When Yang Xin and Tianqi returned to the palace, they saw the Jinyiwei escorting Wang An by escorting him...

"Your Majesty, I am willing to report it!"

Wang An shouted desperately.

The Jinyiwei's arrest of him would not be any accident at all. The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were the real emperors who could kill and take away life and death.

Stop talking about him, isn’t it just Chongzhen’s words?

"Go to the prison of the imperial edict and tell you all the time you should say. You are also an old man who has served the Emperor Daxing for the rest of his life. As long as you honestly explain who your accomplice is, I will spare you to die."

Apocalypse said.

Then Wang An and others were taken away.

As for whether he can survive, it depends on whether he understands it or not.

However, people like him are generally very sensible, and in fact he does not need to protect others.

He has no descendants.

And at this moment, a figure in a green robe flashed through a door in the distance and disappeared.

Yang Xin and Tianqi looked at each other and sneered at the same time.

There is the place where the six departments are responsible for the office, but this imperial edict cannot convict the criminal department officials. Their situation is the same as Luo Sigong. In fact, even if Wang An finally reported it, he could only arrest Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou and others in the imperial prison. Unless Yang Lian continues to bite out other participating criminals, Tianqi still cannot touch these people...

They were not the target either.

The real goal is Li Sancai.

Or silver.

Tianqi knew very well that the Ministry of Revenue's finances would never be sufficient. Most of the money saved by his grandfather was dispersed by his father in a month, so he could not get back the money.

Including the two million that the Ministry of Works has built the Huangji Palace.

The money was taken out by his father. No matter what, his son, he would never go to the ministers to ask for it back, especially those who were rewarded by the nine sides. Even though he knew that the 1.6 million taels would not be in the hands of the soldiers, the final destination was probably all the money of civil and military officials of the first level. The construction funds for the Huangji Hall of the Ministry of Works can be suspended first and then misappropriated to a more suitable place, but they can only be partially misappropriated, because the Huangji Hall will eventually be rebuilt.

The three halls are the emperor's face.

At present, let alone the three halls, even the Huangji Gate is still half ruins. The fire twenty-five years ago almost destroyed half of the palace. Not to mention the three halls, even the Qianqing Palace was burned. His grandfather calculated the huge amount of money that needed to be consumed, and finally chose to repair the Qianqing Palace that was burned at the same time.

But he is short of money.

It just so happened that Yang Xin gave him a good opportunity to make a fortune.

"But just searching homes is not enough. This kind of thing requires the right time, place and people. The key is to control taxes, especially the taxes for overseas trade. No matter how much this tax is added, it will not affect the country, because no matter what the price of sugar, tea, or porcelain we sell, European merchants have to ask for it, and they have no other place to purchase it. Moreover, the price they sell in Europe is actually ten or even dozens of times that of our Ming Dynasty. It is estimated that hundreds of times possible. Anyone with a beautiful plate, they have to surround them with gold and put the plate in the middle."

Yang Xin said.

At this time, Europe did not have sucrose production in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.

There was no tea that was stolen after a crow.

There is no porcelain technology that Ma Ge is treacherous.

There are only the silk industry in Southern Europe, but the latter is still not on the same level as the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that it is the seller's market of the Ming Dynasty. Why not increase the export tax? Domestic business tax increases will definitely have side effects, at least it forces merchants to pass it on to the lower-level consumers, but it will be different to increase the export tax. It has no impact on the domestic people at all, and it will not lead to a reduction in exports. Those European merchant ships are a journey for life. The Gothenburg traded from Sweden to China, and one-third of the crew died in the middle of the process. Only with such a high mortality rate can a complete trade. Those European merchants will not not buy because of the increase in the Ming Dynasty tariffs!

Who else can they buy if they don’t buy the Ming Dynasty?

During Yang Xin's instigation of Tianqi, the two returned to the Ganqing Palace and still entered the Hongde Hall, which was just regarded as a residence and office place by Tianqi. Soon the eunuch gave them the information they needed, and then the one who appeared in front of Tianqi was the current customs income of Guangzhou and Yuegang in the Ming Dynasty.

"Sixty thousand taels!"

Apocalypse took a deep breath and said.

Well, that’s all the official income of the two major customs in Daming.

Guangdong has 40,000 yuan and Fujian has more than 20,000 yuan. What’s more important is that this money cannot reach the hands of the Apocalypse at all, because it was intercepted by the two provinces for military pay.

The one who arrives in the capital is just a number.

In fact, there are also Zhejiang, which is even less and has been intercepted by local authorities.

"Everyone is greedy, local officials are greedy, garrison generals are greedy, admirals are greedy, and the subordinates of the vassal kings are using privileges to exempt taxes, local gentry collude with pirates and smuggling, and the maritime trade flows at least 10 million silver every year, and the court gets this."

Yang Xin said.

Ten million taels should be the minimum.

