At this time, the Dongchang and Jinyiwei were simply death-hunting talismans for those officials and businessmen. With Zhu Youxiao’s order, the factory guards launched another large-scale arrest activity.

This arrest operation left the powerful and powerful businessmen involved in the private salt business almost unprepared.

Almost one-night home, Jinyiwei and Dongchang arrested more than 30 merchants of all sizes and more than 20 powerful people. The powerful people who had been engaged in private salt activities around Changlu Salt Field for a long time were almost all caught.

While arresting, the house and property were sparsely seized, which was a disaster. All the arrested businessmen and powerful people were ashamed and were tortured by the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and they confessed and pleaded guilty.

The Daming Daily has not reported on this crackdown on private salt, mainly because it does not want to disturb the private salt interest gangs in other provinces too much.

At this time, there was almost a consensus that no matter what the emperor did in Northern Zhili, the emperor did not cross the line, and merchants from other provinces continued to wait and see.

There were naturally some criticisms in public opinion. The salt merchants in northern Zhili were wiped out, and private salt merchants and powerful people were arrested and investigated, and soon spread to the Jiangnan region. The criticism of Zhu Youxiao in Jiangnan region once again formed a craze.

The emperor was insatiable and competed for profit with the people. What else could he spend money or be extravagant? Various rumors and versions were widely circulated in the Jiangnan region.

On the contrary, the reputation of the Northern Zhili region is completely different.

After the construction project started, a large amount of money was spent. Zhu Youxiao improved various basic social security in Beizhili. In addition, the anti-corruption campaign made the people of Beizhili enthusiastically support Zhu Youxiao. At the same time, there were also a large number of municipal "water armies" of factories and guards, which were all over the world. They were deliberately or unintentionally promoting the emperor's various wise and magical martial arts, and refuting various market rumors.

The opposition between the north and the south was a major issue in the late Ming Dynasty. This was related to the formation of a high degree of autonomy by the gentry and chaebols in the south. The two sides had different interests due to the imbalance in development. However, the people were the same, almost in dire straits. It was just that the people in the south could not starve to death. But the rich were also continuous and the poor had no place to stand.

In contrast, the gap between the rich and the poor in the south is even more terrifying. Because commercial capital in the north is not as developed as the south, ordinary people still have a certain place to stand.

The people of the entire Ming Dynasty were waiting for Zhu Youxiao to rescue him.

This time, many Tongzhou merchants and Tianjin merchants were searched, which also caused a serious shock to the merchants in Northern Zhili, and they were a little panicked for a while.

The merchants in Northern Zhili found that they did not seem to have "human rights" at all. The emperor arrested them as soon as he wanted to, without any sense of security. After this arrest operation, some merchants in Northern Zhili migrated southward and never settled in Northern Zhili.

Tian Ergeng quickly reported this phenomenon to Zhu Youxiao.

"Tongzhou Chamber of Commerce and Tianjin Chamber of Commerce, after this arrest, most of the remaining merchants went there, some went to Yangzhou with their families, and some went to Nanzhili with their families. They also promoted it everywhere, and if they didn't leave, they would lose their heads sooner or later." Tian Ergeng reported.

"If they like to go, just go! The earth will not turn away if they leave them." Zhu Youxiao said indifferently. Tian Ergeng hesitated: "But after these merchants moved, they took away a lot of silver."

"This is a problem." Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think about it. This phenomenon is equivalent to the outflow of wealth. If a country's wealth is like a bucket full of water. Once a merchant evacuates capital in large quantities, it is equivalent to the outflow of wealth and the bucket will leak.

These escaped merchants are those who have no borders and will never be reliable.

Although Tian Ergeng does not quite understand the specific theory, he also has a slight awareness.

"Since they are going to escape, they don't want to get involved in the Beizhili market again and eliminate them immediately." Zhu Youxiao decided immediately.

Soon Zhu Youxiao took action and issued several government decrees to further reform the tax rate of the Tax Bureau. This reform was to divide the province's enterprises from other provinces, so as to treat tax differently.

First, it raises the tax rate of enterprises in northern Zhili by 15 to 30 percentage points. Enterprises in this province enjoy more preferential tax rates, but at the same time, various capital withdrawal and liquidation policies have been introduced.

Just like the Americans in later generations, if capital wants to escape from the United States, it will be liquidated first. If you want to leave, you can get rid of your skin first.

The liquidation policy of Northern Zhili is not as strict as that of the Americans, but if the funds are withdrawn, they will be charged a 20% tax rate.

Such liquidation must be coordinated with the bank.

Because the money is in the bank, it can only be held when people withdraw funds. But there is no banknote at present, the bank still can't hold it.

