First Minister of Ming Dynasty

But Wang Huan was full of disdain, "Zhang Xianggong is just a nerd. No matter how good the article is, he doesn't understand government affairs. He is not much better than Zhu Xi!"

Well, what a big breath!

When he said this, Zhang Ximeng's eyes suddenly became severe, and then he was silent, just staring at the back of Wang Huan's head coldly.

It's been a long time, and I haven't seen someone who is so eager to die, let me take a good look, what can you do?

Li Shanchang was stunned for a moment, but he also became curious. This time, not only me, but even Zhang Ximeng was despised, and Li Shanchang's mood was so slightly better.

"What on earth do you mean? In your eyes, are both civil and military under the command of Wu Wang so unbearable?"

Wang Huan knelt forward and crawled half a step forward. He straightened his back, and he was so solemn.

"So that Li Xiang can know...Although the king of Wu is not allowed to have money for field work, the local yamen still needs to operate, and it also needs daily expenses. Moreover, the king of Wu widely opened the imperial examination, and the number of local clerks and servants has greatly increased compared with before. All these need An astonishing amount of money, food and taxes can be supported."

"The villain also learned that when he was in Huaixi, the king of Wu used the grain chief to collect local land taxes and unify the treasury. In addition, he set up military settlements to fill the army grain. The soldiers fought bravely to be the first, and the peasants eagerly transported the grain, so that the king of Wu is prosperous today!"

As expected of a wealthy family, this Wang Huan actually explained the secrets of Zhu Jiajun's finances and taxes in a few words.But think about it, don't be too surprised.

With the strength of the Wang family, they will definitely help the Yuan court collect taxes, whether it is land taxes, grain, or commercial taxes, they have all been in contact.Anyone with a little common sense knows that the Yuan court indulged merchants and powerful merchants. To put it bluntly, these people are all officials and merchants, and there is nothing unusual about knowing how the government works.

"Li Xianggong, there is a saying that a king will prosper with this, and he will die with it. Using grain to collect grain for a long time and using people to transport grain does save a lot of trouble and a lot of officials. It seems that the king of Wu will not be able to benefit for a while. It will be easily abolished. But the food chief must not be an official, and there is no way to transfer the taxation to the court step by step."

"As far as the present is concerned, the villain knows that there are many grain chiefs in Chuzhou, Hezhou and other places. They only need to send tax grains to Yangzhou without going through the Ministry of Households. And some of these tax grains have to be kept. For local use, as King Wu's territory expands and his population increases, more and more tax and food will be retained and transshipped...Wise as Mr. Li, he will not fail to understand how much he can do here Missing."

As if that wasn't enough, Wang Huan continued, "King Wu was born in a poor family. How much money has he ever seen? Zhang Xiang is young, and he doesn't know how to use firewood, rice, oil, and salt. He's working on equalizing the land is a bit clever, but after equalizing the land, , isn’t it still necessary to collect land taxes? Since land taxes are to be collected, someone must do it, and it must involve how to distribute these land taxes...”

Wang Huan talked eloquently, not only digging Li Shanchang, but also despising Zhang Ximeng, and now he still looks down on Zhu Yuanzhang... Successfully completed the three kills, and was on the way to death, sitting on a rocket, rushing crazily.

He was also complacent, and even came up with a specific method.

"Li Xiang only needs to set aside a part of the land and count it as the local government's expenses. He ordered the head of grain to be used exclusively by the Hangzhou government and the surrounding soldiers and horse officials. In this way, the imperial household department will not be able to control these acres. King Wu There, as long as there is sufficient food to be transported to Taicang, he will take care of other things flawlessly. And how to deal with these lands, and how to make money make money, it is not up to the means of villains! At that time, as long as there are more mulberry trees, how many Building tea gardens, and relying on overseas trade, the money earned from the barbarians is more than hundreds of thousands!"

……

"say no more!"

Li Shanchang suddenly shouted angrily, interrupting Wang Huan's words, his body was already shaking.

Wang Huan also thought that he was being persuaded, couldn't control himself, and needed to be quiet, so he obediently kept his mouth shut, waiting for Lao Li to succumb to his gold and silver offensive.

Don't look at me kneeling now, you are standing.

As long as you take my money and do things for me, then you, Prime Minister Li, will kneel down!

After so many years, are there still few officials in our royal family?

No one can stand this set.

Li Shanchang was indeed frightened, but it was just the opposite of Wang Huan's understanding.

Zhu Jiajun has developed to this day, and the fiscal and taxation system urgently needs to be upgraded.

In the past period of time, Zhang Ximeng didn't ask about this. He, Li Shanchang, just kept pushing the car forward, and didn't take the initiative to make up for the loopholes.

As a result, a royal family popped up and came up with the means of how to accumulate wealth.

For Lao Li, this is almost an inexplicable matter.

Did you, Old Li, do it on purpose?

How much are you greedy for?

Did you still do those bad things?

Li Shanchang's head was buzzing. If this reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, wouldn't he be torn to pieces?

