Jiao Fang hurriedly said that he had finished writing Song Kai's memorial and submitted it to the eunuch Gu Dayong, the eunuch who wrote to the Silijian.

Zhu Houzhao also watched the memorial being criticized for being red, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Because in Zhu Houzhao's impression, in the so-called great rule, this kind of memorial request for tax exemption and tax reduction and even the removal of eunuchs and the Tax Bureau will be approved.

For example, in the 18th year of Hongzhi, when Liu Jian and Wang Yue were in charge of the cabinet and the statute of the ritual supervision, they asked the local government to exempt Suzhou Prefecture from taxes on the grounds that the flood disaster in Suzhou Prefecture was too severely injured.

Now, this is the first time since Zhu Houzhao became emperor that he has refused the local memorial to abolish the Tax Bureau, and he also wants to add a Tax Bureau.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know how these gentry gentry in Jiangnan would accept this tax increase, which was called a foolish monarch.

But Zhu Houzhao knew that the increase in the tax bureau would definitely be beneficial to himself, the emperor.

Because these tax offices collect commercial taxes and deliberate taxes, and these taxes are the main income of the Royal Tax Office and will also be the financial support for self-maintaining the Guards and developing the industry and navigation industries in the future.

Although Zhu Houzhao now has tens of millions of gold and silver, he does not want to use this honeysuckle too much. He still has to keep it as a reserve to prepare for future financial reforms. Therefore, he has to support more guards and can only rely on these commercial taxes and taxes, not only not to reduce but also increase them.

As for whether the increase in commercial taxes and taxes will affect the development of the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy, Zhu Houzhao also considered it.

Not to mention that the current commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty is very low, just say that the businessmen in the Ming Dynasty basically only bought land and parks and slaves after making money. They would even rather cast large silver ingots and buried them underground than expand the scale of production, which would not help social development or even hinder!

In this case, if Zhu Houzhao did not impose much commercial tax, these merchants would only turn most of the commercial profits into agricultural economy, or use them for pleasure and squandering. It would be better to let Zhu Houzhao have these profits, at least expand the scale of production, increase employment, solve the survival pressure of a large number of landless farmers, and avoid the destruction of the dynasty due to land annexation.

Speaking of expanding production scale, Zhu Houzhao has not ignored the industrial and commercial development of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty did not have much motivation for the development of industry and commerce from the court to the people. Even the gentry in Jiangnan, the Shanxi merchants in the north and the Huizhou merchants in Huizhou, the wealth they pursued was just to become larger bureaucratic landlords.

Therefore, the development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty could only be done by Emperor Zhu Houzhao himself.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Houzhao established the Royal Bank from the beginning to achieve the purpose of controlling the Ming Dynasty's finance in the future, and to accumulate capital by the Royal Taxation Bureau collecting world commercial taxes for himself. At the same time, with the Royal Industrial Company as the center, capital will be converted into a driving force for the development of industry. The University of Kowloon is used as a theoretical knowledge exploration site, talent reserve site and think tank group for the development of industry.

Royal Bank uses the Royal Taxation Agency money to lend money, so that more merchants can have opportunities to expand their operations, and avoid commercial activities that can only be concentrated among bureaucrats and powerful people, and also promote more people to get affluence.

The Royal Taxation Bureau will still be able to obtain part of the income of the powerful bureaucrats who can still obtain high commercial profits, and will lend them to the public class that lacks funds through the Royal Bank, or directly invest in public utilities to achieve the purpose of robbing the rich and helping the poor and ease class contradictions.

Royal Industrial Corporation obtained funds through Royal Bank and converted the empire's wealth into tangible industrial products to benefit descendants and powerful dynasties.

The same is true for Kyoshi University, one creates industrial products and the other creates talents.

Before he knew it, Zhu Houzhao had begun to create his own capital empire.

Because he is the emperor, this capital is more like royal capital, but in fact it is similar to state-owned capital. After all, Zhu Houzhao is now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ruling everything in the Ming Dynasty.

But this capital empire is still in its initial stage.

The large-scale loan channels of the Royal Bank were basically just borrowing from the Ministry of Revenue, that is, the Ming Dynasty court, which was the meaning of making the Ming Dynasty more flexible and convenient in tax collection and public utilities expenditures, and there was no need to wait for the money and food from the south to arrive before it could provide disaster relief and repair border walls.

The commercial tax revenue of the Royal Taxation Bureau has actually decreased but not increased compared to the past. Officials and gentry from all over the Ming Dynasty are trying to reduce the commercial tax in the court. If you want to increase the commercial tax, you will naturally not even think about it.

Royal Industrial Company has not yet established a complete industrial system, and it is not even considered an industrial group company now, but just a workshop composed of several production workshops.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao is not a qualified entrepreneur. He works on production and does whatever he wants. He has no rules and market orientation at all. If it were not for the support of the two best-sellers of the welfare nature of time travelers, glass and soap, Royal Industries would not have been able to achieve large profits.

Not to mention the Peking University, there are only about twenty students at present, and there are less than thirty teachers and students in the school. This is the result of Zhu Houzhao's intervention in imperial power.

