Daming: I help my wife be the empress

After leaving the imperial city, Zheng Hongkui saw that there was no one following him, so he reproached him, "Da Mu, how could you agree to join the secretariat so quickly?"

Zheng Sen was puzzled, "What does fourth uncle think is wrong with this matter?"

Zheng Hongkui sighed, "Don't you understand? That man wants to keep you in Nanjing as a proton."

Zheng Sen laughed in surprise when he heard this, and asked, "Fourth Uncle, my Zheng family is a courtier of the Great Ming Dynasty, do you have the intention of treason?"

Zheng Hongkui was startled when he heard the words, quickly covered Zheng Sen's mouth, looked around again, then let go of his hand, and said in a low voice, "Why do you dare to say anything, kid?"

"Uncle Fourth, answer my question first," Zheng Sen said.

"Of course my Zheng family is a minister of the Ming Dynasty. As you know, my eldest brother, he only wants to keep the Zheng family rich forever, and has no greater ambitions."

"That's it." Zheng Sen said, "Father has no other intentions, so how can I be considered a proton if I stay in Nanjing? This is the opportunity that Jian Guoxu gave me to prove as a teacher, and of course I have to agree."

Hearing this, Zheng Hongkui could only sigh secretly, and said no more.

The world is always changing, the Zheng family really has no second thoughts about Daming today, but who can guarantee that it will always be like this in the future?

It should be known that even though tigers are harmless to people, people may not have the heart to hunt tigers...
Zheng Sen did not go to Zheng Hongkui's residence in Nanjing, but went to Qian Qianyi's mansion.

Now that Qian Qianyi has lost his official status, his family can no longer be called Qian Mansion, but Qian Zhai.

When he came to the small garden of Qian Zhai, Zheng Sen found that Qian Qianyi was reading and writing with Liu Rushi. He looked very romantic and happy, and he didn't seem to be depressed by losing his official position. people.

After Zheng Sen saluted and greeted him, Qian Qianyi asked with a smile, "Today the Jian Guo summoned Damu into the palace, but for the Zheng family's naval affairs?"

Zheng Sen said: "It is indeed for this matter..."

Zheng Sen immediately told Qian Qianyi about his and Zheng Hongkui's confrontation in the Hall of Martial Arts.

After speaking, he realized that Qian Qianyi was in a daze.

He asked strangely: "Teacher, what's the matter?"

Qian Qianyi came back to his senses, and said: "I am happy for you to be a teacher - I have heard that the secretariat is to assist the supervisor to handle government affairs, and it has the meaning of replacing the supervisor of ceremonies.

If you can join the secretariat, it means that you are very likely to be trained as a confidant by the supervisor, and you will have a bright future in the future.

Of course, being a teacher is also very touching, I didn't expect you to complain for my teacher in front of Jian Guo. "

Zheng Sendao: "The teacher is a famous scholar in the world of literature and Confucianism, so he shouldn't be dismissed without reason."

"Ah~"

Qian Qianyi sighed, but did not speak.

As an official fan, he has been working on this matter these days. Although he was not recovered, he also found out some reasons why he was dismissed from office.

One said that he was implicated by Ruan Dayue, and the other was more mysterious: it is said that the princess learned from "later generations" that he had some unforgivable evil deeds, so she didn't use him.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think: The prison country attaches so much importance to Zheng Sen, does it mean that Zheng Sen has any commendable achievements in that "later generation"?
So when he looked at Zheng Sen, his expression became more amiable.

"Yiki, you are not only born blessed, but also destined to become a great treasure in the future."

Zheng Sen: "??"

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The next afternoon.

Aimee Zhu held another court meeting with the Palace of Martial Arts again.

The participants in this meeting were only the cabinet members, the ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance, and the Lang Zhong, Yuanwai Lang and the principals of the two departments in Nanjing.

"In order to make the country stable, money and food are the most important things in internal affairs. Today, the palace convened the cabinet, the main officials of the Ministry of Accounting and the Ministry of Finance in Beijing to reorganize the functions of the Ministry of Accounting and the Ministry of Finance to make our Ming Dynasty more smooth, reasonable and efficient. Collect money and food from the land, so that the use of money and food will be more beneficial to the country of the Ming Dynasty!"

As soon as the meeting started, Aimee Zhu decided on the theme.

The cabinet ministers, household ministers, and finance ministers who had already seen the way Zhu Yuxi held meetings were fine, but the other officials of the two ministries who participated in this kind of meeting for the first time were very uncomfortable.

This time, Aunt Zhu still arranged seats for the officials present at the meeting and asked them to take summary minutes of the meeting.

The difference is that the seven cabinet ministers and the three ministers all sat in the first two rows.

Officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Finance sat in the back rows.

If all the officials above rank six came over before the Ministry of Household Affairs was checked, the Hall of Martial Heroes might seem crowded even if there was room for them.

