Shen Wansan then remembered that there was no business household registration in the Ming Dynasty.
It sounded like the scholars, farmers, merchants, merchants, and merchants were called that. However, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a division of household registration. There were civilian, military, craftsmen, and kitchen households. Even prostitutes had their own household registration.
Only the merchant household register was not available in the Ming Dynasty.
There were merchants but no household registration. This showed that Emperor Hongwu hated merchants.
He felt that these people were illegal and refused to even give him a legal identity.
If the Emperor did not need these merchants, they would have all been captured.
This medicine led to an awkward situation.
From a legal point of view, merchants were illegal.
In order to have a legal identity in the Ming Dynasty, all the merchants could only think of their own ways.
The best way was to attach one's nationality. For example, a tycoon like Shen Wansan would buy a large amount of land and insist that he was a landlord.
Those small merchants who were not as good as Shen Wansan used the method of pretending to be craftsmen.
To put it simply, businessmen were illegal. Everyone was trying to find other ways to get their household registration and strive to make their identities legal.
There's no problem looking at it like this, right?
However, the Emperor had already left a knife here.
You're a landlord, your business is illegal,
Are you a soldier? You've broken the law in business,
You're a farmer, so why are you doing business? You're also breaking the law!
Yes, as long as you have another household registration, it's illegal for you to do business.
The only household registration that was not illegal in doing business was the business household registration. Sorry, there was no such household registration in the Ming Dynasty.
What did this mean?
It meant that there was a knife left behind by the emperor hanging over the merchant's head at all times.
As long as the officials were willing and you didn't make any mistakes, they could arrest you.
And even if that wasn't the reason, the merchant still had a few other problems.
You are a landlord, how can you leave your hometown and do business everywhere without a travel pass?
This was a crime that could be beheaded in the Ming Dynasty.
Even if this didn't stop you, there was another problem.
Suppose you are from Shandong, and you have been doing business in Sichuan all year round.
Your household registration is in Shandong, how can your descendants participate in the imperial examination in Sichuan?
The Ming Dynasty allowed the children of merchants to participate in the imperial examination, but they set restrictions in almost all places.
Ultimately, it was because merchants were illegal.
"Does Your Highness mean that this time…?”
Shen Wansan's voice was trembling.
Zhu Rong nodded. Xu Tong was still the smartest.
If the emperor wanted to change the commercial tax, it meant that he was starting to pay attention to industry and commerce. Then, opening up the merchant's business register and giving merchants a legal identity would be a matter of course.
After all, no matter how much Old Zhu looked down on merchants, he was still an emperor who understood the mind of an emperor.
If he pulled a knife from this group, he had to give them a band-aid.
Actually, in the original history, things like business records would only appear a long time later.
However, the business records that appeared were only limited to merchants who benefited from the opening method.
The so-called opening method was a system that the Ming Dynasty gave merchants a patent to sell salt in order to encourage merchants to transport grain to the frontier fortress in exchange for salt. Most of the time, this system only benefited the big merchants, and it had almost no benefits for the small merchants.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, there was almost no such thing as a business register.
If there was a business record, Zhu Rong would be completely relieved.
He went against his principle of hiding and not showing his face to push this matter forward.
In the end, he still had his own motives.
"Let's take it step by step. Now that we have a business register, is the sea ban still far away?”
"Your Highness is wise. Even if Shen Xiu racked her brains, she would not be able to think of this. This subordinate is ignorant. To think that I always thought that Your Highness was digging a hole for the merchants of the world. But who would have thought that Your Highness is the living Buddha of the merchants of the world!”
Old Shen was in tears again."
"If Your Majesty can really give all the merchants in the world a legal identity, so what if we have to pay heavy taxes?”
"Your Majesty is wise, and Your Highness is very kind!”
A businessman had suffered from a legal identity for a long time.
Shen Wansan could not be blamed for losing his composure. This matter was more important to him than Zhu Yuanzhang giving his nephew an official position.
More importantly,
Shen Wansan thought that he would become the public enemy of all businessmen because of the tax law.
But now, not only did he not do anything wrong, he even contributed.
In the future, if any big businessman dared to say that Shen Wansan was not good,
He could roll up his sleeves and give him a slap.
"I'm happy today!"
"Your Highness, this is not the place to talk. How about we find a place to talk?”
Zhu Rong also had the same intention. He didn't get Shen Wansan out just to learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds.
He smiled and said," That's fine. It just so happens that the emperor has given this king the privilege of drinking wine. Then let's find a place to listen to music!"”
"Old Shen, you make the arrangements!"
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the economy was exhausted.
In order to increase taxes, the emperor allowed brothels and brothels.
Not only was it allowed, but the official establishment of the Education Bureau was also not mentioned.
The official brothel by the Qinhuai River, Paradise, and the 16th floor of Jinling were all good places.
Apart from the government, there were also many private pleasure boats.
However, the Ming Dynasty did not allow officials and princes to visit brothels (but there were many who did it secretly). The main consumers of these places were naturally the wealthy merchants who traveled the world.
Old Shen was very familiar with the brothels in Jinling. He chuckled.
"Your Highness, you've asked the right person. This old man knows a thing or two about the brothels of our Great Ming Dynasty!”
