On the Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair, even though he was still wearing regular clothes, but the pressure on his body was not reduced at all.

"We have a lot of feelings about this private interview with Weifu."

"I didn't expect that under the rule of our Daming, there would still be a matter of eating the child."

"If it weren't for what we saw with our own eyes, we wouldn't have believed that this kind of thing would happen in our Ming Dynasty."

"You sit on top of the temple, but you don't know the suffering of the people, you sing praises to us every day, can the people of the world eat and drink enough?"

"Our Ming Dynasty is not on your mouth, but on the people."

"The ministers are terrified."

Li Shanchang and other civil and military officials knelt down together and pleaded guilty to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that these officials were the same again, and he was not in the mood to continue, and said straight to the point:

"Good elder, after you and Fan Min, the head of the household department, go to the court, you will send all the taxes of Songjiang Mansion over the years to the upper study, let's take a look."

That's right, after Zhu Yuanzhang saw the bill of Shanghu County, he suddenly remembered that since Shanghu County had collected such a high tax, the commercial tax paid by Shanghu County every year must be a large amount of silver.

Thinking that Shanghu County is so prosperous, and there are so many businessmen gathered here, Zhu Yuanzhang instantly felt a windfall from heaven.

So Zhu Yuanzhang hurried towards Ying Tianfu like an arrow, just to see how much silver this Shanghu County pays every year.

If Li Jin dared to embezzle even taxes, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely not show mercy to his subordinates, and immediately sent Jinyi Wei to put Li Jin in prison and exterminate his family.

And Fan Min, the head of the household department at the bottom, jumped in his heart when he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang planned to check the account book.

Could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang is not satisfied with his work and plans to find trouble for himself.

Thinking of this, Fan Min subconsciously set his eyes on Li Shanchang, after all, as a child of Huaixi, Fan Min was naturally indispensable to Li Shanchang's help if he could get to this point.

Li Shanchang's face was indifferent, and he bowed generously to Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"Yes."

Seeing that Li Shanchang was so calm, Fan Min let go of most of his worries, and then said:

"Wechen obeys."

"In this case, then today's court meeting will end here, I hope you can go down to understand the people's feelings and do more things for the people."

"Retreat."

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait to retreat from the dynasty at the moment, and then return to the Shangshu room to calculate the accounts of Huxian County.

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Upper study.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang got off the court, he took Zhu Biao and rushed to the Shang study.

Zhu Biao, as Zhu Yuanzhang's most hopeful son, had just established the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang made Zhu Biao the crown prince.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, Zhu Biao is his heir, and he will only succeed the son of Datong in the future.

Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang will take Zhu Biao with him wherever he is.

When dealing with government affairs, observing the people's feelings, and even sometimes working in the fields, they must bring Zhu Biao.

Everything Zhu Yuanzhang did can be said to be to let Zhu Biao understand himself, inherit his throne, and continue the old Zhu family.

Zhu Biao was dragged to the Shang study room by Zhu Yuanzhang with a confused face, and he didn't understand why Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly wanted to check the accounts.

"Father, why are you in such a hurry to check the tax books of Songjiang Mansion right now?"

Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his hands, but looked very expectant, and said:

"Biao'er, you also know that our Ming Dynasty is poor now."

"My father is even poorer, and he can't open the pot."

"But in Shanghu County, you have also seen that Shanghu County is rich, and Li Jin is even richer."

"The tax that Li Jin implemented there is one out of ten taxes, and it is also a policy that all merchants must pay, so the tax of Shanghu County should be a large amount of silver."

"If this silver can enter the treasury, then we don't have to worry about it this year, and even the money for Xu Da's Northern Expedition is available."

Zhu Biao suddenly realized at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang was playing the idea of Shanghai County taxation.

However, after Zhu Yuanzhang's reminder, Zhu Biao also instantly became excited, after all, the wealth of Shanghu County is obvious to all.

If the tax revenue of Shanghu County can really be received, then the treasury will be able to fill up a lot immediately.

When the father and son were walking around anxiously in the upper study, Li Shanchang finally walked in with Fan Min.

"The ministers see the upper position (the emperor)."

"Excuse me, flatten, and present the account books immediately."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face looked very anxious, with a hint of expectation and a little excitement in his anxiety.

Although Li Shanchang felt that things were not simple, he didn't know what the problem was, so he could only carefully present the account book in his hand to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Seeing Li Shanchang grinding and chirping, Zhu Yuanzhang walked in front of Li Shanchang in a few steps and snatched the account book.

handed over a copy to Zhu Biao, and he himself began to carefully watch the taxes of Shanghai County in front of several people.

Fan Min saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was so urgent, and his heart began to go up and down again, and when Zhu Yuanzhang's face became more and more ugly, Fan Min was even a little unsteady on his feet.

Although I don't know why Zhu Yuanzhang is angry, looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance, it seems that he wants to choose someone to eat.

Li Shanchang also saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked:

"Superior, I don't know what happened? Let the superior care so much? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was extremely blue at the moment, and when he heard Li Shanchang's culture, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head sharply to look at Li Shanchang.

Staring at his eyes, bloodshot continued to spread on Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and then Zhu Yuanzhang roared angrily:

"Let us ask you, why is Songjiang Mansion's annual commercial tax tax 0?"

"Isn't there a merchant in Songjiang Prefecture? Or do you dare to hide all this money from us? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression at the moment was extremely hideous, which startled Li Shanchang.

Fan Min hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed and explained:

"The emperor forgives the sin, since the first year of Hongwu, our Ming Dynasty decided not to collect commercial taxes for the time being in order to reduce the burden on the people."

"Although there is a provision for 30 taxes and 1, there is no substantial commercial tax to collect."

"And because the Ming Dynasty was created in a hurry, there were few merchants left, so the annual commercial tax was almost negligible."

"Based on this, until now, our Daming business tax has not been collected."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his chest seemed to be hammered hard by a sledgehammer, and this feeling of distress to the point of suffocation made Zhu Yuanzhang's face instantly turn red.

Thinking that the large amount of commercial taxes in Shanghu County was all given by Li Jin to greedy ink, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his heart was dripping blood.

"Bastard!!"

"Who proposed not to collect commercial tax in the first place?"

What Zhu Yuanzhang hates most at the moment is not Li Jin, but the bastard who proposed to exempt business taxes in the first place.

"Yes.... It's Wechen! ”

Fan Min trembled and admitted that he had proposed it.

Fan Min was able to sit in the position of the head of the household department at the beginning, and it was also because he made this suggestion.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Fan Min was sympathetic to the people and a good official, so he promoted Fan Min to the top.

But now, Zhu Yuanzhang can't wait to kill this Fan Min immediately.

"Come on, pull this dog thing down for us, put it in prison, and investigate it thoroughly."

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not think that it was his own fault, so it could only be Fan Min's fault in front of him.

Li Shanchang watched Fan Min being dragged away, but he didn't dare to plead.

Even Li Shanchang, who had a temperament like Zhu Yuanzhang, knew that it would be useless to open his mouth at this time.

At this moment, Zhu Biao also found the clue and said to Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Father, look at it, the grain tax in Songjiang Mansion is not right."