In front of Yingtianfu Yamen, a long queue of people formed.
Just an hour ago, Ying Tianfu Yamen posted an announcement.
The people of Jinling City quickly came to watch, and the literate scholars began to read.
"The imperial court uses troops every year and the treasury is empty. Your majesty is kind and cannot bear to impose more taxes on the people."
"As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty have a court, they can take the initiative to apply for tax."
After reading this, everyone suddenly laughed.
"Although it is a matter of course to pay taxes and pay royal rations, what does it mean to take the initiative to apply for taxes?"
Someone asked in confusion.
It immediately caused a roar of laughter.
Since ancient times, I have only heard of people evading taxes, but I have never actively applied to pay more taxes, right?
But what happened next left many people stunned.
“Anyone who applies for tax payment from Yingtianfu can obtain a tax certificate.”
"The tax certificate will be different depending on the application subjects."
"With this tax certificate and application for tax invoice, you can start business."
"The original household registration remains unchanged."
Seeing this, many people rubbed their eyes, thinking they had seen it wrong.
What are the prerequisites for doing business in Ming Dynasty?
The premise is that you must be a merchant, and only merchants are qualified to do business.
In addition to merchants, it is illegal for anyone else to do business, and the Yamen will arrest them.
However, the imperial court also stipulated that "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants", merchants were the lowest.
Once you become a merchant, your descendants will not even be eligible for the imperial examination.
Therefore, although they know that business is very profitable, few people are willing to become merchants.
Only when you are really desperate will you do that.
Because of this, many merchants in the Ming Dynasty were servants of wealthy families.
They already have a low status, so it doesn't matter if they come to do business.
This actually leaves another loophole that allows large investors to profit from it.
In fact, strictly speaking according to Ming law, this is not allowed.
But even now, when Lao Zhu is in power and the Ming Law is most strictly enforced, it is still extremely common for noble families or officials to conduct business through this method.
As soon as Yingtianfu Yamen's announcement came out, that is to say, no matter what status you have in the future, as long as you apply for a tax certificate, you can do business.
Moreover, the original household registration attributes remain unchanged.
Not considered a merchant.
Future generations can still take the imperial examination and serve as officials.
At this moment, the people of Yingtian Mansion went crazy.
Who doesn’t know that doing business is a huge profit?
Who doesn't know that all those businessmen are extremely rich?
However, thinking about the low status of merchants, thinking about the various restrictions imposed by the imperial court on merchants, and thinking about the future of future generations, most people tolerated it.
Even if you are poor and miserable, you cannot degenerate into a merchant!
But now, there are no restrictions.
What are you waiting for?
The merchants went on strike, but they didn't.
They all rushed to apply for tax certificates.
After hearing the news, how can the merchants who were originally on strike still sit still?
Not to mention, two more were awarded accordingly.
"From now on, anyone doing business must use a tax certificate as proof. Those without a tax certificate are not allowed to do business."
"Any merchants who have not returned to the market to apply for tax certificates today will not be allowed to do so again in the future."
Merchants already know that even if they do not resume trading, because after applying for a tax certificate, there will be no restrictions on business, and new influxes will immediately fill their gaps.
And they will be permanently eliminated.
Needless to say, there will be consequences if you lose your business qualifications.
In front of Yingtianfu Yamen, Jiang Wei looked at the long line of people who came to collect tax certificates, and his admiration for His Royal Highness Nanwang grew a little more in his heart.
Zhu Yunzhen also smiled slightly, everything was as he expected.
This trick is not actually very clever, but it is very practical.
If at any other time, he had let go of his business qualifications, there would have been strong opposition from both the government and the public.
Even Lao Zhu may not agree.
But now, the merchants in Jinling City are on strike collectively, and the court cannot surrender to the merchants. This is a matter of course.
At this juncture, no one could object to the liberalization of business qualifications in the name of applying for tax certificates and collecting more taxes for the court.
Otherwise, would the imperial court still be coerced by those merchants and bow to them?
Which official dares to say this?
Although there are many people who hope to do this in their hearts, no one dares to say it openly.
Therefore, they had no choice but to accept Zhu Yunzhen's approach.
For Zhu Yunxuan, he was worried that he could not find opportunities to liberalize business and encourage the development of commerce.
These merchants are closed and just give away pillows when they feel sleepy.
It was exactly what he wanted.
By following the trend, the crisis of market strikes was solved, and the business qualifications were no longer subject to household registration restrictions.
The commercial prosperity of Ming Dynasty has been basically guaranteed since then.
Kill several birds with one stone.
No wonder he was happy.
The merchants who came to apply for tax certificates were all downcast.
After all the fuss, not only did not get half of the benefits, the tax certificate still had to be applied for, but the business qualifications were also opened to other people, and the profits in the future may plummet...
This is called stealing the chicken but losing the rice. How can the merchants not be angry?
But they had to bow their heads.
Otherwise, he would really have to be replaced.
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Huang Zicheng's family.
Zhu Yunwen was supposed to study behind closed doors, but he couldn't sit still at all. When he heard the news in his mansion, he immediately came to Huang's mansion again.
"Fourth brother has put an end to the merchant strike, what should we do now?"
Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai both looked very ugly.
I thought it would make it impossible for Zhu Yunzhen to end, but in the end, he gave pillows to others.
Hateful!
"The matter of establishing the crown prince will definitely not be delayed for too long, otherwise, it will really become a situation of fratricide."
"Your Majesty will not allow it, and the courtiers will also speak up."
Qi Tai said: "The current plan must make King Nan make mistakes. We can't just sit back and wait for death."
Zhu Yunwen bowed and said, "Please ask two teachers to teach me."
The place suddenly became quiet.
Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai were both lost in thought.
The current situation was very clear, but for a while, they really couldn't think of a way.
Huang Zicheng's expression changed again and again.
He suddenly spoke.
"I do have an idea. It will definitely work if the boat is destroyed."
Qitai said hurriedly: "Tell me more."
Huang Zicheng stood up, walked a few steps, turned around and said, "Your Majesty can't afford to delay, and the court can't afford to delay. The matter of establishing a prince will be decided within this year."
"King Nan is so smart, we don't know if there is any expert guidance behind him."
Zhu Yunwen interjected: "There must be no such thing. If not, I should have known about it a long time ago."
He and Zhu Yunzhen lived in the same house, so he naturally knew the details.
"If that's the case, then he's even more terrifying."
Huang Zicheng said: "You know it, but His Majesty may not believe it."
"In my opinion, since King Nan is so smart and capable, with talents that have never been seen before, it would be better to simply propose to His Majesty and ask him to make King Nan the emperor's grandson."
"Ah!" Zhu Yunwen and Qi Tai said in surprise at the same time.
Huang Zicheng's face showed murderous intent, and his voice became deeper and deeper.
"Let all the civil and military officials, the nobles of the court, the officers and soldiers of the three armies, and the people of the world all come forward to ask Your Majesty to appoint the Southern King as the crown prince. The louder the momentum, the better..."
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PS: The climax is coming, more updates will be released this afternoon!
