When Yang Xin and Tianqi returned to the palace, they saw Jinyi Wei escorting Wang An past ......

"Your Majesty, the slave is willing to report!"

Wang An shouted desperately.

Jin Yiwei's arrest of him will not be any surprise at all, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty are the ones who the real emperor can kill and kill.

Don't talk about him, isn't Chongzhen a word at the age of nine thousand?

"Go to the edict prison and say everything you should say, you are also an old man who has served Emperor Daxing all your life, as long as you honestly explain who your accomplice is, I will spare you death."

Apocalypse said.

Then Wang An and others were escorted away.

As for whether he can survive or not, it depends on whether he understands or not.

However, people like him are generally very sensible, and in fact there is no need for him to defend others.

He has no offspring.

And at this moment, in a door in the distance, a blue-robed figure flashed and then disappeared.

Yang Xin and Tianqi looked at each other and then sneered at the same time.

That's where the six departments are located, but this holy decree can't convict the people in the criminal department, their situation is the same as Luo Sigong, in fact, even if Wang An finally reports, he can only arrest Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou into the edict prison, unless Yang Lian continues to bite out the other people involved, otherwise the apocalypse still can't move these people......

They weren't meant to be targets.

The real target is Li Sancai.

Or silver.

Apocalypse knew very well that the finances of the household department would always be insufficient, and most of the family money saved by his grandfather had been scattered by his father in a month, and it was impossible for him to get the money back.

Including the two million in the Ministry of Works' Imperial Palace.

This money was taken out by his father, and no matter what, he, as a son, would not be able to go to the ministers to get it back, especially the one who rewarded the nine sides, even if he knew that the 1.6 million taels would not reach the soldiers, and the final destination was likely to be all in the pockets of first-level civil and military officials. The Ministry of Industry's Huangji Hall construction funds, this can be suspended first and then embezzled to a more suitable place, but only partially, because the Huangji Palace will have to be rebuilt after all.

The three major halls are the face of the emperor.

And at present, not to mention the three major halls, that is, the Huangji Gate is still a semi-ruin, the fire twenty-five years ago almost burned down half of the palace, not to mention the three major halls, that is, the Qianqing Palace was burned, and his grandfather calculated the huge amount of money that needed to be spent, and finally silently chose to repair the Qianqing Palace that was burned down at the same time.

But then he was very short of money.

It just so happened that Yang Xin gave him a good opportunity to make a windfall.

"But it is not enough to copy the house, this kind of thing needs the right time and place, and the key is to control the tax, especially the tax on overseas trade, no matter how much this tax is added, it will not affect the country, because no matter what the price of sugar, tea, and porcelain we sell, those merchants in Europe have to ask for it, and they have no other place to purchase. And the price they sell in Europe is actually ten times or even dozens of times that of our Ming Dynasty, and it is estimated that hundreds of times are possible. ”

Yang Xin said.

At this time, Europe did not have sugar producing areas in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.

There is no tea that is stolen after a crow.

There is no porcelain technology leaked out of Ma Ge's brain.

Some are only the silk industry in southern Europe, but the latter is still not at the same level as the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that it is completely a seller's market of the Ming Dynasty, so why not increase taxes on exports? The tax hike on domestic commerce will definitely have side effects, at least it will force businessmen to pass it on to the bottom consumers, but the tax hike on exports will be different, it will have no impact on the domestic people at all, and it will not lead to a decrease in exports. Those European merchant ships are all journeys in exchange for human lives, the Gothenburg made a trade trip from Sweden to China, and a third of the crew died on the way, so a high mortality rate only completed a trip, and those European merchants would not buy it because of the increase in tariffs on the Ming Dynasty!

If they don't buy Daming, who else can they buy?

In Yang Xin's bewitchment of the Apocalypse, the two returned to the Qianqing Palace, still entering the Hongde Palace, which had just been used as a residence and office by the Apocalypse, and soon the little eunuch brought them the information they needed, and then appeared in front of the Apocalypse, which was the current revenue of the two customs offices of Guangzhou and Yuegang in the Ming Dynasty.

"Sixty thousand taels!"

Apocalypse said with a deep breath.

Well, that's all there is to the official income of the two major customs of the Ming Dynasty.

40,000 in Guangdong and more than 20,000 in Fujian, and more importantly, this money will not reach the hands of the apocalypse at all, because it has been withheld by the two provinces as military salaries.

It's a number to the capital.

In fact, there are also Zhejiang's, which are even fewer and have also been intercepted by the local government.

"Everyone is greedy, the local officials are greedy, the garrison generals are greedy, the lieutenants of the admiralty are greedy, and the subordinates of the vassal kings are using their privileges to exempt taxes, the local gentry collude with pirates to smuggle, and the sea trade flows into at least 10 million silver every year, and that's what the imperial court gets."

Yang Xin said.

Ten million taels should be the minimum.

