It was a small profit, but Li Mu was full of everything in his heart.

As the lord of the world, the court actually cooperated with the martial arts sect for the logistics of the army. I am afraid no one would believe it.

This is not the last year of the dynasty. Calculated by the standards of Kangxi and Qianlong's heyday, it is still a proper peaceful and heyday.

However, because of the infighting in the court, I can't show my national strength. In order to suppress the rebellion as soon as possible, the coach and the supervising army had to choose a compromise.

After all, the Huashan Sect is just an ordinary martial art sect, or a good boy who has not carried out large-scale land mergers. What they want is nothing more than commercial benefits that the court never receives taxes.

But the guys in the courtroom might have killed them. Deliberately delaying the counter-insurgency time and letting the rebels continue to grow bigger, of course, could force the emperor to cut off Liu Jin's head and give the world an explanation.

But as the person in charge of the counter-insurgency army, who has been charged with the unfavorable charges of suppressing the rebels, how can he escape easily?

The greatest possibility is to go on the road with Liu Jin as a victim of this wave of court struggle.

For the sake of their own lives and career, it is not surprising that the two chose to do business with the Huashan faction.

Thinking of this, Li Mu paid a silent tribute to the bear boy in the Forbidden City. The price behind this seemingly understatement of compromise is the decline of the imperial court's influence in the arena.

Finally, with the help of the magic sect, the martial arts chickens and dogs are restless, and they beat all the martial arts factions, and this wave is back to the original point.

Frankly speaking, Zhu Huzhao's introduction of Liu Jin's reforms was also successful to a certain extent.

It was mainly the pot of Emperor Jingtai. After he took the throne, the frontier army was deserted, and he took it for granted that "the neighboring officials must try their best to cultivate the powerful family such as Yiying."

On the day when the edict was issued, the whole country celebrated. The relatives of the emperor, the feudal bureaucrats, monk temples, Taoist temples, and gangsters all ran to encircle the army and imperial villages. Everyone praised Zhu Qiyu as a prosperous emperor.

The price of being Mingjun was the opening of the era of great land annexation.

The policy restrictions have been opened, and not doing a lot of it has failed the emperor's good intentions. So everyone has to grab the land without an owner, and everyone still has to grab the land with an owner.

In the Zhengde years, it has developed to the point of being frantic.

Liang Chu, a world-famous official of the Qing Dynasty, whose son clashed with people during a land annexation, directly mobilized the army to kill more than 200 people, including hired households.

When it comes to the official book, no one dares to control it. What's more, things like the inside didn't happen in the Ming Dynasty. Shengdou Xiaomin was worthless.

Later, because of the court fight, he was stabbed in front of the emperor by political opponents. Zhengde gave a verdict and was assigned a border guard for five years.

The punishment for such an understatement did not have its turn, and it was called exile, but actually went to the frontier to become an official.

For this reason, the emperor was given the title of a harsh minister. Now Zhu Huzhao couldn't bear it anymore. After Liu Jin's encouragement, he opened up the huge "Liu Jin New Deal".

Li Mu did not carefully study the specific measures. Anyway, the core is to crack down on land mergers, and the main measures are to rectify the military garrison and check hidden fields.

Looking at the fiscal revenue of the imperial court, we can see that it is still effective, and land annexation has been temporarily stopped.

It's a pity that this guy is not righteous, not to mention corruption and bribery, and keeps all kinds of weird operations. Many are obviously good policies, but in the end they are played as a plan to harm the country and the people.

Judging from the current situation, the only substantial attempt to reform the Ming Dynasty will soon fail.

No way, the composition of the reformists is too bad, the opposition is too strong, and the steps are too big.

The issue of land annexation has not yet been completely resolved. A few days ago, it issued an order to check commercial taxes, once again adding a wave of enemies to itself.

Li Mu has a say in this regard. Judging from the commercial development of the Ming Dynasty, even at the ultra-low tax rate of thirty one tax, it was a start with an annual income of ten million taels of silver.

It is a pity that everyone is unwilling to pay commercial taxes to the court. In addition to the income from the salt and iron monopoly in the entire Ming Dynasty, all other commercial taxes added up to more than 20,000 taels.

Whoever dared to raise business tax, the ministers immediately used it to compete with the people for profit, and accompanied by a thick stack of memorials of crying for the poor and selling miserably for the merchants.

On the contrary, it is easier for the martial arts school to collect protection fees. Taking the Huashan School as an example, the main fiscal revenues are four blocks: the protection fees of the merchants, the income from the industry, the annual rituals offered by the noble families, and the offerings of the small and medium-sized martial arts gangs in the sphere of influence.

The biggest income is the merchant's protection fee, which accounts for three-fifths of the martial art income, which can also be counted as a business tax in a sense.

According to the profit of the industry, the charging standard ranges from a few points to a dozen points. Of course, it's also up to people to order food, and those with good relationships and deep backgrounds usually have discounts.

Li Mu doesn't know if anyone has evaded taxes. Anyway, the Huashan faction now occupies Guanzhong, Luoyang, half of Shanxi, and the northwest that radiates from its sphere of influence can contribute millions of income every year.

This is because the northwestern region often encounters natural disasters, and the situation is somewhat unstable, which affects the development of commercial trade, otherwise this income can rise by two or three layers.

Don't say it is an ordinary businessman, even the property belonging to the princes and nobles in the courts still has to be paid when they reach the ground.

It's not that there is no head iron, but Li Mu rarely heard of it. Perhaps it is because the ancestors have done so well, so that everyone has developed a good habit of paying protection fees on time.

Of course, the money is not in vain. The most important thing for Hunjianghu is to stress loyalty, and to take people's money and wealth is to eliminate disasters with others.

