Chapter 196: If you want to be rich, compete with the people for profit?

Huang Laifu said: "For more than two hundred years of the country's dynasty, the troops in various towns are now in ruins. Although the annual amount of money and grain in Jin Town is fixed, it is actually difficult to collect the money. Now the Beijing fortune is in a bad state, and the civil fortune is arrears. The host and guest are in harmony every year, and borrow from multiple parties only for a year, but there are still some shortcomings. If there is a warning at all, what will the guest soldiers support? Therefore, the strategy for Laifu is to take advantage of the contract and make extensive storage plans and find ways to cultivate them, which is also a precaution."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Mr. Yang is in charge of the military affairs of a town, money, grain, warehouse, post delivery, grain storage, military farming, and water conservancy. Laifu planned Shanxi Town to consider Yang Gong! After the rise of civil affairs in Shanxi Town, each town was short of money and grain, and only Jin Town could be self-sufficient. How much political achievements would it be? How would the emperor and the cabinet guilds view Yang Gong? And these political achievements, the superior guilds think it is mine or Yang Gong's achievements? What benefits can I get from Huang Laifu?... If Yang Gong thinks that I, Huang Laifu, are too broad-minded, then forget it."

After saying that, Huang Laifu stood up and said lightly.

Governor Yang Fangluo and Liu Tang's soldiers were spinning rapidly in their minds. Huang Laifu said it was right. Like other towns, the biggest problem in Shanxi Town was that the military camps were abolished and the food was insufficient. Every year, a large amount of Beijing-transported silver and civilian-transported grain was needed. If a town in Shanxi could be as self-sufficient as Wuzhai Fort and could also hand over a large amount of money and grain every year, how big is this achievement?

Moreover, this achievement is indeed part of Yang Fangluo, Liu Tangsheng and others, and it will not fall into the hands of Huang Laifu. At most, he only earns more money and food for private individuals.

Huang Laifu became famous because of the Five Village Fortresses. He was promoted from Qianhu to General in just a few years. Isn’t this because of this? If Shanxi Town really started and became the emperor’s eyes, Governor Yang Fangluo might be able to enter the cabinet and become prime minister. After Yang Fangluo left, wouldn’t the throne of the governor of Shanxi Town fall on Liu Tang’s soldier?

The two of them quickly thought about it. Seeing Huang Laifu getting up angry, Governor Yang said with a smile on his face: "Why do you have to get angry with Huang Junmen? I am also because Jin Town has a lot of planning affairs and needs to be considered carefully. It is not just that they don't agree with the military Junmen's planning matters! Sit down and talk slowly, talk slowly."

Liu Bingbei also dissuaded Huang Laifu from leaving. He smiled and said, "It is indeed because the Huang Junmen has many entries and requires a lot of money and food. Mr. Yang is like this, which is also a matter of planning the country!"

Huang Laifu sat down with the flow and smiled: "Indeed, there are many planning matters. If the whole town implements it together, it will be abrupt. It is better to do this. Let's first choose Ningwu Dao to implement it. After you have achieved the results, then implement it in the whole town. How about Yang Gong?"

Yang Fangluo nodded slowly, and the three of them discussed the specific matters in detail. In Huang Laifu's plan, agriculture is the main focus, especially the development of village and town economy. As agriculture develops, business, industry, etc. are all natural.

In the Ningwu Dao to be implemented, we will vigorously build water conservancy, planting trees, sericulture, afforestation, animal husbandry, etc. A assessment department will be established, which will be managed by Liu Tangsheng Bingbai, and will be responsible for the assessment, supervision and other matters of relevant political affairs.

In Ningwudao, the General Administration of Agriculture and Structures, Cotton Industry Test Factory, Model Animal Husbandry and other official institutions and experimental bases are established, specializing in the introduction and cultivation of new varieties. According to the population, land and natural environment of various places in the road, the "Water Conservancy Plan", "Serpentium Conduct Plan", "Cotton Industry Yearly Plan" and "Forestry Yearly Plan" were prepared, and a series of regulations, charters, regulations and rules were promulgated, and detailed plans and regulations were made on the economic benefits and operating steps of various political affairs, so that each political affairs can be followed by laws and regulations.

A series of popular textbooks such as "A Brief Introduction to Silkworms", "Willow Planting Methods", "Cotton Planting Textbook", "Agricultural Afforestation Theory", and "Sheep Shepherd Textbook" will also be compiled, and short-term training classes such as women's sericulture training centers, farmers' training centers, forestry training centers will be held to promote new technologies and train key personnel.