"Insanity!"

Lao Li just said these two words, and left. Wang Huan was shocked. He didn't understand why Li Shanchang didn't take the bait when he offered such a high price.

Did I guess wrong

"Li Xianggong, the life and death of our royal family rests on you. I also hope that Li Xianggong will not abandon the villain. The villain, the villain still has several golden Buddhas in the temple, the largest one is worth ten thousand taels of gold! In addition, the villain Under the temple property, there are [-] mu of mulberry fields, which can also be dedicated to Mr. Li! All in all, as long as Mr. Li..."

"Go away!"

Li Shanchang didn't want to listen at all, there were enough reminders, and now he just wanted to deal with the Wang family as soon as possible.

Seeing that Li Shanchang couldn't be bribed no matter what, Wang Huan gritted his teeth. He stood up from the ground, looked at Li Shanchang viciously, and said with a sneer, "Prime Minister Li, do you think the Wang family is a dog? You killed us. The property is also yours?"

Li Shanchang just snorted coldly, too lazy to speak, do you still want to threaten the old man?

Overcome!

Wang Huan gritted his teeth, and said viciously: "Li Xiang, as long as you promise to let us live, everyone can live in peace, that's the best! If you don't want to, there are people from our family around this garden, The villain has no other skills, but it is still possible to hold you, Li Xianggong, and go to Suzhou!"

Is this going to tear your face off?

Li Shanchang looked at Zhang Ximeng who had been silent all this time, and he said slowly: "Master Zhang, you have been listening for so long, when you come, I asked you to prepare manpower so as not to arrest both of us, did you arrange it? "

Zhang Xiang!

Wang Huan was stunned. Only then did he notice that the young man dressed as a servant was actually Zhang Ximeng?He heard what he just said?

Zhang Ximeng smiled faintly, "Brother Li, I don't know who is right to let us protect the two of us, so I asked Zhu Ying to send a message to the lord, and I think the lord will take action."

what?

Did Zhu Yuanzhang know?

Now it's not just Wang Huan, even Li Shanchang feels like a thunderbolt... Zhang Ximeng, you don't talk about martial arts!

Chapter 315 Finance

After Wang Huan cast the bait, he waited in this garden for Li Shanchang to take the bait.He gave Li Shanchang two manors, but the other was thirty miles away from Hangzhou. It was impossible for Li Shanchang to travel that far.

Moreover, Wang Huan felt that with Li Shanchang's virtue, as long as he was willing to spend his money, there would be nothing he couldn't accomplish.In fact, he arranged very few thugs.

In the end, he threatened to hold Li Shanchang hostage, which was also an act of desperation and helplessness after breaking the defense.

Officialdom is like the rivers and lakes, it has never been about fighting and killing. Isn't it good to be able to sit together, eat and drink, and extract surplus value together?

Why bother to tear your skin apart.

Because of this, when Wang Huan wanted to yell and arrest people, these things were far away, even outside the courtyard.To run in, it takes time,

Before they came in, someone rushed over and took down these thugs.

Guo Ying and Zhu Ying, one in front of the other, rushed in and headed straight for Zhang Ximeng.

"Brother, are you alright?"

Zhang Ximeng grinned, "It's okay, Brother Li, are you okay?"

At this time, Li Shanchang saw clearly that it was Guo Ying who came, and he was also relieved.

Although this kid is not easy to deal with, there is always hope to suppress him.

"Did the superior send you here?"

Zhu Ying smiled and said: "No, it was Godfather who brought us here! He was worried about the two prime ministers, so he came here in person."

As soon as Zhu Ying turned her head, she happened to see Lao Zhu, striding forward with a threatening look.

Li Shanchang took a look at Lao Zhu, and was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, his heart beating violently!

Broken, really broken!

Even what Wang Huan said just now, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know.But this matter can't be hidden, there is such a big loophole in the taxation, but this bastard bribed himself again, the superiors will definitely suspect that he did it intentionally, deliberately opening the door for bribery.Even if he was lucky enough to save his old life, he would probably go home and take care of his grandson just like Tao An.

How can this be good?

Li Shanchang was so annoyed that he could see it much more clearly than Tao An. Sooner or later, Zhu Yuanzhang will rule the world. At that time, he will be the founding minister of the country, and he is destined to be famous and recorded in the annals of history forever.

If the car overturned at this time, it would be more uncomfortable than killing him.

Lao Li asked himself, probably he would find a tree with a crooked neck and hang himself.

There are not many people who can save Li Shanchang now. He subconsciously looked at Zhang Ximeng, but Zhang Ximeng ignored him at all, but hurriedly greeted Zhu Yuanzhang and bowed deeply.

"My lord, how can you risk yourself?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted, "You dare to come, why don't we dare? You don't know how to bring more guards in such a wolf's den? What if there is a mistake?"

Zhang Ximeng grinned wryly, he came here with Li Shanchang, in order to find out the gift giver, if there was a big fanfare, wouldn't he run away?

