Ink greed cannot be eradicated in any dynasty.

However, the salary is not enough to support life, and it will force the originally honest people to have evil thoughts.

The increase in salaries, perhaps the phenomenon of greed for ink is still there, but it will make the general environment relatively improved and the tax system of the Ming Dynasty relatively clear.

Xie Qian was worried: "Tian can collect silver because there are yellow books and fish scale atlases, and the imperial court knows how much silver to collect, but the merchants passing by the imperial court do not know how many goods, how to ensure that the tax inspector is not greedy for ink." ”

"This is about a new bill, which the minister calls a tax stamp, and after the tax collector has received the money, he can open one to the merchant, and keep another one, and then the pair will be known."

Daming has a road guide system, merchants escort goods out of the state and county, need to show the road guide, and the road guide will be written on the number of goods.

The road introduction system, together with invoicing, can ensure the implementation of the new commercial law to a certain extent.

No matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than paying taxes in kind today.

To pay taxes in kind, the local government also had to send people to transport these miscellaneous and large quantities of goods to Taicang.

Among them, the taxes and fees for passing the customs, as well as the expenses of hired workers, are all borne by themselves.

On the contrary, the more commercial taxes are paid, the poorer the state and county become.

Liu Jian said: "The minister thinks what Yan Chengjin said is not unreasonable, but where did this silver come from?" ”

"Naturally, it is a commercial tax, the world's merchants are thousands of times more than the good township, if you can change the old system, collect the silver, and give the officials of the world a mention of Yulu is not a problem, and now the general Hongyi is transported to the border, the Ming Dynasty has no border defense for the time being, and it can save a lot of money."

Fighting a war is very expensive.

Not only did they have to update their equipment and replenish their military rations for the sergeants in the border areas, but more importantly, the sergeants who had originally tuntian had to put on their battle armor, and the fields were barren and uncultivated.

Yan Chengjin said that the purpose of holding the Hongzhi hunt was to deter neighboring countries and allow the Ming Dynasty to develop steadily for the time being.

After the friendship with the neighboring country, the merchants had a lot of foreign food in their hands.

This is another important prerequisite for the implementation of the new commercial law.

The important reason why the Ming Dynasty has no silver is that the commercial tax cannot be raised, even if it will be difficult at the beginning, if the system is not reformed, the silver will never be collected.

No one in the court was a fool.

Liu Jian shook his head: "When the new commercial law is implemented, the people who will resist it are not tax supervisors and tax collectors, but businessmen and gentry, how do you know that they are willing to pay money?" ”

This was to the detriment of the gentry, not the tax inspectors and tax collectors.

Liangxiang is different from other states and counties, Liangxiang has many novelty gadgets, and the merchants and gentry poured into Liangxiang to pay commercial taxes in order to get greater benefits, and to transport the novelties of Liangxiang to other places to sell, so as to earn more silver.

And there is only one good country in the world.

"Naturally, we should also give benefits to the merchants, only take the commercial tax, and the rest of the excess taxes such as the door tax will no longer be collected, and the tax amount will still be collected at thirty and one will be collected, but the silver taels will be collected, although the gentry are treated preferentially in the local area, but they will also pay a lot of taxes when they transport goods to other states and counties, if the court will remove these excess taxes, the gentry will pay less silver, and they will naturally be happy." Yan Chengjin Road.

Except for a very small number of gentry whose face can be eaten from the south to the north, the other gentry have gone out of the state and county, in fact, they are no different from ordinary merchants.

If a shipload of goods is transported from south to north, it will still have to shed a layer of skin.

Raise the salaries of officials so that they can benefit.

The gentry were cut off from excess customs duties and commercial taxes, and the gentry also benefited.

In this way, the implementation of the new commercial law will be much less helpful.

Although the commercial tax collected today is relatively low, in the future, when the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and the per capita level has risen, the commercial tax can be increased slowly.

In this way, the imperial court can reap the benefits.

The hall fell silent.

Emperor Hongzhi is very smart, Li Dongyang is very smart, Han Wen and others are also smart, and there is no fool in this court.

But being smart doesn't mean coming up with new business laws.

