With this national tax, the tax that merchants should pay still has to be paid, but this money no longer flows into the local government system, but directly enters the court. . The fastest update

It should be the so-called centralization.

The so-called commercial law that followed was to protect merchants. How to protect them?

That is to crack down on local officials who make things difficult for merchants and local tyrants.

In fact, when it was publicly recommended, this plan was discussed by Ye Chunqiu and Wang Hua, and now it is time to implement it step by step.

Obviously, the levy of commercial taxation was very happy to the court and the palace. Of course, Zhu Houzhao wanted the treasury to collect more silver, so that the benefits were saved were given to the local government. This commercial tax and commercial law were like a redemption for merchants to the palace and the country, and used their own silver to buy the protection of the palace and the court.

Zhu Houzhao was very interested in this and couldn't help but say, "Is this Ye Chunqiu's idea?"

Wang Hua was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said, "This is my idea."

He didn't dare to say it was Ye Chunqiu's idea. He was the chief minister, Ye Chunqiu was the duke and the royal family. It was not fun for the royal family to interfere in cabinet affairs.

Zhu Houzhao smiled meaningfully before saying, "Then I will ask my dear, if the commercial tax is imposed, how much can the treasury get?"

Wang Hua said: "The rough estimate will be around 50 million taels of silver."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, she was stunned and even felt a little shocked.

He thought that it would be considered an accident to have millions of taels of silver. After all, the silver obtained by the court every year was only two million taels. In addition to countless grains and cloth, it could not be exchanged for much money for grains and cloths, but it was only...50 million taels...

Damn, this number is very scary...

Zhu Houzhao finally came to his senses for a long time and said, "Let's discuss it again in court. I am very interested in this matter."

This is a major event and must be discussed by the court. Wang Hua proposed it with Zhu Houzhao now, in order to arouse Zhu Houzhao's interest first. When the court debate is discussed, Zhu Houzhao is a helper.

After saying goodbye to Wang Hua, Zhu Houzhao felt that the new prime minister was becoming more and more interesting.

As far as he knows, there have been many rumors in the capital recently that Li Dongyang seemed to have begun to organize. He is still the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace and obviously wants to continue to stay in the cabinet. The Jinyiwei reported that Li Dongyang had recently met many of his disciples, as well as Fei Hong, and seemed to be secretly planning something.

It's really interesting.

Is this considered an imperial art?

Zhu Houzhao suddenly found the reason why she was uncomfortable in life before.

Thinking back to the beginning, whether it was Master Liu or later Master Li, they were the leaders of all officials, and they were the same as the officials, and they received the support of the vast majority of scholars, so they scolded themselves at every turn. Now it’s better. It’s said that the scholars are divided into two, which is fine. Even the cabinet has started to confront each other directly and openly.

From now on, the attack power will not be entirely concentrated on him. It is really worry-free. You can fight, I will live my own good life.

After Zhu Hou finished seeing Wang Hua, he was about to leave the palace. Ye Chunqiu invited him to Zhenguo Mansion and said that there was something good for him to show.

It has been a long time since I left the palace. Now that Ye Chunqiu mentioned this, can Zhu Houzhao not arouse interest? But...

Good stuff? What good stuff?

Thinking that the guy has always had a high vision, such as delicacies, or Eastern Pearls and famous paintings, they all look ordinary in his eyes, then what he thinks is good things must be shocking.

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao's curiosity became stronger and he couldn't wait to leave the palace quickly.

He wore a regular dress, took Liu Jin, got on the crane carriage, and brought many guards, both open and secretly, and left the palace directly, and then left the capital.

Outside this capital is the area of ​​Zhenguo Mansion, which is still busy, but many people are even hurried.

Zhu Houzhao listened to the Jinyiwei's report, saying that after Wang Huagong's promotion, the Zhenguo Mansion was in full swing, and the market expectations soared. Since everyone knew that there would be great potential in trade in the future, many merchants placed many orders and prepared to carry out production frantically to expand the scale of production.

Only when Zhu Hou looked after those in a hurry could he feel this atmosphere. He did not have much malice towards merchants. No, not only did he not have malice, but he was very interested.

He once wanted to be a general and also acted as a merchant in the palace. He probably took out the imperial supplies in the palace, and then asked the eunuchs to pretend to be merchants and asked them to pay for money. It was very interesting.

When he arrived at the building of Zhenguo Mansion, he found that Ye Chunqiu was already waiting here with several officials.

Zhu Houzhao got out of the car, and Ye Chunqiu quickly stepped forward and said, "I have met Your Majesty."

After leaving the palace gate, Zhu Houzhao, who had never been arrogant, seemed a little more casual and said with a smile: "Don't do this, why? You Taishan is the chief minister of the cabinet, are you happy?"

Ye Chunqiu said: "Where is your Majesty a big bet? I'd be happier if I win hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

"Haha." Zhu Houzhao said happily: "They don't even look at me. What do I see? I am the emperor, how could I lose? Chunqiu, what do you want to take me to see?"

Ye Chunqiu said: "Please move to the institute."

Research Institute...

This yamen has always been a relatively mysterious place for Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao knew that the rifle and many things were developed by the research institute. The textile machines in many workshops, various production tools, and crane carts were closely related to the research institute.

If only one thing was developed, Zhu Houzhao was not very interested, because for Zhu Houzhao, this was just a gadget after all, and there was no need to see it yourself.

But Ye Chunqiu specially invited him to the Zhenguo Mansion Research Institute today. Could it be... Is there really something amazing and new?

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao was driven by curiosity and said anxiously: "Then go quickly."

The carriage moved again, but this time, Ye Chunqiu rode a horse and led the way.

It's strange that Ye Chunqiu kept saying that he was going to the research institute, but...

Zhu Houzhao looked out through the crystal window of the crane cart. It was clearly heading towards the suburbs of the city. No, the place was getting more and more remote, so how could it look like it was going to a research institute?

Walking further forward, I found that there were actually a group of people stationed here, guarding a high wall. These people dressed up in escorts, all of them were very heroic, and even had special guard posts, watchtowers and other things.
Chapter completed!