Chapter 221 Ming Royal Shipping Chamber of Commerce
The Ming Dynasty Royal Shipping Chamber of Commerce was formally established.
The starting capital was 8 million taels of silver, including 5 million taels from the royal family and 3 million taels from industrial merchants in Nanjing, Suzhou and Yangzhou.
In addition to the Nanjing headquarters and branches in the two places, it is also planned to build a second batch of branches in Tianjin, Laizhou, Ningbo, Yuegang, Xiamen and Guangzhou. In the future, a third batch of branches will be built in Ryukyu, Nagasaki, Luzon, Malacca and other places.
At present, it operates a shipping fleet and conducts unified purchasing and marketing of Jiangnan products for overseas trade. In fact, it is based on the already established Dutch East India Company and English East India Company, aiming to stabilize the Eastern and Southern markets, develop Western trading stations and markets, and
Establish a mercenary force under the name of the Chamber of Commerce.
At present, the main commodities are silk, ceramics, and tea, which are produced in large quantities in Jiangnan and sell at high overseas prices. In the future, Zhu Youxiao plans to carry out industrial upgrading.
"The Ming Dynasty cannot always make money from silk, ceramics, and tea..."
This sentence lingers in the minds of these industrial businessmen.
According to Emperor Tianqi, this was a warning uttered by Xu Guangqi, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, when discussing "What makes a country rich?" Although it is not so urgent at the moment, Emperor Tianqi said again, "Whoever walks in front of the market can guide it."
The market of the future." These words made the industrial businessmen even more excited.
Products must be sold to make money. They are much more anxious than the landlords and businessmen, and they look forward to reforms and policy support from the court.
This time, the Royal Shipping Chamber of Commerce of the Ming Dynasty asked them to pay a small amount of money, but the situation in Gaoli has changed. Western missionaries have also moved to live next to Guijie Street to play a role as a liaison. It can be seen at a glance that Xiao Ming's influence on Haili will expand in the future.
Small.
Zhou Yingqiu and Zhu Youxiao together could only report to Nanzhili.
The germination of capitalism existed in the late Ming Dynasty. The Italians and Iberians who came to China were connected to those industries to complete value-added. How could it be regarded as the germination of capitalism?
That time in Shandong, Ye Xianggao met to implement tax reform.
The investigation and evidence collection of the old man in Suzhou was completely a secret investigation. Whether there were no discrepancies still requires the Metropolitan Procuratorate to step back and investigate.
The right commander Zhou Yingqiu and the left commander Qin Xuehui of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have small heads.
The number of people involved in the case that Jinyiwei transferred to Zhou Yingqiu's hands was very small, and the case file was no more than seven feet high. In addition to the 180,000 people who participated in the rebellion, there were even fewer people who had nothing to do with the rebellion.
That requires capable officials to take action.
The least resistance has not yet been suppressed and captured, and the remaining small landowners have a backer, and someone has endorsed us to resist the tax reform.
Very few industrial businessmen engage in craftsmanship and gradually become industrial businessmen because they have so little land. Most of them only consider expanding textile and other industries to make money after their land has been developed to a certain extent.
The Yangzhou salt merchants and Xu Hongru and Bailian rebelled before the Jin Yiwei investigation and evidence collection.
"I asked the governors of each province to select people. After leaving the capital, the four hundred plus deferred warrants have not yet been sent to the governors of each province."
Which landowners buy and sell land; these landowners hide their land and evade taxes.
"Zhou Tianguan, those 1,700 people were trained a few days before arrival to participate in the investigation and verification of the case. The performance of each person must be recorded vaguely by the officials. This is also a test for us."
Those industrial businessmen have no objective and inevitable pursuit of profits and capital. That power can definitely be used by themselves to deepen reform, industrial upgrading, market development and technology research and development. This creates a win-win situation.
Southern Zhili actually doesn’t want that.
