.I have to admit that after ten years of hard work, silence has weaved a huge network. Its strength is beyond everyone's desire to fight. Although everyone knows that he is very strong, he is only the tip of the iceberg when exposed. You can't understand his true power at all, so you are always confused by his harmless appearance.

Did he pass the test again and again by luck? Obviously not.

Take this time to deal with the imperial envoy as an example. Before Wang Zhuan left the capital, he had already obtained all the information of him and the Imperial Physician Jin. After careful analysis, he found the flight of Jin Xuejiang and Cui Yan.

By asking Cui Yan, Chen Mo knew that this person's ancestral home was occupied by Ruyang King Zhu Musai, and he had been suing for a lawsuit and wanted to come back. Although Ruyang King was not a big bird, he was not a small medical official who could shake it. Doctor Jin was always depressed about this matter.

So Cui Yan wrote a letter to Jin Xueyan, telling him about his ancestral home, and Chen Jingluo would help him solve it. Of course, his premise was that he had the opportunity to return to Beijing and speak only when he heard the letter. When Jin Xueyan received the letter, he naturally understood the meaning of the question, let alone the teacher-student relationship was there, so he cooperated with Chen Si and fooled Wang Zhuan.

In fact, Jin Xueyan has a good medical skills. After careful observation, hearing, asking and touching, he knew that the silence disease was pretending. If silence did not bribe him, it would be difficult to pass; if he could do it, he could not hide it from the smart Wang Zhuan. Although it seemed that silence could always pass without any effort, in fact, his skills were in places where ordinary people could not see him, and those who were good at fighting had no great achievements, which was what he meant.

The return date was certain, and the silence was not anxious. He could probably feel that he would not come back within a few years after leaving Jiangnan this time. He had to seize the last time to complete his Pangfu's arrangement.

The first is to lay out the officialdom. In fact, over the years, his and his students had already been spread across the six southeastern provinces, but most of them had low official positions. Most of them had just reached the level of a magistrate in the same year, or held positions in the province, and only a very small number had already served as important positions such as prefects. But this allowed Silence to calmly allow his people to occupy half of the southeast without having to make a big fuss.

Although he did not have the power to appoint officials above the sixth rank, he had absolute right to allocate officials in the six southeastern provinces. He only needed to hand over some of the tasks of showing his face to his own people, and even if he had to touch some of the edges, he could take the sailor to win the bandits. He was naturally promoted and promoted. In addition, Guo Pu, the current Minister of Personnel, is Gao Gong's best friend. The two were seeking to enter the cabinet and want to unite all their strength to compete with Xu Jie. Of course, they would not miss this opportunity to sell it to silence..." Although Guo Pu did not know silence, Gao Gong knew his power well and believed that using some official positions to exchange for him to help each other, even if he made a profit.

Therefore, the silent arrangement was almost completely lost. Of course, his gentleness only focused on the coastal areas and some important riverside cities. This was not conspicuous in the large-scale official purge of the Xu Party. Moreover, none of his people served as governors, and even had no governors, so they were not revealed.

Silence was not overwhelmed. He knew that his people were generally inexperienced. Although last year to this year was the golden opportunity for officials to advance to the well, pulling too fast is tantamount to pulling seedlings to grow, and there is no benefit. So we should do it step by step and don’t underestimate them just shortening their three or five years of work. In the future, there will be an unparalleled advantage.

In addition to politics, the layout of industry and commerce is even more intense. Although the industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty were booming, the problems are also very serious. It should be noted that during the Song Dynasty, the official economy dominated and the private industry could only be a supplement. However, in this dynasty, the situation changed. An important feature is that private industry occupied a majority of the proportion of production, and the official industry could not be compared with it.

The entire society of this dynasty is that the private industry continues to grow, while the official industry continues to shrink. For example, the silk weaving industry and the three major weaving bureaus in the government have 100,000 pieces of decomposition tasks every year for rewards. In fact, the burden is not very large, because Suzhou alone can produce more than one million pieces of silk every year. But even so, it is difficult for the weaving bureaus to complete the decomposition tasks, sometimes less than half. This is a huge contrast with the strong private weaving capacity.

Moreover, contrary to people's daily perception, the quality of weaving in the official business is far inferior to that of the private business, so that every time the imperial goods are entrusted to the public, they dare not do it themselves.

For example, the official weaving and dyeing bureau gradually declined after Cheng and Hong. Its scale is far inferior to Wuhu, even compared with the private dyeing and weaving farms in Jiangxi. In addition, the porcelain making industry, the private kilns are developing very fast and the capacity is much larger than that of the official kilns. Taking Qing kilns as an example, each official kiln is burning more than 200 plates and plates, while each folk green kiln can burn more than 1,000 utensils. The body and output of the civil kilns in Jingdezhen are three or four times larger than that of the official kilns.

Shen Mo has done statistics. In the 43rd year of Jiajing, among the three thousand kilns in Jingdezhen, there were only more than 100 official kilns. The products of the four folk kilns of Cui, Zhou, Chen and Wu were sold well at home and abroad, and the quality was far greater than that of the official kilns.

