Zhu Pingan is an official, can officials do business in the Ming Dynasty?
The answer is yes.
Daming law clearly stipulates that officials above the fourth grade are prohibited from doing business, but Zhu Pingan is now from the fifth grade, is not prohibited by the Daming law of the class, so that Zhu Pingan is now doing business, there is no disciplinary problems, do not have to worry about being reported.
And this kind of discipline constraints, but also more and more also does not work, now the Ming, more than four officials in the business of a large number of people, but it is the shell of the business, by the bottom of the people out of the business is just.
Especially Jiajing emperor’s predecessor, his cousin Zhu Houzhao as emperor, this prohibition of officials in business constraints is virtually non-existent.
Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao has three well-known hobbies, the first hobby is to fight, he likes to seal his own for a variety of Zhen Guo Gong, General of Mighty Warriors, Governor and so on, often the imperial army; the second hobby is to flirt with women, Zhu Houzhao often like to private visits, to the street to flirt with women, and even once because of the molestation of women, by the justice of the people to be twisted to the official government, you can imagine that the parents of the official to see the prisoner under the hall is the emperor, the time.Hall under the prisoner is the emperor’s time, the heart is how shocked and grovelling; the third hobby is business, Zhu Houzhao Xingzhi will set up a variety of shops in the palace, make the palace with the bazaar, what meat, juggling, selling candy canes, selling clothes, and even opened brothels and restaurants, so that the courtesans and eunuchs to play the role of merchants in the bazaar, the customer.
So, after Zhu Houzhao so a toss, this ban on officials above the fourth grade business ban is even more greatly reduced, in effect.
Another advantage of doing business in the Ming Dynasty is the low commercial tax.
Ming Dynasty business tax is low, poor, Hongwu early regulations, “all business tax, thirty and take one, over the person to violate the order,” and then it is only reduced no increase.
Of course, now Zhu Pingan is also facing a lot of problems.
The first and foremost is the shop problem. To enter the fast food industry, the first problem to be solved is the shop, there is no shop to talk about food and drink, there is no ancient Meituan, hungry, at home, you can fry and cook to send takeaway.
Zhu Pingan walked round, did not find that shop has to cash out signs.
Zhu Pingan also asked a few, there is business is not warm, there is also business is dismal, but the shop owner has no intention to bid.
Forget it, it’s not a good idea to keep asking.
Zhu Pingan walked out in the strange blank stares of one of the bosses and turned to walk outside, ready to find a property agent.
To rent a room, look for an agent, this saying is also effective in the Ming Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty real estate agents called “housing teeth”, evolved from the word tooth merchant, why called tooth merchant is because the original tooth merchant engaged in livestock market intermediary, set up to sell livestock and buy livestock people to reach a deal, this kind of tooth merchant is to identify the age of the livestock, health experts, as long as you look at the teeth of the livestock to know how old the livestock is,Healthy or not, over time, people will crown them “tooth merchant” name.
Ming Dynasty rental is different from modern times, in modern rental housing, you can not through the intermediary, the landlord and the tenant directly sign a contract or verbal agreement can be, but in the Ming Dynasty is not. In Ming Dynasty, if you want to rent a house, you have to go through an intermediary, that is, a real estate agent.
The Ming Dynasty was very strict on the management of real estate transactions, not allowed to buy and sell leases privately, housing buyers and sellers must use the official version of the deed to sign the deed of sale and lease of housing, signed by the house teeth guarantees, buyers and sellers to pay the deed tax, in the Yamen registration for the record, the transaction will only come into effect. Anything done without this procedure is illegal, and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment.
Therefore, to rent an apartment to find an agent, in the Ming Dynasty is not only an advertisement, but also a system. That’s why the real estate agents had the most accurate and complete information about the property listings in Ming.
Like modern intermediaries, the real estate agents had to charge an agency fee, and they were also different from modern intermediaries in that they needed to urge and supervise both parties to go to the government office to pay taxes according to the regulations. If there was any tax evasion in a transaction, then the responsible householder would be held liable and would be imprisoned for the offence.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were two types of housing agents: official agents and private agents, and official agents, as the name suggests, were government housing agents.
Zhu Pingan went to find this kind of official teeth.
It is somewhat similar to the Housing Authority.
The office of the official tooth responsible for the area around Qihua Gate is nearby, and Zhu Pingan walked for less than ten minutes to get there.
It was a downtown within a downtown, the office changed into a bit like the feeling of a government office, but without that kind of solemnity.
Instead it was very lively.
There are a lot of people who come to the Official Tooth to seek services.
From the official teeth institutions this can be seen in the Ming Dynasty capitalism budding, Ming Dynasty business is still quite prosperous.
There were five official teeth in the office, and when Zhu Pingan arrived, there were already ten or so people surrounding the official teeth in the room.
The five official teeth in the house are busy, there is nowhere to go, there is no official tooth that can spare a hand to entertain Zhu Pingan.
There were still five or six people in the house waiting while chatting in twos and threes, some of them were here to register for renting or selling properties, some were waiting to rent or buy properties, if both parties could reach a mutual agreement, they could just directly look for the official teeth to go through the procedures, the efficiency was improved much faster.
It was good that the efficiency of the official teeth was still very high, after Zhu Pingan waited for a tea time, one of the official teeth was freed up.
While the official tooth understood Zhu Pingan’s needs, he took out a register for Zhu Pingan to register.
“Wait, you are Zhu Pingan Zhu Sir? Please take your seat.”
After the official tooth saw the name registered by Zhu Pingan, he had a look of a feast, as if he had seen an idol, and the sound of amazement attracted all the other official teeth nearby.
What caused Zhu Pingan to be more transient was that after hearing this, the other official teeth actually put down the parties in their hands and got up in unison to gather around and greet Zhu Pingan.
Erm, am I that famous?
Zhu Pingan froze for a moment, a bit unable to react.
“Someone come, pour tea for Lord Zhu.”
“Pour the tea.”
These five official teeth were enthusiastic beyond words, and even more so, Zhu Pingan was completely dimwitted.
What is going on here?
After a while Zhu Pingan realised that it was because he had checked the treasury, which led to the outbreak of the Taicang silver treasury case, which then led to a large number of officials being plagiarised, and a large number of properties being confiscated or sold off.
This injected a large amount of living water into the capital city where the housing supply was tight.
It also benefited the Housing Teeth of Xinghua Gate, originally they didn’t have much housing already, now it’s good, the area of Xinghua Gate that they are responsible for has more than a hundred more housing all of a sudden, and everyone’s hands are divided while one or twenty sets of housing.
The clever woman can’t cook without rice.
Room teeth is a clever woman, housing is the rice of the pot, housing means income for room teeth.
That’s why they were so excited when they heard Zhu Pingan’s name, and they held a strong sense of gratitude towards him.
