So Lu Zhen thought to himself, it's okay to falsely report the price?

Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu immediately said: "In the future, the price of the tributes from Waibo will be clearly marked, and after submitting it to the Ministry of Rites for inspection, I will show it." ”

"I will inspect the inner transport warehouse, and if the price of tribute is inflated, the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites will be severely punished."

“。。” Lu Zhen's face was black.

"Lu Butang?" The Emperor looked at him.

"Your Majesty will obey your Majesty's will." Lu Zhen reacted and quickly got up to make a statement.

After he sat back in his place, he glanced at Liu Jun, the secretary of the military department, and the two of them said in the same heart, the emperor is too picky, and he doesn't want to save face in the state tomorrow?

But Xia Yuanji was full of joy when he heard it, the emperor should do this, the more he looked at the emperor, the more he liked it.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu said seriously: "Our Ming Dynasty, the ancient civilization of the East, the state of the Celestial Empire, the center of world culture, these foreign countries can come over to touch our national spirit, it is the blessing of several generations of cultivation, and you still want to make us money in the tribute trade?" What do you guys think in their heads? ”

Lu Zhen and Liu Jun had black lines on their faces again, Xia Yuanji didn't dare to laugh if he wanted to, and he was uncomfortable.

Zhu Gaoxu said with a straight face: "In the future, the gate of the Beijing division will also collect money, except for the envoys, all foreign Fanyi people who enter Beijing and want to see my prosperous Beijing division of the Ming Dynasty must give an entrance fee, as for those who want to visit the imperial city, they can also charge more." ”

“。。” The ministers were speechless.

To say that the topic at this time has deviated a little from the question of Natsuhara Yoshi.

But the emperor's meaning is that the function of the Municipal Ship Department will be greatly changed, to put it simply, in the future, it will be mainly to collect taxes and sell ships part-time.

Why is the ship sold by the Municipal Ship Division? Because Zhu Gaoxu wants to number all the ships of the Ming Dynasty.

After being registered by the Municipal Shipping Department, maritime trade can be carried out, and taxes are levied annually by number.

The reason for this is that you are afraid that after you buy a boat, you will send it abroad.

At this time, Daming had the best shipbuilding technology, and began to sell large ships with more than 2,000 materials, and many kingdoms could not build large ships with more than 2,000 materials.

If you buy this kind of ship back, you have to pay taxes every year, and if you don't run the sea trade, it will definitely be a blood loss, and if you don't pay taxes, someone will resell the ship to Goryeo or Dongben and change it to a war ship.

"In the future, the Municipal Ship Department will be mainly responsible for collecting taxes, and there are several types of taxes." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice.

Xia Yuanji immediately pricked up his ears and listened.

Lu Zhen and Liu Jun also listened carefully.

In the past, Zhu Gaoxu's flag tax in Fujian Lane will be abolished, and it will first be changed to a landing tax.

That is, as long as the ship lands and disembarks at an important port along the coast of Daming, taxes will be collected.

What is called an important port, of course, refers to some ports with developed trade.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one port in the Moon Port that could trade, and only that side could collect taxes.

"The original Fuzhou Port (because there is a Changle shipyard there, now it specializes in shipbuilding and selling ships), and the Moon Port have been canceled, and now there are eight major commercial ports in the country."

From north to south, there are Dengzhou, Taicang, Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Haiphong, Saigon, the old port eight ports are to collect shore tax, basically from the north of the Ming Dynasty to the south and then to Malaysia, along the way an average of about one port per thousand miles, and are important places for commerce and trade.

There are also Tianjin and Lushun in the north, and the Ming Dynasty is used for military purposes, supporting the ports that supply Liaodong, and there is no shore tax for the time being, after all, there are relatively few merchant ships going there now.

The landing tax is collected when the ship is seen, divided into sizes, 20 taels below 400 materials, 50 taels below 1,000 materials, 100 taels below 2,000 materials, and the highest is 100 taels.

It doesn't sound like much at all, and a 400-material ship can earn back a few hundred taels of goods just by carrying some goods.

