The civil servants who had Zhu Youjian's decentralization shouted in unison, "Your Majesty is wise! Long live Your Majesty!"

Then they walked out of the Ganqing Palace with their heads raised and their chests raised, with light steps.

The sentimental old master, tears streaming eyes, felt that the Holy Emperor had already taken office and the spring for the scholar-officials was coming.

The autumn outside is clear and the sun is shining, and the Ming Dynasty has a new look.

Zhu Youjian stood on the platform in front of the Ganqing Palace, watching these excited court officials, feeling that he had done nothing, was he just sent some work to them, which was so high that they received their high praise.

This emperor is so happy, and it feels really good to be licked by someone.

The ministers were excited and surrounded several auxiliary ministers of the cabinet to go to the cabinet office in Wenhua Hall, ready to handle the job for the new emperor.

After leaving the Ganqing Palace, several other people quietly came to the Yangxin Palace to the east.

"Your Majesty told the fire in Hongde Hall at the court meeting?"

Wei Zhongxian, with a little white hair on his head, was sitting on the cushion, turning a string of ebony Buddhist beads.

The fragrance in front of me is swaying, and it looks a bit out of the worldly mood.

Cui Chengxiu and several other civil servants nodded on the side and said yes.

"Does your Majesty suspect that someone sets fire?"

"I didn't say this, just talked about the fire in the bedroom, which had a great impact and needed to be investigated strictly. It seemed that His Majesty was a little scared."

"What are the reactions of courtiers?"

"There was no reaction, and it was later that Li Guopu, the squad, proposed to let the queen enter the palace."

"This is a straightforward person, this is sending confidants to the emperor to the palace."

"Qiansui, should we stop us?"

"I can't stop it. This is an open conspiracy. There is no reason why the emperor is in the palace and the queen is outside the palace."

Wei Zhongxian's tone was a little depressed. Since he did not burn Zhu Youjian to death last time, Eunuch Wei felt that the situation was hopeless and destiny was not on his side. He was considering whether he wanted to retire early.

"Chengsui, there is one more important thing."

The left governor Tian Ergeng looked at Eunuch Wei who looked like he was without desire and was a little anxious.

"What's the point?"

"Chengsui, at the court meeting, the ministers reported several important matters, and then His Majesty asked the cabinet to draft a charter and submitted it directly to him for instructions."

"Didn't you mention our Li Jian?"

Wei Zhongxian was a little surprised and thought that Zhu Youjian was so quick to start. He had to collect power on the first day of ascending the throne. Before he could remove the mill, he thought about killing the donkey.

"Your Majesty is determined to be the Holy Emperor. Those civil servants are probably very happy, right?"

Cui Chengxiu and Tian Ergeng nodded when they heard this.

"Your Majesty has not learned the essence of the emperor. If you leave our family's help, those civil servants will sooner or later put him in vain."

Wei Zhongxian stopped turning the Buddhist beads and slowly got up.

"I heard that when I ascended the throne yesterday, there was a strange phenomenon. God warned me that the king should seek it in his own way, and to correct his virtues and comfort the world. Don't force it too much."

Afterwards, Wei Zhongxian and others began to conspire.

At this time, Zhu Youjian did not have the awareness of being a saint. After taking off his generous clothes, he was lying on the bed eating chicken claws and drinking beer.

Zhu Youjian, who returned to the bedroom, just walked around the boat and found a container of mysterious food from the East.

He hasn't eaten braised or spicy food for a long time, and is now feasting on his image regardless of his image.

Holy Emperor, what holy Emperor? Only fools are the holy Emperor. Isn’t it good to let these civil servants do their jobs for them?

Someone is rushing to work for themselves, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t need it, and it’s useless if you use it.

What, I am afraid of being seized from power, it doesn't exist. Zhu Youjian, who just transferred the arms container on the ship, was full of confidence.

For the minister who wanted to seize power, he had a hundred ways to kill him.

My buddy used to be an old fried dough stick in the office that was not afraid of boiling water. No one dared to bully him when he was a small staff member.

Now he has become the emperor, the most handsome man in the Ming Dynasty, and he also owns a modern ocean-going giant ship.

If eunuchs and civil servants dare to bully themselves, they will give them face if they don’t take the initiative to bully them.

Zhu Youjian thought freely, and the more he thought about it, the happier he became. Then the chicken feet and duck neck on the table quickly entered his stomach.

While my wife didn't come and ate more, I probably won't have much time to be single in the future.

