Wanli Youming

Chapter 226

Chapter 226

It can be seen that the effects of preferential exemption for gentry and preferential exemption for ordinary people are different.

Therefore, it is not impossible for the imperial court to be exempted from preferential treatment, and it is not possible to lightly pay and pay lightly.

It's just that the benefits and exemptions and the low endowment are used in the right place.

When used in the right place, it can promote the development of productive forces and increase the total wealth of society.

And the imperial court undoubtedly needs to play the role of a water pump to fight against the law that wealth tends to be concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, collect a large amount of money and food, put it where it should be put, and let it flow, in order to make society more prosperous .

Zhu Yijun knew that his Ming court had to play this role, so he agreed to Hai Rui's request without hesitation.

"Your Majesty is as benevolent as heaven, and I will thank Your Majesty on behalf of the people of the world!"

Because of this, Zhang Juzheng and others hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Zhu Yijun smiled slightly.

Regardless of whether the ministers and ministers who bowed to him in front of the hall were really happy for Xiaomin or pretended to be happy for Xiaomin, he felt very embarrassed at this moment.

You must know that it is not easy to abolish the preferential exemption, and on the basis of increasing the state funds, the common people can be exempted from the corvee service of more than 65 taels of silver.

It almost didn't work out.

In the end, he, the emperor, did not hesitate to throw the crown to get it.

It can only be said that reform is not easy.

But it is actually easy to say, as long as the ruler is determined, he can succeed.

As long as the ruler is determined, the so-called landlords and gentry will eventually be unable to resist the centralized Ming court.

However, Zhu Yijun dared to lose the crown, Zhang Juzheng did not choose to back down when his ancestral grave was dug up, Hai Rui was almost assassinated but still set off a large-scale pro-democracy movement in Nanzhi without hesitation, these are all manifestations of the ruler's determination.

"New Year's Eve!"

"New Year's Eve!"

A village in Nanzhi Huizhou Prefecture.

The sound of crackling firecrackers resounded between the white walls and black tiles and the clear water, and the golden fireworks also kept rushing up to the sky at this time, which reflected the entire village here as bright as day.

And in the pool surrounded by the horse head wall, it seems that a large number of golden flowers bloom all of a sudden, making it even more joyous during the Spring Festival.

The policy of reducing rent and interest was implemented, coupled with the fact that the government and the gentry paid food and errands as a whole, the government exempted a large number of impoverished farmers from southern Zhili, and the small people in this village in Huizhou Prefecture all lived in Wanli. During the ten-year New Year's Eve, there was a lot of extra money, and the lanterns, firecrackers and fireworks in the nearby shops were all gone, so it was a more lively New Year.

Only four mu of new land was reclaimed, and old man Chen, the widower of the village who had just turned from a landless person to an ordinary owner farmer, also spent money to buy some peach charms and some meat, which was being stewed in the pot by his daughter Xiaozhi.

At that time, old man Chen was standing on a stool, sticking a vermilion peach charm to his bamboo door, and rubbing rice paste on the back of the peach charm bit by bit, and smiling as he compared the bamboo door He shouted: "Xiaozhi, come and see, is it crooked!"

"Hey!"

Xiaozhi, who was cooking meat in the house, agreed, and jumped out of the threshold wearing a pair of new embroidered shoes. Standing in the fenced yard, he tilted his head tied with a new hair rope, and looked at it from the corner of the fireworks: "It's not crooked!" !"

Only then did old man Chen stick the Taofu on it with satisfaction.

"Father! Little sister!"

And at this moment, a shout appeared outside the door.

Chen Xiaozhi and his father couldn't help looking back, and saw a pale young man wrapped in a soap-colored cloth handkerchief standing in the pavilion, although he was panting heavily, he was smiling all over his face.

"Big brother!"

Chen Xiaozhi shouted happily.

Bang!

The bowl of rice paste in old man Chen's hand also fell to the ground, and he couldn't help asking: "Dacai, why are you back?"

"It was the old parents (county magistrate) who let me come back. They said that the emperor granted Hong En and exempted the common people from the corvee service this year. The forced service that has been served this year has been converted into silver coins, which is about three cents and five cents."

Chen Dacai, the eldest son of Chen, hurriedly knelt on the ground and replied.

Old man Chen rushed to help Chen Dacai, and suddenly burst into tears: "It's good to be back, it's good to be back!"

Chen Xiaozhi on the side couldn't help crying with joy.

And Chen Dacai gave the money to old man Chen.

Old man Chen took the money: "With this money, plus the two taels of money refunded in the house, it is enough for you to go to the provincial capital. You should go to the provincial capital to take the examination for the inspection department soldier. Now it is spreading everywhere. To recruit soldiers from the inspection department, it is better to be able to read and write. You can't study in private schools for nothing in those years, so go try it too. It should be easier than taking the exam for a husband. With so many fields to cultivate, you can’t eat rice at home, try to pass the exam, and start a family by yourself.”

