"The minister doesn't dare to deceive Your Majesty, Your Majesty will check it!" Xia Yan replied.

"Drive the Royal Inland Tax", Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, and hurried to the Royal Inland Revenue, to be exact, it should be the Royal Tax Administration.

Since Zhu Houzhao forced the civil officials to promise that the internal treasury would be under the jurisdiction of the household department and the inner court would be directly responsible to the emperor after the first royal exposition ended, Zhu Houzhao changed his internal treasury to the imperial tax administration, and until now, the main taxes of the empire are still divided into two parts, one is the tax on the fields released to Taicang, and the other is the commercial tax.

Commercial taxes are all owned by the Royal Tax Administration, which is located in the Commonwealth Tax Bureau, branch offices and even tax offices.

Because Zhu Houzhao has not increased the commercial tax, coupled with the fact that the imperial power is still under pressure from the civil official group, naturally there has not been much contradiction.

The revenue of the Royal Inland Revenue Service is held in the treasury of the Royal Bank.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao said that he went to the Royal Tax Administration, but in fact, he came to the general treasury of the Royal Bank.

The general treasury of the Royal Bank is in the Imperial City, which is heavily guarded, and ordinary people cannot enter, so naturally there is no need to worry about theft.

However, when Zhu Houzhao arrived at the Royal Tax Administration, almost all the ministers of the cabinet, the officials of the household department, and even the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as the officials and soldiers of the military department, the criminal department, and the Shuntian government were gathered here.

There is no other reason.

There is too much gold and silver in the warehouse, and the personnel of the Royal Bank are simply too busy, and for the Ming Empire, so much gold and silver arriving in the capital will naturally cause the shock of the entire government and the opposition!

"Your Majesty, it's not just the more than 2,000 catties of gold and more than 60,000 catties of silver that Xia Shilang brought back!"

"The customs duties of Manraka Haicheng totaling 1,650,000 taels of silver have also arrived in Beijing!"

"The customs duties and commercial taxes of 2,140,000 taels of silver after the trade between the two cantons have also arrived in Beijing!"

"In addition, the 1.47 million taels of silver of the Daming Sea Trade Company have also arrived in Beijing!"

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"The minister expects a total of more than 10 million taels of gold and silver to be put into storage, so we can only ask the household department to help us review together, and we also specially ask the cabinet to agree to let Tongzhou Iron Works and Baoquan Bureau recast together! It is expected that it will take three months before it is fully stocked! ”

Shangshu Qiaoyu, who is in charge of the General Administration of Royal Taxation, replied when Zhu Houzhao asked about the situation of gold and silver in the treasury at this time.

Liu Yu, the first assistant of the cabinet, Wang Qiong, the second assistant, Kang Hai, the third assistant, and Liu Kai, the head of the household department, were all shocked.

"Taicang silver last year received only 21.12 million stones, in addition, there are a large number of short cloths, pepper charges, silver is only 2.14 million taels, this is still His Majesty's decree to let the internal mining tax in Taicang only more than 2 million taels, but it can't be compared with the income of the Royal State Administration of Taxation!"

Liu Kai, the head of the household, couldn't help but sigh, he was really jealous that this box of gold and silver had entered the royal treasury, but he couldn't say that the emperor had received the wrong money, after all, it was in line with the rules for the income from commercial taxes and the income from the royal industry.

"Who would have thought that with only two Guangzhous and one place, so many taxes could be increased! If the whole world is open to the sea, the deposits of the Royal Taxation Administration and the Royal Bank must not be piled up in the capital! ”

Liu Yu, the first assistant of the cabinet, couldn't help but feel a little hot.

"I didn't expect Xia Yan to bring so much silver and gold back to the West, didn't some old ministers and Confucians say that going to the West is a waste of money for the people, at that time there were several ministers who advised His Majesty, forcing His Majesty to only pay out his own internal funding, and the household and the magnates did not invest, but now Xia Yan brought back so many gold and silver things, all of which belonged to the Royal Taxation Administration, and the official was really confused when he was the head of the household department!

