Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but stand up, pacing back and forth, thinking about the taxes of other provinces at hand before, and muttered to himself.

Is this the benefit of changing the law? If all the provinces in the world are like the three towns of Beiping, how many taxes should the imperial court pay! ”

At the beginning, He Qiu angrily sprayed Zhu Yuanzhang's various shortcomings and proposed a series of reform measures, and they were very operable.

This is one of the reasons why he was constantly valued by Zhu Yuanzhang's father and son after he got a good hometown.

There are many people who can point out the problems of Daming, and even some problems are clear to the inpatient station itself, but because of the lack of money and food, they can only compromise temporarily.

But when He Qiu pointed out a clear path to them, Zhu Yuanzhang thought carefully and found that this path was feasible.

For the sake of Zhu Ming's future generations, of course he will attach importance to He Qiu, and try his best to promote the changes He Qiu said.

But even Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that Zhu Di could use the foundation left by He Qiu in Beiping to get to this point.

This turned Zhu Yuanzhang into a rich man who had never seen the world, so much money, Zhu Yuanzhang was really red-eyed, you must know that in Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places, the foundation is much better than Beiping.

If the reform of the law is comprehensively carried out in these places, wouldn't the commercial taxes that can be collected be more than those in Beiping?

Zhu Yuanzhang asked He Qiu with some eagerness.

"What do you think of my thoughts?"

Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't imagine how much benefit it could bring to the imperial court if these places also changed the law.

He Qiu was very calm, shook his head directly, and poured a basin of cold water on Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Majesty, the fact that the three places in Beiping can have such a high tax is inseparable from several large local factories, if there is no Zunhua Iron Works and no Xishan Coal Mine, no matter how much it changes, it will not be able to have so many taxes."

"And although there are a lot of local commercial taxes, they are also based on the foundation of switch trade, but many inland provinces do not have this kind of convenience, it is a transportation guarantee, I am afraid it cannot be satisfied, so how can there be businessmen willing to go?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also calmed down a little, and he had to admit that what He Qiu said was indeed the truth.

Not every place can have such good conditions in Beiping, not to mention that Beiping can collect the full amount of business taxes, but also because the biggest local businessman is Yanwang, and the business of perfume is not carried out by this kid in front of him?

King Yan can fully support him as a father, but many people in the mainland are not necessarily, such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, although they have also pushed forward the means of collecting commercial taxes, but now the commercial taxes collected are still not much.

Don't even think about it, there must be a lot of people who evade taxes.

Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a while and asked.

"Then in your opinion, if the imperial court comprehensively pushes forward the reform, how much tax can it collect?"

He Qiu estimated it in his heart and roughly reported a number.

"Fifty million taels of silver."

Fifty million taels! This number smashed Zhu Yuanzhang dizzy, isn't this a silver mountain!

The first thought that flashed through Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was, how should he spend so much money!

However, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly came to his senses and hurriedly asked.

"How did you calculate, how could there be so much silver?"

He Qiu said with a chuckle.

"Your Majesty, you see, the Zunhua Iron Works in Beiping alone can contribute more than 800,000 yuan in taxes a year, and in the additional similar steel industry, that is, upstream and downstream industries, it can pay more than 1 million yuan in taxes a year."

"If Daming builds another batch of iron works, how much will it be?"

"There is a cement factory in Beiping, and it is convenient and fast to build roads, and the road surface is very strong, if most places in the country are built on the road, the commercial tax can be collected a lot."

"Foreign trade, not only can be carried out on North Korea and Japan, the south can go to the West, and there are many countries in the west, which is very necessary for the output of my Ming Dynasty."

"If you finally count it, there will be 50 million taels."

Zhu Yuanzhang keenly discovered one thing, what He Qiu said was in the most ideal situation, just like the unwillingness to pay commercial taxes in Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places, even the salt tax collected by the imperial court in a year has also drifted.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood, if he wanted to do what He Qiu said, I am afraid that he would have to be ruthless to the gentry.

Smash all the heads and brains of the local people, and let the officials of the Ming Dynasty go deep into the countryside, only in this way can the scene in He Qiu's mind be truly realized.

Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be the level of twenty or thirty million taels a year, and suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang is an unconscious little official, and it will be twenty or thirty million, haha, when did he have such a big appetite.

Even now, the annual income of the imperial court will reach 10 million taels.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and asked He Qiu.

"If the imperial court collects so many taxes, will it be the poverty of the people, which is not conducive to the rule of the Ming Dynasty?"

He Qiu admired Zhu Yuanzhang's style very much, he really took the people at the bottom to heart, and said seriously.

"Of course, the imperial court has collected so many taxes for the sake of view, only the money used out is real money."

"If the imperial court uses these money and grain uniformly, it will build water conservancy in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, repair roads, promote schools, recruit officials, and improve the treatment of the army...... In this way, it is taken from the people and used by the people, and of course there will be nothing His Majesty fears about. ”

"In the future, even if Daming wants to build civil engineering, it will also need to pay the people, so that the people at the bottom can also enjoy the benefits brought by the prosperity of Daming."

"Not to mention anything else, if the imperial court has so much money and vigorously governs the Yellow River, so that the Yellow River will no longer flood, how many people will remember the kindness of the imperial court? A large number of people in the north will become the supporters of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was very moved to listen to it, he had also done such a dream of governing the Yellow River, he himself was from Anhui, and the floods of the Huanghuai River had a great impact on him when he was a child.

It can be said that a large part of the tragic fate of Zhu Yuanzhang in his childhood was due to the flood in Huanghuai, which was followed by a locust plague, which turned their family into a homeless person step by step, and separated their brothers.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang also convened people to study the issue of the Yellow River, but the imperial court only earned so much money a year, and no matter how much money was squeezed out, it couldn't squeeze out so much silver.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but shook his head and said in a low voice.

"I have also asked people to investigate the governance of the Yellow River, and the officials' report is that it can be governed, but it cannot be cured, which is really not cost-effective."

He Qiu shook his head and said.

"The Yellow River can prevent flooding, at least large-scale flooding!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback and said in a lost voice.

"What do you say? How is this possible? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was in a mess, were all those water control masters wrong? Where did He Qiu come to the conclusion that the Yellow River can be cured?

"You must know that if you lie, you are guilty of deception!"

He Qiu nodded calmly and said.

"Ministers don't lie, the Yellow River can indeed be cured. If the Yellow River is flooded by sediment carried by the upper reaches of the river to block the river, if the upper reaches of the Yellow River are planted on a large scale to restore vegetation and continue for more than 20 years, the situation of the Yellow River can be completely changed. ”

"Of course, the annual investment will not be less, at least more than 10 million."

Zhu Yuanzhang's breathing is stagnant, tens of thousands, twenty years!

But when I think about my childhood, wouldn't it be worth it if I could let the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River no longer suffer from their childhood?