Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Hong Chengchou secretly scolded Hauge for being stupid, but he had a humble look on his face and didn't explain.

Sure enough, Dorgon did not miss this opportunity to attack Hauge, looked at Hauge and sneered, "Are you really stupid or fake? Now that we have moved our capital back to the outside of the pass, how can the soldiers here in the pass put their heart into fighting the Ming army? What is the difference between this and giving up the pass directly?"

Hauge's old face was flushed by the words, and he patted the armrest of the chair and said, "Then go back directly to the outside!"

Hauge obviously spoke in a moment of anger.

If the top officials of the Qing Dynasty really wanted to go back outside the customs, where would this meeting be held?Already acted.

For example, Daishan and Jierhalang, who are over [-] years old, are better, and they feel that it is okay to go back to the customs.

But for those who are a little younger, how many people are willing to part with the colorful world in the pass?Although the lands of Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shandong have also become barren due to natural disasters and wars, no matter what, the living environment in Northeast China is better than today.

After another period of silence, Prince Zheng Jierhalang, who hadn't spoken yet, said: "If we don't dare to fight the Ming army and retreat outside the pass in fright, the hearts of the Qing Dynasty will probably be lost and be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty. It will be a matter of time. Therefore, the battle after the autumn harvest still has to be fought."

Even Hauge has led the army and fought for many years. He knows the heart of the army even if he doesn't understand the people's hearts.

Dai Shan also sighed: "Let's fight a battle. If we lose this battle again, no one will be unwilling to go back outside the pass."

Dorgon obviously supported Hong Chengchou's strategy.

Seeing this, Bumbutai made a decision for Fulin and said: "Then arrange it according to the order of Grand Master Hong. The Ai family doesn't understand the war, so we will rely on the kings."

After this high-level meeting, Dorgon ordered the frontline armies to make some preparations for the "new weapons" of the Ming army.

First and foremost, of course, is how to deal with the powerful firepower of the Ming army.

The way Dorgon, Hong Chengchou and others discussed was to equip the army with more artillery, especially to build more red artillery that can be used in field battles, and try to suppress the artillery of the Ming army as much as possible.

On the other side, there are more chariots. Although the chariots are not as effective as Nurhachi and Huangtai Jina when facing the new artillery of the Ming army, according to the reactions of the soldiers who fled from the First World War in Yangzhou, they are somewhat effective.

Especially when approaching the Ming army's position and facing the greatly increased number of musketeers in the Ming army.

As for how to deal with magic weapons such as "walkie-talkies", "flashlights" and "drones", we can only remind the frontline generals to beware.

Because this matter must not be notified to the whole army, otherwise the morale of the army will drop before the fight begins.

In fact, although the high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty were preparing to fight this battle, they did not have much confidence, so they had allocated a considerable amount of manpower and material resources behind their backs, preparing to go back outside the customs...
Time flies to September of the first year of Zhaowu.

For several days in a row, Aunt Zhu held a cabinet meeting in the Hall of Martial Ying to summarize the new policies implemented in Yingtian Mansion.

"Your Majesty Qizuo, the financial statistics of Yingtian Mansion from June to August have been released." Ma Shiying said with a smile.

In fact, Auntie Zhu already knew the result from Ma Shiying in advance, and today she mainly wanted to let the other cabinet ministers and members know, so she said with a smile: "Ma Qing, let's talk about it."

Ma Shiying said: "The Ministry of Finance currently collects tariffs and city taxes in Yingtianfu mainly because it is only a single prefecture. Taking April and May this year as an example, the tariffs in Yingtianfu were 500 taels and 1 taels respectively. More than 300 taels.

Since June, a new policy has been implemented in the eight counties of Yingtianfu - abolishing all kinds of illegal tax customs (formerly known as Chaoguan), and private tax customs in a few places, and severely cracking down on tax officials who corrupted the law and harmed public interests.

It also canceled a number of unreasonable miscellaneous taxes added by the previous court, and at the same time increased the tax rate of some goods.

