Just when Zhao Zhenji decided to fight, the human silk silk case happened to break out in Huizhou, and Li Rusong, a reckless man, blew down the city gate of Huizhou Prefecture in one breath.
Most of the scattered gentry came to Jiangsu to join their relatives and friends.
"One cannon blasted for dozens of miles"
"The sound was like the sky falling apart, and the cattle and horses died in response to the sound"
"Li Rusong killed people without calculation, using human blood as tea soup ”
Wait for the rumors to go away.
Although these literati have little effect, this frightening propaganda is still quite shocking.
The squires who originally thought that I had the advantage due to the strength of numbers suddenly calmed down.
In particular, Zhao Zhenji from Suzhou raised funds to go to Hangzhou to buy two or three war cannons.
Of course, Zhao Zhenji, who has studied the Book of Changes, also knows how to combine virtuality with reality. I asked people to find trees to paint, but they ended up painting more than fifty doors.
I found an opportunity, fired a few cannons, and then gave the confidence to those bumpkins, and the situation suddenly became much more relaxed.
Then Zhejiang comprehensively increased commercial taxes. Zhejiang merchants increased prices, while Jiangsu merchants did not. This comparison finally gave Jiangsu workshops a sigh of relief.
Zhejiang merchants focus on high-end products, so Suzhou merchants should focus on durable leather. By seizing this part of the market, commercial taxes were finally collected reluctantly. But overall it's not high.
Expenses are too much compared to income.
With the new learning, especially when the theory of public goods comes out, the yamen have too much to do. Outside of traditional education, building roads and dredging rivers have become the biggest public goods responsibilities.
As for these two items, if the levy and salary system were implemented in the past, it would naturally save money, but now that the employment system is new, the money is like water. Fortunately, some refugees have come in, which has reduced costs, but even so, Jiangsu's finances have long been overwhelmed.
Because the finance of the Ming Dynasty was based on the local small treasury system, in most cases the local government financed its own revenue. This resulted in the local area having no surplus food at all. As long as there is any leftover, it has already been paid out as year-end performance. It is impossible to save until the second year. If we want the court to know that we have surplus grain, and if there is a tax inspection and levy, it will be a huge loss.
The yamen doesn’t have to pay for it, so we just want local good people to do it, but they can’t do it. They are good people, not stupid people. It's not like there are no signs of this.
Zhao Zhenji signed a contract with the governor and borrowed one hundred thousand taels of silver. After getting this started, the prefects below followed suit and started taking action.
Of course, another reason why Zhao Zhenji could borrow money was that he promised to audit. At the end of the year, the auditor firm in Hangzhou will be invited to audit the use of funds, and this will ensure on-time repayment.
Without this, we wouldn’t be able to borrow so much money just with the governor’s seal.
The more things we have to do, the more government officials will be recruited. Before construction even started, more than 10,000 taels of silver were spent. By the end of October, the first year's interest will begin to be calculated.
This is the situation in Fucheng and Suzhou. In just over half a year, other prefectures, except Songjiang Prefecture, have already been heavily in debt.
Suzhou also took advantage of being close to Songjiang Prefecture, and Zhao Zhenji had already gone to Hai Rui several times to fight the autumn breeze.
It is said that planting sycamore trees will attract golden phoenixes. It was October, and Zhao Zhenji didn’t see any golden phoenix. If he hadn't bluffed others with his own camp, I'm afraid all the businessmen under him would have rebelled.
What’s worse is that October is the birthday of the old lady of the Xu family. Zhao Zhenji, who originally planned to send some specialties as a gift, suddenly received a gilded invitation stamped by the patrol censor Zou Yinglong and handwritten by the Xu family's housekeeper.
Not only did I receive it, but basically all the famous families in Jiangsu and even South Zhili and Jiangnan received it.
After a little inquiry, I found that Xu Ge’s hometown is really fat and thin, and the invitations of the third-rank and above officials and local famous families are stamped and stamped. The invitations for ordinary gentry and those below the third rank are usually stamped, while those for ordinary large merchants below are handwritten invitations.
After learning that the gifts from ordinary merchants were as high as hundreds or even thousands of taels, the specialty products of one hundred taels originally prepared by Zhao Zhenji became completely unavailable.
"Zou Yinglong is so flattering, it is an insult to politeness and elegance."
Zhao Zhenji was just angry that Zou Yinglong did not do his job, either patrolling Zhejiang Agriculture, or based on I went to Shanghai Port to check the naval battle and military exploits based on the principle of proximity. How could I get entangled with the Xu family and act as a concubine with the respect of the censor? He wanted to curry favor, but it also made Zhao Zhenji, who was already short of money, even more stretched. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft