Chongzhen never thought that at this time, Zhu Jie would directly take his own army, too, Zhu Jie said just now, if you want to break through the dead end and untie the dead knot of the political situation of the Daimyo, then you must break the big stand, and you need to show the courage to swallow the universe, if you don't even dare to express your stance on this matter, wouldn't it really be a shame for this general?

"Zhu Aiqing!"

Chongzhen smiled proudly and replied, "In other aspects, maybe I am lacking, but I have never lacked courage and courage!" At the beginning of my accession to the throne, how arrogant was Wei Gelding? Known as nine thousand years old, among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, at least sixty percent of them were Wei Eunuch's henchmen, known as the Eunuch Party, covering the sky with one hand, calling for wind and rain, and I came out of the Great Treasure, with nothing, didn't I sweep away the entire Eunuch Party in one breath? How was Yuan Chonghuan back then, he boasted to me about Haikou, saying that in five years of Pingliao, I would support him with the strength of the whole country, and he never hesitated! I don't have that much to look ahead for! ”

Fang Yuegong was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must not, now that state affairs are struggling, it is difficult to get up, it is the time when you need to use warm medicine to slow down the fire, if it comes up is the medicine of the tiger and wolf, wouldn't it directly kill you?" Please ask the emperor to draw it slowly! ”

Chongzhen is the emperor, he is a man of his word, naturally there is nothing to hesitate, anyway, in the end, someone always wipes his buttocks, but he Fang Yuegong can't do it, Zhu Jie is fully recommended by him and Sun Chuanting, once these measures are implemented, he is above the court, it will be the target of the public, and when the time comes, he can only get out of the court!

"What? Fang Aiqing, are you afraid? ”

Chongzhen's face sank, and he asked in a gloomy voice.

Fang Yuegong is now dumb and eats Coptis chinensis, he can't say what he suffers, are he afraid? If he admits that he is afraid in front of the emperor, he will get out of the court now, the emperor is crazy alone, once he is impulsive, he is the king of heaven, and he will cut it right!

"Your Majesty, the ministers, the ministers are definitely not afraid of ......, but, but it is too dangerous to do this, it will cause great turmoil in the court, and now there are internal and external troubles, if the court is unstable, then it will really be ......"

Fang Yuegong's next words didn't dare to say any more, but the meaning was obvious, it was such a fierce tiger and wolf medicine when he came up, it was difficult not to die......

Chongzhen's face was very ugly, in his mind, Fang Yuegong was already a bold and capable minister, but now he was even timid!

"Your Majesty, listen to Weichen's words......"

Zhu Jie on the side spoke again.

Chongzhen's face softened slightly, and he replied, "If you have anything to say, you can continue." ”

"Your Majesty, what Lord Fang said, it's not that there is no truth at all, Lao Cheng's words are serious, and now he is sick and sick, and it is the medicine of the tiger and wolf, it is indeed a life of nine deaths, although once successful, the effect is huge, however, the risk is also great, and only the emperor can weigh the severity, if even Lord Fang does not support it, then the minister can only come up with a middle strategy......"

"Do you have a good plan?"

Fang Yuegong's heart was frightened for a while, and he smiled bitterly: "Zhu Jie, I hope you come this time to be gentle, but the heart of this official can't withstand such a fright......"

Chongzhen frowned and replied, "What other good plan do you have?" ”

Zhu Jie smiled: "This is not a good strategy, it is just a model of the old system of the predecessors and inspired by others." The emperor asked the emperor to decree the implementation of the old system of buying and fighting in the Zhao and Song dynasties, recovering the salt, mining rights, and even mining taxes in the hands of the nobles of various places and vassal kings, and all of them were nationalized, and then re-implemented the purchase and puff! ”

"Buy-to-poop?"

Chongzhen frowned and asked, "What is the meaning of buying?" ”

Fang Yuegong on the side hurriedly said: "Emperor Qi, there is the Song Dynasty, salt, iron, tea and wine and other materials are all monopolized by the government, and private production and trading are prohibited, but the government operates, which involves huge personnel costs, and it is to gradually form a buying system, that is to say, the government will delegate the management power in its hands to the private merchants, and the merchants will pay gold and silver to the court at a certain price!" ”

Chongzhen nodded slightly, and asked Zhu Jie, "You mean to let me take back the management power of salt, iron, tea, wine and other materials?" But do you know that if you do this, you are also cutting the flesh of the royal nobles? ”

Zhu Jie smiled: "Your Majesty, you may not know how much benefit there is, if you knew, you would definitely not be so generous......"

"Oh?"

Chongzhen asked, "Tell me about it!" ”

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, it is estimated by the ministers that the salt consumed by a person in a year should be about five catties, the Ming Dynasty, the population is seventy or eighty million, even if it is an adult, there are 50 million people, and the salt consumed in a year is forty thousand catties, forty thousand catties, what a huge amount this is, the salt of the national dynasty is positioned in ten outlines, each outline is 200,000 citations, and each quotation is about 300 catties. A lead to salt, now worth four taels, two million leads, that is worth eight million taels, this is not counting the private salt, these should be the most important source of income for the imperial court, but they were given to the royal family and the old respectively, but the treasury is empty, the emperor, if the eight million taels of silver are placed in the treasury, do you think about it, the imperial court still needs to live so hard? ”

Forehead......

The flesh on Chongzhen's cheeks kept twitching, and it was obvious that this was distressing! Eight million taels! How much does the Ming Dynasty earn in a year? It's all silver, silver with white flowers!

Chongzhen was full of resentment towards his ancestors and ancestors for the first time, you are very generous, as soon as you let go, the salt will be thrown out, you may have thought that I am now poor and even reluctant to eat meat?

"Your Majesty, this is just salt, we still have tea tax, mining tax, wine tax, over the years, the imperial court has collected only a handful of mining taxes, wine taxes, and tea taxes every year, but it does not mean that these transactions are not profitable, since ancient times, the profits of salt and iron are huge profits, we have all watched this money enter the pockets of private individuals, and every penny of silver falls into the treasury, there is no money, well, with all due respect, this is the imperial court's own ......."

"You mean to levy all of this? This also involves almost all the old things of the powerful, is there no resistance? ”

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, this is wrong, the emperor collects taxes from the powerful royal family, and there are ancestral rules to restrain it, if you don't change it, it's not considered grace, if you change it, it's mean and unkind; However, salt, iron, wine and tea were originally official camps, and it was only because of the emperor's grace that the rights such as salt were gradually given to the royal magnates, but in the past two hundred years, with the reward step by step, there is no longer excess salt and mine rights in the hands of the imperial court, and all the rewards have been given. What did the emperor get in exchange? Is it brave and faithful? No way? ”