"With Your Highness 'status, we don't need to go to the official's place. How should I put it, most of the official prostitutes are those who were punished by His Majesty and their families were confiscated.”
"In terms of looks, they're actually just so-so. No one has stipulated that the children of officials must be good-looking!”
"Those businessmen love to gather together because they want to satisfy their dark fantasies because their status is low!“
"The truly fun place is still the pleasure boats on the Qinhuai River!”
"This old man knows of one family. That top star is like a celestial being who has descended from the heavens. Whether it's the zither, chess, calligraphy, or painting, or her appearance, she's perfect. Even Old Shen can't help but fall in love with her!”
"But she sells her skills and doesn't sell her body. She seems to have someone backing her up. All the officials and wealthy businessmen in Jinling City have heard of Li Hongxiu!”
"It's a pity that no one has ever picked this peony!”
"Your Highness, do you want to give it a try? Perhaps Mistress Li will like it?”
"Alright, let's go take a look!"
Zhu Rong had a playful expression, but he agreed immediately.
Xu Miaoyun, who was behind him, felt her heart ache.
My husband is really going to visit a brothel.
In fact, as a woman of this era, Xu Miaoyun did not care about men visiting brothels.
However, Shen Wansan's description of Li Hongxiu, coupled with Zhu Rong's expression of interest, made her jealous.
"Ha, men…"
Xu Miaoyun mocked herself.
"Xu Tong, what's wrong?"
Zhu Rong noticed the lonely expression of his trusted eunuch and turned around to ask,
He immediately remembered a saying:
"Asking the sovereign how much sorrow can there be, is like a eunuch going to a brothel!”
She was chatting happily with Shen Wansan about women, but she ignored Xu Tong's feelings.
Xu Tong must be reminiscing about his deceased younger brother.
He felt the same way and patted Xu Tong's shoulder.
"Don't be too sad. You will have a younger brother!”
"Even if we don't, we still have hands!”
Xu Miaoyun was speechless.
Why did she know every word her husband said, but she couldn't understand it when she connected them together?
Why did I still have a younger brother? Didn't my mother die long ago?
When Shen Wansan heard this, he revealed a smile that only men could understand."
"Your Highness is really considerate of your subordinates. I understand now!”
"Don't worry, Eunuch Xu will definitely benefit from the pleasure boat!”
"Does Eunuch have a meal in the palace? No matter if there was one or not, the girls outside were definitely different!”
Xu Miaoyun instantly understood, and her face flushed red.
At this moment, she understood what Zhu Rong meant. These two perverts were not decent people.
That bastard, he would ignore him in the future.
It was one thing for him to bring his wife to visit a brothel, but he even arranged for a girl?“
Xu Miaoyun was furious.
"This servant wouldn't dare!“
"Alright, alright. I'm happy today. You can follow me too!”
"If we go to the pleasure boat, we should have a lot of good things to see!”
Zhu Rong's mysterious smile puzzled Xu Miaoyun.
However, he remembered something.
"Milord, shouldn't we go to the Ministry of Justice to get Old Master Shen's son out first?”
"That unfilial son, let him suffer in the Ministry of Justice's prison. There's no hurry. Let's go drink wine first!”
Shen Wansan got angry at the mention of Shen Rong, so he was too lazy to ask Zhu Rong to help him.
Xu Miaoyun looked at Shen Wansan and Zhu Rong who were almost hugging each other and sighed,
Men,
One of them even abandoned his son to drink wine.
One brought his wife out to drink and even wanted to find a girl for his wife?
"How disrespectful!"
"In the future, tell husband to stay away from him!"
Xu Miaoyun snorted coldly, but she still followed him in small steps.
When the three of them arrived at the Huai River, the banks of the Qin Huai River were already bustling with activity.
All kinds of singing and dancing, the lights are red,
"This pleasure boat is quite mysterious. If no one familiar wants to go up, they can't!”
"I'll make the arrangements now!"
Shen Wansan pointed at a brightly-lit pleasure boat in the middle of the river and said to Zhu Rong,
After saying that, she went to the river to contact him.
Not long after,
Shen Wansan guided Zhu Rong and Xu Miaoyun onto a small boat and rowed towards the pleasure boat.
On the pleasure boat in the middle of the river,
A group of people were chatting, and there were all kinds of beauties sitting beside them.
In the middle of the pleasure boat's hall, a beautiful woman sat alone, listening to everyone's conversation.
"That devil king of chaos is causing trouble by forcing His Majesty to change the business tax!”
"His Majesty letting him manage the Embroidered Uniform Guards was originally a mess. I'm afraid we won't have many good days in the future!”
"In the future, if I want to come and listen to you play the zither and sing, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult!”
The woman in the middle lowered her head and covered her mouth as she laughed.
"Thank you, sirs, for your kindness. Hong Xiu's skills are not good enough to enter the hall of elegance!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the officials present were about to speak when a servant suddenly barged in.
"My lords, my lords, bad news!"
"What's all the fuss about…"
"Wu Wang, Wu Wang is coming over here!”
"What?"
"What should we do if that devil king comes?”
The officials who had been cursing Zhu Rong and the Embroidered Uniform Guards were now panicking.
That guy was the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards!
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