After a vigorous integration, the customs of Yingtianfu were cleared up, and the tariffs collected not only did not decrease, but increased month by month.

The tariff in June is 3000 taels, the tariff in July is 5000 taels, and the tariff in August is 900 taels! "

Speaking of this, Ma Shiying, who was reading the data in a small notebook, said excitedly: "According to this trend, Yingtianfu's tariffs should continue to increase in September!"

All the cabinet ministers and members couldn't help showing surprise when they heard this.

Whether it is the cabinet ministers or the ministers of various ministries, most of them have the experience of serving in the local area, and they have learned about local tariffs.Because according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, only part of the tariff was released to the imperial court, and the rest was reserved for local use.

Although Yingtianfu is now the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a top transportation hub in terms of the whole of the Ming Dynasty, so the tax revenue should not be too much.

This can be seen by comparing the tariffs in April and May.

Historically, the Wanli period was regarded as the best period of fiscal revenue in the late Ming Dynasty. However, in the 25th year of Wanli, as the Yellow River and canals passed through the mansion, Huai'an Mansion, which was actually an important place for water and land transportation, brought tariffs to the court for half a year. Only more than 2 taels.

From this we can see that Ying Tianfu now has a lot of tax revenue.

Auntie Zhu is quite satisfied with this data. Although the tax revenue for three months is less than 10 taels, compared with previous years, the tariffs have indeed increased greatly.

She said: "The significant increase in tariffs is indeed a good thing, but we still need to know why the increase is so that we can learn useful experience from it and better promote it to other places in the future.

Ma Qing, as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, you should know something about this, right?Tell me more. "

Hearing this, Zhang Youyu, He Tengjiao and a few other ministers couldn't help showing envious expressions when they looked at Ma Shiying.

Nowadays, the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty court meeting is not the same as before - being called by His Majesty to speak is already regarded as a manifestation of His Majesty's trust, and it is a kind of honor.

Ma Shiying looked even more excited.

He turned a page of the small book in his hand, and said: "According to my knowledge, there are four main reasons for the significant increase in tariffs.

First, during the implementation of the New Deal, it not only severely cracked down on corrupt officials in the original banknote customs system, but also made the officials not as good as before in the corruption environment, and temporarily cut off the collusion between officials and businessmen to evade taxes.

It can be known that the collusion between small officials and small officials in Chaoguan and merchants, which harmed the public and benefited private interests, was the main reason why the customs revenue was so small in the past.

Second, since His Majesty entered Nanjing and ascended the throne, the social environment in Yingtianfu and even the entire Nanzhili and surrounding provinces has been greatly stabilized, and business affairs have naturally increased.

Among them, the number of people doing business in Yingtianfu has increased several times compared to before.This is another big reason why tariffs have helped increase for several months in a row. "

There are quite a few words in Ma Shiying's speech that are partial to later generations, but none of the cabinet ministers and ministers present were surprised.

These people could see Aimee Zhu almost every day, and they would hold a meeting at least every two or three days. Naturally, they learned a lot of vocabulary from Aimee Zhu.

Even Ma Shiying, who likes to cater to the monarch, deliberately changed the style of speaking and writing in the past, making his own words and the words and sentences in the memorials more inclined to the style of later generations.

"The third is the reasonable adjustment of the tax rate by the Ministry of Finance." Ma Shiying continued, "In the past, our collection of tariffs was careless and unreasonable.

After the implementation of the New Deal, the collection of tariffs became more detailed and reasonable. For example, some luxury goods were heavily taxed; and some goods necessary for people's livelihood, such as grain, cloth, and salt, were either tax-free or only charged a very low amount of tax.

It can be said that the meticulous and reasonable tax rate is also one of the reasons for the increase of Ying Tianfu's tariffs. "

Hearing this, upright ministers like Huang Daozhou and Xie Xuelong couldn't help frowning slightly, thinking: Why does Ma Shiying's words sound like he is flattering His Majesty?

But they had to admit that what Ma Shiying said was the truth.

The large increase in tariffs by Ying Tianfu is indeed related to Aunt Zhu and the New Deal.