Jiao Fang hurriedly said yes, when the ticket was drafted for Song Kai's recital, it was submitted to the eunuch Gu Dayong, the master of ceremonies.

Zhu Houzhao also personally watched the letter being criticized red, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth for a while.

Because in Zhu Houzhao's impression, in the so-called world of great governance, basically this kind of request for tax exemption and tax reduction, and even the abolition of the procurement of eunuchs and the tax bureau, will be granted.

For example, in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, when Liu Jian and Wang Yue were in charge of the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, they were invited by the local government to exempt the Suzhou government from taxation on the grounds that the flood disaster in Suzhou was too serious to hurt the people.

Now, this is the first time since Zhu Houzhao became emperor that he refused a local request to ban the tax bureau, and he also wanted to add a tax bureau.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know how these Jiangnan gentry would accept this kind of tax increase behavior, which is called the behavior of the faint king.

But Zhu Houzhao knew that the increase in the tax bureau would definitely be beneficial to himself, the emperor.

This is because these taxes are collected by commercial and taxation, which are the main income of the Royal Inland Revenue Service, and will also be the financial support for the maintenance of the Guards and the development of industry and navigation.

Although Zhu Houzhao now has tens of millions of gold and silver, he does not want to spend too much of this gold and silver, and he still has to keep it as a reserve to prepare for future financial reforms, so he wants to support more guards, and can only rely on these commercial taxes and taxes, not only can not reduce but also increase.

As for whether the increase in commercial tax and tax will affect the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao also considered it.

Let's not say that the current commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty itself is very low, let's just say that those merchants in the Ming Dynasty basically only buy land and gardens to buy slaves and maids after making money, and even would rather cast a big silver ingot and bury it in the ground, rather than expand the scale of production, which is not conducive to social development at all, and even hinders!

In this case, if Zhu Houzhao did not levy more commercial taxes, these merchants would only turn most of the commercial profits into an agricultural economy, or use them for pleasure and squandering, it would be better to let Zhu Houzhao have these profits, at least expand the scale of production, increase employment, solve the survival pressure of a large number of landless peasants, and avoid the collapse of the dynasty due to land annexation.

When it comes to expanding the scale of production, Zhu Houzhao has not neglected the industrial and commercial development of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty did not have much motivation for the development of industry and commerce from the imperial court to the people, and Rao was the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and the Jin merchants in the north and the Huizhou merchants in Huizhou, and the wealth accumulation they pursued was only to become a greater bureaucratic landlord.

Therefore, the industrial and commercial development of the Ming Dynasty can only be carried out by Emperor Zhu Houzhao himself.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao established the Royal Bank at the beginning to achieve the purpose of controlling Daming finance in the future, and accumulated capital for himself with the Royal Taxation Bureau collecting the world's commercial tax, and at the same time turned capital into the driving force for industrial development with the Royal Industrial Company as the center, and Beijing Normal University served as a place for theoretical knowledge exploration and talent reserve and think tank group for the development of industry.

The Royal Bank uses the money from the Royal Tax Office to lend money, so that more merchants can have the opportunity to expand their operations, and avoid the concentration of business activities among the bureaucracy and the elite, and also promote the opportunity for more people to get rich.

The Royal Inland Revenue will lend part of the income from the hands of the powerful bureaucrats, who still have easier access to high business profits, to the common people who lack funds through the Royal Bank, or directly use it to invest in public utilities, so as to rob the rich and help the poor and alleviate class tensions.

The Royal Industrial Company received funds through the Royal Bank, which converted the wealth of the empire into tangible industrial products for the benefit of future generations and powerful dynasties.

The same is true of Beijing Normal University, one creates industrial products and the other creates talents.

Unknowingly, Zhu Houzhao has begun to create his own capital empire.

Because he is the emperor, this capital is more like royal capital, but in fact it is almost the same as state-owned capital, after all, he is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and rules everything in the Ming Dynasty.

But this capital empire is still only in its infancy.

The large loan channel of the Royal Bank is basically only to lend to the household department, that is, the Ming court, which means that the Ming Dynasty is more flexible and convenient in terms of tax collection and public utility expenditure, and there is no need to wait for the money and grain from the south to arrive, so that they can go to disaster relief and repair the border wall.

Compared with the past, the commercial tax revenue of the Royal Taxation Bureau is still decreasing but not increasing, and the officials and gentry in all parts of the Ming Dynasty are trying to find a way to make the imperial court reduce the commercial tax, and they naturally don't even think about increasing the commercial tax.

The Royal Industrial Company has not yet established a complete industrial system, and even now it is not an industrial group of companies, but a workshop consisting of several production workshops.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao is not a qualified entrepreneur, and he is engaged in production because he wants to do anything, completely undisciplined and market-oriented, and if it were not supported by glass and soap, two best-selling goods of the welfare nature of the traverser, the Royal Industrial Company would not be able to achieve a large number of profits.

Not to mention Beijing Normal University, there are only about 20 students at present, and the total number of teachers and students in the school is less than 30, which is the result of Zhu Houzhao's intervention by the imperial power.

