Outside the temple,

Yan Chengjin was waiting for Emperor Hongzhi to watch the song to announce him, when someone suddenly patted him and looked back.

Zhu Houzhao put his hands on his back, stood behind him, and asked with a smile: "Lao Gao, you came just in time, and the palace will go out to find you over the wall in a while, you wait for the palace." ”

"Your Highness concentrates on studying, don't think about playing all day long." Yan Chengjin took out the majesty of a teacher.

Zhu Houzhao was not happy: "The knowledge of this palace, is it taught by the masters?" ”

"yes."

"Are they doing better than this palace in their learning?"

Yan Chengjin nodded.

Zhu Houzhao almost choked him to death in the next sentence: "What else do you still learn in this palace, when this palace becomes the emperor, let you work." ”

Yan Chengjin greeted Zhu Houzhao's whole family, from Emperor Gao to Emperor Hongzhi.

At this moment, the little eunuch came out and announced, "Lord Yan, Your Majesty let you in." ”

Yan Chengjin almost forgot the words that were ready to face the saint, tidied up his clothes, and strode into the Fengtian Palace, and Zhu Houzhao followed him in.

Emperor Hongzhi obviously didn't expect this guy Zhu Houzhao to come to Fengtian Palace, and Zou frowned: "You don't study in the East Palace, what are you doing here!" ”

Zhu Houzhao walked around the palace, and when he saw Yan Chengjin coming over, his eyes rolled, and he said: "Erchen has doubts and wants to ask Master Yan." ”

Emperor Hongzhi was in no mood to pay attention to him, his eyes fell on Yan Chengjin, and he said coldly: "I have asked people to investigate Xu Hong." ”

Yan Chengjin said: "The minister is still here for Liangxiang, and it is not enough to investigate Xu Hong, please remove Your Majesty from the post of tax supervisor of Liangxiang County." ”

Emperor Hongzhi frowned: "No need for tax supervisors? ”

"The minister thinks that in the future, the commercial tax of Liangxiang County will be converted into silver, and the goods will no longer be paid. Yan Chengjin raised his head slightly and glanced at Emperor Hongzhi's face.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is thirty and the tax is one.

What vendors from all over the world use to pay taxes is miscellaneous goods.

This kind of tax law has many drawbacks to the court and the people.

If he really wants to make a duvet and sew thirty duvets, he will give one to the imperial court, and what does the imperial court want a duvet for?

If you take it to sell, you can just collect a few goods, and you can't sell it in large quantities.

In addition, the transportation of goods from all over the country to the capital has to be carried out, which breeds a large amount of freight and forced labor.

On the contrary, it increases the burden on the people.

This is one of the important reasons why the imperial court cannot receive silver.

Silver is much easier to carry.

Xu Hong was beheaded, and His Majesty would send another eunuch.

Yan Chengjin's calculation is to let it be implemented in Liangxiang County, without tax supervision, Liangxiang County is a free place independent of the Ming Dynasty.

In the collection of gold and silver during the orthodox period, some places adopted the method of cashiering, and some taxes were converted into silver for delivery.

It was earlier than a whip law, but it didn't go through.

Emperor Hongji frowned.

"Call the cabinet and the six ministries!"

Li Dongyang, Liu Jian and others walked into the Fengtian Palace, and before they could salute, Emperor Hongzhi asked: "Liangxiang abolished the old system for thirty and paid one tax, and changed it to two pieces of silver, what do the princes think?" ”

"This ...... How does this make you, Your Majesty, dare to ask who proposed this law? Fu Han, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, asked.

Yan Chengjin shrank back, pretending not to hear anything.

Listening to Wang Yue, Fu Han's family has a big business, and if he takes silver, it is estimated that he will have to pay a lot.

In the past, thirty and one tax, no matter whether the goods were broken or broken, just give one anyway.

After the tax law was changed, the full amount of silver had to be paid, and the silver could not be tattered.

