The memorial that Eunuch Wei asked Princess Shouning to submit to the emperor is summed up in one sentence - Your Majesty, you always give me a place, and this place will be your old private cash machine in the future.

According to the design of Eunuch Wei, all Wusongkou areas within a radius of dozens of miles were classified as special zones, with a Maritime Admiral Office dedicated to the management, and it is called the Maritime Special Zone to the outside world.

In the Special Administrative Region, whether it is people or things, civil affairs, military affairs, trade, litigation, etc., they are all under the responsibility of the Admiral. They are not subject to Songjiang Prefecture, nor are they under the jurisdiction of Governor Yingtian, and are only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor.

After the establishment of the Maritime Special Zone, the Maritime Admiral Office commanded the Royal Navy to clear away foreign bandits, control sea routes, and set up ocean caravans to trade with surrounding countries under the protection of the navy, thinking that the Special Zone would bring a lot of economic benefits.

Of course, in the memorial, Eunuch Wei also tactfully expressed the following view that if the enemy is strong and our Ming Dynasty cannot destroy its country or defeat it, we should trade with it. If the enemy is weak, treat it with a king, make it the person of our Ming Dynasty, make its land the land of our Ming Dynasty, and make its property of our Ming Dynasty. If this passage is replaced by the three words "My Ming Dynasty" with "My Emperor", it will inevitably be more straightforward.

Internally, the Admiral’s Office will carry out large-scale investment promotion activities. Merchants engaged in hot-selling goods such as silk, porcelain, tea, etc. can apply to the Special Admiral’s Office to establish a business with the certificates issued by the Admiral’s Office.

The Admiral's Office regularly organizes various commercial banks to go overseas for trade, or the merchants themselves join forces to request the Admiral's Office to allow the lease of cargo ships. The Admiral's Office may also agree and send a royal navy to protect it. If protection is not required, self-protection weapons such as firearms can also be rented to ensure the safety of the fleet.

In short, for commercial businesses engaged in commercial activities in the Special Admiral’s Office, the Admiral’s Office does not collect any penny taxes. It only requires each merchant to pay a certain amount of naval escort fee and a small amount of ship maintenance fee to the Admiral’s Office.

In order to attract more merchants to trade in the SAR, Eunuch Wei set the fee as "twenty draws one". That is, if the profit is twenty taels, only one tael of silver will be charged, and no more penny will be charged.

This fee was the data given by Eunuch Wei after conducting a field visit and asked a few second-hand dealers engaged in maritime trade.

In the eyes of the Emperor, this must be a loss. If you don’t charge merchant taxes, you little Wei Zi will make a fuss about the Special Zone. But after seeing the goods that the Royal Navy “procures” overseas, the Special Zone Commercial Bank must purchase a certain amount and sell a certain amount on behalf of the agency, the Emperor could not help but think about it, and then nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this system arrangement.

In folk words, that means you can't bear to let your child go to trap the wolf.

Compared to charging a pitifully small fee from the merchant, His Majesty the Emperor prefers to let the merchants buy a large amount of goods "purchased" by the Navy.

Because the latter can see more profits.

But Eunuch Wei's design idea is the opposite of that of the emperor. He believes that the real big profit of the SAR in the future is the pitiful fee charged from merchants.

But it depends on how much the SAR can do.

The number of commercial banks determines the prosperity of the special zone, so Eunuch Wei proposed to His Majesty the Emperor to directly establish a large number of factory workshops in the special zone. These factory workshops are built by the Admiral's Office in advance, laying the water, and repairing the roads, and then renting them to the commercial banks that move into the special zone to directly open workshops, saving merchants time and energy.

At the same time, according to the requirements of the business bank, the Admiral’s Office recruits a large number of workers for the business bank in the special zone. In addition to hiring the staff recruited by the Admiral’s Office, the business bank can also bring in personnel from outside the special zone. This arrangement is to ensure that there will be no "employment shortage" in the special zone.

In addition, in order to ensure the economic prosperity of the special zone, Eunuch Wei proposed a basic remuneration to the emperor.

That is, any worker engaged in handicrafts in the Special Administrative Region can receive a basic remuneration, which is 30 to 50% higher than that outside the Special Administrative Region.

In the early stage, considering that there would not be too many merchants to move in. In order to increase the enthusiasm of merchants, the Admiral Office will also subsidize a sum of money for merchants to pay workers' remuneration.

"As long as the workers' remuneration is higher than that outside the special zone, the chamber of commerce will not be able to recruit workers. With a large number of skilled workers, the productivity will be greatly improved. With more goods produced, the scale of trade will be large and frequent. In this way, the navy will organize trade to sea regularly and the admiral yamen will obtain large income from it."

In order for His Majesty the Emperor to truly understand the benefits of the Special Administrative Region, Eunuch Wei summarized a few points.

First, it is possible to use merchant funds to promote the development of the special zone and maritime affairs. The implication is that Eunuch Wei does not have much money in his hands and the emperor does not allocate it, so he urgently needs to inject "civilian funds" to make the maritime ship set sail as scheduled.

2. With the platform built by the Admiral Office, the commercial bank can quickly increase productivity after moving in, thereby improving the quality of goods produced in the Special Administrative Region and enhancing the competitiveness of goods.

