Chapter 109                                                             

Just when Zhu Qizhen was thinking about Wang Yue.

Wang Yue was so busy that he didn't even slim his feet.

He did not invest more money in the Foshan Iron Factory, but just invested 5,000 taels of money. This piece of money was more of a good relationship with the prince-consort.

As for making money, Wang Yue never thought about it.

However, Wang Yue didn't know whether Foshan Iron Factory could make money, but now, Wang Yue has made money.

Nothing else, these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver will be transported to Foshan for expenses.

Although these big businessmen are all wealthy, they cannot transport their money directly to Guangdong, and even gather in the capital will have some difficulties.

In the TV series, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver notes were smashed and smashed, which was a joke.

Because few financial institutions can afford such large amounts of silver flows.

So, this is destined that all these silvers will flow from all over the country to Foshan in batches.

This has the place where Wang Yue can use it.

He saw great business opportunities in it.

Wang Yue's main business is silver shops. He means changing silver, depositing and withdrawing from other places, and starting small-scale pawning and lending, etc. His outlets do not say much, but they are just in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and then along the canal to Beijing.

The reason why Wang Yue can grow and grow is that he stands out among countless silver shops and pawn shops is because Wang Yue is good at being a person, is good at being a person, is versatile, and has a particularly good relationship among Hui merchants.

Huizhou merchants, because there are many mountains and few lands, Huizhou people have the habit of going out to do business. To what extent there are many, there is a saying that there is no market without Hui.

This shows the prosperity of Huizhou merchants.

Of course, among the Hui merchants, there are big merchants, such as Wang Yue, but there are also small merchants. They open a shop in other places and operate in a miserable manner.

Even in every generation of male men who go out of Huidi, two or three of them die in a foreign land.

Hui merchants only operate in groups outside and help each other. This habit is even more common in Wenzhou merchants today.

When Wang Yue was young, he failed to study and used his wife's dowry to do business.

He didn't make much money at the beginning, but he was enthusiastic about helping the villagers. Every time he went home and came out, he brought a lot of letters from his family and even went to many places to deliver letters to these people.

There is no benefit to this. Many times it is just for help.

But over time, he discovered the benefits.

When many people believed him, someone asked him to send the money home.

So, Wang Yue opened the first money house that deposited and withdrawn from other places was from his hometown.

He discovered business opportunities from it, and was even more enthusiastic about contacting fellow villagers, so that Wang Daguanren, the capital of his hometown, encountered some difficulties outside, such as losing business, or meeting robbers.

Wait, just find Wang Ji’s subordinate, and you can always get help with your local accent.

In this way, Wang Yue's industry was rapidly expanded with the network of Hui merchants, and even became a party among Hui merchants. Many internal disputes came to Wang Yue's door and asked Wang Yue to mediate.

Wang Yue's position in the Hui business circle has made Wang Yue's industry more prosperous. After all, the financial industry requires a lot of funds, and many deposits and withdrawals are not allowed to transport a large amount of gold and silver from a distance.

The risk is too great. You should know that the chance of meeting bandits on a long journey in the Ming Dynasty is quite high. Once the news spreads, wait for five levels and kill six generals.

So many times, deposits and withdrawals in other places are allocated locally.

With Wang Yue's connections, when there is a shortage, he can easily mobilize a sum of money from the local Hui merchants.

This is why Wang Yue's business is getting bigger and bigger.

Of course, Wang Yue also lent money to Hui merchants. However, there are not too many loans to the outside world. The biggest worry is that he does not know the truth and cannot collect the money he releases.

Wang Yue felt that he was a Hui merchant who had a share of his success, but a Hui merchant who had a failure.

He started out because of Hui merchants and became a rich man in the world within decades. However, his business was more profitable in the Hui merchant circle, and outsiders also had but not much.

But at this moment, this time was a great opportunity for Wang Yue.

Almost all the big merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty were here. If they could allocate silver through the Wang family channel, that is, Wang Yue's channels were spread across the major merchant gangs in the Ming Dynasty.

