Although he gave birth to a son, Cao Bianjiao had no way to be idle, on the third day of his joy of Lin'er, Zhang Shenyan arrived, and he came with Zeng Ying.

"General, there are some things I shouldn't have bothered you at this time, but what you said before must be dealt with as soon as possible, and it will be the end of the year in a few days, and the court will also need to agree on the expenses for the coming year, so I have to budget, so this matter is not handled by the general!"

Zhang Shenyan took out an official document in his sleeve and sent it to Cao Bianjiao, Cao Bianjiao took it and knew what it was, or the matter of the placement of those slaves, Zhang Shenyan had already done a good job of summarizing, and the next thing was Cao Bianjiao's matter, after all, this was what Cao Bianjiao promised before.

"Second assistant rest assured, this matter I have already had a case in my heart, I am ready to set up factories in the name of the imperial court in designated places, to house these old and weak women and children, this cost needs to be allocated by the imperial court, Guangzhou is famous for colored porcelain, embroidery, can be opened there porcelain kiln, embroidery workshop; Ganzhou is famous for bamboo weaving, so open a bamboo weaving workshop, and you can also grow tea; Quzhou is famous for white porcelain and Longding tea, while Ningbo has gold and silver embroidery, lacquer, white tea, etc., all of which can be vigorously set up by organizing personnel. In addition, I will also choose honest and reliable people, learn medical skills, as the medical team of my Ming army, so far, I have paid for my own money to organize a medical team of more than 1,000 people, each battalion is equipped with 30 people, but it is still far from enough, many soldiers on the battlefield are mostly because the treatment is not timely, so that they die in Huangquan, if you can form more medical teams, you can lose as little as possible, and in addition, you can also treat the people in the people when there is no war, isn't it a good thing for both sides? There is also a plan to set up a craft workshop, the development of Western self-striking clocks, when Gu Qiyuan has initially mastered the working principle of the self-striking clock: no more than iron, silk rope intersection, hanging up and down the wheel, non-stop, should strike the bell sound. I have sent more than a dozen people who are proficient in machinery to study, and have fully mastered him, ready to produce in large quantities, you must know that in Beijing City, an ordinary chiming bell was sold for fifty taels, the big and the small and the fine ones are very valuable, if we can make a thousand exquisite chiming bells, it will be at least 500,000 taels, such a lucrative thing, how can we not start to prepare......

Zhang Shenyan was also stunned when he heard it, he was amazed at Cao Bianjiao's plan, Cao Bianjiao did things, that's it, calculated and acted, made a full plan, and then went to do it, but these people, until the last moment, could not know Cao Bianjiao's final purpose.

"I am going to run these factories and workshops in the form of holdings, with a certain amount of funds as maintenance funds, and the rest is profit, divide them into 100 shares, the court profits 50 shares, and the employees divide the remaining 50 shares equally, so that the workers will become half of the masters of the factories and workshops, so that when they start to do things, they will have greater enthusiasm, because it is already related to their own interests, and they work hard, not only for the court to earn profits, but also for their own dividends. How about the sub-adjunct? ”

Zhang Shenyan didn't understand business, and he was also confused about what Cao Bianjiao said, but he probably understood it, and he thought about it at the moment, so it was undoubtedly a good strategy to use the interests of the court to win over the hearts of the workers and make them more effective.

"Although this will damage certain interests, it is undoubtedly a great benefit for the imperial court to win the hearts of the people, and I agree with this law." After thinking about it, Zhang Shenyan also agreed with Cao Bianjiao's proposal, in fact, he didn't care much about Cao Bianjiao's so-called workshop, even if he could make a profit, it was just a small profit, and what did he have to mind if he gave up this small profit.

"This year's taxes have also been collected, the silver money is about six million taels, and the other is silk silk, grain and rice, especially the grain and rice, which are the most, enough to have 134 million stones, as well as more than 734,000 horses of cloth, more than 146,000 catties of silk, and more than 383,000 catties of cotton wool; Many farmland people pay taxes with grain and rice, and now how to dispose of these tens of millions of stone grain, please ask the general to decide! Zeng Ying also opened her mouth at this time, asking Cao Bianjiao to tell me what he meant.

