In fact, for Zhu Changluo, the prince who really has some power, in addition to the formation of the palace guard command envoy, the only thing left is the right to control the fief tax. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The taxes of the Ming Dynasty are different from those of previous dynasties, that is, his taxes are not all escorted to the central court, after the tax and silver of each year are collected, most of them are used to support the vassal royal family, this part of the horror accounts for about forty percent of the total taxes, and the remaining sixty percent, three percent are retained in the office for the officials' salaries and daily expenses, and finally these three percent are the tax silver transported to the capital.

But this is not enough, the thirty percent of the tax silver that arrived in the capital, one of which belongs to the royal family, will be classified into the inner money, popularly speaking, it is the emperor's small treasury, after all, the emperor's harem expenses, reward his subordinates are all money.

In the end, the pitiful 20% or so are really included in the treasury and can be mobilized by the household department to build the country.

This may seem unreasonable, but it is true, but do not forget that the income of officials is the largest expenditure in the treasury, so although these two percent seem to be small, they can actually fall into the hands of the households, and they are only considered for disaster relief, water conservancy repair, and so on.

This practice has benefits and saves a lot of manpower and material resources!

But the same harm is also obvious, the treasury has no money, and it is okay to cope with ordinary expenses, but it is difficult to support large expenditures, such as the Korean War, the biggest reason for the anti-war in the government and the opposition is that the treasury cannot support a war, and when the emperor waved a large pen, the military expenditure was allocated from the internal funds, and the courtiers immediately closed their mouths tightly......

However, Zhu Changluo's current situation is different, as a prince who can be in charge of the feudal taxes, he not only has the power to modify the fiefdom taxes, but also how to distribute all the taxes in the future of Ping'an Mansion is decided by his Shouwang Mansion.

What's more important is that the share sent to the royal family is not necessary, that is to say, in addition to the 20% sent to the household department of the capital, the entire 80% of the taxes in the Ping'an Mansion are distributed by him, including the 40% tax that should have been left in the government.

This system was originally set by Emperor Taizu considering that most of the feudal fiefs of the vassal kings were located in military towns and that it was indispensable to resist the support of money from foreign enemies, but now it is cheaper for Zhu Changluo.

You know, for other vassal kings, although it is said that there are forty percent of the taxes to support them, but in fact it often does not fall into their hands so much, in the final analysis, layers of exploitation are everywhere, and no dynasty is an exception.

And Zhu Changluo does not have this worry, he can choose to use the taxes collected for pleasure like other vassal kings, and can also be used to build fiefdoms, anyway, as long as he does not rebel, the old Zhu family has always treated the vassal king very preferentially.

Therefore, the issue of taxation is the top priority, and it is also the most important problem that Zhu Changluo needs to solve at present.

"This king wants to tell you one thing first, about taxes, Liu Shouyou, the prefect of Ping'an Mansion, has come to this king several times to discuss, and wants to fold the commercial tax in silk, I don't know what you think about this matter?"

After a pause, Zhu Changluo finally threw this matter out, and then stopped talking, and the old god looked at the three people below.

Regarding the matter of silk tax discount, Liu Shouyou has indeed said it more than once, and now it is no longer concealed, and straightforwardly pointed out the commercial tax, the tax of the Ming Dynasty is mainly in the field tax, even after Zhang Juzheng's reform, it also accounts for about seventy percent of the overall tax, and the remaining three percent, the salt tax accounts for one percent, the messy one percent, and the commercial tax accounts for one percent.

And those who know the Ming Dynasty know that the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was very low, as low as an outrageous thirty taxes one, while the salt tax was twenty taxes and one day, and as for the highest field tax, almost ten taxes and one tax.

But even with such a low commercial tax, there are still a lot of businessmen who evade taxes, such as Liu Shouyou's proposal this time, which is a typical tax evasion that wants to change the law......

However, Zhu Changluo can see this clearly, but other people may not be able to see it, the reason why he asked so much is to see if the three people below have enough insight to be able to see through Liu Shouyou's scheme.

In other words, this is an examination school!

The three people below naturally knew this, so they pondered one after another.

However, to Zhu Changluo's surprise, the first person to speak was not Zhao Shizhen, who had the highest official position, but Yang Lian, who had been silently being a small and transparent prince since entering the palace.

"Your Highness, this plan must not be feasible!"

Almost in a short moment, Yang Lian stepped forward and said categorically.

"Oh? Why? ”

Zhu Changluo was surprised in his heart, but his face was not revealed at all, and he continued to speak.

"Your Highness!"

As soon as Yang Lian's words came out, he realized that something was wrong.

You must know that the order of speaking above the officialdom is very particular, like this situation, His Royal Highness King Shou is obviously asking Xu Changshi and Commander Luo's opinions, he is a mere discipline, and he only has the share of an observer, not to mention speaking before the two of them?

But since he has spoken, he can only bite the bullet and continue.

"The minister thinks that my dynasty has its own custom of taxation, and now His Royal Highness has newly arrived in Ping'an Mansion, and has not checked the tax situation, and the prefect proposed to modify the tax system, I am afraid that it is ill-intentioned, so the minister thinks that His Royal Highness should think twice about this matter!"

Zhu Changluo raised his eyebrows, looking at Yang Lian, whose face was flushed, but he sighed a little in his heart.

Today's bureaucratic atmosphere is so serious that even young talents like Yang Lian dare not speak out, for fear of violating the unspoken rules, for the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, their integrity and direct advice are only for Shilin to see, only when facing the emperor, they will not be afraid of crime.

Because even if the emperor punishes them, it won't be too serious, and they will have a good reputation, so why not?

On the other hand, they did not dare to offend their superiors, let alone touch the subtle rules of the court for a long time, because for them this is fatal.

Zhu Changluo had long known this, but what he didn't expect was that in his newly established Shouwang Mansion, there would be such a situation......

Yang Lian obviously saw the drawbacks in the silk tax discount, otherwise he would not subconsciously speak out against it, but even if he saw it, he still cared about some rules in the officialdom and did not dare to say it before Zhao Shizhen, which made Zhu Changluo a little unhappy.

However, he also knew that Yang Lian couldn't be blamed for this, after all, the atmosphere was like this now, but he was slightly bored in his heart, Zhu Changluo turned his head to Zhao Shizhen and asked.

"What does Zhao Changshi think about this matter?"

ps: Nine o'clock in the next chapter~ (To be continued.) )