Chapter 145 The cannon sounded gold and ten thousand taels, although the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was not high, it was also directly related to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.Just like my Celestial Empire, not only does not collect agricultural taxes, but financially subsidizes the peasants, so do the peasants still have opinions?
In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the city tax was 1 out of 30, and the official city collected the city tax at the ratio of 30 out of 1.Both the canal along the way to collect taxes, from Hangzhou to Beijing, the whole journey of 1,700 kilometers, tax 348 Wen, this tax, is the toll, has nothing to do with the value of the goods.A shipload of grain and a boatload of spices are charged the same 348 Wen, which is a tax on the surface, and the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty do not ask anyone to ask for money, they have three non-collections: the ships of officials are not collected, the ships of eunuchs are not collected, and the boats of Jinshi and people are not collected.In the Ming Dynasty, people passed the money customs and changed the method to evade fees, and some made a pair of fake signs, erected them on the bow of the ship, writing "Prime Minister's Mansion" on one side and "Tongzheng Department Hall" on the other side, pretending to be official ships, just like some civilian trucks now hang military vehicle license plates; Some people invite a taxi or lift someone to sit on the boat as a talisman, when passing the banknote customs, people ask for money, so let the talisman come out to pay, similar to some travelers now when they drive out of the house as much as possible to carry a reporter.Times are different, and the modus operandi will still be retro.It is too risky to pretend to be an official ship, and it is too risky to ask Jinshi or raise people to make talismans, so in the Ming Dynasty, Jinshi and Juren can be called a multi-skilled, they not only promote the prosperity and development of the cultural and educational industry, but also show their skills in the field of private shipping.The shipowner also gave them a rich return, in the Ming Dynasty mimetic book "The Legend of the Crazy Maniac", a Xiucai escorted two civilian ships at the same time, and took the consulting fee of five taels of silver.However, the banknotes of the imperial court have task indicators, so how can they complete the task?
It can only be charged to those ships that do not have a backstage, and this amount can only be ......
The same problem is true in the official market, large merchants, who are not bad for money, often do not have to pay taxes, but small traders will be fined and bankrupt, don't look at Quan Xu in the grass market to charge fifteen taxes one, this tax rate is a full double that of the official market.However, the grass market in the whole building is very thriving.Quan Xu looked at the commercial street in front of him, the shop street was four or five hundred steps long, and the shops were clearly different from the shops in the Daimyo Mansion City.Almost all the shops in the Daimyo Mansion Castle are small low-slung gatehouses.The gates, in particular, are narrow and short.Some are even three-entry or five-hundred-courtyard courtyards, which can be used to open shops and do business, or they can be used as residences behind closed doors.In other words, there is no obvious difference between residential and commercial buildings.Just like Quanxu's women's workshop, if you take off the plaque and replace it with a certain house, you definitely don't need to redecorate.However, the commercial street of the whole building is almost the same as that of later generations, although they are all blue brick and black tile houses on the first floor, but the rooms are very tall, and the first floor is nearly four meters high.There are more than 100 breakfast shops, restaurants, medical centers, medicine shops, gold and silver shops, pawn shops, tea shops, warehouses, and inns.In addition to the shopping street in front of you, the street is full of various stalls.The streets were full of people who got up early from all over the country to go to the market, some coolie porters, and some women dressed in red and green, and the shouts and the cries of pack horses and mules and donkeys came and went.Just when Quan Xu asked a little strangely: "The grass market has no city walls, and there is no protection of officers and soldiers, for the bandits, this is just a piece of fat, how can they not eat it?"
How did it get here?
”"I don't know!"
Luo Shiming came up with a few family soldiers and said: "At the beginning, we only had Liu Po selling mutton soup here, and later, as there were more businessmen, a group of bandits came over to collect protection money, and I was beaten away with the family soldiers!"
”"And then!
The bandits won't give up when they suffer a loss, right?
”"Mr.
Niu told me that when the grass market is start-up, it needs Liwei, and if you can't solve this group of bandits smoothly, I'm afraid there will be no less trouble in the future."
Luo Shiming said with some apprehension: "The whole master was not there at that time, so I discussed it with Steward Yuan!"
”Yuan Shiqing said: "Mr.
Niu proposes that I use the name of the whole master to invite Wang Baochang, Li Baochang, and Zhao Baochang to come over and discuss countermeasures.The weather was a little dry this year, and Wang Baochang and the others were also a little anxious, so they agreed to fight the bandits and get some money to fight the drought!
”"How did it turn out?"
Luo Shiming was a little weak-hearted: "That gang of bandits is entrenched in Lin County, Zhangde Prefecture Yuan Laoqi, although he is not many, but very hard-handed, just started, we are a little light enemy, suffered a small loss, later, we with cannons, finally captured his cottage, but this Yuan Laoqi, but a poor ghost, full of calculations, only seized less than 300 stone of grain, more than 13,000 taels of silver, more than 200 taels of silver. ”"Did Yuan Laoqi catch it?""
No, the goods are more slippery than a monkey, and the one who drilled the ravine was fast, and he ran away!"
Yuan Shiqing said: "This Yuan Laoqi is just his flower name, his real name is Yuan Shizhong!"
