Chapter 613: Shang Jia is right
With the voice of the eunuch, Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair, and this early dynasty was just the beginning, Feng Bao was still standing next to Zhu Yijun's dragon chair as usual, and followed Zhu Yijun to accept the worship of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.
At the beginning, this feeling was indeed very unpleasant, but now, such a long time has passed, although people still feel unhappy in their hearts, but they are not as disgusted as before, not that the officials have admitted this matter, this is absolutely impossible, they just understand, and now they can't change this situation, the tone is so troublesome every morning, it is better to go with him, basically, the people in the hall, no matter what the relationship with Feng Bao is, are all as if Feng Bao does not exist.
In fact, it is also the same, if it weren't for the fact that Feng Bao really cared about something in the morning, he would generally not be able to speak, just standing there, but, people who have never stood there really can't understand what it feels like to stand there, and even if Feng Bao enjoys this feeling very much, but let him say why, I'm afraid he may not be able to say it.
Although it is said that now, Ge Shouli has already helped Zhang Juzheng to promote the "Examination Law" in the court, but today is the first day after all, even if Ge Shouli's prestige in the court is great, I am afraid that those who are old-fashioned to death will not be able to change their minds in such a short morning.
Therefore, although this matter has now spread in the court, as long as the people who know about this matter can look around the hall a little and look at the expressions on the faces of the officials, they can see it, but now it has not reached the final time, and no one will say anything.
In short, today's early dynasty is no different from the past.
Take Zhu Yijun as an example, the current Zhu Yijun is also used to sitting on it to accept the worship of hundreds of officials, but he also understands one thing, although he is the emperor, he still has no rights as an emperor, so he sits there almost silently every day, unless there is really something to make him speak, otherwise he will never say a word.
Therefore, basically every morning, Zhu Yijun sat there, and then the eunuch shouted: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat,"
Then, there will be ministers who stand up and speak, and then Zhu Yijun doesn't care about what is going on, or think about what to do, at the beginning, he will also open his mouth to talk about the last game, asking: "Which Aiqing has a good plan to solve," and then he stopped talking, waiting for someone to stand up and speak, and finally said: "Then do it,"
By now, I'm afraid that even the ministers below can see that Zhu Yijun is lacking in interest every morning, so now, as long as there are adults who play and speak, others will no longer listen to Zhu Yijun's orders at all, and will directly stand up to solve the problem.
And Zhu Yijun also acquiesced to this situation and had no objections.
There was once a time when someone asked for something to do, and wanted to ask Zhu Yijun to make a decision, and the matter was not small, not that other people could speak at will, but Zhu Yijun just didn't say a word, sitting on the dragon chair, tilting his head as if he was dozing off, he did this, and no one below dared to stand up and speak, so the whole hall was silent for a long time, knowing that some people stood until their backs hurt and their stomachs were hungry, and this is why there are people who can't stand it and stand up to speak.
So now, in order to avoid that kind of situation, the officials are no longer hypocritical, as long as there is a problem, they will definitely rush to stand up and speak, and after speaking, it is better to end the morning court early and go home.
It was also from that time that the early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty became extremely efficient, and the emperor sat on the dragon chair without saying a word, but it was more efficient than the early dynasties of several diligent emperors at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which is not a miracle, of course, if you don't care about the quality of solving things.
Today, it is nothing more, it is now the middle of summer, and most of the ships that go to sea every year to trade come back at this time, and the remaining small part is the people who want to make more money, and drive the ships to farther places, and when they return, it will be almost the end of the year.
Now this matter is also a little different from previous years, the goods brought by these ships in exchange for a lot of silver is indeed a lot, compared with previous years is also gradually and steadily increasing, the imperial court collects taxes from it, it is quite happy, after all, this alone is more than the agricultural tax collected by the Ming Dynasty every year in the past.
In this way, the treasury is abundant, and the inner treasury of this little emperor who loves money is also abundant, so naturally everyone is happy, but this year is a little different from previous years.
