It's a pity that Chongzhen never thought of using this method to take the silver under his control, otherwise, let alone get all the silver into his hands, even if it is only one percent or even one thousandth, it is estimated that it will be enough for him to feed a million army without any problem, and it will not increase the salary every year, and the result will eventually lead to the anger of the heavens and people, the disintegration of people's hearts, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

And even if Chongzhen is unwilling to use this method to make money, in fact, there is another way for Daming to solve the financial problem without having to increase the assignment every year.

That is to levy, to levy taxes, to levy taxes on merchants! The Ming Dynasty has always been light on business, but strangely it has never thought that the taxation of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is taxed, is only a little symbolic.

Although the Ming government used some means from time to time to force some merchants to undertake some material supply in the form of investment or apportionment, and indeed caused many small craftsmen and some small merchants to go bankrupt for this, but in fact, for the big businessmen, the taxes they bear are extremely low.

It's not that every emperor of the Ming Dynasty hasn't thought of this method, but they are facing a problem, that is, as long as there are rich businessmen, who secretly has no collusion or nepotism with those who are officials?

Officials of the Ming Dynasty, who doesn't benefit from this? Don't look at what sages and sages those who have been in charge since childhood, they are all inferior when they open their mouths and close their mouths, they only read highly, and they look down on businessmen, and in terms of system, they have always despised businessmen, and put the status of businessmen at a much lower level than that of peasants.

But in fact, the interests of businessmen have always been tied to the interests of officials, such as the salt merchants among the Hui merchants, these salt merchants secretly sell illicit salt, control a large number of underground illegal salt sales, and obtain huge profits from them.

The officials have to pay all kinds of filial piety to them every year, so they have to speak for the businessmen because they are short-handed.

Sometimes the emperor wants to collect taxes from merchants to increase financial revenue, but without exception will immediately attract the collective advice of the ministers, saying that it is not easy to compete with the people for profit, this kind of thing will cause very bad consequences, in short, the emperor wants to reach out to the merchants to ask for money, there is no door! They have to put this money in their pockets, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the country! To ask for money from merchants is to rob them of their money, and the emperor can't do it! Everyone formed a group and fought to the end with the emperor.

As a result, the emperor saw that his ministers were so opposed, and of course he had no choice but to do it, because he wanted to collect taxes, but someone had to do the work for him! The ministers are all against it, and this kind of thing can't be carried out, so he can't go door to door to find merchants to collect taxes under His Majesty's Majesty!

There are such a bunch of bastard things, all of them are sanctimonious on the surface, they don't have a backache when they stand and talk, and they all look high-spirited, but they are full of male thieves and prostitutes who are doing things for the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty wants to increase more financial revenue, which is really not easy, so in desperation, I can only continue to reach out to those farmers at the bottom of society, and if there is no money, I will increase the distribution, and if the money is not enough, I will increase the endowment!

If you do this, if you don't want to finish playing, I'm afraid God won't do it!

Of course, if Chongzhen still wants to get money from other places, it is not absolutely impossible, at least he can completely abandon the sea closure policy, open the sea ban, set up city shipping divisions in various places, and follow the example of the two Song Dynasty periods, collect import and export taxes through the city shipping division, this year, I'm afraid it will not only collect millions of taels of silver! It is easy to feed a large number of troops, without watching the catastrophes in various places, not only do they not give relief, but they have to continue to increase their distribution, and they have been playing with themselves to death.

Speaking of the city, the reason why the Song Dynasty was rich is undoubtedly related to the fact that the Song Dynasty has always pursued the policy of opening ports, encouraging business, and encouraging export trade.

The annual financial income of the Song Dynasty, even in the later Southern Song Dynasty, had an annual income of more than tens of millions, and at that time, it was almost one or two pieces of silver, even in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the annual income was quite large.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country's annual financial revenue was only two million taels, and Zhang Juzheng worked hard to govern the country, but it doubled to four million taels, and in the year of the Apocalypse, it continued to be increased, basically fixed at 5.2 million taels, and during the Chongzhen period, because of the continuous increase in Liao's salary, training salary, and salary, it was vigorously increased to more than six million taels, but it almost killed the peasant strata of the entire country, and finally tossed the Ming Dynasty to death.

The disparity between the gaps during this period can be seen how big it is, which is also the tragedy caused by the closure of the country all the time in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy for the emperor to be the emperor! There is really a lack of money in hand.

To say that the Ming Dynasty is not finished, it is really unreasonable, this is like sitting on Baoshan, but the poor jingle is the same, obviously the country's accumulated wealth is huge, but it is stunned that it can't be collected, every day Emperor Chongzhen is worried about losing his hair for no money, and he can only keep squeezing those poor jingle peasants, forcing the peasants to not survive, and it is strange if they do not rebel.