However, in the previous investigation, more than half of the officials of the household department were eliminated, and some were poached by the Ministry of Finance, and there were even fewer of them.

The Ministry of Finance is newly established, its tasks have not been set, and there are fewer people.

There are no more than [-] officials below the two ministers and above the sixth rank, and many of them were promoted after the investigation by the household department.

After finishing the opening remarks, Auntie Zhu asked Han Zanzhou to distribute two brochures to each minister.

This booklet tells about the institutions of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Finance, the responsibilities of each institution, and the significance of the existence of these institutions.

When the ministers were looking through the brochure, Zhu Wei continued: "Before the Ministry of Households had the right to collect, transfer, storage, Daming land tax, commercial tax, etc. all taxes.

At the local level, it is divided according to the chief secretary into each official cleansing department to be responsible for tax collection, transshipment, and warehousing of a locality.

Facts have proved that such a model is not only easy to breed corruption, but also the use of tax power is quite rigid and rigid, and the tax efficiency is quite low.

Therefore, the Palace separated a Ministry of Finance from the Ministry of Households, and only let the Ministry of Households retain the right to collect land taxes and manage acres, population, and grain.

As for the Ministry of Finance, it is mainly responsible for collecting commercial taxes—and you are all smart people in Ming Dynasty. You must know that since Xuande, our business and trade have become more and more prosperous, but the increase in commercial taxes has been extremely slow.

During the Wanli period when Zhang Taiyue presided over the reform of the tax law, the highest commercial tax was only 90 taels a year.

After Zhang Taiyue, it has been declining year by year. In the last few years of Emperor Jixian's reign, the commercial tax that can be released into Beijing every year is even less than 10 taels!
It can be seen from this that there are many problems in the collection of commercial taxes in my Ming Dynasty.If we don't make great efforts to solve it, how can the state's fiscal revenue increase? ! "

On the other side, Hao Guangming listened to Auntie Zhu say these words, and watched the reactions of the ministers below through the camera of his mobile phone. Seeing that no one objected immediately, he couldn't help nodding slightly.

In later generations, some people had a misunderstanding about the Ming Dynasty: they believed that the Ming Dynasty did not collect commercial taxes, or that the means of collecting commercial taxes were not as good as those of the Song Dynasty, so they died of poverty.

But those who have really understood the relevant history of the Ming and Song dynasties know that this is not the case.

The reason why the Song Dynasty looked at wealth and high business tax revenue mainly relied on the official sales system.

In the Ming Dynasty, only officials sold salt, while in the Song Dynasty, salt, iron, wine, vinegar, etc. were necessary for people's lives, and the government could control and control them all, and all officials sold them!
The official sales system has little impact on the middle class and above, but it has a great impact on the bottom people-oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., which are indispensable in daily life.Government pricing is nothing to the rich, but it can easily kill the poor people at the bottom.

Therefore, the life of the people at the bottom of the Song Dynasty was much more difficult than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang established various systems when he founded the country. It is not that he did not know that the official sales of the system in the Song Dynasty could enrich the country, but he did not want to squeeze the poor people too much, so he only sold salt.

The official salt income, even though there were various disadvantages in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, was still the second largest income of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen that the ability of officials to sell the system to enrich the country.

As for the largest taxes in the Ming and Song dynasties, they were also land taxes, which have not changed.

Various commercial taxes are only Daming's third largest fiscal revenue.

Of course, additional border taxes and other miscellaneous taxes under special circumstances like the three rates are not included in the above discussion...
After a while, Aimee Zhu reckoned that most people should have finished reading the two booklets, so she asked, "Can anyone tell me about the current commercial and taxation system in Ming Dynasty?"

Hearing Auntie Zhu's sudden question, all the ministers couldn't help looking at each other, but no one answered for a moment.

Whether it is the cabinet ministers or the subordinate officials of the two ministries, most of them thought about it and found that they did not fully understand the business tax of Ming Dynasty, so naturally they did not dare to agree.

There are also a few who know some business and tax matters, and they are worried that they will not speak well, leaving a bad impression on Aimee Zhu, and they are also worried that they will cause criticism from their colleagues.

After all, in the past, whenever someone in the government proposed to increase the business tax, there would be a lot of opposition from the government and the opposition, and the proposer would even become a criticism.

Although the current situation in Ming Dynasty is very different from the past, not everyone dares to take the risk.

Seeing that no one stood up, Auntie Zhu couldn't help frowning, deeply disappointed.

When she was about to call Ma Shiying directly, she saw a person in the third row stand up.

"Su Guansheng, the Minister of Cleaning Officials of the Minister's Department, is willing to speak for the country's commercial tax system!"

I saw that this person was in his 40s, his height was not obvious, his complexion was dark and thin, but there was determination in his brows.

Auntie Zhu smiled immediately and said, "Su Qing, tell me!"