Zeng Yishu nodded silently, admitting that Zhu Yicheng's considerations were more comprehensive than himself. A lonely minister like Li Wei who had no backstage and no connections was now targeting public criticism. It is indeed a good thing to avoid Luzon's vortex of right and wrong.

However, this made Li Wei feel a little aggrieved. Thinking of this, Zeng Yishu sighed softly, and secretly felt a pity.

"Zeng Qing, how about I handed over Li Wei to you?" Zhu Yicheng suddenly said.

Zeng Yishu was stunned and was surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that Zhu Yicheng might have considered it a long time ago. Otherwise, Zhu Yicheng would not have someone to bring a message to him today, and asked him to go to the Ministry of Personnel to meet Li Wei.

"This is natural, Li Wei can help you walk in the Military Affairs Office." Zeng Yishu smiled and nodded immediately.

"It's not the Military Affairs Office." Who would have thought Zhu Yicheng said again: "What I mean is to let Li Wei go to the Ministry of Revenue. What do you think?"

"Ministry of Revenue?" Zeng Yishu hesitated for a moment, and immediately thought of something and asked: "What the emperor means is to let Li Wei do the matter discussed before?"

"Hahaha, that's exactly that!" Zhu Yicheng laughed.

"This..." Zeng Yishu hesitated immediately and could not answer for a moment.

The Ministry of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty was basically the same as the previous Ming Dynasty. The internal structure of the Ministry of Revenue was divided into the Thirteen Qingguan Departments, which were in charge of taxes in each province. Each Qingguan Department had four departments: Civil, Duan Branch, Jin, and Warehouse. The Jinke was in charge of national fishing, salt, taxation and other industrial and commercial taxes, and the Warehouse Department was in charge of the departure and storage of the two taxes.

As for local governments, each province declares that the Government and Envoy Department is in charge of taxation. If the tax is directly managed, the provincial level includes the tax department, the salt department, etc.; the government level has the tax department, the tax department, the tax department, the river bank, and the township level has the Lijia Supervisor's Grain Tax, etc.

When Zhu Yicheng reformed the official system, he separated the positions of the department and the Ministry of Revenue from the Royal Bank as the basis and included them in the scope of the powers of the Royal Bank.

In addition, in the past two years, Zhu Yicheng has gradually recovered the tax authority of the provinces, changed all the local tax department, salt ambassadors and other tax collection departments to the Central Ministry of Revenue, and implemented administrative separation from the local governments. The tax collected is in a ratio of 3 to 7. The former is included in the vassal treasury for local governments, while the latter is directly included in the Ministry of Revenue as the central finance.

Doing so means that the central government directly controls local taxes, making the imperial court more strict and effective in managing taxes. But at the same time, there is no lack of local rebound in this method. It should be noted that the division of rights between the central and local governments has always existed, especially localist protection, including the personal interests of local officials, etc., which have caused an incomplete implementation.

For this reason, Zeng Yishu thought of a lot of solutions and discussed it with Zhu Yicheng. However, because Zhu Yicheng strongly implemented this policy, the Ministry of Revenue only had to bite the bullet. Although local tax revenues have increased significantly in the past two years compared to before, the problem still exists, and the Ministry of Revenue is troubled by it.

Now, Zhu Yicheng suddenly said that he would give Li Wei to Zeng Yishu, and he also specifically mentioned the Ministry of Revenue. Zeng Yishu was as smart as Zeng Yishu naturally thought of this. It seems that Zhu Yicheng planned to use Li Wei, a capable minister and an lonely minister, as a sharp blade in the hands of the emperor, so as to completely solve the tax system problem.

"Can Li Wei be competent?" Zeng Yishu couldn't help but think about it, but soon he admitted that Li Wei was indeed the most suitable candidate for doing this.

Li Wei has no background, it doesn't matter. If there are people above him, it's probably just the emperor Zhu Yicheng. What's more, Li Wei killed so many natives in Luzon, and now everyone calls him Li Butcher Li. With such a murderous nature, he might be able to really suppress people.

Furthermore, the local magistrate directly enters the Ministry of Revenue, which means that the local magistrate becomes the Beijing official. Even if the grade remains unchanged, his rights are not comparable to that of a mere magistrate.

As long as Zhu Yicheng supports, Li Wei may be able to do this. Thinking of this, Zeng Yishu couldn't help laughing and nodded, "I admire the emperor's master's skill. Li Weichen thought about it and was really a suitable candidate, but he is now of the fourth-grade level. How can he be placed if he is transferred to the Ministry of Revenue?"

Zeng Yishu had to ask this question: the Minister of Revenue is the second rank, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is the third rank, and the doctors of each department are only the fifth rank, and the rest are the lower rank, such as the chief officer, the official officer, and the ambassador.

When Li Wei enters the Ministry of Revenue, he may not be promoted directly to the Minister of the Secretariat, right? This does not conform to the promotion practice of officials. Moreover, local officials are directly promoted to two levels to the Central Committee to become the Minister of the Secretariat. This is too outrageous. You should know that although Zeng Yishu is now a military minister, he is just a left minister in the Ministry of Revenue.

"This is easy. The taxation functions of each department are divided into all the taxation functions, and together with the taxation departments of each province, state and county, rebuild a new department. This department is called the National Taxation Department. The National Taxation Department specializes in the taxation department. In addition to the other departments of the Ministry of Revenue, its chief official will be appointed as the fourth rank. Li Wei is the fourth rank prefect, and it is just right to be the director of the National Taxation Department."

"I follow the order, but I think it will take some time to divide the functions. After all, I have to do it with caution."

"Well, you are thinking about this matter. First, draw a decent person to put up the stand of the State Taxation Department. You can take the rest of the branches and leaves slowly, but I hope the State Taxation Department will be established within three months. How about it?"

Zeng Yishu breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was a little tight for three months, it was still possible for him. After all, after the tax reform, the Ministry of Revenue had made a series of adjustments, and now it was just to deepen and add Xinshi. Zeng Yishu nodded and agreed, and then talked to Zhu Yicheng about other issues about the Ministry of Revenue, and then got up and prepared to say goodbye.

"By the way, go back to the Military Affairs Office to communicate with Jiang Qing and others. The matter of setting up a province in Luzon can be handled. In addition, who to send to Luzon, the candidates need to be selected carefully and carefully. I don't want to see inappropriate people going to Luzon, especially those who only know how to exclude colleagues for their own selfish desires should not be reused."

When Zhu Yicheng said this, his tone became cold. Zeng Yishu's heart trembled slightly, and he immediately understood what Zhu Yicheng said.

Zhu Yicheng used this method to tell him and the Military Affairs Office that even if Luzon immediately set up a province, Luzon officials, from the governors to ordinary prefectures and counties, must not use impeachment of Li Wei, including those who instruct others to impeach.

In Zhu Yicheng's opinion, these officials were too selfish, and for his own selfish interests, they were impeached as capable ministers who had made contributions to the state. More importantly, others did not know, did Zeng Yishu know? The Ming emperor who decided to eliminate the natives in Luzon was the Emperor of Ming Dynasty in front of him. Li Wei carried out the emperor's wishes. Those officials did not understand the true origin of Li Wei's elimination of the natives. They wrote a letter to impeach for the sake of their mere official positions and futures. This was equivalent to calling the emperor a butcher. Zhu Yicheng has not turned against him yet and has been extremely patient.
Chapter completed!