"Your Majesty."

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Zhang Juzheng reported the financial revenue of the previous years in front of the Manchu civil and military forces.

Zhang Juzheng, who presided over the Wanli New Deal, did have his merits, and the accounts made him clear and clear.

Even who is a big taxpayer, which sect is not active in paying taxes, and which family secretly makes false accounts, they all make it clear to him.

When Zhang Juzheng mentioned the first major taxpayer, Zhu Houzhao was stunned, just because that person was too unexpected.

The first big taxpayer in the Taiwu Dynasty - Huashan Yue is not a group!

"Wait, who do you mean that person is?"

Zhu Houzhao interrupted Zhang Juzheng's report, a little incredulous.

Huashan Yue is not a group, an old friend, the head of a second-rate sect, how did he become the first major taxpayer.

He really didn't know that since he helped Ren Miao organize a Zhongzhou Famous Sword Conference, Yue Buqun found the wealth code from it.

In the transcendent world, strength is respected, and the most profitable thing is the various resources of martial artists.

After the Zhongzhou Famous Sword Conference, Yue Buqun began to do the intelligence business, making a lot of money by selling intelligence.

Later, he cooperated with Baicao Valley, Shennong Gang, Mingjian Villa and other sects to hold various events, sell pills and weapons, and started selling goods.

To this day, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty is none other than Yue Buqun, and the way of Huashan has also gone crooked, except for a small number of disciples who also honestly practice martial arts and sword training, most of them follow Yue Buqun to engage in various money-making activities.

Yue Buqun seized the opportunity of the times, quickly made a fortune, and also led the atmosphere of the times, countless families and sects all reacted and began to learn from each other.

Enclosure and hoarding rice, then you can earn a few dollars, it's not enough to stuff your teeth, or the money of the warriors is easy to make, hold an event, sell pills, weapons, and make sure you eat a lot of brains.

This led to the proliferation of martial arts events in the Ming Dynasty, and many martial arts sects and martial arts families earned more and paid more taxes.

Anyway, Yue Buqun has made a fortune over the years and has become the leading taxpayer in the Taiwu Dynasty.

The tax he paid alone was worth one-tenth of the entire tax revenue of the Taiwu Dynasty.

After making money, he can also actively pay taxes, Yue Buqun also has the intention of befriending the court, as an old fox, Yue Buqun is more sober than nine out of nine people in the world, and understands who is the only master of this world.

"Talent"

Knowing the truth from Zhang Juzheng's mouth, Zhu Houzhao suddenly had strange eyes, sighed, and at the same time couldn't cry or laugh.

"Miss Yue" is no longer a mother, and she has changed her career to business, this style of painting is really strange enough, but then again, Yue Buqun doesn't seem to have been normal.

What Yue Buqun likes to do, Zhu Houzhao doesn't want to care, let alone care, as long as he pays taxes honestly, let him go.

Cutting away the distracting thoughts in his heart and returning to the topic, Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice: "Since there is no problem in terms of finance, the development of new territories can be put on the agenda." ”

"The Cabinet will discuss the specific development plan with the six ministries before presenting it to me."

Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Wang Wei, Fei Hong, Liang Chu, Liu Yu and other ministers of the six cabinet departments responded respectfully: "The ministers obey the order. ”

There is no problem with official reserves, fiscal revenues, and other aspects, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

At this time, Yang Yiqing spoke again, and said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, the new territory must be developed, but the population of our dynasty is probably far from enough to fill the new territory. ”

It's good not to mention the population issue, but when the population issue is mentioned, Zhu Houzhao has a headache.

Normally, the population of the Taiwu Dynasty is already quite large, and the people of the Ming Dynasty who live locally are as high as about 3.5 billion, plus those extraterritorial races who are subjugated, the total population is close to the 10 billion mark.

With such a large population, just listening to it makes people's scalps tingle, but compared to the huge territorial territory, this population is really nothing.

The huge mainland of the Taiwu Dynasty, as well as the Life Ancient Star held outside the territory, the entire territory combined, the population of 10 billion is just a drop in the bucket, and it is useless.

The problem of territorial development and the problem of sparse population are the big problems that plagued the entire Ming Dynasty and the Sixteenth Dynasty.

However, the two problems are closely related: new territories need to be filled with population, and population growth cannot keep up with the expansion of territories, which becomes a dead circle that cannot be solved in a short period of time.

Zhu Houzhao deeply understands that the reason for this situation is, in the final analysis, that the old Zhu family is going too fast, and the speed of Daming's car can't keep up, and the hidden danger has exploded.

He didn't have a good solution to this, after all, he wasn't sending his son Guanyin, so he couldn't make the population rise in a short period of time, so he could only say helplessly:

"Encourage the people of the world to have more children, and the court that can't afford to support them can support them on their behalf."

"In addition, from today onwards, our dynasty will enter a state of recuperation, and within a hundred years, we will not expand externally for the time being, and we will digest the existing resources first."

The population issue is already imminent, and if we don't pay attention to it, we will sooner or later make a big mess, and for this reason, Zhu Houzhao does not hesitate to suspend the pace of progress.

It's cool to soar all the way and advance by leaps and bounds, but the consequences of going too far are something he can't bear.

"Whew"

Hearing the emperor say that he was going to enter a state of recuperation, the ministers all breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Da Ming embarked on the road of transcendence, he has been racing all the way, Zhu Houzhao does not feel tired, they are also physically and mentally exhausted.

The issue of territorial development, the problem of population shortage, and even the financial problem are all matters of the cabinet and the six ministries, and now that the matter has been discussed, it is the turn of the military department.

Moving his gaze to the British Duke Zhang Mao, Zhu Houzhao asked solemnly: "Old Guogong, how is the battle situation on the front line?" ”

He was referring to the battle situation in the four spiritual lands of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, Kunlun, and Mount Tai.

When Da Ming was promoted to the Middle Thousand Worlds, the aura tide gave birth to a large number of monsters, and more than ninety percent of them came from the four major spiritual lands.

"Yesterday, there was a battle report from the front line, the four spiritual demons have been swept away, and the four generals are leading the army to kill the remaining demons, and they will be able to return to the court in a few days."

British Gong Zhang Mao said very solemnly, it is related to the front-line war, but he is always paying attention to the development of the war situation.

"Very good."

Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction, Hu Dakui, Qi Jiguang, Yue Fei, and Li Jing really did not disappoint him.

"On the day of the army, I personally led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to greet them."

This is his courtesy to the soldiers who have worked hard for him, and it also paves the way for the canonization of the four kings in the future.

"The old minister, the front-line soldier, thank Your Majesty Longen."

British Gong Zhang Mao was excited, as the first person in the current military department, he attaches the most importance to the glory of soldiers.

"Old man, please."

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, looked at the civil and military ministers, and asked, "Zhongqing still has something to discuss." ”

The ministers were silent, the big things had already been discussed, and there was no need to waste time on some small things, so it was okay.

"Since it's okay, let's retreat."

Zhu Houzhao waved the sleeves of his robe and announced the end of the court.

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