With the first time, there will be the second time.

In this way, the Wang family’s money shop becomes the world’s number one money shop, and it is just around the corner.

Therefore, when Wang Yue was working hard for this purpose, he did not know his background and placed it in front of Zhu Qizhen one by one.

After all, Wang Yue is now in Beijing.

If it were elsewhere, Zhu Qizhen might not be able to control it so clearly, but the whole world is only in Beijing. As long as Zhu Qizhen wants to know, he can't hide anything from him.

Zhu Qizhen was very interested when he looked at Wang Yue’s content.

The biggest problem with the Ming Dynasty's economy was money and grain.

In many remote places, grain still bears a little monetary nature.

Zhu Qizhen can put other things on, but he must not let go of such things.

Therefore, Yang Ding, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, has now submitted a preliminary plan. The main content is the result of inspecting the world's granary in the past six months.

This result is not optimistic.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu, it shone brightly. Generally speaking, there was one or two grain reserves in a county, and all of them were abandoned.

The worst thing is that even the warehouse has become ruins. Even if there are still some reserves, the reserve warehouse is improperly preserved, a lot of grain is decayed, and the books are inconsistent.

It can be said that apart from the Beijing warehouse, Tongzhou warehouse, and Tianjin warehouse, there may be no problem in warehousing a total of 20 million stones of grain.

After all, the imperial court regarded these warehouses as their lifeblood. Within a year, there were countless censors' inspections.

In addition, Yang Ding was in charge of these before. I think there was no big problem.

Yang Ding’s proposal to the court was to increase the level of storage, recreate and build warehouses in key areas of water and land, and radiate to various places.

Overall, he proposed more than a dozen warehouses including Linqing warehouse, Huai'an warehouse, Yangzhou warehouse, Nanjing warehouse, Jiujiang warehouse, Wuhan warehouse, Chengdu warehouse, Guangdong warehouse, Guilin warehouse, etc.

This is also a rectification of the original tax system of the Ming Dynasty.

Before, the Ming Dynasty paid grain, but it was not enough to ask the people to pay it to the county. On the contrary, the grain was required to transport grain to warehouses far and far away.

Generally speaking, it is fortune for a wealthy family, but fortune for a poor family.

This is based on the genius method of Emperor Taizu. A decentralized operation.

Because the cost of food transportation is too high.

Emperor Taizu felt that transporting the food to the capital and then placing it on the court was an extremely wasteful thing. Therefore, Emperor Taizu divided the tax projects and adopted the principle of proximity, so that the taxes paid in various places could be transported directly to the required places.

This form was found in the Song Dynasty.

However, it was a compromise at that time, because during the Southern Song Dynasty, when wars were fought in front, the family had to move the prefectures and counties behind them, so they did not have to transport local taxes to the capital, but directly transported them to the front line.

Of course, there are many political principles here.

For example, if there are garrisons in the local area, the military rations cannot be withdrawn on the spot, so the court cannot check and balance the army. Under the principles of such a principle.

Emperor Taizu designed a complex tax transfer route.

When Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty paid more than 23 million shi, but only about 4 million shi came to Beijing, and the rest of the taxes were running in this big network.

It is very difficult to adjust this big net. However, in the past century, this big net has long been different from the original situation.

Give an example.

In counties near Nanjing, there are requests to be transported to the warehouse of Jingwei. However, Emperor Taizong moved the capital, and most of the Jingwei were moved to Beijing. So these people were just transporting food at home, but there was a route of nearly a thousand miles at once.

So the freight costs that the people had to pay exceeded the food they wanted to transport. The burden immediately turned over several times, which was simply miserable.

And such things have happened frequently recently.

Zhu Qizhen has made drastic moves in recent years, including the migration and restructuring of garrisons, division of prefectures and counties, and division of southern Zhili into two, etc., which has long been overwhelmed by this transportation network.

However, the Ming Dynasty cabinet is not an idiot, so it naturally needs to be repaired.
Chapter completed!