The emperor's desire to go to Asia to have a look became stronger and stronger, especially after the difference in his perception of that land, he said to King Lu in a very serious tone in the palace more than once: "They must be talking about the dangerous and barren land of Asia, hey! ”

"Look at the people who ate wild beef at the palace banquet and ate their mouths full of oil, and drank giant turtle soup until they couldn't walk - I asked General Luo Shen, that wild beef is something that the soldiers of Majiagang can eat once in three days, and General Luo Shen drank giant turtle soup for a month!"

At this time, the young King Lu felt a strong envy from his brother.

The first phase of the Beiyang baggage fleet did not bring back any goods when it returned, but by the time the second phase of the baggage returned to the voyage, a lot of goods were brought back, which even made the little emperor conjecture.

Outside the Imperial Horse Prison in the Forbidden City, Emperor Wanli, who was dragging the tail of a calf, suddenly tilted his head and asked King Lu: "Look, in the first phase of Beiyang, I have a heavy fleet of 200 or 300?" That's what they brought back. ”

"By the second phase of Beiyang, I have sent 1,500 ships, Jing Haibo has almost filled 1,300 ships, and the teacher's beard is full of joy these days, and I heard that the tariff of this half-moonlight is more than 1.7 million taels, and the city tax has not yet been calculated...... Beiyang Phase III is about to go, right? ”

As the elder brother's royal humanoid cat bed, King Lu, who was sitting cross-legged on the grass of the horse farm, held the cat in his arms, and his little face was full of reluctance, and asked, "What is the imperial brother going to do?" ”

Can Zhang Juzheng not be happy? The world is rolling in an interesting direction, and the originally devastated country carries a thousand pounds of weight in the hearts of every courtier, but now? The burden should still be there, but it always makes people feel less heavy.

In the past, I was afraid of land annexation, but in fact, I was not afraid of annexation, but because I was afraid that the people would have no way to live if they had no land.

The problem of land annexation is still serious, but what about the displaced people? There are no homeless!

There was a drought in the northwest, and the grain grown that year was sold for silver and paid taxes, so there was no way but to sell the fields, but the price of the fields in the dry season was cheap, and it was just enough to pay taxes when they were sold, so what should we do next year if we have no land? You have to work as a tenant helper, go bankrupt, and sell your daughters.

But in recent years, there have been more singles, where are factories around the country not recruiting? When I couldn't pay my taxes in the drought, I went to the factory to work as a helper, and did some odd jobs to not only earn taxes for a month, but also to eat later.

A clan decree was issued, allowing the lowest-level poor clans to work in factories in the five provinces of North and South, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

The Lu rice of the clan and the Yu Lu of the border army, the heavy burden of thousands of catties on the imperial court in the past, suddenly the capital transportation of Burma, Luzon, and Java can solve more than half of it.

Hundreds of ships of cotton from the Western military government are shipped back every season, and Malacca cannot collect taxes, but the customs of the five provinces have more imports than Malacca.

What's more, overseas trade can be taxed three times.

If you buy goods in the territory, you have to pay a 10% discount tax to the territory, but the customs is Ming; If you want to ship goods to China, you have to pay half of the color tax to the customs, and the customs is still Ming; No matter how you want to sell the sea, you can only collect and distribute it in the five provinces and cities, and pay half of the tax after changing hands.

Even so, maritime merchants still flocked to it.

Because the profits are too high, these taxes will eventually be passed on to everyone in the transaction, and there will still be money to be made in the end.

Since the Western military government was set in Goa, cotton was like giving it for nothing there, and even most of the maritime chambers of commerce chose to buy land there to open factories, spin cotton thread directly locally at a low labor cost and sell it back, and there was no need to sell it to other places.

In the past, it was bartering, exchanging cotton thread for cotton cloth, selling some of it to Java for grain, and some of it being taken back to India and then sold.

Food is tax deductible.

This kind of super-large trade court earns a small head, although the amount of shipments and purchases is huge, it can account for less than 30% of the imperial court tariffs, after all, the unit price is low.

The profits of the imperial court were traded in large quantities of valuables such as pearls, ivory, and precious stones, which led to an explosive increase in tax revenue in the Ming Empire.

Inflated treasury revenues, more than anything will solve the problem.

