"Can this be a quarrel?"

On the side of Mingshifang and Baozi River in the inner city of the capital, Zhu Youzhen was sitting in a carriage, listening to the news from the palace urgently, and felt speechless.

He didn't expect that Yang Lian, an old man, was so rigid, and he didn't have the merit of supporting the palace transfer case, so he would dare to slap Sun Ruyou head-on.

However, Sun Ruyou solved the problem of Guanglu Temple by dividing two by two, definitely not because of his strong ability to do things.

Officials in the late Ming Dynasty, on silver, often did one thing in order to hide the things behind.

Zhu Youzhen said to the general banner of Jinyiwei sent by Lu Wenzhao to deliver the message:

"How did Sun Ruyou agree with the idea of Guanglu Temple's silver escort on time?"

As soon as the general flag of the Jinyi Wei outside the carriage window heard it, he explained:

"According to Jin Wuwei, who was stationed in the Wenhua Palace, it seems that Yang said in the matter that he would let the Guanglu Temple in Fujian and Liangguang take the silver by sea, and then Sun Gechen solved the problem of Guanglu Temple."

"So that's ......" Hearing this explanation, Zhu Youzhen is not a fool after all, he knows that these places are secret.

Liangguang and Fujian, Jiangxi and Nanzhili, they are all local small township parties attached to the Zhejiang Party.

Yang Lian dared to ask Fujian and Liangguang to take the sea to escort the foreign bank this time, so next time he dared to call these places to escort the autumn tax by sea.

After the foreign solution bank was apportioned by several places under the Zhejiang Party, it was only tens of thousands of taels? The autumn tax field is the big one.

In Zhejiang Province alone, the regular tax of summer tax is 70,000 taels, the regular tax of autumn tax is 1.1 million taels, the additional distribution of nearly 400,000 taels of silver, miscellaneous 150,000 yuan, and 70,000 foreign settlements, all of which add up to nearly 1.79 million taels.

This is only Zhejiang, the stronghold of the Zhejiang Party, if you add Nanzhili, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi......

The value of the various taxes payable in these seven provinces is about 8 million taels per year, but half of them are converted into field taxes.

Really calculated, it should be more than 3.6 million taels of silver, and more than 8 million stones of grain in the field.

This land tax and regular tax are almost 45% of the six regular taxes of the Ming Dynasty.

This money and grain, Zhejiang party officials can delay it for a day, even if it is delayed for a day, and then hand it over to maritime merchants and merchants, and the silver they can earn is enough to thousands of taels.

The merchants made a lot of money, so they naturally posted it to the local gentry, and it was called "moistening pen silver".

This amount of silver is legal and compliant, and local officials do not need to pay too much, they only need to lend a certain amount of silver to merchants and squires, and they can obtain thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of profits.

When the officials of all sizes have eaten enough, all the silver taels and grain will be transported northward, and after arriving at the mouth of the canal in Yangzhou, they will have to start facing the corrupt officials on both sides of the canal.

After all kinds of fires are consumed, it is good to have six million taels of silver and grain worth of those who can be transported to the capital.

Therefore, the profits that can be made by these shipments of silver and grain are a huge amount of money for each day they are delayed.

This is just a way to make money by defaulting on the silver, and there are countless ways to make money such as concealing tea tax, liquor tax and so on.

As Zhu Youzhen read in Mao Yuanyi's book in his previous life, during the same period, Shaanxi could hand over 100,000 taels of silver to subsidize Yulin Town by selling a part of the old tea, while Jiangnan was obviously the most prosperous place for tea drinking, but the tea tax was only tens of thousands of taels.

After Mao Yuanyi saw the atmosphere in Jiangnan, he said, "The four provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou are not as good as one-tenth of Jiangnan"

This is a tax of millions of taels of silver, but it was played by Jiangnan officials and the imperial court can only get tens of thousands of taels.

Zhu Youzhen did not want to get involved in the grievances between the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, because he knew that even if the Donglin Party was on the active side now, it would soon become corrupt.

His best choice was to let many parties fight among themselves, and then reform the Ming Dynasty's tax system little by little.

With the economic size of the Ming Dynasty, as long as it can collect taxes normally, even if the poll tax is abolished, it can still earn 20 or 30 million taels per year, excluding the kind of land endowment.

However, tax reform is not so easy, rather than thinking about collecting taxes in Jiangnan, it is better to abolish the guard first!

Guards can be abolished and taxes can be collected, all of which require military power, and the equipment required by an elite army must also be extremely elite.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youzhen rushed to Mingshifang before the enthronement ceremony tomorrow.

Located in the southeast corner of the inner city, Meishibo has the largest armor factory in the world.

"Your Highness, there is an armor factory in front of you."

Cao Huachun, who was in the imperial carriage, suddenly spoke, and Zhu Youzhen also lifted the curtain and looked at a building complex with a huge area in front of him.

The armor factory, also known as the saddle bridle, is where the Ming Dynasty built armor, guns, bows, arrows, and gunpowder.

According to the records of the "Ming Shilu", the armor factory manufactures and stores a lot of armor, weapons, and gunpowder, and the old example is to make more than 17,000 pieces of armor, guns and other weapons every three years.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to go to Changping to train his troops, so naturally he had to bring enough armor and weapons of good quality.

Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen had already told him that most of the four guards and one battalion of the Imperial Horse Supervisor were empty, and many people even sold their weapons, and the armor was also in disrepair and rusty.

It was impossible for him to train with an army without armor, so the armor and weapons in the armor factory became his target.

"Stop, whoever!"

When they came to the main gate of the armor factory, because the accompanying brocade guards had changed into civilian clothes, the guards of the armor factory immediately scolded them.

At this time, Cao Huachun handed Zhu Youzhen's sign to Jinyiwei, turned around and helped Zhu Youzhen get out of the car, and Jinyiwei also took the sign to signal to the guards of the Soldiers and Horses.

"See the Fifth Highness!"

When he saw the jade plate, the captain of the Soldiers and Horses Division stationed at the main gate immediately knelt on the ground, and the other ten guards also knelt down.

"Alright, call the supervisor of the armor factory to come out!"

"Yes!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, the guards of the Soldiers and Horses Division hurriedly went to inform people.

Unlike the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty did not have a department in charge of weapons manufacturing, but was respectively managed by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, the Military Bureau of the eunuch system, the armor factory, and the Anmin Factory.

In other words, as the emperor's person, Zhu Youzhen can raise as much armor as he wants from the armor factory, as long as Zhu Youxiao nods.

This is just Zhu Youzhen's first stop, he has to see how much stock the armor factory has first, and then go to the War Bureau and the Anmin Factory.

"Your Highness Five, the slave maid is late to greet His Highness, please forgive Your Highness......"

Far away, Zhu Youzhen didn't hear the footsteps, but heard a piercing voice.

A eunuch in his forties, full of fat brains, ran over with a group of little eunuchs in a hurry, and knelt on the bluestone floor in a hurry.

"Your Highness, this is the internal official of the armor factory, Sun Liang."

Cao Huachun had a good memory and explained the identity of this person to Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen only bowed his head slightly after hearing it and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Cao Huachun bowed slightly, and then looked at Sun Liangdao:

"Your Highness has come to check the inventory of the armor factory, and I will give you six quarters of an hour to quickly check all the places."

"Yes, yes, yes! Slave and maid, let's do it! ”

Hearing this, Sun Liang hurriedly kowtowed, and then got up and called someone to go and check.