I have never done business in my life, and as for those businessmen who only promise to provide filial piety, Yang Wencong is angry: "How can you be so treacherous, you clearly said 50,000 taels." ”

Zhan Shibang looked innocent, and said: "Aren't you just treating the people of the Ming Dynasty, the more bitter the people, the more they don't look like people, the happier you are, as for what treachery and coercion of the people, it is even more commonplace, in this case, the business is not benevolent, you don't want to, you can get out, in fact, a few of you are afraid that quite a few of you are not the first time to come to me." ”

"The thief dares to do this, come to someone, give me these ...... The grenade is confiscated, and the whole world belongs to our Ming, and we are all scholars, and we have what we see. ”

A few eyeing family members were about to step forward to make a move, but the Zhan Shibang was sitting on the jujube wooden chair, suddenly raised his hand, took out a pistol, and said: "Hey, if you want to eat black, wait until the transaction is over, besides, how can you confirm that I don't have more advanced good guys in my hands." ”

These officials often come to Huixian Yaxu every quarter to have fun, and after different people appeared, they were invited to a banquet with laughter and laughter, so they would come to see without any burden, but who knew that it had become this situation.

Immediately, there was a scene of people, and he said on the side: "Oh, why is this so, Lord Yang, don't be impatient, this little brother is not an unparticular person, you wait for me to say, this little brother Zhan, how can you sit on the ground and raise the price, this is not in line with the teachings of the sage, do you know, I am the holy religion as the top grade, it is better for you to worship under the door of this Lord Yang, and then donate these weapons to the imperial court, when the time comes, learn the eight shares, take the right path, and leave a name in history, this is not higher than the matter of the businessman." ”

Zhan Shibang smiled: "Aren't businessmen as good as you?" ”

"Of course, the businessman is treacherous, buying and selling short for a little blockage, and moving all the people's money into his own house, of course, as it should be."

"But I know, don't talk about it elsewhere, there is really no Ming official in Nanjing City who is not greedy, this is more than a businessman, which family in your family did not force tenants to death and occupy other people's wives and daughters?"

"When the tenant owes money, it is natural for him to sell himself to pay off his debts, and besides, what the scholar reads is the book of the sages, and he should have more servants who work hard every day!"

Zhan Shibang nodded and said: "It should be so, it should be so, but what does this have to do with me, these grenades, 150,000 taels, a fixed price, no counteroffer, if you don't buy it, I will sell it to Li Dingguo, so, don't hesitate, think about it, Li Dingguo may want to maintain military discipline, but Zuo Menggeng's subordinates have been living in the poor place of Wuchang for several years, and they are all going crazy with poverty, and those homeless people are also almost red, if they rush in, woo woo, it will be a catastrophe." ”

"Nonsense, it's just a small person, for a moment...... In a few moments, it can be flattened. ”

"Li Shilang, before you were here with me, you bought your lady's watch, and it was for the whole family of female dependents, a big deal, I remember that my female secretary also praised your little granddaughter's hands are white and tender, only eleven years old this year, huhu, if you are caught like this, then she can suffer, if you are lucky, it belongs to a certain military leader, but it is to serve one person, in case of bad luck, it is to serve dozens of men a day, I don't know how delicate a flower ......"

"And you, Lord Zhang, your family members have nowhere to run, I know that you don't have a junior daughter in Nanjing, and you wanted to run out of the city but didn't know where to go, so it was delayed, but your grandson, I heard that he looks good, quack quack, what if this is ...... I heard that Zuo Liangyu dedicated the chrysanthemum to Hou Sui, and only then did he have the benefit of being promoted to three levels in a row, in case Zuo Mengeng was different from his father, it was a ...... Oops. ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense, that Zuo Mengeng raised troops in the name of the prince, and he dared to abuse me!"

"Oh oh oh, that's it, it turns out that you have already made up your mind to take refuge, so what are you doing here, I estimate that in another hour, the brigade will enter the city, do you have time to block the mouth, then I bless you, under the command of General Zuo, everyone will be the founding hero, come on, work hard! Struggle! ”

"You ......"

