At this time, Zheng Wen sat on the imperial chair, thinking carefully about what he should do next?

Because Prime Minister Liu Jian is about to go to Jiangnan, and it is not one person, but almost a complete set of court teams will go to Jiangnan with Liu Jian.

In this way, there will be a lot fewer officials in the court, which is not conducive to the operation of the court of the Great Qian, but it is the most beneficial to Zheng Wen himself.

Because Zheng Wen, who has just ascended the throne, although he generally controls the court situation, there are not many Zheng Wen's absolute cronies in the court.

As soon as Prime Minister Liu Jian left, the court had a lot less constraints on Zheng Wen, and Zheng Wen had absolute power in Yanjing City, and he could almost do whatever he wanted!

Therefore, it is still very easy for Zheng Wen to do something, of course, not to do it blindly, but to do it purposefully and plannedly, and to do those things that are conducive to maintaining his rule.

Maintaining one's rule, in Zheng Wen's view, is nothing more than money, soldiers, and people.

Money, that is, silver, as the emperor, to hold the money bag tightly, accumulate more money for his own use, is the right way, as for the civil officials said that "Your Majesty must not compete with the small people for profit" words, it is absolutely untrustworthy. Whoever believes is a fool.

Like the middle and late Ming Dynasty is tired of money, many emperors are too many and not as good as many rich businessmen, the most speechless is Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, who was called "the most diligent and saddest emperor" by later generations, ascended the throne for 17 years, got up earlier than chickens, slept later than dogs, and ate no better, and finally Li Zicheng's peasant army was forced to die on the coal mountain!

In Zheng Wen's view, the demise of the Ming Dynasty has a lot to do with the lack of money, if the Ming Dynasty has sufficient finances, how can there be anything to do with Li Zicheng? The so-called Jiannu still dares to set up a big gold country, and it is a good thing to pick up that little belongings as soon as possible and take the opportunity to escape away.

As for Zhu Youzhen, in Zheng Wen's opinion, he is a little stupid, he cut off his ears and eyes and cut off his hands and feet, and he only knows that with those so-called righteous gentlemen, he is simply the number one fool in the world.

As an emperor, who has no selfish intentions, and who does not have some private affairs! Even those Ming monarchs have many unsightly things in secret. When an emperor has the idea of wanting to be a righteous man and a gentleman, this person is not a qualified emperor. As for Zhu Youzhen, in Zheng Wen's opinion, this person must have this idea in his heart, and he also took action.

This is death!

And what made Zheng Wen sigh the most was that the commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was extremely low, so low that people couldn't believe it. This is an act of great death! Because the discipline of a businessman is similar to that of a bureaucrat.

And many emperors of the Ming Dynasty are obviously not good at money. After becoming the emperor, Zheng Wen realized that it was too easy to get some money!

As long as Zheng Wen is willing, move his mouth a little, some people will send a lot of money, of course, this kind of shameless behavior, Zheng Wen will never dare to do it, if he does it, he can fill the imperial study room by keeping the book on the next day.

Zheng Wen is not very anxious about the fact that he already has the East Factory for his money. But he still wants the court to hold the money, and the court can't be short of money, so he stretches out his hand to him, the emperor, and puts the money in his personal pocket into the treasury.

This will make him very unhappy, the money that he can hold is mine, why do you ministers want to take it when you open your mouth.

Moreover, Zheng Wen also wanted to make the finances of the Great Cadre court develop benignly, so Zheng Wen wanted to take advantage of Liu Jian's absence to improve the household department of the Great Cadres and make a thorough reform of the tax system of the Great Cadres!

At this time, the tax system of Daqian was divided into three types, one was the poll tax, one was the agricultural tax, and the other was the commercial tax.

The poll tax, as the name suggests, is to pay the poll tax, 300 yuan per person per year, the population of the big cadres in the register is nearly 100 million, and there must be those who are not registered.

As for Zheng Wen, he wants to reform this poll tax, Zheng Wen thinks that this kind of tax is unreasonable, not that he has any sympathetic thoughts, but that the cadres are so big, there are so many people, and the local institutions of the court are not so efficient, which has caused many people to die, he is still paying taxes, and many living people are sold into slavery to evade taxes.

Zheng Wen believes that this kind of tax is not conducive to population growth. What Zheng Wen thinks is that the policy of apportioning the land into the mu in later generations, and the poll tax will be apportioned into the field tax, so that those who have more land will pay more taxes, and those with less land will pay less taxes, which can also effectively curb land annexation!

Of course, this is a long-term and complex problem, and it is impossible to achieve any results in just a few months, and the difficulty is too great. Think about the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who reigned for thirteen years, and implemented the policy of "apportioning the land into the mu, and the gentry paying taxes as an errand", which left an unknown amount of infamy among the people, and as soon as he died, this policy was immediately abolished, which shows that the resistance is great!

