Xu Jing smiled awkwardly, he also began to find out that the internal treasury before the Ming Emperor was less than his own treasury after managing the treasury for Zhu Houzhao.

Fortunately, the current Zhu Houzhao is not as embarrassed as before, the soap from the previous operation and the income from the royal exposition, his own royal private property has more than 300,000 taels, plus the internal money returned by the household department, although there is not much savings, but it can add up to 400,000 taels.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao now has two wealth-generating institutions, one is the Royal Industrial Company and the other is the Royal Tax Administration.

Needless to say, the Royal Industries Company produced industrial products and sold them to make money.

And the Royal Tax Office is what Zhu Houzhao wants to arrest now.

Because the "Eight Tigers" and Xu Jing followed Zhu Houzhao, they knew Zhu Houzhao's Royal Taxation Bureau best, and in order to express their loyalty, they invested a lot of shares and became the nine largest shareholders of the Royal Taxation Bureau after Zhu Houzhao.

The tenth largest shareholder is the family of Wang Hua, the head of the household department (thanks to Wang Yangming).

And this basically laid the prototype of several wealthy families formed after the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Zhu Houzhao only arranges the business methods of the Royal Tax Office for Xu Jing and the "Eight Tigers":

"You know, the main thing the Royal Tax Office does is to collect taxes on my behalf, and the more taxes you have, the more benefits I will have for you, and collecting taxes is to take money from others, which naturally offends people;

What's more, we collect commercial tax, tax and mining tax, so in the future, the royal tax bureau will collect most of the taxes of wealthy businessmen, who either have a gentry background or are themselves court officials, nobles or even royal people;

That's why I decided to set up a tax corps under the Royal Inland Revenue Service!

Before rectifying the commercial tax and mining tax, Xu Jing you first took my tax money and prepared to recruit people with good character to set up a tax corps, which will be derived from the provinces, the provinces will set up the Royal Tax Bureau and the tax detachment, the provinces will set up the Royal Taxation Bureau and the General Tax Flag, and the counties will set up the Royal Tax Office and the Tax Flag! ”

Xu Jing was quite surprised, he didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao would also equip the Royal Taxation Administration with officers and soldiers, so that the Royal Taxation Administration could undoubtedly have a military guarantee for tax collection, and he was naturally quite happy and busy obeying the order.

Zhu Houzhao asked Ma Yongcheng to be the first thousand households of the tax corps, and asked Ma Yongcheng to assist Xu Jing in recruitment, after all, Ma Yongcheng is the eunuch who is most familiar with the market around Zhu Houzhao, and can help Xu Jing set up the tax corps in the shortest possible time.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao's main task is to control the power of the court, and after arranging the next tasks of the Royal Tax Administration, Zhu Houzhao continued to ask Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong about the progress of the plan to overthrow the imperial horse eunuch Zhang Zhao.

"The emperor can rest assured, the slave and maid have already found a dead man, called Wucha, his wife was killed by Zhang Zhao, so he is willing to do things for the court", Gu Da said at this time.

"At the instigation of the slaves and maids, the officers and soldiers of the forbidden soldiers and regiments and battalions are now increasingly resentful about the matter of owing Lumi, and some people have even proposed to make trouble," Zhang Yong also said.

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly after hearing this: "Now that the day of the funeral of the Daxing Emperor is approaching, the celebrant and the imperial horse supervisor, the cabinet, and the Ministry of Rites are all busy with the arrangements for the funeral of the Daxing Emperor. ”

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Zhu Houzhao began to prepare 300,000 taels of silver, and the cabinet was also starting to deliberate, mainly discussing the matter of the regimental camp and the forbidden soldier Lumi.

Zhu Houzhao often handed over affairs directly to the cabinet department, so that he was not interested in politics, and the cabinet was naturally happy to do so.