Even the mining industry, which was strictly controlled by all dynasties, has undergone earth-shaking changes. Generally speaking, the mining ban policy in the Ming Dynasty was not very strict. In addition to gold and silver, private enterprises were opened very early; official mines and official MNJ fluctuated, but after Xuande, the point was a downward trend, and after Zhengde, it was even worse than crickets and even closed on a large scale. There were only official mines in a few provinces such as Yunnan, but they still insisted on operating, but they had no big prospects.

On the contrary, the private iron industry has developed rapidly, and Wuhu has gradually become a private smelting center, and professional iron and steel workshops have been continuously expanded.

There are more than a dozen private large steel farms such as the famous Puwanye Steel Floor. Each one is booming in Wuhu alone, and it bears half of the country's steel supply.

Even the prohibition of private mining of gold and silver mines has also caused a piece of paper, because most of the mining areas are in the deep mountains, and it is almost impossible to ban digging. In fact, "theft of mines is spread throughout the provinces. Some of them secretly dig in the deep mountains, while others rely on their power to occupy the mines of the government, and some have established armed forces to openly confront the government. For example, the mining chaos in Quzhou is a typical example. Moreover, such examples are not uncommon. In Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, it is much more powerful than Xijiang.

Finally, the salt industry, which has been regarded as an important financial source for thousands of years, has increasingly lost its original role. Because as the target of tax collection of the imperial court, the price of official salt is too high and sales are shrinking, resulting in a narrower taxation area. Of course, tax revenue has also been reduced accordingly. This is because of the impact of private salt. It is no secret that salt merchants rely on private salt trading to make huge profits. The national demand for salt is about 1.8 billion jin, while the fixed sales volume of official salt is only about 500 million jin. The seventh in the salt market has become exclusive to private salt, which seriously affects salt tax revenue.

Since Jiajing, the court has been trying to increase the sales of official salt, such as increasing the sales of official salt, in order to increase the income from salt tax. However, people cannot use salt as food, and the salt market is limited after all. Private salt with low prices and good prices are better than official salt with low prices and low quality in market competition. All the efforts of the court ended in failure.

All the above changes have nothing to do with silence. If you insist on it, it will at most accelerate its development. It can be said that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the official economy, as a source of expenses for the royal family and the court, was on the verge of collapse and was completely occupied by the private sector.

Sadly, the booming private economy cannot bring much fiscal revenue to the Ming Dynasty, because compared with the Song Dynasty, the tax rate for every five draws, the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was too low. What's more helpless is that even with such low taxes, tax evasion was blatant and evasion was extremely blatant. It can be said that the court could obtain very little benefits from it, and a large amount of huge wealth flowed to the wealthy families and wealthy merchants.

Emperors and chief ministers of all dynasties have wanted to change this situation, but spokespersons of these interest groups have been spread all over the court. Whenever they have been proposed, they have opposing voices in the court, "competing for profit with the people" and taking the opportunity to record the big hat. The proposers are all called a disaster like Wang Anshi and Sang Hongyang, and even surrounded and despised by others... so no one dares to help the emperor do this.

As a result, the strange phenomenon of industry and commerce becoming increasingly prosperous and the country becoming increasingly poor was also regarded by some old scholars as evidence that industry and commerce were ruining the country. However, with a silent position and position, it was impossible to completely reverse this situation, because in the final analysis, he was the biggest spokesperson of industry and commerce. If he betrayed industry and commerce, he would definitely be abandoned by those big families and big businessmen, and even become the target they wanted to eliminate.

But he did not want the Ming Dynasty to be like this. If he could not gain energy from the development of industry and commerce, the current situation of poverty and weakness in the country would not change. Although he had been committed to the development of the Southeast, he did not forget the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. The refugees and the Jurchens were precisely because of the poverty and the inability to provide disaster relief for the Chongzhen court, which led to the erections of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others; it was also because of the weak court that he could not cope with the two wars, and was finally cut off by the Manchus.

Therefore, if industry and commerce are to develop, national strength must also be improved accordingly. This is the major policy of silence and his guiding ideology. Regarding specific policies, silence never dares to slap his head. After long-term research on various industries and finding out the current situation, he dares to launch it carefully. And after the pilot project, he will conduct simultaneous operations in various provinces and industries.

First of all, in the field of production, the Democratic Progressive Party retreated. Since the official industry has been in name only, there is no need to sit in the house and occupy social resources. As early as nine years ago, he transformed the weaving tasks of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau from the official bureau to the official bureau leading the weaving", that is, the official bureau subcontracts its own tasks to private workshops and allocates the capital to the bank first. Seeing that it is profitable, the large households are naturally willing to undertake it. The official bureau can also complete the tasks with quality and quantity under the premise of significantly reducing costs, and the cost of the court is also met, which can be said to have benefited from multiple parties.

