After the announcement was issued, Jinling City was suddenly surprised by a lot of waves!

After the promulgation of this policy, some people were happy and some were worried! As far as the merchants who are making money every day are concerned, they are very much in favor of paying a fixed amount of taxes, and they can increase their profits by tens of thousands of taels more than that of stock funds. But for merchants with bad business www.biquge.info there seems to be no other way than to apply for closure.

Wang Zhizheng specially ordered that anyone who takes the initiative to apply for closure of business is allowed to transfer his property within one month, and if it fails to transfer within one month, it will be purchased by the Commercial Tax Department at a low price!

However, if the loss is concealed and not reported, the commercial tax must be paid on time, and if the loss is found, the property will be confiscated!

This policy seems to be self-contradictory, but in fact, there is a mystery in it, which can prevent many industries with bad business from forcibly operating, causing commercial instability, and monopoly can reduce losses!

Since the announcement of the policy, more than 100 merchants have applied for closure one after another, and all merchants have successfully transferred within seven days.

Such a survival of the fittest model allows the merchants in Jinling City to survive, and most of the merchants are profitable, which can also promote the prosperity of Jinling's commerce!

Wang Zhizheng's Commercial Taxation Department, after this reform, successfully received 3.98 million taels of tax revenue.

Wang Zhizheng did not waste time, and took 980,000 yuan as the operating expenses of the Arsenal Lane and the Commercial Tax Division, and the remaining 3 million taels of silver, all of which were sealed by the 1,000 soldiers and horses of the Arsenal Battalion, and immediately folded them to Emperor Chongzhen.

Seeing the results of the battle, Emperor Chongzhen Longyan is happy!

He excitedly called over his cronies Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, Yang Sichang and his son, and Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Yansui, to come to the palace.

Yang He is sixty years old with gray hair, Yang Sichang is about forty years old, with a slightly chubby figure and beard, and looks energetic, while Cao Wenzhao is in his early thirties and looks like a Confucian general with good spirits and confidence.

Emperor Chongzhen said excitedly: "Wang Tonghou Jinling for more than four months, finally the commercial tax up, the first four months of tax three million taels, now I have sent Jinyi Wei Wang Liangfu to Jinling, to assist Wang Zhizheng to deal with the aftermath, immediately escort the tax back to Beijing." Hehehe, I have already said that Wang Zhi is a powerful character, no matter how deep the water in Jinling is, he also has the ability to make a big road out!"

Yang Sichang and Yang He glanced at each other and hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, if these three million taels are in place, how are you going to use this money?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled mysteriously and said, "I know that your father and son have been thinking about my money for a long time, hehehe!"

Emperor Chongzhen said this, Yang He also held the white beard and laughed: "Your Majesty, encircling and suppressing the thieves, you can't just rely on the suppression, you must suppress and appease the people, the old minister thinks, a force to encircle and suppress, can not fundamentally solve the problem, the people are hungry and cold, hungry, will be from the thief, this is like cutting leeks, the more you cut, the better the growth of leeks, the thieves spend all the money of the court, in the end, the money is also spent, people are dead, but the thieves will still go to the thieves because of hunger and cold! On the one hand, we should also fight against thieves, and on the other hand, we should also give peace to the hungry people, and for the hungry people, we should give them food for their stomachs, and if the people have food for their stomachs, they will not become hungry and will not become thieves! Although spending more money at the moment is a fundamental plan!"

Yang He clearly stated his views, and Emperor Chongzhen nodded frequently: "Governor Yang, you are right, I agree with your point of view." Now that the two-front battle is fought, you need to spend money to suppress thieves in the northwest, Yuan Chonghuan will build the Guanningjin defense line in Liaodong, and it will also cost money to restore Liao in five years, so the money can't be given to you, I am going to open four or six silver coins, six of which will be given to Liaodong, and four will be given to you, I don't know what Governor Yang wants?"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said this, Yang He, Yang Sichang, and Cao Wenzhao looked at each other, all a little puzzled.

Yang Sichang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a matter, I don't know whether to say it or not!"

Emperor Chongzhen was in a good mood today, and waved his hand: "Say!"