In the past, the tax money collected from the maritime merchants was not recorded in the public account, but there was another account to record, so when the inventory was made at the end of each year, the actual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was still as much as it used to be, and there was no improvement.
In fact, this is also unfair to those merchants, although they are also willing to pay taxes, and the imperial court has also changed the way in the past, and even escorted the merchant ships they do business with, so that these merchants pay taxes, naturally willingly.
But at the end of each year, when the inventory is made, the taxes they pay will never be made public, which makes them quite complaining.
Originally, the imperial court would not care about these things, after all, things are like this, although the Ming Dynasty has improved a lot, but the perception of merchants for thousands of years is not so easy to change, besides, those merchants didn't say anything, although there are some small words, but since they don't say it, don't make trouble, then it's nothing.
But Zhang Fan didn't think so, after all, he didn't record or count, he just recorded it in another book, which was not only unfair to those businessmen, but even conducive to letting some people do tricks and fill their own pockets, so he had told Longqing about it before.
And Longqing agrees with this, but Zhang Fan's words didn't take long to say, and before Longqing could announce the matter, he fell seriously ill, so this matter has been dragged down.
Until Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he was very concerned about the matter mentioned by Zhang Fan, but at that time he had just succeeded to the throne, and he was young and had no power in his hands, so he kept putting it down, but letting it go is letting it go, and Zhu Yijun has never forgotten this matter.
This year, when the country name was changed to Wanli, Zhu Yijun was the first time, he didn't care whether he had power or not, and he didn't care about the opposition of others, so he announced this matter in public.
Although there are many disagreements among the officials, although Zhu Yijun is not yet an emperor with real power in his hands, but what he said is what he said, no matter how much he is a puppet, he is also the emperor, and the emperor's words, when he speaks, he will naturally count.
Now, this rule has been settled.
In fact, as a businessman, it is a very proud thing to know that the state collects its own share of the taxes collected every year, and to be able to let the whole world know about it.
Although even so, the social treatment of the merchants has not improved by a grade, but it is definitely different from the past, which makes these businessmen happy, but they will not be ashamed of doing business, but also enthusiastic.
And Zhu Yijun will do this, Zhang Fan told him about this matter, and it has a great influence on him, this is only one aspect, more importantly, Zhu Yijun remembered what Zhang Fan said, if it is not made public, someone will enrich his own pockets from it, this is definitely something that Zhu Yijun cannot allow, whether it is the treasury of the household department or his own inner treasury, in Zhu Yijun's view, it is all his own things, let him take out the expenses, he is willing, and even let him reward, he will not frown, But if someone wants to take it and say nothing, this is something that Zhu Yijun can't allow at all.
Therefore, in general, Zhu Yijun will stare at such a huge pressure to promulgate this matter, in fact, not for anything else, but for himself.
But it doesn't matter, after all, since the effect is already there, it doesn't matter what the process is and what the reason is.
This year, the merchant ships returning to the sea brought back a lot of silver, but as mentioned earlier, the situation this year has changed a lot from previous years.
In fact, the things that have changed, I can't see it, and even the Ming Dynasty is 108,000 miles away.
According to the merchants who returned to the sea, Europe began to use troops abroad, and many of the small countries in the south of the Ming Dynasty were attacked by Europeans, and as soon as this account was raised, it was natural that they had the opportunity to make a fortune, not those Europeans, but those countries that were attacked, most of them hoped to buy some weapons from these merchants of the Ming Dynasty to defend against foreign countries.
However, weapons can be regarded as contraband in Daming, and the merchants naturally understand, but this does not mean that the merchants do not want to do this business.
As soon as this matter was said, the hall was suddenly like a boiling pot, and the discussion opened, some agreed, and some opposed, and the approval means that those places have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, and they can make a fortune, and the opposition is naturally the same old-fashioned thing, but in general, the number of people who oppose it is very large.
Zhang Fan looked at the somewhat chaotic scene in front of him, and didn't plan to get involved, not because he didn't want to, but because he was thinking about something else, something that had been said last year.