Anyway, the policy has been introduced first, and things like gold coupons, silver coupons, etc. can be done later.

This policy was introduced soon. It can be said that this is a policy that is not very significant for the time being. However, it stipulates that enterprises in the Northern Zhili province must meet two conditions: one is household registration, and the other is whether to settle in Northern Zhili.

Many of the merchants who migrated from their families also registered enterprises. These enterprises were quickly labeled as "foreign enterprises" and were levied at higher tax rates. Their competitiveness was immediately inferior to those of the enterprises in the Northern Zhili Province.

At the same time, the Civil Affairs Bureau has also strictly managed its native place. If all businessmen from other provinces want to establish an enterprise in Beizhili, they must pay 2,000 yuan in silver dollars to apply for a Beizhili "temporary residence permit".

The market in Beizhili is gradually prospering, and some merchants move out, but more merchants cut their brains and squeeze in. 2,000 silver dollars, similar to the purchasing power of agricultural products of 1 million yuan in later generations.

Northern Zhili officially became a country among the country.

For merchants, the temporary residence permit is an "entry ticket" to enter the Northern Zhili Nuggets, but it is just an entrance ticket. Similar to the green card system in the later generations of the Americans, merchants from other countries have to go to the United States to do business, and they will pay millions of dollars first and then how many jobs they have to create.

For this purpose, the Civil Affairs Bureau established an "Immigration Office" to specifically review the application for hometowns. Immigration to Northern Zhili requires a threshold. It is only for merchants.

The Ming people who apply for the Northern Zhili native place can pass for free as long as they are not doing business. If they want to do business, their business assets do not exceed 1,000 yuan and enjoy the same tax rate. However, if they want to make their business bigger, if they exceed 1,000 yuan, the Taxation Bureau will transfer these people's enterprises to foreign companies for tax collection, and at the same time recover a "entry fee" of 2,000 yuan. If they have obtained their hometown for more than 5 years, they no longer need to pay the 2,000 yuan. Now, when doing business in Northern Zhili, they must register and register. The Civil Affairs Bureau's files are placed there, and it is almost impossible to get away with it.

However, if these enterprises from other provinces want to enjoy the same tax rate as enterprises in their provinces, what should we do? Then we can only join the venture with Royal Capital and become part of the Royal Consortium, so that we can enjoy the preferential tax rate of enterprises in our provinces.

It is equivalent to external capital that wants to enter Beizhili to do business, so they can only pay higher taxes unless they integrate into the royal consortium and become a red-topped businessman.

If southern merchants poured into Northern Zhili on a large scale to do business, the capital would be too terrifying. The royal consortium was in the incubation stage at this time. Such an incubation process was not just the development of royal capital. Those private merchants supported and combined shares formed a royal consortium with royal capital.

The incubation period of a capital consortium is the most fragile stage, and there must be a state machine to provide a protective umbrella.

The introduction of this policy is to liquidate those withdrawn merchants on the one hand, and to prevent the Northern Zhili market from being impacted by foreign capital.

The current royal consortium has been initially woven. However, the territory of the Northern Zhili province has not been completely digested and is still in a stage of being in a complete circle.

The Royal Consortium is still in the incubation period and its digestive ability is not strong. It will take a certain amount of time to digest the entire Northern Zhili.

When the consortium digests the territory completely, it will produce an outward expansion. Just like Germany during World War I, the expansion of the consortium is often accompanied by war.

In addition to Northern Zhili, the territory is still very large. It is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so it is easier for consortiums to expand. At least when the north expands, wars generally will not occur because the capital power in the north is not strong enough.

The concentration of wealth will lead to technological progress. Many people think that the technological development of Westerners is caused by following the scientific outlook on development, but it is actually completely nonsense. Westerners' technology is nothing more than technological progress, which allows the consortium to further monopolize wealth, thus promoting the further development of technology.

However, the relationship between technology and the development of a consortium is not completely bound. When an advanced technology is developed, if products made by lower-level technologies can still be sold, the consortium will generally not take out the advanced technology. Instead, it will wait for competition in the market to launch new products.

So there are actually a lot of cash technology in later generations, but they are still in a lockdown.

Once a strong consortium emerges in the Ming Dynasty, technological development and external expansion will become natural. Similarly, Zhu Youxiao is creating a capital monster.

Once this big monster grows up, the chaebols in the south will definitely fight against the Five Slags.

Import and export tariffs that support the incubation of Royal Capital have also achieved great results in this anti-smuggling activity. With the intervention of the army, a large number of smuggling traffickers were also arrested this anti-smuggling.

The high cost also makes smugglers feel cold.

