"Not the name! Nothing the name! The new policy on silver bills is about to be implemented. Autumn tax can be paid, and autumn tax can be paid. Autumn tax can be paid! Nothing the name! Nothing the name!"

Chongzhen suddenly heard a shout of a newspaperman coming from the Zhenhuai Bridge on the Qinhuai River.

He looked in search of the voice and saw a few children in their teens holding newspapers in their hands on Zhenhuai Bridge and shouting loudly.

"Child, give me one."

"Haole, this official, he costs three cents per serving."

"I'll give you one too, kid."

"Good!"

"Child, and me!"

"I want it too!"

A group of people surrounded him, and today's newspapers in Nanjing were destined to be a best-seller.

The new banknote policy that had been implemented in Beijing for more than two years was basically successful and began to be promoted in some major cities and towns of the Ming Dynasty.

The second place outside Beijing is naturally Nanjing.

Seeing this scene, Chongzhen thought to himself, it seems that silver bills are really what the people want.

Just say that I paid tolls by passing the checkpoint before, it was 50 cents.

Not everyone can take out just 50 cents, and some people give some money, which is not easy to standardize. Those who collect taxes can only collect more, absolutely no less than 50 cents.

Those people will definitely deduct the extra parts from the total number and put them in their pockets.

For example, each person pays a 60-member silver worth of on average, and 1,000 extra, that is, 1 tael of silver. Take out 1 tael of silver from the total amount and then hand over it. The number from the superior is still 5,000, and the number is worth it.

And the people who suffered the loss in the end were the people who paid the money.

In short, the current tax situation in the Ming Dynasty was that the tax was too heavy, the people paid a lot of money, and the imperial court collected less, so they were basically taken by middlemen.

This is the big problem.

Killing alone cannot solve it. In addition to rectifying the administration of officials, it also requires standardization and standardization of tax collection processes and systems.

For example, the bank note system is to standardize money, and the tax will be paid in the future, and there will be no need to give more money.

Moreover, it will be too convenient for the tax department to check the accounts layer by layer. It only requires counting money and no longer weighing it.

Greatly simplify administrative processes.

This is not over yet. The Tax Department, the Commercial Tax Department, is also very bad.

Chongzhen himself had newly established a tax department, but he had always collected agricultural taxes before. Considering administrative pressure, he did not interfere with commercial taxes for the time being.

After Yingtianfu promotes popularization of silver notes, commercial tax can also be incorporated into the Ministry of Taxation.

Moreover, the rules for collecting commercial taxes need to be changed. The current commercial tax collection is obviously unreasonable and completely unreasonable.

This is a story later.

Chongzhen ran to Zhenhuai Bridge and bought a newspaper.

The popularization of the printing industry in the Ming Dynasty provided soil for books and newspapers.

After seeing this, Chongzhen realized that early this morning, the Royal Piao Nanjing Branch was opened near Cheng'en Temple, which was also very close to Yingtian Prefecture Yamen.

Many people have already walked together and started rushing to the vicinity.

I think I used silver to exchange for silver notes. After all, now it is time to pay the autumn tax. If you pay the tax with silver notes, you will definitely not lose money. You will be given as long as you go.

Chongzhen felt relieved to see such a scene.

In the future, silver notes will become more convenient, not only will they pay taxes more convenient, but business will also be more convenient.

Chongzhen continued to walk forward, and he carefully observed the people's livelihood in Nanjing.

The local customs of Nanjing are very different from those of Beijing.

When Zhang Chen first came here, he remembered that Beijing City could be described as dirty and messy. Beggars are everywhere on the roadside, and some ordinary people in the folk castrated themselves and wanted to go to the palace to be eunuchs for their lives.

It was only later that he cleaned up eunuchs and palace maids in the palace and arranged all of them to the Ming Dynasty manufacturing bureau, which allowed him to digest the bloated group of palace maids and eunuchs.

It is obviously very different in Nanjing. He can see merchants talking about business everywhere.

The suppression of merchants in ancient times was unimaginable to people in the 21st century.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are ranked last.

However, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, society was diversified, grain output increased, and social commerce flourished.

Especially in the south, the south is not only ordinary families doing business, but even nobles and officials are not opposed to doing business, and they are very enthusiastic.

This is in sharp contrast to the traditional farming society in the north.

In northern provinces, people still discriminate against businessmen, and they are more proud of entering the government.

If you hear that one of the companies is doing business, even if you are very rich, you will look down on that family.

Chongzhen also saw a steady stream of cargo ships on the Qinhuai River docking at the wharf, unloading boxes of goods, and the porters were sweating profusely.

On the one hand, there are still merchants who are settled with the porter, and then find a consigned person to haul the goods to the designated place.

The governments of the Ming Dynasty had special construction sites for merchants to stock up on goods. This was a rule that existed in the period of Zhu Yuanzhang.

The house collapse tax in the Ming Dynasty commercial tax was the money paid for stocking up goods.

During the Hongwu period, Nanjing was the center of business in the world. Many merchants went to Nanjing to do business and could only put goods on ships or outside the city.

This is easy to be exploited by middlemen. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if middlemen interfere, prices would be raised, which would affect the people's livelihood in Nanjing.

And this money is not as good as the imperial court.

So I built some places similar to "warehouses". After merchants unload goods at the wharf, they can transport them directly to the places formulated by the government to stock up on the houses. The amount of goods is called the house collapse tax.

These are good things, not only in Nanjing, but also in all parts of the country.

As he walked, Chongzhen actually walked to the vicinity of Confucius Temple.

Near Confucius Temple, it is the most prosperous section of Nanjing City. The Jiangnan Gongyuan is here, which is a holy place for scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

However, after the gunshots on the Qinhuai bank of the Yingtianfu case last year, the Confucius Temple was temporarily sealed off.

It is said to be temporarily sealed, but it has not been opened until now.

Although it was not open, there were quite a few young people nearby.

Because opposite is the most famous fireworks place in the entire southeast, this is the favorite of scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

The Eight Beauties of Qinhuai were in this era and the eight famous artists in this place.

It was very lively in front of me. Chongzhen walked across the bridge and saw some women with heavy makeup on the upper floor waving to the lower corner.

There are also many beautiful women at the door.

A gorgeously dressed man rode a horse and surrounded by a group of people, he stopped in front of the Chunfeng Pavilion in front.

"Everyone is out of the way! Everyone is out of the way! Your dog eyes are blind. This is King Hui, let it go!"

When the crowd heard that it was King Hui, they immediately gave up a way.

Chongzhen became curious.

King Hui?

Oh, it was me who asked them to come to Nanjing to worship their ancestors.

King Hui was the sixth son of Emperor Wanli, and his fief was in Jingzhou Prefecture, Huguang Province.

This guy went to Jingzhou Prefecture to take up the throne after Tianqi died.

It seems that he came to Nanjing under pressure.
Chapter completed!