Chapter 408 407 Three Eagles in One Shot

"Industrial and commercial development can absorb refugees, but this is a good governance. You collect taxes from workshops and you collect tariffs from the Maritime Bureau. How can you really have so many? Million taels?"

King Yu finally couldn't help but interrupt and asked.

No wonder King Yu had doubts about opening the Maritime Trading Department to earn one million taels of silver, which is really related to the current Maritime Trading Department system.

The current Maritime Affairs Bureau actually inherited the model since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and there was little change.

In the sixth year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, the Maritime Vessel was established in Guangzhou, and was in charge of maritime diplomatic and foreign trade. He assigned special officials to serve as the ones. His main responsibilities were to manage ships coming to trade, to purchase a certain number of imported goods on behalf of the court, to manage the items tributed by merchants to the emperor, to supervise and manage maritime trade, and to draw points.

Later Song, Yuan, and even to the present Ming Dynasty, these responsibilities were generally the same, only increasing or decreasing maritime ports.

Of course, due to the policies of each dynasty, the responsibilities are slightly different.

For example, because the Ming Dynasty implemented the maritime ban policy and only carried out tribute trade, the Maritime Bureau also assumed the responsibility of welcoming foreign envoys, checking the authenticity and prohibiting people from going to sea.

In other words, the ancient Maritime Bureau not only assumed the functions of customs, but also assumed part of the diplomatic powers, and was responsible for the welcome and sending overseas envoys.

Among them, the diplomatic function is heavier, while the customs function is relatively small. In other words, some private actions by officials of the Maritime Bureau have led to a large amount of tariff loss that should have been collected from the court.

In fact, such things are not uncommon, and there are similar problems in major banknotes, but because the tariffs paid every year remain stable and the maintenance of the ministers in the court, the court did not pursue the matter.

After all, people with official positions, and those who do not have family members or know fellow merchants, have more or less lend famous letters to facilitate their travels.

Wei Guangde didn't dare to explain the tricks too thoroughly, so he could only say in a more tactful way: "The benefits should be very great, otherwise why would it attract Japanese pirates?

People overseas like me in Chinese products in an extraordinary way. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been endless merchants from Southeast Asia and Persians. It can be seen that they are willing to travel far away without fearing the risks in it.

It is said that when the goods from China are transported thousands of miles away, the price of goods can rise several times, so I think it is okay to impose tariffs that are very high compared to the commodity prices for the goods I went out of the Ming Dynasty."

Wei Guangde certainly couldn't answer the question of how much the Ming Dynasty's goods could be sold in Europe in this era, but he could make a simple judgment.

That is, merchants cannot get up early without profit. Since they have traveled thousands of miles away, it naturally represents a huge benefit, that is, after deducting procurement costs, transportation costs and necessary losses, the business still has a huge profit.

Wei Guangde didn't know whether there were any counterfeit Ming products in Europe at this time, but this was not important. As long as the merchants were willing to come, it would be fine. Whether the merchants offset the increased taxes by reducing costs or increasing the selling price to cover them has nothing to do with him.

In my impression, it is a recognized fact that a large amount of silver flowing into China in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Such results can be achieved during this period when maritime transportation technology is not perfect, which shows that the competitiveness of the Ming Dynasty's commodities in the international market is invincible, and the Ming Dynasty commodities will definitely not worry about sales.

"Although I don't know how much the profit is, the barbarians come to my Ming Dynasty around me every year to buy my Ming Dynasty goods. I have heard that these barbarians even directly purchase the looted Ming Dynasty goods from the Japanese pirates. This is actually one of the important reasons why the Japanese pirates have been repeatedly banned."

Zhang Juzheng said at this time that he was from Huguang, so he was naturally not as familiar with sea trade as those from coastal provinces, but he also heard a little.

At this time, I heard what Wei Guangde said very reasonably, so I might as well say some of the things he heard.

"So, if the market is opened, the barbarians can directly purchase Ming goods from the Maritime Bureau, at least they can prevent them from trading with the Japanese pirates."

Yin Shidan reminded that for the Japanese pirates who are seeking money, if the stolen things cannot be cashed out, then what is the use of stolen?

"At the beginning of opening up, tariffs can be temporarily exempted, or preferential, and tariffs can be temporarily exempted. At the same time, the barbarians who are related to the Japanese pirates will be firmly refused to enter Hong Kong transactions. It is one aspect of making money for the imperial court, and at the same time, it is not ruthless to crack down on and weaken Japanese pirates."

