The words of the imperial history on duty still played a certain role, and everyone was quiet first, because the clerk obviously hadn't finished reading it yet.

"3. All bad habits will be abolished from today, and if they are repeated, they will be regarded as corruption and will be handed over to Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the Independent Commission Against Corruption for joint handling. According to Taizu's edict, embezzlement of sixty taels of silver can be stripped of the skin. ”

At this time, there was another big commotion, Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor and hated corrupt officials very much, so at the beginning of the founding of the country, he ordered that if he embezzled sixty taels of silver, he would peel off the skin and grass. However, corrupt officials could not be killed, and later emperors did not strictly follow this. Now that the emperor directly proposed to follow the rules of Taizu, of course it will make everyone talk about it.

Yushi shouted again, and finally suppressed everyone's discussion. The clerk continued: "Fourth, the system of maintaining incorruptible silver shall be implemented first from the fourth rank and above and from the Kyokan to the whole country, and the date of implementation shall be set after the output of the newly occupied territories other than Japan has been produced. ”

The Registrar had finally finished reading the draft. Zhu Youxiao said: "This is a draft, and as for the final version, it needs to be discussed by Aiqing before it can be formulated." ”

He Zongyan, the head of the household department, asked, "Your Majesty, does the so-called output refer to the tax revenue of the newly occupied land?" "He's in charge, of course, to ask.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "It's not a tax, the tax of the newly occupied land must be included in the household department in addition to the necessary expenses for maintaining the local area." So what is the output? I am going to set up a trading house, which can also be called this company, which means the same as the current development company in Liaodong. All the shareholders of the company are the officials just mentioned, and all the profits of the company are included in the local output. ”

He Zongyan continued to ask: "Your Majesty, then who will run this trading house?" ”

Zhu Youxiao replied: "This company is better called a company in order to distinguish it from other commercial firms, and this company will be a new way of doing business, that is, the owner and the operator are separated." How the company operates is determined by the operator, and the owner only has the power to change the operator. ”

"As for the Japanese company, the official name is the Daming Japan Commercial Company, and all Japanese trade with the Daming is the responsibility of the company, and the annual profits will be reported to the owner by the operator, and the owner may send someone to monitor the operation of the company, but shall not interfere with normal business conduct."

At first, Zhu Youxiao said that taxes were not included in the output, and the officials originally thought that the money was only a small amount, but later they were shocked when they heard that the trade between Japan and the Ming Dynasty was all handled by the new company. The sea trade is very profitable, everyone knows it, and now that he is in charge of a country's trade, the money is really a terrifying number.

He Zongyan said with a smile: "Shengming has no past Your Majesty, and the ministers have thanked Your Majesty for your kindness. "Now that the emperor has handed over the Japanese trade to a company, then the sea trade tax only needs to find this company, and the owner of the company is an official, and the operator is not an official, so it is not too easy to pay taxes.

More importantly, the domestic commercial tax is collected by the tax office, although it must be handed over to the household department in the end, but after all, it is not collected by itself, and there will be some scruples when using it, and now the emperor has made it clear that the Japanese tax is collected by the household department, which is of course a blessing to the household department.

Zhu Youxiao said: "The Ming Japanese Commercial Company, first by the internal officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the ownership of the company is distributed according to the rank, for example, the first assistant of the cabinet has one point, and the income of the first assistant is one million yuan that year, and the income of the first assistant is 10,000 yuan, which should be easy to calculate." ”

"As for the owner's right to supervise, I suggest that you hire officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Tax Department to monitor the financial problem, and Dongchang and the Independent Commission Against Corruption to monitor the problem of corruption. Of course, this is just my suggestion, and it's up to you whether you listen to it or not, but first of all, you have to pay for hiring people from these departments. ”

This is the end of this in advance, and after the dissolution of the Imperial Court, the officials will discuss it as soon as possible, and now it is time to move on to the second issue, how to reply to Japan's request for peace.

If this is the first issue, then everyone's opinion should be to agree with Japan's request for peace, and return the occupied Satsuma Domain land to the Japanese, so as to show the demeanor of a great power in the Celestial Empire.

However, the change in the order of the topics has greatly changed the minds of the ministers. If you occupy the Japanese area, you won't get any benefits, and maybe there will be some changes that will make the imperial court disgraced, and maybe your career will also be affected at that time.

And if the imperial court should punish Japan slightly, and then forgive them generously, just to teach them a lesson, this is the safest way. First of all, show that you are a gentleman, and you don't say anything, and then this is the least likely problem, because the Ming army has withdrawn, what can happen. As for whether the Japanese will attack the Ming Domain again next time, that's none of my business.

Now that Japan's output is its own, as long as you stay in this official position, you will have a good income, and if you are promoted, you will get even more. Don't oppress the Japanese by yourself with this money, and it is issued in the name of the imperial court to raise incorruptible silver, how clean and noble.

It's just that the basis of all this is to occupy part of the territory of Japan, and Japan must agree to the Ming Dynasty to do business in Japan. If you return the territory you have conquered to the Japanese now, you will have no money left.

So when the clerk went through Japan's belief in peace, the officials did not say anything. After all, everyone was still a little embarrassed, and they came forward to say that they wanted to occupy Japan's places and ask Japan to agree to some preferential terms for trade, so there was a tacit silence among everyone.

But there are some people who can't dodge, such as Shousuke, such as Benbing. Huang Kezhang said: "Your Majesty, the Japanese have committed heinous crimes against our people in order to harm our maritime frontier for nearly a hundred years. And recently, it has invaded our vassal country, making my Celestial Empire a great country lose face. The minister thought that he could not directly return the land he occupied in the Satsuma domain, otherwise he would not be able to give an account to the feudal state, and it would further encourage the arrogance of the Japanese people. ”

Fang Congzhe just wanted to come out, but Ye Xianggao spoke first: "Your Majesty, the Japanese are afraid of power but not virtue, and I ask Your Majesty to punish the Japanese with harsh conditions, and let the Japanese cede part of the land bordering the Ryukyus, so as to ensure the safety of our feudal country." ”

Zhu Youxiao is more and more satisfied with Ye Xianggao's recent performance, this person is not confined to one party and one faction, smart and not pedantic, he is a real gentleman, and he does not hesitate to blacken others, he is a very interesting person, it seems that the Donglin Party people are not all pedantic old masters, I only hope that the Donglin Party people can become like this, so why should I drive them out of the court?

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