Lao Liu's little nephew continued, "Then he was a reporter from the capital. The question he asked was, "Will the Ming Dynasty move the capital? What are the plans of the cabinet for the development of Xi'an?"

This is also two questions. The spokesperson directly answered: "Combining these two questions, this reporter must have wanted to ask the rumors about the Ming Dynasty's move to Chang'an.

Let me clarify this issue here. The Ming Dynasty had no intention of moving the capital. The capital of a country includes political, economic, cultural, military and other considerations.

Moving the capital does not mean moving wherever it is famous, nor will it be moved. As for the development of Chang'an Prefecture, this is a comprehensive strategic consideration. As the sub-center of the northwest region, it will be a crossroads of railway transportation in the future and a logistics base for development in the northwest.

Therefore, the development of ancient Chang'an was to revitalize the ancient business roads of that year and to provide better support for the development of the northwest of the Ming Dynasty."

The fifth question is what the people in the capital have in their hearts. The recent rumors are very evil. The people in the capital do not believe it, and they do not want to believe it or dare not believe it.

But as everyone talked too much, they couldn't help but wonder, if this was really moved to the capital, the benefits that only existed in the imperial city would be gone in an instant?

Now the court gave everyone a reassurance and knew that they would not move the capital, so their hearts fell back into their stomachs.

The bird cage continued to laugh: "I said I would not move the capital. Lao Wang and the others told me what Chang'an sounded so grand!

I asked me to say that the strength of the Ming Dynasty is far ahead of the predecessors, the vast territory is far ahead of the predecessors, the people are rich, and the politics is harmonious, and I am even more powerful than the previous dynasty.

Why do we need to learn from our predecessors? What kind of style does our Ming Dynasty mean? The style of our predecessors are enough to please our future generations and be proud of them!

Chang'an has a good reputation and a great reputation. Our Ming capital is even more famous. If you hear too much, you will just like it. If anyone dares to say it is not good, let's deal with him! Until you accept it!"

The little nephew nodded and smiled, and also agreed with the words of the Birdcage: "Yes, our president said that only the elderly can pursue their great achievements in the past. We young people should work hard and move forward bravely, because we have to create our achievements ourselves!"

The old man nodded and said jokingly: "Haha, although you are polite, why do you sound like you look down on the elderly? Let's talk about the past, without our past, you can have the present.

You can tell etiquette here now, because it was the peaceful world we shot at once, and Jiannu invaded the capital..."

Lao Liu quickly stopped: "Brother, don't talk about your history first. We are still waiting to hear the next question. Let's sit down tomorrow before chatting slowly."

The little nephew also bowed awkwardly: "I said the wrong thing, I have committed sins, I have no intention of looking down on you, it is just a slight tongue.

Then let's continue to say that the sixth question is a reporter from a military newspaper. His question is, "What do the cabinet think about the vassal states hiring Ming bounty hunters to participate in their war against Portugal?"

This issue involves a recent incident. Because of insufficient naval power, the Chameng Kingdom hired a Ming bounty hunter to serve as a transportation guard mission.

As a result, the bounty hunter encountered an armed merchant ship in Portugal. Because the firepower on the ship was insufficient, it was forced to stop by the other party. Then the Portuguese were very dissatisfied and believed that the Ming Dynasty had participated in the war and seized these bounty hunters as hostages.

This incident caused a lot of controversy. According to the military's intention, although the bounty hunters are civil organizations, they are not stateless organizations, and some of them are citizens of the Ming Dynasty. The military feels that rescue should be provided.

Some court officials felt that since these bounty hunters have taken on the battlefield, they cannot be regarded as ordinary citizens and should be regarded as soldiers.

The bounty hunter serves for Chameng, so Chameng should come forward to rescue him. The Ming Dynasty itself did not participate in the war. If everyone participates in the war because of the captive of the bounty hunter, then what if everyone follows the same thing in the future?

Then the military felt that these people were disregarding the safety of the people of the Ming Dynasty and a manifestation of selfishness. Some people in the cabinet felt that the military was holding people's opinions hostage and had the intention of extorting the cabinet to force the war.

Therefore, this military newspaper asked this question directly at the first press conference, which was equivalent to attacking the cabinet and asking them to explain the following position in front of all the people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the spokesperson's return was very official, saying: "The Bounty Hunter is a semi-military organization under the Ministry of the Logistics Department. As a cabinet, it naturally has the obligation to protect every Ming citizen, but the military and semi-military organizations have always dealt with by the military themselves.

Regarding whether the Bounty Hunter Guild should participate in wars in other countries, this is the citizen's own right. As far as I can tell, the Ming Dynasty did not prohibit citizens from participating in wars in other countries. Since the law does not prohibit it, it is allowed.

As the management agency of bounty hunters, the military should answer your questions and bear all the consequences caused by their management omissions."

This answer means shirking responsibility, but what people say seems to be reasonable. The bounty hunter is under the jurisdiction of the military. When there is nothing to do, do you blame this and that?

If it really had something to do with us, why didn’t you ask us when we sent them?

Whether this can satisfy everyone depends on personal opinions. However, the military's inquiry has indeed allowed the cabinet to clarify its own opinions.

Through the previous six questions, everyone found that the press conference was not as grand as everyone imagined. It leaked major state secrets. Isn’t this just an ordinary question and answer?

The little nephew continued: "The seventh question was asked by a Jiangnan newspaper, which is about taxation. 'What will happen to the Ming Dynasty tax in the next five years? Will the Ming Dynasty continue to increase taxes to merchants?'"

As soon as this question was mentioned, everyone became interested. You should know that the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty today is inseparable from the collection of commercial tax. The Ming Dynasty was exempted from agricultural tax, so what is left is industrial and commercial tax.

Now many factories and merchants complain that they collect taxes once when they enter the factory, once when they leave the factory, and then once when they are charged taxes once when they are processed, and then again when they are sold. Tax alone accounts for 30% of the cost, and the tax burden is too heavy.

As a major financial and taxation site in the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan is most concerned about this. What the people in the capital are more concerned about is whether taxation will be restructured?
Chapter completed!