The treasury of the feudal dynasty was not very full for most of the period, and in the first few years it became rich, and then the place where the court needed money would increase, and then it slowly became a state of balance of payments, anyway, it was not allowed to have money in the treasury. The Ming Dynasty was particularly prominent, and the tax system set at the beginning was not perfect, and compared with the former Song Dynasty, the commercial tax was pitiful. And with the passage of time, except for the field tax, other taxes have basically maintained a state of decline.

When the Ming Dynasty completely collapsed, the most direct and obvious symptom was that there was no money. When dealing with the Liu family's industry, this situation suddenly gave Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao an intuitive understanding. The Liu family can basically earn more than two million taels a year through business, but looking at the taxes he pays, it is less than eight thousand taels. Even if there is no tax evasion or tax evasion, according to the income of the Liu family, he only needs to pay more than 50,000 taels. This is nothing, the Liu family has 3 million acres of fertile land in various places, and these fields do not need to pay taxes. Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao rushed to arrive, and there were big problems with the tax system of the Ming Dynasty. However, this line cannot be touched yet, and a slight change will reduce the interests of many people, and the officials of the court will also vigorously resist it.

Pressing the depression in his heart, Hongzhi and the ministers began to argue, and finally before the people of the Liu family in Hangzhou were escorted to the capital, there was finally a result. Shops, land, and fields were all divided, and there were probably more than one million taels of property into the treasury, and the inner treasury also had nearly one million taels of input, and the most happy thing for Zhu Houwei was that the land by the sea in many coastal cities in Daming was taken by the World Chamber of Commerce.

While Zhu Houwei sent people to Jiangnan to look for shipbuilders, he looked everywhere for a suitable place to build a deep-water wharf. Some of these lands have owner's land, or they have dried salt, or built docks, but most of them are terra nullius, which makes it convenient for the World Chamber of Commerce to take these lands.

In general, the three of Hongji's father and son are quite satisfied with the distribution of the spoils this time. After all, Hongzhi just took three million taels to Zhu Houwei, and this time he will add a third. However, there is also a more disturbing thing, that is, there are too few people who have been arrested. There are only seven or eight people in the main family, including Liu Yixing, and there is no other one in the third generation except Liu Xuan. The descendants of the Liu family on the side only caught more than 300 people, and according to genealogy and investigation, nearly 1,000 people are missing. In the end, more than 300 people were sentenced to be beheaded for public display, and this time Hongji was also ruthless. Since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, he is the most gentle emperor, but the dragon has reverse scales, and the assassination of Zhu Houwei made Hongzhi angry with the killer, which is also to deter those who are careful. There is also a document issued by the whole country to catch the children of the Liu family who escaped. These escaped, there are a large number of people, and there are not a few things with them, as long as they appear in the land of Daming, there will always be some clues, as for overseas, there is no way, Daming can't care so far.

This execution was called a swift one, and it was done directly in this cold winter without waiting for the autumn of next year. On the first day of the lunar month, more than 300 people were taken out of the prison, loaded into prisoner trucks, and transported to the entrance of the vegetable market. The heavy snow and the splashing of water did not stop the people's hearts from watching the excitement. Along the way, there were a large number of onlookers, and they were more excited to take out rotten eggs and start throwing them. Why not use vegetable leaves? Because at this time, vegetables are more expensive than meat, and rare green foods are better than eating them yourself. This solar term, except for the cabbage, is the cabbage, which is too uncomfortable.

With Jinyiwei to maintain order, there was no chaos. After all, the prestige of these uncles can stop children from crying at night. The prisoner car team walked towards the entrance of the vegetable market, and the head was Liu Yixing, the head of the Liu family, who was a single car, with a calm expression, his eyes closed as if he had fallen asleep, and it was as if he had not heard the noise on both sides of the road. followed by the eldest son, the second son and the grandson, these people are all one person and one car, and their expressions are the same as Liu Yixing's, quite calm. The people had already excitedly thrown away the rotten eggs, after all, rotten eggs are also eggs, which are quite expensive, and then they picked up the pebbles on the side of the road and threw them at the prisoner car, but they were quickly stopped by Jinyiwei. A lot of people are throwing, and then more people are being driven. Liu Yixing and the others were inevitably thrown, but the strange thing was that they seemed to be perceptual at Beiyou, and they didn't even have a painful expression. Jinyiwei stopped not because he was afraid of beating the prisoner to death, but because so many people threw it again, there are always some people whose methods are not so accurate, and they are thrown on Jinyiwei's body, and if you count them carefully, you will find that there are really not a few people who throw them away like this, and several Jinyiwei are red, and I don't know if the people are unintentional or intentional.

