Chapter 628 Jiangnan Wind Rises and People Are Fascinated

Yongzheng felt that Li Xian's country had been completely controlled by greedy businessmen when the "Hushu Peace Treaty" was set a few years ago, he was still very worried about the situation in Jiangnan, and he held the idea that he could collect money and food for a day, and he was afraid to save every day.

Four years on, that worry has vanished. Where did the 40,000,000 taels of silver in the treasury come from? At first, he made a lot of money by getting rid of the Jiangnan salt merchants, and more than half of the silver was used to fill the holes. After that, he relied on fire consumption to return to the public, collected some of the local miscellaneous pies, and then lowered the local reserves, which could save an extra two or three million taels a year.

The biggest new income still comes from Jiangnan, and now he can push the annual revenue of the treasury to 45 million taels with half of the country, and the balance is 40 million taels, all of which rely on Jiangnan.

Thinking of Jiangnan, Yongzheng felt that Li Wei was very sensible, Li Xu was very useful, Li Fu was very loyal, and the current situation in Jiangnan was run by these three Lis. Not only is there no shortage of money and grain in Jiangnan, but because of the prosperity of commerce and trade between the north and the south, there is an increase of four or five million taels of harvest in commercial taxes every year.

When Li Wei left Jiangnan, he proposed a national policy to "benefit together" with Nanban in Jiangnan. Looking back four years later, it turns out that Li Wei has a long-term vision. Li Wei believed that Nanban's biggest plan for Jiangnan was to gain trade profits, and the acquisition of land was just the idea of Li Xi and some scholars. The Nanban country is a country founded by merchants, and it is impossible for Li Xi and those scholars to twist the legs of merchants. Therefore, as long as you make profits with the Nanban merchants in Jiangnan, not only Jiangnan will not have to worry about it, but the Qing Dynasty will also benefit from it. Everyone understands that businessmen have no country and no festival, as long as there is hòu profit, parents and children can sell it.

Li Wei's suggestion was passed on by Li Xu to the Nanban Shangshuang, and then tried by Li Fu in Jiangsu to ensure that the Qing Dynasty could benefit from it.

Li Fu summed up the demands of the imperial court, the local government, and the Southern Barbarian merchants, and proposed a solution called "Li Jin". The policy of "centigold" can be traced back to the pre-Ming merchant tax, that is, one percent of the total value of the merchant goods is tax. This is only a very superficial general term, and the essence of this policy is to require the merchants to integrate the interests of the outposts and merchants that were originally densely located in the south of the Yangtze River and belonged to the imperial court and local governments.

There are three principles of "centigold", first, loosen the restrictions on the circulation of commercial goods and make the plate bigger. Second, everyone comes to receive, and everyone benefits. Third, a unified "Centigold Bureau" should be set up to coordinate all parties involved in the collection of money.

In Li Shi's previous life, the "Li Jin" was due to the Taiping Rebellion, and the Qing court's central government finances were close to collapse, so he had to decentralize the commercial and tax powers to the local government, thus opening the door to local secession. In the era of the rise of Yinghua, because Jiangnan was owned by both sides, the Qing court was reluctant to let go of Jiangnan commerce, and implemented a "positive finance" based on the principle of "mutual benefit".

Yongzheng benefited from the harm of this strategy, he couldn't see it and didn't want to see it, anyway, Jiangnan was already a "thing outside the body". And Li Wei, who was the first to put forward the policy of "mutual benefit", also stabilized the Jiangning salt generation business jointly established by him and Zhou Kunlai because of the implementation of this policy. Of course, Li Xu became the hub of communication between the north and the south, enjoying the benefits of raw silk and satin trade.

As for Li Fu, on the one hand, he was appreciated by Yongzheng for creating this policy, and was promoted to the new governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the seventh year of Yongzheng, taking charge of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

In order to take care of the interests of the provincial capitals, prefectures and counties, the bureau only handed over 30% to the household department, and it is not okay if it is not taken care of, because the commercial goods involved in the gold are all valued by the local government, and the local declaration is declared, and the local government has the final say on how much to collect. If the imperial court wants to accept a large number of people, the action of making false reports and concealing them will be even greater. That is to say, two-thirds of the millions of commercial taxes in the two provinces a year are in his Li Fu's hands.

