In short, how many benefits are there in pacifying Jiannu, even a political novice like Emperor Chongzhen can come up with several, which of the rest is not a human spirit, and which one is not clear?

Even Wang Chengen, a dead eunuch, really relied on the favor of Emperor Chongzhen? If that's the case, I'm sure it's already cool by now.

But now it's not so easy.

It's like Guo Yunhou's reason, there is no money, there is no money in the treasury, you can fill in the money yourself if you have money.

Of course, it is impossible to say it so directly, but the meaning is like this, anyway, Emperor Chongzhen's face is about to turn green after hearing it.

Hemp sells batches, this spring tax is collected, and the soul is faint!

Just thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be a little discouraged.

The spring tax is collected, but just relying on the agricultural tax, how many big sons can be collected? And what's even more fucked up is that there are all those bastards who play and donate, counting on agricultural taxes?

If you really count on agricultural taxes like the idiot of the main body, and keep increasing the distribution, then it is better to hang on the crooked neck tree now-I don't have to look at the situation in the future.

As for the commercial tax, don't look at the fierce shouting when Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne before, in fact, it was useless, the situation at that time was that he was addicted to shouting, and he really wanted to collect commercial taxes at that time, and it is estimated that the entire Ming Dynasty was already full of smoke at this time.

Don't think that the whole Ming Dynasty only has Jiangnan to play business, in fact, Hui merchants, Jin merchants, and Denglai coast, plus Tianjin, which one is not a commercially developed place?

At that time, if it is really completely reversed, it will be funny to count on the little troops in the capital to go around to quell the rebellion.

Since the treasury now has no money to build slaves, Emperor Chongzhen is not very willing to let his own internal money - not to mention that his family has a big business, not to mention that he will be exempted from income at every turn, not to mention the extra pension to the fallen soldiers, nor to mention Emperor Chongzhen's move to give benefits to the people of the world at every turn in order to buy people.

The Royal Academy alone is a gold-swallowing monster.

Emperor Chongzhen never understood, why did people slip away from all kinds of technologies and technologies as soon as they crossed, and they would be caught blind when they were replaced?

Doesn't it mean that with the right thinking and the right direction, the rest will be easy to do?

Mao Zhen has pointed out the development direction of the firebolt, but he hasn't figured it out yet?

Mao Zhen has pointed out the principle and application of the steam engine, but until now, that broken thing is still as slow as an ox cart?

Now don't talk about the telegram that Emperor Chongzhen has in his heart or something, just these two things, every day is constantly burning money - coal, iron, gunpowder, labor, food and lodging, which one doesn't need money?

Emperor Chongzhen, who had broken his thoughts, couldn't wait to arrest all the traversers in the future generations and put them in prison, and then let them work - especially the five hundred wastes, it is said that there has been no internal strife to kill himself, and Emperor Chongzhen thinks it is a miracle.

Since you don't have any money, you have to find a way to get it.

Emperor Chongzhen thinks that the overall theory of the human body of those who are treated by the feet in Chinese medicine is very good, at least there is no need to treat the head with a headache like Western medicine - if it is not for the head This thing will kill people, it is estimated that Western medicine will not hesitate to tell you, headache? Cut it is.

Just like the current situation, according to the theory of Western medicine, if you don't have money, you will change the way to fight. Because the construction of slaves is the goal.

But the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is that if you don't have money, you should first find a way to get money, because Jiannu is the goal.

After secretly thinking about it in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen found that he had a lot of things to do, and he was very easy to use - to put it bluntly, his fist was relatively large.

Never add endowment and fight for the people on the grassland, coupled with the constant use of corruption and harm to the people to brush up their reputation, and the secret promotion of the factory guards, the image of Emperor Chongzhen who loves the people like a son is now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In addition, we have to count social studies, which is completely free of money and semi-compulsory nature, which is considered pre-school or literacy education, and Emperor Chongzhen has another thing, that is, the Ming Semi-Monthly Report.

Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen thinks that everyone is literate, and there are many things, but it will be more difficult for those scum to fool the people.

This is soft power.

And the military power is in hand, the governor's office of the five armies has begun to get on the right track little by little, and the first phase of the lecture hall has also begun to give lectures, plus the Beijing camp and the new army, both of whom are the five scum of the war, and the two groups of people still look at each other unpleasantly The strong army, the die-hard iron cavalry of the three thousand Xibe tribes.

There are also three years of Chongzhen, and I haven't seen Emperor Chongzhen return to Zhuoliktu Khan's Mongolian horsemen......

That's hard power.

