"Xiong Tingbi?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but look up at the sturdy man under the jujube red horse in front of him.

"Your Majesty!"

Xiong Tingbi also hurriedly saluted Zhu Yijun at this time.

"Qing really wants to go to Liaodong?"

Zhu Yijun asked Xiong Tingbi at this time.

Xiong Tingbi hurriedly replied: "How dare the minister bully the king?!" ”

"Good!"

Zhu Yijun bowed his head because of this, and then said: "In this case, I will give you one thing, and you will try to do it for me after you go to Liaodong." ”

"Your Majesty, please."

Xiong Tingbi hurriedly replied.

Zhu Yijun said at this time: "After Qing goes to Liaodong, I will carefully check how many places outside the customs are now producing ginseng, deer antler velvet, and mink, how many shipments are made every year, and what the income is, in addition, do a good job of checking the smuggling situation of this kind of transaction!" ”

"In the future, I intend to make the whole of the leather and ginseng trade outside the customs as a monopoly of the royal treasury."

After Zhu Yijun said this, the ministers who followed him were all shocked.

It's just that the civil and military ministers are stunned, and the eunuchs are surprised.

Xiong Tingbi was also a little surprised, and couldn't help but glance at Zhu Yijun.

He was moved by Zhu Yijun's personal sacrifice to Zhang Juzheng, saying that Zhu Yijun was the Holy Lord, but he didn't expect the Son of Heaven to announce at this time that he would monopolize local specialty luxury goods such as leather goods and ginseng in the Northeast.

"Once the benefits of the leather goods and ginseng can be used to maintain the inner court, I plan to abolish the Huangzhuang in the future, and all the farms in the Huangzhuang will be distributed to the people of Gyeonggi, and the taxes on the land will be managed by the Ministry of Households."

Zhu Yijun said another sentence at this time.

Only then did the ministers understand that His Majesty was going to replace the imperial estate with the profits of these luxury goods outside the customs to supply the expenses of the inner court.

"If this can be done, the inner court will no longer have to rely on the imperial village to supply the court expenses."

Zhu Yijun then continued, and then instructed Xiong Tingbi: "After Qing goes to Liaodong, you must investigate the situation of leather goods and ginseng. ”

"Yes!"

"The minister does not dare to live up to the holy order!"

Xiong Tingbi also understood what Zhu Yijun meant, so he would naturally happily agree at this time.

After all, if Huangzhuang can really be abolished, it will really be a great thing for the people of Gyeonggi.

Because Huangzhuang is not just a Zhuangzi whose land belongs to the emperor.

In fact, the existence of Huangzhuang in Gyeonggi is equivalent to a gold-swallowing monster that can enter and exit.

All the merchant pawns passing by the Huangzhuang would often be accused by the head of the Huangzhuang to disturb the Huangzhuang, and ask them to pay money to be exempted, or to these people, since they passed by the Huangzhuang, they should give gifts to the emperor to express their gratitude.

Other than that.

In addition, the eunuchs in charge of the Huangzhuang will often forcibly refer to some people's fields as Huangzhuang, saying that they belong to the emperor and ask the people to give them up, or ask some people to donate their fields to the Huangzhuang to show their filial piety to the emperor.

In addition, tenants who rent a tenant in Huangzhuang will also be required to bear a heavier rent and are not allowed to flee the tenant.

Because as the emperor's people, how can he negotiate with the emperor about rent, how can he refuse to serve the emperor?

If you refuse, then is there still a sense of gratitude?

Although Zhu Yijun's current Huangzhuang is not as bad as it was in history, it will inevitably cause a nuisance to the local people at the bottom.

And the people near the Huangzhuang are indeed afraid to speak out because the stewards of these Zhuangzi are the emperor or other imperial relatives.

Therefore, Huangzhuang is indeed a big burden on the people in the Gyeonggi area, and it is also an important reason for the breeding of homeless people or thieves in the Gyeonggi area.

Of course, it is precisely because the exploitation of Huangzhuang is too heavy that it is still impossible to prevent those who have escaped, so the situation of Huangzhuang's abandonment is very serious.

In addition, the middle and lower-class Guan Zhuang Nei Huan Ke deducted a large amount of Zhuangtian income, so the income of the imperial village really went to the emperor's hands There is not much money and grain.

For the emperor, the existence of the Huangzhuang is the same as chicken ribs, which is not conducive to his reputation, but also has less and less benefits.

That's why.

Zhu Yijun already intended to abolish the Huangzhuang and return the village to the people's land.

In this way, it can be regarded as the emperor's complete transformation from a landlord to a capitalist, reducing the exploitation method of obtaining benefits directly through land management, especially the exploitation method of obtaining profits directly through domestic land management.

Strictly speaking, the only exploitation of the current emperor Zhu Yijun to the local peasants of the Ming Dynasty is the tenant of the Huangzhuang.

Because the agricultural tax actually goes to the treasury, and the gold and silver have been exempted.

At present, the domestic government has mainly relied on dividends from officials and businessmen, the purchase of treasury bonds, and the investment in various local and non-governmental high-quality industries to obtain income.

Therefore, except for Huangzhuang, the emperor no longer directly exploited the local peasants of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course.

Zhu Yijun can't just abolish the Huangzhuang.

Because he doesn't care about the income of the Imperial Zhuang, but many middle and lower-level managers of the inner court rely on the Imperial Village to obtain benefits.

