The first year of Yongxing passed in a hurry, and it was already the end of the year in a blink of an eye, this year the Ming Dynasty did not seem to have done anything, did not launch foreign wars, did not launch officialdom earthquakes, did not have major strategic adjustments, did not have any major moves, plain, flat and steady, at least the people in North Zhili, South Zhili and other places did not suffer from drought so they think.

However, their lives are quietly changing, the most obvious point is that the money is getting better and better, all over the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of workshops have sprung up, and the business is so good that it bursts, as long as you are bold enough, you can almost make a lot of money, as long as you are diligent and willing to work, you can find a job with a good salary, and there have never been so many opportunities to make money.

The living standards of the common people have also been continuously improved, and all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation have been quietly improved in the ordinary.

Needless to say, the ordinary people who were reluctant to buy a new dress in the past few years are now buying several sets of new clothes for their families a year;

The improvement in food should be the most obvious, because the price of salt is getting lower and lower, all the people eat salt, the dishes are no longer dull and tasteless, and all kinds of cooking oil have begun to quietly enter the kitchens of ordinary people.

In the past, everyone couldn't afford to eat salt, who still thought about the problem of oil, ordinary people at home can only eat some fat oil in a year or a few years when it is rare to eat meat, now it is different, Dongshengtang launched a kind of cheap rapeseed oil, one or two silver fifty catties, converted into copper coins is twenty wen a catty, this price is really nothing for the people who have a few taels a month's income at every turn, unconsciously, all the people have begun to fry in oil, not boiled in water.

At this time, everyone is not so simple as eating to fill their stomachs, everyone is used to eating dishes fried in oil, and the salt should be put just right, if they eat that kind of water boiled out without a little oil, no salt, it is estimated that everyone will not be able to eat.

There is also the aspect of housing, in the past, when the people were more abundant, everyone would find a way to build a brick house, and if they couldn't build a brick house, they would also find a way to build a bungalow with a wood and stone structure, but after decades of tossing in the Ming Dynasty, brick houses and bungalows were rare, and thatched houses and earthen houses slowly became the main residences of ordinary people.

Now, this trend has reversed, thatched houses and mud houses are slowly decreasing, and many people are starting to build new bungalows or even brick houses, that is, the living conditions of ordinary people are gradually improving.

As for the travel aspect, not to mention, Dongshengtang in Daming everywhere to build railways, taking the train has become the first choice for long-distance travel, the former scholars rushed to take the exam at every turn to go for a month or even a few months of things are basically gone, even from the southernmost Guangdong Chengxuan political envoy to the north Zhili capital will not take a few days!

Of course, this is only the area that has not been affected, and if there is any change in the lives of the people in the five northwestern provinces that have been severely affected, it can be described as earth-shaking.

In the five northwestern provinces, there are no more hungry people, homeless people, and rogues, no more thieves everywhere, no more endless wars, no longer thousands of miles of wild fields on the plains, no longer deserted villages, and the common people are no longer hungry to find grass roots and bark everywhere to eat, everyone eats rice and white noodles, and everyone is no longer clothed, because cotton is produced here, a large amount of cotton, and vegetable oil is enough, because this is the oil-producing area.

In short, the drought has not affected the lives of the people, and everyone seems to have returned to before the disaster overnight, back to the richest time in Wanli Zhongxing in those years, and even, better than at that time!

Daming has really started ZTE, and it is an unprecedented ZTE!

All this is naturally inseparable from the efforts of Zhang Bin, a famous minister of Zhongxing, but he feels that these are not enough, the people can live a better life, and Daming can be richer and stronger!

On this day, it happened that the household department sent the account book of the annual tax statistics, Zhang Bin read it carefully, and then took the account book and walked to the imperial study.

Yongxing Emperor Zhu Cihong was very excited during this time, because he didn't expect that Daming would be able to prosper so quickly, in one year, only one year, he surpassed his grandfather Shenzong Wanli Emperor, and even surpassed his ancestors and ancestors, Daming almost in a blink of an eye from dying to strong, and it was unprecedentedly strong!

Of course, he knew that all this could be said to be Zhang Bin's credit, so when Zhang Bin asked to see him, he didn't hesitate to get up and run to the door, and cordially welcomed the master and father-in-law in.

Zhang Bin didn't have time to care about these details at this time, because he had something very important to discuss with Zhu Cihong, he sat down next to the dragon case under Zhu Cihong's "support", and then handed the account book in his hand to Zhu Cihong and motioned him to take a look.

Zhu Cihong opened the account book and looked at it, and was immediately stunned,, in the first year of Yongxing, the annual tax income of the Ming Dynasty was more than 31 million taels!

He wiped his eyes vigorously and stared at the number a few times, yes, it was more than 30 million taels, not more than 3 million taels!

Is there any mistake, Chongzhen's seventeenth year of Daming's tax was only more than 7 million taels, why did it suddenly increase by more than 20 million taels, he didn't order to levy three salaries!

He looked up at Zhang Bin, and saw that the master had no meaning to speak, so he quickly lowered his head and opened the account book to look carefully.

He knew that this was because the master collected all the land of the royal family and then distributed it to the common people, so the increase in taxes was quite normal.

Then, the commercial tax revenue in the provinces is also growing rapidly, even exceeding the income from farmland taxes, which he also knows, because Zhang Bin proposed to remove the restrictions on population movement and cancel the road guide to strengthen commercial circulation, and the effect of this is really obvious.

However, what made him strange was that the two capitals and fourteen provinces had not skyrocketed to more than two million taels or even more than three million taels, and at most it was more than one million taels, so how did the tax of more than 30 million taels come about?

He turned to the end and finally understood that the household department listed a separate tax, that is, the tax paid by Dongshengtang, and a Dongshengtang actually paid more than 14 million taels of taxes a year, which is almost equivalent to the sum of the taxes of the two capitals and fourteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty!

He looked at the taxes paid by Dongshengtang, and his eyes almost popped out,, what a big business this must be, why haven't I seen them pay so many taxes before?

He couldn't help but look up and ask, "Master, what's going on with this Dongsheng Hall?" ”

Zhang Bin said lightly: "Your Majesty, please forgive Weichen for not telling you that this Dongshengtang is actually opened by Weichen's maternal grandfather's family, and Weichen also has a large stake in it!" ”

And what's going on? Zhu Cihong was suddenly scorched by the thunder on the outside and tender on the inside!