The fifth memorial is from the Ministry of Revenue.

The Minister of Revenue is still vacant now, and Nangong Ji, the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, is responsible for the guards.

However, this temporary supervision has been more than two years.

Nangong Ji's previous full-time title was "Deputy Prime Minister, Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace, Minister of the Inner Guards, and Minister of the Wenyuan Pavilion Office and Walking Minister".

Now he has given him two positions: Deputy Prime Minister and Wenyuan Pavilion Office Minister.

The loss of these two positions made him unable to work in Wenyuan Pavilion, so he usually stayed in the Ministry of Revenue. Only when Wenyuan Pavilion had something to discuss would he come over.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one in the Ministry of Revenue, the remaining Grand Secretary and Minister of Guard would have been removed.

Look at Wang Feiteng, look at Zhang Xiang, look at Lin Zhenyuan... Which of these people still retain their positions?

Having said that.

The signator of this memorial was not Nangong Ji, but Luo Nanjing, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Luo Nanjing should have been in the past two months as a minister of the Ministry of Revenue. However, he knew that something happened to Jing and Emperor, so the matter was delayed.

But this did not affect Luo Nanjing's work efficiency and attitude, and he was still very serious.

This is the most important memorial he has handed over since the New Year.

"I am the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Luo Nanjing, and the emperor has reported to the emperor. Now the population of Dakang is increasing, and various expenditures for military and civilians are increasing, which has caused a shortage of funds from the Ministry of Revenue, which will be difficult to sustain within two or three years.

In order to maintain a thousand-year foundation, I specifically requested to open up trade with countries on the land to increase trade, increase the circulation of materials, expand the income of handicraftsmen and merchants, and thus increase the income of commercial taxes!"

When Liu Mingqi saw it, she was a little strange.

Logically speaking, Luo Nanjing's memorial should be the most important and controversial of all the memorials presented today.

Why are you put in the fifth position?

And it wasn't even the Prime Minister took it, and when the meeting was held, it was reported in person?

When he thought about it, he understood a little again.

This is a group of prime ministers and ministers testing themselves.

They couldn't figure out what they were thinking, so they threw out such a memorial to test it out.

The original policy of retreat was made by Emperor Jing and all the ministers.

At that time, Liu Mingqi didn't feel any fault.

I was already in a state of war with several surrounding countries. If you continue to do business with them and make them stronger, wouldn’t this cause you a grudge?

But now, this strategy seems a bit constrained.

Dakang has gradually begun to recover, but the recovery speed is far less than the speed of spending money.

Therefore, the land commercial tax of 10 million taels of silver per year is also very important to Dakang.

Moreover, if the development continues to be so large, it will increase significantly.

It would be even better if it could increase the commercial tax of 20 million taels of silver a year.

Commercial tax is not the most important thing. What is more important is how many small handicraftsmen can be supported by doing business, how many merchants can be raised, and how many industries along the way can be raised?

This is what makes the ministers excited.

Just relying on sea trade, no matter how good the sea trade is, its risks are still much higher than those of land trade.

Therefore, even if they knew that the emperor must make a big sail, they would not be willing to give up on increasing the scale of mainland trade.

For them, this is nothing wrong.

Liu Mingqi also knew that before himself, or in another world, trade, in addition to the unique style of the Song Dynasty, more lifelines of the Central Plains dynasty were also land transactions.

As long as a person's vision does not exceed this world, there will be no change.

After figuring this out, Liu Mingqi simply called the five prime ministers, Nangong Ji and Luo Nanjing for lunch.

In the past, Liu Mingqi often accompanied Jing and Emperor in the palace to have dinner, so he knew that TV was fake.

Some of the emperors only eat one bite, or some of them take it down and throw it away without eating it. It’s nonsense.

In fact, except for a small number of emperors who like to waste their meals like this, it is normal for most emperors to eat.

The emperor's breakfast is four or five small amounts of pastries, a bowl of rice porridge, soy milk, and eggs.

There will be a little more lunch dishes, but at most only five or six kinds, and the amount is not large.

In fact, if the emperor eats it alone, there are often two or three dishes.

The dishes at night are simpler, and you can get two dishes and one soup.

If you are with the Queen Mother and the Queen's concubines to have dinner, add more.

The last one.

If there is nothing to eat, it will be given to the eunuchs in charge and the eunuchs in charge, and there is no waste.

But there are also different times.

For example, today, Liu Mingqi wanted to invite a few ministers to dinner, and the imperial kitchen prepared five dishes and one soup.

You read that right.

It's five dishes and one soup.

As long as the New Year's banquet is not on state banquets, the emperor uses a separate meal system when he invites guests alone.

Each person sat on a small table, and each person had a large lunch box and took out several boxes, including vegetables, soup, and rice.

