The movement of the army was very rapid, but the people in the officialdom seemed a little overwhelmed, and the orders were still those orders, but the yamen that issued them was no longer the cabinet, but was replaced by the staff office, obviously the power of the staff office was shown at this moment, and many people felt that a bad premonition came, but there was no good way.

Zhu Houzhao has been sitting in the staff office for the next few days, and there is only one purpose, that is, to preside over the work of the staff office and ensure that no one disobeys the law.

Things are going very smoothly, because it is not the first time that the court has done these things, and everyone is familiar with it, but the yamen issued by the cabinet has changed from the cabinet to the staff office, which makes many people a little unacceptable for a while, but it doesn't matter much, but it can be accepted with a little adaptation.

The army officially set off three days later, and Wang Shouren led the army to the northern frontier, and the matter was over.

Although Zhu Houzhao wanted to go, he didn't need to go on the expedition anymore, and it was not suitable to go out of Beijing at this time.

So what is Zhu Houzhao going to do? The answer is very simple, he wants to set up a new tax yamen, and he wants to separate the tax yamen from the civil service system and operate it separately. You know, the current Ming Dynasty is responsible for collecting taxes, many times these people are not working, although the nobles and the vassal kings in various places have to pay taxes, but the biggest resistance to private tax collection is the gentry.

Hiding the land is what they often do, and the first thing they need to do to get them to pay taxes is to take stock of the land.

But it is not the first time that Daming has done it to check the land and crack down on the hidden land, and Zhang Juzheng in the back has done it more thoroughly, but what is the result? After a few years, it has not returned to the old view, and the reason for this is very simple, that is, because the gentry group is collecting taxes. Collect his own taxes, do you think he will collect them seriously? Those who collect taxes must change.

The method that Zhu Houzhao intends to adopt is a separate tax system, and the office expenses of the local government can be allocated according to the needs, that is, financial allocations.

According to the difference between the lower county and the upper county, these are all quotas, in addition, you need special expenses, you have to report, after the imperial court investigation, to determine that the money needs to be spent, this will be allocated to the locality, what fire consumption messy things, all nationalized, controlled by the new tax yamen.

Because of the current official system of the Ming Dynasty, the quota of each county government is very small, which means that there are very few people in the imperial court who give Yulu, and most of them are temporary workers.

Once the power to collect taxes is cut, it is estimated that the magistrates will not even be able to pay their salaries, let alone embezzle taxes. Under such circumstances, Zhu Houzhao naturally wants to allocate taxes to a certain extent, that is, financial allocation, and this scale is for the imperial court to grasp.

In addition, the tax collection is carried out by a special tax yamen, which can prevent the upper field from becoming the lower field and the lower field from becoming the upper field.

In the current Ming Dynasty, the imperial court only examines the total amount of taxes, and there are too many things that can be done below, and there is no proper supervision, which makes taxation extremely troublesome. Zhu Houzhao wants to break this cage and make tax collection independent, and if the tax yamen is corrupt and arbitrarily collects taxes, the people can go to the magistrate to file a lawsuit, so as to form supervision and checks and balances.

In addition, self-examination and supervision within the tax administration should also be established, and all those who bend the law for bribes will be severely punished.

Zhu Houzhao's knife was going to be cut on the head of the gentry, but not now, he could only talk about the nobles and the vassal kings in various places first.

Of course, in Zhu Houzhao's view, this tax yamen must be a semi-militarized organization, and the template for its establishment is the US National Tax Service, the US National Tax Service, which is subordinate to the Treasury Department. In 1862, President Lincoln and the then Congress created the Internal Revenue Service and Income Tax to pay for the war effort.

Zhu Houzhao liked that sentence very much, "In this world, only death and paying taxes are eternal." Zhu Houzhao wanted to send this sentence to the gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

In the United States, the IRS, that is, the Internal Revenue Service, can be called pervasive, known as "the most feared government department in the United States", more powerful than the Department of Defense and the CIA. Know that the IRS is able to collect taxes by arm. It means that those tax officers are armed with guns to enforce the law, and if the clerks ask you to pay taxes, you will try all kinds of ways to escape and not hand them over. Then maybe they won't tell you more, and just put the gun on your head.

What Zhu Houzhao wants is such a yamen, in Daming, it is absolutely impossible for you not to come like this, Zhu Houzhao is ready to transfer 3,000 backbones in the Black Dragon Army for training and establish the National Taxation Bureau of Daming.

These 3,000 people are aimed at the nobles and the feudal clans in various places, and they will continue to expand in the future, and they will also transfer people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang in various places to form a huge tax department. Once this yamen is operational, Su Wan will set up a special tax school to train special tax officials.

Of course, this yamen can also be promoted, and the head of the tax department is the title of the household servant, similar to Qi You at the beginning.

After thinking about everything, Zhu Houzhao went straight to the Qianqing Palace, he was going to discuss this matter with his father.

When Zhu Youzhu saw his son, his mood was instantly depressed, his son was preparing for the army in the past few days, and he came again just a few days after it stopped. However, Zhu Youzhu still plans to listen to what his son has to say, if it is a big thing, then he will refuse, there are a lot of things to do this year, and Zhu Youzhu doesn't want his son to do anything big.

"Father!" After Zhu Houzhao saw Zhu Youjiao, he bowed and saluted, his attitude was very respectful, and he couldn't see that he wanted to do something.

"Excuse me!" Zhu Youzhu nodded, motioned for his son to be exempt, and then pointed to a stool not far away and said, "Sit down and talk!" ”

Zhu Houzhao hurriedly stood up, then walked to the front of the stool and sat down, and then said: "Father, the son came today to tell his father something!" ”

There is no way to detour about this kind of thing, so Zhu Houzhao simply said directly: "Erchen wants to talk to his father about the taxation of Xungui and Xunqi this time, Erchen thinks that this time Xungui and Xunqi take the initiative to ask for Zhuangtian tax, this is loyalty to Daming, this loyalty can be seen by the sun and the moon, and the court can't chill their hearts." ”

Zhu Youzhu looked at his son, stroked his beard, and was very pleased, because what his son said was really good.

Of course, what Zhu Youzhu appreciates more is his son's shameless energy, what happened to Xungui and Xunqi asking for Zhuangtian tax, don't you know? But when you're the emperor, you've got to put your face aside!