However, at present, the cadres only need to implement the practice of "apportioning the land into the mu," because the gentry of the cadres have to pay taxes. As for any errands and the like, there is none. Moreover, Zheng Wen was ready to gradually implement the plan of paid errands, and the question of whether the gentry wanted to be errand or not was obviously irrelevant.

As for the agricultural tax, it is a general term for the land tax and the mulberry and silk tax; in Daqian, the land tax is levied on grain, and the mulberry tax is levied on silver money. Zheng Wen once read the relevant information of the household department, and the large cadres have 1,343 granaries of various sizes throughout the country, and both the household department and the Ministry of Industry have subordinate fields, which are scattered throughout the country, and there are tens of millions of acres of fertile land alone.

And the royal family has more fertile land, so far Zheng Wen does not know how much fertile land the royal family has, because the royal family's acres of land will increase more or less every year, just like this year, Zheng Wen rewarded millions of acres of fertile land at one time, and harvested millions of acres of fertile land at one time.

This system of the imperial family was formulated by Emperor Taizu with reference to the previous dynasties, and was called the "imperial mu system" by all strata of the great cadres, which belonged to the emperor's private property. Originally, Emperor Taizu thought that the royal family controlled a certain amount of acres of land, and stored the money harvested from these acres as a storage fund, and whenever a natural disaster occurred, the affected people would sell their fields and even sell their children to live, and the local gentry would annex these lands at a low price, which often caused serious land annexation and local power.

In this way, these people get more money, can live well, and can also inhibit land annexation.

And when the wind and rain are good, they will sell these lands to the landless people in installments, and those who have permanent property will have perseverance, so that the people will settle down and will be more conducive to the rule of the great cadres.

When Zheng Wen saw this system, he was also amazed!

However, the emperor is the strangest creature in the world, and the emperors of the Great Qian Dynasty have only obeyed half of it, only entering and not leaving, and constantly using this money to buy land when it is affected by disasters, but they have never bought it, so the Great Qian royal family has become the largest landlord in the Great Qian, and millions of people have become tenant farmers of the Great Qian royal family.

As for Zheng Wen, he also believes that it is the system implemented by the emperors of previous dynasties that has allowed Daqian to establish the country for 300 years, and there has never been any peasant uprising, and only then has such a long national fortune as Daqian, and when it comes to Zheng Wen's generation, Zheng Wen still feels that the current Daqian is in the middle and late stages of a feudal dynasty.

It is precisely because of this system that the Great Cadres can maintain an army of 1.8 million all year round, because the Great Cadres' army is supported by the imperial family and the imperial court, both of which are five to five.

Zheng Wen also thinks in his heart that he can ascend to the throne with nothing, can quickly control the military power, and control the court situation, which also has a lot to do with this system, because in this feudal era, it is impossible for the army to oppose the ascension of a son of the first emperor to the throne, of course, this is also indispensable to Zheng Wen's operation.

Zheng Wen did not intend to change this system, because it was beneficial to him, and he wished that all the land in Daqian belonged to him. If this is the case, Zheng Wen may be able to engage in a land contract responsibility system!

As for commercial tax, as the name suggests, in Daqian is to tax commercial activities, specifically all kinds of shops in Daqian, all kinds of transactions are taxed, all kinds of checkpoints are taxed, and cards are also set up along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to be taxed.

Over the past 300 years since the founding of the country, the commercial taxes levied by the court of the Great Qian's court have increased day by day, but the courtiers seem to have deliberately ignored this situation.

When Zheng Wen saw these situations, he was anxious in the bottom of his heart, it was white flowers! How many business taxes have been lost, which makes Zheng Wen's heart ache!

Therefore, Zheng Wen decided to wait for Liu Jian to leave the capital, and asked Yang Bo to have a good talk, so that he could realize the loss of tax revenue in the court and reform the household department.

And the reason why Zheng Wen sent Wang Cheng, the left servant of the household department, to the capital is also based on this, Wang Cheng is from the Taiyuan Wang family, the cousin of the Queen Mother Wang, and the Taiyuan Wang family has become the largest family in the north for more than ten years, but Zheng Wen doesn't believe how clean Wang Cheng is!

But because of the relationship between the Wang family, there is no conclusive evidence that Zheng Wen is not good at what to do with him, but out of sight and out of mind, he is sent far away, and Zheng Wen does not plan to reuse him in his heart, because there are many things that indirectly point out that this person has a problem, this kind of powerful and problematic official, Zheng Wen has no choice but to put them up high and treat them as a brand.

As for whether he will do something brainless when he goes to Jiangnan, it is not something that Zheng Wen can manage, this is the problem of Prime Minister Liu Jian, Liu Jian, who has been the prime minister for more than ten years, Zheng Wen thinks he can handle this kind of thing!