If there is a problem with the goods on your own land, or you are harassed by local ruffians, you can come to the Huashan faction for help.

If you accidentally offend people, such as provoke the gang of plague gods in Yamen, you can also ask Huashan to come forward to make peace. Of course, this business has to be recalculated.

As long as you can afford the money, even if you offend the prefect and governor, you can still do business without worrying about being retaliated against.

In the Guanzhong area, in terms of its deterrence to the subordinates of Yamen, the name of Huashan faction is better than any other officials in North Korea.

The greed of capital never ends. In the face of a group of murderous martial artists, everyone has to choose from their heart.

After all, if you don't pay the protection fee on time, you might get rid of the door one day, and you will be swallowed with blood and bones.

But if the court wanted to collect business tax, it would not work. Since you can be reasonable, why should everyone be afraid!

Thirty taxes and one tax are also money. What if the imperial court becomes addicted to it, and then continue to levy it?

Maybe you don’t have to wait later, after the bureaucrats’ ethics, after layers of weighting, when it comes to the specific implementation, it will be a problem not to double the tax revenue.

At first, the merchants had unclear connections with the bureaucratic clique, and everyone knew too much about the morals of their families.

For the money in their pockets, everyone decisively chose to attack and preemptively used the tax money to feed the officials of the Korean Central Committee, so as not to let themselves become meat on the cutting board.

Up to now, it is more than just bribery.

The smart businessman changed his strategy long ago, using the academy as a link to continuously support the poor scholars to increase his strength in the court.

In this context, commercial taxes are even more uncollectible.

Otherwise, the financial revenue of the Ming court could be increased by at least one-half only by relying on commercial taxes alone, and it would not be impossible if the official governance of Qingming doubled.

It's not that commercial tax revenue is high, but the main reason is that the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty is low, and the tax in kind is still the main reason.

Including rice, wheat, silk, cotton, cloth, salt, copper, cinnabar, lead...they were collected in a mess, not to mention transportation and storage is a big problem, the discounts and fire consumption are terribly high.

On the contrary, it is cash, only a mere three or four million taels. With the court officials' morals, all these incomes are converted, which is estimated to be between 20 and 30 million taels.

There is no need for Li Mu to worry about the affairs of Chaotang. But for the aftermath, he, the head of the Huashan School, had to think about it in advance.

According to the magnitude of the natural disasters in recent years, it is obvious that the treatment of the last years of the dynasty has been received, and there are signs of increasing frequency.

It’s just that the little emperor’s skills are fine, he has repeatedly issued edicts to reduce and exempt taxes, and the appointed ministers have some ability, knowing that the organization of disaster relief, has not caused a catastrophe.

If this situation continues, the Huashan faction in the northwest will be the giant sitting on the gunpowder barrel.

Li Mu really envied the seniors who were able to develop the northwest in the era of constant natural disasters. But because of my limited ability, I can't learn it at all.

Not to mention how to solve the traffic problem, the key is that God does not give face, and the people's livelihood in the Northwest is withered.

By now, even the aristocratic families in the northwest have begun to tighten their belts and live their lives. After every catastrophe, the purchasing power of the private sector will shrink sharply.

The Silk Road was interrupted again, and Li Mu had no hope of developing the Northwest. If the drought lasted for several years as in history, I am afraid that the tragedy of changing sons and cannibalism will be staged again.

It is also difficult to develop to the south. After so many years of hard work, it has only extended its tentacles to the south of the Yangtze River.

He didn't dare to move a little bit too much, and his fear aroused the vigilance of Shaolin and Wudang, and he was thrown into black hands.

Don't even think about overseas trade. That was the place reserved for the great clans of the Southeast and the powerful and powerful people in the DPRK. The emperor wanted to get in and get a share of the pie, but was beaten back.

As far as Li Mu knows, the two martial arts masters in Shaolin Wudang have tried more than once.

It is a pity that martial arts masters are only kings on land, and the sea is already the era of giant ships and artillery.

You can also hide on land. At the speed of a martial arts master, it is almost impossible to be locked by artillery. When you get to the sea, you will share your fate with the ship.

In case of bad luck, they may be sent to see the king of Yama a few kilometers away. It's not easy to train martial arts masters, even if the hit rate is only one in a thousand, it can't afford to lose.

The most tragic thing is that it was taken by someone, and I don’t know who did it. I can’t even find the target of revenge.

What's more, these years, there are only a few places in Korea, Japan, and Jiaozhi that go out to sea for ocean trade. The more distant Nanyang has no Chinese businessmen.

The professional smuggling team couldn't do it. A gang of land ducks rushed in. The Huashan faction could not afford the tuition ~lightnovelpub.net~ Maybe the entire army was wiped out before going to sea. Li Mu has not forgotten the tragedy of Southern Shaolin a few years ago.

The decent and decent, the black hand is no weaker than the Demon Cult. In addition to participating in the necessary martial arts activities, no one dares to take the main force of the door to the competitor's turf.

Raising thugs in secret is not the only patent of the Songshan School. Each martial arts group has a group of people who specialize in ugly things.

These people usually act under the banner of the Demon Cult, and they will only use it when needed. If otherwise, how can the protection fee be collected?

After weighing the pros and cons, after looking at the map of the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and the thirteen provinces, Li Mu finally set his sights on the land of abundance.

The reality is cruel, and individuals cannot go against the general trend of the world. For the long-term development of the martial art, westward to Bashu is the best choice for the Huashan School and the only hopeful way to succeed.

Looking at the various factions in Bashu on the map, Li Mu sighed helplessly. I did not expect that I would eventually become the most annoying person, and had to become the man behind the martial arts.