"Everyone, be quiet." Zhu Youxiao said loudly. After the court quieted down, Zhu Youxiao continued, "The new money can't change the avatar now, and I will mint ten taels of silver in the future, and everyone will discuss whose avatar is appropriate, and after the discussion, the cabinet will present it." ”

Zhu Youxiao paused for a moment, and then continued: "In addition, I have decided that in the future, those who use new money to pay taxes will no longer levy additional fire. ”

This news is a bomb for all officials. Fire consumption has only appeared since the implementation of Zhang Juzheng's "one whip law". It has been almost a hundred years now, and in this hundred years, the fire consumption has been increasing, and the fire consumption in the general state and county has reached two or three cents, or even four or five cents. The remote prefectures and counties pay less taxes, and the fire consumption is several times that of the regular tax, which is an important means for officials to accumulate wealth, and it also causes the common people to be more seriously exploited by officials and wealthy businessmen.

"Your Majesty, the silver collected from all over the country is scattered silver, and these scattered silver are not only of different condition, but also need to be recast, and one thousand taels is only nine hundred taels, which produces fire consumption, and now that the fire consumption is abolished, the taxes paid in various places will be short." Li Zongyan stood up and said.

"I understand what the ministers mean, I am only in Beizhi for the time being, and the people of Beizhi only need to use the scattered silver to exchange it for new currency at a fixed place to pay taxes, and those who use the new money to pay taxes are not allowed to levy additional fire consumption, and the fire consumption generated will be borne by me. We will send people to secretly inspect and investigate if there is any further occurrence of additional fire consumption. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the levy on fire consumption has been going on for a long time, and the cancellation of fire consumption involves a wide range of things, and it needs to be considered in the long run." British public Zhang Weixian suggested.

"The levy of fire does not take more than a hundred years, but in the past hundred years, it has become a means for imperial officials to collect wealth and poison the people, don't think that I don't know anything in the palace, the fire consumption is levied in various places, and the small places are levied two or three dollars of silver, and the more places reach four or five dollars, and some remote places are even several times the positive endowment, fattening those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it is the people who suffer, and the treasury is also empty enough to run rats, I also know that some of you have benefited, I don't care, but don't take me for a fool. Ladies of the court, dare you say that there is anyone who doesn't know about the fire consumption? Zhu Youxiao said angrily.

Zhu Youxiao glared angrily at the officials below, the officials below all looked at their noses and noses, and they didn't say anything, no one knew about the fire consumption, Zhu Youxiao continued: "I know that the officials of the empire are low, and the honest officials can't even eat their families, if they can't even eat, then how can they do things, so I plan that from the date of the implementation of the silver dollar, the salaries of the hundred officials will be distributed according to the silver dollars, and at the same time, the hundred officials will be added another fifty percent of the money for the purpose of maintaining integrity." ”

After this whole set of measures, the fire consumption in the Yongzheng period was returned to the public, but the amount of incorruptible silver given by Yongzheng was larger.

"Your Majesty is sage, the minister is ignorant, please surrender your majesty!" Zhang Weixian was frightened by Chen Yuyang's attitude, and bowed to the ground at once.

"British duke, worried about national affairs, what is the crime? Please calm down, I don't know if you have any other opinions? Zhu Youxiao said coldly.

The ministers below saw that Zhu Youxiao had put the matter of fire consumption on the line, and they didn't know how to refute it for a while, and the ministers also knew that since Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, it was like a different person, although he usually didn't take care of things, but once the matter was decided, it must be the Qiangang arbitrariness, so he knew that the effect of opposition was not great, but fortunately, now the cancellation of fire consumption is only implemented in Beizhi, giving time to the ministers who are willing to oppose the cancellation of fire consumption.

"In addition, in order to promote the new currency, I decided to set up the Imperial Bank, which is also a money bank, and the people in Beizhi can go to the bank to exchange the new currency." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Imperial Bank?! This matter must not be, since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for the royal family to run a money bank, and this is also a ninth-rate thing, which is contrary to the royal identity. I also hope that His Majesty will take back his order. Han Yi said loudly.

"I hope that Your Majesty will take back your life." Immediately after that, the other ministers stepped forward.

"The Imperial Bank only exchanges new currency, and the convenience of the people is a matter of benefiting the country and the people, and when the new currency exchange is completed, the Imperial Bank will be removed." Zhu Youxiao decided to take a step back.

"I thought it would be good if the manufacturing bureau was in charge of the issuance of new coins. The royal family should not be involved. I hope that Your Majesty will take back his life! Han Yi resolutely objected.

"Retreat." Zhu Youxiao said angrily. Every decision he made was opposed by someone, which made him very angry.

"Commander Luo, I have something to do with you." Zhu Youxiao decided not to discuss with them, he originally planned to put aside the matter of collecting reserves first, but now he decided to put aside the government department and do it by himself.

"Wang Liqian, Luo Commander, I decided to set up twelve imperial banks in Beizhishun Tianfu within three months, and the personnel of the imperial bank were transferred from the palace maids and eunuchs who were in the upper grades in the palace, and if they were not enough, they were recruited from outside, and the accounting staff had to be sent to Tang Ruowang to study. And the security of the Imperial Bank is the responsibility of Luo Sigong. I asked that the two banks in Daxing County and Wanping County be built within one month, and the remaining ten banks within three months. Zhu Youxiao said.

"No." Wang Liqian and Luo Sigong answered together.

After Tang Ruowang went back, he really found the book that Zhu Youxiao said, and he quickly sorted out the double-entry accounting method in it. Now he is waiting for Zhu Youxiao to send someone to study and research.

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Zhu Youxiao can get nearly six points of profit from minting new currency, although this profit is not high, but it is better than a large amount, once the new currency is passed through the country, this six points of profit can be a huge amount of wealth, at least to solve the problem of military spending in recent years.

The minting of new coins and the construction of banks were carried out at the same time, and Zhu Youxiao was also preparing to wait for the banks to come out and try out the passbook system in the new army. Each Recruits will have a passbook in the Imperial Bank, which can be used in conjunction with the Recruits' identity token to withdraw their salaries. By doing so, we can avoid to a certain extent some problems such as the army's empty salaries.

Now that the new army is training, Li Yongzhen has already distributed the salary for the first three months, and Zhu Youxiao is also preparing to distribute the next salary on a quarterly basis, once every three months, and now there are still more than four months before the second salary, which is enough for Zhu Youxiao to raise funds.

Wang Liqian also found a time to leave the palace, and this time he left the palace to deal with Zhang Hui's affairs.

Zhang Hui and Zhang Tianshi have always been stared at by the people of Dongchang, and the people who are staring at them are partly in the light and partly in the dark.