Of course, the family of this Mongolian Wanqi has now been scattered and settled in the territory of Daming, and there are ten families and eight families in a county, and they are still scattered.

In this case, it is not very realistic to expect Emperor Chongzhen to return this ten thousand horses to Zhuoliktu Khan.

Emperor Chongzhen had already made a calculation that Liu Bei would borrow Jingzhou - he was just a little hooligan of the old Liu family, and he knew if he borrowed it or not, is the Ming Emperor as good as a little hooligan leader?

Anyway, when Emperor Chongzhen was an old man, no one dared to ask him to collect his debts - he borrowed it by his ability, why should he pay it back?

There is both soft power and hard power, and they are all relatively strong, and Emperor Chongzhen feels that he can now take out the matter of commercial taxes and discuss it.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply spoke: "Since the treasury is not enough to support the needs of pacifying and building slaves, then try your best to maintain the status quo." ”

Just when Zhang Weixian and Cui Chengxiu were extremely disappointed, and Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou were secretly happy in their hearts, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "The annual revenue of the treasury is not enough to support each year, and from time to time I have to help with my internal funds, even if the internal funds are full of iron, how many nails can I make?" ”

stopped Guo Yunhou, who was about to ask for guilt, and Emperor Chongzhen continued: "The wealth in the world is increasing day by day, and the treasury is decreasing day by day, which is very abnormal. The method of enriching the treasury is nothing more than four words: open source and reduce expenditure.

Throttling, I don't think there's anything to throttle, where can I save again? Did you lower the salaries of the hundred officials, or did you stop the project in the land of Shanshan first?

As for open source, I intend to collect business taxes. ”

As soon as the four words of collecting commercial tax came out, Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou were cold on their backs.

Without him, the interests of too many people are really involved - how did Emperor Renzong not have it back then?

Wen Tiren bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the commercial tax is already being collected, if the tax rate is increased or the tax supervision is reopened, I am afraid that it will be easy to cause trouble?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care and said, "Trouble? Isn't it just that some bastards will take risks when they feel that their interests are damaged?

Even if they let them come, they wanted to kill me or they wanted to rebel, and whatever they wanted, I just couldn't find a reason to clean them up. ”

This is where the picture of poverty appears.

Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou also understood what Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do.

Again and again I want to build slaves when the treasury has no money, and it is estimated that Ya is just to propose the collection of commercial taxes.

Zhang Weixian and Cui Chengxiu are in spirit.

There is no need to worry about the safety of Emperor Chongzhen, after all, outsiders don't know how tight the protective force around this lord is, but if you want this lord to have some accidents like other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the factory guards will welcome to do it.

As for saying that someone will rebel if they are bold, Zhang Weixian said that he should quickly rebel, although he is opposed, the world's guards are under the control of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, plus the forces of the new army of Beijing and Wanqi, whoever dares to jump now can be slapped to death with a direct slap.

It is a drop of merit to shoot the thief to death - even if you can't get the credit for pacifying Jiannu, you can get the credit for counterinsurgency.

Wen Tiren also felt that the knife in this master's hand was sharp enough, so since he wanted to do the matter of collecting business taxes, he simply went to the big one: "Your Majesty, the collection of commercial taxes is not an overnight effort, and it is not a matter of such a discussion among the ministers to draw conclusions, why don't the ministers gather the cabinet adults and then write a book with the household department?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and agreed, "Yes." ”

Since the commercial tax has to be collected, there will definitely be a lot of aspects involved.

For example, Emperor Chongzhen knows the national tax and local tax, of course, what the situation of these two taxes is, Emperor Chongzhen is not clear, but it does not prevent his old man from knowing such a term.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply continued to instruct: "The things of the people's livelihood, taking grain as an example, if the grain tax is one, some taxes will be taxed ten, or even twenty or thirty. Such as tobacco, antiques, etc.

How to determine the specific tax rate, Wen Aiqing discussed with the cabinet and the household department before sending a letter to me. ”

Don't think that tobacco has not been introduced to China at this time, as early as the Wanli period, this thing has been brought in.

Yao Lu's "Book of Dew" records: Luzon is the same grass, called Danba, a premature drunk, with fire to burn one end, with one end to the mouth, smoke from the pipe into the throat, can make people drunk, and can dispel miasma. Some people brought Zhangzhou to plant it, but now it is more than Luzon, and it is included in its national sale.

In other words, although this thing was introduced to the Ming Dynasty by Luzon, it was carried forward by the Ming Dynasty and then sold to Luzon.

