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"Please, dear sirs!" A eunuch in the palace was busy guiding the officials forward.

This group of officials are the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the Secretary of the Six Ministry, Song Yingxing of the Research Institute and Yang Lian of the Anti-Corruption Bureau. At this time, Sun Chengzong found something wrong. In this direction, he was either to go to Zuoshun Gate, or to stop and asked the eunuch who led the way: "This father-in-law, I'm going to see the emperor. Isn't the emperor at Zuoshun Gate? You should turn right!"

The eunuch immediately replied: "My sirs, the master Wang An ordered me to take you all to the meeting hall just now, not to go to Zuoshunmen!"

Sun Chengzong was puzzled and shouted: "You slave, you are too bold. I have been in and out of the palace many times, and I have never heard of a place in the Convent Hall. Could it be that you want to murder me!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. What Sun Chengzong said was correct. Many places in the palace cannot be entered casually, especially in some places where people outside the palace were killed without any quasi-door. In history, because the internal prison deliberately framed the ministers, there were many things that made the ministers die unjustly in the palace. Could it be that today...

The little eunuch was frightened by Sun Chengzong's Li Yu. He wanted to defend himself but said stutteringly: "No..., really no, it was the prince's order to the slave... The slave really had no intention of murdering all the adults..."

However, Sun Chengzong did not believe that the matters in the palace were not a joke. One mistake was either a loss of his head or a hat. So he shouted again: "Take me to Zuoshunmen quickly, I must let the Emperor Xiang investigate this matter!"

"Mr. Sun! Master Sun!" Wei Chao was just about to go to the meeting hall, and when he saw that he was really noisy, he stood up to rescue him.

Sun Chengzong saw a long scroll in his hand. He was walking from a distance with a smile. Isn’t this person the most popular eunuch Wei Chao in front of the current emperor? So Sun Chengzong said with some anger: “The emperor summoned me to wait, but this slave did not take me to Zuoshun Gate to meet the emperor, but he went to the meeting hall. Eunuch Wei, how to deal with this matter!”

The eunuch interrupted, "Eunuch Wei, I am also Eunuch Wang An who ordered you to pick you up. How can you deceive you?"

When Wei Chao heard this, he knew the reason for this matter. Seeing that the ministers were all angry, they were obviously misled by Sun Chengzong. Wei Chao said to the eunuch: "You are nothing to do here, I'll take you all to see the emperor!" The eunuch was relieved and agreed and left quickly.

At this time, Wei Chao said to everyone again: "My sir, you misunderstand the eunuch who led the way just now. The emperor asked you to go to the Convention Hall. This Convention Hall was changed by the Emperor yesterday. Of course, you have never heard of it. In fact, it is right in front of you. Now you should follow me!"

Everyone was depressed, especially Sun Chengzong, but he was embarrassed. The meeting hall was not far away. After walking up, he arrived at the meeting hall. Wei Chao led everyone in. The decoration in the meeting hall was very simple. The most eye-catching thing was the large round table in the room. There were neatly seats around. Everyone looked at Wei Chao with their eyes. Wei Chao said at this time: "Sir, sit whatever you want!"

Xu Guangqi sneaked to Wei Chao at this time and asked softly: "This is the roundtable meeting, the emperor once told me!"

Wei Chao said to everyone at this time: "This is what the emperor means. In the future, such round tables will often be held. You should find a seat for yourself. There are a total of fifteen seats. The emperor sat on the golden dragon throne in the middle, and there are five seats in the cabinet, six departments and six departments, one from the Research Institute and the Anti-corruption Bureau, and one from the Wang and Eunuch Wang. The total number is fifteen. In addition to the fixed position of the emperor, please sit first."

"The emperor is here!" A shout came from outside the house.

Everyone walked to the door and knelt to greet Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao came in with Wang An. When he saw everyone kneeling on the ground, he replied, "Get up!" and said that, he walked straight to his Golden Dragon seat and sat down.

"Why are you standing? Come to the table quickly and just treat it as a drink and enter the banquet!" Zhu Youxiao said powerlessly when he saw everyone standing still. These ministers were really troublesome, and they couldn't accept it if they came to something new.

