Chapter 1453
Commercial guilds already existed in the late Ming Dynasty.
For example, tooth line, such as cloth line, rice line and so on.
It is an organization established by most businessmen in a certain industry for monopoly pricing, information talisman tablet and other purposes. For example, Yahang is an organization that monopolizes the buying and selling of people and the employment of labor. In ancient times, there was a label to sell the first. People wanted to sell themselves with a straw inserted behind their necks. But at this time, it doesn’t work. If you want to sell yourself, you must go through the yaxing, otherwise you can’t sell it. If you insert a sign on the street and you are seen by the yaxing, the yaxing thug can not to be trifled with. . Similarly, if you are a hired worker, you have to go to the dental office to register and get a job through the dental office.
Business in this era is not as simple as imagined. Commercial guilds have a very strong influence and even raise a large number of thugs. Those who do not obey them will be retaliated against.
As the city of Central Plains, Kaifeng is one of the most famous cities in the world, and the commerce here is extremely developed. Therefore, various commercial guilds stand in great numbers and monopolize more than 70% to 80% of the major industries in this city.
Sun Xiucai was the imperial emissary for the first time. He was ordered by Ying Yi to kill the fat pig. The most important goals were actually connected with the guild.
Not only because the wealthy, wealthy and honorable are mostly members of business guilds, but also because these guilds have their own armed organizations.
For Ying Yi, he does not need a local tyrant under his treatment.
Commercial guilds are local tyrants that are not just in name only, but also in reality-their influence is great, and they are closely related to officials. When Kaifeng was under siege, Gao Mingheng tried his best to keep Kaifeng, but it had nothing to do with them. The thugs of the business guild have never gone to the city wall to fend off the enemy. That's not to say. It is clear that Kaifeng has run out of ammunition and food, and commoners can't afford to eat. Instead, these commercial guilds will sit on the ground and raise prices. No matter the price of food or cloth, the price of materials involved in survival will soar. There is no scruples and unscrupulous. .
The heart of the country is safe and reasonable, and the heart is black, incomparable.
Whether it is Gao Mingheng or Zhou Wang, it can't help them. Because they connected the entire overwhelming majority of Kaifeng, Gao Mingheng couldn't afford to offend, and Zhou Wang also don't dare provoke. Even they themselves are involved.
If you provoke them, it is not the thieves who broke the city, but these people.
"There are more than ten various types of trading companies in Kaifeng, involving all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation. More than 80% of the rich, wealthy and honorable are one of them."
After several days of investigation, Xiucai came to see Ying Yi with a detailed list.
"Among them, there are the largest number of thugs in the tooth and carts. There are at least 3,000 thugs in the tooth and more than 5,000. Other commercial guilds are more or less, also more than 1,000. "The number of people."
Ying Yi heard the answer and said: "the past few days what happened to them?"
Sun Xiucai said: "There are trading company members in the past few days. Xungui, I went to the Zhu Mansion to ask for a meeting, but they were all turned away."
Ying Yi is slightly nodded.
Speaking of local tyrant, individually speaking, the largest local tyrant in Kaifeng is none other than Zhou Wang. Of course, under Ying Yi's rule, Zhou Wang is no longer Zhou Wang, and even the plaque of the mansion has been changed.
Ying Yi went to meet King Zhou, as everyone knows. Soldiers were also besieged, and the eyes of everyone were in full view. But in the end Zhou Wang seemed to be fine, except for taking off the plaque.
No one knows what kind of person Ying Yi is, what plans Kaifeng will have, and what impact it will have on them. But Zhou Wang had seen Ying Yi, so naturally these people wanted to ask Zhou Wang for some news.
Now it seems that Zhou Wang is quite cautious and did not see these people. Of course, on the surface like this, I don't know how to win in secret.
But Ying Yi didn't care.
He said: "Now that you have checked it out, let go and do it. If you don't move, it's like a thunder. You know which ones should be killed and which ones should be killed."
Sun Xiucai stood up and said, "Yes, Lord."
Now he turned and left.
This is a bloody storm.
Those damn black-hearted ghosts thought that Ying Yi would be like the officials of the Great Ming Dynasty, and they would be willing to draw them in, but didn't expect that after a few days of silence, the butcher knife would be ushered in.
Although the Trading Company has its own armed forces, how can the local chicken wago mob stop the elite soldiers who have been gathering for a long time and thunder has attacked?
Wang Yisheng cooperated with Sun Xiucai to raise the butcher knife, and solved the problem of the tooth and carts that night. The next day, he did not stop and flattened the remaining Trading Company on the list.
When Mancheng reacted, the dust had settled.
More than ten trading companies, more than 15,000 people were killed, and 7,000-8,000 were captured. There were more than 500 shops and warehouses sealed up, and Ying Yi was amazed by the huge number of confiscated materials—the food alone was more than 3.8100,000 shi!
This number is horrible to see.
Kaifeng has run out of ammunition and food, and commoners can’t afford to eat, but there is also so much food hoarded in the warehouses of major trading companies. There are millions of commoners in Kaifeng, even if they are divided equally, each household can be divided into three or four stones!
However, when Ying Yi entered the city, the price of food in Kaifeng city had soared to thirty silver tael. Visibly vicious!
After sealing up the involved Trading Company and store warehouse, Sun Xiucai ransacked his home in the following days.
The rich and honorable members of Trading Company are the target. After 3.8100,000 shi of grain, in just 5-6 days, Ying Yi had another bumper harvest-more than before, there were four hundred and 500,000 shi!
These grains are all the grains buried in their own cellars, even if they are moldy.
As a result, a single grain, a Kaifeng city, has confiscated 8.3100,000 shi!
How terrifying? !
And this is only food, such as cloth, iron, etc., are also a huge number. For example, iron material is 2-3 million catties!
Together with silver melon and gold bricks worth 40 million silver tael, and antique calligraphy and paintings of jade stone worth 10 million taels, the wealth of on the surface made Ying Yi eat it all in one go. Full.
If you count hundreds of shops and several hundred thousand hectares of land involved in the land deeds obtained after the ransacking of homes, the value is inestimable.
For the time being, gold and silver, land, and other materials that cannot be used immediately are temporarily used. After the inspection, basic materials such as grain are immediately used by the state and animal husbandry yamen.
After Zheng Yunzhi will be slaughtered, the remaining small group of businessmen and honors who are safe and secure will gather together, and in their trembling with fear, they will announce the handling method, requesting them to open immediately, and will check the The shops were sold to these merchants.
It is the first thing that the prefectural Muyamen must do while recruiting officials.
Because it first dealt with businessmen, the Department of Commercial Affairs was the first department established under the Zhou Muyamen. The pricing of basic materials needed by the private sector is the first policy issued by the Department of Commerce.
With the establishment of the Commercial Affairs Department, the taxation department was established. Completely overthrow the Great Ming Dynasty’s taxation system and include commercial taxation. It stipulates that transactions with a profit of more than ten silver tael must be taxed. Starting from 5%, it will be increased gradually according to the transaction level, up to a maximum of 3% for more than 10,000. ten.