What the? Zhang Juzheng's face sank, Rao is old Cheng Mouguo, at this time, even his breathing was two points heavier, and he said in a deep voice: "Why is it right in a small way and wrong in a big way, you can tell it." ”

Qin Lin said like a cannon: "It is true that the unified tribute and conscription is beneficial to small and medium-sized farmers and landless farmers, but the tax payment after the merger is still staring at the acres of land, but many merchants on the southeast coast are rich and have not many acres of land under their names, and the fields in Shaanxi, Henan and other places are barren, but they still have to collect large taxes, is this fair?" Let me ask Mrs. Zhang, is it reasonable to calculate the tax per mu, or is it reasonable to calculate the tax on finance? The imperial court always emphasized the importance of agriculture and the suppression of business, does the emphasis on agriculture mean that it attaches importance to agriculture, or does it refer to the heavy collection of agricultural taxes? Suppressing commerce, collecting very light commercial taxes, but using the ban on the sea and other methods to restrict private trade, and the powerful control trade, this is called suppressing business? ”

"You, you mean to increase the commercial tax and reduce the agricultural tax? It's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers! Even Zhang Juzheng, a resolute and resolute person, shook his hand holding the tea bowl and splashed a few drops of tea.

As Qin Lin said, the focus of the unified tribute and levy is still on the acres of land and agriculture, and it does not involve commercial taxes at all.

If you are as shrewd and capable as Zhang Juzheng, can't you see the large taxes that business can provide? Of course not, to appease the Wufeng maritime merchants, the new opening of the sea ban, the annual increase in commercial taxes in Hangzhou Port is hundreds of thousands of taels, he personally did it, it is impossible not to know.

The key lies in resistance, even if Zhang Juzheng, who is in charge of the dynasty alone, it is not easy to increase business taxes, because at this time, the commodity transactions in most regions have been controlled by the elite group, and many of these elites are Zhang Juzheng's political allies.

For example, why did Fang Fengshi and Wang Chonggu actively promote my tribute? Just because they have a great relationship with the Jin merchants, as long as the tribute is realized, the border trade along the Great Wall is opened, the merchants of the Three Jin Dynasty can obtain great benefits, and the Fang and the king spare no effort to implement the tribute policy, although it is beneficial to the country and the people, but it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with this.

The reason why Qin Lin opened the sea ban in Hangzhou and levied a large amount of commercial taxes was the result of defeating the sea shark society in collusion between officials and businessmen, but how many "sea shark clubs" are there in the country, can they be defeated? How many of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and even the allies of the Gangneung Party, are like Fang Fengshi and Wang Chonggu, who will approve of the increase in commercial taxes? You must know that Zhengde and Jiajing both sent eunuchs out to collect mining taxes, and they were all scolded by Shilin Qingliu as "competing with the people for profit" without exception...... Thinking of this, the iron-fisted prime minister Zhang Juzheng's heart also swelled up with a little feeling of weakness and powerlessness, but his surname was resolute, and he quickly got rid of it and turned his face into a tiger: "Qin Lin, don't think that you can pass the customs if you put it forward, you know it and know why it is, can you collect commercial taxes?" Who can read beyond the local government and effectively levy commercial taxes at the center? ”

Qin Lin smiled and straightened his chest, the flying fish suit he was wearing today looked particularly brilliant under the lights.

"You mean...... Jin Yiwei? Zhang Juzheng's eyes widened.

Qin Lin nodded.

The tax system of the Ming Dynasty was formulated in the context of early agriculture, and it was very inappropriate to attach importance to agricultural taxes and ignore commercial taxes, and it was very inappropriate in the middle and late periods when commerce was highly developed. But at this time, Shilin Qingliu and local Haoqiang have formed a joint force, as long as the commercial tax is to change the ancestral system, it is to compete with the people for profit, relying on the local government can not be levied at all, even Zhang Juzheng's whip law is not so powerful.

As a result, it is difficult to recover from the accumulation of finances. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the oil ran out and the lamps dried up, was it true that the whole country couldn't make up a sum of military expenses at that time? No! Chongzhen couldn't even make up 50,000 military expenses, and the courtiers also cried poverty, broke into the king and entered Beijing but "tortured" tens of millions of silver from the mansions of the magnates, and the Qing soldiers went south, and they snatched the wealth far better than the Ming treasury from the landlords and rich merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

From Zhengde to Jiajing and then to the later emperors, it is not that they did not see the disadvantages of this system, their methods are to send eunuchs out, be mine supervisors, tax supervisors to collect money, but the scope of collection is limited to a few checkpoints, a few mines, and they are always accused by Qingliu of being a eunuch who abuses and harms the people, and the effect is not good.

When discussing with Xu Wenchang, Qin Lin combined with the method of separating national tax and local tax in later generations, and put forward the idea of using the local government to collect agricultural taxes and Jinyiwei to collect commercial taxes.

Compared with the temporary dispatch of mine supervisors and tax supervisors, Jinyiwei is a permanent institution of the imperial court, and the general banners of thousands of households and hundreds of households are all over the country, and they have enough force to deal with the local tyrants who resist taxes, and they are outside the state and county administrative system and are not subject to local coercion...... Damn, as long as the right to tax is given, isn't it an armed and strengthened version of the IRS?

Zhang Juzheng was shocked when he heard this, of course he didn't know about the division of national and local taxes in a few hundred years, but after listening to Qin Linyi, he quickly understood the pros and cons of this method.

