When Zhou Ning said these words, there was a slight hint of arrogance in his voice, as if it was the greatest luck in his life to be able to follow such an insightful prince, of course, it was true.

"The prince said that the fundamental reason why it is difficult to fully implement the regulations and codes of Yongwangwei lies in finance!"

"Finance?" Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and said, "What does Houwei mean that the generals eat empty quotas and drink the blood of soldiers?"

Zhou Ning shook his head and said: "All dynasties and dynasties have eaten empty salaries and drank the blood of soldiers, it is nothing more than a serious problem, the prince said that the finance is to raise soldiers and military, Your Majesty has also seen it, since the prince rectified the three battalions and the three battalions for the Shence Army, the military salary allocated by the household department to the Shence Army is still the share of the three battalions, but now the strength of the Shence Army is nearly twice as much as the sum of the previous three battalions, and Your Majesty has also seen that the food and military expenses of the Shence Army are more than twice as high as before!" That is to say, in the past, the monthly salary of the three battalions plus others was only 50,000 yuan, but now it needs at least 150,000 yuan! The extra 100,000 taels is the prince's own pocket! ”

Zhu Houzhao was a little speechless and a little ashamed, I don't know how much of the money allocated to the three battalions by the household department went into the pockets of generals at all levels, but now no one in the Shence Army dares to fill their own pockets, but they also want King Yong to subsidize it himself, and the superior has already made a judgment!

"The Shence army has an extra 100,000 a month, and it will cost 1.2 million a year, and the imperial court still has 26 guards guarding the imperial city, as well as hundreds of thousands of horses and horses from the nine-border border army, if it is according to the standard of Yongwangwei, the military expenditure will be at least millions of taels more a year! Therefore, the prince said that the imperial court can't afford to raise it at all, and this method of military training cannot be implemented at all, and if you want to implement it, you must reform the finances! ”

Zhu Houzhao sighed, the household is poor, why is it poor, because the source of tax revenue is limited, which is nothing more than land tax, salt tax, cao tax, mining tax and negligible commercial tax......

And there are simply too many places where the household department uses silver, the Zhu family's descendants' money, the officials' money, the silver for raising soldiers, the silver for disaster relief, etc., peeled down layer by layer, and the household department has nothing else to do except cry every day and cry that there is no silver.

As for the inner treasury, the income of the inner treasury mainly comes from the Huangzhuang Huangtian, but to be honest, the silver collected from these places is not even enough for him to eat, drink and have fun, not to mention the monthly silver and rewards of the palace people, he has asked for silver more than once to the household, but it is a pity that the group of misers went around and almost lost the silver of his inner treasury......

So Zhu Houzhao is also honest, as long as he is not in a desperate situation, he will not talk to the household, and the household department will have no way to ask him to pay for the silver!

"Houwei guards Huzhou, and he is also opening a restaurant, a restaurant, and a theater, and he is also collecting tenant rent of 200,000 acres of land, it seems that he has made a lot of money over the years."

Zhou Ning smiled and said: "The prince once joked that the land of the Great Song Dynasty is less than half of the Ming Dynasty, but it can fight a war that lasts for a hundred years, and the reason is because Song is rich, why Song is rich, lies in taxation, even if the taxes levied are unreasonable and cause civil uprisings to emerge one after another, but after all, it is still rich, and an important reason for wealth is to develop business and extract high commercial taxes."

Zhu Houzhao snorted: "How can I not know this, how can the previous emperors not know, Emperor Taizu formulated the purpose of the thirty taxes of the commercial tax was to revive the business of the Ming Dynasty, but it did not come to fruition until now it has become a practice, but all the emperors who want to reform the commercial tax will inevitably be boycotted by the hundred officials, and come up with that set of nonsense of 'eaters and do not compete with the people' to prevaricate, so that it is impossible for the royal family to levy commercial taxes, and Houwei wants to move the commercial tax, but he is afraid that the government will be unstable."

"Your Majesty, have you ever wondered why the courtiers would oppose the imposition of a commercial tax?" Zhou Ning suddenly asked rhetorically, which caught Zhu Houzhao off guard.

"Let's hear it, I also want to hear the high opinion of my younger brother."

Zhou Ning said for a long time, the tension in his heart had faded, and he said solemnly: "In fact, it is very simple, because today's civil official groups have been thoroughly linked to the interests of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, forming a closely connected interest group, especially the courtiers are closely related to the merchants in rich areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they themselves represent the interests of the merchants, and even many of the officials' own families are engaged in business, and they are naturally unwilling to levy commercial taxes, because what is levied is their own silver."

"It's not a secret, but even if you know, what? If you want to raise the commercial tax, you must get the support of the officials, otherwise you will not be able to collect it if you want to. ”

"This prince didn't say ......"

Zhu Houzhao was a little disappointed, the Ming Dynasty wanted to strengthen the army, wanted to sweep away the decadent military after the civil fort, and wanted to get rid of the shortcomings of the current military system, which seemed to be difficult, but in fact, the core was no money.

If you want to be rich, there are only two points, one is open source, and the other is to reduce expenditure.

Needless to say, the current imperial court finances have long reached the point where there is no economy, and it is typical nonsense to say that throttling is not realistic at all.

Then open source is the most important, but how to open it has become the biggest problem, Zhu Houwei said that if he sits in which position, he will definitely carry out drastic reforms!

This is tantamount to setting off a huge wave on a calm pool as deep as stagnant water, and the possibility of swallowing yourself in the end is too great.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know where Zhu Houwei got his confidence, because he had to face a behemoth like a civilian-official interest group, a giant beast that had firmly controlled the entire Confucian system for 2,000 years since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been in charge of Confucianism.

The emperor is indeed the most noble person in the world, but there have been more emperors throughout the ages, and there have been so many changes of dynasty, but Confucianism has never fallen!

Because even the emperor has to rely on Confucian students to govern the world, if the Confucian students in the world unite to resist, the emperor will either compromise or will only be overthrown!

This is definitely not alarmist!

Zhu Houzhao still remembers the twelve words that his younger brother said with his eyes extremely firm when he talked about reform with Zhu Houwei in the leopard room!

If you want to rule the world, why not cause chaos in the world!

This is said to be murderous, as if Confucianism is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also creepy when he says this!

Prancing horses and whipping up the battlefield and fighting on the battlefield, how cruel it is, but it is not worth mentioning compared with the court battlefield that Zhu Houwei will face, and even the battlefield where the entire Confucianism is the enemy.

Younger brother Zhu Houwei This is for the longevity of the Ming Dynasty, and he does not hesitate to break the net with the Confucian fish, and he is not even afraid of his own broken bones.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Houzhao threw himself into the five bodies that his brother admired......