Cao Bianjiao has already considered this point, and said to Zeng Ying at the moment: "I have read the official document of the inventory of the population of the acres of the household, and after the inventory of the acres of the fields, there are more than 1.7 million hectares, which exempts the gentry from tax exemption, and the tax is also greatly increased, which is a good thing, and it is necessary to do a careful inventory to prevent someone from taking advantage of the loopholes, as for taking down the taxes paid, the local government leaves eighty percent of the budget expenditure, and the rest is shipped to the provincial capitals, and then the imperial court sends people to verify the escort and transport it to Wuchang and ......Nanjing."

In the Ming Dynasty, the privileged class did not have to pay taxes, and the magnates, gentry, officials, etc., were all like this, so the main tax revenue of the state came from the middle and lower classes, so many landlords and even small people deposited their fields in the homes of landlords with tax-free privileges, and called them "hosts" in order to evade taxes. Later, the Ming Dynasty had serious land annexation, and a large number of landlords annexed land, and they had vast land but did not have to pay taxes, and landless peasants had to bear harsh taxes, which was also the reason for the continuous civil uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.

Cao Bianjiao reformed the tax law, anyone must pay taxes, even the princes and ministers are no exception, and also clearly stipulated the provisions of the law on the collection of taxes by the gentry and nobles, the fields of the gentry and nobles can be hired to plough, pay a certain amount of money to hire people to work, the acres of grain are his, if it is rented to others, it must also sign an express treaty, how to collect taxes, need to be written in plain writing, and the local village elders are the intermediate supervisors.

Cao Bianjiao also knows that five million taels is not much, the commercial tax here is more than two million taels, and there are more than 200,000 taels of poll tax, there are still many cases of tax evasion and evasion, and it is not something that can be changed overnight, even if it is such an advanced monitoring condition in later generations, there are many dirty things in it, so Cao Bianjiao is also the case, it is difficult to be perfect.

"Although the verification of population and land has come to an end, we still send people to inspect various places, and if it is found that officials have neglected their duties or engaged in irregularities for personal gain, they should be immediately dismissed from their official posts, demoted to ordinary people, and never hired, and officials in various localities should be clearly informed, and anyone who intends to obstruct the implementation of the new policy should be severely punished."

"Don't worry, general, I will secretly order the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Officials to take turns to go out to inspect and supervise this matter."

"The Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry are now working together to supervise the creation of new coins, silver is not lacking, the last time the general transported back silver, there are 13.2 million taels, there are a lot of jade antiques and other things, but also in accordance with the general's orders, some of them will be auctioned in some places in the south of the Yangtze River in a private capacity, and they have obtained 670,000 taels of silver, 4,000 taels of gold, plus the inventory of the Ministry of Households, it is expected that 20 million silver coins will be minted next year, and they are ready to be carried out in five times, and now they are stepping up their work day and night. It shouldn't delay business! ”

"That's good! The new currency is the foundation of my new dynasty, and there is no room for mistakes, you must handle it properly, not only speed, but also quality, and absolutely do not allow shoddy production to happen, for those things that are settled, I will send people from the general's palace to resettle, and inspect the military and political affairs in various places by the way, and the implementation of the new law has killed two birds with one stone. Cao Bianjiao also said calmly, these have already been thought about, as long as everything is done over there, he can also start to deal with it.

"Since the generals have already planned, then I can rest assured, five days later is the year-end meeting, there must be a summary of the affairs of the court this year, and the other is the plan for the coming year, this matter still needs to be presided over by the general, don't forget it!"

"Don't worry! I'll go to the cabinet on time to discuss the matter! ”

"That being the case, then don't bother the general in the next place, farewell!"

"Walk slowly!" Cao Bianjiao also sent Zhang Shenyan out of the mansion, and Zeng Ying also left with him.