But if you go ashore and go, if you run all the way from the north to the south, and you have to pay eight times at each port, then this tax is still quite heavy.

At this time, to run business in Daming, there are several ports that must be on.

Taicang wants to buy silk, sugar and tea from the south of the Yangtze River, Ningbo can also buy silk, sugar and tea, Quanzhou buys ceramics, iron pots, tea, sugar, and a large amount of sugar below Guangzhou.

This will be in addition to Dengzhou Port allegimate, there are important specialties in other places, but the merchant ships that run merchants, in addition to buying goods, also need to sell goods, Dengzhou is a good place to sell goods.

Because he is the closest open port to the north, you bring a shipload of goods over, Jiangnan and other places may have them, but there are relatively few here in Dengzhou, so it is also necessary to go.

There is also a disembarkation tax.

What is disembarkation tax?

For example, if you bring a shipload of silver products from Dongben and are ready to sell them to Taicang, no matter how much you sell in Taicang, Taicang Port will first charge 1% of the whole ship as the disembarkation tax.

Then you buy 100 catties of raw silk in Taicang, and then pay 1% of the onboard tax.

Of course, if you arrive in Taicang, you will only replenish fresh water and food, that is, you will not sell or buy goods, then you will not have to pay the disembarkation tax.

This tax is aimed at the intensive running business, and the reselling in the two places is relatively heavy for short-distance reselling, because many businessmen are unwilling to go to the sea, so they buy and sell high in several adjacent provinces to make a little money.

In some cases, salt and grain can also be resold between several provinces to make money.

However, this kind of tax collection also has drawbacks, if there are too many ships coming and going in the port, there are more cargo on and off the ship, especially how many goods are on board, and the relevant officials do not have time to check it.

How many goods do you get on the ship, anyway, you have to pass through the dock, you can easily check it.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's policy is that after each ship goes ashore, it will report its own list, such as how many goods you have on board and how many goods you are going to buy ashore, and then pay taxes based on this.

Officials of the Municipal Ship Department randomly inspect some of the ships every day, and do not check them one by one.

Once it is found that the report is false, all the ships will be confiscated, and the three generations of the family will not be allowed to run to the sea, this punishment is very serious.

Hearing this, Xia Yuanji asked: "If the relevant officials use their power for personal gain, and take the benefits with one eye and close one eye, won't they have to lose the tax of the imperial court." ”

What Xia Yuanji said was almost what would have happened in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Suppose a ship is full of precious raw silk, and a tax of one percent on the number of goods on the ship requires one hundred taels.

Some shipowners will send fifty taels to officials privately, but the officials do not check directly, but they must be spot checks, and there is no need to draw, and the shipowners report that the things on the ship are all worthless grain, and one percent pays taxes of ten taels, so that everyone has benefited, and the court has lost taxes.

"Of course I know this problem of Xia Butang, don't worry, I have my own way." Zhu Gaoxu didn't say how to deal with it, but Lu Zhen and Liu Jun glanced at each other, and their hearts trembled.

Zhu Gaoxu is insidious and cunning, and he can see it in the rebellion war, and everyone knows how vicious he is.

In short, judging from Zhu Gaoxu's current tax collection, it is much lower than Zheng Zhilong's meeting.

But he has opened a lot of ports, and there will be more and more sea ships in the future, and he is confident that the future tax revenue will far exceed that of Zheng Zhilong.

At this time, Xia Yuanji asked again: "There are still many ports along the coast, is Your Majesty continuing to ban them?" ”

Of course not, Zhu Gaoxu said, there are still some good ports along the coast, and some will be used to build shipyards to sell sea vessels.

Some of them can be used for fresh water, food and rest, and shops will be built along the harbor.

Because the coastline of the Ming Dynasty is now thousands of miles long, maritime merchants have to pay taxes in the eight major ports, and some people may not want to pay taxes, just need to replenish fresh water and food, or rest.

