"Does Aiqing have a way to increase the treasury revenue without causing turmoil in the DPRK?" Chongzhen looked at Chen Yue with earnest eyes.

Not only can not make the situation turbulent, but also increase the treasury silver, so that he can have money to recruit troops, build armor, and defend against the strong enemy in the north who is about to go south, this is what Chongzhen needs.

Although the raiders got a large amount of silver, but after all, it was some dead money, and it would always run out one day, but a steady stream of living water was what Chongzhen needed, and he had enough of the hard days in Beijing.

When Chen Yue was just a small military household, he was able to make a battle as big as honeycomb coal, and now there may be other ways to get money, which is what Chongzhen is looking forward to.

Of course, Chen Yue knew Chongzhen's needs, and he understood that the current situation was not the time to deal with the gentry. In less than a year, the Manchu Tartars will send troops south, and the idea of blocking the Manchu Tartars north of the Yangtze River is the most important thing to do now.

"Your Majesty, there are ministers, I don't know if Your Majesty is willing to use it, dare to use it?" Chen Yue thought for a while and said with a smile.

"Hmph, if you have something to say, there is..." Chongzhen was so angry by Chen Yue's grinning appearance that he almost burst into foul language, and he was used to seeing rude martial artists in the past few days, which made Chongzhen even rude and reckless. Luckily, he remembered who he was and swallowed it down.

"I am the king of a country and the lord of the world, what should I not dare?" Chongzhen looked at Chen Yue coldly.

"What if you compete with the people?" As if not noticing the increasing number of black lines on Chongzhen's forehead, Chen Yue continued to ask.

"Competing with the people?" Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the civil officials had repeatedly used this excuse to force themselves to remove the mine supervisor and tax envoy, which caused the income of the inner treasury to decrease year by year. And just last year, civil officials still used this reason to impeach Princess Kunxing for participating in the honeycomb coal business, forcing themselves to hand over the honeycomb coal to Zhou Kui, the national abbot.

"Did you ask me to send a mine tax collector?" Chongzhen asked, now the Ming Dynasty still owns the entire south, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang are rich places, and commerce and trade are extremely prosperous, if you send a mine supervisor and tax envoy, it is still possible to get a large amount of silver, and in extraordinary times, this method is worth a try.

The three major levies in the Wanli period failed to make the treasury empty, and it was not because of the large number of mine tax supervisors sent by Wanli Ye to get silver for the treasury!

What is competing with the people for profit, it has reached this situation, and this kind of reputation Chongzhen no longer cares. Is there a worse reputation than losing the national capital and the tombs of the ancestors? If he can exterminate the thieves, expel the Manchu Tartars, restore the old land, and prosper the Ming Dynasty, what are these bad reputations!

"It's a good idea to send a mine tax collector, but that's not what the minister said." Chen Yue was stunned for a moment, and before he could mention it, Chongzhen had already thought of the mine supervisor and tax envoy, which showed that this idea had been thinking in his heart for a long time, Chongzhen was really different!

Wechen has been thinking that those gentry rely on their fame, and the fields under their names do not have to pay taxes, and they do not have to pay taxes when they open shops and do business. Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, and you should have more privileges than them, and if they can use the privileges to farm and do business, why can't you, Your Majesty?

You can be a royal family, engage in all kinds of business, food, salt, silk, tea, whatever you want to make money, compete with those merchants with royal authority, and the money you earn will be charged into the treasury. ”

"You mean it's like the Silk Yamen Weaving and Dyeing Bureau?" Chongzhen asked. The imperial court set up an internal weaving and dyeing bureau and a shrine in Nanjing, and there was a special silk yamen in Suzhou, with thousands of subordinate craftsmen, and the silk produced was exported in large quantities in addition to supplying the royal family. However, since Chongzhen's accession to the throne, the Suzhou Silk Bureau has not been as efficient as before, except for supplying a certain amount of silk to the royal family every year, the silver handed in has become less and less.

"Similar to the Silk Bureau, but with some differences, it does not directly give privileges like the Silk Bureau, it is a business in the name of the royal family, engaged in all kinds of business, and competes with other firms. For example, in the salt business, the merchants of Huizhou and Shanxi almost monopolized the salt of the Ming Dynasty, and the annual profits were in the millions.

His Majesty could have set up a business to specialize in salt and compete with other salt merchants. The same goes for other businesses such as grain, tea, etc. ”

Chen Yue thought that Chongzhen could open a large number of companies in the name of the royal family, compete with other merchants in the market, and earn silver to supply the royal family, and the excess money could be used to subsidize the state.

Chongzhen understood it, and Chen Yue suggested that he meddle in all kinds of businesses like honeycomb coal to earn silver to fill the state. The way is a good way, but when I think of directly grabbing business and making money with those Shengdou small people, do you still want the royal face? This is not as simple as sending a mine supervisor and tax envoy, but going into battle shirtless and directly competing with the people for profit, thinking about the impeachment and exhortation that will be flocked to hundreds of officials, Chongzhen feels that his head has become bigger.

"No, no, you can't do without the royal face." Chongzhen shook his head and rejected this absurd idea without thinking.

"You can't name it with the royal name, but you can secretly participate in it by the royal family like honeycomb coal," Chongzhen said with a sigh...... still can't resist the temptation of huge profits, think about it at the beginning, it was just a small honeycomb coal, which can bring tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, if you can participate in more business, then just the money earned?

Looking at Chongzhen's appearance of wanting both money and face, Chen Yue could only be speechless, isn't this what to do but also what to set up!

However, Chongzhen's behavior did not surprise Chen Yue, or it was in Chen Yue's arms. If Chongzhen can really wipe his face to do business, how can he make money?

"Your Majesty, why don't we still be like honeycomb coal, with the royal family and ministers co-owning, and the money earned will be distributed according to the shares, what do you think?" Chen Yue said tentatively.

Chongzhen pretended to hesitate for a while, nodded slightly, and agreed.

"But I don't have the principal right now!" Chongzhen said that he escaped from Beijing in a hurry and lost his family business, and now he can be said to be poor and white. Although Chen Yue confiscated a large amount of family property of the nobles, but those silver and wealth to be handed over to the treasury, if Chongzhen took it privately, maybe there would be a royal history jumping out and risking death to admonish.

"Your Majesty doesn't need to pay the principal, it's all the ministers' responsibility, but there may be many civil officials impeaching the ministers next, and I hope Your Majesty can understand." Chen Yue said with a smile.

Chongzhen glared at Chen Yue fiercely, knowing that this guy was not less corrupt when he confiscated the property of Wei Guogong and other nobles!

"I want to take 70% of the shares of the established firm!" Chongzhen said viciously.