Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

Chapter 972: The Zhu Family’s Reputation Has Been Ruined

Master Hu squinted his eyes and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who was pretending to beg for mercy in front of him, and pretended not to see anything no matter how he tossed him around.

Doesn’t he know that others don’t know this old guy?

ask for help?

Under normal circumstances, this old guy would naturally not be willing to lower himself to beg others.

But if there is a benefit, and a big benefit, this old guy can immediately and easily throw all his face aside. He can really lose face.

but……

"Zhongba, this matter is really not a question of whether I should teach or not."

"But this matter is too simple!"

"Just one word, endure!"

"We can only endure it slowly!"

"This reputation, and this reputation in terms of money, can only be earned through time and effort."

"The reason why I'm so sure I can do it is because I've never cheated anyone with money in all these years."

"Not only that, I can also boast that Tao Zhu's skills are rare in the world."

"These are all real achievements, and they are known to everyone."

"So, people can slowly start to trust me!"

"But what about the others?"

"It's just like you three guys and Xiong Ying in front of us. If it's just a small amount of money, a few thousand or even tens of thousands of taels, it's fine to give it to them and take a chance."

"But if it's a huge sum of money that would cost the family a lot of money, who would dare to trust them so easily?"

"Then we can only know after getting to know each other slowly and slowly, right?"

Mr. Hu said this very sincerely, but also very helplessly.

Because credibility is indeed very valuable in this era.

Logically speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang as the emperor and these three boys as princes should have a basis for credibility based on their identities.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang himself often breaks his promises.

He even broke the contract and swallowed up other people's property and was still smug about it.

If you really use some legitimate means to eat someone up, that's your ability and others can't say anything.

But you keep using "outside the rules" methods and using your status as an emperor to mess with people, so who would believe you?

Therefore, the Zhu family ruined their own reputation in the business circle.

Of course, this is mainly because of the old Zhu in the past, who hated merchants to the core.

In his eyes, merchants are just fat pigs. Apart from being killed and eaten for their meat, they have absolutely no value at all and are disgusting to look at.

Then, he suffered backlash.

If you are not willing to answer, then that person cannot be a member of the imperial party, so he can only cling to the powerful and wealthy!

You don't like businessmen, but other gentlemen like them very much.

Who doesn’t want to have delicious food and wine served at home?

To put it bluntly, Lao Zhu has little experience, little education, and his methods are too crude.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually realized this at this time.

He has been in Hujiazhuang for some time. Just by discussing the various rules and regulations of China with Master Hu, he can actually see from Master Hu's words how much importance Master Hu attaches to business.

For Mr. Hu, agriculture is the foundation and the basis for ensuring the survival of the people.

But business is a major source of finance and taxation.

How much money would that be if we only relied on the taxes that farmers earn from their fields?

It is precisely because of this that China has been looking forward to and planning deeply about commercial taxation for a long time.

The tax office led by Li Fulu is now continuously recruiting and training people.

The purpose is to have a serious confrontation with these businessmen over taxation in the future.

As the Prime Minister of China, Zhu Yuanzhang had read and understood the work plan of the Tax Office for the next few years.

Just looking at the tax figures, Zhu Yuanzhang felt his scalp tingling.

Why are there so many?!

You know, even though Hujiazhuang has now become the Huaxia Kingdom.

But in fact, if you take all the arable land into account, this place is at most the size of a county town.

Compared with Yingtian City next to it, it is simply not worth mentioning.

But according to the plan of the tax office, it is no longer a question of whether Hujiazhuang will surpass Yingtian City.

But the tax revenue of this city is more than half of the territory of Ming Dynasty.

The biggest part of it is commercial tax!

When he discovered this, Zhu Yuanzhang was so shocked that he calculated it over and over again himself.

When he found out that his own calculation had come to the same conclusion, he just sat there for a long time without saying a word, like a piece of wood.

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It was then that he realized how much financial and tax revenue he had allowed to be lost when he was governing the Ming Dynasty.

He actually wanted to let his fat son, Zhu Biao, the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, follow in his footsteps in the Ming Dynasty.

But the thought just started and then it disappeared.

Because just in Hujiazhuang, there are more than 300 people prepared to collect taxes.

Even though it has not been fully recruited, the department has been divided into small departments according to tax types.

Even in order to combat collusion between officials and businessmen, various plans such as rotation mechanism, reporting mechanism, reward mechanism, etc. have been prepared.

There is also a special auditing agency within the company, which exists to discipline insiders.

Hujiazhuang alone is such a big government office. Even so, Master Hu still feels that he has enough manpower and instigates Li Fulu to recruit people everywhere.

If this were to be rolled out across the entire Ming Dynasty, what an astonishing scene it would be!

Not to mention too much, there must be tens of thousands of people, right?

So where do these tens of thousands of people come from?

Moreover, according to the arrangement of Master Hu, he adopted a system of high salaries to maintain integrity.

The salaries and benefits are high, but the punishments are also severe.

The key is that there are also constraints such as collective responsibility and reporting.

It's fine if you are greedy and want to cooperate with merchants to make some money, but if the benefits are taken away by others, or you get the lion's share.

Those who will be held responsible with you if anything happens will not tolerate you.

Even those subordinates who can't wait for you to get out of here have been eyeing you covetously for a long time.

Therefore, every aspect requires a huge investment of manpower and money.

But how could the Ming Dynasty afford such a large sum of money, and where could it find such a large number of people?

But if the scale is so large, how can it cover the entire Ming Dynasty?

It's impossible that the types and amounts of taxes are different in the south and the north.

Wouldn’t the locals rebel by then?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to have a love-hate relationship with business.

I knew it was full of meat, but I just couldn't find the place to start.

The key is that he can't blame anyone else, because the biggest problem that caused the matter to deteriorate to this point was caused by him.

If he hadn't committed all kinds of frauds back then, would his Zhu family's reputation among merchants in the world have been so bad?

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