There is no secret in the palace! "The news that the emperor's general of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Sun Hai, scraped the pieces and cut the carriage to visit the West Garden spread throughout the Forbidden City that night.

The place in the West Garden is no different from the wasteland in everyone's hearts. However, they did not expect that it was used by Sun Hai. Many people secretly praised Sun Hai's skill.

After all, everyone knows that Emperor Wanli was in high spirits that night, and after returning to the bedroom, he rarely gave the queen a smile.

Sun Hai was originally one of the eunuchs, and it was not a big deal for the emperor to visit the West Garden. It was just a part of the palace. Everyone looked happy and no one was willing to say anything.

Now the first major event inside and outside the palace is to write off income and expenditure. If you don’t do this well, the palace will not even set the amount of money for the New Year. Since the emperor has this preference, he will do it.

After the wedding of Wanli, the time spent with Empress Dowager Cisheng was greatly reduced. Emperor Wanli, who had long been tired of the empress dowager's commandments, was unwilling to come here except for the routine greetings.

Empress Dowager Li couldn't bear to give up her son, but she also knew that after the wedding, Wanli was already considered a grown-up person, and at least in form it should be treated as a grown-up person.

The palace was lonely and the Wang family could not come and go every day. Empress Dowager Li and King Lu were together for a longer time. King Lu mentioned several times that he moved out to live there. They were rejected by Empress Dowager Li.

"You are just a baby, accompanying the Ai family. Who can say anything? Just stay. Seeing you studying and learning skills, the Ai family is happy to see you.

Wanli only wants to come at home less. He doesn't care whether the child Lu Wang is a vassal or not. He even feels that it is a good thing that someone is with his mother to attract his mother's attention.

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The Tianjin Acropolis has begun to seal rivers and seas. Without ships, Wang Tong's mind is focused on buying horses and training troops. In addition to routine greetings in the letter, it means that the Tianjin Wei Jinyiwei and Hu Wei army are arranged step by step and some interesting anecdotes.

In Tianjin Wei and surrounding counties, the bones after slaughtering cattle and sheep were collected by Jinyiwei. They cooked a large pot of bone soup by the Haihe River. When they threw them in fish and shrimp, there was no shortage of salt.

Because some of the grains that have been transported by grain, some of the eliminated old grains were bought at low prices. Although there were a lot of laborers, there was no shortage of food supply.

As a result, on the Weihai River in Tianjin, people are envious of the workers because they eat full food every day and drink bone soup with oil and water.

There are even rumors that these chaotic people eat better than good people, so everyone will go to make trouble and come to Lord Wang to eat cakes and drink bone soup.

This is true for good people, and many poor households also come here to find a living, wanting to find an agent and do chores. They don’t go there after they are full, but they can stutter.

At Wang Tong's suggestion, Tianjin Acropolis took advantage of the relatively loose hand this year and was led by the Bingbai Road. The Ministry of Revenue Transport Department and the Qing Military Department assisted, allocated grain funds and hired Dingkou, who came to Tianjin Acropolis to silt the rivers, repair the docks and roads, and prepare for the coming year.

After all, taxes will be collected from the canal and Haihe River this year, and as usual, some of them will be left for the Liujin and Wei local governments, which is also the distribution rule.

After a civil unrest this year, Tianjin Wei was in a booming momentum at this time. This is different from the situation where chaos occurred in other places and it will be in trouble for several years. Wang Tong also said in a secret letter that he had confiscated several sea ships and would have more ships in the future. He was thinking about building his own ships, and so on.

Except for the chaotic people who eat better and make many people envious of this matter, Wanli couldn't be interested in the rest of the matter, especially the naval battle that Wang Tong spent a lot of effort to describe, Wanli felt that it was really boring.

The battle at sea is nothing more than a ship approaching and firing a cannon, or jumping onto the other side's ship to fight. There is such a golden sword and iron horse fighting on land, and the blood is boiling. I really don't know why Wang Tong is like this.

See.

Except for Tianjin, he saw other things, and the big guys didn't let him reach out. With such a boring life, Emperor Wanli felt that Xiyuan was a good place.

There, except for the gorgeous scenery like Qionglou and Yuyu, the quietness and the feeling that belonging entirely to him made Wanli very comfortable.

After all, the Imperial Study Room was too cramped. There was such a world that allowed him to completely relax and belong to. The little emperor was very obsessed with. Xiyuan was originally a complete palace. He asked someone to free up a room there, arranged for palace maids and eunuchs to go on duty and take care of them, and went to visit whenever he had time.

Sun Hai, the governor of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, naturally would not be idle either. As long as Emperor Wanli passed by, he would definitely be by his side.

Even the experience of Sun Hai following was different from others. Feng Bao and Zhang Cheng were like elders with different relationships in Wanli. They were either warned, suggested, or persuaded, and kept in charge of Emperor Wanli's actions and ideas everywhere. Zhang Juzheng, who was in the outer court, was a strict teacher, and he was indifferent to him.

