For the crown prince.

Although the territory of the south is better, it is in fact an industry that belongs to all the citizens of the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is a state-owned asset used by the cabinet to repay government bonds.

And the whole of Northern Xinjiang is the basis for whether he can be an emperor with capital strength in the future.

After all, the entire Northern Xinjiang is now regarded as the private property of the royal family, and as the future emperor, the entire Northern Xinjiang is also the property he will really inherit in the future.

Therefore, the prince's reaction to the eastward invasion of the Rakshasa Kingdom was the strongest.

The crown prince, who served as the Xuanfu envoy in Busan, even took the initiative to write a secret letter to Zhu Yijun, hoping to transfer him to Northern Xinjiang as an official in the future, and let him know about Northern Xinjiang in advance, so as not to sit back and watch all the imperial property be swallowed by the Rakshasa Kingdom in the future.

Zhu Yijun fulfilled the prince's request soon after, and promoted the crown prince to the governor of Hanhai, and let him manage the vast Mobei territory.

Meantime.

Zhu Yijun also sent an army composed of many royal children as his supervisor.

The so-called superintendent is the main army that can be controlled by the governor.

Because of the Rakshasa Kingdom's conquest of Yanming City, many children of the royal family are also dissatisfied, after all, the interests of the entire northern Xinjiang will also affect their interests.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun also sent these royal children who took the initiative to invite Ying to fight Rakshasa to the prince, so that they could assist the prince and maintain his royal estate.

Of course, the main force that really went to rescue Yanming City was not the crown prince and these royal children, but the forces composed of the Son of Heaven's pro-army and the Beijing camp led by Li Rusong.

Although Northern Xinjiang is the private property of the royal family, it is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court naturally has to manage it, and it is also necessary to dispatch troops through the Privy Council, not just the emperor to dispatch troops.

Who made the Ming Dynasty an absolute monarchy?

Of course, the bureaucrats and scholars did not dare not actively defend the property for His Majesty the Emperor, after all, if they did not defend these properties for His Majesty the Emperor, then His Majesty the Emperor would transfer the economic burden of supporting the imperial family back to China, and let the domestic scholars and people support the Ming imperial family.

Therefore, neither Wang Xijue's cabinet nor Li Chengliang's Privy Council opposed supporting Yanming City, and even Wang Xijue took the initiative to say that the Rakshasa Kingdom should be destroyed and no country should exist in the north.

After all, the north is the private territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there can only be employees of the emperor to manage it for the emperor, and there can be no so-called national monarch, and the Rakshasa country should not exist in the north.

"In order to make the north borderless and stateless, we should increase the commercial tax as soon as possible to increase the income of the imperial court, and avoid the people of the world not believing that the country can afford to repay the debt, after all, everyone in the world knows that using troops in the north is a futile matter of food and grass, and they will worry about whether the imperial court will not be able to repay a large amount of debts because of the reckless use of military force."

On this day, Liu Quxian also talked about the increase in commercial taxes mentioned by Wang Xijue before because Wang Xijue advocated the destruction of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Wang Xijue bowed his head after hearing this: "I naturally have no opinion on the increase in commercial tax, but there is still a lot of opposition inside and outside the government and the opposition, all saying that the increase in commercial tax will hurt the people, and the increase in commercial tax will eventually be transferred to the small people, and then many people will not dare to buy goods anymore, only remain self-sufficient, and even prefer to be idle, and will no longer think about doing more work and earning more money, which will make the people more lazy." ”

"Probably not, right?"

Liu Quxian replied with a smile and said:

"Because the contemptible people have been small people, presumably Yuanfu also knows that the contemptible people come from humble backgrounds."

Wang Xijue's head.

Liu Quxian continued: "Therefore, contemptible people know that if prices keep rising, as a small people, they will be more willing to buy goods and spend money, for fear that they will not be able to buy the commercial goods they want in the future. ”

Wang Xijue bowed his head after hearing this: "It's the same!" I am not very worried about this, but I am more worried that if the current commercial tax is to be levied, the most difficult part is that among the people who do business in the world, the majority of businessmen and businessmen with powerful bureaucratic backgrounds account for the majority, and there are still few businessmen from civilian backgrounds, and now, it will undoubtedly be difficult for them to levy their own taxes, and it will be even more difficult than the previous Qingzhang acres! ”

"When Guy cleared his acres of land before, these powerful bureaucrats were already mainly relying on business profits and loans, rather than agriculture!"

"Therefore, the imperial court forcibly cleared the acres of land, and the loss was not big for them, and even many powerful bureaucrats who were a little loyal would be considerate of the country, knowing that the country had a serious deficit and needed to increase revenue, and would take the initiative to cooperate, and therefore, the first Taishi Qingzhang acres could succeed."

"Therefore, now it is not to clear the acres of land, but to let the officials of the world levy their own commercial taxes, and they will definitely not seriously implement this matter."

After Wang Xijue said this, Liu Quxian nodded, and also saw Wang Xijue's hesitation as a businessman-born scholar in increasing the commercial tax, so he said:

"This is indeed the really difficult place, in the humble opinion, maybe you don't have to check how much business profits the world's businessmen have, but only need to increase taxes and tariffs at major gates, you can achieve an increase in commercial taxes."

"In this case, will they simply collude with the small people along the coast to participate in smuggling, and even commit robbers, and blame the frequent occurrence of robbers on the increase in commercial taxes, and compete with the people for profits too much, so that the small people have no way out, so that many small people turn into robbers?"

