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Text 927 [Reward and punishment]

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    Yingmin Hall.

    The cabinet ministers remained silent for a long time. Some people wanted to persuade the emperor to punish cautiously, but they didn't dare to run into trouble at this time.

    Fei Chun's matter was actually not that big, the fact that his titles and promotions were being pushed to the end was more of an example to show the emperor's attitude towards this matter.  After Ding You came back and worked for a few more years, Fei Chun's promotion and dismissal would definitely resume.  Only the title and cabinet rank, how much they can recover depends on how long Fei Chun can live.

    If Fei Chun lived in his seventies and eighties, the chief assistant should not have to run away, and the title could at least reach the earl.  Maybe when the new emperor is happy, he will give the title of duke to him.

    There is also a very small chance that when Zhao Han was in power, he would restore the Duke to Fei Chun-this was the case with Li Banghua back then.

    As for the punishment of the Zheng family, it is more like taking the opportunity to rectify.

    The Zheng family has one family, one duke, one son-in-law, several marquises and earls.  Moreover, the influence in Fujian is too great, and it is also quite prestigious in the navy. This time, it happened to be a haystack and a rabbit to clean up.

    The monarchs and ministers were silent for a long time, and finally Zhu Shunshui said: "If so many officials and merchants are dealt with at once, all major ports will be in chaos. There are not enough officials to manage the shipping department, and there are not enough sea merchants to transport goods to sea. After a year or so, it will  Countless goods are backlogged at the port, and factories and people in the interior will also be affected."

    However, Zhao Han said: "There are no bureaucrats in the Municipal Bureau of Shipping who are in the same boat. They will be promoted one to three levels in place, depending on the specific position and situation. The vacant positions in the Municipal Bureau of Shipping will be transferred by local county officials, and the operation of the Municipal Bureau will be resumed as soon as possible.  As for the maritime merchants involved in the case, the heinous ones should be beheaded and exiled. The rest are just merchants who bribed and evaded taxes. Don¡¯t check how much tax was stolen.  The fines range from 150,000, 120,000, 80,000, 60,000 to 30,000 taels."

    During the reign of Chongzhen, when transporting goods from Fujian to Manila, the average price of each ship was 50,000 taels of silver, and the profit margin was about 100%.  Small boats cost 30,000 to 50,000, and large ships cost 112,000.

    Now that the sea trade is booming, the sea merchants have already rolled up, and they can no longer smuggle, and the profit rate has shrunk to below 80%.  Moreover, short-distance trade makes less money, such as shipping goods from Shandong to North Korea, such as shipping goods from Shanghai to Guangdong.

    Zhao Han's fine regulations, counting the back and forth shipments, are probably the total profits of those maritime merchants for one to two years, which must far exceed the customs duties they evaded.

    ? If there happens to be a marine merchant adding a new registered ship, then consider yourself unlucky, and the new ship will still be fined.

    Such a fine does not comply with the provisions of the "Datong Commercial Law" and is completely a special case.  Who made too many maritime merchants involved in tax evasion, making it difficult for investigators to find out?

    In order to save investigation time, as long as the goods list does not match, it can be regarded as tax evasion, and there is no need to investigate further. After the fine, continue to investigate the next one.  Otherwise, if you investigate each firm and compare each transaction, you will have to find out the year of the monkey.

    Zhao Han continued: "It is inevitable that there will be review errors. If the tax within a thousand taels is not correct, we will not pursue it this time."

    Wu Yingji said: "Your Majesty's punishment is so heavy, I am afraid that many sea trading companies will go bankrupt due to poor turnover. Especially in the past two or three years, the companies that have opened up and operate on loans are buying ships and buying goods. They must not  So much cash."

    "It deserves it for closing down!"

    Zhao Han said angrily: "From now on, we will select a port every year and conduct a detailed inspection of maritime merchants. Just like this investigation, compare the accounts of the general department with the accounts of the merchant company, and strictly investigate and strictly control each transaction.  .Every time the inventory target is selected by drawing lots, Shoufu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance, Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, and Zuodu Yushi of the Inspectorate must be present.  The censor will supervise the whole process! During the lottery, officials from other departments can also come to observe."

    No one said anything more.

    Zhao Han didn't stop yet: "The merchants who were fined this time have all their business licenses marked with red marks, and if they dare to evade customs duties next time, their licenses will be revoked immediately. The merchants who were not punished this time will be given 'honesty' by the municipal bureaus of various places.  "Management" plaque will be rewarded, and each family will be exempted from tariffs for one ship next year!"

    After thinking for a while, Zhao Han said again: "The few officials who were killed and silenced were promoted to five ranks in their original posts. The Ministry of Rites drew up a table to reward them, and all of them were given the posthumous title of Wen Zhong. The children of these loyal ministers were recommended to send one person to college.  If you have no children, you can adopt them from your relatives. Those who are recommended will be free of tuition fees, and they will be given five taels of silver per month for living expenses until they finish college."

    When Qian Qianyi and his son got the news at home, they were both grateful and heartbroken.

    Qian Ruyi said with tears in his eyes, "These years have been for nothing."

    "It's good if you can survive. It's not a problem to pay some money." Qian Qianyi is very optimistic.

    Qian Ruyi said: "Father, we partnered with the Xie family and the Xu family?? Port officials and maritime merchants continue to take the initiative to send money.

    Muttering for a while, Mrs. Fei asked again: "Where is Tanzhou?"

    Fei Chun had no choice but to fetch the world map, which was a version three years ago, and did not mark the Hawaiian Islands.

    But he was with the emperor and remembered the specific location and proportion.  It is roughly at the latitude between Taiwan and Luzon, going east to America, two-thirds of the entire distance.

    After measuring with a ruler, Fei Chun pointed to the Pacific Ocean: "It's here."

    "There are seas all around, how do you live like this?" Mrs. Fei looked dumbfounded.

    Fei Chun said: "Every year there is a caravan transporting supplies. Apart from not being able to enjoy it, there should be no shortage of things. I heard that there are enough bananas and coconuts there, and mother doesn't have to worry about the third brother not being able to eat fruits."

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