I stayed in the Shandong area for a long time. Seeing that September was coming, Zhu Youxiao was not good for him to stay anymore. After the government and gentry started to implement the implementation of food collection and met a group of new Shandong local bureaucrats, Zhu Youxiao set off directly to the south.

At this time, the commercial tax collection policy in the Fengyang area in the south had begun to be implemented.

When Zhu Youxiao arrived at Fengyang's territory, he saw countless merchant ships anchoring outside Fengyang City like a sunset. Many of them were ships transporting cargo from the Royal Industrial Company and ships transporting cargo from the Royal Weaving Bureau to the north. Since commercial tax was to be collected, Zhu Youxiao asked the royal merchants to take the lead and take the lead in paying commercial tax.

Therefore, even though the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau were not exempted from taxes, the governor of Fengyang Ma Shiying was naturally grateful for this. Many times, the tax paid by the Royal Industrial Company was 100% or 20% of the tax collected by the governor of Fengyang that month.

What satisfied Zhu Youxiao was that Ma Shiying did not impose heavy taxes on all merchants. Not only did he not impose commercial taxes on small vendors whose business scale was only enough to support his family, it would not only help him obtain low-interest loans from the branch of Royal Bank in Fengyang. The purpose was naturally to encourage them to grow.

We provide heavy taxes to wealthy and wealthy businessmen and provide protection preferential treatment to small merchants. The same is true for the Lijin checkpoints in other prefectures and counties in Fengyang. The Lijin collection standards for various places, which were personally ruled by the Governor's Office, are revised every year. This year is the first year of implementation, and the collection point is 100 taels.

In other words, if you are just a small farmer who goes to the city to sell some vegetables and fruits, you don’t have to worry about being subject to heavy taxes by the court. If there are soldiers guarding the city gate who collect taxes privately, the farmers can directly report to the county government. Once it is true, the soldiers who commit crimes will be imprisoned at the worst and will be exiled and sentenced to the prison.

Of course, if officials of prefectures and county vain or exploit the lower class, once the prefectures and county officials appear, it is not just as simple as dismissal. The lightest thing is to report to the Ministry of Works and then serve for ten years.

In order to allow small vendors to have a fixed place to conduct commercial activities, and to facilitate urban management, the Governor's Yamen clearly ordered local prefectures, counties and market towns to set up fixed agricultural product trading markets, and the Governor's Yamen allocated special funds to assist the construction.

In this way, Ma Shiying's commercial tax collection policy in Fengyang not only did not affect the lives of small vendors, but was more beneficial to them. Therefore, it was much less boycotted by the bottom. However, some gentry and big merchants complained about Ma Shiying's policies, because according to the collection policy of the Fengyang Governor's yamen, whether it was from the former dynasty or the Shangshu's family, even if they had the reputation of the Juren, they would be taxed according to the value of the goods.

Of course, there are also those who have a background to resist strongly, but in the end they were Ma Shiying's cruel suppression. Ma Shiying was not Yuan Keli, but he was a member of the eunuch party and didn't care about his reputation. He only cared about the ending when doing things, and did not pay attention to the methods.

Therefore, there were many caravans with powerful backgrounds who were brutally suppressed by him for a while, and many even sued Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao was too lazy to deal with it and directly issued an order to the Silijian. In the future, everyone who impeached Ma Shiying would stay, even if he sued him for Ma Shiying's rebellion, the same would be true.

Caravans with military background also attempted to use the army to fight against the Governor's Office. However, when these commanders or guerrillas saw that the Governor's Office could also summon the Imperial Guards stationed in Xuzhou to assist in handling some emergencies, these generals who relied on a few private soldiers under their command did not dare to jump up again, not to mention that Ma Shiying was the most military-powered civil servant here.

For some vassal kings, they could only do things honestly according to the rules of association, and they didn't know what was going on. Ma Zhongcheng's memorial was very good. Every time he impeached a royal relative, the superiors could immediately make a reply and even beat the auxiliary general who killed the governor's yamen runners and directly robbed the title and seized the title, and even threw him into the governor's prison.

As a result, Ma Shiying became even more unscrupulous. The officials and runners of his governor's yamen were also scolded by these merchants as cruel officials and corrupt officials. There were countless people who scolded Ma in major newspapers and magazines such as the Daming Daily, but the entire Fengyang government was surprisingly consistent.

The reason is very simple. Although the collection of commercial tax offended many powerful people, it also gave a lot of money. In the past, a lower-class county now has income comparable to a prefecture, so the county magistrate naturally supported it. What's more, Ma Shiying allowed them to intercept a certain proportion of tax revenue for their own use, so that they would be more motivated.

As for whether they will be retaliated by the powerful in the future, it is not something that local officials like them are worried. Anyway, with Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying in front of him, the scholars and juren will only scold him. Many Fengyang officials even scold Ma Shiying while doing their best to do their jobs for Ma Shiying.

Zhu Youxiao didn't stay in Fengyang for long, so he encouraged Ma Shiying and went south to Nanzhili.

During this period, Sun Chengzong's reform of the investment in western Shaanxi also kicked off.

Shaanxi has not achieved commercial activities, but there are many large landlords, and many of them are military landlords. However, Sun Chengzong was originally the Minister of War and the Trilateral General System, and he controlled the fate of these officers. In addition, Zhu Youxiao also explicitly ordered Oboi, who was stationed in Shaanxi to train the new army of the Imperial Guards, so no one could stop him.

After more than two hundred years of founding the Ming Dynasty, it was the richest in Jiangnan, but this place was the weakest place in the imperial power rule.

Since the seventh year of the Tianqi period, Zhu Youxiao has made his most trusted eunuch Wei Zhongxian become the eunuch in Nanjing, and Zhu Youxiao has begun to expose his own sense of existence and control over Jiangnan's wealth and literary style in Jiangnan.

The pink walls and black tiles, the small bridges and flowing water, Zhu Youxiao stood on the bow and bathed in the sunset, and Lingxin, who was beside her, gently brushed Luoying from Zhu Youxiao's forehead. She also went on a long journey for the first time, but she didn't expect that one day she would stand with the emperor and look at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

As he was about to arrive at Stone City, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh. When Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne here, he was afraid he would not have thought that the Ming Dynasty he established would one day fall into the hands of his future man.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in Nanjing, Wang Yongguang, the Minister of War of Nanjing, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, who was in charge of Nanjing and led the title of Prince Taibao, and other heavyweight officials and ministers of Nanjing were waiting in front, waiting for Zhu Youxiao to get off the ship to accept their worship.

In a wealthy and romantic place like Jiangnan, Wei Zhongxian was obviously much fatter than in the capital. His huge belly seemed to be shattering his silk and satin clothes. But when Zhu Youxiao came, his fat body ran to Zhu Youxiao very vigorously and cried like a child who hadn't seen his parents for many years: "Old minister has seen Your Majesty!"

"Get up, you can see that you have a good life in Nanjing." Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but joke.
Chapter completed!