Qian Xue counted carefully: "Wang Cheng and the four of them, the eight newcomers, plus Wang Jin, Hao Yi, Ruan Xi, Chen Xiang, Gao Ping, a total of seventeen people, this position is not enough." ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "If there is no position, I will create a position, and in the future, I will make the inner court into the form of a harem."

That is to say, there is no nominal head of the eunuch, more than a dozen people are in charge of each other, and their status is equal, so that everyone does not have to fight, and there is no clear target for civil and military officials. ”

Qianxue praised: "The harem, the inner court, the ministers, and the nobles are all relatively average, and there are no particularly strong characters, which means that the husband can absolutely control the entire court." ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "The advantage is absolute control, and the disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, I have to take the blame alone, and no one is in front of me."

This requires me to conquer everything and win every battle. One or two big defeats may squander my prestige.

Yes, that's it, we must fight and win, and create in the hearts of hundreds of millions of subjects the image of me commanded by heaven.

Hey, no matter what, we have to defeat Annan first, then go to capture Japan, and finally get back the old port propaganda department. In this way, an overseas trade chain was initially formed, so that overseas silver and other wealth flowed into the Ming Dynasty in a steady stream.

With this wealth, I was able to reduce or exempt commercial taxes, reduce land rents, exempt forced labor, build water conservancy, control floods, dredge water transportation, and provide relief to disaster victims.

By the way, he greatly increased the salary of hundreds of civil and military officials.

When the upper and lower levels have received tangible benefits, people will not be making a fuss every day to stop Western trade. ”

"Then do you want to take North Korea down as well?"

"What kind of North Korea is fighting, I won't fight that place. It's easy to endure hardships and sins, but in the end, there is no benefit, and those people still have to work hard to rule, and it is really thankless.

Besides, there is no reason to fight, Taizu has just established the Ming Dynasty, and people have slipped and knelt for a thousand miles, and they fell at the feet of Taizu with lightning speed.

Really, Taejo wanted to cover his ears and steal the bell, and he couldn't pretend not to see it, so he could only reluctantly accept North Korea as a vassal country.

North Korea is loyal to this extent, and if you still fight him, then the Ming dynasty's vassal system will collapse directly, and what small country will dare to follow you in the future. ”

Qianxue smiled: "The slaves are those maids and eunuchs who are rarely bought from North Korea, they are obedient and clever, and they are very easy to use." ”

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "This is a hammer deal, and you must not go to North Korea to buy people again." Last time it was a surprise attack, neither North Korea nor our Ming Dynasty was prepared.

Next time, if the Ming Dynasty colludes with North Korea and inserts spies into it, it will be fatal.

We have so many children, and it would be honest to be killed by them.

Don't think that if I say nothing now, I will underestimate those people.

As long as you have the emotion of not caring, our children will definitely die one after another.

Just like the current Emperor Gongrang, Xuanmiao Concubine, and Crown Prince, as long as I wave my hand, they will all die. Now that Chen Xiang is in charge of Shang Shan Supervisor, it is very easy and not complicated at all. ”

"I know, in addition, there is also a request from Zhu Jian, the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "To the good of the people, I would like to let the emperor have one less loyal minister, and approve it directly." It would be nice if Gong let the emperor's loyal ministers have eyes like Zhu Jian. ”

"Also, Xue Huan, the commander of the horses, begged to share the family of the late horse Jingyuan."

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "Which one is this singing?" Jingyuan died in the battle of Tumu Fort, and the imperial court should be merciful, Xue Huan still wants to divide the servants sent by the imperial court to Jingyuan? Why do I don't understand what these people are doing anymore? ”

Lin Xiangyu said with a smile: "It may also be that there is a stunning one in Jingyuan's Yahuan, and Xue Huan wants to get involved." ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "No, you are too imaginative, it's a pity not to write a script." ”

Qianxue also smiled: "That's not necessarily, what Feng'er said may not be wrong." Husband, do you know, Xue Huan beat Princess Changde two days ago.

Tsk, that's the biological daughter of Xuanmiao and Concubine Er, the biological sister of Emperor Gongrang. ”

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "It's normal, if I'm Xue Huan, I have to beat Chang De." You don't know how miserable Daming's colt is.

Especially Xue Huan, who was originally the son of Yangwuhou, has been living a worry-free life since he was a child.

It took eight lifetimes of blood mold to become a colt. To be a concubine, not to be a concubine, not to raise a slave, can only have a princess and a woman.