"Let's not talk about how the DPRK and China can pass the decision of Jinyiwei to levy commercial taxes, just this method itself," Zhang Juzheng paused, and his eyes narrowed: "Jinyiwei has the privilege of investigating and destroying evil and rebels, and the armed forces are similar to the army, if you control the financial power, ...... again."

Qin Lin straightened his chest again, "So we must use ministers who are loyal and compatible with Your Majesty's monarchs and ministers to take charge of the Jinyi Guard." ”

This guy is thick-skinned, and the so-called loyal minister refers to himself!

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help laughing, and said in his heart, you don't necessarily have how loyal you are, the previous article has given him an unexpected gain, so he urged Qin Lin to say the second point, change all kinds of taxes in kind to the collection of silver.

"Of course, it is a good way to levy all the silver, the original collection of grain cloth or something, storage and transportation are troublesome, quality inspection and allocation are also problems, now all the silver, the court uses silver to issue official salaries, buy grain and cloth are convenient," Qin Lin praised first, Zhang Juzheng was impatient to wait for him to say the drawbacks, and sure enough, Qin Lin changed his words again: "But, where does the silver come from, do you know Taishi Zhang?" ”

Of course, the silver is smelted from ore, Zhang Juzheng blurted out almost without thinking, after all, he was extremely shrewd, and quickly understood what Qin Lin meant, and exclaimed: "Ah, the old man understands what you mean!" There is not much silver produced in China, and the silver in the Tang and Song dynasties until the early years of the dynasty is very small, and the private transactions have to use copper coins and paper money, which is smuggling, sea trade, and silver from the east and west oceans have flowed into the market in the past 100 years. ”

In ancient China, silver was not the main currency, because the production of silver mines in ancient times was very low, and in the commercially developed Song Dynasty, due to the shortage of precious metal currency, the first paper money in human history was born - it is still settled in copper coins, not silver taels.

The silver of the Ming Dynasty did not suddenly increase one day, but with the increase of foreign trade, Chinese porcelain and silk were exported in large quantities, and the silver obtained by Western colonists from the Americas flowed in large quantities, and it was accumulated again and again, which was a very long process.

Wufeng Maritime Merchant was very clear about this, Qin Lin and Jin Yingji talked and combined with the impressions of later generations to come to a conclusion, and at the same time, if Qin Lin hadn't deliberately mentioned it, even Zhang Juzheng would not have thought about it.

What kind of character Zhang Juzheng is, as long as he thinks about it, he immediately understands the drawbacks, he stroked his beard and muttered: "It's not proper, it's really inappropriate, although the silver is convenient, but most of it has to be imported by foreign vassals, the power of currency is the most important thing in the country, and it is always inappropriate to fake outsiders...... It is extremely inconvenient to trade copper money, and the people who issue paper money refuse to believe it......"

Qin Lin said with a thief's eyebrows: "The little nephew heard from the Wufeng maritime merchants that there is a silver mountain in Dongying, and the silver output is very large, and there is also a large silver mine in Luzon, which is a native industry, and has recently been occupied by the Francophiles. ”

Zhang Juzheng became more and more surprised, the concept of the Heavenly Empire made him disagree, and he opened his eyes and said, "Nephew Qin Xian, you mean?" ”

"Rob," Qin Lin pouted, "If we don't rob, sooner or later we will have to be robbed by Westerners, since the city of Malacca was occupied by Westerners, our Ming Dynasty's dozens of tributary vassals west of the Strait of Malacca have not all become the pockets of Westerners." ”

W-How can this work? Zhang Juzheng is stumbling, let's talk about a rich country and a strong army, an inner saint and an outer king, even if Zheng He went to the West, he didn't rob other people's things!

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister," Qin Lin smiled evilly and showed a mouthful of white teeth, "So the sages have said that the good things in the world can be ours." ”

Yes, the saints in Qin Lin's mouth have become robbers, Zhang Juzheng waved his hand helplessly: "That's it, let the old man think about it again, your deviant words can get out of your mouth and into my ears, and you are not allowed to tell the third person." ”

Originally, Qin Lin was examined, but Zhang Juzheng had a feeling that he had been admitted, and while laughing and laughing, he cheered up and looked at Qin Lin solemnly: "The old man knows that you are different from everyone else, tell me, how far are you loyal to the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Qin Lin didn't hide it from this old man, and expressed his heart directly: "In the little nephew's heart, the understanding of loyalty is the same as that of Yasheng Mencius, the people are noble, the society is second, and the king is the lightest. ”

Zhang Juzheng looked at Qin Lin in a daze for a long time, and finally let out a sigh, as if he had made a major decision, turned his back and walked out, walked three steps and turned back: "Why don't you keep up?" ”

Ah, is this a passing of the exam? Why didn't you mention Zixuan's marriage? Qin Lin followed behind in confusion.

Walking to the main hall where the guests were feasting, Zhang Juzheng's face seemed to be a lot redder, and he was drunk, laughing loudly with the guests, and uncharacteristically telling two jokes with Li Youzi with a little color, which caused all the guests to laugh and laugh constantly, Qin Lin stayed by the side, and he didn't know what medicine was sold in Taishi Zhang's gourd.

Someone who cares noticed that Qin Lin appeared with Taishi, is the rumor true, will Taishi marry his only daughter to him as a flat wife? It's impossible, flat wife is just a folk name, the court and the law are regarded as concubines, with the respect of the grand master, how can it be possible to marry a daughter to someone as a concubine? Don't say that Qin Lin has just been promoted to the crown prince Shaobao, even if he is the prince of a town, I am afraid that he can't!

(To be continued)