Yang Sichang calmly said: "Weichen thinks that the plague of Liaodong is like an external disease of skin moss, although the symptoms are severe, after all, there is no worry about life! However, the plague of thieves in the northwest is like a disease of the internal organs, and if it is not treated in time, there will definitely be a worry about his life! Weichen thinks that the focus should be on the thief problem instead of Liaodong!"

Emperor Chongzhen's face was a little ugly.

Cao Wenzhao and Emperor Chongzhen were small, and he was not so cautious in speaking, he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister agrees with Yang Sichang's point of view, the harm of thieves is far greater than that of thieves in Liaodong! Lord Yuan Chonghuan operates the Guanning Jin defense line in Liaodong, which can be said to be piled up with mountains of gold and silver, although it can block the anti-thieves in Jianzhou from going south, but it is not a long-term solution, the Jianzhou thieves want to invade our Central Plains, and they may not necessarily go to Shanhaiguan, they can go to Xifeng Pass, and all the fortresses along the Great Wall, they can bypass it!" The minister thought that the Guanningjin defense line should be abolished, and the Liaodong troops should be withdrawn to the Guannei, and fortified along the Great Wall at Shanhaiguan Pass and Xifengkou! Now the Jianjian thieves are making efforts to attack the Horqin Mongols, and their purpose is to bypass the Ningjin defense line and threaten the Guannei, and instead of guarding a point to bite to the death, it is better to shrink the defense line, so that we can save the treasury expenses and devote all our efforts to disaster relief and suppression of thieves, and second, we can consolidate the northern border defense, instead of simply calculating the gains and losses of one city and one place with Jianzhou!

As soon as Cao Wenzhao's words fell, Emperor Chongzhen actually fell into silence, and this terrible silence caused the four of them to fall into an extremely embarrassing atmosphere.

What Cao Wenzhao said was Yang He, Yang Sichang wanted to say but didn't dare to say it, Emperor Chongzhen was a young son of heaven, ambitious, and wanted to recover Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan and Emperor Chongzhen hit it off, and put forward an ambitious plan for "five years to recover Liao", but there were only six people who could see that this plan was not feasible.

One is the former Liaodong Jingluo Wang Zaijin, because of the disagreement with Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong on the strategy of Liaodong during the Apocalypse, Emperor Chongzhen immediately deposed Wang Zaijin and let him go back to his hometown Songjiang Mansion to retire.

The second is Wang Zhizheng, Wang Zhizheng's poisonous and spicy views on the financial problems of the Ming Empire, the Guanningjin defense line consumes five million taels of silver every year, which directly leads to the overstretched disaster relief in the northwest and the arrears of military expenses for many years. Wang Zhizheng was not in the center, and it was inconvenient to put forward his opinions to Emperor Chongzhen to oppose Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong's strategy, so he had to go south to open up a new financial route.

The third is Yang He.

The fourth is Yang Sichang.

The fifth is Cao Wenzhao.

The sixth is Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Emperor Chongzhen knows very well, as the saying goes, if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, he knows the financial problems of the Ming Empire best, and he carefully considers every amount of money, of course, he understands that the empire has consumed too much money on the issue of Liaodong.

However, he was impressed by Yuan Chonghuan's grand strategy of "returning to Liao in five years", and he listened to Yuan Chonghuan's opinion, even if it was a great pressure, he had to withstand it, and he could only become something that ordinary people could not do.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen slapped the table and scolded Cao Wenzhao sharply: "Cao Wenzhao! As for the policy of Liaodong, it is determined by me, how can you criticize it? 100 taels for the northwest and 200 taels for Liaodong, so it is decided! If you need money, you can ask Wang Zhizheng, but the significance of the Guanningjin defense line is determined by me and Yuan Governor, how can you know the general idea?!"

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became angry, and the three of them didn't dare to say anything more, but bowed down and kept silent.

Emperor Chongzhen stabilized his mood, and then regained his gentle tone: "I know your difficulties, but you also have to be aware of my heart, fighting on two fronts, and the consequences will be immeasurable, the new leader of the Houjin anti-thieves, Huang Taiji, this person is insidious and cunning, constantly eroding the Mongolian tribes, forming an encirclement posture against me in the north, if you don't invest your energy, you want the Ming Dynasty to repeat the mistakes of the Yingzong period?"