Gonggong Wei asked Princess Shouning to give the emperor a note, which can be summed up in one sentence - Your Majesty, you always give a place, and this place will be your old private ATM in the future.

According to the design of Wei Gonggong, all the areas within a radius of dozens of miles from Wusongkou were classified as special zones, and the maritime admiral yamen was set up to be in charge, which was called the maritime special zone to the outside world.

In the Special Administrative Region, whether it is people or goods, civil affairs, military affairs, trade, and litigation are all under the responsibility of the Admiralty Yamen, and they are not under the control of the Songjiang Prefecture, let alone the jurisdiction of the Governor Yingtian, and are only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor.

After the establishment of the Special Maritime Zone, the Royal Navy under the command of the Maritime Admiral Yamen cleared away foreign bandits, controlled the sea routes, and set up ocean-going caravans to trade with neighboring countries under the protection of the navy, in exchange for a large number of economic benefits for the Special Zone.

Of course, in the recital, Wei Gonggong also euphemistically expressed the following views, that is, if the enemy is strong, when our Ming Dynasty cannot destroy his country or defeat it for the time being, he should trade with it. If the enemy is weak, treat him as a king, make his people become my Ming people, make his land my Ming land, and make his products my Ming products. In this passage, if the words "I Daming" are replaced with "I am the emperor", it is bound to be more straightforward.

Internally, the Admiral's Yamen will carry out a large-scale campaign to attract investment, and businessmen engaged in silk, porcelain, tea, and other hot-selling goods in the sea trade can apply to the Special Administrative Region to set up a firm with the certificate issued by the Admiral's Yamen.

The Admiral's Yamen regularly organized the trading houses to go to sea for trade, or the trading houses themselves united to petition the Admiral's Yamen for permission to charter cargo ships, and the Admiral's Yamen could also agree and send the Royal Navy to protect them. If protection is not required, firearms and other self-protection weapons can also be leased to ensure the safety of the fleet.

In short, the admiral's yamen does not charge a penny of taxes for the commercial firms engaged in commercial activities in the special zone, and only needs to pay a certain amount of naval escort fees and a small amount of ship maintenance fees to the admiral's yamen.

In order to attract more merchants to trade in the Special Zone, Gonggong Wei set the fee at "one out of twenty". That is, if the profit is twenty taels, only one tael of silver will be charged, and no pennies will be charged.

This fee is the data given by Wei Gonggong after an on-the-spot investigation and amiable questioning of several second-tier dealers engaged in maritime trade.

This must be a loss in the eyes of the emperor, and if you don't collect taxes from merchants, you little Wei Zi will make a fart for me. However, after seeing that it was later said that the Royal Navy was "procuring" goods overseas, and that the SAR commercial banks must purchase a certain amount and sell a certain amount on behalf of the company, the emperor could not help but ponder, and immediately nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this institutional arrangement.

In folk parlance, it is reluctant for the child to trap the wolf.

Rather than collecting a meagre fee from merchants, His Majesty the Emperor preferred merchants to buy large quantities of goods "procured" by the navy.

Because, the latter can see more profits.

But Wei Gonggong's design idea was the opposite of that of the emperor, and he believed that the real profit of the special zone in the future would be the pitiful fee collected from the merchants.

But it depends on how far the SAR can go.

The number of trading houses determined the prosperity of the Special Zone, so Gonggong Wei proposed to His Majesty the Emperor that a large number of factories and workshops should be established directly in the Special Zone. These factories and workshops were built by the Admiral's Yamen in advance, and after paving the sewerage, repairing the roads, and then leasing them to the commercial houses living in the Special Administrative Region to set up workshops directly, saving the time and energy of the merchants.

At the same time, according to the requirements of the firms, the Admiral Yamen recruited a large number of workers for the firms in the Special Administrative Region. In addition to employing the staff recruited by the Admiral's Yamen, the commercial houses can also bring in manpower from outside the SAR. This arrangement is to ensure that there will be no "shortage of personnel" in the SAR.

In addition, in order to ensure the economic prosperity of the Special Economic Zone, Gonggong Wei proposed a basic remuneration to the emperor.

That is, all workers engaged in handicrafts in the SEZs can receive a basic remuneration that is 30 to 50 percent higher than that outside the SEZs.

In the early days, considering that the merchants would not live too much, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the merchants, the Admiral Yamen would also subsidize a sum of money for the merchants to pay the workers.

"As long as the remuneration of workers is higher than that outside the Special Economic Zone, there is no concern that the chamber of commerce will not be able to recruit workers. With a large number of skilled workers, the production efficiency will be greatly improved, and the more goods will be produced, the scale of trade will be large and frequent, so that the navy will regularly organize trade at sea, and the admiral yamen will be able to obtain a large amount of income from it. ”

In order for His Majesty the Emperor to truly understand the benefits of the Special Administrative Zone, Gonggong Wei summarized the following points.

First, it is possible to use the funds of businessmen to promote the development of the special zone and the maritime industry, and the implication is that he Wei Gonggong does not have much money in his hands, and the emperor does not allocate it, so he urgently needs the injection of "private funds", so as to let the big ship of maritime affairs set sail as scheduled.

2. With the platform built by the Admiralty Yamen, the commercial banks can quickly increase their productivity after moving in, thereby improving the quality of goods produced in the Special Economic Zone and enhancing the competitiveness of goods.

In fact, this article is aimed at other smuggling merchants engaged in maritime trade along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Since the end of the Longqing switch, the Ming Dynasty has not opened the sea at the official level, so the main body of the prosperous maritime trade is actually the coastal gentry group.