Wei Guangde continued.

"I understand what you mean. Open up the market and allow merchants among the barbarians to participate in the transactions, and no longer check and inspect. On the one hand, the court traded the physical tax collected in Jiangnan and sold them to silver. On the other hand, it could also collect taxes from them. Isn't that also allow merchants from our court to participate in it? Do they also need to collect taxes?

Forget it, it’s better to collect taxes. Since they are profitable, it’s okay to collect some taxes. However, according to what you mean, opening up the market seems to be very beneficial to attacking Japanese pirates.”

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, King Yu nodded and said.

At this moment, the libra in King Yu's heart had already tilted. Although he knew that when Emperor Jiajing was in power, the memorial to open the market would not be approved in almost every ten years, the benefits of opening the market were obvious.

The Ming Dynasty's products were sold overseas through markets, and those workshops would inevitably expand production, which required recruitment of workers. The refugees caused by Hu Zongxian's sect were placed in Jiangnan.

The court can dispose of the accumulated goods in the official warehouse through the maritime ship and turn them into money for use. This is also a very important good policy, and at least it can alleviate the dilemma of the court's financial tension.

What's more, according to what Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng said, after opening up the market, the barbarians and merchants and Japanese pirates can be eliminated from doing business. The coastal people have a way to survive in maritime trade, and there is no need to join the Japanese pirates in order to make a living. In the long run, the number of Japanese pirates will be reduced to fundamentally solve the Japanese pirates.

It seems that this is a killing of three birds with one stone, and it will not be a loss no matter how you look at it.

At this time, what the others in the room didn't know was that in the heart of the future Emperor Yu of the Ming Dynasty, he had made up his mind to tentatively open the market after he took power.

After all, it is a ban for more than a hundred years, and King Yu dared not to abolish the maritime ban on a large scale as soon as he came to power. He would choose a Maritime Bureau to try it to see how the effect will be after the liberation is released.

The sea ban is lifted, as far as I hear now, there are undoubtedly many benefits, but since the court has not relaxed it, this means that there should be some harms that they do not know about.

King Yu thought so, and he also planned to have the opportunity to ask Gao Gong to see what Mr. Gao is about the sea ban and the market.

This is not to say that King Yu does not believe in Wei Guangde, Yin Shidan and others, but because Gao Gong has always been his support. In King Yu's view, Gao Gong is unparalleled in his country, and his talents and abilities are the best in the dynasty. As long as he does not object, it can be implemented.

Besides, the news from Xiyuan is now that Emperor Jiajing is in full swing in the spring and autumn, and he doesn’t know when it will be his turn to be the leader. There is no need to worry about this matter.

Wei Guangde and Yin Shidan, Zhang Ju were discussing each sentence, and King Yu sat aside, interjecting every word from time to time, and the atmosphere was quite warm.

"Li Fang, ask someone to hold a banquet in the back garden. I want to entertain some gentlemen."

Seeing that everyone was in high interest in chatting, King Yu whispered.

Just as Li Fang lowered her head and agreed to turn around and leave, King Yu called him again, "Take a few jars of good wine out of the cellar in the backyard."

King Yu was absolutely not stingy with the people in the royal palace and often set up dinner parties to invite them to stay together.

King Yu felt that Wei Guangde's proposal to open the market today was very interesting, so he held a banquet again and everyone had more time to talk during the meal, so he could also listen to the ideas of these lecturers.

Yin Shidan, Wei Guangde and others didn't care about King Yu's actions. This was not the first time that they had encountered such a situation. Moreover, the three of them were talking excitedly at this moment and did not want to leave.

However, there was a banquet that was separated in the world. After the banquet at Prince Yu's mansion ended, the three of them got on their own carriages and sedan chairs with the help of the servants.

Wei Guangde and Yin Shidan were both drunk at this moment. After entering the car sedan, they quickly fell asleep. Although Zhang Juzheng was also a little drunk, he tried hard to keep a little sober.

Wei Guangde's proposal today has greatly touched him in some aspects.

In the past, when thinking about solving the countless difficulties faced by the state, most of them were looking for a good solution to express their difficulties from themselves. One of the sources he found now was to reform the tax and service system that had been implemented for a century, especially those taxes in kind.

In fact, when Zhang Ju was in Huguang, he had already noticed that the physical items received in the official warehouse were all taxes collected according to the method of drawing points, but it was idle in the official warehouse for a long time and it was difficult to cash in.

