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The smoke willows on the bank of the Qinhuai River have fallen leaves, but this has not caused a bleak and bleak feeling, along the river banks are prosperous like a dream, shop gatehouses, home windows, you can always find fresh flowers to decorate, flowers, tea, wine, fragrant wind.

The painting boats on the river are swaying lightly, the sheng songs are faint, and the heads of people on the street are sensational, and the sound of selling is sound. Scholars from all over the world gathered in Jinling, waiting to participate in the Enke exam, gathering in restaurants and teahouses to point to Jiangnan, and promote words. People put on Hanfu again and regained their former self-confidence.

King Qin opened his mouth and posted a piece of money and finance and taxation by Huang Zhenlin, a member of the Ministry of Works, in the Gongyuan, seeking opinions from the people and looking for good talents. aroused the enthusiasm of the readers, and a lively debate was launched;

If you have any income, you can write it into a Chen Tiao or a notebook, and send it to the Hanlin Academy, which has a special person to sort out the Chen Tiao Cantata of the reader, and if you have a unique opinion, the Chen Tiao can be sent directly to the desk of the King of Qin;

If the King of Qin agrees, he can get the opportunity to face the saint, and if he passes the personal assessment of the King of Qin, he can immediately give the Jinshi and the first. Naturally, readers are eager to learn from this, looking for people to learn from each other, and they are going to books one after another.

The next day, there were really two scholars summoned by the King of Qin, one of whom was a man from Tongcheng, named Wei Yingtao, who successfully passed the assessment of the King of Qin and was given the rank of Jinshi.

This further mobilized the enthusiasm of the scholars, who would pay attention to the matter of raiding the house, and what was discussed at the meeting became a matter of currency and taxation.

In addition, what touches people the most is that the dirty beggars that used to fill the streets are almost gone;

I heard that the first emperor of Qin had a dream and explored a large iron ore mine in Ma'anshan, and the government took most of the captives to open the mine;

Now the construction of Miyagi is going to be built, which requires a lot of labor, and the government has made a list to recruit workers, and people with a little strength have to apply. Even those old and weak women and children can find a job boiling water and cooking;

In the past, there were such projects in various dynasties and generations, all of which were conscripted from the common people, but this time it was very different, and the recruits not only had three meals provided by the government, but also heard that they could also get some wages. This is a great blessing to the people who are begging on the streets.

Some people are happy and some are worried, in the riverhouse on the bank of the Qinhuai River, Xu Wenjue, Duke of Wei, Liu Changzuo, Marquis of Anyuan, Tang Guozuo, Marquis of Lingbi, Nanhe Bofang Yiyuan, Dongning Bo Jiao Menglong, Cheng Anbo, Guo Zuoyong and others are waiting worriedly, of course. These Hou and Uncle are all in the past, and they don't dare to be so commensurate with each other anymore.

Yesterday, Liu Kongzhao, the sincerity of the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, were raided, which made Xu Wenjue and others both lucky and worried. Fortunately, he fled to Jiangxi and did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The worry is whether the radish will be pulled up and the mud will be brought up. It is hard to guarantee that Qin Mu will not slaughter them together as fat sheep.

When everyone was waiting anxiously, Xu Yongshun finally arrived on horseback, and as soon as he entered the river house, Liu Changzuo couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Nephew, how is it?" Why didn't Han Zanzhou come? ”

Xu Yongshun shook his head and replied, "Han Zanzhou won't come." ”

"What's going on?"

"What the hell is going on?"

As soon as they heard that Han Zanzhou would not come again, everyone was a little panicked. They all gathered around Xu Yongshun and asked nonsense.

Xu Yongshun replied with a worried face: "Recently, King Zhao, King Gui, King Baoning and others have started incidents, and King Qin has asked us if we know these things. ”

"What? What does this have to do with us. King Qin is trying to add to his crimes, why is there no word"

"Shhh Be careful what you say. ”

"That's it, it's not much worse than Jinyiwei if you don't collect it at night, be careful when you speak."

"Don't panic, everyone, the matter shouldn't be that serious." Xu Wenjue paced back and forth a few steps, trying to think.

Dongning Bo Jiao Menglong urged: "Brother Xu, we are now grasshoppers on a rope, if you have anything to say, you should say it quickly." ”

Xu Wenjue muttered: "It seems that King Qin is definitely dissatisfied with us, but he should just want us to make our position clearer." ”

"Isn't it enough that we donated so much money?"

"If you just want money, King Qin will find a reason to copy your house, won't you get more?"

"Yes, it seems that King Qin wants us to stand up and question King Tang, King Lu, King Zhao, etc."

Xu Yongshun has not spoken for a long time, since entering Beijing, it has been difficult for him to see Qin Mu again, he originally asked Han Zanzhou to help, hoping to send his sister to the palace, from Han Zanzhou's reply, this matter has also been lost, which makes Xu Yongshun full of frustration.

