My Daming New Empire

For these reasons, Jin Kuo is now free.

His qualifications are old enough, his official position is high enough, plus his experience in Ningbo Shipping Department, and his experience in organizing the supply chain of wealthy Jiangnan merchants.It can be said that he is making the best use of his talents to let him help him build Xiamaqiao Farm and set up a scientific research institute.

Jin Kuo's ability is indeed good. He first established a management framework with more than 100 eunuchs. Each person is responsible for different projects and is responsible for contacting different objects.

In just a few days, Zhu Zhanji didn't need to worry about the affairs of the Xiamaqiao farm.

And Zhu Zhanji was locked in the palace by Zhu Di for several days, and asked him to write out the details of protecting the legal property of the poor and patent laws and regulations.

In fact, Zhu Zhanji doesn't know much about patent laws and regulations, but he also knows the application and statute of limitations of some different patents in later generations.For example, the copyright law may always be valid for the person, even if he dies, it still has a validity period of 50 years.

Invention patents and improvement patents are basically valid for 20 years, while appearance patents and trademark patents are subject to a renewal system.

As for legislation to protect personal legal property, Zhu Zhanji doesn't need to bother with this. It is free to formulate the laws of the court. The only thing Zhu Zhanji can do is to clearly explain some necessary rules.

Since the legislation is intended to protect the poor, it must not be allowed to become a weapon for the nobles to exploit the poor.

(The writing of this chapter is not satisfactory, it can be regarded as a summary of the previous chapters. When Zhu Zhanji integrates the navy, when it is put on the shelves, let the protagonist go to Japan to make trouble.)

Chapter 97 Sending off

On the 22nd of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji got permission from Zhu Di to send off the kings on behalf of the royal family with Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the capital for another month, and now he was also forced to leave Beijing by Zhu Di, and he sent an internal eunuch headed by Wang Yan to personally escort Zhu Gaoxu to leave the capital.

One of the eunuchs had to escort the King of Han all the way to Qingzhou before returning.Those internal eunuchs all regarded this business trip as a hard job, and the atmosphere in the palace was very low for several days in a row.

The 26th day of the first month is the day when the King of Han left Beijing.Zhu Gaochi's foot disease relapsed and he was unable to make the trip. Only Zhu Zhanji sent him away from Beijing instead of his grandfather and father.

Zhu Zhanji is not sure whether his father is unwilling to send this younger brother, or whether his foot disease really relapsed.

At Si o'clock on the 26th, that is, at nine o'clock in the morning, Zhu Zhan appeared in the Han Palace at the benchmark time.

If he came too early, he might be ridiculed by the king of Han and could not wait for him to leave Beijing, but if he came too late, Zhu Di would think that he didn't take this matter to heart.

Hanwang's luggage had already been loaded on the ship a few days earlier, so there was no chaos.

When Zhu Zhanji arrived, he found that the guard of honor of King Zhao was also parked in front of King Han's mansion.

One of them is in Shandong and the other is in Hebei. They will leave Beijing at the same time, and they will have a long journey together, so King Zhao has already asked King Han to leave Beijing together.

Introduced by the servants to the side hall of the Chengyun Hall, I saw King Han and King Zhao sitting in front of the hall, and the rest of them waited around. The hall was not lit today, so it was a bit cold.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji coming in, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui stood up with a smile, and said flatteringly: "I know it's time for you to come. Uncle Wang has traveled thousands of miles, and I hope Zhanji will take care of his business in Ningbo."

"My nephew will pay attention to this matter. When the emperor's grandfather re-establishes the clan's laws and regulations, Uncle Wang will not have to hide his eyes and ears like he is now."

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, the laws were strict, and the clan was divided into feudal but not tin land, a noble but not near the people, food and salary but not governing affairs, and it was not allowed to participate in the business of the four people (that is, scholars, farmers, businessmen).

In addition, even the ministers and nobles are not allowed to do business and work, so that everyone's class is clearly divided.

But the salary of an official is too low. The salary of a county magistrate is not as high as that of a skilled silk worker in Suzhou.Therefore, during Zhu Yuanzhang's period, no matter how strict the law was, countless officials continued to corrupt one after another.

Especially the Beijing officials, they can't be corrupt, because they can't even live without corruption because of the relationship between people.

In the Jianwen period, the income of officials increased a little, especially many policies were relaxed, and many senders were born from this.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he changed this policy back to strictly govern the business of officials.He even greatly increased the salaries of officials for this purpose, but still encountered many opposition and criticism.

