When Zhao Chongyuan took Wang Lishi to Qishui Ferry.

The black-hearted tour guide has already left with the people of Youzhou.

As for the goods brought back from Youzhou, they had already been loaded and placed on the cargo ship.

A whole whole cargo ship.

Around the cargo ship, Erwazi and these people were fully armed and standing with knives.

Seeing Zhao Chongyuan coming over with Wang Lishi, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Well, it doesn't need to be that way outside."

Zhao Chongyuan waved his hand.

He came from a royal family, but he didn't like these etiquettes either.

Sit in the cabin.

Zhao Chongyuan looked at it with a little worry, and Wang Lishi opened his mouth and asked, "Lux, how much money do we have in the treasury?" ”

Let the cargo ship slide slowly on the surface of the Qishui River.

Zhao Chongyuan looked at Wang Lishi beside him and asked.

As a great eunuch, he is the eunuch who holds the seal.

In addition to Wang Lishi's authority to clamp down on the cabinet of senior cadres, another is to inspect the six ministries for him Zhao Chongyuan.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years, the southern border has been unstable, and the country has been plagued by disasters and famines every year, and last year the dry water flooded, and nearly seven million taels of silver were allocated at one time, and you have been exempted from taxes along the dry water, and our treasury is currently full and there are less than four million taels of silver."

After thinking seriously for a moment, Wang Lishi replied in a low voice.

Dry water is another river basin in addition to Qishui, which covers almost half of the territory of Daqian, and is an important trade channel between the north and south of Daqian, and can be said to be the mother river of Daqian.

But success is also dry, and defeat is also dry.

Over the years, the dry water has always flooded the river during the rainy season, and I don't know how many people have been ruined by the flood along the way.

It was in the construction of the river embankment that Zhao Chongyuan allocated a large amount of silver over the years.

"How much silver is left in my inner treasury?"

Zhao Chongyuan asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, there are a little more than one hundred and twenty thousand taels in total, and if you remove the two hundred thousand taels returned to His Royal Highness King Yan, there will be 800,000 taels left."

Wang Lishi replied respectfully.

The silver in the imperial treasury mainly comes from the income from the monopoly of salt and iron, and the income from the production of Tugong and Shanze Yuanchi, and the customs and liquor tax are owned by the royal family, in addition, in fact, minors under the age of 14 also have to pay the poll tax, which is called mouth money, 23 wen per year, of which 20 wen goes to the royal family, and 3 wen goes to the national treasury.

This is a rule that the great cadres have laid down since the founding of the country.

But since Zhao Chongyuan ascended the throne, this poll tax has been exempted.

The reason is that some ministers in the imperial court said that some families in the people could not pay their children's mouths, and the children were strangled to death at birth.

Zhao Chongyuan couldn't bear this, so he exempted the poll tax, which had existed since the founding of the country.

In fact, twenty-three yuan a year for a child does not seem to be much, but in fact, in the process of collection, the officials below will take chicken feathers as arrows, and collect them many times in a year, plus all kinds of local surcharges, the amount has already been several times the regulations.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Chongyuan ordered to cut off this poll tax directly from the source.

However, it is precisely because of this that Zhao Chongyuan's inner library is far less than the inner library of the royal family of the previous dynasty.

"Give the treasury another 500,000 taels, and leave 300,000 taels."

Zhao Chongyuan replied calmly, and then said with some emotion: "Alas, the emperor has no money." ”

Zhao Chongyuan sighed.

The reason why the treasury has no money is not because it is barren, but because of the accumulation of two hundred years of history, and the power of those gate lord families and the court is too great.

If it weren't for the great cadres, they would be surrounded by powerful enemies from all over the world.

Zhao Chongyuan had already taken these moths that were lying on Daqian's body to suck blood!

"Your Majesty, the old slave has an idea that I don't know whether to say it or not."

After thinking for a while, Wang Lishi said with some hesitation.

"You say yes, do you think I'm the kind of emperor who can't listen to advice?"

Zhao Chongyuan turned his head and looked at Wang Lishi with slanted eyes.

"In fact, the old slave thinks that there is a great way to make money right now."

Wang Lishi replied.

"Huh?"

Zhao Chongyuan frowned slightly.

"Your Majesty, in fact, His Royal Highness King Yan has already opened a good way for us to make money."

As he spoke, Wang Lishi took out the glass cup he had taken out from his sleeve again.

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Chongyuan's eyes lit up and looked at Wang Lishi with a smile.

"Your Majesty, this thing is cheap in Youzhou, but it is not popular in the capital of the Great Qiandi, plus when Goryeo paid tribute before, he bragged about these glasses, which of those princes and nobles in the capital didn't want to get one?

It's not a secret, it's the slave who knows.

A glass cup that has been circulated from the palace has been sold for a sky-high price in the hands of those dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital.

If we take out all the goods we brought back from Youzhou this time and sell them, in my opinion, the profits from this time will at least double,"

Wang Lishi looked at Zhao Chongyuan meaningfully.

Daqian's treasury has no money, and the common people have no money in their hands, but the big families who lie on Daqian's body and suck blood are not without money in their hands.

If it is directly operated, it will inevitably provoke their resistance.

But in this way, it is easy for them to pay for it.

"Okay, well, Lux, Lux, you have followed me for many years, and you know my intentions."

Zhao Chongyuan laughed.

By the way, without blushing or panting, he picked up the idea that Wang Lishi came up with.

Looking at Zhao Chongyuan like this, Wang Lishi rolled his eyes quietly.

"Then what does Your Majesty say about this price?"

After determining this method, Wang Lishi looked at Zhao Chongyuan again.

"I remember that the jade girl burned, oh, no, it's the elixir fairy dew, it seems to be eighty taels of silver a tael."

Zhao Chongyuan smacked his lips and said a little ambiguously.

Wang Lishi: "......"

On black, are you still black......

……

Just when Zhao Chongyuan took Wang Lishi to rush to Yingtian, the capital of Emperor Daqian, by boat.

Zhao Zhe, the king of Qi, was beaten by Zhao Chongyuan on the beam of the house, and the news of the three-year confiscation of Yulu spread far and wide

In an instant, the entire Daqian court, chickens and dogs jumped.

In the harem, Zhang Guifei, the biological mother of King Qi, cried profusely.

Inside the cabinet.

When Mrs. Yang of the Yang Mansion was so busy that he flew up, an old man who was nearly eighty years old was lying on the case, and one by one he quickly swept in front of his eyes: "What about the tax amount of the household department this year?" Why haven't you brought it yet? ”

"I'm sick and on leave, and the tobe waiter is coordinating?"

"Leave?"

Listening to the reply of the auxiliary officer on the side, Yang Fu slapped the table: "The old man is eighty years old this year, and he is still busy working here, he is a sixty-year-old child on high vacation?" How dare he take a leave of absence at his age? Can he sleep?

You tell him that before tonight, no, before His Majesty comes back, if the tax amount of the household department this year has not been counted, let him come to see it with his head.

If this Taifu is punished by him for three years, the old man will directly carry the coffin board to sleep in his house! ”