Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 270 In the future, my royal capital will definitely regain its own interests (third update)

Zhu Youjian clenched his fists, bared his teeth and wished he could slap Zheng Zhilong directly, and cursed in his heart that the old fox only knew how to keep showing a very scared look, but refused to let go for a long time and was willing to spit out part of the benefits, really As the world says, people don't cry until they see the coffin.

"It's good to understand, I know it's a little embarrassing for you, Zheng Zhilong, to give up the interests of the Zheng family, and it's true as you said, your Zheng family's fleet is now my Ming Dynasty's official army, and I can't give you a military salary. But it also robbed you of your wealth. After all, you also ensured the stability of my Daming sea area, but at present, the imperial court’s military expenditure is tight, the people are poor and the country is poor, so I have no choice but to take advantage of you, and the tariffs will continue to be levied!

But I don't need to levy your Zheng family's tariffs, and your Zheng family can enjoy my tariff-free privilege!
However, you have to guarantee the safety of merchants allowed to go to sea by the government, and you will not be able to collect any docking and protection fees from these merchants, but if there are more than three incidents of being robbed by pirates at the merchants who go to sea in Ming Dynasty, I will dismiss you. Would you like to take back the privileges given to your Zheng family? "

Zheng family tariff exemption?But it is necessary to ensure the safety of the merchants going to sea from being robbed by pirates, so can they not charge protection fees?
Zheng Zhilong carefully calculated the conditions given by Zhu Youjian.

He is naturally satisfied that the Zheng family can avoid the taxation.

However, collecting protection fees for import and export ships is also a major source of income for him. If he does not collect protection fees from domestic merchants, he still seems to be losing money.

"Your Majesty, forgive me for taking the liberty. Thanks to Your Majesty's understanding, the Zheng family is exempted from taxes; but the cost of going to sea is easily inescapable! Although the brothers have to smuggle some goods to make profits, but in the end it is a small profit. Brothers for them Escort, not some hard work is not justified!"

As Zheng Zhilong spoke, he stared at Zhu Youjian with treacherous eyes.

Now Zhu Youjian can't wait to kill Zheng Zhilong.

It is already the greatest compromise for an emperor to give you the tax-free privilege, yet he even started bargaining with himself, saying that the smuggling of tens of millions of taels was just a meager profit.

But Zhu Youjian could only calmly say at this moment: "I understand what you mean, but in order to strengthen our Daming business and prevent foreigners from monopolizing the benefits of the ocean, I have to support my Daming merchants, after all, they are also mine. People, since they have paid taxes for the imperial court, I can't ignore them. Aiqing can just collect a little more from Hong Fangui and Fu Langji and others. Besides, what I have brought to your Zheng family's tax exemption is not only Your Zheng family doesn’t have to pay taxes for the slightest benefit, you can think about it again, the benefits of the world’s oceans are shared equally with your Zheng family?”

Zheng Zhilong did exactly what Zhu Youjian said, he began to think carefully, and quickly figured out the key points.

Of course, he also knew that it was not easy to speak out about this kind of thing, but he saluted Zhu Youjian more frankly than before:

"Thank you Your Majesty Long En, please rest assured, Your Majesty, the Zheng family will never betray His Majesty, and will absolutely guarantee the safety of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty when they go to sea, and will never charge any fees for the people of the Ming Dynasty to go to sea. Logically, this is the job of a humble minister, but now Asking His Majesty to mention something is really stupid."

"It's good to know that it's my own business, but your Zheng family can't get such great benefits for nothing. I have to run a school, and I need the help of your Zheng family," Zhu Youjian began to say own true purpose.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help being taken aback, thinking that His Majesty still needs to ask our Zheng family?
But when Zheng Zhilong thought that His Majesty had given him such a great benefit to the Zheng family, he had to agree, so he immediately bowed his hands: "But please be frank, Your Majesty, as long as there is a need for the Zheng family, the Zheng family will never refuse!"

"I heard that your Zheng family's naval battle generals can be found everywhere. Now that you are a member of the imperial court, you should naturally work for the imperial court. I intend to open a Daming Shipbuilding School to train the best naval officers and naval talents of the Ming Dynasty in the future. Now that the Red Fan Ghost and the Folang Robot are rising too fast, I am worried that after a hundred years, all the power of the sea will be taken by the Western Yi, so I need to send a group of generals from your Zheng family to train my Ming Navy and train a group of soldiers. Excellent commanders who can command naval battles come."

When Zhu Youjian said this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but nodded: "What Your Majesty said is very true. I have fought against Xiyi several times. Although I haven't lost a battle yet, their ships and artillery are indeed superior to ours. My minister is willing to help His Majesty to do this."

After Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, he regretted it.

Because he realized that Zhu Youjian said that he set up this school to train naval commanders and naval talents because he said that he did not fight against Xiyi. He has the purpose of fighting against his Zheng family's ocean power in the future.

Once I send people from the Zheng family to help the imperial court cultivate naval talents, it is tantamount to creating a future opponent for myself!

Only then did Zheng Zhilong understand that it is no wonder that His Majesty is so willing to give the Zheng family the tax-free privilege so that the Zheng family can enjoy the benefits of the world.

But Zheng Zhilong also knew that if he wanted His Majesty to be willing to give the Zheng family tax-free privileges, he could only agree to this matter, otherwise there would be no need for cooperation, and he could not exist completely away from the court.

As for helping the imperial court grow its own navy, Zheng Zhilong felt that the growth rate of the Zheng family's power after taking advantage of the tax exemption may not be able to catch up with the imperial navy's navy, and he is a master, and the imperial navy is an apprentice, and the master teaches the apprentice. It is possible to hand over all the skills to the apprentice.

"Your younger brother Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhibao have always been brave generals at sea. The two of them must go to Beijing. For the rest of the generals, the Zheng family should send more than 50 people to complete the trilogy within three months!"

After Zhu Youjian said this, Zheng Zhilong nodded and agreed: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely let them come to Beijing to work for Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youjian nodded and asked Zheng Zhilong to step down, and then he ordered Wang Chengen to send the cabinet chief assistant Fan Jingwen, ordering that when he was about to start tax collection work, there would be no need to collect tariffs from the Zheng family.

Fan Jingwen was naturally very surprised, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is no different from making the Zheng family bigger!"

"I never knew that this move would make the Zheng family bigger, but now I don't have a strong navy! This is the only way to go! Now that I want to reap the benefits of officials and gentry, I can only win the hearts of the Zheng family, otherwise I will make too many enemies, and it will be harmful to the court. It's not a good thing either."

Zhu Youjian naturally knows that the privilege of exempting the Zheng family from tariffs is tantamount to allowing the Zheng family to smuggle legally, and the Zheng family can lure a large number of private merchants to trade under the banner of the Zheng family at a rate lower than the imperial court tariff. You inspect your own imperial merchants and official merchants belonging to the imperial court, and only because they are your own merchants, they will go overseas for trade through the registration of the imperial customs agency, but that will inevitably increase the cost of imperial merchants and official merchants, and reduce the competitiveness of national capital.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youjian said that he is sharing the benefits of the world with the Zheng family.

His Zheng family can almost use this privilege to become the biggest backer of private merchants, and even become the biggest capitalist.

And its own imperial business can also compete with it through the monopoly of some industries and the development of emerging technology industries.

As for who will become the master of the entire social economy in the future, it is still hard to say.

But Zhu Youjian believes that as long as his royal capital has the most advanced production technology and a powerful navy in the future, he will not worry about not being able to control the marine economy of the entire Ming society and regain the interests occupied by the Zheng family.

(End of this chapter)