Li Guodong planned to adopt a two-pronged approach to suppressing and transforming the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party not only represents the landlord class in Jiangnan, but also represents the interests of production and manufacturing and maritime merchants in Jiangnan. The landlord class is backward, and if it should be suppressed, it will be suppressed; but manufacturers and maritime merchants represent the emergence of the progressive bourgeoisie.

The key problem is that these businessmen who represent progressive bourgeoisie did everything possible to reduce and exempt themselves from business tax through the officials in the court.

The landlord class in Jiangnan did not pay taxes, and the most profitable merchants did not pay taxes. Similarly, the gentry in Huguang did not pay taxes. Emperor Chongzhen, who was deceived by the Donglin Party, could only send taxes to the poor peasants in the northwest, which led to the emergence of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Even if Li Guodong sent troops to wipe out Li Zicheng, as long as this situation did not change, Zhang Zicheng and Wang Zicheng would still appear.

Li Guodong's plan to transform manufacturers and maritime merchants supported by the Donglin Party is to transform them into real bourgeoisie.

In fact, the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty was considered a relatively advanced system. The emperor was no longer the dominant. The cabinet system restricted the imperial power under certain circumstances. However, a good scripture was broken by several crooked monks.

If we can transform the manufacturers and maritime merchants of the Donglin Party and turn them into bourgeoisie, it is really possible that parliament will appear and the constitutional monarchy will be transformed.

If the vicious circle of the three hundred years of reincarnation in the feudal dynasty in China wants to break down and solve the problem of land annexation, it requires overseas colonization. So much land overseas is not robbed, but it is fought to the death in China, resulting in a large reduction in population and severe damage to productivity. If we keep up with this era and play overseas colonization like Westerners, the space of the Chinese will not be squeezed by white people later. Large areas of fertile land are waiting to be developed. With the advantage of population, a large number of people immigrate. After entering the industrial age, Chinese will become the boss of the whole world.

To keep up with the Age of Discovery and to play overseas colonization, you need the support of the Maritime Group.

"Wuweibo, your new loom is very popular in Jiangnan. That thing is really wonderful. He pulled it with a donkey and arranged a weaver to watch it. This person and donkey are worth more than a dozen weaveres!" Qian Qianyi praised Li Guodong's new loom that sold to Jiangnan.

Li Guodong pretended to be angry and looked stern: "Mr. Qian, you Jiangnan merchants are also a little unauthentic. Li spent a lot of effort to build a loom, but they didn't sell a few. You guys are not here to buy mine now. Every silk workshop is imitating Li's loom! Li is working for you in vain."

Qian Qianyi stroked his beard and smiled, "Wuweibo, although no one bought your loom again, you can ask, which household in Jiangnan is not about the benefits of Wuweibo? Everyone is grateful to use your loom."

Li Guodong also touched his beard and laughed: "Mr. Qian, the scholars in Jiangnan all think of my goodness. My loom makes money for everyone, but how much money did I get?"

"Wu Weibo, you can't say that. You are also Mr. Lu's person and our friend. How sad is this to talk about money?"

"Come on, I don't even have the patent fee for this loom, and you have finished copying it!" Li Guodong had a smile on his face, but he felt distressed in his heart: My patent fee! You guys who are copying it! They are simply rude.

Although the new loom and new spinning machine were copied by the Donglin Party, it was a bad thing that Li Guodong did not absolutely lose these money. It was a bad thing. It was lost in the east and the harvest was muddy. After the workshop merchants represented by the Donglin Party used the new loom and new spinning machine, they believed that they would soon bring about major changes, and would change from a small workshop business model to a large factory production model, which would lead to capitalism, and the Donglin Party would eventually become a bourgeoisie.

This can be regarded as a transformation of the Donglin Party, transforming the landlord class into a bourgeoisie, which is a big step ahead.

Qian Qianyi smiled and said, "In fact, the merchants in Jiangnan have not only imitated Wuweibo's loom and spinning machine, but also further improved your two kinds of machinery. Many silk workshops have been built on the mountainside, using hydraulic power to drive the machinery. The mulberry trees are planted on the hillside, and the silk spit out of the silkworms are directly processed into silk. The gentry who live by the waterside has a much larger workshop than those of us who are not well-known."

Li Guodong asked: "Mr. Qian, can you let Li visit your farm?"

"It's okay to be a human being. If Wu Wei Bo wants to see it, it's too late for me to welcome you! I heard that Wu Wei Bo is a good person to farm! You can see what's the disadvantages? Just give me some advice, I must listen carefully." Qian Qianyi agreed immediately.

Qian Qianyi called the butler Qian Fugui and asked him to take Li Guodong to visit his manor.

After all, the Qian family was a famous gentry in Jiangnan, with hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. However, these farmlands were not owned by Qian Qianyi. Many of them were made by other Qian families in the name of Qian Qianyi, and some of them were under Qian Qianyi's students. As long as there were fame and honor, Qian Qianyi would arrange some small landlords and self-cultivated farmers who contributed the land to his students' names, so that those lands were also included in the tax-free rank.

This is the benefit of having more students. Even if a student can pass the exam for a young scholar, these gentry in the south of the Yangtze River can play the role of scholars to the extreme! A scholar can be exempted from 80 acres of land. Some scholars from poor families cannot have so much farmland at home. Others come to contribute land, and the tax exemption amount of 80 acres of land is really despised by those who contribute.

For example, some rich peasants in Jiangnan who are good at operating are actually similar to the second landlords in later generations. They rented tax-free farmland from gentry, and then sublease the farmland for farmers to cultivate.

It depends on people when gentry renting farmland. Some rich peasants who are good at operating are even willing to lower the land rent to less than 40%, because those rich peasants never default on land rent and have good reputations. This is just like later bank loans. The better the credit, the easier it is for people to borrow from banks and have lower interest rates. As for some people with poor credit, banks refuse to borrow from loans, so they can only go to some private financial companies with higher interest rates. Even financial companies do not provide loans, so they can only go to usury.
Chapter completed!