He took a drink from his glass and said, "There is one more thing, King Qin intends to hand over the Longjiang Treasure Shipyard to private individuals to operate, which can be regarded as an opportunity for us. ”

"Treasure Shipyard?"

"That's right, the King of Qin intends to hand over all the shipyards to private management, and in the future, the imperial court will no longer set up official shipyards, and all the ships required will place orders with private shipyards, which means that the shipyards will still have close ties with the government;

King Qin attaches great importance to the water master, and if he gets it right, King Qin may have additional benefits as soon as he is happy; If you don't get it right, you may lose your blood. This matter seems to be a double-edged sword, so there may not be many people who dare to take over the Longjiang Shipyard for a while, if you are confident, we will take action as soon as possible and take the shipyard next. ”

As soon as Xu Yongshun finished speaking, everyone immediately exchanged heads and ears, asking each other about gains and losses.

If you are an ordinary person, you will inevitably worry that you will suffer a loss when dealing with the government, but these former dynasty magnates know very well that there are rare opportunities in it;

They sharpened their heads, just because they wanted to get involved with the power of the new dynasty, and with the heritage accumulated over generations, they were not afraid of getting the word "official", but they were afraid that they would not be able to get it.

Therefore, after some discussion, everyone quickly reached a consensus and asked Xu Yongshun to find Xu Yingjie as soon as possible to explore the details of the shipyard so that he could take over the operation.

It's a pity that Xu Yingjie has been very busy in the past two days, and he hasn't even returned home, so Xu Yongshun can only hand over the stickers, patience and so on.

Qin's household department is relatively special, it has an additional business department and a banking supervision department under its jurisdiction, and Xu Yingjie, the household department's waiter, is mainly in charge of the affairs of these two departments.

Huang Zhenlin's music sparked heated discussions, and Xu Yingjie was even more concerned about it, he was a businessman, and he was already very familiar with the circulation of silver money in the market, and he had compiled a lot of information in the past two days.

On the third day of the court meeting, as soon as the ministers sat down, Xu Yingjie stood up and played: "King Qin, the ministers have a book to play. ”

Although most of these systems were inherited from the Ming Dynasty, the fall of the Ming Dynasty itself shows that there are great problems in these systems, and they must sum up the gains and losses and improve them.

Xu Yingjie stood up first, which undoubtedly indicates that today's topic will start from the currency and tax aspects. Qin Mu bowed his head and said, "Xu Qing, please speak." ”

"King Qin, looking at the currency of the Ming Dynasty, it can be divided into four stages: from the first year of Hongwu to the seventh year of Hongwu, copper coins are the mainstay; the general banknote from the eighth year of Hongwu to the tenth year of Xuande; From the first year of orthodoxy to the beginning of Jiajing, it was used for both silver and money; After Jiajing, silver became the main currency, supplemented by copper coins, but it was still very chaotic;

After Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, he incorporated the Ding service, Tugong and other items into the field endowment, and counted the acres of silver. For example, all state taxes, military salaries, official salaries, and capital treasury needs, and private trade loans are all without silver.

I, Daqin, are also using a whip method now; The malpractice of collecting silver per mu is also becoming more and more serious, which is extremely unfavorable to the court and the people. ”

Qin Mu nodded and said, "The pros and cons of it, please Xu Qing tell me in detail." ”

"Qi Qin Wang, counting acres of silver, the people in the grain harvest, need to sell grain to cash in taxes, a large amount of grain into the market in the short term, will cause the grain to fall, so that the people need to sell more grain, in order to make up enough tax silver, resulting in an increase in the burden of the people. On the other hand, after the imperial court collected the tax silver, when it purchased grain from the market to supply the military needs of the officials, the price of grain would soar, which would increase the expenditure of the imperial court.

In fact, the court and the people still inevitably suffer losses, and only those grain merchants really get huge profits from it;

In addition, in addition to silver, there are copper coins in circulation at present, and the currency is not uniform, which inevitably breeds a lot of ills; Copper coins are not only chaotic in terms of system and texture, but also have insufficient official minting, and private coinage is rampant, so that bad money drives out good money, making the yield of silver and money very unstable;

Officially, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand dollars, but in fact, the market is either cheap and expensive, or silver is expensive. When silver is expensive, one tael of silver can be exchanged for more than 1,000 copper coins, and when silver is cheap, one or two pieces of silver can only be exchanged for a few hundred copper coins, which is very chaotic; The fluctuation of the price of silver was often linked by two taxes per year, and merchants and wealthy families took advantage of this chaos to make huge profits, and it was also the small people of the imperial court who were harmed. Therefore, the minister believes that it is imperative to improve the tax system and the unified currency system. ”

Qin Mu glanced at the ministers sitting down and asked, "Do you have anything else to add, ministers?" ”

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(To be continued......)