This method of leaving the government out of production and only being responsible for subcontract supervision is actually to exclude the government from production. It seems to be high-ranking, but in fact it places the official and private sectors in the equal land fairy... At the beginning, the eunuchs of the Weaving Bureau took the authority of the court and inevitably reduced the silver and fed the private pockets. When the big family saw that there was no profit, they used the price of materials to be insufficient and asked to increase the money, otherwise the work would not start. At this time, the authority of the court would not play much role, and the internal supervisors could only give it to the right person. The money... After years of observation, this method can indeed satisfy all parties. After silently, he ordered the weaving and dyeing yamen of each government office to sell out their official weaving fields, and change the needs to weaving, and bargain reasonably, and no squeezing weaving households. He probably calculated that this is the only thing that can be used to promote the fruit in the southeast. In one go, the number of phoenixes in Su Palace can be reduced by 600,000 taels per year. Although it is not much in the southeast, it is already a huge saving for the coldest Ming royal family in history.

Of course, the private textile industry is the most profitable from it. Not only did it take over a large number of orders originally belonging to the official business, but it was not yet the government deliberately made trouble to protect the official business, and the business naturally became more and more prosperous. However, Silence did not completely let the private business go. He ordered all looms to be registered with the Weaving Bureau to produce so that the government can grasp the number of weavings among the people and provide a reliable basis for taxation.

The commercial tax of 30 taxes must be paid, and no one has the shame to say no. Of course, he did not vigorously promote this matter, but was prepared to check the situation first and wait until the time was ripe. So this matter did not cause much trouble. On the contrary, many of the things that everyone was good at him were paid in full.

The other industries will basically follow this method of official compradors and commissioned production, but the specifics are different and will not be described one by one. Even the more special mines will no longer produce directly, but will adopt franchise operations to protect the exclusive operation of franchisees. In return, the operators will complete the production tasks of the imperial court for the government and pay the tax and silver as much as possible. This has been considered feasible after the pilot in Fujian and will be implemented in Quzhou. In the near future, Yaguang will reach the entire southeast.

He was not worried that this would cause controversy, because in the early years of Jiajing, an edict was issued: that all mountain fields, gardens, lakes, ponds, pits, flowers, fruits, trees, etc. were originally civil industry. The government once adopted it. Seeing that someone guarding or banning the contract, he listened to the people and was not allowed to ban the contract. The officials guarding Ranwai returned to their original positions. This general edict has never been fully implemented, but it is enough to block the mouths of those who oppose the objections.

If he is still cautious when dealing with the official and private industries silently, then he has made drastic moves in the layout of various industries in the Southeast, because the officials in the court still do not realize that this reform will profoundly change the appearance of the country.

Simply put, he re-arranged dozens of major industries in the southeast with the advantages of various regions, with the slogan being to reduce blind investment, avoid vicious competition, and promote win-win cooperation. Of course, there were originally the silk weaving industry centered on Susong Nanjing, printing and dyeing and steel industry centered on Wuhu; the raw silk industry centered on Huzhou, as well as Jingdezhen porcelain making industry, Fujian shipbuilding industry, Foshan iron smelting industry, and more than a dozen professional industrial towns of all sizes. It is hard for merchants to come out to reintegrate and optimize and combine them, but the deeper nasal sound can only be seen in the future.

Finally, in terms of foreign trade, he silently submitted a request to the court and opened three Maritime Bureaus in Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and allowed private trade to go overseas. As long as you register and pay taxes with the Maritime Bureau, you can use wealth and poor people to lose their property. You can travel to foreign countries, change your local things, and make profits.

More and more people regard the waves as roads and the sail wall as gifts. Especially in Huizhou, the poor children in Fujian and Guangdong have devoted themselves to this dangerous life in order to live a prosperous life. The Ming Dynasty's sea merchants have completely occupied the route east of Malacca, which of course stimulated the booming development of the shipbuilding industry. Large shipyards near coastal ports have started construction day and night, and sea merchants have not yet been launched.

But on the vast sea with thousands of miles of blue waves, there are not only merchant ships that create wealth, but also pirates with ox-haired hair. The power of the bent gangs is still quite large in the South China Sea. The pirate ships of the Franchise and the Dutch often travel in the South China Sea, trying to plunder the wealth of the Ming Dynasty merchant ships.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to do without a powerful fleet escort. Currently, the Xuhai Fleet is mainly responsible for the Nanyang route, while the Ming coast is under the responsibility of Wang Zhi, but this is only a right and they are both tired of it, and they are even more worried about being silent.

He placed his hope on the Ming Dynasty's own naval army. This matter was left behind by Zheng Ruozeng, who used the navy established by Yu Dajing as the team and recruited 20,000 soldiers. He planned to build 200 warships with strong firepower and complete protection in advance. With more than 100 old-fashioned warships, it was enough to build the strongest fleet east of Malacca, but the court could not afford the military expenditure. The silent design was that the coastal provinces would send part of the navy to earn part through escort, and the chopped off would just go out by themselves, of course, in the name of collective donation of the wealthy people in the southeast.

The reason why he was so anxious to build a fleet was not only for escort, but also because, according to Xu Hailai, the Spaniards landed in the northern part of the Luzon islands and established colonial sites there.

Chen Shu knew very well about these infamous colonists, knowing that they should make the whole of Luzon next step.
Chapter completed!