"Why are you growing so fast?" Songjiang gentry Lu Chengfeng asked.

"The private sector only collects 10% of the tax!" Wei Jigang replied.

"How much is there to spend?" Lu Chengfeng was surprised.

"The silver comes from the sea, and the Hongmao Fan and the Japanese have a lot of silver, and they collect taxes from it, plus sugar, tobacco and alcohol sales, which is enough!" Wei Jigang replied.

"Isn't that a competition with the people?" Lu Chengfeng sneered.

"It is true that there is a competition with the people, but what is the dissatisfaction of the people? Look at Daming again, don't compete with the people for profit, what it will become, I don't need to say more! Wei Jigang asked Lu Chengfeng to stop coughing with a word!

"Taking from the people and using it for the people is the purpose of our southeastern government's expenditure, collecting taxes and using them on the fleet to ensure our safety; It is used in economic development, such as farmland water conservancy, roads and bridges; There are also welfare, the old are supported, the young are taught, more children are encouraged, and medical treatment is guaranteed! ”

"Everyone!" Wei Jigang said proudly: "We didn't do a bad job!" ”

The audience nodded one after another, Zhao Lianfeng, a student in Suzhou, was a diehard, he admitted that the Southeast Mansion was doing well, but he asked: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's ministers, since you are hanging the banner of the Ming Dynasty and recognizing the rule of the Ming Dynasty, why do you refuse to obey the edict and do not accept the officials sent by the Ministry of Officials to serve in the Southeast Mansion?" ”

Wei Jigang said with a very sharp sentence: "Do you want to give such a good place to those corrupt officials to practice?!" ”

People's hearts are made of meat, Zhao Lianfeng was speechless!

The rest of the visiting group nodded in agreement, they knew too well the virtues of Ming officials.

Wei Jigang breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The Ministry of Officials has also sent officials before, such as Liu Zhifeng, the prefect of Taiwan, and now he has become a senior civil official on our side!" ”

"We have never refused to send officials from the Ministry of Officials, it's just that the Ministry of Officials will not send them, so it's none of our business in the Southeast Mansion, and we won't carry this pot!" Wei Jigang said loudly.

It's not that the officials don't send it, but they can't send it, the southeast mansion is the tiger's den in Longtan, unless you want to follow the thief's officials, no one dares to come!

"I see!"

Wei Jigang accompanied them, and was satisfied to see that most of them had been transformed, and even if they did not change, their attitudes were loosened.

As long as these people, who have mastered the right to speak to a certain extent, return to the local area and no longer oppose the Southeast Mansion, or say a few fewer words, then the public opinion will be favorable to the Southeast Mansion, and it will be a matter of course for them to enter the main sea in the future!

……

The scholars and gentry in the visiting group belong to the category that can be won over, and some people are difficult to win for, and they are die-hards, so they are treated differently.

For example, Ding Si, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, had a lot of money and was extremely stubborn, and he spoke ill of the Southeast Mansion everywhere, and refused the persuasion of the Southeast Mansion, shouting: "I just don't like the Southeast Mansion!" ”

The result?

His fate was at the gate of Lichun Courtyard, and he was cut on his neck by a pure Japanese man with a wrist-dissolving sharp knife, the artery was cut, and blood sprayed directly onto the plaque of Lichun Courtyard!

After the widow was arrested, he confessed that the rich merchant had touched him, and he was unhappy, so he killed in passion.

Was there anyone who instructed it?

No one to tell you!

There are indeed people who instigate, but there is a cheap life, what a good way.

The Japanese committed a capital crime in the Japanese country, and as a result, the Southeast Province asked him to come and did this single thing, but his family was able to join the Southeast Province and become Chinese!

So the Japanese were sentenced to death by the Ming Dynasty government, one life for one life, but Ding was Jingdezhen, the Japanese were rotten pottery pots, and they were both defeated when they collided, and Ding Si was really stupid.

No one sympathizes with him, everyone says that businessmen should be harmonious and wealthy, and be sleek, why should they have a hard time with the Southeast Mansion!

