Liu Chun looked at Yu Han with a smile, "You are so clever, you know everything." ”

Yu Han was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Sir, thanks to Mr.'s teaching, the disciple has learned too much truth in the Jimingshan Academy, so the demon girl of the Ming Sect can't fool me at all." ”

"Well, I have a lot to do." Liu Chun smiled dumbly, "You say, did I teach this corruption and perversion of the law?" ”

Yu Han was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, absolutely not." He cried and fell to the ground, "Sir, I dare not excuse myself, I know what the old man has done all these years." But I was greedy for pleasure, I didn't dare to denounce him, and I did a lot of bad things with him, and I was innocent of death. Just begging, just begging Mr. to open the net and spare my mother, she really doesn't know anything, she is the most bitter person......" Yu Han rubbed the corners of his eyes and kept crying.

Liu Chun looked at him, just sighed, and asked people to escort him down.

The confessions of the father and son are far from each other, and they seem to be full of contradictions, but what is Liu Chun doing, how can he be confused by these appearances!

To put it bluntly, they are all shirking their guilt and blaming all the problems on Mingjiao. Some of their fathers and sons have been calculated, and some of them have meritorious deeds, and they plan to get out of this little means, and they don't put Jinyiwei in their eyes.

"Yu Xin has won, the focus of the next case is on the household department, and I must use the shortest time to find out the problems of the household department. I don't believe that a Ming Sect can go against the sky! ”

Liu Chun said categorically.

In the past, he didn't care about Mingjiao, and he was indeed negligent, but someone told him how powerful Mingjiao was, with three heads and six arms, and seventy-two changes, Liu Chun still didn't believe it.

You can't be misled by the Yu family's father and son, and you can't let a Mingjiao involve too much energy.

Liu Chun decisively mobilized elite soldiers and strong generals and went all out to attack the fortress of Hubu.

The most excited person is Xie Jin, before he attacked the Ministry of Works, touched a nose of ashes, and now he has taken over the Ministry of Households, and the same mistake cannot be made a second time.

If he gets wrong again, he's really damned.

This time, Xie Jin didn't babble, ran to check the accounts and look for evidence, but first found the household servant Gupu.

"Brother Gu, you have been Yu Xin's assistant all these years, and you have assisted him in doing a lot of things, this time the imperial court took Yu Xin, and the meaning of rectifying the household department could not be clearer. If Brother Gu can stand up, Xie Jin will definitely go all out to ensure Brother Gu's safety. I also hope that the ancient brother can understand the righteousness and assist the younger brother. ”

Xie Jin, as a scholar, was able to have such a low profile, which really surprised Gu Pu. But he still didn't have the courage to speak, so he could only say helplessly: "If the lower official is at fault, please also ask the court to punish the crime according to the law, and the lower official will not dare to complain." ”

Xie Jin sneered, "Brother Gu, I know you still have scruples, if you really handle the case according to the law, up and down, you will have to be overheaded, the court cannot abolish the entire fiscal and taxation system, but the court will definitely not allow corrupt officials to continue to do evil." Xie Jin casually handed a letter to Gu Pu.

Gu Pu hurriedly took it, unfolded it, and was immediately shocked, "This, this is the prince's edict?" ”

"Hmm!" Xie Jin nodded, "I don't have the ability to get His Majesty's will, so I only have a copy of the prince's edict, what do you think?" ”

Gu Pu was already trembling when he saw this.

Zhu Di's will, he didn't dare to ask for extravagance, and being able to have the prince's guarantee was already a great grace to open the world.

Gu Pu's hands trembled, and he crawled on the ground, "Master Xie is very gracious, the lower officials are grateful, the lower officials are now hanging by a thread, and the five are like burning, the lower officials really don't know what to do?" ”

Xie Jin sneered, "What should I do?" Tell the truth, tell the truth, it's the best. Do you have the ability to fool everyone? Yu Xin has been taken down, will he still care about you? ”

Xie Jin's words completely frightened Gu Pu, this guy was not a bold person, now that Yu Xin has been taken down, Gu Pu has long been six gods and no master, facing Xie Jin, facing Jin Yiwei, he had to pour beans into a bamboo tube and tell everything. But in his case, the blame is on Yu Xin, and he is completely innocent.

……

"How can this be true? Outrageous! ”

Zhu Di banged the table, furious, and had reached the point of madness.

Faced with the quaint confession, Zhu Di finally saw the problem of the household department clearly.

As the center of the Ming Dynasty's finance and taxation, the household department is a thing of the old era, which is completely incompatible with the changes of the times. However, Yu Xin, who is the head of the household, did not actively find ways to plug the holes and solve the drawbacks, but took advantage of these drawbacks to make a fortune in the city...... The so-called Cao Yun is actually only a small part, and the real big thing lies in the more profitable salt!

There is also a reason why Zhu Di is angry, Yu Xin can sit firmly in the household book, because he gave Zhu Di two main suggestions.

One of them is to open up the Chinese law.

The so-called Kaizhong Law is to order merchants to transport grain to Saixia, and then issue vouchers to pay salt according to the vouchers, so that the grain reserves of the border defense are sufficient, and the salt and the defense of the nine frontiers are linked together, so as to achieve the goal of raising one million soldiers without spending one or two silver. This is Zhu Yuanzhang's very proud political achievement.

Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, and Yu Xin returned to take charge of the household department, and resumed the opening of the middle law that was interrupted because of the Battle of Jingjing, and also made many adjustments and improved the corresponding details.

It was also stipulated that the people could exchange paper money for table salt.

Zhu Di felt that this method was left by his father, so he didn't doubt it and let Yu Xin do it.

According to the quaint Chen Song, in the past three years, Yu Xin has amassed millions of dollars just by opening the Chinese law!

