Until Wang An left, the ministers were still a little confused about the oracle he brought.

That's it? The Son of Heaven sent his confidant Wang An's father-in-law over just to say these few words that were not practical? However, the people present were all old foxes, thinking about what had just happened, and then connecting with today's court meeting, they vaguely understood something.

Just after thinking about it clearly, he couldn't help but bring a hint of ridicule to Li Tingji on the side.

"Yuanfu, the so-called whip law, nothing more than the tax to one, the collection of silver two, this article can certainly increase the treasury tax, but for the imperial court, after all, food is fundamental, the imperial court to collect taxes is not only for the ministers' money, but also for the storage of grain, in preparation for the disaster year, if only rely on silver two for taxes, if there is a disaster, how should the imperial court respond?"

The ministers shook their heads, no longer thinking about the small episode that had just happened, and after a brief silence, the second assistant Zhenzhenji spoke slowly.

At this point, Zhen Zhenji also understood that if he did not come up with a way to replenish the national treasury, the issue of deposing the mining tax would be stuck.

There is no way, now it is clear that he is the same as the previous emperor, he does not want to depose the mining tax, if the ministers are united, maybe they can fight, after all, the new monarch will succeed to the throne, and he must always take care of the court.

But now that Wang Xijue, the first assistant of the head of the hundred officials, has the same position as the emperor, Li Tingji in the cabinet will naturally not come out to choke with the emperor, and then there is an ambiguous position of the head of the household department, and on the side of the ministers, the only remaining official secretary Sun Piyang, who is qualified to lead the ministers to speak out, is also a "guilty" body, although he came to participate in the court meeting, it is really not too high-profile.

Coupled with a Zuodu Yushi Wanshide who had just been favored by the emperor, Zhen Zhenji thought about it for a moment in his heart, and sadly found that the twelve important ministers of the court present, unconsciously, nearly half of them were tripped by the emperor by various means or simply stood on the emperor's side, even if they were hindered by their position, they would not directly come forward to shout for the emperor, but if they wanted to follow them to the emperor, I was afraid that they would not even think about it.

Therefore, Zhen Jifu changed the policy very wisely, since it is not possible to come hard, then follow the path drawn by others!

The emperor is just worried that after the abolition of the mining tax, there will be a big way to get money, and on the bright side, he is worried about the lack of use of the treasury, so if he wants to depose the mining tax, he can only follow the emperor's reasoning and think of a way to make up for the use of the treasury.

"Yes, the imperial court stores grain, is to deal with the disaster year, a whip law to collect taxes in silver, of course, has its advantages, if there is no grain in the warehouse, the imperial court will be difficult to deal with the disaster, in the past few years, there have been repeated disasters in various places, you must not worry!"

The next person to speak was Xiao Daheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who had no friendship with Shen Li and others, but he was in the same faction as Zhen Zhenji, and he didn't open his mouth before because he couldn't figure out Zhen Zhenji's attitude.

Wang Xijue glanced at Shen Li, who was silent, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

With the statements of Zhen Zhenji and Xiao Daheng, plus the positions of Zhao Shiqing and Li Tingji, this tone is set.

If he can't come up with a practical way to make up for the use of the state treasury, I am afraid that it will not be easy to strike the mining tax.

Based on his understanding of Jinshang, in fact, Jinshang didn't care about whether the mining tax was abolished, anyway, most of the compensation money in the Wa Kingdom was all in the inner treasury, if it was only used in the palace, and not allocated to the outer dynasty for emergencies, I am afraid that the palace would not have to worry about the use within ten years.

Therefore, the emperor's demand for mining taxes was actually far less than that of the first emperor who had empty purses at that time, and the reason why he was stuck with his ministers was still worried about the treasury.

Over the past few years, the situation of the state treasury not being able to make ends meet has become more and more serious, and if it were not for the influx of silver from the Japanese state, I am afraid that it would have reached the level of supporting the grain, and this is still the case of the inner treasury repeatedly receiving help.

It stands to reason that the silver taels of the inner treasury should also come from the tax, but the treasury has not been enough in recent years, and the inner treasury can only find its own way and start collecting and issuing mining taxes.

Now the emperor's internal children do not need to worry, what needs to be worried about is, after the abolition of the mining tax, what will be done with the tax problem?

Today's character has always been to plan and then act!

If you can't come up with a reasonable solution to deal with the tax problem, then let's maintain the mining tax first.

Similarly, Wang Xijue knew in his heart that Jinshang was inclined to use a whip method, so he would use Zhang Juzheng to test the ministers, but from his point of view, if there was a better way, Jinshang might not be obsessed with Zhang Juzheng's reform......

"The matter of taxation is the duty of the household department, I don't know if the big situ has a good plan?"

Wang Xijue bowed slightly, and set his eyes on Zhao Shiqing, the head of the household department.

After all, the court meeting is more about expressing one's position, and sometimes, silence is also a kind of statement.

Of course, the previous Shi Xing's matter was a special case, Shi Shangshu was strictly speaking an imperial party, and he had received great favor from the present to keep his official position, Wang Xijue asked him to speak, he wanted to test the attitude of the imperial party, and the result did not disappoint him.

As for Zhao Shiqing now, it is another situation, because the tone of the court discussion has been set, and the rest of the discussion does not involve political positions, it is a purely technical issue, and it is natural to ask professional people to solve it......

"Yuanfu, it's not a secret, what Master Fang Cai and Xiao Shangshu said is indeed right, a whip method to replace grain with silver can certainly enrich the treasury, but disaster relief in disaster years is difficult, and there is a problem that if the court does not collect grain, then the people have to sell grain to grain merchants, such a large amount of grain pouring into the market will definitely cause the price of grain to plummet, and the losers are also the people!"

Zhao Shangshu is not hypocritical, in fact, as long as the general direction is set, there is no need to have so many scruples when speaking.

"And not only that, the merchants are profit-seeking, and the influx of large sums of grain into the hands of grain merchants will inevitably lead to a sharp drop in the price of grain collected, but the imperial court collects taxes and silver, after all, it will be exchanged for grain, and the imperial court will rashly exchange the money issued to officials from grain to silver, which will inevitably lead to a rapid increase in the demand for grain in the land of Beijing, and the grain merchants of their generation will take the opportunity to raise the price of grain......"

However, his two sentences made the ministers' brows wrung up, what Zhao Shiqing said is actually not difficult to understand, since the imperial court wants to collect two cashiers to do taxes, then the grain in the hands of the people naturally has to find them to sell, this is right, otherwise, the people have no silver to pay taxes.

But in this way, the grain merchants will definitely take the opportunity to suppress the price of grain, and on the side of the imperial court, the original payment to the officials is two silver and half of the grain, and occasionally when the court is in difficulty, it will also be distributed at a discount with silk silk, sumu and other valuables.

Now that all the taxes are levied in the form of silver taels, the money issued will definitely become silver taels, so that the officials have to buy grain after taking the silver, so suddenly there is so much demand, it is strange that the grain merchants do not take the opportunity to raise prices!

Could it be that the court worked so hard for such a big circle, just to let those profiteers earn all the money?