Zhu Song shook his head: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the people of Jiangnan are also the people, although when the Wen Dynasty was established, the people of the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were exempted from taxes, but now it is the Yongle Dynasty, and the new dynasty is just established, and we should not use this reason to increase the taxes of the southern provinces." ”

"Especially there are many officials in these provinces in the DPRK and China, and most of the Shi clan in the world are from Jiangnan, if we are collecting taxes from the provinces in Jiangnan at this time, I am afraid that it will be detrimental to the stability of the court."

Zhu Di nodded approvingly and let out a long breath.

"I have always looked down on these Jiangnan scholars, as well as those rich businessmen, and the court was just as sad when the Jingjing was in trouble, it was these scholars and rich businessmen who pooled money to give the court and support the court."

"But what you said is also right, the people of Jiangnan are also people, and we can't search from these bitter people if we want money."

"So the top priority is the salt tax, if we can bring up the salt tax in the past few years, it doesn't need to be much, as long as there are 10 million taels, let's pass this year, collect taxes in the next year, and the treasury has money, so naturally it doesn't have to be so cramped."

"At this time, the salt tax is sent to patrol the salt imperial history, probably can't collect it, those guys who are greedy for silver, although they are not loyal to Jianwen, but I think they will probably not be loyal to me, so it is too soft to work, and it is probably not good if it is too hard, so I plan to hand over this problem to you."

Zhu Song smiled bitterly after hearing this, and sure enough, it was similar to what he guessed, and the problem that should come is still coming.

But at present, the lack of money in the treasury is indeed a problem, and it is a big problem, this master, if there is no money, it is a thousand and ten thousand, so this salt tax must be collected, and it must be collected.

Otherwise, those officials and lords in the court will suffer the people again, today they will suffer the people, and tomorrow they will suffer the people, what is this called?

"Your Majesty, the minister understands, the emperor intends for me to use Jinyiwei to do things that are not so Jinyiwei, not too hard, naturally not too soft, from top to bottom, whether it is the officials in charge of taxation in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, or those salt merchants who should pay taxes, they must carefully scrape it from top to bottom, and let them hand over the money they should have handed over, is this what it means?"

Zhu Di nodded: "Jinyiwei is now in your hands, if you don't leave this matter to you, who will do it?" And I have a lot of faith in your ability to make this thing clear. ”

"By the way, there is news that there are traces of Hu merchants in the northwest, didn't you buy those grain seeds in their hands? Do you want to send two people to bring this Hu Shang to Yingtian? Let him hand over all the seeds in him? ”

After hearing this, Zhu Song smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, this is a business, if you use strong means to make people hand over the seeds, will they be able to bring any good things in the future?" This Hu Shang probably remembered the agreement with the ministers, and estimated that he should go to Liaodong this time. ”

"Kaiyuan Hou should have crossed the Yangtze River at this time, and it is estimated that the two of them may really be able to meet on the way."

Zhu Di agreed: "Don't say it, what you said is really reasonable, this is a business, then you can't use hard ones, including that corn, I have also heard about it, you have to get out of the way and get a few grains back for you to try, I always feel uneasy about that thing in his hand." ”

Zhu Song arched his hand and said: "Before Kaiyuan Hou left Beijing, the minister had already explained that after he arrived in Kaiyuan, he would let people bring the seeds over, including the minister who asked him to prepare for trial planting in Kaiyuan, after all, the land of Kaiyuan is fertile, which is incomparable to Yingtian." ”

Zhu Di nodded: "Since you have already arranged it, this is not much to ask, after all, you are still the best at this aspect, after you bring up the salt tax this time, there will be no big deal in the court, and the rest can be handed over to Qian Tong to do, you are still in Jinyiwei to keep the commander, you are still attached to Jinyiwei, but you have allocated some energy to study this grain to understand." ”

"You have figured out this grain, not only can the people be fed, but also make the treasury of the Ming Dynasty more substantial, I still have a lot of important things to do, but I can't do things without silver."

"By the way, you, the prince and the prince, have to take the time to take a look at the prince, and see the grandson, after all, you are an uncle and an uncle, you are not a false position for you, you have to teach me more or less."

Zhu Song said with a smile: "What can I teach, at most, it is to teach the prince and grandson how to farm and how to recognize grains, these four books and five classics and the way of the sage, but it is not something that the younger brother is good at." ”

"If you call my grandson the Way of the Four Books and Five Classics of the Sage, I still can't believe you, you can teach whatever you want, in short, you are still young, if I leave in the future, you have to assist well, no matter who the throne is." Zhu Di scolded with a smile.

After hearing this, Zhu Song felt that the burden on his shoulders was a little heavier, alas, he thought that he had traveled here at the beginning, spent his painstaking efforts, and reorganized his vassal kingdom well, and finally made himself satisfied with everything, but he didn't expect Jing to be difficult.

I thought that after Zhu Di became the emperor, he would always be able to make himself an idle prince, even if he didn't go back to Kaiyuan, he would admit it, wouldn't it be worse if there was so much land in the world? Just as it is! didn't expect this Zhu Di to really use himself.

Zhu Song left the palace and went straight home, the sky was getting dark at the moment, Zhu Song was going to leave the capital in a few days, and personally went to the provinces south of the Yangtze River to go around, this salt tax must be collected, not only to collect, but also to be fanfare.

This large-scale tax collection can let everyone in the world know that the Yongle Dynasty is not the Jianwen Dynasty.

What the Jianwen Dynasty can't do, our Yongle Dynasty can do it, the Jianwen Dynasty can't collect the taxes, our Yongle Dynasty collects it, the people that the Jianwen Dynasty doesn't dare to offend, our Yongle Dynasty dares to offend, and you can't resist.

Of course, if you just go to offend people, then even if you are a three-year-old child, you can understand this job, the real difficulty lies in how to be tough but not lose people's hearts, this is the real difficulty.

When Zhu Song returned to the palace, he saw his son playing with mud there, saying that his son was really a heaven and an earth compared to Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji showed outstanding intelligence at a young age, which is really remarkable.

But Zhu Song's son only knows how to play with mud day by day, of course, this child is not a fool, he talks and walks normally, and his IQ is not high, but it is not low, that is, people are more fun-loving.

This is also a father like Zhu Song, Zhu Song himself is more casual, his son has no great talent, and he will finish this life safely, which is better than many people in this world, after all, his son is so good at reincarnation, and this is also a dragon and phoenix among people.