"I dare not deceive Your Majesty. Your Majesty will find out if you go to check!" Xia Yan replied.

"Present the Royal Taxation Bureau", Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and hurried to the Royal Taxation Bureau. To be precise, it should be the Royal Taxation Bureau.

Since Zhu Houzhao forced civil servants to agree that the treasury would be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue and the court to directly take charge of the emperor after the first Royal Expo, Zhu Houzhao changed his treasury to the Royal Taxation Bureau. Until now, the main taxes of the empire are still divided into two parts, part of which is the tax on the land that was released to Taicang and part of which is commercial tax.

The commercial taxes belong to the Royal Taxation Bureau, which is located in the Tianxia Taxation Bureau, branch office and even tax office.

Because Zhu Houzhao had not imposed commercial taxes, and the imperial power still suppressed the civil servant group, naturally there was no big conflict.

The revenues of the Royal Taxation Agency are all in the Royal Bank's warehouses.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao said that he was going to the Royal Taxation Administration, but in fact he came to the Royal Bank's general warehouse.

The Royal Bank's general warehouse is in the imperial city and is under high alert. Ordinary people cannot enter, so naturally they don't have to worry about theft.

However, when Zhu Houzhao arrived at the Royal Taxation Administration, the cabinet ministers, officials of the Ministry of Revenue, even officials of the Censorate, as well as officials of the Ministry of War, Ministry of Justice, Shuntian Prefecture and soldiers gathered here.

There is no other reason.

There was too much gold and silver that was put into the warehouse, and the staff of the Royal Bank were too busy at all. For the Ming Empire, so much gold and silver arrived in the capital, it would naturally shock the entire government and the people!

"Your Majesty, it's not just the more than 2,000 kilograms of gold and more than 60,000 kilograms of silver brought back by Mr. Xia!"

"The total tariffs on the Malacca Sea City have arrived in Beijing!"

"The tariffs and commercial taxes after the trade between Guangdong and Guangxi have also arrived in Beijing!"

"In addition, the 1.47 million taels of silver from Daming Hai Trade Company have also arrived in Beijing!"

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"I expect that a total of more than 10 million taels of gold and silver will be put into storage, so I can only ask the Ministry of Revenue to help us review it together. I also specially asked the cabinet to agree to let Tongzhou Iron Factory and Baoquan Bureau recast together! It is expected that it will take three months to fully stock the inventory!"

Qiao Yu, the general manager of the Royal Taxation Administration, reported to Zhu Houzhao when he asked about the situation of gold and silver entering the warehouse.

The cabinet chief Liu Yu, the second assistant Wang Qiong, the third assistant Kang Hai, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue Liu Kai and others were all shocked.

"Taicang silver collected only 21.12 million shi of grain last year. In addition, there were a large amount of short cloth and pepper to charge, and silver was only 2.14 million taels. This was the order of His Majesty to let the treasury and the mining tax in Taicang, which was more than 2 million taels, but it was not comparable to the income of the Royal Taxation Administration!"

Liu Kai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, couldn't help but sigh. He was really jealous of the boxes of gold and silver entering the royal treasury, but he couldn't say that the emperor's money was wrong. After all, the income from commercial taxes and the income from the royal industry belonged to the treasury is in line with the rules.

"Who would have thought that only one place in Guangdong and Guangxi could increase so much tax! If the world was opened, the deposits of the Royal Taxation Administration and the Royal Bank would not be filled with the capital!"

The cabinet chief Liu Yu couldn't help but feel a little jealous.

"I didn't expect Xia Yan to bring so much money and gold to go to the West. Didn't some old ministers and scholars say that going to the West is a waste of money and money? At that time, several ministers submitted memorials to Your Majesty, forcing Your Majesty to only provide his own funds for the funding. The Ministry of Revenue and the powerful did not invest. As a result, Xia Yan brought back so much gold and silver, all of which were returned to the Royal Taxation Administration. When I was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, I was really confused!

If the Ministry of Revenue had been ruthlessly requested the Ministry of Revenue to invest in the capital, the national treasury would have been more than three million taels of silver, and the embankment of the Han River channel would have been built! It would have benefited the people of Jingchu, and I don’t know how much grain would be increased!"