Otherwise, it would be disrespectful to ask them to eat at the same table as the emperor - if the emperor eats with his family in the palace, he can sit at the same table together.

During the meal, everyone can chat together.

"Today's cucumber shooting is good." Liu Renhuai praised: "I like this very much in Jiangnan. It is simple and convenient, and even raw ones can be eaten."

"The craftsmanship of the imperial chefs has improved." Cao Yi said, "For example, this braised pork, after adding a little lees, it becomes even more fragrant and glutinous... The chefs at Laochen's house can never taste this kind of flavor."

"If you don't mention anything else, why do you have to thank Your Majesty for improving pig breeding and writing the 'pig raising secrets'. Otherwise, where can I find so many delicious food?" Zhong Chang said with a scent, "My family likes to eat sausages and bacon every year. Whether it is sweet or spicy, they make 1,000 pounds of pounds at home. It seems that they are not tired of eating every day."

"I still like to eat the double-skin milk invented by Your Majesty." Ma Haoqiu said, "I have to do it at home every day. Now I should be the best in the capital, right? It's not worse than the palace!"

"I don't agree with this." Liu Mingqi immediately objected, "The chef in Prince Yu's mansion is the best...why should we compete?"

"OK!"

Ma Haoqiu seemed very confident and agreed casually.

After all, there is something to talk about later, so everyone talks and eats it. In less than two quarters of an hour, lunch was over.

Drinking the iced milk tea that was served, everyone felt that their stomach, which was a little greasy and full just now, became refreshed immediately, and their nerves became much more excited.

...

Once the small table for eating is collected, it becomes a coffee table and a desk, and it becomes a place for negotiation.

"I have read the memorial of Mr. Luo." Liu Mingqi asked straight to the point, "What is Wenyuan Pavilion's opinion on this matter?"

"The main thing is to lack money."

Ge Songdao has always been a straightforward person, and he was the first to speak: "Although we sold so much unowned land in Pengzhou Prefecture last year and earned 136 million taels of silver, the cost is also very large.

First of all, the salary of officials at all levels and various normal operation expenses owed the previous year was removed by more than 40 million taels of silver.

Then there were repairs to each border, pensions and resettlement for soldiers, population migration and filling in each border, etc., which were more than 70 million taels.

Look! Now the court has only less than 20 million taels of reserve funds left. Once any natural disaster comes, will there be a second chance for Pengzhou Prefecture?

Besides, the opportunity in Pengzhou Prefecture was not in vain. So more than one million people are still staying in the Gyeonggi area! Various resource allocations and conflicts are also a long-term matter.

Your Majesty, tell me, which kind of thing in this world is worthless? If there is no long-term and stable income, it will definitely not be able to maintain the operation of the court!"

Liu Mingqi nodded and said, "So, you decided to continue doing business with Shi Wei, Xi Qiang, Uighurs, Qiyan, Nanzhao, and Japan?"

"Yes."

Another person who is not afraid of trouble is Liu Renhuai.

He said: "Doing business with them does not mean that they will become stronger again, or even stronger than us! With what you invented by your Majesty, they will no longer be able to catch up with us.

Besides, we didn’t all resume business from the beginning. The initial transaction target was just Qiyan and Tubo.”

"Um?"

Liu Mingqi was stunned, "What is this?"

Liu Renhuai said: "Qiyan has been beaten to pieces. They have a life-and-death hatred with the Western Qiang and Uighurs. Even if we make Jin Chenbai and others stronger, the first thing they have to deal with is the Western Qiang and Shi Wei.

Not to mention Tubo, they have now split into two forces. No matter how we do business with them, we are not afraid of supporting a hungry wolf, which will only make them lose both sides."

Liu Mingqi thought about it for a moment and laughed: "Okay, your idea is pretty good! Then do it!"

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the emperor so easy to talk to.

They were afraid that Liu Mingqi would hate this group of foreign invaders because of extreme hatred, so they refused to open the border to do business.

After all, what Chen Zhaoyi did in Japan had already been passed on from the Embroidered Uniform Guard to Wenyuan Pavilion, and everyone knows it.

So cruel and so big fanfare, if you say that there is no emperor's approval or even encouragement, even if Chen Zhaoyi wants to, everyone around her will stop her.

The result is that hundreds of thousands of Japanese people were massacred, and the powerful family of Kyushu Island was tied up by their own generals and begged Chen Zhaoyi for forgiveness.

So the emperor's attitude is obvious.

"I agree with the positive spirit of all the ministers." Liu Mingqi continued: "Only by constantly opening up the source of the court can we solve the financial problems of the court."

Speaking of this, the boy changed his mind, "But just that is not enough."
Chapter completed!