Fortunately, at this time Li Shanchang came over in a hurry, bowed his head and saluted, and said in shame: "The superior is all confused. The minister is in a hurry and wants to find out the animals that bribed him. It caused Zhang Xiang and the minister to commit danger together. Please punish the superior!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him, why don't you give it to Mr. Zhang when others give you gifts and bribes?

Flies don't bite seamless eggs!

You, Li Shanchang, must have stink first, attracting mosquitoes chasing the stinky smell... It's wishful thinking to fool around lightly!

However, there is no rush to take down Li Shanchang right now, but to use his hands to thoroughly investigate the Wang family!If you dare to attack our two important ministers, you can still be patient!

Thinking of this, Lao Zhu sighed heavily: "Mr. Li also has good intentions, we will not blame Mr. for such a trivial matter."

The implication is that if it's something bigger, it's not good.

Li Shanchang is worried, but there is nothing he can do, he can only see if God is willing to let him go...

The three monarchs and ministers gathered together, and the three of them looked down at Wang Huan together.

This man who was talking eloquently just now, underestimated Zhu Yuanzhang, despised Zhang Ximeng, and thought he could pinch Li Shanchang to death, is now as soft as a lump of mud. .

What kind of luck do you have?

He wanted to bribe Li Shanchang, but ended up provoking these most powerful people.

Could it be the Heavenly Dead Wang family?

A person was so frightened that he didn't even have the courage to beg for mercy, so he could only collapse there like a lump.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked over, looked at Wang Huan, and said with a sneer, "It's this animal, who dares to do harm to our two prime ministers? He's so insane, he deserves to be hacked to pieces!"

Li Shan is overjoyed, superior, hurry up and kill this troublesome child!I beg you.

But Li Shanchang didn't dare to speak, because Zhang Ximeng had already laughed.

"My lord, this person is not just a mad animal, but also a talented person with a lot of vision... just now he was too scholarly, and the lord had never seen money! He also gave brother Li a few dollars a year. 10 taels is a good idea, I think such a person, even if he wants to kill him, he should talk to him first!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite surprised. He had seen arrogant ones, but he had never seen such arrogant ones.

"Look, what great insights do you have?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked twice, Wang Huan was still in his soul wandering, and didn't know how to answer, Zhang Ximeng leaned down, "Wang Huan, are you going to kill everyone without saying a word?"

Hearing the next four words, Wang Huan seemed to come back to life. His strong survival instinct prompted him to struggle, lying on the ground, and kowtowed desperately.

"The villain deserves to die, the villain is confused, I just ask King Wu to spare the villain's family!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on this kind of cowardice, and turned his head aside.

Zhang Ximeng was very interested. He smiled and said, "Wang Huan, you just divide the land, but how to collect taxes and how to distribute the collected land tax is a big question. I don't care about this big question." I understand, I think you have a lot of experience, so why not, let's discuss it, maybe you can be counted as a crime and a meritorious service!"

The last sentence made Wang Huan tremble. He thought about it for a long time before slowly saying: "The money comes from the power! The money is used from the power! The villain, the villain thinks that the king of Wu only has strength, but No right!"

Good guy, is he really a madman?

How dare you question Lao Zhu's power, why don't you try it with your own head and see if Zhu Yuanzhang dares to kill your whole family?

Obviously, Wang Huan is not so superficial, he did tell the essence of some problems...

As we all know, the fiscal and taxation system of the Ming Dynasty was very bad, but it seems difficult to know exactly where it was bad.

There is a widely circulated rumor that the annual financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty is only a few million taels, which is far worse than that of the Song Dynasty, and it is simply rubbish... If this is true, it should be the Song Dynasty Ah, the Ming Dynasty spent less than one-tenth of the money to maintain the country for almost 300 years. What an achievement this is!

The financial efficiency is simply ridiculous!

Obviously, this is impossible, so what is wrong?

The mistake is to equate the national tax revenue with the income of the household department, and then equate the annual income of the household department with the Taicang tax bank, and then come up with a small outrageous fiscal revenue.

If it really relied on such a small amount of income, it would have lasted for such a long time, and the Ming Dynasty would almost have all its officials upright.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty’s tax office was far more than just the Household Department, and the taxes collected were not limited to Ding Yintian Fu... The degree of complexity is simply indescribable.

To give a simple example, the Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty not only built palaces and construction projects, but also collected taxes.The tax levied by the Ministry of Industry is called bamboo and wood deduction, which is about collecting taxes on bamboo and wood, firewood, coal, bricks, lime, etc., which are related to fuel and building materials.

This thing is included in the account of the Ministry of Works, and has nothing to do with the Ministry of Households.

If you think the tax collection by the Ministry of Industry is outrageous, then there are even more outrageous things behind it. Guanglu Temple, as the government office responsible for the court's meals, also has the right to collect taxes from the people.

The rice and grain materials in hand are used to supply the palace expenses.