In the afternoon, Zhu Youjian met with several auxiliary ministers in the cabinet, and then the good mood in the morning passed in a flash.

The Ministry of Revenue has no money!

Zhu Youjian, who was often disturbed by money in his previous life, unexpectedly had to worry about money after becoming emperor.

Zhu Youxiao, a short-lived ghost, left himself less than one million taels of silver.

And there is also a coffin book for him to build a tomb.

According to Li Guopu, if you save some money, you will have to spend about 700,000 to 800,000 taels, and there is not much left.

After listening to it, Zhu Youjian almost burst into anger.

Collecting this, Zhu Youxiao is stuck with the money left by his cemetery fund, and he really doesn't want to benefit from it at all.

Even if you are angry, life will still have to be lived.

The Ministry of Revenue Taicang Silver Deposit has no money, so I can only borrow it from another place.

Fortunately, these cabinet prime ministers were pretty good. After a morning of rushing and moving, they raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Ministry of Works, Guanglu Temple, and Shuntian Mansion, and the Ministry of Revenue raised another tens of thousands of taels, and finally they were able to overcome the difficulties in front of them.

Zhu Youjian calmed down and picked up his pen and wrote a few words on the prime minister's memorial.

"Authorize the report, follow this charter."

The chief assistant Huang Liji was a little excited after taking the comments after the winnings.

This is the first time in many years that the imperial court has not been involved in eunuchs.

"How much tax can the Ming Dynasty pay in a year?"

But Zhu Youjian didn't have time to pay attention to the excitement of the important officials in the cabinet. After approving the money, he removed the money for Zhu Youxiao to repair the tomb, and the Ministry of Revenue basically had no money.

Such a big country has no finances, which is a very big problem.

In the past life, even if the unit with full financial allocation was too small, many of the work could not be carried out normally.

"When you go back to your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty's taxes are mainly divided into land tax and commercial tax."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian began to care about tax issues, Huang Liji closed his excitement and began to solemnly introduce the tax issues to the Xinhuang.

"The land tax is divided into: Xia Fu, Qiu Fu and other additional taxes, among which Xia Fu is about three million taels of silver, autumn Fu is more than one million taels, and other additional taxes are more than three million taels of silver."

Zhu Youjian nodded when he heard this. He understood that the land tax and commercial tax were agricultural taxes and commercial taxes.

He also understood the summer and autumn fu of the field fu, which means harvesting grain in summer and autumn fu. In this era, harvesting two seasons a year is also very common in the south.

When Zhu Youjian was young in his previous life, he followed his father to the county's grain office to pay public grain after summer and autumn harvest. He was very familiar with these.

However, what are other additional taxes, and the amount, are also an important source of income for the imperial court.

“What are other surcharges?”

"Reply to Your Majesty, in recent years, the border troubles of the imperial court have become more and more severe, and the military pay is a lot, so we can only temporarily increase the tax."

"Who will be charged?"

"It's mainly the land tax."

The peasants in the Ming Dynasty were suffering. No wonder the peasants were constantly uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. Although the normal taxes were not heavy, they were levied too much. In addition, land annexation would make it strange that the old Zhu family would not rebel.

Zhu Youjian's expression was still calm when he heard this, but he did not comment. He nodded and signaled Huang Liji to continue.

"When you come to your Majesty, the commercial tax is collected monthly, mainly including municipal tax and customs duties, which is almost 500,000 taels a year."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was a little confused, Huang Liji explained again.

"City tax is mainly tax on market transactions, and tariffs are mainly taxes collected by local banknotes, and are levied against passers-by."

Zhu Youjian understood a little that the municipal tax was similar to the deed or stamp duty of commodity transactions in later generations, while the tariff was similar to the customs duty in later generations in international trade.

“Is the trade tax so low?”

Zhu Youjian, who came from later generations, was a little surprised.

Although he knew that most ancient feudal societies emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and had heard that the commercial tax was low in the Ming Dynasty, he really did not expect that the commercial tax would be so small, just one-tenth of the agricultural tax.

This is too little.

In later generations, the majority of taxes in various countries were industrial and commercial taxes, and agricultural taxes were basically abolished. In order to subsidize agriculture and stabilize grain production, countries would also issue certain food planting subsidies.

Could it be that industry and commerce were underdeveloped in the Ming Dynasty?

But remember when I was studying history, capitalism had already begun in the late Ming Dynasty. In theory, industry and commerce should have a certain tax foundation.

In the future, we have to go out to the palace to see more, learn about the industrial and commercial situation in this era, and see if there is a tax basis.
To be continued...