However, Fu Han shouldn't have heard the word Liangxiang in front of him clearly.

"It was proposed by the lower officials, and it was only implemented in Liangxiang, not in the world, Master Fu can rest assured." Yan Chengjin said respectfully.

Fu Han's face turned red, and his reaction was a little intense.

I heard that it was tossing in the good township, and the ministers felt that there was no need to talk in vain, and the good township was now full of displaced people, and they couldn't collect the money.

"Your Majesty, this good country tax system?"

Emperor Hongzhi originally wanted the ministers of the six ministries and the cabinet to quarrel with Yan Chengjin, but who knew that the ministers were not interested in Yan Chengjin, and took the initiative to disarm and surrender, and he was not interested in saying anything.

"I'm right."

Coming out of the temple of Fengtian,

Xie Qian had always been curious about how Yan Chengjin planned to resettle those displaced people, so he asked: "It's no big deal to implement it in Liangxiang County, but the old system is used well, why do you want to change it?" ”

Yan Chengjin's words were weird, and Xie Qian felt awkward in his heart after shouting.

"After the influx of homeless people into Liangxiang, the owners of the shops all ran away, and the lower officials bought many shops, and they had to take the goods and pay taxes according to the old system, which was too troublesome."

Hearing that Yan Chengjin bought three streets of shops, the minister on the side was secretly speechless.

I feel a loss when I think about it, that ghost place is full of homeless people, and I lose a day for a day.

Liu Jian frowned: "As the imperial history of the DPRK, this move is tantamount to competing with the people. ”

There are only a few streets in Liangxiang County, doesn't this mean that you have bought the entire Liangxiang County?

"Xiaguan is also helpless, after the influx of displaced people, a large number of shops are sold, and the people have to go to the nearest Fangshan County to purchase, Xiaguan buys the store, and the people can continue to buy the necessities of life."

The ministers' old faces twitched, they won't buy it, Yan Chengjin is too upright, you think about the people, let the court spend money, isn't it stupid to spend your own money?

Liu Jian nodded, although Yan Chengjin bought a shop, it was also for the sake of the people.

These ministers of the DPRK and China are straightforward on the surface, but who doesn't have dozens of shops in their families, everyone knows it, and no one can say anything, and if they do, they are ignorant.

Li Dongyang asked worriedly: "It costs a lot of silver, where did you get all this silver?" ”

Zhu Houzhao's face on the side moved slightly, Master Li, don't worry about it.

Since I went to the Yan Mansion in the main palace, the money I moved into the Yan Mansion was definitely more than that I moved out.

Lao Gao, this guy never suffers, I don't know what to think.

Yan Chengjin said: "Yingkesong Restaurant has earned a lot of silver, and my father has also earned silver by writing books, so Xiaguan naturally has a little bit of silver." ”

Descended the jade steps of the Fengtian Temple, on the wide court.

The ministers dispersed, each went back to his own yamen, and Yan Chengjin also prepared to return to the duty room of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Zhu Houzhao asked: "This palace knows that you are fooling your father again, what do you think, Lao Gao, don't fool this palace." ”

"What's there to hide from this, Jin Yiwei will know sooner or later, the minister has just opened many workshops in Liangxiang."

Zhu Houzhao looked directly at Yan Chengjin: "Oh, what to do?" ”

"Make a ...... of a duvet, a telescope, an umbrella, a match, and a duck feather quilt."

Duck feather quilt?

Zhu Houzhao was stunned, can duck feathers make quilts?

There was a burst of excitement in my heart, Lao Gao was doing something again!

In a few days, Wang Busui recruited many homeless people to build a workshop.

Yan Chengjin was worried, there were still many hoards in the purchased shops, the displaced people could not afford to buy them, the indigenous gentry and ordinary people did not dare to go to the streets, they all ran away, and the people outside did not dare to go to the good countryside to do business.