When Zheng He returned from his first voyage to the West, Zhu Di, under the pressure of the court and the high interests of foreign trade, relaxed the control on merchants, and since then allowed coastal merchants to do business with the fleet.

However, the inner prison also began to charge high "protection fees".

Of course, the protection fee is just a way of saying, the real name is customs duties. All merchants who follow Zheng He's fleet to do business are evaluated by the value of the materials shipped. The tariff charged by a ship is equivalent to half of the total value.

This tariff may seem high, but for businessmen, it is still very cost-effective.Because Daming's products are in short supply no matter which country they are in, a several times the premium is a normal income.

And when their cargo ships returned to Ming Dynasty, they would bring back many commodities that Ming Dynasty did not have, such as Nanyang mahogany, spices, and gold and silver.

In the past, merchants always liked to bring goods back.But since the ninth year of Yongle, when the Inner Supervisor began to charge tariffs on foreign goods, duty-free gold, silver and copper have become the favorite commodities for all merchants to bring back.

Now, many merchants along the coast have gradually become sea trade families, and their family property has expanded rapidly.

They don't know that Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji are still raising pigs at present, and when they get fat, they will naturally carry out a new round of pig killing.

Although Zhu Zhanji now proposes the protection of legal property, he has long thought about how to kill pigs in a legitimate way.

When the riverside hydraulic industrial zone is completed and the first-generation hydraulic stamping machine is successfully manufactured, Ming Dynasty will directly change from the current chaotic gold and silver exchange policy to the era of standardized gold and silver coin fixed exchange rates.

At that time, all gold and silver had to be handed in. It was strictly forbidden for everyone to mint coins, and it was also strictly forbidden to trade in scattered gold and silver. No matter how much money the merchants made, they had to be honestly handed over to the silver village of the imperial court.

Zhu Gaosui is still very polite to Zhu Zhanji now, but when he has to honestly hand over all the money he earns in the future, I don't know what attitude he will have towards Zhu Zhanji.

Seeing Zhu Gaosui's flattery to Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Gaoxu snorted displeasedly, and said with some eccentricity: "What? I was afraid that I would not leave, so I specially sent you to supervise me!"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Uncle Hanwang's words are wrong. It is the court law that the vassal king is the vassal. As a nephew, he would rather have a harmonious family and stay together forever."

He sneered and said, "I'm afraid that what I said was insincere!"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "If Uncle King of Han is willing to submit a letter to resign as King of Han, my nephew will definitely stay with Uncle King of Han to spend his days leisurely in the capital."

Zhu Gaoxu stood up abruptly, and walked a few steps towards Zhu Zhanji. The two uncles and nephews faced each other. "It's really hidden deep enough. I thought it was just an unweaned puppy, but it turned out to be a vicious wolf."

With Zhu Gaoxu's influence, it is not difficult to find out about this matter.This matter doesn't even need evidence, you just need to see who is the biggest vested interest, and you will know who wrote it.

In the past two months since this incident happened, the prince was depressed, but Zhu Zhanji was proud of himself.If Zhu Gaoxu didn't know that it was Zhu Zhanji's handwriting, he would be too stupid.

Zhu Zhanji didn't answer directly, but looked at Wang Yan who was standing aside and asked, "Eunuch Wang, is Hanwang's suit ready?"

Wang Yan replied respectfully, "Just wait for His Highness the King of Han to order."

Zhu Zhanji turned around and said: "The mountains are high and the rivers are long. My nephew wishes the two uncles a smooth journey and good luck in everything."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhu Zhanji's lapel, and said fiercely: "30 years in Hedong, 40 years in Hexi, boy, don't be too complacent."

Zhu Zhanji grabbed his hand and said with a smile, "Uncle Han Wang, I lost my composure."

In terms of strength, the two are about the same, but Zhu Zhanji took the initiative to pinch his hand joints, and then let him let go in pain.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu let go of his hand, Zhu Zhanji also let go of his hand and said with a smile: "It's getting late, let my nephew send the two Uncle Wangs to board the ship."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the fingerprints on the back of his hand, and was furious.In addition, as an uncle, as the king of Han known for his bravery, he suffered a big loss at this time.

His sanity completely disappeared, and he raised his fist and punched Zhu Zhanji in the face. "This is the etiquette of your grandson...fuck you..."

After all, he wasn't completely stupid, he only cursed two words, and swallowed the rest.

Zhu Zhanji took a step back, and as soon as he got short, he dodged his punch.Today he came to see him off, no matter how many grievances there are, he can't do anything to the King of Han today.