Wang An understood Zhu Youxiao's name best and found a seat nearby, while the other ministers were humble to each other. It was a little lively for a moment. Zhu Youxiao's face pulled out and said impatiently: "I have asked you to sit down. I have to say everything twice. Those who have nothing to report are farther away from me, and those who have something to sit closer to me. Do you understand?" After Zhu Youxiao said that the position of everyone was decided. Of course, strictly arranged according to the size of the official position or the size of the power, Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi sat on the left and right sides of Zhu Youxiao respectively.

Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly in his heart. He wanted to eliminate this hierarchy by holding this roundtable meeting. He didn't expect that he would still be like this. He said, "I have been out of the palace and went to Shanglinyuan to recuperate for some days and relaxed myself. These days I have accumulated some things. I have found you here today to hear your opinions!" After saying that, he waved his hand to Wei Chao. Wei Chao picked up a painting from the table at the corner of the house and opened it. The four big words "Not guilty" were vividly displayed on the paper. Everyone saw that they wanted to squirt blood, and the words were still written in a good manner. But these ministers in the house were all figures, all of whom were well-read poets and literati, and they dared to paste such words. However, everyone often contacted Zhu Youxiao and knew Zhu Youxiao's words. Moreover, there was still Zhu Youxiao's seal on the lower left foot of the character, so they all had a stern face.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care. His bad hand was famous, so he smiled and said, "The characters are written a little worse, but the meaning is that they are here. I hang this word in this meeting hall. Don't be afraid of me blame anything you want to say in the future. If I want to revive the Ming Dynasty, I naturally need a minister who dares to speak out well. Okay, everyone will report it if you have any questions!"

After waiting for a while, everyone was obviously a little nervous. This round table meeting is different from the court meeting. The emperor was arrogant and could still deal with it. But now Zhu Youxiao is right in front of him, and even if he farts, Zhu Youxiao could probably hear it.

When Zhu Youxiao saw that no one was talking about it. He knew that someone needed to take the lead, so he pointed at Song Yingxing and said, "Song Aiqing has agreed first!"

When Song Yingxing saw Zhu Youxiao's name, he quickly stood up and was about to kneel down. At this time, Zhu Youxiao said again: "Some complicated etiquettes are exempted, and it will save some time to discuss matters. If you have any questions in the future, you can just get up and say it!"

Song Yingxing was not long after he became an official, and he didn't attend many court sessions. He was even more nervous when he attended such meetings. He heard Zhu Youxiao's words and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have written all the memorials and handed them to the emperor. Now I'm waiting for the emperor's reply!"

Zhu Youxiao cursed in his heart, no wonder he could have made so many inventions. It turned out that he was a nerd type and was not suitable for being in the officialdom. He gave him some opportunities to show it, but he didn't expect that this would be good. He immediately took off all the burdens to himself. Zhu Youxiao thought about it, but he had some plans in his mind and said with a smile: "I am reviewing those memorials from Aiqing Song. Since this is the case, it is better for Song Aiqing to introduce the situation of the research institute to you. I have not disclosed much about the research institute. I think all my good friends also want to know the situation of the research institute!"

Song Yingxing said that this is a master, just like making reports. He gave a lot of reports to those people when he went to the Capital University to teach those people. He said: "Your Majesty, the Ming Research Institute was established under the emperor's personal supervision last year. It is March 4, the first year of Tianqi. The research institute has been around for almost half a year. In this half a year, the research institute has developed more than 2,000 people, and the houses are all in the sky. The research institute is divided into several branches such as physics and chemistry. These are the second most important thing. The research institute has achieved its own profit and loss. Now the Weichen talks about the income and expenditure of the research institute. Within half a year, the research expenses, salary, and various miscellaneous expenses of the research institute, which consumed a total of 2.17 million taels of silver!"

Speaking of this, everyone in the factory was breathing in a bad air conditioner! The next year, it would only cost 4 million taels. In this way, the institute will reimburse all the deposits in the Ministry of Revenue Taicang in a year, and it is probably not enough.

Zhu Youxiao was funny. These ministers talked about the intrigue and fighting for power, but when it comes to economic development, there are a few qualified ones. Even in the 21st century, China is known to have no economists. Moreover, in the Ming Dynasty, where the businessman status is extremely low, Zhu Youxiao interrupted Song Yingxing on a whim and said: "Dear friends, now I finally know that those annual incomes in the Ming Dynasty are useless! So what if I add taxes to the people, it is impossible to solve the problem with those land taxes. Do you know how the research institute paid more than two million taels of silver? Song Jingqing, continue!"

