"Rising to the top?" Emperor Jiajing looked stunned and said: "Even today's Yulu is reluctantly sent out, and the officials are given a raise?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Luo Xin said seriously: "The income of the Ming officials is too low, so low that it is not enough to support the family. Not to mention high salaries and incorruptible pensions, but the court can't force officials to live and embezzle, right? ”

Seeing that Emperor Jiajing was about to speak, Luo Xin spoke first: "If you give them a raise, although it is said that corruption and bribery cannot be eliminated, it should be better than before." And His Majesty can get the support of many officials because of this. Your Majesty don't worry about the finances of the Ming Dynasty, once the commercial tax can be collected smoothly, the Ming Dynasty will no longer have financial problems.

Your Majesty, agricultural tax and commercial tax are the two legs of Daming's finances, and now the leg of commercial tax is basically wasted, and Daming is walking on one leg. So we have to build the leg of commercial taxation. What Your Majesty has to do now is to win the support of the majority of officials, even if they are not very high. In this way, the court will not be chaotic.

In fact, the governance of the world does not depend on a few senior members of the cabinet, but on those minor officials in the world, especially those county orders. As long as they are not chaotic and grateful to His Majesty, the world will not be chaotic. His Majesty has two things to do now. ”

"Those two things?"

"The first thing is to stop rebuilding the Yuxi Palace."

Seeing Emperor Jiajing's ugly face, Luo Xin hurriedly said, "Your Majesty listened to the minister. ”

"You say!" Emperor Jiajing said angrily.

"The second thing is to increase the income of officials, and the income will be doubled directly.

In this way, His Majesty will win broad support. Subsequently, His Majesty formed a royal company. ”

"Royal ...... Firm? ”

It was a department similar to the Municipal Division, but unlike the Municipal Division, which only collected taxes, the royal corporation had a monopoly on the entire northern market. That is to say, only our royal company can do business with various tribes in the grassland, and anyone who trades with the north in the future will be smuggled and killed. ”

"This ......" Emperor Jiajing's eyes lit up, and then he shook his head and said: "If it doesn't work, they will say that I am competing with the people for profit." ”

"We didn't really want to do it, either."

"Oh?" Emperor Jiajing was slightly stunned, then reacted and said, "You mean commercial tax?" ”

"Not bad!" Luo Xin nodded and said: "Your Majesty first put on a posture of monopolizing the entire northern mutual market transactions, and then make concessions and let the business of the mutual market out, everyone can do it, the court only collects a tax of one fifteen, and this tax is only in the northern mutual market, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, it is still one out of thirty."

In this way, first, Your Majesty stopped building the Yuxi Palace before, and you have already let the hundred officials and the people of the world see your sage. Second, His Majesty used the money from the construction of the Yuxi Palace, and he would rather live in the side hall, but also give a salary to the hundred officials, so that the hundred officials can see Your Majesty's kindness.

Thirdly, His Majesty first proposed to monopolize the Northern Mutual Market, and then completely opened the Mutual Market, so that they could see His Majesty's concessions.

Fourth, His Majesty's increase in commercial taxes was only limited to the mutual market at the northern border, which made it difficult for the hundred officials to oppose after His Majesty first stopped building the Yuxi Palace, then raised the price of the hundred officials, and made concessions. This 1 out of 15 commercial tax planted the seed. ”

"And then?"

Luo Xin smiled and said: "Your Majesty, as long as there is a beginning, this is a boiled frog in warm water, and if the north has a mutual market as a start, it can be slowly implemented in the entire north." ”

"What about the South?"

Luo Xin smiled and said, "Isn't there a city division in the south?" ”

"You want to?" Jiajing's eyes flashed, and the essence burst out.

"Not bad!" Luo Xin nodded and said: "I will go to talk to the wealthy families in the southeast, if I want to exterminate the Japanese and open up the maritime trade route again, it will require a lot of funds, and it will be opened, who knows if there will be pirates again in the future?" Therefore, it is also necessary to maintain the sea in normal times, which requires a lot of silver. In this way, it is normal to raise the commercial tax of the city to 1 out of 15. And, now the initiative is in our hands. If they don't agree, we won't pacify the pirates. Even if they had goods, they couldn't trade with the vassal powers. If you want to make money, you have to agree to the tax of 1 out of 15. The most important thing is that even if they agree to take one out of fifteen, there is a lot of silver to be made, so they will definitely agree.

When they agreed, the opening opened. One out of fifteen can be slowly implemented in the south. Both the north and the south have places to implement, and the commercial tax increase of the entire Ming Dynasty will not be a problem.

Your Majesty, in fact, a lot of things are at the beginning. As long as you start, the rest will fall into place, and the difference is only a matter of time. ”

"Good!" Emperor Jiajing's eyes lit up.

"In this way, the first thing Your Majesty wants to do is to stop the construction of the Yuxi Palace and increase the salaries of the officials. Of course, on this basis, clean government should continue. If corrupt officials are caught, there will be no mercy. ”

Emperor Jiajing nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "Luo Xin, who do you think is more appropriate to be in charge of the Northern Mutual Market?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the minister is the most suitable, but the minister still has to go to the southern city, so the northern mutual market needs a talent who understands business and trade, and you can't send a layman who just goes to the Four Books and Five Classics, otherwise you will definitely suffer, and maybe you will mess things up."

Emperor Jiajing nodded and said, "What you said is good, but it's hard to find someone with trade experience." Well, you can find it from people who have had experience in Southeast City. Now apart from you, there are only three people, one is Zhang Juzheng and the other is Xu Shixing. One is Zhang Shijie.

Zhang Shijie is a corrupt official and must not be reactivated. In this way, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing are left. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but sigh: "These two people are also the generals of the defeated army. Xu Shixing was because of Xu Jie's family, and the city was almost closed. However, Zhang Juzheng directly closed the city department because of the Japanese affairs. ”

Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin with a smile and said, "These two people, who do you think is more suitable to go to the north to manage the mutual market?" This position not only involves the finance of the Ming Dynasty, but also involves the issue of commercial taxation. Very important. By the way, do you think it's better to open a mutual market there? ”

"Xuanfu."

Emperor Jiajing pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, I will appoint an official as the prefect of Xuanfu, and concurrently serve as the promotion of the mutual market." This is a fourth-grade official. Luo Xin, do you think Zhang Juzheng is suitable, or Xu Shixing is suitable? ”

"Xu Shixing!" Luo Xin said without hesitation.

"Hehe......" Emperor Jiajing smiled lightly and said: "Is it because Zhang Ju is Xu Jie's person, and Xu Shixing is your person?" ”

"There are reasons for this, but not all."

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