Sanli fixed the situation in Jiangnan, which was at the civilian level and in terms of military generals, Yongzheng certainly did not dare to completely let go of Jiangnan. Fan Shijie, the original governor of Zhejiang, was in strict practice in Zhejiang, won the trust of Yongzheng, and was transferred to Jiangning as a general to protect Jiangning, the most important hub in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, Luo Du Yeli was appointed as the general of Jingkou, stationed in Zhenjiang, covering the north and south screens of the river, and echoed Fan Shijie.

And the Hangzhou general Nian Qianyao...... It is the only one who can threaten Nanban in the Qing Dynasty and Nanban for more than ten years, Yongzheng has to use it, but he doesn't dare to use it, so he will continue to squat in Hangzhou, as long as he doesn't vote for Nanban, even if he secretly has the heart of self-reliance, but he can give Nanban tricks, Yongzheng also admitted. …,

"Nian Qianyao, this person must not stay! If you don't kill him, the luck of the Qing Dynasty will not be guaranteed! ”

In the Yinghua Palace, Yongzheng talked to Ru Xi about the situation in Jiangnan, and Ru Xi spoke again.

"After all, it's a woman's family, and her understanding of military affairs is too shallow, and she has already committed a demon in her heart for this year.

In the past four years, Ru Xi has persistently advised Yongzheng to solve Nian Qianyao, Yongzheng has long been tired of listening to it, and he muttered so in his heart.

But he didn't reprimand Ru Xi, he just laughed and passed by. For this Ru Xi, he is more and more trusting. Ru Xi has been paying close attention to Nanban affairs and knows the roots of Nanban very well. It was also through her suggestion that Yongzheng was able to recruit instructors to Spain and smuggle good iron used to make artillery from Nanban. Even Yongzheng also established a financial department under the Ministry of Households, and began to learn from the Nanban control ticket bank, pushing Jin merchants and Hui merchants and other merchants in the country to start, and profiting from them.

Seeing that Yongzheng was no longer interested in this topic, Ru Xi sighed helplessly.

The lazy spring light of the afternoon fell through the glass patio and reflected on Ru Xi's cheeks, although she was nearly thirty years old, her delicate face did not wither at all, but looked moist like jade. Yongzheng felt an itch in his heart.

"It's a pity...... After all, it's the one Li Shi has been touched. ”

This thought rose like a dream demon again, and the second child who had just risen in high spirits also softened.

Leaving in disappointment, he was about to leave the Yinghua Palace, but he met another pretty woman, he knew, Ru An, Ru Xi's maid, because Ru Xi was favored, she also got the position of always.

Ru'an is fourteen or fifteen years old, and it is the time when the flowers are at their most vibrant, and a hot breath is turning around under Yongzheng, and it is difficult to suppress it. Ru Xi he didn't want to touch it, and although this Ru An was also touched by Li Xi, he was just a slave, which was just a suitable substitute for Ru Xi to put out the fire.

Yongzheng casually ordered: "Add Ru'an's brand tonight......"

In the back garden of Suzhou Weaving Mansion, Zhou Kunlai, who was on crutches, smiled bitterly at the gray-haired Li Xu: "Weaving, you are a concubine, I am a slave who serves the concubine, I don't look at me from both the north and the south, how much weight can I speak?" ”

Li Xu laughed and said: "In this Jiangnan, you Zhou Dahao has eaten all over the north and south, and he is famous, who doesn't know?" Li Wei's career in Jiangnan depends on you to deal with the south, and the Jiangnan camp in the south also wants to find you to spread the Shang Dynasty, if you sneeze, tens of millions of people in Jiangnan will get goosebumps, do you think this amount is small? ”

Zhou Kunlai sighed: "Weaving, what you are worried about is also what I Zhou Kunlai is worried about, we are now on the same road." Tell me, how can I help? ”

Li Xu stayed for a moment, and sighed faintly: "You and I are both stored in the gap between the north and the south, no matter which side of the wind rises, you and I will have a hard foundation." I don't know which side of the wind you sigh at, and I'm ...... Now it's being blown by the south wind. ”

Li Xu and Zhou Kunlai, one is a big man who controls the integration of government and business in Jiangnan silk weaving, and the other is a tycoon who contacts the north and south and controls the grassroots Shang Dynasty.