"Okay, Yang Xiong, don't say it again, you, the person from the imperial capital, just ask for money, but 200,000 taels is not a small amount, even if you are rich all over the world, it will take time to raise, and Zuo Mengeng is indeed about to enter the city, what do you say."

Zhan Shibang stretched out his thumb and said: "Refreshing, it's a material for trading, uh, in this way, you have two package options, or, you announce Yi Zhi and join the leadership of the imperial capital, then we can come up with a package of plans to defeat Zuo Mengeng, or you can sign the bill, anyway, you have a lot of collateral in your hands, land, and cities, although the Ming Dynasty government has always robbed merchants with white strips, but I believe that there are not many people who dare to fight us with white strips." ”

"You're taking advantage of the fire!"

Zhan Shibang said: "This is a black-hearted arms dealer who takes advantage of the fire to rob, and the outside is the rebel who kills people and sets fires, you have to recognize clearly, we just want money, but the people outside are fatal, how to choose, I think you have to think about it, by the way, if you don't remember, I have a lot of history books here, Song Huizong is not very good in Liaodong, watching his daughter and granddaughter, that is, the emperors are pregnant with a child who doesn't know which savage, and you have to kneel and lick the barbarian, quack, think clearly." There are no good people here. ”

The shouts of killing outside the city are the best to help the decided.

Wait until all these scholars nodded, but asked to write papers.

"Of course, I like to abide by the treaty the most, break the contract or something, I hate it the most, and I specifically noted that if these grenades are useless and do not help you defend the city of Nanjing, then I don't want any money, by the way, a few adults, please sign it, it is ready, lake pen, Hui ink, rice paper, Yan Yan, this is a historical document, it can't be done easily."

A few people took it, but they were shocked:

The signing of this treaty is regarded as a consensus between the governments of the South and the North that they belong to the same China.

First, from now on, the people of the north and their families will live in the big cities south of the Yangtze River, and trade will be unhindered, and the imperial capital will send coordinating envoys, stewards and other officials to inspect all places, take charge of business matters, and exchange official documents with the local officials, and the northern merchants should also obey the law, and pay the taxes and salaries of all places, and ignore the rest of the excesses and miscellaneous taxes.

Second, the arms sold by the imperial capital to the provinces south of the Yangtze River were pledged with land, and if they refused to repay, they would be repaid with the governing power of Nanjing.

……

These things are actually ordinary free trade agreements in the eyes of later generations, and even in order to take care of them, they also specifically said that they will pay taxes in accordance with the rules.

But in the eyes of those officials, it is very humiliating to lose power and humiliate the country, especially the protection of northern merchants, but it is so clear, it turns out that the protection of merchants in the Ming Dynasty is still some, at least according to the law, the tax is not high, but the tax rate is different.

In later generations, the corporate tax of the US emperor was handed over to the treasury at 35% of the profits, which can be called a scrape, but the unlucky ones who lost money were always open, and there were various tax refunds, but the Ming Dynasty was very chaotic.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were three non-collections for customs clearance and taxation inside and outside the province: the boats of the big men were not collected, the ships of the eunuchs were not collected, and the boats of the Jinshi and the people were not collected, but the first two were not easy to find, but the people who read were not everywhere, which is why the people were so popular.

Please Jin Shi or lift people to sit on the boat as a talisman, when passing the money customs, people want money, let the amulet come out to pay, Jin Shi and lift people can be called a specialization and multi-ability, they not only promote the prosperity and development of the cultural and educational industry, but also show their skills in the field of private shipping. The shipowner also gave them a good reward, and as for whether the country lost blood because of this, the scholar naturally did not care.

Zhu Yuanzhang started with a 30 tax on business, and later basically did not collect it, and the commercial tax levied was also very light, 3%.

In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, commerce was predatory and destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang announced that most of the commerce would be exempt from taxes in order to restore commerce, which was itself a temporary policy, but the vested interests of a policy would naturally defend themselves in every possible way.

