Those who couldn't write bit their fingers and solemnly left their bloody fingerprints.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the mottled petitions from the people and couldn't help but be deeply moved.
This is the purest public opinion!
It seems that Hu Changan must have done great things for the people in Jiangning County!
There must be some hidden secret in this!
Zhu Yuanzhang slowly closed the petition and prepared to investigate the matter personally.
If Hu Changan has no problem, then Zhu Yuanzhang will naturally give Hu Changan justice.
If Hu Changan really had a problem, Zhu Yuanzhang would also spare his life for the sake of the people's petition.
...
Late at night, the lights in the Yangxin Hall were still on.
Zhu Yuanzhang carefully looked through the Hu family's account books presented by Jin Yiwei, and couldn't help but become more and more frightened.
This monthly income of 20,000 taels of silver was actually as Hu Changan said, he earned every penny through doing business!
The account book clearly states the amount of soap sold every day.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this is simply an astronomical figure!
However, considering the hot sales of soap in Yingtian City, Zhu Yuanzhang can understand it very well.
After all, most of the more than 50,000 people in Yingtian City have used Hu Changan's soap.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang heard from Jin Yiwei that even in distant Xi'an, there were businessmen reselling Hu Changan's soap.
Based on this calculation, 10,000 pieces of soap are sold every day, which is a normal sales volume.
What's more, in addition to soap, Hu Mansion also has other industries. The total monthly income of 20,000 taels can only be said to be a normal income.
Looking at Hu Mansion's account books, Zhu Yuanzhang was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
I didn’t expect that this humble merchant business could be really profitable!
If the court could also collect taxes from these businessmen, wouldn't the country no longer have to worry about running out of money?!
Of course, this is just Zhu Yuanzhang's casual thinking.
After all, the large-scale collection of commercial taxes by the imperial court is a disguised form of encouragement for everyone to engage in business activities, which is absolutely unacceptable.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has just stabilized the country and is in urgent need of young laborers to reclaim wasteland.
If everyone is greedy for the excess profits obtained by merchants and goes into business, where will the food of the Ming Dynasty come from?
More importantly, businessmen obtain a large amount of wealth by traveling around, which is a destabilizing factor in society.
In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and information was not smooth, making it difficult for the court to effectively manage these traveling businessmen.
Therefore, in ancient times, the reason why business taxes were not collected was not because the rulers did not want to collect them, but because they simply could not collect them!
These merchants were still in Yingtian City last month, and may go to Suzhou Prefecture next month.
So, should this tax be collected by Yingtian Prefecture or Suzhou Prefecture?
What's more important is that these businessmen will not hand over their account books honestly.
Even with the complete information network in modern society, tax evasion and tax evasion are commonplace.
Everyone is pursuing profit when doing business. It is possible to pay less tax, but it is impossible to pay more tax.
Therefore, the government can only charge some symbolic fees from these businessmen, which is better than nothing.
Putting aside the business tax that gave Zhu Yuanzhang a headache, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of another thing.
According to Li Shanchang, Hu Changan secretly brought private goods to promote soap during the fight against the epidemic.
Is this a fact, or is it a lie about military intelligence?
Zhu Yuanzhang decided to confront Hu Changan tomorrow and ask him clearly!
...
In the afternoon of the next day, Hu Changan came to the Yangxin Hall under the leadership of the royal guards.
Above the main hall, Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing court clothes and looking at Hu Changan with a calm expression.
Seeing Hu Changan being brought away, Zhu Yuanzhang coughed slightly and asked Hu Changan: "Hu Aiqing, I wonder if you promoted your own products when you were fighting the epidemic in Jiangning County?"
Hu Changan also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's title.
With such a peaceful title, it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang must have already investigated the account book.
Next, as long as he proves that he did not carry any private goods, then this matter should be considered a thing of the past.
Hu Changan had already thought of a countermeasure in the prison.
At this time, he calmly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, I wonder if General Lan is going to conquer Yunnan this time. Are there any seriously injured soldiers accompanying him?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.
This naturally exists.
Although the process of conquering Yunnan this time was a success, it was inevitable that there would be some battle losses when the two armies fought.
This time, there were also many seriously injured soldiers who came back with the army.
In ancient times, fallen leaves were said to return to their roots, so no matter how seriously injured they were, as long as they still had breath left, they would return to their hometown.
"In that case, please allow me to take the remaining alcohol at home with you and go to the military camp to find out what's going on."
"Some of the wounded soldiers can be cured with my alcohol!" Hu Changan said with a cupped hand.
What?
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked.
If this wine is not for drinking, how can it still heal the injury?
Could it be that just drinking some alcohol can save your life?
Before Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he fought all the way on the battlefield. There were many men in the army who were addicted to alcohol. He didn't find that those who drank were injured faster than those who didn't drink!
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but express his doubts.
Hu Changan also smiled slightly and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, this wine is not that wine."
"This wine is specially concentrated wine. The alcohol content is much higher than that of the wine you drink, so it can be used for medical treatment."
"And this kind of medical alcohol can only be used externally and cannot be taken directly, otherwise it will kill people!"
Then, Hu Changan tried his best to explain to Zhu Yuanzhang the principles of how alcohol sterilizes in a language that ancient people could understand.
However, even though Hu Changan explained it in detail enough, Zhu Yuanzhang still seemed to understand.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was not only an ancient man, but also had never been exposed to medicine. It was still a bit difficult to understand the effects of alcohol at once.
But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care.
If you don’t understand, just don’t understand. Anyway, hearing is false and seeing is believing. As long as Hu Changan can cure those patients, doesn’t it mean that the medicine in his hand is effective?
So, Hu Changan and the curious Zhu Yuanzhang came to the military camp.
There were not many people in the military camp.
After all, the army has just returned to Korea and has been fighting for more than half a year. The soldiers also need to take a good rest and go back to visit their families.
Everyone in the military camp was shocked when they saw the bright yellow robe, and then they knelt down.
After a while, a large number of people in the camp were already kneeling down.
When the commander-in-chief Lan Yu heard that Zhu Yuanzhang had come to the military camp, he also hurriedly rode his horse from the mansion.
"Your Majesty, I, Lan Yu, come to see Your Majesty!" This chapter has been completed!