"Liu Chun, can you see the problem?"

Zhu Di asked, as Liu Chun, who is proficient in the way of accumulating money, is completely thorough, and has already figured it out, "Your Majesty, the opening of the Chinese law was established by the first emperor, and the original intention is of course good, and even now, it seems that it is a good way." ”

"Ridiculous, there is such a big loophole, you still dare to say that opening the law is a good law?" Zhu Di's eyes widened, he blew his beard, and asked angrily.

Liu Chun said with a smile: "Your Majesty is a little restless, the minister thinks that the design of the opening of the Chinese law is good, but in the implementation, there are several issues that have not been considered clearly, so it has caused a loophole in accumulating money." Yu Xin also made a fortune by relying on these loopholes. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang designed the opening of China and France, he used salt as an attraction to allow merchants to send grain to the nine sides to ensure the needs of border defense. Then the merchant exchanged the grain for salt, and then went to the salt factory to collect the salt and sell it in the designated area.

If everything is normal, this method will definitely benefit the country and the people.

But the problem is that in the later period of the Hongwu Dynasty, a large number of military households fled from the nine borders, and the population decreased, which greatly reduced the actual food needs of the nine sides.

And on the other hand, due to the increase in the Ming household registration, the demand for salt has also risen, and the original amount of salt is not enough for the people to eat.

What would you do if you were in charge of finances and taxes?

Four words: open the salt quotation!

Merchants deliver very little grain and can get double, triple, or even more salt. They sell salt to make money, and they naturally have to be filial when they look back.

The generals of the guard on the nine sides, the household department, and the military department and the yamen can all be shared.

As the head of the household, Yu Xin is naturally making a lot of money.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the problem with the opening of the Chinese law is that there is no mediation mechanism...... For example, how many people are there in the Ming Dynasty, how much salt do they want to eat, and how much salt does the nine sides need to prescribe...... There is no answer at all, it all depends on the past practice. The problem is that the population is constantly increasing, the distribution of the population is constantly adjusting, and nothing is set in stone. ”

"Also, for the border army, how much grain is needed, how much is actually produced, and how much is transported...... None of them are supported by detailed and real data, so it is not surprising that the household department took the opportunity to make a fortune. ”

Liu Chun said eloquently, "Yu Xin's greater hatefulness is in another aspect, he said that the things produced in the tuntian fields in various places are different, please allow the products in various places to be transported to the state and used as taxes." This article is originally good, and it takes care of the actual needs of the people. However, when formulating the exchange ratio, Yu Xin played a trick, and he stipulated that two stones, millet and buckwheat, were allowed to be used as one stone of rice. Two stones and five buckets of rice and sorghum, and three stones of grass and barnyard are allowed to be used as one stone of rice. Soybeans, wheat, and sesame seeds are equal to rice. Stone-for-stone. ”

Liu Chun took a deep breath, "With so many things, there has been a serious deviation between the stipulated price and the actual price. And because there are too many types, in the process of paying grain, transportation, storage, and exchange, it is very cumbersome, and it is very easy to make mistakes. Some are unintentional, and some are deliberate. ”

Of course, Zhu Di understood what Liu Chun meant, for example, the price of sesame seeds on the market has risen, and one stone of sesame seeds can be exchanged for two stones of rice, but when the tax is collected, the tax is collected according to one to one, and after the official gets the sesame seeds, he goes to the market to exchange them for rice and puts them in storage, and he doubles his earnings.

The winery that Jin Yiwei tracked before took advantage of this difference to make a fortune.

"Liu Chun, the products are different from place to place, this is due to the climate. I can't let all over the place grow rice, or all the wheat grows, right? Since you can't, then you can't avoid greedy ink arbitrage? ”

Liu Chun thought so, "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but the minister thinks that there is another thing that can solve this problem." ”

"What's that?"

"Money!"

Liu Chun replied very simply: "Your Majesty, although the property is not the same, it will eventually be exchanged for money, as long as the imperial court collects currency uniformly, this problem will naturally be solved." ”

Liu Chun smiled, what he said was a whip method, and after so many years of preparation, it should indeed be taken out.

"No!" Zhu Di shook his head categorically, "You are a stupid trick, I can collect money, but when the imperial court needs food and materials, where can I purchase them?" If the imperial court buys in large quantities, prices are bound to skyrocket, so what should be done? ”

Liu Chun said with a smile: "Your Majesty is wise, the minister thinks that it is enough to establish a set of warehousing systems throughout the country while collecting currency!" Warehouses around the country purchase materials according to market prices and reserve them in advance. If the court needs it, it will be withdrawn from the warehouse. In addition, with the advancement of education, money has penetrated into various places, and within a few years, even rural people will understand the benefits of money. The people accepted the currency, the warehouse system was established in various places, there was room for material allocation, the tax in kind was abolished, and the money tax was used instead, and the minister thought that the time was ripe! ”

Zhu Di thought carefully for a while, "You still can't be in a hurry, let's choose two provinces to experiment first." In terms of military affairs, Zhu Di pays attention to vigorous and resolute actions, but when it comes to civil affairs, especially asking the people for money, Zhu Di has become extremely conservative.

Liu Chun was very happy that Zhu Di could think so.

"Your Majesty, there is another gift here for Your Majesty."

"Gifts? It would be nice if you didn't block me. ”

Liu Chun laughed, "If Your Majesty says this, then the minister will directly hand over Yu Xin's small treasury to the national treasury." ”

Zhu Di was anxious and hurriedly asked, "What?" Yu Xin's small treasury? How many? ”

"It's hard to say about this minister, but in short, it's more than Your Majesty, and it's a lot more."

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