Wang Qiong, who once served as the Minister of Revenue, was a good figure, and shook his head and regretted it secretly. Of course, he not only thought that if the money was returned to the treasury, it would benefit the people. What he also thought was that the construction of the dam of the Han River channel could be responsible for it. As a shareholder of the Infrastructure Bureau, he could naturally obtain generous income.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the civil servants behind him, who were either frowning, even if they beat their feet and stamped their chests or sighed, and wanted to laugh in his heart. But he remembered it very clearly that when Xia Yan sailed to the West and Zhang Yanling on a long ocean, these civil servants were not opposed to being silent, but they refused to pay a penny of money anyway, which made him unable to make the Royal Taxation Bureau pay the money and still borrowed money from the Royal Bank. Now he is the only one who makes money.

At this time, Wei Ying, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, couldn't help but come up and advise Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the Royal Taxation Administration can make a profit of tens of millions of taels of silver by relying on tariffs and maritime trade alone. According to the officials, we might as well jointly request Your Majesty to abolish the world's mining tax. This is not only a matter of relieving the people's difficulties, but also a matter of benefiting for thousands of years."

The mining tax was a tax that increased for merchants after the development of the Ming Dynasty, which led to a large increase in demand for ore and other raw materials. This was different from the Wanli mining tax that allowed eunuchs to mine and then collect minerals from the gentry and the people in history. In order to avoid the mineral tax intensifying the conflict between the royal court and the foreign court and the people, Zhu Houzhao transferred the mining tax out as a national tax. As a national tax, it was also considered to be a risk of the profits of merchants when mining was collected than when mining was more people.

However, most of the minerals in the Ming Dynasty were mined by officials and gentry, so they were naturally paying the mine tax. Now, Wei Ying, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, thought that the treasury would earn tens of millions of taels at one time, and His Majesty the Emperor would not need money, so he wanted to ban the mine tax.

"If I remember correctly, I transferred the income of the mine tax to Taicang as a disaster preparedness silver. The Ming Dynasty has a wide area and frequent disasters. Prepare a sum of silver. Once a major disaster occurs, or there is enough grain to provide relief for the people when there is a shortage of grain. If this mine tax is cancelled, how can there be preparedness for the disaster? It is really necessary to solve the people's poverty. How many people can ban the mine tax? How can ordinary people know about mining? I think it is better to ban the world's corvee labor!"

Zhu Houzhao rejected Wei Ying's tying, so he would not let the conspiracy of the official and gentry group succeed. However, Zhu Houzhao had already had the idea of ​​banning the world's corvee. After all, his emperor is now well-capitalized and no longer needs to enslave the people of the world. The country's income has also increased a lot. Capitalism of the Ming Dynasty began to emerge, and the employment system and cooperative relationship gradually replaced the system of selling the body. It was undoubtedly the best way to increase personal income and grain output.

"I thank Your Majesty for the people of the world! If the world's corvee service is banned, poor families will no longer miss the farming season because of service, and wealthy families will not be poor because of heavy service money!"

Liu Yu was poor at a young age and was deeply moved by the importance of labor service. Seeing that Zhu Houzhao wanted to be exempted from labor service in the world, he first gave a great gift to Zhu Houzhao.

"This is truly a blessing for all the people in the world. Long live my emperor!" Wang Qiong also agreed.

"The people have no tax on corvee service, and the annual tax has been greatly reduced. Your Majesty is a wise ruler who is hard to see in the ages. If it were not for the prosperous era, how could it be so lucky!"

Liu Kai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is no longer jealous of the emperor's income, so he started crying, but then he couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, if this corvee service is exempted, will the expenses increase greatly when the Ministry of Revenue needs people's strength? Where will the money be paid?"

"What I said is that you can exempt the world from labor service. As long as anyone among you is willing to submit a memorial to open the sea and the world, I will agree that all the tariffs of the Ming Dynasty will be returned to the national treasury! The Maritime Bureau is a foreign court official! In this way, the Ministry of Revenue will naturally have money to use when people need to use their power."

Zhu Houzhao's words were equivalent to raising a difficult question for the civil servants present, and no one dared to answer for a while.

"It's not me who is willing to help the people in the world or not, it's you!"

Zhu Houzhao said and turned around and left. At this moment, suddenly, an official suddenly shouted from behind: "Your Majesty! I am willing to submit a memorial, please open the sea in the court!"

"Who dares to be so arrogant!"

Wei Ying, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was furious.
Chapter completed!