The entire Royal West Garden is still as quiet as before after having Jingshi University, and it is not as colorful as the university town in later generations.

But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and Zhu Houzhao is still trying his best to build his capital empire.

At least he's still bringing new surprises to the world.

Now, for example, Zhu Houzhao has made chalk out of calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate in a certain proportion, and at the same time has the first blackboard painted with pine black paint.

Although this does not seem to have much impact on the social life of Daming, it can at least make Zhu Houzhao stop holding charcoal to give lectures to students of Beijing Normal University, and also make it more convenient for Beijing Normal University to exchange knowledge and study.

At this time, what was really a new major project was the agricultural research base built by Zhu Hou for Beijing Normal University according to the orders of the engineering troops.

Among them, the most conspicuous is the wide area of glass greenhouses and the newly reclaimed ten acres of fertile land in Beijing Normal University, which are the bases in charge of Yan Song, the director of Beijing Normal University, who is now holding the corn brought by Jinyiwei from the south, and began to cultivate corn seedlings under the guidance of Zhu Houzhao.

Because there is a glass shed, there is a greenhouse, so there is no need to wait until the spring of the next year to conduct agricultural research, and it can still be done in the harsh winter of the first year of Zhengde.

When Zhu Hou took care of Yan Song's cultivation of the first batch of corn seedlings, Song Kai's request to reform Zhenjiang Mansion and the Chongming County Tax Bureau of Suzhou Prefecture was also returned to Song Kai's hands. ”

After Song Kai scolded himself, he poured a whole cup of tea quite depressedly, thinking about how to explain to the gentry in Jiangnan, after all, he had collected the money from others, and the woman sent by them had already slept, but now the court suddenly rejected his proposal, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

"Go and pass on Master Yuan!"

In the end, Song Kai decided to tell these Jiangnan gentry truthfully, after all, it was not his refusal.

Yuan Chong'an, a wealthy gentleman from Nanzhili, came to Song Kai: "Lord Patrol, dare to ask what is the matter with the students?" ”

"The approval of the imperial court has come down", Song Kai gave Yuan Chong'an a note, and after Yuan Chong'an saw it, he laughed: "It seems that the current imperial court is really in power by the northerners, and it doesn't give us southerners a way to live, but it's not impossible, and when the time comes, please ask the adults to go to the next step!" ”

Yuan Chong'an muttered in Song Kai's ear as he spoke.

Song Kai couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: "This move is very dangerous, once it is detected, your life will not be guaranteed!" ”

"What are you afraid of, this is not what you did, or even below, it was done by water bandits and pirates, how can the imperial court investigate", Yuan Chong'an said with a smile.

"If this official hides this matter for you, what good can it be?"

Song Kai asked.

"In the future, the profits from going to sea will be divided into half of the adults, and 50,000 taels of silver will be given every year!" Yuan Chong'an said with a smile.

Song Kai didn't answer after speaking, but said: "This official will go to Nanjing in three days, and you will act at that time." ”

"Understood!" Yuan Chong'an replied.

……

On this night, it happened to be raining heavily, although it was only noon, but the sky was as gloomy as night, several eunuchs of the tax bureau were leaning against the wall to nap, and the tax supervisor on duty was just about to go back to the house to sleep, but found that a group of water bandits with white cloth wrapped in white cloth and bare feet and holding big knives rushed from the direction of the river bank in front of them!

The tax collector immediately shouted: "There are water bandits! There are water bandits! ”

The soldiers of the tax supervisor were also frightened for a day, but they also instinctively picked up their spears and rushed into the rain to prepare to defend the tax bureau, but these water bandits were overwhelming, and it didn't take long for the soldiers of the tax bureau to be killed, and several eunuchs of the tax bureau were also directly chopped into pulp!

And the tax superintendent was also beheaded on the spot!

None of the people in the entire Zhenjiang Prefecture Tax Bureau are alive!

At this time, the leader of the bandits came over, took off his veil, and greeted Yuan Chong'an: "Master Yuan! Kill them all! ”

Yuan Chong'an nodded, then walked into the tax bureau, ordered someone to open the treasury of the tax bureau, and ordered: "You take five thousand taels!" Send 10,000 taels to Master Wen's mansion! In addition, I will send 10,000 taels to the patrol press! Next, distribute it, these are the taxes that everyone has paid over the years, and they can be regarded as part of the refund. ”

And at this time.

In the tax bureau of Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture, hundreds of pirates also stabbed the bright steel knife into the chest of the tax supervisor, and hundreds of tax bureau personnel were slaughtered on the spot!

……

Nanzhili patrolled the imperial history Song Kai and soon made another note:

"Because of the robbing of Zhenjiang and the Chongming County Tax Bureau of Suzhou Prefecture by water bandits and pirates, the people have also suffered countless casualties, in order to avoid local chaos and reassure the people, please reform Zhenjiang and the Chongming County Tax Bureau of Suzhou Prefecture!"

Song Kai believes that the imperial court should realize the strength of the Jiangnan gentry, and it is good for your court to agree, but if you don't agree, it will only increase casualties! And you can't find any reason to punish them, because it's all bandits and pirates.