Therefore, he had the idea of ​​discounting all other physical objects except food, silk and other physical objects. Only in this way can he effectively utilize the resources that the court could call.

The reform of the tax and service system is to reduce the burden on the people, and the physical tax and service are to integrate the resources of the court and allow the court to have more fiscal revenue available for use, rather than being wasted in the official warehouse.

At the same time, like Gao Gong, he believed that vigorously cracking down on corrupt officials could save a lot of money, and at least he would take back these greedy silver by corrupt officials to "reduce money".

Today, Wei Guangde's proposal to open up the market seems to be a very meaningful "open source" strategy, but it only requires the abolition of the so-called maritime ban, which will benefit both the court and the people.

As mentioned at the banquet, shipyard workers in southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places will also benefit from this. Among the people involved in the Fujian rebellion, there were the sound of boat people.

When opening the market, the government will hire people to repair ports, repair and build ships, and people will also need to board and disembark. This can really add too many ways to resettle refugees.

It seems that we will take time to visit the teacher’s mansion tomorrow to see what the teacher’s attitude towards opening the market.

The teacher in Zhang Juzheng's heart is naturally Xu Jie, the second assistant of the dynasty. Xu Jie's hometown is Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, and one of the coastal prefectures. He should have some understanding of marine trade.

He saw the look of King Yu listening sideways during the meal today, so he believed that King Yu had already kept this in mind.

Although everyone was a little pessimistic about the implementation of this policy in the Jiajing Dynasty, wasn’t a future emperor still sitting on the table?

As long as he can accept this suggestion, he will try it after ascending the throne in the future and may not fail to succeed.

Because Zhang Juzheng couldn't find it even if he searched for the intestines and scraped his stomach, what would be the harm of developing a market ship?

The ban on the sea directly banned a large number of Japanese pirates, which made the Ming court exhausted from defense. Since this is the case, it would be better to open it up and see if more Japanese pirates will arrive.

You should know that as long as you are not prejudiced or have interests connected, you can see what the Japanese pirates on the coast before the Jiajing banned the sea and what the pirates will look like after the banned the sea.

It is clear at a glance who is stronger and who is weaker. After tonight's discussion, Zhang Juzheng has realized that perhaps the only way to solve the Japanese disease.

I don’t know if Wei Guangde and the others didn’t expect it or dare not say it, but Zhang Juzheng noticed that when Wei Guangde said that opening the market, he only said that it could weaken the strength of the Japanese pirates, but did not say that it could relieve the hidden dangers of the Japanese pirates.

Zhang Juzheng naturally didn't know why Wei Guangde used such words, but Wei Guangde knew very well.

The so-called Japanese pirates are actually pirates. They may rob passing ships at sea and sometimes land on the ground and loot. Is this a profession that can be eliminated?

The same rice raises hundreds of people. The technology in later generations is so developed. Pirates are still active on the busy routes in the world. It is said that hundreds of large and small ships are robbed by pirates every year, but they dare not land easily and commit crimes, so their existence is gradually unknown.

But existence is existence.

In fact, in Wei Guangde's view, as long as the Japanese pirates in the Jiajing Dynasty could be weakened to the reign of the previous emperors, the existence of Japanese pirates could be basically ignored.

There are not many major looting cases a year, and there are not as many cases as robbers and robbers.

However, Zhang Juzheng didn't know this, and he was still thinking about why Wei Guangde said this instead of that.

However, no matter what, the news of Fujian's defeat spread in the capital's officialdom. The officials of the Ministry of War could only give up resting and continue to stay in the yamen to discuss what strategies should be adopted.

Although Xiyuan did not urgently summon the Grand Sima, what about tomorrow?

Tomorrow, Emperor Jiajing will definitely ask about this matter. In the face of a major case of rebellion, no emperor will take it lightly.

Therefore, they must come up with a charter tonight, otherwise it would seem that the Ministry of War was too ineffective. The officials of the Ministry of War were all in corpses, and they might even be caught by the mad dogs of the Censorate and bitten them.

While other officials were still having fun or reading at night, they were very distressed and still discussing state affairs.

Unfortunately, they quickly searched through the surrounding picture albums and found that they could not find many army to be recruited to participate in this battle to suppress the thieves.

Fujian has been defeated once, so it must not continue to defeat, as this will ruin the court's face.

What should I do if I increase my troops, but I can’t find a place to mobilize my troops?

Continue to expand the scope.

Soon, the entire southern album was dug out, and they were looking for any army to be dispatched.
Chapter completed!