Chapter 158: The Court Discusses Taxes

Push the cup and change the glass, and the wine is almost drunk.

The main reason is that Zhu Di, who is not strong enough to drink, really can't drink, Wang You's own alcohol consumption is comparable to Wang Siqi, it can be said that the amount of alcohol is not good, but Zhu Di's alcohol consumption is not much better, not to mention that as an emperor on weekdays, he is even more drunk.

When a rookie meets a rookie, it can be regarded as a chess opponent.

That night, Wang You was killed by Zhu Di... Kicked home.

...

The next day, the morning dynasty.

Zhu Di, who was in a daze, sat on the dragon chair, as if he had not fully woken up from last night's hangover, but now that Zhu Gaochi was in charge of the country, more often Zhu Di sat on the dragon chair and listened carefully.

Most of the time, he doesn't express any opinions.

Until..

"Your Majesty!"

"Quasi-play!" The words were not said by Zhu Di, but Zhu Gaochi on the side played as the prelude, Zhu Di was still sitting on the dragon chair with his eyes squinted slightly, and seemed to have fallen asleep..

Wu Zhong gritted his teeth.

Go to the center.

With a solemn expression, he said: "During the imperial court's northern expedition, due to the shortage of iron, craftsmen, and workshops in the Ministry of Industry, the minister specially borrowed the Baoyuan Bureau to build ordnance on behalf of the imperial court in the name of the Ministry of Industry. ”

"Ran Baoyuan Bureau supervised Wang Siqi, and he was happy to agree! However, it was proposed to send all the iron-smelting craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to the Baoyuan Bureau to learn wrought iron! ”

"Nearly a month has passed!"

"The imperial court's division to the north has already set off, and the ordnance built by the Ministry of Industry has also entered the camp on schedule, and none of the iron, craftsmen, and workshops of the Baoyuan Bureau have been seen, and none of them have been used!"

"However, the superintendent of the Baoyuan Bureau has not allowed the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to return to the workshops of the Ministry of Industry in the name that the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry have not yet learned wrought iron!"

"So that we know today." When he said this, Wu Zhong's face was already a little shy, and he couldn't help but pause.

But who knows.

It was this pause, but Zhu Di, who had not spoken in the entire early court, suddenly opened his mouth and asked, "How is today?" Say! Slurred.."

In the words, there was still a bit of dissatisfaction.

This made Wu Zhong feel excited, so he hurriedly continued: "As a result, the workshops of iron smelting, wrought iron, and ordnance under the Ministry of Industry cannot continue to work. ”

However, the words have just been spoken.

Even Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and their Ming magnates all heard the low laughter of sneers from among the hundreds of officials.

Others don't know, how can the many ministers of the DPRK and China, who are all-knowers in the capital, not know?

What Baoyuan Bureau did not return to the craftsman, in fact, the Ministry of Industry was clearly pitted by the Baoyuan Bureau, and wanted to swallow the Baoyuan Bureau, and in the end, Wu Zhong lost his wife and folded his soldiers..

Encounter a scoundrel like Wang Siqi...

It's also his bad luck.

Zhu Di is also well aware of what happened in the Baoyuan Bureau, after all, with the existence of Jinyiwei, the eyes of the Ming Emperor can go directly to any place in the entire Ming Dynasty.

nodded, it seemed that Zhu Di already knew what had happened.

But when Wu Zhong finally raised his head, wanting to observe Zhu Di's expression and expecting the emperor to call the shots for him, Zhu Di continued to squint his eyes slightly.

“....”

"So... Lord Wu still has something to report to the emperor, if not." Seeing this, Zhu Gaochi said to Wu Zhong.

At this moment, Wu Zhong was the only one who couldn't believe what he had encountered.

The imaginary emperor was furious, and the matter of administering justice to himself did not happen at all, as if everything had nothing to do with the ministers present. Everyone, yes ... Everyone was indifferent to what was happening in the Ministry of Works.

"I think! The construction of Ming ordnance is the foundation of the country, after all, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty cannot be allowed to go to the battlefield with their bare hands to fight with the Mongols. All the ministers begged the emperor to order Wang Siqi, the superintendent of the Baoyuan Bureau, to quickly return the craftsmen sent to Jurong one by one. ”

As soon as Wu Zhong's voice fell, another person walked out of the group of ministers behind him...

As soon as he saw his appearance, Wu Zhong was suddenly a little stunned... It was none other than Wang Siqi who stood up!

As for the grounding?

When Wang You went back that night, Wang Siqi and Zhu Gaochi were free.

I have to thank myself for being a cheap father, and I can solve the trouble for Wang Siqi as soon as I make a move at a critical time, but the main reason for this is that Zhu Di feels that what Wang Siqi said and did is not harmful.

A long lockdown is also not a problem.

"Wang Siqi, the political envoy of the minister's general secretary and the superintendent of the Baoyuan Bureau!"

"Something to say!"

Zhu Gaochi stood on Zhu Di's right hand, with a somewhat elusive smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with great interest: "Say! ”

"The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are to come to the Baoyuan Bureau to learn wrought iron technology, but after all, the wrought iron technology is not a street vendor carrying a flat pole to sell vegetables, its content is very complicated, once there is a link that is not learned, there is a step that is not mastered clearly, then once the future into the process of wrought iron... Often, this mistake will lead to the scrapping of a whole furnace of molten iron, and even easy to cause danger. ”

"In order to avoid such a tragedy, the minister requires all craftsmen who come to the Baoyuan Bureau to at least learn the whole process of ironmaking one by one, and to obtain the approval of the master who leads the class to pass!"

"Therefore, it's not that the minister doesn't pay it back, but he doesn't feel at ease!"

"In addition, the minister also has a book to play!"

When Zhu Di heard this, he was obviously not as confused as when the ministers started playing one by one just now, but his eyes instantly widened, and he said lightly: "Let's play it accurately!" I want to hear what you have to say! ”

It stands to reason that this kind of thing in the early dynasty basically has nothing to do with Wang Siqi.

Wang Siqi himself didn't want to be early in the morning before dawn, so he had to come to the court early in a neat dress, Wang Siqi, who had sunk in 996 blessings in his previous life, obviously had obvious resistance to this early dynasty system.

But today he came for the first time.

Since it's here.

I didn't come empty-handed, but after Wang Siqi heard Zhu Di's quasi-play, he immediately looked at Zhu Di on the dragon chair with resolute eyes and said: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to encourage private trade and allow the people to live a good life through commerce, they have been exempted from commercial taxes. ”

"Except for salt, tea, iron, etc., which are controlled by the imperial court, the rest are all ordinary people who can trade."

"But this is not the same as it used to be!"

"Over time. Private businessmen are rich and rival the country, there is no business tax in their bodies, and they can casually have a good relationship with local officials or the powerful people in the DPRK and China, and the income in a year can be equal to the income of the people who farm for a lifetime, and the most important thing is this money! ”

"Don't pay taxes!"

Originally, many ministers present thought that what Wang Siqi was about to say was a counterattack against the Ministry of Industry, but who would have thought that Wang Siqi did not take the Ministry of Industry in his eyes at all.

Instead, he directly turned his attention to the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, suddenly many people reacted... At the beginning, Wang Siqi seemed to have introduced himself once, and everyone knew about the supervision of the Baoyuan Bureau.

Can.. When did the General Secretary become the General Envoy?