The State Taxation Department is just the first step. According to Zhu Yicheng's idea, the current State Taxation Department will lay the foundation for the future State Taxation Bureau of the Ming Empire.

In the future, all tax institutions across the country are under the management of the State Administration of Taxation and become a huge tax institutions directly controlled by the central government or the emperor from top to bottom to local governments.

Although it is not so easy to complete this idea, after all, the tax structure has been in operation for nearly a thousand years, and all dynasties have been repaired on the original basis. Zhu Yicheng's doing this is equivalent to starting a new job and completely breaking the previous rules. The difficulty is imaginable.

Furthermore, since the First Emperor unified the world, there has always been a saying that the imperial power did not go to the countryside. The central government’s control over the local area was not as strong as imagined, and local power was deeply rooted and difficult to reverse. The establishment of the State Taxation Department was not only local, but also various classes that had emerged in recent years. For their own interests, they would inevitably resist.

In fact, this kind of sign has already existed. In the past two years, with the increasing prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, many messy remarks have grown like wild grass. The most common one is dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue. Some officials and businessmen even proposed that the court did not compete with the people for profit, trying to reduce or even cancel some tax revenue.

There are also so-called scholars who do not collect taxes, noble officials are exempt from taxes, etc. Their purpose is nothing more than to gain more benefits in their own special identities.

Zhu Yicheng knew very well about these things, how did the former Ming Dynasty die? Party struggles, peasant uprisings or natural disasters are all causes, but there is another more important reason, that is, the collapse of the tax system in the late Ming Dynasty, especially the commercial tax cannot be collected at all. In addition, the tax oppression of farmers after land mergers led to the former Ming Dynasty entering a vicious cycle, resulting in the financial bankruptcy and ultimately destruction.

Zhu Yicheng would never follow this old path, so no matter how difficult it is, the State Taxation Department or the State Taxation Administration of the Ming Empire in the future must be established.

In Zhu Yicheng's opinion, Li Wei's actions and abilities shown in Luzon are the most suitable candidates. Although this road is rugged and difficult, and if you are not careful, Zhu Yicheng believes that Li Wei can be competent. Once successful, it will not only remove the hidden dangers of the Ming Empire, but also Li Wei can be famous in history.

After leaving the Ministry of Personnel, Li Wei was still a little dizzy. The impact on him today was too great. Not only did he become a fourth-rank Beijing official, but he also became the director of the State Taxation Department.

Li Wei is an extremely smart person. When Sun Jiagan introduced him to the general situation of the State Taxation Department, Li Wei vaguely guessed in his heart that he was not that easy to do as a director. However, he did not give up. Li Wei was not a cowardly person. Not only would he not retreat from the challenge, but would instead go head-on.

This was the case in the place, and later when he went to Luzon, it was also true. It has to be said that Zhu Yicheng really chose the right person to use Li Wei to hold this position.

The next day, Li Wei went to the Ministry of Revenue to report that Zeng Yishu personally met Li Wei and took him around the Ministry of Revenue, and then went to a small courtyard.

"This is the State Taxation Department. This department has just been established and has very few people. The next work depends on you." Zeng Yishu pointed to the courtyard and introduced.

Compared with the departments of the Ministry of Revenue that have been here all the way, the newly established National Taxation Department is not big, and the door signs hanging outside the courtyard can be clearly seen that they have just been hung up for less than two days.

After entering, I cleaned up quite cleanly, but there were not many people. As Zeng Yishu said, there were very few people.

"It's already very good, thank you Mr. Zeng." Li Wei looked around and was very satisfied.

Not to mention the clean cleaning of this place, the house is also equipped with everything. In addition to a few officials and a ninth rank small official, the rest of the staff, the chief officer, the supervisor, the tutor, and the tutor were not in place.

This is not Zeng Yishu's negligence, nor is he intending to use this method to give Li Wei a warning, but he deliberately did not arrange it considering the special circumstances of the State Taxation Department, in order to allow Li Wei to freely select personnel and form his own team.

Li Wei understood this at the sight of it and immediately thanked Zeng Yishu.

Zeng Yishu smiled and waved his hand and said, "I mean to ask you to come. I often come to the Military Affairs Office. Not many people come to the Ministry of Revenue. However, if there is anything wrong with the State Taxation Department, you can come to the Military Affairs Office to find me directly. In addition, the resettlement of personnel in the State Taxation Department, you can write a list for me in a few days, and I will do the rest for you."

"Thank you, Mr. Zeng!" Li Wei was very calm. With Zeng Yishu's full support, it was not difficult to set up the national tax department. As for the local tax rights to be collected from the central government after the airtips, it was not that easy.

But this is a later story. Now Li Wei’s most important thing is to form the State Taxation Department from scratch and then start his work step by step.

Although he had never served in the central department, Li Wei was a practical person. After sending Zeng Yishu away, Li Wei first learned about the situation in the State Taxation Department and met and interviewed the officials and officials who were transferred from each department alone.

Li Wei was very good at seeing people, and he was very skilled in talking to people. In addition, his original personality was good at contacting people. In just one day, he recognized all the people in the National Taxation Department. Not only could he accurately call out everyone's names and positions, but he also had a preliminary understanding of their general situation, including their personality and abilities.

Just when everyone thought Li Wei would start to form a team next, Li Wei was not in a hurry. The owner of the French tax department first went to the various departments of the Ministry of Revenue to collect information on the tax department of the Ming Dynasty. These information not only included information in Nanjing that year, but also information after returning the capital.

Whether it is local, central, or even the Maritime Bureau, the customs information is also needed, so there are naturally a lot of these information. Moreover, Li Wei’s National Taxation Department was established by Zhu Yicheng, and Zeng Yishu had already instructed to cooperate with each department, so each department did not make any difficulties.

The data collection was quite smooth. As the data was summarized, several empty rooms in the National Taxation Department courtyard were filled with these materials. Li Wei asked the officials to count the data and classify it. Their meticulousness and high requirements made these people complain.

When these officials were busy in the pile of information, Li Wei was leisurely and contented, wandering around the various departments of the Ministry of Revenue. Every day, he either chatted and bragged with others or invited some people to the restaurant after get off work.

It has to be said that Li Wei is still very capable of making friends. In addition to his high rank, in the Ministry of Revenue, Li Wei's rank can be said to be the highest rank in addition to the Minister of the Left and Righteous Ministers. What's more, he is in charge of the State Taxation Department, and even the support of the emperor and the Minister of Military Affairs behind him, no one will offend him in this situation.

In this way, Li Wei spent a short while to get familiar with the operation of the entire Ministry of Revenue, and at the same time "makes" many friends. Half a month later, as the information was sorted out, the list of Li Wei's team was officially released.
Chapter completed!