The old man intends to transfer the family of his juniors to the south, but it is not good to go from the official side, so as not to anger the north, and let the south take advantage of the topic to force the old man to make a decision. Zhou Dahao, you have the ability to reach the sky and are free, the north and south sides neither regard you as themselves nor as enemies, this matter is just right for you. ”

Li Xu said this, Zhou Kunlai's brows furrowed, what was it that made Li Xu retreat?

Li Shi spread out his palms: "Fifty thousand taels, help the old man's family have a nominal and reasonable place to go in the south." ”

Fifty thousand taels is not a big business, but being able to take over Li Xu's business is priceless, Zhou Kunlai nodded angrily and began to calculate in his heart, whether it is for business reasons, or for the reason of studying, or even directly on the grounds of traveling to Nanyang, to send Li Xu's family to the south.

This kind of business was already familiar to Zhou Kunlai, and in the past four years he has sent many families of Qing court officials to the south. In short, the Qing court officials in Jiangnan are all in the fashion of "innocent officials", and they are alone and at ease, which is convenient for them to run away alone.

Out of the Weaving Mansion, Zhou Kunlai was silent on the carriage for a long time, and then instructed his cronies: "Check the nearest newspaper in the south, as well as the movement of Longmen, to see if there is any big move." ”…,

Li Xu is a weaver in Suzhou, and he Zhou Kunlai is the chief helmsman of the Jiangnan "Heroes Association". One is in the government and the other is in the people, but the situation is actually the same, and they can only live a nourishing life by relying on the north and the south. Now that Li Xu is starting to plan the way back, he, Zhou Kunlai, naturally has to think about himself.

The cronies immediately returned: "Isn't there frequent natural disasters in the south, and construction is being carried out to immigrate to Nanyang?" The court has changed greatly, and there should be no action against Jiangnan. ”

Zhou Kunlai said hesitantly: "If you want to check, just check, don't talk nonsense!" ”

The cronies dared to talk nonsense again: "Actually...... Why bother, the leader went to Longmen in person, and Manager Fan probably had to confide in some rumors, we have helped Longmen do a lot of things in recent years. ”

Zhou Kunlai was really angry, forced his eyes on his cronies, and snorted coldly, and his cronies shrank their necks in fright and confessed repeatedly.

Looking east from the car window, Zhou Kunlai said in his heart that he would not dare to set foot in Longmen in his life, he was afraid, afraid that Gan Fengchi would appear, and the grudge between him and Gan Fengchi could only be resolved by a dead word.

Longmen, the ninth year of the Holy Dao, has been a big city that has begun to take shape, north to the south bank of the Huangpu River, east to Fengxian County, west to Jinshanwei, the former wasteland has changed.

The cement avenue runs horizontally and vertically on this land, and the road is full of people and vehicles. The pier's breakwater juts out into the sea, sheltering a busy harbor in the crook of the arm. The gantry crane spits black smoke, loading and unloading goods, and does not stop for a moment. Hundreds of thousands of people come and go, busier than Songjiang in the north and Hangzhou in the south.

At the end of March, Longmen was still as busy as ever, but the Jiangnan camp was shrouded in a solemn atmosphere that was very different from the past.

Fan Jin, the head of the Jiangnan camp, was handing over the letter to a person, and when the other party took it, Fan Jin became the former director. His single eye flashed with reluctance, and he said to the new chief Liu Xingchun: "Since I am the second assistant and the head of the house, I have nothing to say, presumably the official family and the court have already explained clearly to the second assistant." Jiangnan local practice, Counselor Song knows more in detail, and you can ask him for details if you don't know. ”

Liu Xingchun smiled: "Don't call me the second assistant, heavy moment, you are the second assistant." For now, the two of us are taking over our own responsibilities. ”

Fan Jin shook his head and sighed: "The court is no longer the Heavenly King's Mansion, this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to take responsibility." ”

Liu Xingchun shrugged his shoulders and said: "It doesn't matter, it's the one who carries the black cauldron, the official family, and the court, which is also an honor." Jiangnan is the practice, I, Liu Xingchun, am famous in my life, not in the second auxiliary, but in Jiangnan. Plant trees with heavy moments, I'll enjoy the shade ......"

After the handover, Fan Jin walked out of the camp, looked around the noisy Longmen with his hands, and sighed: "The wind in the south of the Yangtze River rises, I don't know what kind of scenery it will be." ”。 ）

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