However, import and export smuggling is more difficult to control than private salt smuggling, because the price of salt has dropped to 20 meter and there is no longer huge profits. However, the tariffs on luxury goods in import tariffs are extremely high, so smuggling of luxury goods to Beizhili has created huge profit margins.

Such huge profit space is enough to make people take risks. However, the smuggling scale is slightly larger and requires a maid. The high reporting rewards have basically curbed the phenomenon of tariff smuggling in Beizhili.

The import and export of all goods are first declared and paid taxes, and then passed. The tariff revenue has increased significantly.

Import and export tariffs basically mean that export tariffs are low and import tariffs are high. Among them, food and cotton have high export tariffs, while import tariffs are not high.

After some anti-smuggling activities, the annual tariff revenue increased by at least about 1.5 million yuan. With the growth of the economy, the construction of three industrial zones and the rise of various manufacturing industries, the tariff revenue will also increase. In terms of salt sales, the income was increased by about 2 million yuan. The tolls for the canal transportation can also increase by about 500,000 to 600,000 yuan throughout the year.

What surprised Zhu Youxiao the most was that the businessmen involved in private salt and the powerful and powerful found that they had retrieved nearly 6 million yuan of assets.

In just over a month, Zhu Youxiao got nearly 10 million yuan in income, which could obviously be increased to this year's budget expenditure.

This is another fortune!

Numerology says: Partial wealth is the wealth of everyone.

This kind of wealth comes and goes quickly. In modern terms, it is the link of "wealth redistribution". Some people get windfalls, which may be just a "transmission bridge" of "wealth redistribution", allowing money to flow in the hands of people who can keep windfalls. Therefore, some money will be hot. If you don't spend it, you will break the door. Therefore, this kind of wealth will usually be spent ten yuan as one yuan, spending a lot of money and spending money like soil, which is not like the careful calculation of the regular money.

This phenomenon was quickly verified by Zhu Youxiao. Before the money was warmed up, the White Lotus Sect suddenly rebelled in Shandong.

At this time, it was May of the second year of the Apocalypse.

Without any signs, the White Lotus Sect rebelled. The Shandong local government rushed to the capital for 800 miles and sent the memorial to the capital.

There was a saint named Xu Hongru who called himself the Emperor Zhongxing Fulie and called himself the first year of Xingsheng in Dacheng. He used a red scarf as a banner to capture Yuncheng. For a time, Cao and Pu were shocked.

The memorial was sent to the cabinet and was delivered to Zhu Youxiao as quickly as possible on the spot. Seeing the urgent situation, Zhu Youxiao quickly summoned the cabinet chief Shen Qing and the Minister of War Sun Chuanting to Yangxin Hall to convene an imperial meeting.

"Smelling the Incense School? What is this?" Zhu Youxiao asked Shen Wei and Sun Chuanting in confusion.

"Your Majesty, the so-called "Smelling Sword Sect is the remnant of the White Lotus Sect in the past, and it was just a change of name." Shen Qing pointed out directly that the "Vest" of the remnant of the White Lotus Sect.

"White Lotus Sect?" Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised and asked, "Why are such a deceptive thing still banned? Why are the common people fooled?"

"Your Majesty, this kind of cult is good at collecting incense trust, so as to use these trust to use some tricks or cure diseases. The people in the market do not understand the reason and cannot understand this kind of thing, so they will naturally be deceived." Shen Qing explained to Zhu Youxiao.

Sun Chuanting continued: "Some people didn't believe it at first, but after watching it on the spot, they believed it. The more people believed in this kind of thing, the faster it spreads."

Confucianism is very familiar with the energy field generated by this kind of faith, so Chinese emperors have never been fooled by this kind of thing since ancient times.

That is, the old witch Cixi was fooled by the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty was actually the vest of the White Lotus Sect. The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, which could also be regarded as a religious war. In the late Qing Dynasty, the invasion of Christianity occupied the inherent "trust market" of these White Lotus Sects, and then the Boxer Rebellion violently killed missionaries broke out.

"Incense and Trustworthiness? Is this really possible?" Zhu Youxiao asked in surprise, and at the same time, he thought of a later generation of Master Wang who had stripped the three realms of shadow, politics and business.

Chen Wei and Sun Chuanting both nodded. Obviously, as emperors, what they could learn from at such a height had exceeded the level of official publicity before the time travel.

"What should I do then? How to curb it?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Although the White Lotus Sect is good at collecting trust and developing believers, the army is responsible for killing and killing. Those magic is useless in front of the army. As long as the army arrives, although it is not invulnerable to swords and guns, they are all floating clouds, but just a group of mobs." Sun Chuanting said, "The emperor only needs to take advantage of the situation before it expands and immediately send troops to Shandong to suppress the situation. The White Lotus Sect dispersed in an instant."
Chapter completed!