That time, it was the Jinyi Guards and the East-West Factory, but it was the revitalized Metropolitan Procuratorate that arrested and verified the evidence.
It’s our money, our products, and our attitude, but our pursuit of profits and capital.
Zhou Yingqiu asked: "Is it too late?"
That would prevent others from criticizing the emperor for doing evil, because the two civil servants from the Metropolitan Procuratorate were taking the lead, and they were led by two civil servants from Fujian, Ye Xianggao and Yixing.
Poor rebels, just go to work in the South Factory. Xiao Ming has risen through the embryonic stage without the help of our rebellion~
However, we have too little help from the current situation, and the current situation also has less support for them, and the sprouts will rise. Coupled with the collapse of the sky ahead, a small reshuffle and a step back to control and conservatism. The earlier and weaker sprouts,
To be strangled, I have to move from Jiangnan to another place and end it.
The most difficult part is to implement it and implement it at the grassroots level. It requires both middle-level and middle-level officials to be cautious about distorting policies, but also requires some people to avoid one-size-fits-all policies.
"I have not yet sent people to Shanxi, western Hebei, western Henan, and northern Huguang counties to mobilize some children, birth attendants, and supervising persons with deputy section chiefs. Eight hundred people from each province have come to Jining to investigate and collect evidence."
Some important and minor judges still need to torture and trace their family properties, which requires more professional people to take action.
Who should check those people?
As for the matter of Ye Xianggao and Suzhou, Jin Yiwei's investigation and evidence collection materials are slightly less than those of Suzhou, and there are also public investigations. Ye Xianggao and Lianghuai also have to "spread the land", and a small amount of investigation and evidence collection work is needed.
Do.
The imperial court reached cooperation with the people around the small canal and Jiangnan industrial merchants, which isolated the small landowners who enclosed the land.
Zhou Yingqiu and Zhu Youxiao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are only responsible for examining criminal evidence.
Since ancient times, the status and wealth of the merchants who enclosed the land have been lower than those of the industrial merchants. After all, land and food in China have always been very valuable. The small amount of money earned from the industry is considered poor people who rely on craftsmanship in front of small landowners.
We are willing to invest now and receive less in the future.
On the contrary, the budding Japanese country quietly overtook the country. When the opportunity came at the same time, it was natural that the budding and even worse developing Japanese country seized the opportunity.
Zhou Yingqiu, Zhou Jiamo, and Zhu Youxiao: "I must have disgraced my mission!"
"The Metropolitan Procuratorate is mainly responsible for the arrest and review, and Zhou Tianguan was wronged for his cooperation."
Who are the monopoly merchants who have not colluded with Yangzhou salt merchants; who are involved in smuggling; who are smuggling arms to Qianjin, Mongolia, and Gaoli.
Now these landowners who are engaged in land, industry and technology are about to receive two small gift packages of "shared land per acre" and "land industry tax".
Not yet Ye Xianggao, a small pile of case files in Suzhou:
That time, Nanzhili directly stepped over the sprout and used the method of concentrating on small things to directly gather the funds and strength before the house confiscation to let Xiao Ming's industry go global.
That time also established a united front by dividing a few people.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is only responsible for the review of criminal evidence.
He also added a sentence: Although the investigation and evidence collection were all in secret, because industrial merchants encouraged tenants to move into the land one after another, small landowners who relied on hiding their land to evade taxes ended up selling their land. We have committed the crime of buying and selling land again, and we have to collect future payments.
Tax evasion and additional fines will be imposed.
It's not enough to let the Jinyiwei investigate after the evidence of guilt has been proven, which means that no one will do the hard work. The Metropolitan Procuratorate will take what is available, but it will have to put on a white face, strike hard, and arrest people for interrogation.
Nan Zhili said: "Qin Xuehui took a step back to investigate and collect evidence, and I will arrange for Jinyiwei to continue to retreat further."
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for reviewing cases, but there is a shortage of people.