This is actually targeting other smuggling merchants engaged in maritime trade along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Since the end of Longqing switch, the Ming Dynasty has not opened its seas at the official level, so the main body of the prosperous sea trade is actually the coastal gentry group.

Now, Eunuch Wei is ordered to open the sea. In addition to having a strong gun, he must also have enough strength and attractiveness in terms of supply, so as to ensure that the goods produced in the special zone can be continuously sold overseas.

In this way, you have to grab both hands.

One way to catch one's hand is to rely on the navy to attack "pirates" and monopolize the sea route.

The other hand is to completely overwhelm smuggling groups in terms of supply. When overseas foreign merchants are keen on purchasing goods from the Special Administrative Region, the smuggling groups in other parts of the coast will naturally decline.

If you grasp both hands, both hands must be strong. It can be foreseeable that in the near future, the South China Sea and the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong will surely be bloody.

Eunuch Wei proposed this point and hoped that His Majesty the Emperor could give him enough support. Eunuch Wei did not ask His Majesty the Emperor to cooperate with him to overthrow the coastal gentry group, but only asked His Majesty the Emperor to "stay" more.

3. Eunuch Wei proposed that once the Royal Navy successfully opens up new sea routes, it will definitely expand exports, which will not only drive the prosperity of the SAR economy, but also drive the development of the surrounding areas, so that coastal handicraftsmen can consciously and unconsciously integrate into the SAR model.

"Party disputes are profitable, and there is no party. Now that we have a special zone, we will start with fundamental benefits and without financial support. The struggle for the Kingdom will be calmed down."

Eunuch Wei admitted so frankly that he was telling the Emperor that Wei Liangchen did all this to make you stay in the palace safely and your waist can be hard, so that you will not have to go on a hunger strike if you are angry.

Other points are summarized by Eunuch Wei compared the business management model. It is roughly because he intrigued the Special Zone and the Admiral Maritime Office to come out, not only to make money for the emperor, but also to cultivate a group of talents for the emperor. In the future, the Special Zone model can be established not only in Wusongkou, but also in other places.

Even Liaodong, northwest and other places outside the pass can be established, but the difference is only Haili and Seli.

5. Expand the influence of our Ming Dynasty overseas and enable the Ming Dynasty to spread its reputation to the four oceans.

"I firmly believe that as long as the special zone is completed, the benefits of the income can be sufficient to ask the emperor to withdraw the mine and dismiss the tax... I also adhere to one thing, that is, the special zone must adhere to the emperor's leadership, so I request the emperor to appoint His Highness the King Fu to take charge of the special zone."

At the end of the memorial was about the lecturers and students of Donglin Academy who were "killed" by Eunuch Wei. Eunuch Wei only explained this to His Majesty the Emperor in two sentences.

"The soldiers recruited by me are mostly illiterate, and I don't know a single big character, and there is no civil servant in the special zone. Therefore, I have paid a lot of money to hire a group of Donglin, and I will teach and educate people for three years at my servants. After I go to sea, I must broadcast my name as the benevolent and righteous emperor of the Ming Dynasty overseas, and three or two great scholars can serve as this position."

The full text does not mention a single word. The death of Jiang, the guerrilla warrior in Wusong Shuiying, is that the emperor will not care too much about this matter. The subtext is that everyone has been killed, so your majesty, please look forward. If you don’t take the blame, I will be unable to move forward.

The one who passed into the palace with the memorial was 100,000 taels of silver.

The 100,000 taels of silver were not transported back by Eunuch Wei to Jiangnan, but were moved out of the maritime bond issuance money by Princess Shouning.

Of course, His Highness Shouning would not tell her father that she took the money. The mistress had done such a big deal in Jiangnan. If she didn't repair the hole, the child in her belly would have no father in the future.

His Highness the Princess was really wronged. When he took out the 100,000 taels of silver, his eyes were red when he cried. The prince consort felt distressed when he looked at him, fearing that his wife would get angry.

In Yikun Palace, Wanli generously expressed his willingness to give the imperial concubine ten thousand taels of silver, but the imperial concubine was unhappy because her husband did not agree to let Chang Xun take charge of the maritime special zone proposed by Xiao Weizi.

"Chang Xun is 25 years old this year. His Majesty previously promised him that 40,000 hectares of land would be sold for half for no reason. He agreed to give him all the mining taxes in Huguang and Yunnan, but until now, Chang Xun has not received them. He just took on the name of a foreigner scolding. Chang Xun didn't say it himself, and he didn't dare to say it. Your Majesty, you, don't know what your Majesty thinks. Anyway, since you agree to set up this special zone, you have to let Chang Xun take responsibility for this matter. It's also my mother-in-law who gave him some compensation." The concubine became more and more aggrieved.

"You can't let Chang Xun bear this matter."

Wanli had his idea. Although it was called a Maritime Special Zone, it was only a few dozen miles in a radius. However, the vassal kings of the ancestors could not interfere in politics, nor could they supervise the army. If the foreign court knew that he had let Chang Xun participate in this special zone, they would probably all scold him tomorrow.

The Imperial Concubine refused and snorted: "This is not a matter of the outer court, it is a matter of the inner court. What are you, the emperor, afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid," Wanli smirked.
Chapter completed!