It is difficult to have a definite number of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty overseas. After all, most of them are actually smuggled, but they can take time through the Philippines to some Spanish people to ask for the abandonment of this colony, and even the Spanish government guards the Philippines to block the direct flow of silver into the Ming Dynasty. Then the inflow is undoubtedly terrifying. However, it does not flow into the Ming Dynasty, but instead flows into Europe. As a result, the vast majority of them flow into the Ming Dynasty. After all, they finally got to buy the Ming Dynasty goods. This is not considered the inflow from Japan. Poor Japan also has to send silver to the Ming Dynasty!

In this era, the whole world is giving away silver to the Ming Dynasty like a competition.

No, it doesn't work.

Don’t let others send them even through smuggling.

But as a result, the tariffs received by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty every year were just that small.

A little over 60,000.

Of course, in fact, it is not just these. The tax supervision of Wanli is not of no use at all. He was so angry that he spread his tax supervision out. In fact, the task he gave to Guangzhou tax supervision was 200,000, but the governor of Guangdong tax eunuchs did not only control tariffs. This was the total number of commercial taxes in Guangdong. This also caused a series of civil unrest, and his tax supervision was useless. These eunuchs gave him ten taels and estimated that they were at least fifty taels. The only use was to make some leftovers for him...

What a leftover.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty may indicate that the dynasty government only eats some leftovers in overseas trade.

Moreover, the tax supervision has been withdrawn by Taichang.

"kill?"

Apocalypse said viciously.

"It's useless, it's the same after killing a batch of them."

Yang Xin said.

Tian Qi looked at him with inquiring eyes.

“There are three ways.

First, if you hand over export trade to several franchise traders, you don’t have to worry about how much customs taxes are. These franchise traders must pay as much money every year. If you can’t pay, you will be replaced. In addition, when the court needs silver, they will ask them to donate, and if they don’t donate, they will directly search their homes, but as long as they are obedient, they can ensure wealth.

The second is to open more customs, open a row of customs along the coast, and then select powerful families in the local area to contract the customs directly to them. Then they pay a fixed amount of customs duties to the court every year. Of course, there is a contracting period, and they will discuss how much they should pay after the expiration. In addition, they are allowed to form an anti-smuggling team themselves, including anti-smuggling at sea. In short, as long as they can get the quantity we want, they can do whatever they want.

Third, learn from Emperor Chengzu and set up trading companies controlled by His Majesty, just like the East India Company in Britain, the Netherlands and other countries, establishing Nanyang Company and Beiyang Company separately. Nanyang Company controls trade south of Taiwan and Beiyang Company controls trade north of Taiwan. The private sector prohibits overseas trade, and all overseas trade must be carried out through these two major companies. The two major companies themselves can own warships and small-scale troops, and can decide how to act within the scope of trade. Including, like European companies, they fight somewhere overseas and occupy a certain place as a trade base. Of course, all the profits belong to His Majesty.

Each of these three can change the current situation.

None of them can allow His Majesty to gain more benefits from maritime trade."

Yang Xin said.

Of course, no apocalypse can be implemented at present.

In fact, the first is that the thirteen-legged law of the Qing Dynasty is the easiest, but unfortunately, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not have the Interior Office, and there was no Guangzhou general who was a conqueror of the alien race. Tianqi could not control Guangzhou and Fujian at all. If he did this, he would have to start smuggling again. In fact, he is also smuggling on a large scale. If the thirteen-legged law is designated, it would have to smuggle on a larger scale. The Qing Dynasty could play because after a few kills, the gentry there was still enough fear of the garrison generals.

But now the gentry in Fujian and Guangdong provinces are so scared!

If you are angry, believe it or not, you will play with Japanese pirates again.

To be precise, there are currently thirteen lines in Guangzhou. Of course, it is actually thirty-six lines. When you cannot truly control the place, thirty-six lines will not change anything.

At most, there are more smugglers.

The second article was the most realistic and the only one that could be implemented, but the problem was that the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty was concentrated in Guangzhou and Yuegang. Even if the switch was turned on and on, there might not be anyone going there at the beginning. But you can also try it, such as switching Songjiang, and it would be better to have a Dengzhou customs in the north. The biggest advantage of this article is to pass on the troubles, and Tianqi will charge the contract fee, and the remaining gentry who covers taxes will solve the problem themselves, even if they fight. Whether to support mercenaries to combat smuggling or internal negotiation to resolve the distribution of interests, these are not related to Tianqi's affairs. Anyway, they are actually the ones who smuggled. Now they are given the opportunity to become a regular person, and they will also give them official titles so that they can be engraved on the tombstone to glory their ancestors.

Of course, this will lead to the strengthening of coastal powers.

But this problem can be solved by opening several customs.

The third one is impossible.

If the Apocalypse would fall into the water early, in fact, he is in danger of falling into the water now.

“Which one is the easiest.”

Apocalypse said.

These are a bit difficult for his age.

Yang Xin looked thoughtful...

"The second one, I think the second one is more realistic. At least your majesty doesn't have to bear too much danger, and it can also cut a lot of useless naval troopers and officials."

He said.

Of course, the second item can also be made by him.
Chapter completed!