Yan Chengjin couldn't think of it, this was just the crystallization of the wisdom of thousands of people in later generations, and the result of practice, and it was always easy to look back.

Life is only a few decades, and it is impossible to see whether a system is good or bad.

Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang and others have no way to judge, but Yan Chengjin is a traverser, and he can complete the 5,000-year history without witnessing it with his life.

Yan Chengjin looked up at Emperor Hongzhi slightly, only to see that he looked contemplative, saying that it was easy, but it was not easy to make up his mind to implement it.

However, it was not impossible, unlike after Zhengde, the emperor was still in power, and the situation of civil officials was not as serious as that of Jiaqing and Wanli.

In the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, if such a commercial law was to be implemented, the only way to implement the new system was to make countless people bleed by drastic means.

The Hongzhi Dynasty was still relatively clear, and many ministers in the court were still reasonable.

"What the minister wants to say has been said, please resign."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, and Yan Chengjin slowly withdrew from the main hall.

Now his status in His Majesty's heart is not far from that of the Six Ministries and Nine Qings, because he is too cautious......

What you say today will definitely affect the state of mind of Emperor Hongzhi.

The interests of Emperor Koji's ministers were inconsistent.

The rest is for His Majesty to fight alone......

In the main hall, only Emperor Hongzhi and the cabinet of six ministries and nine secretaries remained.

Emperor Hongzhi broke the silence: "Everything that should be said is finished, I only ask Zhu Qing one sentence, what do you think?" ”

Han Wen, Liu Jian and several other ministers knelt on the ground: "The ministers think that it is unprecedented, and it is unprecedented to raise the salaries of the officials in the world, and the household department spends so much silver, in case the business tax does not come up with the silver......"

He is the head of the household, where does this silver come from, Yan Chengjin doesn't know clearly.

Let him go where to find so much silver?

And also set aside a military salary, in case of war with the Tatars at any time, this money cannot be moved.

Nowadays, the taxes of the imperial court account for eighty percent of the agricultural tax, the salt tax accounts for one percent, the commercial tax accounts for one percent, and the mining tax almost does not collect silver.

The commercial tax accounts for only 10%, and it has never received much silver, and Hangul really does not believe that the new law can receive silver.

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, as well as Zeng Jian and Dai Shan, did not kneel.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the four of them and said, "The four Qing families are in favor of the implementation?" ”

Xie Qian shook his head: "The minister doesn't know, but Liangxiang did collect a lot of silver." ”

He couldn't make up his mind.

The reason why there is no objection is because Yan Chengjin is a magical guy and always has many novel ideas.

If the new law is implemented, it will certainly be a good thing for the imperial court to collect the money.

It is just the implementation of the new commercial law, the salary increase of the officials of the world, and the abolition of some old tax systems, which involves too much.

Dai Shan said: "The ministers are in favor, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and many officials are unable to make a living, so they have the idea of greed, even if they do not implement the new commercial tax, they should also add a salary increase to the officials of the world, so that they can make a living." ”

Han Wen's face flushed: "You said lightly, the world is clean, but where does the money come from?" ”

Dai Shan stopped talking.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of the law, and only cares whether the court is clear or not, and the head of the household department is in charge of finance, and only cares whether the court has money or not.

Each has its own duties, there is nothing to say.

Emperor Hongzhi stood up and said solemnly: "I ask you, if the new commercial law is implemented, what are the disadvantages? ”

"If the silver can't be collected, the court won't be able to pay the raised salary." Han Wen Geng said straight.

"Then let's start with the main capital of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the prefectures and counties will not implement it for the time being, and my treasury can't even support the salaries of the two capitals and thirteen provinces?" Emperor Hongji rebuked.

Han Wen trembled, the only thing that the imperial court could really receive was the field tax, but there were tens of millions of channels for spending silver, such as military salaries, repairs to the palace, payments in the palace, and ministers' salaries.

Li Dongyang took a step forward and said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, first implement it in the main government of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and spend this salary, if the new law can collect the money, it will not be too late to implement it in the world." ”

This is a compromise method, which is not implemented in the world, but only in the two capitals and thirteen provincial governments.

The Cabinet and the six ministries agreed.