At this point, Zhu Changluo also understood Zhu Yijun's intentions today, the position of the prince is not a trivial matter, although Zhu Yijun has been dragging on not building a prince, but as an emperor, once he has made up his mind, he will guide the direction of the prince, today's conversation, I think it is to understand the grasp of the situation in his heart......

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Zhu Changluo raised his head intently, took a deep breath and looked up.

"If you mention the mining tax, you must first count the tax law of my dynasty, in the past Emperor Taizu Dingding, light and thin, the four people are safe, heavy agriculture and light business, this is the law of recuperation, but now I am different from the past, now the harvest year after year, the warehouse is abundant, and there is no military disaster, plus the first emperor opened the sea ban, and foreign exchange has not, resulting in a sharp increase in the generation of merchants, and the low commercial tax, so that you and others grabbed a large amount of silver, so that the people are not ancient, and the agricultural capital is frustrated, more importantly, the court has no silver, if not, how can the father and the emperor in the name of mining tax, Abundant Inner Treasury to aid the national treasury! ”

To say that the mining tax is actually a complicated thing, most of the ministers of the imperial court think that the mining tax is a disaster, one is because the mining tax does not belong to the six ministries, is not subject to the supervision of the imperial court, and infringes on their power as civil officials, and the other is because the mining tax eunuchs in order to curry favor with the emperor, most of them in the name of the mining tax to exploit the facts!

Of course, the third is that the emperor's knife is all big merchant families, they have money in their hands, and they can always attract a large number of officials to speak for them in the imperial court!

The Donglin Party, which was criticized in later generations, is one of the best, and it is not difficult to find that behind most of the Donglin Party bigwigs, they are inextricably linked with the big capitalists in Jiangnan......

"So, do you think I'm right to collect the mining tax?"

Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows, stared at Zhu Changluo's eyes and asked.

There is no doubt that at this moment he is with a faint joy in his heart, the world says that he is greedy for money, don't you hear that he is a dignified son of heaven, sitting on the world, why be greedy for money, he has been on the throne for more than 20 years, not only has he not been conscripted on a large scale, but even his daily life can be regarded as frugal.

At least in his harem, except for the damage caused by accidents and the need to rebuild, there has never been a new palace for more than 20 years.

This is much higher than Emperor Wuzong, who built a leopard house on a whim and collected the world's treasures, but because he sent people to collect mining taxes, I don't know how many ministers criticized him and called him a greedy and lustful person.

Now to hear that his son is on his side, is there any reason to be unhappy in his heart?

Zhu Changluo nodded and said.

"Yes, the imperial court needs silver to fight wars, it needs silver to make money, and silver is needed to maintain the daily operation of various yamen, but it is already beyond the means of making ends meet with taxes alone.

"However, the country's finances are facing such a dilemma, but the anointed land in the south of the Yangtze River is extravagant, and the sons have heard when they are in Nanzhili, the big households in the south of the Yangtze River have a small banquet on three days, and a big banquet on the fifth day.

"The son of the minister just said that if you want to move the tax law, you must have the heart of the monarch and the ministers, but now the court ministers are strife, the forces are divided from each other, and it is difficult to revise the tax law for a while, so the father wants to enrich the court, so he has to find another way, the former did not have the name of the mining tax, so although it is infamous, but the national finances have a chance to breathe!"

In fact, the reasons for the disaster of the three mining taxes mentioned above, that is, the reasons why the courtiers repeatedly impeached the emperor, in Zhu Changluo's view, are just talking to themselves, if they are believed, it is the beginning of defeat.

The tax law is the foundation of the country, and it cannot be acted upon by the whole body, so in order to alleviate the financial pressure, we can only adopt this method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

And the reason why those ministers have been impeached repeatedly, is just to focus on this piece of fat, if the mining tax is handed over to them, I am afraid that most of the silver will go into their pockets, and those Jiangnan businessmen, who take advantage of the loopholes of the law, dare to put their hands into the court, it is simply an unforgivable sin!

What's more, Zhu Changluo has not forgotten that in a few decades, even when the Daming Mansion is about to fall, these people are unwilling to give silver taels to aid the imperial court, and the last Emperor Chongzhen can be regarded as losing all his face, but he only raised a few thousand taels of military salary.

Besides, when these people are rich, they will only think about how to expand their capital and oppress the people, and from this point of view, it is not unreasonable for the rulers of the past dynasties to emphasize agriculture over business......

Of course, there is also water in what he said, if Zhu Yijun has no selfish intentions, he can return the collected mining taxes to the state treasury, not to the inner treasury, so that the pressure on the government and the opposition will inevitably be much less.

But he is reluctant to give up this white silver tael after all, so he should be infamy, in all fairness, even if Zhu Changluo sits in that seat, he will not be willing to throw so much silver into the treasury in vain, after all, as a ruler, it is very important to keep a good money bag!

But that's not what he's going to say here......

Zhu Yijun's expression was complicated, he didn't expect that his son, at a young age, could see so thoroughly, even clearer than those officials in the court, and smiled bitterly in his heart, maybe he was really too willful before, and almost ruined such a master of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty.

But although he thought so in his heart, he didn't show anything on his face, but said lightly.

"Now that you know what the problem is, is there a solution?"

In fact, when he asked this sentence, Zhu Yijun did not hope that Zhu Changluo could answer it, after all, this matter has gone beyond the scope of major events in the imperial court and has risen to the question of the direction of the country, even he, for so many years, has had to sacrifice his reputation and slowly reverse the situation with this method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause, how could Zhu Changluo, a teenager, think of a way.

In fact, today's words, Zhu Changluo's political ability has made Zhu Yijun very surprised, he boasted that he was smart when he was young, but he didn't expect his son to be better than him.

It's just that the young man is ambitious, and he is arrogant, so he deliberately asked this question, wanting to suppress Zhu Changluo's sharpness.

But what he didn't expect was that Zhu Changluo groaned for a moment, and he really opened his mouth in a serious way.

"There is no cure for the root, but if my father wants to enrich the treasury, there is an opportunity in front of him!"

"In front of you?"

Zhu Yijun frowned, a little confused.

saw Zhu Changluo smile mysteriously and said.

"Battle of Liaodong!"