Fortunately, Chongzhen's heart is not completely dark, although the winter clothes supplied to the concubines are all several sizes smaller, but Hongluo Tan is not short of them, and it is still ten percent of the supply.The concubines had to cry while looking at the luxurious winter clothes, while nesting in the house to bake charcoal, and by the way, desperately trying to lose weight, I just hope that I can lose weight successfully before the year, and I can wear beautiful clothes to show off.The concubines here are extremely resentful of Chongzhen, and Chongzhen over there is not in the mood to pay attention to these concubines at all, and his hands are soft now when he makes money.Sweaters, sweaters, and woolen tweed were very popular, and the fat man not only repaid his silver according to the interest, but also paid the first commercial tax, and in addition to the treasury, Chongzhen's small treasury was almost full.Today's Xuanfu is an important tax town, and the tax paid is actually more than that of Jiangnan?
That's right, now the Xuanfu is completely under the control of the imperial court, and it is not comparable to the southeast coast and other places.Don't look at Chongzhen's copying of the homes of many wealthy people on the southeast coast, and often sends eunuchs to collect taxes, but is it useful?
People dare to do the crime of killing their heads and exterminating their clans for money, not to mention the rich people in the southeast who have been freeing themselves for hundreds of years?
If you want us to pay taxes honestly, do your spring and autumn dreams, we are tax evasion, we have stolen taxes for so many years, why are we not allowed to steal now?
Especially the machine owners in Jiangnan, these people should be regarded as the earliest capitalists, and the most special black-hearted.Not only are they the best at tax evasion, but they are also harsh on the mechanics, and the mechanics who work under these machine owners still can't support their families after working hard every day.The Wanli Emperor sent eunuchs to collect the commercial tax of the capitalists, and these black-hearted machine owners deliberately did not pay the mechanics, or maliciously hired the mechanics to lead the disaster to the imperial court, which led to a vigorous anti-tax movement.And these bastards who don't pay taxes are still called heroes, phew, Chongzhen is almost disgusted to death.The peasants in the north are dying of hunger, but they bear the heavy taxes of the state, and you are a Jiangnan capitalist who does not pay taxes on wool?
However, Chongzhen is not ready to force them now, and now the wool textile industry in Xuanfu is developing vigorously and has earned all the money.In the next step, I am ready to use the cotton textile industry to produce cotton cloth with machines, which is very beautiful!
As long as cotton cloth and silk can be mass-produced, these capitalists in Jiangnan will go bankrupt in minutes.Of course, Chongzhen will not do things absolutely, in fact, there are some machine owners in the Jiangnan area who have paid taxes honestly, and they have to be treated differently.Chongzhen beckoned to Wang Chengen and said, "Wang Da will accompany you over for a while, I have something to explain to you." ”Wang Chengen stepped forward respectfully, "The old slave is here, please command, the emperor." ”Chongzhen's voice, "Big Companion, you help me pass on a message to Xichang, and ask it to investigate the machine owners in Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places.Check the tax payment situation they have paid over the years, select a group of machine owners who can pay taxes honestly, or although they have also evaded taxes, but steal relatively little, and draw up a list for me. ”Wang Chengen bowed and said, "Obey!"
Chongzhen asked again, "Wei Zhongxian has recently returned to Beijing from Shaanxi?"
”Wang Chengen said respectfully, "Wei Changgong only came back from Shaanxi the day before yesterday, and he hasn't had time to say hello to you!"
”Chongzhen said lightly, "That's it, I don't need him to ask for peace, you let him set off to Anhai Town immediately and send a message to Zheng Zhilong!"
Wei Zhongxian had just returned to the capital the day before yesterday.This year can be regarded as the hardest year he has ever lived, constantly transporting grain and money from the capital to Shaanxi, and almost breaking his old waist.But his nephew Wei Liangchen ran quite happily without complaints.Wei Zhongxian just hugged his wife and rested, although he is a gelding and can't do anything to women, it doesn't mean that he doesn't want women!
The two were pretending to be husband and wife, and Chongzhen's message also arrived, ordering Wei Zhongxian to go to Anhai Town as soon as possible to deliver the decree, and set off immediately, without mistake.Wei Zhongxian, who sold his mother's criticism, couldn't wait to scold people, this dog emperor called our family for a year, and called our family as a dog day and night.first asked our family to help him collect commercial taxes, then asked our family to plant sweet potatoes, and finally let our family go to Shaanxi for disaster relief.Now in the winter, our family has finally come back, and we can hold my wife and make love, and you are going to call our family again?
It's just a holy decree, just send a little eunuch to get it, is it necessary to let a big eunuch like ours go?
Wei Zhongxian complained in his heart, but he didn't say a word, just smiled faintly and said, "Obey!"
Anhai Town, Fujian, north of Anping Bridge.There is a very luxurious private house here, the courtyard of the five entrances, the small bridge and flowing water in the courtyard, the houses are exquisite, and the exotic flowers and plants are planted all over, there are both the common flowers and trees of Fujian, such as paulownia, narcissus, jasmine, white orchid, Bodhi, etc., as well as the chrysanthemums, camellias, plums and other flowers and trees transplanted from other places.Even though most of the Ming Dynasty is in winter and the climate is extremely cold, this Anhai town is still extremely warm and pleasant.This is a luxurious room.There are ancient paintings hanging on the wall, there are bronze utensils on a few places, even the screen incense burner is also antique, there are no vulgar utensils such as gold and jade, there is quite a kind of elegance and simplicity of the Wei and Jin dynasties.This is the bedroom of the big pirate Zheng Zhilong, I didn't expect this rude pirate hobby to be quite elegant, but I don't know if it's pretending to be elegant, or really elegant?
Zheng Zhilong was leaning on the soft collapse, and there were dozens of beautiful babies standing next to him, all of them wearing gorgeous clothes, wearing beautiful jade and golden hairpins, dressed up with flowers and branches.And if you look closely at these beautiful women, they actually have different appearances?
There are white-skinned, yellow-skinned, and even barbarian women who are black and don't slip away, and only have a mouthful of teeth to wipe white?
And the hair and eyes of these women are also different, some are green, some are blue, and even the rarest of the foreigners have purple eyes.It seems that this Zheng Zhilong has a penchant for collecting beauties from all over the world, just these barbarian women are beautiful, but there seems to be a strange smell in the whole room?
Even if the priceless ambergris incense was lit in this house, it couldn't hide the commotion.It's really not my race, and its taste must be different!
But Zheng Zhilong's guy is obviously very rough, he can't smell the commotion at all, but thinks these women are quite fragrant.Zheng Zhilong hugged a few red-haired women and was just about to do errands, when his younger brother Zheng Zhibao came, this guy was not polite, he sat on his brother's soft collapse with a butt, and hugged a red-haired and green-eyed beauty and made love.Zheng Zhilong was a little displeased, "Third brother, we are not pirates now, we are all nobles with status, you have to pay attention!"
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