Ye Huan looked at the ceiling of the Taihe Hall a little blankly, he stood in front of the ministers, enjoying the strange gazes of the ministers, and felt a tingling of his scalp. Yesterday, I talked with Brother Cheap until more than twelve o'clock in the evening, and he spent another three hours practicing. Unexpectedly, he was woken up by a little eunuch before he slept for long, saying that the emperor wanted him to go to court too.

So Ye Huan could only reluctantly follow the little eunuch into the Taihe Palace, standing in the special standing positions of the princes and nobles before the ministers, and began to be in a daze.

After waiting for about two minutes, a high-pitched male duck called out as usual, "The emperor has arrived, and the ministers kneel to greet him", except for Ye Huan, everyone knelt down and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Hey, why doesn't this prince kneel?" An old eunuch dressed in black next to the dragon chair saw Ye Huan standing below and said unhappily, "Do you know that this is a great crime of bullying the king?" Ye Huan only remembered that this person was Grandpa Sun.

Zhu Puzhao raised his hand to stop him and said, "Grandpa Sun, don't get me wrong, this is a privilege I give to the imperial brother, and you don't need to kneel when you see anyone, including me." ”

"Oh, I see." Only then did Grandpa Sun know that this person was the foreign surname prince who was hyped up yesterday, but he didn't expect this person to have such an important position in the emperor's heart. It seems that he has to stammer, and when he thought of this, he hurriedly bent down and saluted: "It turned out to be the Hidden Sword Divine Marquis, please forgive me for the small unreasonable sin." ”

Of course, Ye Huan didn't care about this, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

"This person is the Hidden Sword Divine Marquis." On the other side of the dragon chair, Cao Zhengchun, whose hair was already gray, glanced at Ye Huan, and said secretly in his heart: "It turns out that this person is the Hidden Sword Shenhou, I heard that this person is not only the best in the world in swordsmanship, but also has an unpredictable fortune-telling technique, if this person is in my hands, how good it would be, at least it can't be cheap Zhu Tiegan." ”

"He's Simon Blowing Snow." The middle-aged man standing beside Ye Huan just glanced at Ye Huan, and his gaze just stayed on Ye Huan's body for a moment before moving away.

"All the ministers are flat!"

"Long live thanks!"

After the ministers were invited, Zhu Puzhao said on the dragon chair: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you have something important today?" There was silence for a while, and there was no movement for a long time.

"Since you don't have anything important to do, then I still have some things that I don't know. Where is the book of the household? ”

"The minister is here!" An old man with white hair stood up and said respectfully.

"Why is there only 90,000 taels of silver in the treasury, not even 100,000 taels, you can explain to me."

Hubu Shangshu's face turned pale, and soon he calmed down, but his face was replaced by a look of pain, and he sighed and said: "The emperor is clear, in recent years, the Tatar tribes have come to the border to burn and loot when they have nothing to do, and the state has transported a lot of silver taels in order to appease the victims. In addition to the fighting expenses of the army and the Tatars, a large amount of silver taels were transferred to the ......"

"That means the treasury is already struggling to make ends meet, right?" Zhu Puzhao's face was very calm, and there was no anger at all, which made the courtiers below wonder in their hearts, why didn't the little emperor scold when he talked about money today?

"The Emperor Shengming!" The old man slapped himself on the back, if he had been scolded in the past, he would have been relieved that he had not been scolded today.

A slight sneer rolled up on Zhu Puzhao's face, and he quickly glanced at the ministers below, these sanctimonious guys didn't know how much silver they were greedy for in the treasury behind their backs, and they didn't dare to let go of one when they talked about silver.

No one saw Zhu Puzhao's strange appearance, only listened to him say lightly: "In that case, I wonder if Lord Shangshu can do anything to fill the treasury and the inner treasury?" ”

"This ......" The old man was sweating profusely for a while, he had a lot of skills to make money, but he didn't have any good strategies for governing the country. Zhu Puzhao sneered slightly, and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you have a good plan?" ”

Everyone was silent for a while, Ye Huan understood why Zhu Puzhao let him go to court, and his feelings were to let him be a helper. There is no need to guess that Ye Huan knows that everything in the next place will be opposed by these courtiers.

"Eighty percent of the money in the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of merchant landlords, and they did not have to pay a copper plate tax. And the source of Daming's tax revenue is all on the peasants, they have no money, but they have so many taxes on their heads, do you think this is reasonable? ”

Seeing this, Ye Huan immediately jumped out and said, "Your Majesty, my brother thinks this is extremely unreasonable. The merchant landlords did not produce, but sat on the labor power of the peasants and enjoyed the fruits of it, and they did not have to pay a penny. However, the peasants get up early every day and are greedy for money, and they not only have to exploit more than half of their income to the landlords, but also have to pay agricultural taxes, which is an extremely unreasonable thing. ”

"Nonsense!" Just now, the Hubu Shangshu jumped out again and shouted, "Heavy agriculture and light business are the rules set by the great grandfather of this dynasty, how can it be unreasonable in the eyes of the prince?" ”

Ye Huan didn't get angry at all, he said with a smile: "The emperor also said that this is unreasonable just now, do you dare to question the emperor?" ”

"This ......" Lao Shangshu lost his temper, how could he go to the emperor to argue.

Glancing coldly at the Hubu Shangshu, Zhu Puzhao said, "Imperial brother, do you have a good plan?" ”

Ye Huan hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, my brother thinks that filling the treasury is nothing more than a point, saying that he is simple and simple, and saying that he is difficult is also difficult." ”

Ye Huan's words attracted the attention of the ministers present, and they all looked at Ye Huan. Ye Huan continued as if he hadn't seen it: "It's nothing more than valuing business over agriculture. As we all know, most of the money in the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of landlords and merchants, and only the little bit of the finger was in the hands of the peasants. So why not lower the taxes of the peasants and collect the taxes of the merchants. ”

"Ridiculous! This is simply a big joke in the world, how can the rules set by the grandfather be changed if you say it?! Another middle-aged man jumped out, pointed at Ye Huan and scolded, "You are despising Emperor Hongwu!" In addition to this middle-aged man, many courtiers jumped out to accuse Ye Huan, and some even asked Zhu Puzhao to kill Ye Huan in order to set the record straight.

Zhu Puzhao said coldly with a blank face: "Shut up, the court is like a shrew scolding the street, what kind of system!" Seeing that the emperor was angry, the group of people who were excited just now also shut up, but they all looked at Ye Huan with vicious eyes, eager to eat meat and drink his blood.

Ye Huan and Zhu ignored standing at the forefront, of course they couldn't see those resentful eyes, Ye Huan continued: "Your Majesty, reducing the taxes of the peasants will undoubtedly bring them a huge impetus, not only will the grain increase at that time, but also the people of the whole country will be grateful to the emperor, which is really a great move of the emperor's grace."

In addition, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, the entire Ming Dynasty is the emperor's, those merchants earn the emperor's money, why don't they have to pay taxes? ”

"Makes sense." Zhu Puzhao nodded approvingly, "Then how should the merchant collect taxes?" ”

"Your Majesty, you can't do this, this is simply misleading the country and the people!" Another minister jumped out and cried out as if he had died of his father's mother. Zhu Puzhao's eyes flashed with coldness, and he looked at the minister.