And this thing is not only planted in large quantities in the land of Wu Chu in the Ming Dynasty, but also in Liaodong, Korea, and the Wa Kingdom.

North Korea's "Records of Li Chaorenzu" says: Nanling grass, produced in Japan. The big one of its leaves can be seven or eight inches, the bamboo tube that is fine and grand, or the tube that is made of silver and tin, is sucked in by the big, the taste is pungent, it is called the treatment of phlegm and digestion, and the long-term service often hurts the liver qi, which makes people dazzle.

And what makes the North Koreans very painful is Xin Ben Renwu, that is, since the first year of the Apocalypse, no one in North Korea is unconvinced.

Daming is not much better than North Korea, and there are a lot of smokers. But what did the stupid Emperor Chongzhen do in history?

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, smoking was strictly prohibited, and violators were executed. The following year, there was a meeting of people who tried to raise people and instructed their servants to bring cigarettes into Beijing, but they were found by the Guards, and the next day, this servant was taken to Xishi and beheaded for public display.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor promulgated a ban on smuggling tobacco, and violators were executed, stipulating that those who grew tobacco privately would be exiled to a barren land to serve hard labor after being caught.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen felt uncomfortable because of the homonym between eating tobacco and eating swallows at that time, or because of other reasons, so he strictly banned smoking, which is hard to say.

But Emperor Chongzhen, the program ape who crossed over, just felt that this broken thing was not very easy to ban, rather than doing it secretly, and he couldn't receive a penny, it was better to do it loudly and leash heavy taxes.

It's like what netizens in later generations said? Brother is not smoking, but a patriotic heart - a large part of the military expenditure of the Celestial Empire in later generations was contributed by tobacco.

Wen Tiren, Guo Yunhou and others naturally have no opinion on the heavy tax on tobacco, and no matter how expensive it is, it won't affect them anyway - they don't smoke this thing.

Besides, even if you smoke yourself, can you still afford it? Isn't it just a little more expensive, what a big deal?

Since the few people present had no opinion on the matter of the heavy tax on tobacco, they bowed down together and left the palace together.

Zhang Weixian was obviously unhappy with Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou - such a happy thing about the conquest of Liaodong was once again disturbed by these two bastards, and Zhang Weixian would be called hell if he could be happy in his heart.

After leaving the palace gate, Zhang Weixian stopped, stared at Wen Tiren and said with a smile: "As soon as the commercial tax comes out, Lord Wen is really famous all over the world." ”

Zhang Weixian made it clear that he was specifically disgusting Wen Tiren.

Speaking of which, Zhang Weixian and Wen Tiren are now in the same trench, and their positions are basically the same.

But if he can't go to Liaodong, Zhang Weixian is unhappy in his heart.

When Wen Tiren heard this, he was not angry, but said with a wry smile: "Yes, Wen will definitely be famous all over the world at that time, and now he has the name of a traitor who is fortunate to enter, but I don't know how Wen will be written in the history books in the future." ”

When he scolded Wen Tiren for a few words, Zhang Weixian couldn't wait to kill the girl directly, but when he saw Wen Tiren like this, Zhang Weixian felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply made a loss: "Why did Lord Wen say this?"

When the husband acts, he is worthy of his heart when he asks for himself, and he is worthy of heaven and earth, and worthy of the king and the people. As for how to write history books, it's not a matter of rotten Confucianism, so why care? ”

Wen Tiren, you might as well not comfort me - Lao Tzu is also a Confucian student, his soul is light!

After saying goodbye to Zhang Weixian and Cui Chengxiu, Wen Tiren and Guo Yunhou came to the cabinet together, and at this time everyone else had already gone home from duty, and there were only two people left for a while, but they also seemed quiet.

Wen Tiren looked at Guo Yunhou and said, "What does Guo Shangshu think about the business tax?" ”

Guo Yunhou smiled bitterly and said, "What else?" Your Majesty wants to collect commercial taxes, who can stop them now? I only hope that the world will not be affected by the turmoil of business and taxation. ”

Wen Tiren chuckled and said: "Guo Shangshu thinks too much, the old man is asking about this tax rate, and where to start the trial first, not whether the world is turbulent or not." ”

Seeing that Guo Yunhou still looked worried, Wen Tiren simply made it clear: "The world is turbulent, and Guo Shangshu's worries are just the land south of the Yangtze River."

But the last time His Majesty went to Nanzhili, it was considered light to say that the head was rolling and the blood was flowing into a river, but look at it, what is Jiangnan's reaction? The old man can see those bastard things clearly. ”