The only difference is that you have to change the arms race into a military race …
Forcing the Nanjing court to protect its own safety by enclosing troops, it had to follow suit.
With more troops, the court will need to consume more and more food every year. When this force reaches a certain level, the Nanjing court will become a militaristic court.
As soon as this comes, the imperial court will try its best to increase its income.
As a result, the tax pressure of ordinary people will become greater and greater … and finally it will reach the point where it can be tolerated. It is possible to raise the flag and rebel if you are in a hurry …
When the time comes, the Nanjing court will gradually become as bad as it was when it was returned to Beijing. The peasant uprising can be seen everywhere, and the whole court will eventually be dragged into the abyss and can’t climb up.
In addition to letting the imperial court disintegrate them through belligerence, the economy will be very fragile, and they can further reduce the income of the imperial court through smuggling and other means.
In addition to the annual tax revenue of 22 million in Nanjing court, 10 million comes from fertile land tax.
More than 9 million of the remaining 12 million silver were obtained by the imperial court through monopolizing sea salt and iron.
If you can find a way to break this monopoly, it will not be very difficult for the court to get this 20 million silver tax.
Thought of here WeiZheng eyes a bright directly to the door guard shouted "horse notice Zhou Changjun vice premier minister zhou come to the king here faster …"
Zhou Changjun, a businessman, did not disappoint Wei Zheng. When Wei Zheng spoke his mind, Ma was affirmed by Zhou Changjun.
"Report this way is absolutely feasible … Since report you out of the sea to dry salt in Shandong coastal after the promotion, the sales price of ordinary sea salt in several northern provinces has been reduced to less than 20% of the imperial rule two years ago …"
"Yu refined salt has also been reduced to the present position because of the greatly reduced raw material price. The price of refined salt has been reduced to ten pence a catty, which is also 20% a year ago …"
Because the price of refined salt has been greatly reduced, more than 100% of ordinary people in several northern provinces have already eaten refined salt.
"And the court under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan area because of the monopoly theory of the court, whether the price of ordinary sea salt or refined salt is still a year ago, the level has not decreased …"
"Now my Shandong coastal area produces 50 million Jin of ordinary sea salt every month, and almost all of them are sold to the court at a price of two pence per catty, which is transported to Jiangnan by the court itself, and then sold by the major salt merchants in Jiangnan at a price of nearly ten pence per catty."
"I’m sure that apart from the profits of Zhongcheng and the major salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, the Nanjing court can charge five pence tax per catty of sea salt … A catty of salt is five pence and fifty million jins of salt is two hundred and fifty-two thousand silver …"
"That is to say, tightly sea salt, a Nanjing court can charge three million and two thousand silver salt taxes …"
"Ordinary sea salt has a higher profit of three million and two thousand, and refined salt is three million, which is six million and two thousand silver …"
"If we can think of some way to smuggle a large amount of sea salt to the south of the Yangtze River, so that ordinary sea salt and refined salt can’t pass the hands of the court and Jiangnan salt merchants, then the Nanjing court can receive one million and two thousand silver salt taxes every year …"
According to Zhou Changjun, we can get rid of the five million and two thousand silver taxes of the imperial court. If we do it again, we can get rid of the whole ten million and two thousand silver taxes of the imperial court …
Zhou Changjun said that the defender’s eyes had already shot out two full of hot clothes.
To Zhou Changjun consciousness ask "since the plan is feasible, is there any difficulty in doing it …"
Zhou Changjun replied thoughtfully, "Since the report is smuggling, the more smuggling points there are, the more hidden they are, the less likely it is to be discovered by the court …"
"People who enter the south of the Yangtze River to smuggle and sell sea salt want us to want many businessmen to go back and do it … because there is too much profit … to sell the salt means making money …"
"But one of these festivals is very difficult … that is how to secretly transport salt to every point in the south of the Yangtze River without being discovered by the court … You know, it is almost impossible for the court to transport sea salt into the south of the Yangtze River in the past year, plus all the traffic arteries of the court are heavily equipped …"
Weizheng nodded and asked, "Wang knows about you … since you have this problem, there must be a solution … Tell me about your idea to support you if you don’t have a problem …"
"It’s your report … my idea is to let the navy participate in this smuggling … We all know that the imperial navy has been in name only after several defeats, so we can transport sea salt to every corner of Jiangnan by water …"
"But …" In the future, the Tiger and Leopard Army will curb the development of the imperial court and reduce the burden on the people in the south of the Yangtze River. Wei Zheng answered without thinking!
"On the one hand, the navy is involved in helping the foreign trade department smuggle sea salt to the south of the Yangtze River, on the other hand, it can also practice the army through smuggling … Tell the naval officers to allow them to fight back if they encounter the imperial navy besieging the king during the smuggling process …"
Salt can greatly reduce the salt tax revenue of Jiangnan imperial court through smuggling
There is no doubt that iron can do the same.
In addition, after the imperial court lost Jiangnan, it could not meet the needs of Jiangnan by relying on the iron production in Jiangnan. It was willing to reduce the annual silver and iron tax of the imperial court by two million taels at any time …
However, Wei Zheng didn’t think that it was because of his smuggling that the Tiger and Leopard Army Navy ran rampant in the waters south of the Yangtze River, which really led to an arms race, forcing the conceited Emperor Chongzhen to transfer the new army to build a navy warship and re-establish the navy against the Tiger and Leopard Army Navy …
Of course, these are all stories …
Chapter seven hundred and fifty True and false expansion
After Zhou Changjun left Wangfu with Wei Zheng’s orders and support, he looked satisfied.
Weizheng eyes once again shifted to Sun Chengzong body …
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