Now that he is ordered to open the sea, in addition to having a hard gun, he must also be strong and attractive enough in terms of supply, so as to ensure that the goods produced in the special zone can be sold overseas in a steady stream.

In this way, you have to grasp it with both hands.

To grasp it with one hand is to rely on the navy to crack down on "pirates" and monopolize the sea routes.

On the other hand, the smuggling syndicates will be completely overwhelmed in terms of the supply of goods, and when foreign businessmen overseas are keen to buy goods from the special zones, the smuggling syndicates in other coastal areas will naturally decline.

It is foreseeable that in the near future, the South China Sea and the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong will be bloody and bloody.

Gonggong Wei raised this point in the hope that His Majesty the Emperor could give him enough support. Gonggong Wei did not ask His Majesty the Emperor to cooperate with him to bring down the coastal gentry group, but only asked His Majesty the Emperor to "stay in the middle" more.

3. Wei Gonggong pointed out that once the Royal Navy succeeds in opening up new sea routes, it will certainly be able to expand exports, which will not only promote the economic prosperity of the Special Economic Zone, but also promote the development of the surrounding areas, so that the handicraftsmen along the coast will consciously or unconsciously integrate into the special zone model.

"The partisan struggle is for profit, and if there is no profit, there is no partisanship. Now that the SEZ is established, it will start from the fundamental benefits, and without the support of monetary benefits, the dispute between the DPRK will subside. ”

Gonggong Wei said frankly in such a big way, he was telling His Majesty the Emperor that he Wei Liangchen did all this to make your old man stay in the palace safely, and his waist could be hard, so that he would not have to go on a hunger strike if he was angry.

The other points are summarized by Wei Gonggongbi's business management model, which is roughly that he drummed up this special zone and the admiral's maritime yamen, not only to make money for the emperor, but also to train a group of talents for the emperor, and in the future, the special zone model can not only be set up in Wusongkou, but also in other places.

Even Liaodong, Northwest and other places outside the Guanxi can be established, the difference is only one for Haili and the other for Saili.

Fifth, expand the influence of our Ming Dynasty overseas, so that the prestige of the Ming Dynasty can spread far and wide.

"The slave and maid firmly believe that as long as the special zone is run well, the profits obtained can be enough for the emperor to withdraw the mine and strike the tax....The slave and maid also uphold one point, that is, the special zone must adhere to the emperor's leadership, so the slave and maid ask the emperor to appoint His Royal Highness King Fu to take charge of the special zone."

At the end of the recital, it was about the lecturers and students of Donglin Academy who were "kidnapped" by Gonggong Wei, and Gonggong Wei only used two sentences to explain the matter to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Most of the soldiers recruited by the ministers are illiterate, they can't read a single big character, and there are no civilian officials available in the establishment of the Special Administrative Region, so they hire Donglin and others with heavy money, and temporarily teach and educate people in the slave and maid for three years. After the slave maid goes to sea, he must broadcast the name of the benevolence, righteousness and majesty of the Ming Emperor overseas, and the three or two great Confucians can fill this position. ”

The full text did not mention half a word about the death of Jiang Mou, who was in charge of the guerrilla camp in the Wusongshui camp, and Gonggong Wei hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would not care too much about this matter. The subtext is that everyone has been killed, Your Majesty, just look ahead, if you don't carry this black cauldron, it will be difficult for the slave to move here.

It was 100,000 taels of silver that was handed into the palace with Song Shu.

The 100,000 taels of silver were not transported back by Gonggong Wei from Jiangnan, but were taken out of the maritime bond issuance by Princess Shouning.

Of course, His Royal Highness Shou Ning will not tell her father that she took the money, and the concubine has committed such a big thing in Jiangnan, if she doesn't make up for this hole, the child in her belly will have no father in the future.

To say that Her Royal Highness the princess is really wronged, when she came out with the 100,000 taels of silver, her eyes were red from crying. The master of the horse was distressed when he looked at it from the side, lest his wife have a fetal gas.

Yikun Palace, Wanli generously said that he would give the concubine Niangniang 10,000 taels of silver, but the concubine Niangniang was not happy, because her husband did not agree to let Chang Xun take charge of the maritime special zone proposed by Xiao Weizi.

"Chang Xun is twenty-five years old this year, His Majesty promised him 40,000 hectares of land, and he gave half of it for no reason, and said that he would give him all the mining taxes in Huguang and Yunnan, but until now Chang Xun has not gotten it, and he has just taken on the name of being scolded by outsiders. Chang Xun didn't say anything, he didn't dare to say it, Your Majesty, don't you have a father in your heart? … I don't care what Your Majesty thinks, anyway, since you agree to set up this special zone, you have to let Chang Xun take care of this matter, and I can count my mother to make up for him. "The more the concubine said, the more aggrieved she became.

"This matter can't be borne by Chang Xun."

Wanli has his idea, although it is called a maritime special zone, and the radius is only dozens of miles, but the ancestral vassal king cannot interfere in politics, let alone supervise the army. If the outer court knows that he let Chang Xun take over this special zone, I am afraid that Ming'er will start scolding him.

The concubine didn't agree, and snorted: "This is not a matter of the outer court, but a matter of the inner court, what are you afraid of as an emperor?" ”

"I'm not afraid," Wanli sneered.

The concubine interrupted her husband, her eyes were both sad and pitiful: "If you are not afraid, why do you hide from me that Ye Xianggao wants to catch Chang Xun to become a domain!" ”