It is difficult to have an exact number of the amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty from overseas, after all, most of it is actually smuggling, but it can be used to evacuate the American silver through the Philippines to some Spaniards to ask to give up this colony, and even the Spanish government strictly guards the Philippines to block the direct flow of American silver into the Ming Dynasty, then this inflow is undoubtedly very terrifying. But it didn't flow into the Ming Dynasty, but into Europe, and in the end, the vast majority of them flowed into the Ming Dynasty, after all, they still had to buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty in the end, which is not counting the inflow of the Ming Kingdom, and the poor Japanese Kingdom also had to send silver to the Ming Dynasty!

In this era, the whole world is competing to send silver to the Ming Dynasty.

No, no, neither.

Don't let people send it over even through smuggling.

But as a result, the annual tariff received by the Ming Emperor was just that.

A little over sixty thousand.

Of course, in fact, it's not just these, Wanli's tax supervisor is not useless, he was angry with this number, so he scattered his tax supervisor, in fact, his task to the Guangzhou tax supervisor is 200,000, but the governor of Guangdong tax eunuch does not only control the tariff, this is the total amount of commercial tax in Guangdong. This also caused a series of popular uprisings, and his tax supervisors were useless, these eunuchs gave him ten taels and estimated that they were at least fifty taels of ink, and the only use was to give him some leftovers......

It's a scrap.

The Ming Emperor, or the Ming Dynasty government, ate some leftovers in overseas trade.

And this tax supervisor has also been removed by Taichang.

"Kill?"

Apocalypse said viciously.

"It's useless, it's the same after killing a batch and replacing it."

Yang Xin said.

Tian Jian looked at him inquiringly.

"There are three ways to do this.

First, the export trade will be handed over to a few licensed firms, and the customs tax will not matter how much, how much silver these concessionaires must pay every year, and if they can't pay it, they will be replaced, and when the imperial court needs silver, let them donate, and if they don't donate, they will directly raid the house, but as long as they are obedient, they can guarantee wealth and nobility.

Second, it is to open more customs, open customs along the coast, and then choose the Haoqiang family in the local area, directly contract the customs to them, and then they pay a fixed amount of customs duties to the imperial court every year. Of course, there is a contract period, and after the expiration of the contract, we will discuss how much they should pay, and they are allowed to form their own anti-smuggling team, including anti-smuggling at sea, in short, as long as they can get the amount we want, the rest is as they please.

Third, learn from Emperor Chengzu and set up trading companies controlled by His Majesty, just like the East India Companies of Britain and the Netherlands, and set up separate Nanyang Company and Beiyang Company, with Nanyang Company controlling trade south of Taiwan and Beiyang Company controlling trade north of Taiwan. It is forbidden for the people to trade at sea, and all trade at sea must be carried out through these two large companies, which can own their own warships and small armies, and can decide what to do in the scope of trade. Including the war somewhere overseas, the occupation of a certain place as a trading post, as in the case of these companies in Europe, and of course, all the proceeds go to His Majesty.

Any of these three could change the current situation.

Either of them will allow His Majesty to gain more benefits from maritime trade. ”

Yang Xin said.

Of course, none of the apocalypse is currently capable of implementation.

In fact, the first one, that is, the thirteen elements of our Qing Dynasty is the easiest, but it is a pity that the Ming Emperor does not have the Internal Affairs Office and the Guangzhou general as a foreign conqueror, and the Apocalypse cannot control Guangzhou and Fujian at all, if he does this, it will be a big deal for people to start smuggling again. In fact, large-scale smuggling is now underway, if you specify thirteen lines, it will be a big deal to smuggle on a larger scale, and we can play in the Qing Dynasty because after killing a stubble, the gentry there are still afraid of the garrison generals enough.

But now the gentry of Fujian and Guangdong provinces are afraid of a fart!

If you get angry, believe it or not, I'll play with you again, and I'll break up with you.

To be precise, there are currently thirteen lines in Guangzhou, of course, in fact, there are thirty-six lines, and in the case of not being able to really control the place, thirty-six lines to thirteen lines will not change anything.

At most, smugglers a little more.

The second article is the most realistic for him, and it is the only one that has the ability to implement, but the problem is that Daming's overseas trade is concentrated in Guangzhou and Yuegang, and even if it is switched in other places, no one may go there at the beginning, but it can also be tried, such as Songjiang is also switched, and it is best to make a Dengzhou customs in the north. The biggest advantage of this article is that the trouble is passed on, and the apocalypse will collect the contract fee, and the gentry who will leave the tax package to solve it themselves, even if they fight. Whether to raise mercenaries to fight smuggling or to negotiate internally to solve the distribution of benefits, these are none of the apocalypse, anyway, they are actually the smugglers, and now they are given the opportunity to become regulars, and they will also be given officials so that they can be engraved on the tombstone to glorify their ancestors.

Of course, this will cause the coastal Hao to strengthen.

But this problem can be solved by opening a few more customs.

The third is not possible.

In that case, the apocalypse would have fallen into the water in advance, and in fact, he was already in danger of falling into the water now.

"Which one is the easiest?"

Apocalypse said.

These are a bit difficult for his age.

Yang Xin had a thoughtful expression......

"The second one, I think the second one is more realistic, at least Your Majesty doesn't have to take on too many dangers, and you can also cut a lot of useless sailors and officials."

He said.

Of course, the second one can also make a sum for himself by the way.

For example, get Tianjin Customs.