At that time, if he had ruthlessly let the household department invest, he would have been able to make the treasury more than 3 million taels of silver, and the embankment of the Han River would have been repaired! It can benefit the people of Jingchu, and I don't know how much food to increase! ”

Of course, he not only thought that if the silver was returned to the treasury, it would benefit the people, but he also thought that the construction of the embankment on the Han River could make the Infrastructure Bureau responsible, and as a shareholder of the Infrastructure Construction Bureau, he would naturally be able to obtain a good income.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the civil officials behind him, who were not sad even if they beat their chests or sighed for a long time, and they wanted to laugh very well, but he remembered very well that when Xia Yan went to the West and Zhang Yanling sailed on the ocean, these civil officials were not against it, but even silent, they refused to pay a penny of silver anyway, so that they could only let the Royal Tax Bureau pay the money and also took out a loan from the Royal Bank, and now only they make a big profit.

At this time, Wei Ying, the left attendant of the household department, couldn't help but come forward and suggested to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the current Royal State Administration of Taxation can make a profit of tens of millions of taels of silver just by relying on tariffs and sea trade. ”

Mining tax is a kind of tax on merchants after the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty led to a large increase in the demand for raw materials such as ores, and the workshops of mining also increased greatly, which is different from the historical Wanli mining tax for eunuchs to mine and then collect minerals from the gentry and the common people.

But most of the minerals in the Ming Dynasty are mined by the gentry, and naturally they are also paying the mining tax, and now Wei Ying, the left servant of the household department, thinks that the one-time income of the internal money is tens of millions of taels, and His Majesty the Emperor will not need money, so he wants to ban the mining tax.

"If I remember correctly, I transferred the mining tax revenue to Taicang, which is used as a silver for disaster preparedness, the Ming Dynasty is wide, disasters are frequent, prepare a sum of silver, once there is a catastrophe, or enough food to help the people when there is a food shortage, if this mining tax is canceled, how can there be disaster preparedness silver, and really want to solve the people's hardship, how much can the mining tax ban solve the people's hardship, how can ordinary people know about the mining business, I think, it is better to ban the world's forced labor!"

Zhu Houzhao rejected Wei Ying's Tiying, so he would not let the conspiracy of the gentry group succeed, but Zhu Houzhao had already had the idea of banning the world's servitude, after all, his emperor is now rich in capital, and he no longer needs to enslave the people of the world, and the country's income has also increased a lot, and capitalism in the Ming Dynasty began to appear, and the employment system cooperative relationship gradually replaced the sell-out system, so that the people of the world are exempt from the pain of servitude, which is undoubtedly the best way to increase personal income and food production.

"The minister has thanked Your Majesty for the people of the world! If the world is abolished, the poor families will no longer be mistaken because of the service, and the solid families will not be poor because of the heavy service money! ”

Liu Yu's young family was poor, and he was also deeply touched by the weight of forced labor, and when he saw that Zhu Houzhao wanted to be exempted from forced labor in the world, he first made a big gift to Zhu Houzhao.

"This is truly the blessing of all the people in the world, long live my emperor!" Wang Qiong also agreed.

"The people have no tax on conscription, the annual tax has been greatly reduced, Your Majesty is a rare monarch through the ages, if it is not a prosperous age, how can there be such a fortunate thing!"

Liu Kai, the head of the household department, was not jealous of the emperor's income now, and was busy crying, but then he couldn't help asking: "Then Your Majesty, if this conscription is exempted, when the household department needs to use people's power, won't the expenditure increase greatly, where will this money come from?" ”

"What I said is that I can be exempted from servitude in the world, as long as any of you is willing to open up the sea and the world, I will agree that all the customs duties of the Ming Dynasty will go to the treasury! The city department is served by foreign officials! In this way, the household naturally has silver, which comes in handy when the people's power is needed. ”

When Zhu Houzhao said this, it was tantamount to a difficult problem for the civil officials present, and for a time no one dared to answer.

"It's not me who is willing to solve the plight of the people in the world, it's you!"

Zhu Houzhao turned around and walked away, and at this time, suddenly, an official suddenly shouted from behind: "Your Majesty! The ministers are willing to play, please open the sea to the court! ”

"Who dares to defy the world's condemnation so much!"

Wei Ying, the left attendant of the household department, was furious in his heart.

He was unable to take advantage of His Majesty's happiness to let His Majesty ban the mining tax, but let His Majesty take the opportunity of exempting the world from servitude to coerce himself, the civil officials, to ask for the opening of the sea, and when he felt very uncomfortable, at this time, someone really wanted to ask the emperor to open the sea for the sake of the people of the world, so he was so angry that he looked directly at the sound.