However, Yu Xiaotian is too lazy to care about this kind of thing, and he will not be stupid to go to the imperial court to make suggestions, and give the court ideas on how to make money, now he controls the sea trade channels along the coast of Fujian, and when Chongzhen was three years old, he only collected the money for the purchase of the sea merchants, and there was a net of nearly two million taels of silver in a year.

With this income alone, he basically topped more than one-third of the entire annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty now wants to open the port and set up a city to collect taxes, then wouldn't it be to rob him of his job?

So he won't care about Daming's lack of money now, since this Daming is rotten now, he would rather watch Daming go down so completely, one day he will kick this Daming edifice down, and completely remove the shortcomings of Daming from the root, and he will never take action now to help Daming survive.

When the dynasties changed the sky, there were inevitably dead people, many people died, but this is also the price that must be paid for historical changes, if you don't pay such a price, then you can't build a new social system and social structure, and what he has to do now is to take the opportunity to continue to make money, and get enough funds to support him to go north in the future and chase the Central Plains.

At present, he is doing quite well, at least the sea wolf is no longer like a few years ago, making money with one hand and spending money with the other, and there is almost never much silver in the treasury.

Although it has only been a few years since he was cared for, the financial situation of the sea wolf has undergone earth-shaking changes, Yu Xiaotian no longer has to feel stretched in order to lack money, and now he has at least four million taels of silver in the treasury secretly set up in Tamsui and Keelung, not including the large amount of liquidity every day and the various funds temporarily reserved here in Weitou Bay.

If you take stock of the value of the entire plate of the Seawolf Group now, then the most conservative estimate is that the fixed funds and various movable assets and real estate that Yu Xiaotian has on hand now may not be able to cover at least 20 million taels of silver.

If this number is said to be gone, it is estimated that it can scare a large number of people, this is the sum of all the financial revenues of the entire Ming Dynasty in four or five years, if it can be handed over to Chongzhen, it is estimated that Chongzhen will not have to worry about having no money to spend for at least many years! At least Daming will no longer increase the number of factions every year because of lack of money, forcing the people to a dead end, and Daming will not end up playing himself to death.

Of course, now Yu Xiaotian will not reveal to anyone that he has such a huge wealth, on the contrary, he keeps crying poverty to Xiong Wencan, urging the arrears of wages from Fujian.

In fact, Fujian's financial situation has not been very good in recent years, and although it is not as poor as the northern provinces, there is still the problem of arrears of wages.

In the past, when the number of soldiers and horses managed by Yu Xiaotian was small, Xiong Wencan could tilt him and try to ensure that his subordinates were paid food and salary first, but now that Yu Xiaotian is the chief military officer of Fujian and is in charge of a large number of Fujian troops, Xiong Wencan also wants to give him a tilt to ensure that his soldiers and generals can get food and salary in time, which is not very realistic.

So in the past two years, Fujian has owed Yu Xiaotian a lot of food and salary, so Yu Xiaotian has not looked for Xiong Wencan to cry poor, so that Xiong Wencan now sees Yu Xiaotian, he feels embarrassed, after all, Yu Xiaotian has helped him so much, he must do what he wants, and he never perfunctory to his instructions, let the troops be sent immediately, let the disaster relief be relieved immediately, and he will not shirk or neglect at all.

But he couldn't solve the full amount of military pay for Yu Xiaotian, it was equivalent to letting the horse run, and not letting the horse eat grass, if this matter was changed to other generals, he would have stopped doing it a long time ago, even if he didn't make a public salary, at least he would be slow and delayed, but Yu Xiaotian didn't do it.

Whenever the coast is attacked by pirates, the sailors controlled by Yu Xiaotian have always heard the alarm, including bandits on land, as long as Xiong Wencan asked Yu Xiaotian to send troops, Yu Xiaotian also did not delay and immediately sent troops to suppress it.

Although they did not look down on Yu Xiaotian in their hearts, and even always maintained a hostile attitude towards Xiaotian, they had to admit that after Yu Xiaotian was appeased, the whole Fujian seemed to have become much more stable.

In particular, Yu Xiaotian's ability to control troops is very strong, but all the officers and troops under his control will soon be obedient to his rectification, and the military discipline is strict, basically doing things in various places, and there is very little harm to the local situation, which is very different from the previous official and military actions, and even the common people in many places have changed greatly in their attitude towards the officers and soldiers under Xiaotian's command.