After reading Yuan Chonghuan's annihilation of Horqin's Tang newspaper, Chongzhen slapped it on the table.

is completely different from the anger when he saw the Liangxiang mutiny, this time Chongzhen only had surprise and excitement in his heart.

2,000 were killed and 7,000 were captured, which was a great victory that could only be witnessed during the Hongwu and Yongle years!

Countless cattle, horses, and alpacas were captured.

The fly in the ointment is that the heads and prisoners captured are all from the Horqin Department that was sold by Huang Taiji, and the Jianzhou headquarters is unscathed.

However, this is also within Chongzhen's expectations.

Chongzhen knows Huang Taiji very well, and knows that this person has the danger of mountains and rivers in his heart, and it is by no means easy to match.

He used Yuan Chonghuan to go to prison and put him in a position, but he didn't expect to be able to complete the battle.

Chongzhen, who was in a good mood, flipped through the next line, and just after reading two lines of words, the smile on the corner of his mouth froze.

The sparse person is the head of the household department Bi Ziyan, first complimented the emperor Tianwei, so that the slave chief escaped.

Then Bi Ziyan counted the military salaries that would be paid to the soldiers who returned from victory, as well as the pensions of the dead soldiers such as Zhao Shuojiao, as well as the repair costs of the city in Zhili that had been damaged by the army, and the support expenses for the refugees.

Combined and combined, in addition to the existing tax silver in Taicang, there is a gap of 2.5 million taels!

If you want to make up for this gap, you will have to wait for the provincial tax and silver to be released to Beijing in the coming year.

But obviously, Chongzhen can't wait.

Can't the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen return to the court in victory, and he made a holy decree with a shy face and said, "You fought well, but your salary must be owed for a year, right?"

With your own inner library, it is not enough in addition to the salary, not to mention that the inner library is spent, and the use of the palace will become a problem.

Chongzhen looked at it again and again, rubbing his beating temples.

"Xuan Han Yi and Bi Ziyan."

The matter is urgent, Chongzhen can no longer continue to use inefficient court discussions, and directly summon the right person in person.

Han Yi and Bi Ziyan both knew the content of this sparseness, and after sitting down, they explained their opinions one by one.

Han Yi's opinion was to send a large number of officials to Susong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang to collect the levies.

The so-called endowment is the arrears of taxes.

According to the analysis of later Internet historians, the most important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the unwillingness of the evil Jiangnan scholars to pay taxes, which led to the financial bankruptcy of the Ming Dynasty.

This is, of course, nonsense, because Jiangnan has always borne the heaviest tax rate, contributing 22% of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue with 6% of the arable land.

The Jianghan Plain, the North China Plain, and the Guanzhong Plain, which also have the same granary status as the south of the Yangtze River and have a much wider area, were occupied by the Ming Dynasty's clans at this time, and they were tossed to the point of dying, and there was not much surplus grain to hand over.

The second is the peak period of Jiangnan Fu, which is in the Yongle and Xuande years, when the Ming Dynasty moved the capital twice, so that Suzhou Mansion handed over one stone of rice, and there was a loss of one stone and two stones, and only one government was endowed with millions of stones every year.

But the Ming Dynasty of Yongle and Xuande showed no signs of decline.

Bi Ziyan thought about it for a moment and said, "The levy is naturally collected, otherwise the officials and the people are accustomed to it, and there is no way to collect the land tax." ”

"However, the Jiangnan Fu often originates from the treacherous and wealthy right family, and the government forces the people to take it. It takes a long time, and the gain is not much, but it will boil over people's resentment. ”

"The minister thinks that it is better to give priority to the rectification of the two Huai salt policies."

"Oh?" Chongzhen became interested, and in the previous simulation, he himself found that it was true that the salt tax came faster, and the negative impact was much smaller than the increase in the field tax.

Bi Ziyan said loudly, "The salt government of the national dynasty was originally thriving. Emperor Shenzong sent the tax supervisors to various places, but they were corrupt and perverted the law, and the salt government has declined greatly since then, and the tax money collected is far less than before. If production can be restored, the national treasury will be replenished. ”

Han Yi also lowered his eyebrows and said, "These salt merchants, by virtue of their own status, knock on the bones and suck the marrow of the stove households, and fatten themselves from them, which is really a harm to the Ming Dynasty." I think I can kill it! ”

Chongzhen fell into thought, although Bi Ziyan and Han Yi both agreed to rectify the salt administration, they gave two methods.

Bi Ziyan emphasized that it is more important to restore the salt production in Lianghuai and Huai, so as to increase fiscal revenue.

What Han Yi thinks about is the traditional arts of the government, catch a few more salt merchants who have violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and slaughter fat sheep to make money.

Chongzhen didn't want to decide which path to take for the time being, but continued to ask. "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has its own history of patrolling salt with two Huai, can it take on this responsibility?"

Han Yi glanced at Bi Ziyan, but did not speak.

Seeing this, Bi Ziyan had no choice but to explain, "Your Majesty, the profits of the two Huai salt merchants are the best in the world. ”

"Behind these salt merchants, it is inevitable that there are a few close branch vassal kings and scholars of Zhishi. Just sending a science and technology officer is probably not enough. ”

Chongzhen nodded.

That's the benefit of having a small meeting, where attendees have less to worry about telling the big truth.

However, who should be sent to inspect the two Huai?

"Is there anyone in the bag of the two Qing families?" Chongzhen asked.

Han Yi and Bi Ziyan glanced at each other, and suddenly stopped talking.

Obviously, although the two have candidates, they don't want to say it in front of each other because of their differences of opinion.

After all, this time to go to the salt patrol, it is bound to offend the powerful, if you let someone know that the salt patrol is recommended by yourself, wouldn't it be a plain offense.

Seeing this, Chongzhen also quickly understood the air.

"The matter is big, and the two secretaries can advise the elders to go up as soon as possible." waved the two of them home.

Han Yi and Bi Ziyan's faces softened slightly, and they retired after saluting.

Chongzhen watched the two leave, his fingers tapping on the table.

This time the court changed blood, and the first assistant and the head of the household were unchanged.

Han Yi was left because this person was more qualified than Wang Yongguang, and his temperament was extremely stable.

In later generations, some people classified Han Yi as the Donglin Party, which is really stiff.

The only basis may be that when Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian couldn't see the direction of the wind and asked Han Yi, who was the first assistant at the time, for help, but Han Yi ignored him. Wei Gelding then held a grudge and ousted Han Yi from power.

Actually, Han Yi is a more akin to "Yes, Prime Minister!" Humphrey's character is committed to maintaining the situation and protecting his colleagues as much as possible.

Donglin wanted to use the Red Pill case to get rid of the Zhejiang Party, but Han Yi eased up and kept Fang Congzhe, the head of the Zhejiang Party.

Presiding over the cabinet and even the government is exactly what is needed for this kind of old and serious sage, not a shrewd and capable wise man who will disturb the imperial court.

Needless to say, Bi Ziyan is a rare official with the talent of the country.

Chongzhen was a little curious, who would be the names handed over by the two of them?

However, no matter who it was, it didn't have much impact on Chongzhen.

It can be said that in the current Ming Dynasty, no one knows more about salt politics than Chongzhen.

Because this is all Chongzhen's experience of many simulations and groping in practice.

Putting aside the annoyance of the financial gap, Chongzhen picked up Yuan Chonghuan's report again.

In any case, he finally drove Huang Taiji away and forced him to abandon his allies. It's worth celebrating!