The entire Royal West Garden is still as quiet as before after the founding of the Peking University, and is not as colorful as the later university towns.

But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and Zhu Houzhao is still trying his best to build his capital empire.

At least he is still constantly bringing new surprises to the world.

For example, now, Zhu Houzhao used calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate to make chalk in a certain proportion, and at the same time, he used pine black paint to paint the first blackboard.

Although this does not seem to have much impact on the social life of the Ming Dynasty, at least it can prevent Zhu Houzhao from giving lectures to students at Jingshi University with a charcoal pen, and also make the knowledge exchange and learning of Jingshi University more convenient.

At this time, what really was a new project was the agricultural research base built by Zhu Houzhao's engineers to build for the Beijing University.

Among them, the most conspicuous ones are the wide-area glass greenhouse and the ten acres of fertile land newly reclaimed at the University of Beijing. These are the bases under the charge of Yan Song, the Siye of the University of Beijing. He is now taking the corn brought from the south by the Jinyiwei and starting to cultivate corn seedlings under the guidance of Zhu Houzhao.

Because there is a glass shed, there is a greenhouse, so there is no need to wait until the spring of next year before agricultural research can be conducted. It is still possible in the severe winter of the first year of Zhengde.

When Zhu Hou was watching Yan Song cultivating the first batch of corn seedlings, the memorial on rejecting the Nanzhili Inspector Song Kai's request to remove Zhenjiang Prefecture and Chongming County Taxation Bureau of Suzhou Prefecture also returned to Song Kai. After seeing this, Song Kai couldn't help but be furious and threw the memorial on the case: "If the Taxation Bureau is not removed, the Taxation Bureau will be added. What's the difference between this move and the foolish monarch, it's not easy to save the people's wealth!"

After Song Kai cursed himself, he poured a whole cup of tea in depressed manner, thinking in his heart how to explain to the gentry in Jiangnan. After all, he had collected the money and the woman he sent was already asleep. Now the court suddenly rejected his proposal. Wouldn't it be embarrassing?

"Go and spread Master Yuan!"

In the end, Song Kai decided to tell these gentry in Jiangnan truthfully, after all, it was not what he refused.

Yuan Zhongan, a rich gentry from Nanzhili, came to Song Kai: "Mr. I dare to ask what is the matter to look for students?"

"The court's approval has been released." Song Kai gave Yuan Zhongan the memorial. After Yuan Zhongan saw it, he laughed: "It seems that the court is really in power in the north and does not give us southerners a way to survive. However, there is no way. I'll ask the adults to give another memorial at that time!"

Yuan Zhongan said and muttered in Song Kai's ear.

Song Kai was shocked after hearing this: "This move is very dangerous. Once it is discovered, your life will be lost!"

"What are you afraid of? This is not what you did, nor is it even done. It is done by the bandits and pirates. How can the court investigate it?" Yuan Zhongan said with a smile.

"What benefits can I do if I hide this matter for you?"

Song Kai asked.

"The profits of going overseas will be half a share of the adults, and 50,000 taels of silver will be given every year!" Yuan Zhongan said with a smile.

Song Kai said that, but said, "I will go to Nanjing in three days, and you will do it when you reach that time."

"I understand!" Yuan Zhongan replied.

...

It happened to rain heavily on that night. Although it was only noon, it was already as gloomy as night. Several private officials from the Tax Bureau were leaning against the wall and napping. The tax supervisor on duty was about to go back to sleep, but found a group of water bandits with white cloth wrapped around their heads, barefoots, and big swords rushed towards the river bank in front of them!

The tax supervisor immediately shouted: "There are water bandits! There are water bandits!"

The soldiers in the Tax Bureau were scared to death for a day, but they also instinctively picked up their spears and rushed into the rain curtain to defend the Tax Bureau. However, these water bandits were crowded. Soon, the soldiers in the Tax Bureau were killed in a mess, and several officials in the Tax Bureau were also chopped into meat paste!

The tax supervisor was also beheaded on the spot!

There is no one living in the entire Zhenjiang Prefecture Taxation Bureau!

At this time, the leader of the bandit came over, took off the veil, and welcomed Yuan Zhongan: "Master Yuan! Kill them all!"

Yuan Zhongan nodded, then walked into the tax bureau, ordered someone to open the treasury of the tax bureau, and ordered: "You take away five thousand taels! Send 10,000 taels to Mr. Wen's mansion! In addition, send 10,000 taels to the inspector! The next thing to be distributed is that these are the tax banks that everyone paid over the years, and can be regarded as part of the refund."

And at this time.

At the Tax Bureau in Chongming County, Suzhou Prefecture, hundreds of pirates stabbed their bright steel knives into the chest of the tax bureau, and hundreds of personnel from the Tax Bureau were slaughtered on the spot!

...

Song Kai, the inspector of the Southern Zhili Censor, quickly submitted another memorial:

"Because the water bandits and pirates looted the Chongming County Tax Bureau of Zhenjiang and Suzhou Prefecture, countless people were killed and injured. In order to avoid local chaos and to ensure the people's benefits, please remove the Chongming County Tax Bureau of Zhenjiang and Suzhou Prefecture!"
Chapter completed!