There are a large amount of arable land on both sides of the Huihe River and Fen River in Ningwudao, but the farmlands are everywhere, and water conservancy has been abandoned for many years. Many arable land is abandoned there. If we want to reclaim wasteland and build water conservancy, a large amount of money and grain are needed. Liu Tangsheng and others cannot be used to provide them. Except for the part in the town, the rest can only rely on Huang Laifu to find a way.

In addition, in terms of water conservancy construction and vigorously farming, although Liu Tangsheng manages money, grain, warehouses, post delivery, grain storage, farming, water conservancy and other matters in the road, his experience and achievements are still not as good as the Wuzhaibao Grain Bureau. Huang Laifu needs to send someone to guide him at that time, let alone animal husbandry, afforestation, sericulture and other aspects, and he also needs the guidance of Wuzhaibao Agricultural Technology Bureau.

In short, after all aspects of the way are implemented, everyone in Wuzhaibao will have a deeper influence and interests in the place.

What is imminent at the moment is the issue of road construction. As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Only when the road is built can all connections and circulation be more convenient.

The Ming Dynasty always attached great importance to the construction of principles. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, vigorously implemented the construction of post office facilities across the country. Not only did it rectify and restore more than 200 post offices in the mainland. It also built a spacious post office road directly to Yunnan and Guizhou, built many post office stations in Liaodong, and built post office roads to Tibet. Along these post office roads, there were water and horse post offices and delivery stations, and ordinary documents were handed over to walking delivery shops, and important and urgent documents were handed over to Ma post offices for processing. A complete post office system was formed.

However, over the past few hundred years, due to the financial problems of the central and local governments, many local post roads have been disrepaired for a long time. These roads are basically sandy or dirt roads. From Wuzhai Fort to Ningwu Pass, the road surface is bumpy and very difficult to walk. It is time to repair.

In Huang Laifu's calculations, he needed to build a cement road from Wuzhai Fort to Ningwu Pass, a cement road from Wuzhai Fort to Kelan Prefecture for 40 miles, and a cement road from Wuzhai Fort to Bajiao Fort to Panguan and Laoying Fort. Among these roads with more than 100 miles in total, if all of them were to be built into cement roads, there were a lot of them, and it would take about 30,000 taels of silver.

When the road is built, several forts benefit together, so we should all pay together. These places are also related to the power and responsibilities of Ningwu Bing Preparation Road and the Kelan Bing Preparation Road. So we need to sit down and talk together.

After listening to Huang Laifu's roughly the road construction funds, Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei took a breath, more than 30,000 taels, which is not a small amount. In the Ming Dynasty, road construction in various places was definitely not so much money. First, their construction was built, and the road surface was naturally not as good as Huang Laifu's cement roads. Second, when they built the road, they recruited local civilians as a kind of service. Of course, Huang Laifu could not do this.

Huang Laifu had decided that in addition to being willing to pay a portion of the money, he would have to pay two or all the merchants of various forts to pay together. However, Huang Laifu also proposed an idea to Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei, that is, after the road is built, in addition to carving monuments for investors, he would also establish a toll bureau on the cement road head, collect taxes on passing vehicles, levy tolls, road maintenance fees, etc., and the time is limited to fifteen years. In addition to part of the tax collected, all investors will receive dividends.

This made Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei very interested, and the two decided to contribute funds and participate in the dividend distribution at that time.

After Huang Laifu discussed with Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei, all matters began to be carried out vigorously. The road construction of each fort, the cement factory of Wuzhai Fort was moved to Shenchi Fort, and the development of Ningwu Dao was in full swing. Huang Laifu was also busy. But he didn't know that some undercurrents had begun to flow towards him.

On the ninth day of the third month of the 23rd year of Wanli, Wenyuan Pavilion in the capital.

After Qingming Festival, the weather gradually warmed up. Under the statue of Confucius in Wenyuan Pavilion, several cabinet ministers were still busy. They were buried in the case and were often flipping through memorials and documents from all over the country.

Suddenly, the chief minister of the cabinet, Zhao Zhigao exclaimed. He took two memorials and looked carefully for a while, and said to Yang Junmin, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and Zeng Tongheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Works, beside him: "Two cabinet ministers, please look at this memorial!"