"Hey!"

Chen Dacai agreed.

"I met a good emperor, I finally got you back alive."

Old man Chen then said something with a smile, couldn't help wiping away his tears for a while, and then he said to Chen Xiaozhi because he saw Chen Dacai's clothes were tattered like a beggar:

"Xiao Zhi, remember to go to the store tomorrow to pull some cloth and come back to make a new cotton coat for your brother and one for yourself. For the New Year, everything must be new."

"Good!"

Chen Xiaozhi smiled and agreed.

……

"In a prosperous age and rich people, the price of cotton cloth is going to rise!"

Shangyuan County.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Quexian said something to the pregnant Laidi after reading the imperial decree in the "Di Bao" about the dismissal of the poor household Ding Yin.

Laidi touched her belly and asked, "Why?"

"As the income of ordinary people increases, the demand for food and clothing must also increase."

Liu Quexian said with a smile, "We have to take out the imitated Yuan Dynasty hydraulic spinning wheel and use it!"

"Uncle Shi is here."

"I thought Uncle Shi wouldn't come to our door."

At this time, Wang Changgeng suddenly appeared and came to Liu Quexian's place, and Chi Laidi greeted him with a smile.

Wang Changgeng smiled and said, "Why didn't you come? How can the friendship of classmates for so many years be broken because of him in Jiangling."

Liu Quexian pulled Wang Changgeng over: "You came just in time, and now there is an opportunity to increase your profits."

"what chance?"

"It just so happens that I also need money now, because the Lord Jiangling you admire canceled the preferential exemption and asked Hai Gangfeng to organize tenants to reduce rent and interest. Now that the government has cut expenses, my monthly money is not as good as half of what it was before. The management is stricter than before, so I only found an opportunity to go out and ask my classmates for articles to come out to see you."

After Wang Changgeng asked a question, he complained.

Liu Quexian said: "At present, Su Xiaomin's troubles in the imperial court have returned a large number of small people's Ding Yin in Nanzhi, plus the reduction of rent and interest, so the surplus money in Xiaomin's hands will definitely increase a lot. It will be cold for a long time, and it will only be colder for a longer time based on the fact that it is getting colder every year these days, so there is a lot to do in this cotton cloth business.”

"However, instead of hoarding cotton and grabbing the business of cotton jackets for military use, we might as well buy a large amount of second-grade cotton at a low price, spin it into cotton yarn on a large spinning wheel with water power, and use the manpower saved to weave a large amount of second-grade cotton cloth, and use Let’s hire more saleswomen and peddlers, and sell these cotton cloths to these small people at extremely low prices, and even if those small people are reluctant to pay, I’m afraid they will be willing to buy a few feet of cloth back.”

After hearing this, Wang Changgeng nodded and said, "This is a good idea to increase profits. It's just that you have such a big spinning wheel, can you save the cost of spinning?"

"You usually only know how to read pornographic stories, but you don't know how to pay attention to the art of mechanical manufacturing, so naturally you don't know!"

"Didn't I mention a kind of big spinning wheel when I participated in labor in the imperial prison? That kind of big spinning wheel can work with more than 20 spindles at the same time, and it will definitely save money."

"You have to know that my Han people have never lacked a skill that can replace a hundred craftsmen, but what is lacking is the condition that everyone has spare money to buy things for themselves!"

"Now there is such a condition."

"Wealthy families must care about whether the cotton cloth is from Songjiang, but for ordinary people, as long as it can keep warm, it doesn't matter whether the cotton cloth they buy is from Songjiang or not. Cotton cloth made of inferior cotton is also acceptable."

Liu Quexian said.

Wang Changgeng nodded after hearing this: "I remember, you said it."

Then, Wang Changgeng said again: "Then what are you going to do? Even if you really keep the cost down, if you want those people who are used to saving money to buy your cotton cloth, you can't raise the price." If it’s too high, you can only sell it with small profits, but if you sell one horse at a time, when will you earn a lot of money?”

"I didn't plan to sell them one by one, but I only planned to sell them in bulk to those saleswomen and shopkeepers, and let them sell them one by one."

"After all, once the big spinning wheel is used this time, one worker will do dozens of jobs, which will save a lot of cost. It will allow the sellers and shopkeepers to sell dozens or even hundreds of spinning wheels in batches at low prices."

"And as the people gradually have more money, they must be willing to be sellers and shopkeepers, and more and more people will rely on renting the front door to do business, instead of just knowing how to weave some homemade cloth at home for many years, and the result is not much. .”

Liu Quexian said.

(End of this chapter)