"Fifteen, I didn't collect taxes back then because the more I collected, the more expensive the goods sold to the people.”
"Not collecting business taxes can allow the people to buy goods cheaper, which will help the circulation of goods in the market.”
"Moreover, it's not easy to estimate how much the merchants earn.”
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.
When Great Ming was first established, the goods in the market of Ying Tian Prefecture were extremely scarce, and the prices of the goods were also high.
In addition, the income of merchants was not easy to calculate.
That was why Zhu Yuanzhang exempted the business tax.
After he exempted the business tax, the effect was immediate. The prices of the goods in Yingtian Prefecture fell rapidly.
Therefore, he naturally thought that the reason why the price of this product was high was because he had collected business taxes.
"Heh, Imperial Father, follow your son's method. Your son guarantees that the prices of the goods in the Ying Tian Prefecture will not increase at all, and will even decrease.”
"Ah?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised and said,"Fifteen, what is the method?"”
"Anti-monopoly."
Zhu Xu smiled and said," Father, let's take the Ying Tian Prefecture as an example. You just need to send out the Brocade Guard to investigate the merchants who do big business in the Ying Tian Prefecture."”
"For example, the merchant who owns the largest silk shop, the merchant who owns the largest restaurant, or the merchant who owns the largest brothel. Then, we'll find out which merchants are also doing the same business but are obviously not as good as these merchants.”
"Next, Imperial Father will contact these weak small merchants and tell them that as long as they are willing to hand over 30% of the profits from their operations, the government can take some action against those big merchants.”
"For example, we can close down the shops with the best business, or strictly limit the number of customers and business hours of these merchants.”
"In short, we must work hard to let the business of these big merchants fall into the hands of small merchants. We must also let the officials record the daily revenue of these small merchants. Then, through taxation, we will take 30% of the profits back to the state.”
Zhu Xu paused and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was deep in thought,""In this way, the price of goods will no longer be decided by a big merchant. Without the monopoly of a big merchant, the price of goods on the market will definitely fall.”
The economics of the future.
Zhu Xu knew a little about it.
He was even more aware that raising taxes to raise the price of goods was clearly a lie!
Only monopoly, or the truth of the high price of goods!
"Fifteen, is this really going to work? What do you mean by monopoly? Moreover, could the taxes collected really recruit a million elite soldiers?”
Zhu Yuanzhang still had some doubts.
The word monopoly was too new to him.
"Haha, Imperial Father will know once you try it. Your son can guarantee that the effect will be immediate.”
Zhu Xu said confidently.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang finally nodded and said,""Shiwu, then this one will leave this matter to you. Let the Embroidered Uniform Guards handle it. This one will transfer another five thousand Imperial Guards for you!”
“... Alright."
Zhu Xu was the one who came up with the idea.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Xu to do it, and Zhu Xu agreed, planning to end this karma.
"Also, Shiwu, that girl Tiande has been with you for some time. What do you think of that girl?”
“....。”
In Zhu Xu's mind, the beautiful figure that accompanied him for breakfast in the morning suddenly appeared.
Unknowingly, Zhu Xu seemed to have gotten used to Xu Miaojin's company.
"Fifteen, as long as you agree, zhen will immediately arrange your marriage!”
Zhu Yuanzhang said when he saw that Zhu Xu was silent.
Zhu Xu frowned and immediately cupped his hands."Father, your son doesn't want to get married."
"Fifteen, then you can go out with that girl again. Hehe, anyway, zhen thinks that girl is very good!”
Zhu Yuanzhang was also afraid that being too anxious would backfire, so he said.
Zhu Xu didn't say anything more. He turned around and left Yangxin Palace Hall to do his work.
Five thousand Imperial Guards, plus the three thousand Embroidered Uniform Guards in the Embroidered Uniform Guards Yamen, a total of eight thousand people.
They definitely had enough manpower.
Zhu Xu first found out the information about the various merchants in the Yamen of the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Then, he sent out 8,000 people to contact the small merchants.
And merchants who could do big business in Ying Tian Manor naturally had a background.
Many of them had deep relationships with some of the nobles in the court.
However, Zhu Xu did not plan to show any mercy. He did not even greet them. After contacting the many small merchants, he immediately began to act.
Who cares about your background or relationship?
Seals that should be sealed up, time limits that should be limited, and cut off passenger flow that should be cut off!
For a time, in the Ying Tian Prefecture, those wealthy big merchants were all complaining.
Then, on the second day of court.
Before Zhu Yuanzhang could sit down, a bunch of ministers jumped out and started to impeach the Jinyiwei.
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.
Among these officials, there were civil officials, military generals, sixth-rank censors, and first-rank ministers of the six departments.
There were also founding nobles with titles.
The Embroidered Uniform Guards seemed to have poked a hornet's nest, completely angering everyone.
The group of ministers were all denouncing the Embroidered Uniform Guards. They were all gnashing their teeth when they talked about the Embroidered Uniform Guards, as if their own mothers had been killed by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't known in advance that the Jinyiwei was only messing with some big merchants, he would have thought that the Jinyiwei had done something inhumane to these ministers.
Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression darkened.
He was very keen to find that there was a big problem.
Why would these ministers stand up for these big merchants?!
Could it be that these ministers had received benefits from these merchants?!!
"Enough! If there's anything, just submit the memorial. Don't quarrel in the imperial court! Do you think this is a market?!”
Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the table and scolded angrily.
The ministers were instantly silenced, and then they sent the memorials one after another.
After the eunuchs put away these memorials, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that the pile of memorials to impeach the Embroidered Uniform Guards was twice as tall as the ones to write government affairs!
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes and swept his gaze over the ministers in the court with an inexplicable meaning. He remembered the few ministers who did not impeach the Embroidered Uniform Guards and waved his sleeves to leave.
When Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Yangxin Palace Hall in a bad mood because he noticed that most of the officials in the court were colluding with the merchants, Jiang He came up with an official document just as he sat down.
"Your Majesty, this is the income from the business tax collected yesterday. His Highness the Fifteenth Prince asked me to report it to Your Majesty.”
"Yes."
Zhu Yuanzhang was in a slightly better mood when he heard that he had received the business tax so soon. After receiving the memorial, he casually asked,"Fifteen, how much business tax did you collect this time?”
"Two hundred thousand taels."
" How, how much?!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang widened his eyes.
Two hundred thousand taels in one day?
Zhu Yuanzhang felt like he was dreaming.
How could they collect so much business tax?
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