When he was in charge of the country at the beginning, the thing that made him the happiest in front of Zhang Juzheng was that the imperial court still had a balance of one million taels in the treasury this year.

Now that he is regent, what worries Zhang Juzheng is how to spend the 10 million taels he earned in the treasury last year and saved this year.

"Barren land, barren land can have so many jade?"

The little emperor didn't compete with the calf anymore, let the Asian girl in the colorful flower armor run freely on the grass, panted and sat cross-legged beside King Lu, and naturally took the cat into his arms, raised his chin and said: "How about sending 2,000 boats this year?" ”

King Lu didn't want to leave his hometown, and had a deep resistance to the land over there, although the cat in his arms was gone, the two hands still maintained their original posture, and their right hands slowly stroked in the air, and after a while they realized this action, clenched their fists and said, "Send another 100,000 people?" ”

"No, General Luo said that there is no shortage of people in Asia, 80,000 people have frightened the county officials in the past, and the people are still short of food at sea, so just send a boat to go over."

Xiao Wanli said with a wicked smile on his face that the conspiracy had succeeded, and said: "Let them settle down first, and when my Tengxiang Erwei is well trained, I will send Wuxiang Erwei to it, probably waiting for the fifth phase of Beiyang." ”

"Wait until the seventh phase, and then send four more guards; Nine phases of eight guards! Sooner or later, send away all those who can't fight! ”

After opening his hand and saying his ambition, Xiao Wanli paused and waited for the praise that should come, but saw that his younger brother was silent, and when he turned his head, he heard King Lu pouting and asking as if he had received a lot of grievances: "Why does the imperial brother send everything that can't be beaten to the vassal kingdom of his younger brother?" ”

"This is called the strong and the weak, respecting the humble and knowing that everything has its place." Xiao Wanli, who shook his head, did not shy away from it, and said: "It's okay, you have Jing Haibo, a confidant of me, to watch, if you encounter a war, you have your own Beiyang Banner Army to fight, and the soldiers who sent the guards in the past are not soldiers, but people." ”

"Didn't you just learn how to race horses?"

Not to mention, this feeling of being a good teacher is really good for the little emperor!

Wanli gained great satisfaction from King Lu's inquisitive eyes, and smacked his lips and said: "After the battle of Tumubao, the guards can't fight, and the country has a battalion to recruit troops and a new flag army Beiyang, and the guards are the most unbeatable of all the soldiers." ”

"The most can't fight, it's better than the people can fight. I thought that the Nawei army and the people of the foreign country were like dismounting from the middle horse, alas...... What a blessing for the Empire that I have such wisdom! ”

The little emperor applauded himself, woke up the cat in his arms, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to soothe him, and did not forget to raise his chin and hook his finger towards King Lu: "Come here with your ears, I will give you a mission, in a few days you will go to the queen mother, and say that you want to go to Beiyang to watch the military parade, if the queen mother doesn't let you, she will say that you will go to sea in a few years." ”

King Lu blinked: "Brother Huang, my brother doesn't want to." ”

"No, no, no, how fun the parade is, and you can still take a boat! You want to, you want to, you want to! ”

Xiao Wanli nodded even when he said: "Don't just cry and think so." ”

King Lu's face was full of sorrow, like an orange cat worried in Wanli's arms, he was under the pressure of life at a young age, and he sighed helplessly, and said weakly: "Brother I really want to watch the parade......

Wanli clenched his small fist and encouraged: "That's right! You really want to watch the parade, if you don't let it go, you will make trouble! ”

"But, what if the queen mother is still not allowed? It's very dangerous to go out of the palace, even if you let your brother go to see it, you won't let the royal brother follow, right? ”

Xiao Wanli was like being struck by lightning, and muttered to himself: "Yes, do you want me to follow...... It's okay, I'll tell the queen mother two days later, wait until you I'm ready, if it doesn't work, let the soldiers and horses enter Beijing after the New Year, and summon envoys from all over the world, although you can't take a boat, it's also interesting to see. ”

"I drank a sip of wine two days ago, and it was quite interesting to be dizzy, and in a few days I will convene a palace banquet under the name of another project, and then let Wang An secretly hide a bottle of wine, and let you drink some when I go back."

"That's it, remember!" Xiao Wanli didn't forget to tell him in the end: "Don't say that I let you say this, or I will be beaten again." ”