After the first month of the 23rd year of Wanli, the Minister of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty was replaced by Wang Lin to Yang Junmin. Yang Junmin was over 60 years old this year and was born in October of the tenth year of Jiajing. His courtesy name was Bozhang and his pseudonym was Ben'an. He was from Puzhou. He was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing and was appointed as the head of the Ministry of Revenue. In the early month of Wanli, the Minister of Revenue of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Lin, the former Minister of Revenue of the Ministry of Revenue, begged for bones, and then promoted him to the position of Minister of Revenue.

At this time, Yang Junmin took the memorial, but Cheng Shao, the director of the household department, and Yang Yingwen, the director of the engineering department, submitted a memorial to impeach Huang Laifu.

Cheng Shao expounded: "...I heard that Huang Laifu, the general of Shanxi Town, did what he meant, and acted as a magnanimous blessing, used his power to humiliate merchants and people, and drew heavy taxes, which violated the laws of his ancestors, and became a habit of goods. He also took advantage of the taxes in various places in Ningwu, and invaded the people to make profits, and induced villains from all over the world to seek mining. The world was full of chaos. Please order the minerals under Huang Laifu's rule, and ask for the crime of Huang Laifu's dispute over the profits of mine!"

Yang Yingwen explained: "Now, the people's livelihood is extremely difficult, and the country's power is endangered. Now, there is Huang Laifu, the general of Shanxi Town, who starts mining and collects taxes. For all the money-making matters, the merchants and the people are stripping their skin and marrow. The commercial taxes for various iron, coal yarn and silk are increasing every year. Huang's tragedy is constantly being cut. The people in Shanxi Town have deep resentment, and they are really afraid that the chaos will come! All the ministers have said this and ask for the punishment of Huang Laifu. I am so proud of the emperor's remarks!"

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Huang Laifu opened a mine in Shenchi Fort and Ningwu Pass, which of course infringed on the interests of local tyrants. Moreover, Huang Laifu's thunderous methods also made Yuzhe's local mine owner, the powerful rabbit and fox, feel worried, and he is worried. He will come to his place one day and take away his minerals by violent means.

Besides, Huang Laifu's mining tax collection was rewarded again. Emperor Wanli saw it and felt itchy, and he was increasingly unable to help but order the world to start mining. This made many stakeholders feel worried.

In the current Ming Dynasty, many powerful mine owners in many places were related to local officials and merchants, including Beijing officials and local officials. The interests of mine owners were damaged, and the interests of many major officials and clans were also damaged. If they had some money to make in cooperation with Huang Laifu, Emperor Wanli ordered the mining operation, and then these officials and local tyrants would not be able to make a penny. Seeing that things were getting worse and worse, they of course had to react.

After thinking about it, Huang Laifu was the culprit. If he hadn't made such a profit in mining, would Emperor Wanli be moved?

Besides, Huang Laifu collected commercial taxes in Wuzhaibao and other places, and the tax types were complete and rich, which made some officials, businessmen and wealthy businessmen who went to Wuzhaibao to operate were dissatisfied. They enjoyed the pleasure of making a lot of money in Wuzhaibao, but they were unwilling to let them pay taxes according to law. And there was news that Huang Laifu and others would build roads and charge fees on the road, which made some people who wanted to go to Wuzhaibao and other places to do business even more dissatisfied.

The news that Huang Laifu collected more than 50,000 taels of silver in Wuzhaibao has spread. I was worried that Huang Laifu's model would expand to the whole country, so everyone's first wave of attacks on Huang Laifu is coming.

Seeing these two impeachment memorials, Yang Junmin, the current Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, felt complicated. For him, Huang Laifu was a very popular figure in the Ministry of Revenue. Since he replaced his position as a thousand households, the amount of grain paid by Wuzhaibao every year has been large, and he does not default. Especially last year, he paid a full 200,000 taels of tax silver to the Ministry of Revenue, which is even more commendable.

However, at the same time, his commercial tax at Wuzhaibao exceeded 50,000 taels, which caused some officials of the Ministry of Revenue to start arguing. Many people believe that the tax bureau in Wuzhaibao should be taken under the management of the Ministry of Revenue in the future, and should not be owned by Huang Laifu.

Everyone quarreled, which made Yang Junmin a headache, but in his heart, Yang Junmin also disagreed with Huang Laifu's mining and commercial tax collection, because his family members had close relationships with the mine owners and merchants in his hometown. Whether Huang Laifu was mining or commercial tax collection, if the model affected the whole country, it would affect his personal interests.

Although Huang Laifu has a lot of taxes every year and is the darling of the Ministry of Revenue, how can the major affairs of the country be compared with private interests?
Chapter completed!