begun to produce a large amount of salt. According to what I know, the price of salt in Yingtian has a downward trend."

"Not bad!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with the result. He took out a stack of paper from his body, threw it to them, and said: "Next, we are going to change the taxation. You can discuss it based on our ideas and draw up a charter as soon as possible."

Are taxes also changing?

They thought to themselves, is Lao Zhu addicted to reform?

They didn't dare to say this sentence, so the three of them leaned over, opened the papers and looked at them carefully. When they saw the contents above, their eyes widened in shock.

This is not only a reform, but it also cuts off the livelihood of those landlords and even their officials. If the reform can be implemented, it will cause a storm.

The more they watched, the more shocked they became.

However, this tax method was so well written that they could not find any mistakes. If it were really changed, the Ming Dynasty's financial problems would definitely be greatly alleviated, and there would even be no fiscal deficit.

After reading everything, the three of them were so surprised that they didn't know how to describe it for a while.

"How is it?" Zhu Yuanzhang was not surprised by their shock.

If they weren't shocked, it was a surprise.

"Your Majesty, do you really want to do this?"

Yu Xin hesitated, but finally said: "As soon as this reform decree comes out, I am worried that the world will be unstable."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked calmly: "Why is the world so unstable?"

Zou Jin gritted his teeth and said: "There will definitely be resistance. Those aristocratic families may still cause chaos, which will bring a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty, please think twice."

"Your Majesty, please think again!"

Yu Xin and Zhan Hui said at the same time.

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes and asked calmly: "Do you think those wealthy families are more powerful, or Yuan Meng, Chen Youliang and others?"

For a moment, they didn't know what to say.

"We can defeat Chen Youliang and drive away Yuan Meng, but you think we can't deal with just a few families?"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not come from a proud family, and he did not have much identification with this group. He said murderously: "Or are you also against us and don't want us to change?"

"I dare not."

The three of them knelt down at the same time.

(End of this chapter)