Zhu Gaoxu plans to build shops in other ports in the future, and then rent and sell them to local people, who can open snack bars, hotels or hotels, and they will definitely make money anyway.

This was the beginning of real estate.

The more important ones, including Songjiang, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, and Fuzhou, are all places with more stops.

In the vicinity of these ports, Zhu Gaoxu had to plan commercial areas, and then build houses and sell them for rent.

But these things are not what he has time to do now, and they are just his thoughts.

Xia Yuanji and Zhu Gaoxu talked for more than an hour, and lunch was eaten in Dongnuan Pavilion, which flattered the three ministers.

The more Xia Yuanji listened, the more excited he became, as the emperor said, I would make more money than fighting.

In the afternoon, Xia Yuanji and Lu Zhen left one after another, leaving Liu Jun, the secretary of the military department.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Liu Jun, Liu Jun was only in his early forties, and he already had a lot of gray hair, it seemed that he was still anxious during the Yongle period.

Liu Jun himself would never have imagined that if Zhu Gaoxu hadn't rebelled, he would have hung up in Annan at the beginning of Yongle, and Zhu Gao's army completely saved his life.

"Let's go, wait for me to change my clothes, and go out for a walk with me." Zhu Gaoxu took Zhong Xian, called Liu Jun, and called Mao Xin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and then changed his clothes and went out.

Liu Jun Mo is wonderful, but he still keeps up.

Out of the East Warm Pavilion, someone outside had already prepared horses.

"Does Liu Butang know how to ride a horse?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, the ministers will be." Liu Jundao.

Liu Jun is also capable of writing and martial arts, and in history, he and Mu Sheng were counselors in Annan for military affairs, and also led troops to fight, and then they were surrounded, so they committed suicide and hanged themselves, which is quite backbone.

"Okay, get on the horse." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and several people got on the horse one after another.

Liu Jun was dumbfounded, but had no choice but to follow.

The emperor took the lead in riding horses in the imperial city, and several people galloped out of the imperial city.

In the past, when Jianwen was the emperor, it is estimated that he had never been out of the imperial city, and Zhu Di would only come out during the Northern Expedition and stay in the imperial city all day.

Zhu Gaoxu is now coming out twice in three days, often going to court in the morning and leaving the city in the afternoon, and the ministers have a stomach of opinions, but they dare not mention it.

There was also a group of Beijing camps that followed them out of the imperial city, and the commander made Zhou Hu wait at the noon gate, and then walked with them, probably more than fifty people.

The number of people is quite small, and if this is to be replaced by Zhu Di, it is estimated that he will not dare to come out like this.

But Zhu Gaoxu is not afraid, he is Zhu Biao's son, and the people of the Jianwen Department will not oppose him in the first place, Zhu Di's connections are in Beiping, so he is very relieved in Nanjing.

Besides, his wave of people are the elite of the elite, all of them are armed to the teeth, and even if there are three or four hundred ordinary thieves, there is nothing they can do.

And in the Beijing Division, it is impossible for three or four hundred thieves to gather together.

Zhu Gaoxu came out very low-key, did not wear a dragon robe, did not have any exaggerated flags and honor guards, with more than 50 elites, and if he was not a person who knew him, he would definitely not know that he was the Ming Emperor.

After leaving the imperial city, they carefully jogged on the streets, trying not to harass the people, and when there were many people, they would dismount and lead them.

Liu Jun saw it in his heart, and still appreciated it very much, the emperor was so close to the people, which had never been done since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

They came out of the noon gate, made a big circle, walked along Taiping Street, and came to the vicinity of the Shence Gate.

Then go out through the Divine Gate.

Shence Gate and Jinchuan Gate are close to each other, this side is the Jingying station, there were originally a large number of Jingying, after leaving the city, to the north is the lime mountain, the lime mountain is full of farmland, here is the avant-garde tuntian place of the Jingying Mansion.

Liu Jun went to the scene to take a look, and found that there were already many people standing on the edge of the field, and when they approached, everyone visited His Majesty one after another, and Liu Jun saw that all the senior generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were there.

(End of chapter)