The other eunuchs, ministers, and Emperor Wanli could feel that they had a kind of alienation behind their respect. These people knew that their master was not Wanli, and

Sun Hai is different. Sun Hai's words and actions are all to make Wanli happy. He flatters everywhere, so that Emperor Wanli feels that there is nothing wrong with him, and it is comfortable to be with him.

It seemed very suddenly. In the twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Wanli, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Sun Hai, suddenly became a celebrity around the emperor. Not to mention what other eunuchs think, the two empress dowagers expressed their acquiescence to the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the emperor. After all, it is not a bad thing to let the emperor seize military power.

At this time, it takes one month to travel north and south. A boat sets off from Jiangnan and arrives in the north along the canal. Then it returns, including assignments from various places, two months is also necessary. Some boats come to the north to do business, and often stay in the north to travel a few more places. The time will take longer.

The news of tax collection on Tianjin Wei Canal really spread in Jiangnan, that is, during September and October, and then people in Jiangnan were thinking about how much money they had been withdrawn. Then they wrote to people in the north, it was almost November and December.

People from Beijing are from the south, and their families write letters to complain. Some people must have said that their family pays for your studies. They finally earn a fortune but cannot maintain their family.

However, some time ago, the Weixiang in Tianjin was in chaos, and the censors in the capital suffered a lot. Although there were big men who were defending it and there was no punishment, the commandment was also tragic.

What's more, the end of the year is approaching, and everyone is busy celebrating the New Year, so it's better to be quiet. Don't make too much noise and have a bad time to celebrate the New Year. Let's talk about everything after the New Year.

However, before the New Year, there were many scholars and civil servants gathering in the various guild halls in the capital. Every day, everyone discussed and discussed the tax customs of Tianjin Macao."

"Mr. Chen, in the ninth year of Hongwu, Cheng Le, the chief clerk of Pingyao, Shanxi, had expired. The provincial government's assessment resulted in "he could resume commercial taxes and praised him for going to Beijing to meet the emperor, but was "the tax quota was fixed. If the tax was restored, it would be a deduction for the people. If the position of officials was lost, the provincial examination was not the case." Instead, he issued an order to denounce the demotion. Why is this?

In the opposite side of the study of Lu Wang Zhu Huale, Imperial College was the Imperial College Priest Chen Ge. He was a great scholar of the times and the teacher that Empress Dowager Li invited for King You.

When he heard Lu Wang ask this question, Chen Ge, who was tall and thin, nodded slightly, stood up and said:

"Your Highness, when Taizu was founded, he saw the enemy who used heavy taxes to record the people, and even the people were living in poverty. The world was in chaos. With this, Taizu's first promulgated the law of "All commercial taxes are taken at thirty, and those who pass by are considered to violate orders."

King Lu nodded in a vague way, turned the page and continued to read. Chen Ge, the priest of the Imperial College, sat back and exchanged glances with a civil servant beside him, all showing praise.

After reading the book there, Lu Wang's childish face had an adult-like contemplative expression, and he looked up and asked again:

"Mr. Mou, in the 39th year of Emperor Shizong Su, Yang Shiqiao taxed Hangzhou Prefecture. He asked the wooden merchants to write down their income and then collect taxes. The annual income tax amount was 15 taels, but the world was really praised and called a Ming minister. He was promoted from Hangzhou Prefecture to participate in politics in Xijiang. "As a court minister, shouldn't we collect more silver for the court?"

The civil servant next to Chen Ge also stood up. He was beautiful and tall, only as tall as Chen Ge's shoulders, and he was not old enough to be a Hanlin Academy judge, and he was also a very famous person. He answered:

"Your Highness, the emperor is rich in all over the world. How much the people make is actually how much the Tian family makes. The left and right are the same. They do not compete with the people for profit, the people are rich and the country is strong, and govern by the way of a saint. This is the foundation of peace in the world. Taizu did not submit business taxes. When Chengzu, he also said, "gifts during marriage, funeral and sacrifices, he weaves cloth, farmware, food, and buys taxable goods, carriages and ships to transport their own goods, fish, vegetables, fruits and non-market sellers, all of whom are exempt from taxes, and their surnames are all the masters of the saints and cherishing the people."

These two are both figures like Old Masters. They are famous scholars in the world, have a good reputation and good memory, and have recorded records from all generations. Others want to read books and search, but they can read them casually without any effort.

Lu Wang nodded repeatedly, his face full of seeking knowledge. After hearing this, he suddenly shook his head and said

"I want to give advice to the emperor's brother

Looking at the child's innocent expression, Chen Ge and Mu Naiben sighed, bowed together, and begged:

"Your Highness, don't go to Your Majesty to say this. I'm not interested in it. You must not ruin your brotherhood with Your Majesty. Then I will never be redeemed."

"Two gentlemen, get up quickly, not to mention the coral hole, you guys get up quickly."

Lu Wang's face was full of panic.

Zhu Lingluo, the King of Lu, did not ask Emperor Wanli with these words, but the question and answer were passed outside the palace. All the literati praised him in private. King Lu is really a wise king."
Chapter completed!