Wang Xijue voiced his worries again.

Liu Quxian nodded and didn't say anything more, he knew that Wang Xijue was still hesitating.

For the current Ming Dynasty, collecting commercial tax is indeed a big problem.

The problem is whether the majority of the bureaucracy is willing or not.

If the majority of the bureaucracy is unwilling, it will not only fail to collect much commercial taxes, but will increase a lot of civil strife.

Therefore, even if ministers such as Wang Xijue and Liu Quxian were willing to raise commercial taxes, they had to be cautious.

"I've heard that you've been talking about raising business taxes lately?"

Zhu Yijun also asked Wang Xijue and other ruling ministers about the Imperial Secretary on this day.

Wang Xijue replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, because it has not yet been agreed, so it has not yet been played to Your Majesty, in the eyes of the ministers, at present, the world's commercial profits have far exceeded agricultural profits, and to increase the annual income, and in order to avoid serious domestic abandonment, affect the local grain production, and then affect the world's government, especially the use of troops in the northern Xinjiang food supply, so the ministers and others believe that the commercial tax has reached the time when it is indispensable." ”

"Because only by increasing the commercial tax can we talk about the exemption of land tax."

"Since it's time to do so, why hasn't it been agreed yet?"

Zhu Yijun had to admit that his ruling ministers really did not lack the idea of taking the initiative to reform some of the benefit distribution systems in keeping pace with the times, but they often did not dare to decisively challenge the entire bureaucracy because they thought too much, and because of their own class attributes, they could not be completely bold enough to offend the world's powerful bureaucrats who occupied the main scale of the world's commerce.

Wang Xijue replied at this time: "Back to Your Majesty, it is because the ministers and others are worried that the bureaucrats in the world are not willing to increase the commercial tax, so they take the people's livelihood into trouble. ”

"Since it involves the bureaucrats of the world, it is time to talk to the bureaucrats of the world."

Zhu Yijun said a word and looked at Wang Xijue: "Yuanfu, let me ask you, do you really want to increase commercial tax, or do you pretend to increase commercial tax?" ”

"How dare a minister be hypocritical!"

"I'm sincere."

Wang Xijue got up at this time and replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded accordingly: "Since it is sincere, this matter, Qing, as Yuanfu, should act on his own, don't get the right to nominate Qing granted by me in vain!" ”

Wang Xijue said yes.

Zhu Yijun got up at this time and touched his slightly convex abdomen and said:

"As the saying goes, things are man-made, since I am worried that the bureaucrats in the world are unwilling, the secretary can personally go and run, ask, and talk, this matter of increasing commercial taxes is not only beneficial to the imperial court, but also to the local government, it is nothing more than to make some changes in the tax sharing system."

Wang Xijue suddenly realized after hearing this, and then he arched his hand and said: "Sure enough, the Holy Ming has no past Your Majesty, Your Majesty's meaning, the minister understands!" ”

Zhu Yijun shook his head.

……

"What does Motosuke understand?"

And after the dispersal of the dynasty, because Wang Xijue said what he understood in front of the emperor, Li Chengliang asked Wang Xijue in confusion.

Wang Xijue replied with a smile: "Naturally, I am going to talk about the reform of the tax sharing system, the tax of the national dynasty has always been part of the treasury of the domain, and part of it is sent to the two capitals, and it is necessary to increase the commercial tax, of course, it is necessary for the bureaucrats to implement, but to ensure the local peace after the increase in commercial tax, it is also necessary for the bureaucracy to guarantee, and if the imperial court wants to succeed in levying the commercial tax, and then successfully replace the agricultural tax as the main revenue of the state, and increase the national revenue, then it cannot not only let the local bureaucrats offend people but also make them no good, and this, The key is how the additional commercial tax is distributed. ”

"In other words, it is necessary to increase the revenue of the local feudal treasury because of the commercial tax."

After Li Chengliang said this, he asked: "Isn't this to enhance the strength of local officials?" ”

Wang Xijue nodded: "What the prime minister said is, but in today's Ming Dynasty, the strong cadres and weak branches are out of date, not to mention that it is the financial resources of the local officials that are enhanced, not the financial resources of the local clans, so it may be beneficial for the local officials to use the local feudal wealth to support the peasants and workers, and then fight against the local tyrants, and try to make the increase and decrease of local wealth more even." ”

Li Chengliang bowed his head after hearing this: "Fortunately, the imperial court is now a liuguan system, otherwise, I am really worried that this will make a strong vassal appear in the local area." ”

"We must hurry up the construction of railways and form a railway network in Middle-earth as soon as possible, so that the east, west, north and south will be connected, so that there is no need to worry about the local financial resources being bigger."

Then.

Chen Yuma also said a word.

Wang Xijue nodded: "What Chen Ge Lao said is extremely true, and when the time comes, I will use this as a temptation to do the strategy of killing three soldiers with two peaches." ”

Everyone laughed.

Therefore, Wang Xijue asked the emperor to inspect the internal affairs of the world next, and to check what hidden worries there were under the prosperous world, so as not to live in the temple for too long, too isolated from China and foreign countries, so that the upper and lower levels could not be communicated.

Zhu Yijun agreed to Wang Xijue's invitation.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty had the first example of the first assistant inspecting the world to inquire about civil affairs, and it began to have a tendency of dualism. (End of chapter)