readx; The idea of opening a casino was not brewing for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 It can be said that it was not until he returned to Xi'an from the south this time and played chess with others at the tea house in the city that he suddenly had this idea, and almost immediately decided.

But Zhu Youzhen's purpose in opening the casino, that is, to take the silver out of the pockets of the rich, has been thinking about this matter for a long time. As Yang Sichang said, there was no shortage of rich people in this era, and there was no shortage of silver, especially after the great geographical discoveries, the Spaniards mined a large amount of silver from the Americas, and almost half of this silver flowed into China through international trade.

However, although the people had such a large amount of silver, the annual tax of the imperial court was only a few million taels, and the "three salaries" were less than 10 million taels. And the war in Liaodong alone costs millions of taels of silver every year, and the imperial court must be unable to make ends meet. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty in history was, to a large extent, an economic bankruptcy, unable to raise troops without food and pay, and it is strange that they can hold their territory.

Zhu Youzhen also seriously pondered this issue, and came to the conclusion that the object of the imperial court's collection of taxes was seriously wrong, and the ordinary people who did not have much money were regarded as the main objects of taxation, while those officials and merchants who really had a lot of wealth were able to rely on their inextricable relationship with the imperial court to find ways to reduce or reduce taxes, resulting in a situation in which the poor became poorer and the rich became richer.

If Zhu Youzhen was in power, he would definitely take strong measures to levy taxes on those rich. But now he is just a prince with no power, and he still wants to do more big things with silver, so what should he do?

Obviously, the method of dealing with bandits is not good. This is how the thieves use this method to "equalize the rich and the poor", and as a result, the world is in chaos. Naturally, those rich people did not want to wait for death, and organized landlords to protect their lives and property. Even if this method works, it will inevitably come at the cost of the blood and lives of millions of Li people, a price that Zhu Youzhen cannot afford.

Another trick is to produce large quantities of high-priced goods, especially luxury goods, for those who have the money to consume. But in this era, the commodity economy is still very underdeveloped, even Zhu Youzhen, who has advanced economic consciousness, cannot produce any high-end goods, and the only luxury is the Champs-Élysées antique shop. But the store's sales were too small, which was tantamount to a drop in the bucket. Moreover, some rich people like to save money, as Yang Sichang said, they would rather burn the silver and bury it in the ground than take it out to buy things, which virtually reduces the amount of money in circulation and aggravates the scarcity of silver.

In this case, Zhu Youzhen could only take the sword sideways and think of some crooked ideas. In the teahouse in Xi'an City, he saw that just for a game of Go, some people were willing to bet thousands of taels; Compared with popular games such as horse hanging and dice rolling, Go is quite elegant, and in real casinos, there are still masters who are willing to spend a lot of money for gambling.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Youjian moved, he thought of opening a casino to specifically absorb the gambling money of these rich people, and then use it for the people. However, he also knows that in his previous life, the juxtaposition of "pornography, gambling and drugs" was a cancer that endangered society. If left unchecked, the damage caused by casinos is far greater than the benefits, which is why gambling is banned in most countries.

That's why he made an appointment with Lin Youkun for three chapters. This first prohibition of the entry of the poor is so that the common people will not be contaminated with this vice, and the scourge is only to the rich who are empty and unkind; The second article prohibits women from entering in order to strictly prevent them from getting involved with Seqing, which is also a "deformed industry" that Zhu Youzhen resolutely opposes; The third restraint is also to minimize the negative effects of gambling.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen has two other purposes for opening a casino, which is somewhat inappropriate for outsiders. The first is that he knows that as long as Lin Youkun opens a casino, the original casinos in Xi'an will inevitably be impacted. In particular, mahjong and other gameplay are novel and interesting, and if you don't do it well, it can also cause a great impact. As the saying goes, "if you cut off my money, I will cut off your life", those who open casinos are not good men and women, and they will definitely take the opportunity to find fault, and even use violent means to destroy the casino.

And that's what Zhu Youzhen wants. He deeply hated the use of violence or threats and other underworld means to disrupt the normal business order, and he had previously carried out assassination operations to eliminate local ruffians in Xi'an because of this.

However, this kind of indiscriminate means have been repeatedly prohibited, and the government is either too lazy to manage it, or it does not dare to manage it, or it colludes with those evil businessmen who bully and dominate the market, and in the end it is always honest businessmen who suffer losses. Without a thorough change in this environment, it will not be possible to achieve a commodity economy that truly relies on the quality of goods and competition between high and low prices.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen opened a casino, which is quite a bit of a "leading snake out of the hole". If other casinos or some underworld forces dare to make trouble, it is right in the middle, and Zhu Youzhen has ruthless means to deal with them. It is said that "the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake", but Zhu Youzhen doesn't believe it, he wants to have a "strong dragon to suppress the head snake"!

The second purpose is that the casino is mixed, and it is also a place for people to communicate, all kinds of gossip is flying all over the sky, and some people will accidentally leak secrets here. Zhu Youzhen had been plotted by Wei Zhongxian many times before, and although he was lucky not to die, he didn't want to take any more risks. He now also has an intelligence network, but the intelligence network of the Huanghai Merchant Gang focuses on the economy, while Qin Wangwei's intelligence network focuses on information on thieves and bandits, and lacks effective monitoring of the dynamics of the situation in the DPRK and the actions of the eunuchs, especially Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

And after this casino, there will inevitably be many officials involved, and those Dongchang Fanzi and Jinyi Wei military attachés may also patronize. Zhu Youzhen can secretly collect information and predict the other party's actions in advance.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen would not say this to Yang Sichang, he just smiled meaningfully, no longer continued the topic, but said unhurriedly: "Lord Yang, I've kept you waiting for a long time." This king is looking for Lord Yang, and he really has important matters to discuss. ”

"Your Highness, please give me." Yang Sichang said respectfully.

"It's not something I can say." Zhu Youzhen frowned and said: "Actually, I want to carry out an important agricultural experiment, which requires large-scale trial planting, at least thousands of acres of land. But now that the land in Jingyang County that has joined the land reform of the Jingyang Merchant Gang has been planted with cotton, once the cotton in the field is destroyed, the supply of raw materials for the Qinwangzhuang textile factory may be problematic. Therefore, I would like to ask Lord Yang to mobilize and see if those peasant households who have not yet joined the land reform can join in some more. ”

"Those are basically big players... It's not easy to persuade. Yang Sichang muttered, "I don't know what crops Your Highness wants to try to plant?" ”

"That's it!" Zhu Youzhen immediately carefully took out a bag and untied the rope that tied the mouth of the bag, revealing the crop seeds from the New World inside.