People are the masters who kill people without blinking, and they didn't root up the Ding family, so they are worthy of the Ding family.

In fact, there are many ways to deal with Dings, and the Southeast Mansion used the most drastic methods, and Gainings was very rich, very influential, and the most arrogant, but he received a fatal blow, which made many people understand that the Southeast Mansion is really not a vegetarian.

There was no more murder than him.

Then there is Zhou, a gentry from Huzhou, who has a lot of complaints about the Southeast Mansion, especially dissatisfied with the taxes of the Southeast Mansion!

The tax revenue of the southeast government of Guy is twenty percent, that is, more than 20%, and the tax of the Ming Dynasty is thirty taxes one, that is, 3%, and now the Ming Dynasty, but the spring of the merchants, although they have to pay tribute to the officials, but the profit is still very large.

Therefore, he talked about it in Huzhou and even in the southeast business circles, if the southeast government comes, both pay heavy taxes and the officials need to ask for too much, then we businessmen will be in great trouble.

The southeast government sent people to persuade them, pointing out that the payment of taxes was taken from the people and used by the people; If the Ming Dynasty did not pay taxes, the imperial court had no money, and the peasants were oppressed, resulting in chaos in the world.

Paying taxes is inevitable, and the officials in the southeast are incorruptible and not subject to bribery.

After all his efforts, Zhou just didn't listen, didn't listen!

Well, toast without eating and drinking, one day, his family's big shop in Huzhou City ate a big bomb when it didn't open in the morning!

With a bang, his storefront collapsed!

The bomb was not equipped with iron nails and steel balls, which could have injured people, and now it is a big firecracker.

So Zhou immediately became obedient, and his style of speech changed drastically, and he praised the Southeast Mansion without stopping.

So a slut is a slut, if you have something to say to him, if you don't listen, once you use force, he will be honest, why bother!

In response to Tianfu's teaching, Xiao often made a lot of nonsense about the Southeast Mansion when teaching students, and regarded the Southeast Mansion as a typical example of disloyalty and unfilial piety, which was very hateful.

Naturally, his colleagues persuaded him and asked him to say less about the benefits of the Southeast Mansion, but this guy was straightforward and refused to change his ways.

He has an official body to protect his body, so it is inconvenient to offend, and it will not work to deal with Ding and Zhou, but it is not difficult to deal with him.

If you can't get him, you can't get his boss.

Xiao received a notice that he was promoted!

Promoted to the county magistrate, Baili Hou.

Guizhou's, an unknown county in Guizhou!

I couldn't find the name of the county on the map, and I didn't know what was going on when I went there, so Xiao had to excuse himself from being sick.

Okay, if you don't go, you won't go.

If you are sick, rest well at home...

So Xiao went to work, and he couldn't use his position to say anything, and the newly appointed teacher was smart not to talk about current affairs, but to talk about knowledge and talk less nonsense, so he was a mess of harmony.

Other officials are all handled in this way, either they are transferred or promoted--- Southeast Mansion will send them money to be promoted, and send them away, but it really can't be done, so they have to use the clear stream belonging to the Southeast Mansion to impeach them!

Under all kinds of means, public opinion in various places is not unfavorable to the southeastern province, if not favorable to the southeastern province, at least not to the southeastern province, and the advantages of the southeastern province are recited everywhere: powerful, the people are rich, the government is harmonious, and they are all Han Chinese with our clan and the same ancestor.

Hype the benefits of the southeast province, and at the same time vigorously promote the Ming Emperor and the virtuous king, eulogize the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and create public opinion.

At the same time, he also accused the crimes of the Beiyu and the Liukou, and denounced those traitors and ministers who surrendered to the Beiyu, such as Li Kaiyong, Tong Yangxing, Fan Wencheng, etc.

……

Many people are spontaneous and purely personal to look at the southeast government, and for such people, except for the most diehards, they all think that they are mainly converted, and there are few lives.

But some are hostile elements, and Su Xiangbing, a senior official of the Southeast Intelligence Bureau, received a report from his subordinates: "We may have caught a big fish!" ”