And now, the matter of the regimental camp and the forbidden soldier Lumi is naturally handed over to the cabinet department, that is, the cabinet organizes several departments and officials in charge of this matter to discuss and then vote to submit the draft to the emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Dongyang, the second assistant of the cabinet, and Xie Qian, the third assistant, sat in the center, while Wang Hua, the secretary of the household department, and Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, were lined up on both sides, and the first to speak was Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department: "The three elders, Lord Wang, the regimental camp and the forbidden soldiers have been in arrears for a long time, and now that the year is approaching, if you don't send Lu rice, I am afraid that it will cause a mutiny!" ”

"How much food does the household still have to distribute?" Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, asked at this time.

"A few days ago, Xiaguan just checked the accounts, and Emperor Daxing had spent most of the money and grain on repairing the tomb and burying it, and now there are only about 200,000 taels of silver left in Taicang silver," replied Wang Hua, the head of the household.

"That's just right, and you can even out the rice you owe, which can still solve the urgent need!"

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, hurriedly said that he had just taken office as the secretary of the military department, and he was anxious to think of a drastic way to sort out the military administration, and he was naturally anxious to make up for the officers and soldiers, so as to gain the prestige of sorting out the military administration.

But Li Dongyang, the second assistant of the cabinet, said at this time: "This money can't be used to distribute Lu rice, it has to be used by the Ministry of Industry to repair the Qing Palace!" Have you forgotten, what is the reason for Your Majesty to move to the leopard room, the reason is that the Qianqing Palace is dilapidated and cannot escape the cold and heat, and now the three months are approaching, and then we will persuade Your Majesty to return to the palace, Your Majesty asked if the Qianqing Palace has been repaired, and what should I do if I find a reason not to return to the palace? ”

"Exactly, do you still want Your Majesty to stay outside the palace, and be taken by Liu Jin and others to do something unobtrusive, if Your Majesty goes to sell any imperial property or even beg, then how will our hundred officials deal with themselves, and then more than one household secretary will resign!"

Xie Qian was also busy talking.

"Since this is the case, then take the silver to repair the Qianqing Palace first, and let the Ministry of Industry repair it immediately!" , Liu Jian did not hesitate to decide to repair the Qianqing Palace for Zhu Houzhao this time.

Wang Hua, the head of the household department, can only say yes when he sees this.

And the military department secretary Xu Jin has just been promoted to the military department secretary, eager to revitalize the Ming armaments, and to the officers and soldiers to replenish Lu rice is his first step to revitalize the Ming armaments, but he did not expect the cabinet to decide to take the silver to repair the Qianqing Palace, although he is not opposed to the emperor His Majesty Zhu Houzhao to repair the Qianqing Palace, but he thinks that the most important thing is to give the officers and soldiers Lu rice, after all, once the officers and soldiers are paid, it will affect the safety of the Ming capital.

"Ge Lao, Lord Wang, a while ago, the Ministry of War asked for 400,000 taels to be allocated to Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, to repair the border wall, and you pushed it off on the grounds that the Suzhou flood needed relief, and now the regimental camp and the forbidden soldier Lumi have been owed for three months, but they still refuse to send it! How can you tolerate the depletion of the Ming armament to such a degree! If you don't repair the border wall, Xuanhua Bauhinia Pass and other fortified cities can protect the capital, but the officers and soldiers of the capital will not be released, and once the incident occurs, it will affect the safety of the capital! ”

"And if you let the officers and soldiers know that Your Majesty would rather use the silver to repair the Qianqing Palace than use it to distribute rice to the officers and soldiers, where is this trapping the monarch's father!"

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, tried his best to argue.

"The lesser of the two powers, the officers and soldiers are important or Your Majesty is important, Lord Xu must make this clear, if the Qianqing Palace is not repaired for a day, Your Majesty will have to live outside the palace for a day, and if the emperor does not sit in the center, the world will be unstable, and the officers and soldiers have been delayed for three months What does it matter if it is delayed for a few more months, you Lord Xu will work harder, appease the officers and soldiers, and tell them that they will definitely be able to send Lu rice before the year!"

After Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, finished speaking, he no longer bothered Xu Jin.

Seeing this, Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, knew that the cabinet was unwilling to give the silver to the officers and soldiers, so he was very angry for a while and left the cabinet directly.