Xu Jing has been waiting here all the time. After all, Zhu Houzhao promised him to give him an official position, so he had no reason to leave directly.

After Zhu Houzhao asked this, Xu Jing hurriedly pulled up the tightly tight robe like a fat ball, and smiled narrowly and said, "Your Majesty, my uncle Xu Jing is here."

"From now on, you, the director of the attendant's office, will you manage the inner treasury for me, that is, the eunuchs and officials in the inner treasury will be responsible to you in the future. Do you understand?"

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he asked Xu Jing.

Xu Jing was a wealthy businessman. He was influenced by business since childhood. He also knew that managing the imperial treasury was a fat man, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand, please rest assured, I will definitely manage the affairs of the inner government for Your Majesty."

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said nothing, but stood up and looked at the cabinet chief Liu Jian and others:

"You all go back. I'm going back to the Leopard Room, Xu Jing is with me. Now he is in charge of the inner treasury, so he naturally has an official position. I decided to establish a new director of the attendant's office and an attendant. The rank does not need to be too high. From the seventh rank to the eighth rank, it is mainly responsible for managing my internal affairs. It is placed under the name of the Hanlin Academy and granted the Hanlin Academy's review and the Hanlin Academy's statutes. The position is not high and it will not affect the court's famous instruments. Your cabinet and the Ministry of Personnel will handle it."

Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel, said, "Abide by the order!" He naturally had no objection to adding a new official position. After all, he was still waiting for Emperor Zhu Houzhao to let him be the chief minister, so there was no need for him to make Emperor Zhu Houzhao unhappy.

The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of officials in the world and can directly appoint minor officials of the seventh rank and eighth rank. Now with the support of Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel, it is naturally easy for Zhu Houzhao to give Xu Jing a minor official from the seventh rank.

However, Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet, took a look at Xu Jing more, and they felt like there was another jester before the Eight Tigers around His Majesty had left.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the leopard room, and the cabinet soon planned to entrust the order to be redeemed by the Sili Supervisor to the inner treasury from then on, and then the account part was directly managed by the Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

At the same time, the Ministry of Personnel also issued a document to establish a servant room and appoint Xu Jing as the director of the servant room and the prosecutor of the Hanlin Academy. Zhu Houzhao took advantage of the situation and directly issued an order to rename the inner treasury to the Royal Taxation Bureau, and Xu Jing was the general manager of the Royal Taxation Bureau.

Zhu Houzhao had long thought of leaving the inner treasury from the household and then directly appointing officials to manage it. He even wanted to turn the inner treasury directly into the Royal State Administration of Taxation, which was equivalent to establishing a special tax department, which was specifically responsible for collecting commercial taxes and customs duties.

This time, when Zhu Houzhao held the Royal Expo, the conflicts among civil servants, Ma Wensheng and Liu Jian were intensified, and Zhu Houzhao also decisively seized the opportunity to take the inner warehouse into his hands, which was equivalent to holding the power to collect world commercial taxes and tariffs in his own hands.

Although in this era, because the Ming Dynasty was still dominated by small peasant economy, and the proportion of commercial tax was small and most of the interests of commercial trade were controlled by the tax-free and privileged classes such as gentry and powerful people, commercial tax and tariffs were not the main sources of tax revenue of the court.

But Zhu Houzhao believes that commercial taxes and tariffs will become the main fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the future. If you hold them in your own hands, you will be equivalent to controlling the future wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houzhao knew that even if he controlled the internal warehouse, it did not mean that he could arbitrarily impose commercial taxes and tariffs, because it did not mean that the civil servants could obey unconditionally by increasing the commercial taxes. That was naturally impossible. Zhu Houzhao felt that he had to change the operating method of the internal warehouse.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao turned the inner treasury into the Royal Taxation Administration, which specially collected the world's commercial tax, customs duties and mining taxes related to the royal interests. Zhu Houzhao also wanted to turn the Royal Taxation Administration into a profit-making institution, and offered shares like a company.

The higher the income of the Royal Taxation Administration, not only can the emperor get more benefits, but other shareholders of the Royal Taxation Administration, will also get more benefits. Only in this way can more people be willing to add commercial tax with them and find a balance between collecting commercial tax and encouraging the development of industry and commerce.

From a certain perspective, the Royal Taxation Administration will be a company afterwards, and its main product is tax collection. The more tax collection, the better the Royal Taxation Administration will naturally operate. This requires the managers of the Royal Taxation Administration to be good at operating business. This is also the reason why Zhu Houzhao chose Xu Jing as the general manager of the Royal Taxation Administration, because Xu Jing was born as a wealthy businessman.

Of course, there are many people who are from wealthy businessmen, but Xu Jing has had the experience of being suppressed by the powerful and powerful, and happened to meet Zhu Houzhao, so Zhu Houzhao naturally promoted him.

Zhu Houzhao did not let one of the eunuchs of the Eight Tigers manage the Royal Taxation Administration, not because he really wanted to take care of the feelings of the civil servants, but that the Eight Tigers are now responsible for other affairs of their emperors. Zhu Houzhao could not entrust his finances to one of them to take care of, otherwise the balance between the Eight Tigers would be broken.

Xu Jing followed Zhu Houzhao to the Leopard Room and listened in detail to Zhu Houzhao's idea of ​​establishing the Royal Taxation Administration. He was already smart and understood what Zhu Houzhao meant and asked: "Your Majesty, will we all have a shareholding in the tax revenue of the Royal Taxation Administration in the future?"

"Yes, I own 60% of it, 10% is used for the operational funds of the Royal Taxation Administration, and the remaining 30% you and everyone in the world can participate in the shares. The more money you invest, the more you will have, the more you will have. You can estimate how much income you have received in the Ming Dynasty every year, including the proportion, calculate how much money you invest yourself."

"Your Majesty, can you still participate in the shares?" asked the eunuchs such as "Eight Tigers".

"Of course, everyone in the world can participate in the shares, so you are not ruled out. But the manager is appointed by me and the management method is the responsibility of the manager," said Zhu Houzhao.

"If this happens, your majesty, I think you can increase the commercial tax. Then the Royal Taxation Administration will collect more taxes!" Zhang Yong also agreed. He was the only one among the eunuchs who had no business, so he naturally hoped to increase his income through the commercial tax.

"It is not that simple to increase commercial tax. We must seriously consider whether to increase or not. Don't forget that we also have our own business. If there are too many taxes, we will also lose money. There needs to be a line of maximum profits. We must follow this line of how much tax should be collected. And it is not enough for us to participate in shares. Even if we want to increase taxes in the future, we will face many obstacles. It is best to attract more people!"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, Xu Jing and the "Bahu" agreed very much, after all, they also have a businessman background.
Chapter completed!