More than ten days later!

Good news came from the front line, and Liu Guoneng, like the Zheng family, accepted the invitation in advance.

Liu Guoneng, a native of Yan'an, Shaanxi, was nicknamed Chuancaitian and was the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty. Later, he recruited An and was loyal to the court.

In the original history, he was pacified in Suizhou in the first month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and told Xiong Wencan: "The foolish people have been in trouble for ten years, and Lai Gong has been reborn. I hope that all the people will be reborn as military officials and do their best to the death."

Xiong Wencan was overjoyed and comforted him. He signed as a garrison and ordered his subordinates to Zuo Liangyu. From then on, Liu State was able to be bound by the court and no longer had any other ambitions.

Now, this historical change has changed a few years in advance and he has accepted the recruitment. Obviously, there are also historical effects and consequences brought by Zhu Zilong.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was still fighting stubbornly, suffered a defeat in Jiangbei, and ran to Huguang. He ran to Gucheng, and then he was temporarily settled.

Yang Sichang's plan to ambush on the ten sides achieved great success. Li Zicheng was dying, Liu Guoneng surrendered, and Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in Gucheng. The other rebel teams were all small and were beaten out of shape.

After Liu Guoneng surrendered, Ma Shixiu and Du Yingquan also surrendered.

It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong was very hard at this time. In the words of the textbook, the "revolutionary cause" has reached a trough. Just surrender. With Zhu Zilong's murderous aura, he probably won't need to attract help and kill him halfway.

After all, this guy pushed the tomb of the old Zhu family in Zhongdu, and all officials were unable to find the scapegoat!

Therefore, he cannot surrender and has to continue fighting for his career.

However, if there is no miracle, it would be a slap.

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Now, Zhu Zilong didn't care about him.

Instead, he focused on the canal. The provinces he, the governor of the five provinces, simply placed on the five provinces along the canal.

The so-called canal is also called the Grand Canal, or the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou.

It is the longest mileage and largest engineering ancient canal in the world, and one of the oldest canals. It is known as the three great projects in ancient China together with the Great Wall and Kanerjing, and has been used to this day.

It is a great project created by the working people in ancient China and one of the symbols of China's cultural status.

The Grand Canal starts from Yuhang (now Hangzhou) in the south and reaches Zhuojun (now Beijing) in the north. It passes through four provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Beijing. It runs through five major water systems, including the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, and the Qiantang River, with a total length of about 1,797 kilometers.

It has played a huge role in the economic, cultural development and exchanges between the north and south of China, especially in the development of industrial and agricultural economy in the areas along the route.

On June 22, 2014, the 38th World Heritage Conference announced that the China Grand Canal Project was successfully selected into the World Cultural Heritage List and became China's 46th World Heritage Project.

After Emperor Yang of Sui ruled in the early 7th century AD, he moved the capital to Luoyang.

In order to control the vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River and transport abundant materials from the Yangtze River Delta to Luoyang, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered the excavation of the "Yongji Canal" from Luoyang through Linqing, Shandong to Zhuojun, Hebei (now southwest of Beijing) in 603 AD!

It can be said that in the general environment of the sea ban, there was no complete liberation.

This is the aorta of the Ming Dynasty, just like the largest blood vessel in the human body. Whoever controls the Grand Canal will control the largest transportation in the Ming Dynasty.

He controlled the Grand Canal and received the support of the Queen Regent, and now the Later Jin Dynasty was also driven away, and was still fighting for the throne during the civil strife.

Zhu Zilong felt that his time was ripe and he could start Canal A plan ahead of time.

Jining, Shandong!

Located in the southwest of Shandong Province, it is located in the junction of Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui provinces. It is one of the important transit terminal areas in the middle of the Grand Canal!

The pier is busy, and there are no people stopping here, but today is different.

A village warrior from the Zhu family army suddenly appeared here wearing clothes with the word "urban management".

A cargo ship was stopped in front.

A man in silk appeared on the boat and shouted: "This is the Duke's ship, how dare you stop it?"

However, this time the team was led by an old officer in the Zhu family army. Not to mention the princess or something, as long as Zhu Zilong issued an order, even the emperor would dare to fight. So, the next minute.

More than a dozen soldiers fired guns directly into the sky, and the bang bang was terrifying.

Then, he rushed to the boat and knocked the man who had just pretended to be a match to the ground. It was not enough to finish the fight, and he said loudly: "I heard it all, because the details of the Later Jin Dynasty and the canal are overwhelmed. Passing ships will be inspected from now on the order of the Marquis of the Supervisor from now on. The canal pollution control fee will be collected according to the size of the size, that is, Lijin. Those who resist and do not follow will be killed on the spot."

"I think you dare?" The beaten man wanted to pretend to be a comparison. As soon as he finished speaking, another team of soldiers came up and directly beat him up and screamed in pain.

A literati like this is crazy and has to be unreasonable and just fight.

I guess no one here understands the cost of canal pollution control proposed by Zhu Zilong, but I believe everyone in the Ming Dynasty understands the word "Lijin".

Lijin, also known as donating lijin.

Lijin was originally generally divided into branch (liquid) and sitting (banli). The former is the goods levied through taxes and levied by the transshipment and drawn to the merchant; the latter is the transaction tax, which is levied at the place of origin or sales, and drawn to the merchant.

Just because you want to get the name of pollution control fees, it actually means half a copycat to collect commercial taxes.

Even the goods from the Duke's house were stopped, and they would not be allowed to pay. Other merchants, under the bayonet, dared not say more nonsense.

So, one by one, started paying money in order.

And Hu Hansan is one of these businessmen.

He paid the money, took the so-called bill, and quickly set off the road, left Jining, and went north along the Hebei. When he arrived in other areas of the canal, similar urban management officers and soldiers came to check. When he was sad and wanted to lose money, the urban management officer looked at his bill and did not collect the money again.

Now, Hu Hansan was stunned.

This is unscientific. According to the nature of officials and soldiers from other places in the Ming Dynasty, shouldn’t the charges be charged again at this time?

When did the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty become so honest? Isn’t it scientific?

Walking along the canal, and presenting documents along the way, we went all the way to Texas without any obstacles. There was no difficulty at all!

Now, many businessmen like Hu Hansan were surprised.

Moreover, if you carefully calculate the cost, hey, it saves several times more than before. It turns out that the benefits of paying tax are greater than not paying taxes?

Then we still object, what should we do to pay this business tax?

In the past, when I passed Shandong to other provinces, I had to spend 30 or 40 taels of tax per cargo, and this trip only paid 5 taels of personal income tax. I just walked through the Grand Canal, which was really worth it!

Not all merchants were big landlords and big merchants. In the Ming Dynasty, many merchants were small merchants, just like Hu Hansan.

They are all very careful in calculating. After comparing this, they found that within the five provinces managed by Zhu Zilong and the Grand Canal, tax collection seems to be unacceptable. It is only a small amount, saves trouble, saves money, and saves trouble, and is a real calculation!

What, do you say that other big landlords don’t think it’s a calculation?

What does that have to do with us? They don’t usually take care of our business.

Of course, along the way, there were many caravans of officials who resisted and did not pay taxes, and as a result, many were arrested and imprisoned.

This incident was passed on to Zhu Zilong.

He yawned and replied: "As long as you don't pay money, you just do things and offend people, I will take care of it. The rules and regulations formulated at the canal transportation meeting will be implemented resolutely. Those who resolutely resist can be shot on the spot. I don't believe it. There are still troops and caravans on this Ming territory, so don't take the national laws and the Zhu family army seriously?"

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