Zhu Youzhen could have sent the tax department directly without consulting with the court officials, just like the emperors of previous dynasties sent eunuchs to guard the eunuchs.

However, if you do so, the authority of the tax department will be greatly reduced, and the tax department will be reduced to the same level as the tax superintendent, and will be disgusted by the local gentry and the common people.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to do is to fully collect commercial taxes in the future, so naturally he must be upright, and let these officials have nothing to say, so that it will be beneficial to the future, so it must be discussed in the court!

Now Hong Chengchou's words have refuted Su Maoxiang and others, making the words of competing with the people for profit a joke, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of businessmen is the lowest, and they are not small people.

There is no suspicion of competing with the people for profit, and it is natural for the expatriate tax department to be dispatched, and now, Zhu Youzhen can directly order the passage of this matter, so that the cabinet plans to summon the celebrant to seal it, and the matter will be done, which can be described as above board.

However, at this moment, Su Maoxiang stood up again: "Your Majesty, it is indeed the minister's idea to go wrong. However, the minister would like to ask, is the dispatch of the tax department to set up branches in all provinces and counties to collect commercial taxes? ”

If branches are set up in various places, these people in the hands of the emperor will naturally not be enough, and they will naturally have to rely on local forces, and then they will naturally be able to take the opportunity to install people.

Zhu Youzhen said: "Naturally not. Didn't you just say that the local commercial tax is collected by the prefecture and county, and the expatriate tax department is only responsible for collecting the commercial tax at the main road of Hejin. At present, the tax department is first dispatched to the key areas along the canal and the Yangtze River. ”

The large-scale dispatch of tax departments and the comprehensive establishment of a tax yamen must be done, but not now, and there are not so many people in Zhu Youzhen's hands now.

The tax department was only dispatched in the important places, and only collected business taxes, and many officials in the court were immediately relieved. It seems that the emperor only intends to set up a few dozen tax customs, and the impact is not very great. They were afraid that the emperor would set up a tax department in Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, as in Beijing.

"The collection of commercial tax is a matter of great importance, and if it is not managed well, I am afraid that it will affect the people's livelihood as well as the eunuchs guarding the town, so the minister suggested that the tax department can be included under the household department, and the household department is responsible for it." Su Maoxiang said again.

Zhu Youzhen's eyes widened suddenly, he looked at Su Maoxiang coldly, and secretly said Do you want to eat fart, hand it over to the household? Am I a good person?

"What Lord Su said is even, the household department is willing to share the worries of His Majesty!" Bi Ziyan, who had not spoken all this time, had a bright eye, and hurriedly stepped forward and said.

If the tax department can be attributed to the household department, the income of the household department will definitely increase a lot, and the life of the household department will be better.

"Are you going to snatch the money from me?" Zhu Youzhen said angrily, "The tax department belongs to the Dongchang Yao, and all the tax money collected is put into the inner treasury, and the expenses of the inner palace are used, so there is no need to discuss this matter!" ”

"Your Majesty, everything in this world belongs to Your Majesty, so why bother with the Inner Treasury and the Taicang Treasury? Only when taxes and silver are under the jurisdiction of the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs can they benefit the country and the people. Bi Ziyan persuaded hard.

"Everything in the world is mine, so the money in your house is also mine, so are you willing to ask you to hand over the money in your house?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, "I guess you don't want to, although I am the emperor and the head of the family, if I want to maintain the entire inner palace, I naturally need silver taels." In the past few years since I ascended the throne, I have never used the money in the treasury, and when the time comes, I will take out the silver from my pocket from time to time! ”

Zhu Youzhen was speechless, indeed, compared with Emperor Wanli, who regarded the treasury as his own private treasury and moved silver from the treasury at every turn, the current emperor did never ask for silver from the treasury for his own use, on the contrary, he always moved silver from the inner treasury to make up for the state, from this point of view, the emperor has done a very good job, and he can be described as the king of the Holy Ming.

"The minister is worried that the tax department will be like the eunuch and the mine supervisor and tax envoy, without jurisdiction and constraints, and will eventually harm the people." Bi Ziyan sighed and retreated.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while: "What Dasi Nong said also makes some sense, so let's do it, the Tax Department is still under the jurisdiction of internal supervision, but the Inspectorate can regularly send the Imperial History to inspect, and if there is any omission, the Imperial History has the right to ask for the dismissal of the officials of the Tax Exemption Division." ”

Bi Ziyan's remarks are still reasonable, unchecked power will inevitably breed corruption, and supervision is still very necessary.

"Your Majesty." Bi Ziyan retreated.

Seeing that Bi Ziyan was no longer fighting, Su Maoxiang opened his mouth, but he could only reluctantly retreat, so the matter became a foregone conclusion.

Next, Zhu Youzhen summoned Zhao Shujiao, the director of the Department of Taxation, Tan Xingxian, the deputy secretary, and the directors of the four houses of foreign affairs, auditing, military health, and supervision, to discuss the establishment of a branch department and other affairs.

The topic of the meeting was where to set up the branch division, how many to set up first, which personnel to send, and how the branch will operate after it is established, and the corresponding rules and regulations, etc.

The establishment of the tax branch involves a lot of things, and now we have done a good job in various plans and systems, and in the future, we are bound to get twice the result with half the effort, and we can quickly replicate it in this model. As before, send a town guard eunuch to a certain place to be responsible for collecting business taxes, there are no constraints, no rules, everything is taken care of by the eunuch himself. Then in the end, the eunuch must mess around and make a mess of everything.

In later generations, many people on the Internet said that if they didn't kill Wei Zhongxian, Daming would not lose the country, the reason was that Wei Zhongxian could make money for the emperor and guard the place for the emperor, which is actually very nonsense. The eunuchs sent out were able to make money for the emperor, but only a small part of the silver obtained went into the emperor's treasury, and most of them were embezzled by these eunuchs, and the people's resentment boiled, and hundreds of people were ruined.

Zhu Youzhen was reborn once, and his knowledge increased countless times after the soul tour, so he naturally knew the disadvantages of sending eunuchs abroad, so he had the move to recall all eunuchs. It is necessary to collect commercial taxes and engage in silver, but we cannot count on the private character of eunuchs, but we must institutionalize and standardize, so there is a tax department.

After some discussion, it was finally decided to set up seven tax branches in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Linqing, Tongzhou and other cities along the canal. The canal is the economic artery of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless goods transported to and from the canal every year, and there is no problem at all in collecting commercial taxes on the canal and collecting millions of taels of silver every year.

After the establishment of the tax branch on the canal, all customs were abolished, and only commercial tax needs to be paid to the tax branch in the future. The tax rate is set at 11, which is higher than the usual rate, but the tax is levied only once. That is to say, your goods are transported from Hangzhou to Tongzhou, and they go through seven tax departments, but you only need to pay taxes once. In the past, there were many tax customs on the canal, and many feudal kings would even set up private tax customs to collect taxes from merchants, and those with merit could evade taxes at will, while merchants without merit had to pay taxes.

After the establishment of the tax division, the tax only needs to be paid once on the canal line, which is indeed good news for many businessmen.

Of course, the ban on all taxes on the canal will inevitably damage the local forces, and even provoke the dissatisfaction of the governor of the river, in order to make the tax department carry out its work smoothly, Zhu Youzhen issued an order, appointing Zhao Shujiao to concurrently serve as the governor of the river to escort the tax department.

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