Zhu Ping'an was an official, could officials do business in the Ming Dynasty?

The answer is yes.

The "Da Ming Law" clearly stipulates that officials above the fourth grade are prohibited from doing business, but Zhu Ping'an is now from the fifth grade, not the category prohibited by the Da Ming Law, so if Zhu Ping'an is doing business now, there is no problem of violating discipline at all, and there is no need to worry about being reported.

And this kind of restraint of law and discipline is becoming more and more ineffective, and now in the Ming Dynasty, there are many officials above the fourth grade who do business, but they are doing business through the backdoor, and the people below are just doing business.

Especially when Emperor Jiajing's predecessor, his cousin Zhu Houzhao, was emperor, this kind of restraint prohibiting officials from doing business was even more useless.

Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao has three well-known hobbies, the first hobby is fighting, he likes to make himself a variety of towns, powerful generals, governors and the like, often driving personal expeditions; The second hobby is to flirt with women, Zhu Houzhao often likes to make private visits to micro-clothes, and goes to the street to molest women from good families, and even once because of molesting women from good families, he was sent to the government by a righteous person. The third hobby is business, Zhu Houzhao will set up all kinds of shops in the palace when he is interested, and the palace is like a bazaar, selling meat, juggling, selling sugar gourds, selling clothes, and even opening a brothel restaurant, letting the palace maids and eunuchs play the role of merchants and customers in the bazaar.

Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao's tossing, this prohibition on officials above the fourth grade from doing business has been greatly discounted and is in vain.

Another advantage of doing business in the Ming Dynasty was the low commercial tax.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was pitiful, and Hongwu stipulated that "all commercial taxes, thirty and one will be taken, and those who pass will be judged as violating the order", and in the future, it will only be reduced and not increased.

Of course, now Zhu Ping'an is also facing many problems.

First and foremost is the storefront problem. If you want to enter the fast food industry, the first problem to be solved is the storefront, there is no store to talk about catering, and there was no Meituan and Eleme in ancient times, so you can stir-fry and cook at home and deliver takeaway.

Zhu Ping'an walked around and found no signs of the store to be cashed out.

Zhu Ping'an also asked a few, some had tepid business, and some had bleak business, but the owner didn't mean to make a move.

Forget it, it's not a way to ask like this.

Zhu Ping'an walked out in the strange white eyes of a boss, turned around and walked out, ready to find a real estate agent.

If you want to rent a house and find an agent, this sentence was also effective in the Ming Dynasty.

The real estate agency of the Ming Dynasty is called "Fangya", which evolved from the word tooth businessman, why it is called a tooth merchant is because the original tooth merchant is engaged in the livestock market intermediary, matching the sale of livestock and the person who buys the livestock to reach a deal, this kind of tooth dealer is a master of identifying the age and health of the livestock, as long as you look at the teeth of the livestock to know how old the livestock, healthy or not, over time, people will give them the name of "tooth businessman".

Renting a house in the Ming Dynasty is different from the modern one, in which you can directly sign a contract or verbal agreement between the landlord and the tenant without going through an intermediary, but it is not possible in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to rent a house, you must go through an intermediary, that is, a fangya.

The Ming Dynasty was very strict in the management of real estate transactions, and it was not allowed to buy and sell leases privately, and the buyers and sellers of the house must sign the house sale and lease contract with the official version of the contract, which was signed by the house tooth guarantee, and the buyer and seller paid the deed tax, and the transaction took effect only after the Yamen was registered and recorded. Failure to do so is illegal, ranging from fines to imprisonment.

Therefore, renting a house and finding an intermediary was not only an advertisement in the Ming Dynasty, but also a system. It is precisely because of this that Fang Ya has the most accurate and complete housing information in Daming.

Fangya, like modern intermediaries, also has to charge intermediary fees, and they also have one thing different from modern intermediaries, that is, they need to supervise and supervise both parties to the transaction to go to the yamen to pay taxes in accordance with the regulations. If there is a tax evasion in the transaction, then the responsible person will be held liable and will be criminalized.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were official teeth and private teeth, and the official teeth, as the name suggests, were official real estate agents.

What Zhu Ping'an went to find was this kind of official tooth.

It's kind of similar to the Housing Authority.

The official office in charge of the Qihuamen area is nearby, and Zhu Ping'an walked for less than ten minutes.

This is a downtown in a bustling city, and the office change is a bit like a yamen, but it is not as strict.

On the contrary, it is lively.

There are many people who come to Guanya to seek services.

From the official tooth institution, it can be seen that capitalism in the Ming Dynasty was budding, and commerce in the Ming Dynasty was still quite prosperous.

There are five official teeth in the office, and when Zhu Ping'an arrived, there were already more than a dozen people in the room surrounding the official teeth.

The five official teeth in the house are all busy, and there is nowhere to go, and no official teeth can spare their hands to entertain Zhu Ping'an.

There are still five or six people in the room waiting, chatting in twos and threes, some of them are here to register for rent, sell real estate, and some are waiting to lease and buy real estate.

Fortunately, the efficiency of the official tooth is still very high, Zhu Ping'an waited for the tea, and an official tooth was free.

While understanding Zhu Ping'an's needs, Guanya took out a register and asked Zhu Ping'an to register.

"Wait, you are Lord Zhu Ping'an Zhu?! You are invited to take a seat. ”

After seeing Zhu Ping'an's registered name, the official tooth looked like he had eaten a pound, as if he had seen an idol, and his surprised voice attracted other official teeth in the vicinity.

What made Zhu Ping'an menstruate even more was that after the other officials heard it, they actually put down the parties in their hands, got up and surrounded them, and greeted Zhu Ping'an.

Uh, am I that famous?

Zhu Ping'an was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't react a little.

"Come on, pour tea for Lord Zhu."

"Pour good tea"

The enthusiasm of these five official teeth made Zhu Ping'an completely confused.

What's going on?

After a while, Zhu Ping'an realized that it was because he checked the treasury himself, which led to the outbreak of the Taicang Silver Treasury case, and then led to a large number of officials being confiscated or sold.

This has injected a lot of fresh water into the capital where housing is tight.

This has benefited a lot from the Xinghuamen room, originally they didn't have many houses, but now it's okay, they are responsible for the Xinghuamen area suddenly more than 100 houses, everyone has a share of one or twenty houses.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

Fang Ya is a smart woman, the house is the rice in the pot, and the house means income for Fang Ya.

That's why they were so excited when they heard Zhu Ping'an's name, and they had a strong sense of gratitude to Zhu Ping'an.