On such an important occasion today, the Zhu Houzhao brothers did not come. Because according to Zhao Zhiying's shocked report this morning, Liu Yixing and several important members had committed suicide, that is, the prisoner car was actually carrying corpses. Although he is dead, but the edict has been promulgated, then it cannot be changed, and those who should be beheaded still have to be beheaded. The bloody scene of the executioner at the entrance of the vegetable market raising and falling with his knife, the head falling to the ground, and the blood splashing everywhere will not be described.

Hongzhi father and son encountered an annoying thing again when they were in this lunar month, that is, the money of the clan should be sent, and many people were waiting for this silver for the New Year.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the third year of Hongwu (1370), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, established the main courtyard of the Great Sect, which was the predecessor of the Zongren Mansion. In the twenty-second year of Hongwu (1389), it was officially changed to Zongrenfu. The Zongren Order was established, one person (Zheng Yipin) Qin King Zhu Zhang, Zuo Zongzheng, one person (Zheng Yipin) Jin King Zhu Li appointed the right Zongzheng, one person (Zheng Yipin) Yan Wang Zhu Di appointed the left Zongren, one person (Zheng Yipin) Zhou King Zhu Hu served as the right Zongren, and one person (Zheng Yipin) Chu King Zhu Zhen was appointed. All of the above people are talented in the royal family. Later, after being managed by the Ministry of Rites, a subordinate official experience department was established, and one person, (Zheng Wupin), was in charge of sending and receiving official documents. The task of the Zongren Mansion is to take charge of the clan roster of the emperor's nine clans, write the emperor's genealogy on time, and record the children's descendants, names, titles, hereditary titles, birth and death times, marriages, and burials. He is responsible for sending and receiving documents, managing the internal affairs of the clan, registering the yellow and red books, imprisoning criminals, and educating the children of the clan. All the clans stated their requests, reported to the emperor on their behalf, brought in people of merit, and recorded their guilt and negligence.

This year, the Zongren Mansion has an additional task, that is, to distribute the royal children's money. As a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, not everyone can live a comfortable life. Those princes, county kings or anything don't necessarily rely on Yulu to live, but those with low titles can't do it, they usually have nothing to do, and their ancestors didn't leave much land or anything, so they finally lasted until the end of the year, and if they didn't pay Yulu, they couldn't live this year.

The first prince's year was set at 50,000 stones, and later the prince's age was reduced to 10,000 stones, the county king was 2,000 stones, the Zhenguo general was 1,000 stones, the auxiliary generals were 800 stones, the Fengguo generals were 600 stones, the Zhenguo lieutenant was 400 stones, the auxiliary generals were 300 stones, and the Fengguo generals were 200 stones. According to the current price of rice, one stone of rice is generally about one tael of silver.

It sounds like there are not a lot of money, so why did the treasury spend more than two million taels a year in the past? That's because these descendants of the Zhu family are too capable of giving birth, and now, there are nearly 80,000 people on the register.

What is more disturbing is that this time not only asked for the release of the money as soon as possible, but also asked for an increase in the price. In the past, the treasury was not too sufficient, and after removing the two million two national treasury, there was basically no input, and there might even be some losses. This year is different, it is Hongzhi directly, one is his own family, how can he send more, and the other is that the World Chamber of Commerce makes so much money, just building roads a month is hundreds of thousands of two places out, are you embarrassed not to go up?

Hongzhi father and son have a bit of a headache, because you can't explain what you make more money and spend more, and it's impossible to show them the account books of the World Chamber of Commerce, and these people are relatives from far or near, and you can't play the board to let them stop.

(I apologize to everyone first, I was really tired from taking care of patients in the past two days, so I didn't update it.) The patient is old and has had a stroke, his brain is not very bright, his temper is very stubborn, and he does not listen to the words of the doctor's family, and he is really tired in the past two days. I would like to wish you all good health. Otherwise, when you get sick, the whole family will have to follow the group. During this time, I will try to code words, I hope you Haihan, I will give you a look. ）