Xu Jing has been waiting here, after all, Zhu Houzhao promised him an official position, so he had no reason to leave directly.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao asked, Xu Jing hurriedly pulled the tightly tightened robe like a fat ball and walked up, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Weichen Xu Jing is here." ”

"From now on, you, the head of the chamberlain, will manage the inner treasury for me, which means that the stewards and eunuchs and officials of the inner treasury will be responsible to you in the future, do you understand?"

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he asked Xu Jing.

Xu Jing was born as a wealthy businessman, and he has been exposed to business since he was a child, and he also knew that managing the emperor's inner treasury was a fat mess, so he hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Weichen understands, please rest assured that Your Majesty will definitely manage the affairs of the internal government for Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, didn't say anything, but got up and looked at Liu Jian and the others, the first assistant of the cabinet:

"You all go back, I am also going back to the leopard room, Xu Jing follows me, now he is in charge of the inner library, naturally he has to have an official position, I am determined to set up a new director of the chamber and the attendant officer, the grade does not need to be too high, from the seventh grade to the eighth grade, mainly responsible for the management of my internal affairs, hanging in the name of the Hanlin Academy, and granting the official title of the Hanlin Academy review and the Hanlin Academy's bookkeeper, the official position is not high and does not affect the famous weapons of the imperial court, your cabinet and the Ministry of Officials will handle it."

Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, said: "Obey the order!" He naturally has no opinion on adding a new official position, after all, he is still waiting for Emperor Zhu Houzhao to let him be the first assistant, so he has no need to make Emperor Zhu Houzhao unhappy.

The officials are in charge of the officials in the world, and they can directly appoint the petty officials of the seventh grade and the eighth grade, and now with the support of Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, it is naturally easy for Zhu Houzhao to give Xu Jing a petty official from the seventh grade.

However, Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others still glanced at Xu Jing more, and they had the feeling that there was another courtier before the Eight Tigers around His Majesty went.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the leopard room, and the cabinet soon planned to approve the red treasury from now on, and changed to the direct management of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

At the same time, the Ministry of Officials also issued a document to set up a chamber of attendants and appoint Xu Jing as the director of the chamber and the examiner of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhu Houzhao took the opportunity to directly order the inner library to be renamed the Royal General Administration of Taxation, and Xu Jing served as the head of the Royal General Administration of Taxation.

Zhu Houzhao had long thought of taking the inner treasury out of the household and then directly appointing officials to manage it, and even wanted to directly turn the inner treasury into the Royal General Administration of Taxation, which was equivalent to setting up a special tax department to be responsible for collecting commercial taxes and customs duties.

This time, Zhu Houzhao opened the royal exposition incident, which caused the contradictions between Ma Wensheng and Liu Jian within the civil officials to intensify, and gave Zhu Houzhao this opportunity, and Zhu Houzhao also decisively seized this opportunity to take the inner treasury into his hands, which is equivalent to holding the power to collect the world's commercial taxes and customs duties in his own hands.

Although in this era, because the Ming Dynasty was still a small-scale peasant economy, coupled with the small proportion of commercial taxes and most of the benefits of commercial trade in the hands of tax-free privileged classes such as the gentry and magnates, commercial taxes and customs duties were not the main source of tax revenue for the imperial court.

However, Zhu Houzhao believes that in the future, commercial taxes and customs duties will become the main financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty, and if he holds it in his own hands, he will be equivalent to controlling the future fortune of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houzhao knew that even if he was in control of the inner treasury now, it did not mean that he could arbitrarily increase commercial taxes and tariffs, because it did not mean that he could unconditionally obey the civil servants who increased commercial taxes now, which was naturally impossible, and Zhu Houzhao felt that he had to change the operation mode of the inner treasury.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao turned the inner treasury into the Royal Taxation Administration, which specialized in collecting the world's commercial taxes, customs duties and mining taxes related to the royal interests, and Zhu Houzhao also made the Royal Taxation Administration a profit-making organization, and the same as the company.

The higher the income of HMRC, not only the more benefits the emperor can get, but also the other shareholders of HMRC, so that more people are willing to follow him in raising commercial taxes and find a balance between collecting commercial taxes and encouraging the development of industry and commerce.

From a certain point of view, the Royal Taxation Administration will be a company in the future, and the main product of the business is to collect taxes, and the more taxes collected, the better the Royal Taxation Administration will naturally operate, and this requires the managers of the Royal Taxation Administration to be good at running business, which is also the reason why Zhu Houzhao chose Xu Jing to be the head of the Royal Taxation Administration, because Xu Jing was born a wealthy businessman.

Of course, there are many people from wealthy businessmen, but Xu Jing still has the experience of being suppressed by the powerful, and he happened to meet Zhu Houzhao, so Zhu Houzhao naturally promoted him.

Zhu Houzhao did not let one of the eunuchs of the Eight Tigers manage the Royal Tax Administration, not because he really had to take care of the feelings of the civil officials, but because the Eight Tigers were now each responsible for the other affairs of the emperor, and it was impossible for Zhu Houzhao to entrust his finances to one of them to manage, which would break the balance between the Eight Tigers.

Xu Jing followed Zhu Houzhao to the leopard room, and listened to Zhu Houzhao's idea of establishing the Royal Taxation Administration in detail. ”

"Yes, I own sixty percent, one percent for the operating expenses of the Royal Tax Administration, and the remaining thirty percent, you and all the people in the world can participate in the shares, whoever invests more money, the more share, you can estimate how much income the Ming Dynasty collects every year, such as taxes, mining taxes, etc., and calculate how much silver you invest in the proportion."

"Your Majesty, can the slaves and maids still participate in the shares?" Liu Jin and the other "Eight Tigers" eunuchs asked.

"Naturally, anyone in the world can participate in the shares, and naturally you are not excluded, but the managers are appointed by me, and the management methods are the responsibility of the managers," Zhu Houzhao said.

"In that case, Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that the commercial tax can be increased, and the Royal Tax Administration will be able to collect more taxes at that time!" Zhang Yong also agreed, he was the only one among the eunuchs who did not do business, and naturally he hoped to increase his income by increasing the business tax.

"How can it be so simple to increase the business tax, whether it should be added or not should be seriously considered, don't forget that we also have our own business, if the tax is too much, we will also lose money, there needs to be a line to maximize the benefits, how much tax should be collected must follow this line, and just a few of us participate in the shares, even if you want to raise taxes in the future, you will be hindered, it is best to pull more people!"

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Xu Jing and the "Eight Tigers" agreed very much, after all, they also have a business background.

Zhu Houzhao said to Xu Jing at this time: "Now in your capacity as the head of the Royal Tax Administration, you are going to the noble officials in my name and encouraging them to also invest in silver and shares, so I don't want to force them to invest or ask for their silver, but to let their silver turn into more silver, Liu Jin and Zhang Yong, you send someone to take him, you are more familiar with which officials and nobles are on our side." ”