”"Yuan Shizhong?"
Quan Xu vaguely remembered that he was Li Zicheng's general, as if he was killed by Li Zicheng.Jeon Wook really didn't take it to heart.When Quan Xu visited the commercial street, Liu Xingzuo and Mao Chenglu also took several Dongjiang Army soldiers to the commercial street.Liu Xingzuo looked at the people coming and going on the commercial street, which was very lively, and said with some emotion: "Even Fuzhou City is not as prosperous here!"
”"Fuzhou!""
Dengzhou City is not so lively!"
At this moment, a group of more than a dozen soldiers of the whole family dressed in colorful clothes lined up neatly and walked through the street.Everyone dodged.Followed by a flatbed truck, two strong men pushed the cart, and there were two large baskets in the cart, and a middle-aged man who seemed to be honest and honest, holding an account book, walked to a blacksmith's shop: "Old Zhangtou, your tax!"
”The sweaty blacksmith reluctantly took out a handful of copper coins from the cash drawer and threw them into the big basket.At this time, the basket on the cart was already full of copper coins, and some scattered silver, and some silver coins.Mao Chenglu looked at this scene with a sluggish expression: "It is said that horse thieves are very powerful in robbing money, I think these rural tycoons are much more ferocious than horse thieves, but they don't see blood when they rob money!"
”Quan Xu walked over and said with a smile: "It's not that there is no blood, it takes a lot of money to feed these family soldiers!"
By the way, General Liu, General Mao, why didn't the brothers of the Dongjiang Army come out?
”"This ......"
"Yuan Shiqing!""
The servant is here" "You go to the weekly account room and ask him to give each of the brothers of the Dongjiang Army ten taels of silver, so that they can buy what they want boldly with confidence!"
”"How does this work!""
It's rare to come here, how can Quan Mou also be a landlord, a little heartfelt!""
Mr.
Xie Quan!"
Quan Xu, Mao Chenglu and Liu Xingzuo visited Quan Xu's industry together.The Quanxu compound and the pine forest were originally just a flat saline-alkali land.Now, however, there is one more river.A hand-excavated river, connected to the Jiagou River, is not wide, about fifty paces, and can be used to transport coal or masonry by boats that can transport coal or masonry.This artificial canal gave Quan Xu a flash of inspiration, should he drive his private yacht through the Yellow River?
However, he just thought about it, although the Yellow River could pass through warships loaded with more than 2,600 tons, the Jiagou River could not do it, and the draft was too shallow.After seven or eight months of development, the development scale of the kiln is the largest, and now there are 20 large-scale brick and tile kilns, and the bricks and tiles produced are not only used for themselves, but also exported to the surrounding areas.When Liu Xingzuo looked at the dense and endless stacks of bricks, he felt unbelievable.As Quan Xu arrived at the blacksmith workshop, Liu Xingzuo's gaze suddenly straightened.Because, Niu Jiejian adopts the method of molten steel cold casting, and directly casts the structural components of steel pressurized water wells.Liu Xingzuo stretched out his hand to hold the parts of the pressurized water well that still had temperature, looked at the smooth and clean on it, and there were no flashes, and said with a happy face: "This is steel?"
”"yes!""
Can you cast a cannon!""
Cast cannon?"
Quan Xu was a little incredulous, he couldn't believe in Niu Jie's technology, their work efficiency was extremely low, more than 100 craftsmen, could only produce more than 100 pressurized water wells a day.In later generations, the output of one machine in an hour was more than 100 units."
Do you need it?"
Quan Xu was a little puzzled, although the purchase of small-caliber seamless steel pipes such as muskets in later generations was customized, as for the seamless steel pipes at the level of artillery barrels, they could be purchased in large quantities, although they were a little heavier than ordinary steel, but they were not as heavy as 6,000 yuan per ton."
Does the Dongjiang Army also need artillery?"
Of course, this is Quan Xu's knowingly asking, he wants to open up a market.In the Ming Dynasty, it took 2,500 taels of silver to cast a thousand catties of Hongyi cannon, and if you buy seamless steel pipes to process it, the cost is less than 1,000 yuan."
You need it!"
Mao Chenglu asked, "I wonder if Mr.
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Quan can make artillery here?"
”"No problem!"
Quan Xu said: "It should be possible to do it, but it is ......"
"The price is easy to say!"
”Mao Chenglu said: "Now that Yuan Gong has recovered, he will not treat the Dongjiang Army badly, I want to ask Mr.
Quan to help the Dongjiang Army cast a batch of artillery!"
”"This ......
Well said!"
Quan Xu muttered: "We are not outsiders, let's make it clear, I can do this by giving the Dongjiang Army a batch of steel, but the cannon, one requires as much as two or three thousand taels of silver, but Quan Mou has more than enough heart and not enough strength!"
Mao Chenglu sighed: "It's a pity, the Dongjiang Army is too poor and can't take out too much money!""
That's it, the family doesn't talk to each other!
Quan Xu smiled: "I have a way, I don't know if to talk about it?""
Mr.
Quan, please say" PS: Wait for the wait, Happy New Year everyone!.