For example, the seemingly simple noodle dish in front of him takes a lot of time and energy to make.

"Go back and send someone to my palace, and teach my little cook how to make this lamb noodle soup, if this king wants to eat in the future, he doesn't have to go to your Liangzhou mansion."

"Ah, this~"

Jiang Ming had just finished showing off the rarity of this bowl of noodles, and Zhu Gaoxuan directly asked for his cook.

Hmm~ The chef still has to put it back, but this bowl of noodles will be kept.

"Okay, when His Highness goes back, the lower officials will let them meet Lantian with His Highness."

"Hiccup~ Yes, yes, the debt you deceived the king before will not be pursued."

Standing up with a chair and patting Jiang Ming, Zhu Gaoxuan walked away with three shakes,

If you are too full, you must eat it.

A good night's dream, early the next morning, Jiang Ming arranged bitter and bitter alfalfa porridge for Zhu Gaoxuan.

Bitter bitter herb is a major vegetable in Liangzhou, and it can be stored in winter after drying, and alfalfa is also sun-dried silage, which is a vegetable in Liangzhou, where there are no vegetables.

Although this bitter alfalfa porridge is a bit bitter, it is fresh and refreshing after eating, with a faint aftertaste, and it is also a delicious dish.

The cannibalistic mouth is short, and Zhu Gaoxuan will no longer show Jiang Ming's face, but he will not forget it when he should be inspected and supervised.

First of all, he looked at the armaments and weapons of the Liangzhou Mansion.

As one of the nine important towns, the soldiers of Liangzhou Mansion were each equipped with swords and guns, and also had armor, leather armor, cloth armor and a small amount of iron armor.

However, iron armor is difficult to wear in winter, and if you are not careful, you will freeze people's flesh and iron armor together, so soldiers generally wear leather armor in winter.

The firearms that Zhu Gaoxuan valued the most were also small in scale, with 16 mighty cannons and a range of more than 200 zhang; There are three or four kinds of firearms, with a total of 1,005, but the range is less than 30 zhang, which is a pity.

Bang bang bang~

Paying attention to the fire gun launch that Geng Zhong deliberately demonstrated, Zhu Gaoxuan could only shake his head and not speak.

Whether it was a gun or an artillery, the effect was unsatisfactory, and he wanted to find the craftsmen of the firearms supervisor to teach them the improvement of gunpowder and the improvement of firearms.

Not to mention the firearms supervisor in Liangzhou, there is not even a craftsman bureau, and the weapons cannot be produced by themselves, all of which are transferred from Lanzhou and Liangzhou.

This can be regarded as a measure taken by Zhu Di to restrict the border guards, and the private manufacture of weapons is a conspiracy!

Hearing Geng Zhong's explanation, Zhu Gaoxuan secretly wiped his sweat for his caution.

Before, he wanted to get some explosives to dig the river, but he wanted to give the immigrants a chance to earn money, so he used manual excavation throughout the whole process.

If he made gunpowder, he would probably be caught by Zhu Di and cleaned up.

In the future, we should be careful when coming up with new technologies, and weapon technology must not be touched in the short term. ’

Alerting himself in his heart, Zhu Gaoxuan continued to check his work.

In addition to the border of Liangzhou Prefecture, there is also a job to repair and build the Ming Great Wall.

The Great Wall of the later generations was repaired and connected by the Ming Dynasty to defend against the northern nomads.

Geng Zhong has been in charge of Liangzhou for ten years, and has preliminarily completed the repair of the Great Wall of the Helan Mountain dynasties, and has also strengthened the Great Wall of several important mountain passes.

Looking at the gray dragon winding and undulating in the mountains, Zhu Gaoxuan felt a little heroic and a little emotional.

"This is the Great Wall, it's really majestic."

The Great Wall of Liangzhou may not be as tall as the Great Wall of Beijing, but even if he crosses over the Great Wall to build dozens of miles of the Great Wall in this remote mountain, he is not confident that he can build it.

"Your Highness, you can't deserve the word 'majestic', it's just a mud brick and earth wall, if it is built with red brick cement, it will definitely be able to touch with majestic."

Before he could express his emotion, Geng Zhong's slightly flattering voice came from his side.

Another uneasy 'kind' guy

Zhu Gaoxuan glared at Geng Zhong helplessly, and there was a little anger in his eyes.

This guy just wants to fight the autumn wind, otherwise he would have bought it from him a long time ago;

Instead of taking him to climb the Great Wall for a long time, he didn't say such a sentence until he had a little bit of a strong and fierce sigh.

"Take the money to buy, no money and no fart."

"Your Highness, this is a weapon for the construction of the country, how can you talk about money?

Talking about money hurts feelings. ”

"Hehe~ Talking about feelings hurts money, I'm poor!"

Zhu Gaoxuan rolled his eyes and gave Geng Zhong, but he knew that there was a special border salary at the border gate, and Geng Zhong had money in his hand, but the money was not his.

But as long as the money is used for a reasonable military livelihood, he can indeed use it.

The money of the imperial court is Zhu Di's money, and he Zhu Gaoxuan has no pressure to earn it.

"Your Highness, it's funny, if you are poor, there will be no poor people in the world, the snowflake salt in your hand is worth a huge amount of money, and a pound of snowflake salt in Beiyuan can even be exchanged for a sheep.

Aren't there millions of cattle and sheep in Lantian?

How can His Highness be poor? ”

Geng Zhong continued to laugh, but his face was not suitable for the expression of 'sneering', it was a bit terrifying.

"The snowflake salt you only saw was sold for millions of cattle and sheep, but do you know how much tax this king has to pay?"

"Eh~ I don't know.

Your Highness still has to pay taxes? ”

Taxation is a matter of course in Zhu Gaoxuan's opinion, but in Geng Zhong's opinion, it is a bit incredible, Zhu Gaoxuan is the Liang King of His Majesty's personal title, the Prince of Daming, and he still has to pay taxes.

"Taxation is the foundation of the country's finances, and since this king is a prince, he naturally has to maintain this foundation, how can he not pay taxes?"

"How much to pay~?"

Zhu Gaoxuan knew that there were many people in this Ming Dynasty who did not pay taxes, especially those so-called scholars.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not have a perfect tax law, and used the two tax laws inherited from the Tang and Song dynasties:

The imperial court was divided into summer and autumn to levy taxes, and each household paid taxes according to the number of acres and assets, and the early Ming Dynasty was mainly based on physical goods, including rice grain, silkworms, silk cloth, and so on.

During the Yongle period, 5 liters of 3 in 5 spoons of grain were levied per mu for official land, and 2 liters per mu for private land, which amounted to 0.0535 stone and 0.0335 stone respectively, which was relatively low.

This part accounted for seventy percent of the imperial court's revenue, while other commercial taxes were only a supplement to the finances, accounting for less than thirty percent.

And even if it is a simple field tax, in order to give preferential treatment to scholars, the Ming Dynasty also stipulated that Xiucai can be exempted from forced labor, reduce part of the two taxes, and lift people can be exempted from tax.

This tax law has too many flaws, not only is it easy for the landlords and gentry to quickly annex a large number of land, but also allows many people to take advantage of loopholes to avoid taxes reasonably.

For example, whenever a literati is lifted, there will be a landlord who takes the land to "serve", and gives it to the lifter in the name of it.

In fact, it is a name, and then the landlord cultivates, but every year he gives the master some money and grain as a reward.

As a result, a large number of fields were not taxed, leading to the collapse of the state finances.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was caused by many factors, but this tax law was definitely one of the main inducements.