Song Yingxing was depressed. He just talked about the wonderful convenience and was interrupted, but he could not do so, so he had to continue saying: "In addition to the emperor investing 500,000 taels of silver in the institute in advance, the income of other institutes mainly comes from the auction of research results, and secondly comes from the patent fees of research results. Among them, the auction research results are about 100 pieces, and the highest auction price is 91,000 taels. The new glass technology obtained by several wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan has been jointly sold. The minimum auction price is also more than 3,000 taels of silver. The average auction price for each research result is about 26,000 taels of silver. In other words,

The total income of this item is about 2.6 million taels of silver. In addition, according to the betrayed research results, the institute obtains the patent rights of the research results, that is, the institute owns the result, and the institute is responsible for upgrading the result, so that the institute can obtain the patent fees for its products, and the price is uncertain. Now all kinds of products have just started to be launched, and the sales volume is not particularly high. However, the total patent fee is about 200,000 taels of silver, so the total income is 3.3 million taels of silver, the 2.2 million taels of gold used for going out, and the surplus is 1.1 million taels!"

Everyone in the house was stunned. Everyone knew that the research results of the institute had earned a lot of money. They didn't expect that the income was so high, with a surplus of 1.1 million taels. Oh my God, the current amount of the Ministry of Revenue warehouse is only more than 600,000 taels.

Zhu Youxiao was proud. With his own guidance, the research funding of the institute was sufficient and excessive, so that Song Yingxing really didn't know how to spend the money now. Of course, Zhu Youxiao knew the principle of laying eggs for chickens and laying eggs for chickens. The reason why the institute can earn such a high income is just because the institute has accumulated a lot of technology. After some time, the things were sold almost, and the money did not come so soon. Now, we should prepare for the future and invest the money in the institute again to ensure that new things can be released continuously.

"Emperor! Now the money from the Ministry of Revenue is almost used up, and the annual income from all over the country has not been sent to Beijing. Your Majesty, see what to do!" Li Ruhua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is the most difficult official among the six ministries. It is not that the power is small, but that the money is small. The four million in the Ministry of Revenue is spent in less than half a year. In other cases, the ministry borrows money from each department. Fortunately, Zhu Youzhao has a lot of money, and Zhu Youzhao is also more generous and often supports some money to Li Ruhua, guessing that Li Ruhua will not become the bare-headed minister.

Zhu Youxiao was also very dissatisfied with the financial policies of the Ming Dynasty. According to Zhu Youxiao, the Ministry of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty was better during the period when Zhang Juzheng was alive. However, with Zhang Juzheng's death, everything was restored to its original state by Emperor Shenzong. If there were no three major taxes of the Emperor Shenzong and no rebellion of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's finance could still support it. However, internal and external troubles caused the Ministry of Revenue to flow out like flowing water. Therefore, the court that was unable to make ends meet naturally would have to pay more taxes and try every means to make money. If Zhu Youxiao did not support the industry and commerce, which was a big taxpayer, even if he did not want to pay more taxes to the farmers, there would be ministers' requests. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was very dissatisfied with the tax system of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire Ming Dynasty's tax system could only be expressed in the word "chaos".

"Don't be anxious, Li Aiqing, let's discuss this matter later. Let's discuss some simple things first! Don't you care about the removal of princes in various places? I will talk to you today!" Zhu Youxiao delayed it first. The problem of money is a big problem, and covering up his money bag is a key thing.

"I won't say much about what happened, so I will talk about how to deal with it in the future. What are your opinions?"

Everyone stared at each other. To be honest, no one among the people involved in this incident, but when it comes to how to deal with it, it is a very troublesome thing. After everyone was silent, Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, I have studied the aristocratic system of Western barbarians. I think it will be a bit inspiring to the emperor!"

Zhu Youxiao thought about the Western knight system, and he couldn't think of any good things, but it was hard to refute Xu Guangqi, and said, "Since Xu Aiqing has some opinions, why don't you say that you can come and let me listen and everyone discuss it!"
Chapter completed!