If the princess can be as gentle and weak as Feng'er, and be obedient, a woman is a woman, and patience is enough.

The key princess is still like the three masters every day, and she never gives a good look.

Who would rarely serve her, only beat her, but didn't feed her medicine, Xue Huan has enough conscience.

Look at Zhao Hui, the eldest princess of Baoqing, who was completely freed after the princess's death, and accepted more than 100 concubines. ”

"Then don't care about Xue Huan?"

"No matter what he does, the so-called people don't sue, and the officials don't hold them accountable. Princess Changde didn't sue her, why should we ask the dog to meddle with a mouse. ”

Qianxue teased: "How can anyone scold himself for being a dog." Zhang Yi, a doctor at Tai Hospital, learned from Yang Xun, and also took a notebook, which was about business taxes in the capital, do you want to listen to it? ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "Remember it." ”

Zhang Yi, a doctor at Chentai Hospital, said, the Beijing division of Wanfang will be the same, and the daily use of all kinds of things is not exempt from business travel, and the imperial court has set up official stores, lightly collected taxes, and there are debts in trading.

The officials who are close to the financial management do not know the general situation, but only peel off the business, such as a silk tax banknote to seven silver coins.

Three shuttles of cloth for every ten horses, but also to seven coins of silver. Everything else is the same, and a quarter of the silver is taxed according to the property.

The ministers were afraid that the business travelers would avoid heavy taxes and refuse to come to Beijing, causing all kinds of things to boil. ”

After reading it, Qianxue asked curiously: "A doctor from the Tai Hospital, to worry about the problem of excessive business taxes, is it considered a dog to take a mouse and meddle in things?" ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "No, I asked him to do this." Didn't the original imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital be killed in the mutiny, this Zhang Yi was a famous doctor hired by us from the people, and now I have inserted him into the Tai Hospital.

I asked him to write a notebook to pick up the gaps for the imperial court, which was regarded as a small contribution, and then I took the opportunity to give him a liter.

We can't do it without our people in the hospital. ”

"And what about this business tax?"

"Let's discuss it in the court, when I knock down Annam, Japan, and the old port, I will directly exempt them from all these broken business taxes."

Lin Xiangyu asked curiously: "Isn't it all said that the more commercial taxes, the better?" The more merchants taxed, the more the imperial court earned.

The more income the imperial court had, the stronger the state became.

Why did the husband do the opposite and bent on reducing business taxes? ”

Zhu Qiyu explained: "The banknote customs was first set up in Xuande for four years. Our wise and martial Emperor Xuanmiao, on the Grand Canal, set up seven banknote gates in Miaoxian, Linqing, Jining, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou and Shangxinhe in one go.

Let's just think about it, suppose you are a merchant who transports a shipload of goods from the south to Beijing to sell it.

From the time you set off to the time you arrived in Beijing, you have to go through seven banknotes in the middle, so you can toss slowly.

When you arrive in Beijing, your goods have not been sold, and people will charge you a quarter of the value of your goods as a commercial tax.

All of the above is just a theory, based on the integrity and law-abiding of tax collectors.

If you run into corrupt officials, there are many ways to clean you up. For example, if your goods are worth 1,000 taels, he insists that they are worth 2,000 taels, and then collects a quarter of your business tax, which is 500 taels.

Your goods of 1,000 taels of silver have been transported to the capital with all your hard work, and people will collect you 500 taels in the blink of an eye, and you have no place to cry. ”

After that, Zhu Qiyu added: "The seven banknotes of the Emperor Xuanmiao can collect about 400,000 taels of tax silver a year. This silver should be divided between the inner court and the imperial court, and the imperial court will be divided into 300,000 taels.

Xuande's group of monarchs and ministers were calling for recuperation all day long, and I don't know what they were recuperating from. What good things they have done to the people, they know how to collect money all day long.

The key is that you have collected so much money, and it is useless, Shanxi is still a mess.

It was like a peaceful and prosperous world, and it was a casual hit first, and it was easy to pierce it all.

I, the first absurd emperor of the Ming Dynasty, am going to contradict them again, so I will issue an order to abolish the seven banknotes on the Grand Canal. ”

Asa Xue asked, "Didn't you discuss it with the ministers?" ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "What else are you discussing, when Wang Anshi changed the law back then, wasn't Wang Anshi the one who had the final say."

This is a deep reform, everything can be discussed, and we have to discuss until when. ”

(End of chapter)