By the late Ming Dynasty, the agricultural tax accounted for about 75%, the salt tax accounted for about 10%, the remaining Huangzhuang income was about 5%, and the commercial tax only accounted for about 10%.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is actually very unreasonable, Zhu Yuanzhang set the commercial tax at 1/30 because he does not understand business, those merchants colluded with the scholar class, and they were so rich, and the Ming Dynasty also had a sea ban, craftsmen were called craftsmen, as long as one person was a craftsman, his children and grandchildren were all craftsmen, and there was no way to get rid of this cheap status. Limits invention and creativity. Coupled with the heavy conscription, a peasant in Jiangsu might be given the task of sending a cart of bricks to Beijing. The consequence was that they went bankrupt and couldn't survive, and there were many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the Ming Dynasty, but this was mainly due to the indiscriminate collection of taxes by the gentry class, and the money flowed to them.

Of course, the most inhumane fool of this tax law is that the standard of its tax collection is wrong, it is simply arbitrary, and it is a scale tax, that is, even if you lose money this year or do not lose money or make no profit, then you will have to collect a lot of money.

That is to say, if the government is just going to make things difficult for you, especially those tax collectors, then your low and dilapidated house can be said to be a luxury villa, obviously a small business, it can be regarded as a daily income, and you will die at once, and if the collusion is good, those big businessmen do not have to pay taxes, this is the reality.

Of course, if the year is good, they can still hold on, after all, the 3% tax is not high, but they habitually take the opportunity to increase the weight, it will be fatal.

If the businessmen from the north really only pay the 3% tax stipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, even if it is not erased, then its advantages are not comparable to the local merchants of the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to the loss of a large amount of income for these old men.

But at this time, I had to hurry.

It took some time for a few bigwigs to divide up the grenade, 150,000 taels of silver, although it was a blank slip, but after several treaties were exchanged, it was all the official seals of the bigwigs of various ministries, and it was already an official thing.

And the Zhan Shigang turned around and left.

The gentleman does not stand under the wall, those grenades are genuine, but now they have to be very careful, fortunately, although these Ming bigwigs know that this guy is gone, they are afraid that it is not good, but they soon found that these grenades mean power and status, so they began to fight desperately.

Of course, first of all, we still have to follow the few instructors left by the Zhan Shi Gang to teach those soldiers how to throw grenades in a very short time.

Zhan Shibang took a carriage directly to the Qinhuai River, and a flower boat was parked by the river, and after he got on the boat, a few soft-voiced men came to pick it up, and then someone untied the cable and drove the boat into the river.

A woman came over to ask for warmth, cordially pleased, but it made Zhan Shibang greatly satisfy her vanity, she said that her daughter heard that the elder was coming, and she was very happy, and now she is grooming and dressing, and she will soon be able to come out to accompany her.

Zhan Shibang signaled that he didn't have to care, and arranged for his subordinates to eat and drink in the cabin next door, and after he asked the others to retreat, he opened a terminal and said: "Lao Li, if you leave this mess to me, I'm scared to death, 20,000 grenades, they will definitely find a way to hold a lot in their hands, but you still have the intention of selling more, isn't this death, at least it will kill me." ”

Li Xiangqian's voice came: "You don't know how ruthless these people are, it's only been a day since they entered Anqing, how much has been lost here, Li Dingguo and Zuo Mengeng must not be allowed to enter the city, Nanjing also has a lot of resources that can be used, I still count on setting up a university there, as for the grenade, you don't need to worry, didn't you also participate in the original vote, the export version of the grenade is specially made, the shelf life is only less than three months, after the expiration of those gunpowder will slowly fail, I believe that within a few decades, Our opponents will not be able to establish a real gunpowder industry, and when the time comes, our warships will probably also form a global garrison, what are you afraid of? ”

"I'm afraid they will do the same, the structure of this grenade is so simple......"

Zhan Shibang looked at the Jiangnan desserts that were served, asked people to put them down, and then replied in a low voice.

"At first glance, you are using other people's coffee time to drink tea, this Ming Dynasty has a lot of various firearms, similar to the national surname bottle, earth-shaking thunder, ten thousand enemies, and even mines like the Dragon King Cannon, there are not a few, but you know how the combat efficiency is, very poor, our lead is at the chemical level, the basic level, the principle of the grenade weapon, the Ming Dynasty knows, and even many soldiers in Nanjing will use it, why did I approve a special amount of money for you to spend money on the boat, it is because, Even if they want to hurt you this night, they won't find anyone. ”

(End of chapter)