If Zhu Yijun rashly and directly abolished the Huangzhuang, it is impossible to completely guarantee that none of these people will not hesitate to take risks to kill the monarch and kill people because of the loss of interests.

Although these people have a small status, they are the people of the inner court and the people around the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun still needs to consider the feelings of these people, he can't really learn from Jiajing, and one day he will almost be strangled to death by the little palace maid who doesn't think he is a threat.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun also planned to first convert the windfall profits such as leather goods and ginseng outside the customs into the patents of the inner court, which were used to replace the income of the Huangzhuang, and then abolish the Huangzhuang.

Anyway, most of the ethnic minorities outside the customs have migrated overseas, and many have gone to the Indian subcontinent, Sumatra and even Guinea, and most of the ethnic minorities who remain outside the customs are just ordinary people, and they have also been sinicized, and they are all concentrated in the Liaodong area, and their main livelihood has also become agriculture and the construction of castles.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun now wants to include most of the area of the cold land in the north as the private property of the royal family, and there is not much obstacle to monopolize the trade of leather goods, ginseng and other goods here.

Perhaps the only obstacle is that some smugglers will not be happy that the emperor will use the power of the government to monopolize these huge profits.

However, most of these smugglers are lackeys of the powerful bureaucrats, and most of the powerful bureaucrats behind them are mainly Jin merchants who have their own territories in Shanxi and Yangzhou.

As for the Jin merchants, Zhu Yijun is not worried, after all, the Jin merchants only want to make profits but don't want to work hard, you know, there have always been only businessmen who sell their country, and there are no businessmen who sell their lives.

Compared with the dissatisfaction caused by the loss of some benefits of the Jin merchants, in fact, what worries Zhu Yijun more is that after the long-term income of the Huangzhuang is poor, it will lead to the dissatisfaction of some stewards in the middle and lower levels of the inner court or the dissatisfaction of some tenants who still remain in the Huangzhuang because of the deepening of the degree of exploitation, these people may really dare to play with their lives.

Even if they don't think of taking revenge on the emperor directly, they will be bribed by the powerful bureaucrats because their interests are damaged or even unable to survive, and then they will become the eyes of these powerful bureaucrats to spy on the secrets of the inner court.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun had the idea of abolishing the Huangzhuang and replacing the benefits of the Huangzhuang with the benefits of leather goods and ginseng.

Of course, the number of eunuchs in the inner court is getting smaller and smaller, which is also to promote Zhu Yijun's idea of abandoning the imperial village.

With the improvement of the people's living standards, there are fewer and fewer innocent people who are willing to enter the palace as eunuchs.

In addition, after the implementation of the new rites, the Son of Heaven can no longer forcibly castrate his own people and take away their filial piety, if he really wants to do this, he will undoubtedly slap himself in the face, and take the initiative to admit that the new rites he supports do not have to be seriously observed, so he can no longer be forced to increase the number of eunuchs.

As for using outsiders as eunuchs, it is not reassuring, after all, no one can guarantee that there are few extremists here who take the opportunity of entering the palace as eunuchs to take revenge on the emperor, or deliberately make things bad.

In any case, if it is not my race, its heart will be different, and it is impossible for Zhu Yijun to let the people serving around him be of other races, at most, he will only allow some foreign officials to be officials.

To sum up, Zhu Yijun also thought that he could abandon the Huangzhuang, so that more people could serve the royal family without becoming eunuchs, especially in terms of foreign business of leather goods and ginseng, and even using foreign Yi to replace the royal family to make profits thousands of miles away, anyway, they all use each other.

For example, Zhu Yijun can also ask the Cossacks to be royal mercenaries or something, go to the vast Northern Europe, and collect protection money for their own family.

The conversation turned back.

Let's say that after Xiong Tingbi responded like this, Zhu Yijun bowed his head, and then passed the Shaofu official Xuancheng Bowei Yingjue, who managed the internal affairs, to him, and said:

"Qing is now responsible for supervising the internal affairs and assisting Xiong Yushi in handling this matter, after all, most of the leather ginseng is used by the palace, and you who are in charge of internal affairs should know how much profit the merchants who sell ginseng and skin goods have."

Wei Yingjue said yes.

So, Xiong Tingbi and Wei Yingjue really started to get in touch according to Zhu Yijun's meaning.

Xiong Tingbi was also able to learn about the specific income of the Huangzhuang from Wei Yingjue, and soon after that, he really got the will to let him go to Liaodong to serve as a patrol according to the imperial history.

Xiong Tingbi really took office and went to Liaodong.

It's just that as soon as Xiong Tingbi arrived in Liaodong, Wei Yingjia, the representative of the Jin merchants, found him and asked him: "It is reported that Gong Wen came to Liaodong this time to investigate the smuggling of leather goods and ginseng?" ”

Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but squint and asked, "How did Gong know about this?" ”

Wei Yingjia said: "The road has been rumored about this, and the contemptible people have also heard about it, so come and ask." ”

Xiong Tingbi asked with a smile: "Then I don't know what the public has to say?" ”

"I don't dare to see the teaching, I just want to ask the meaning of the duke, no matter what the duke does, the contemptible people will fully cooperate, after all, they are all doing things for the court!"

Wei Yingjia replied with a smile.

(End of chapter)