Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally curious about where the surplus of more than 7 million came from.

As a result, I found out that, first of all, the total tax revenue last year was more than 5 million more than the figures in previous years!

Why are the taxable income levels in previous years pretty much the same?

It suddenly went up last year? How could it possibly go up so much? A simple thought would tell you that in the years before, when the various provincial governments, prefectures, states, and counties... were reporting and compiling the data, there were still some fearless people who were obstructing the process!

Otherwise, where would so much food come from out of nowhere?

Lu Wei's heart skipped a beat.

He quickly composed himself and tried to appease the ancestor, saying, "Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty Kaiqian of Yingtian Prefecture will take care of everything for you. It's not worth it for you to get yourself upset here."

It's better if he doesn't say this.

As soon as you say this.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt even more suffocated in his heart. He gave him a cold look and moved his lips as if he wanted to blurt out something, but he stopped in time and swallowed the words back into his stomach.

"What does this mean? I've been emperor for twenty-five years, and now I have to rely on that little wolf cub?"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought a little awkwardly in his heart.

Of course, he certainly hoped that the successor of the Ming Dynasty would be capable, the stronger the better, so that he could protect the Ming Dynasty that he had built with his own hands.

But he is still alive now.

If I really die and don't know anything, it will be all over.

But he witnessed with his own eyes that officials from the major ministries, prefectures, states, and counties of the Ming Dynasty had deceived and perfunctorily dealt with him for many years, but they did not dare to deceive and perfunctorily deal with a teenage boy - even though this boy was his most beloved grandson, he always felt a little jealous when he thought of this.

It's only been half a year. Is his reputation as the Hongwu Emperor so ineffective? Does our Zhu Yuanzhang have no respect for himself?

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel...

The emperor before him was not worthy of being here.

What did the court officials think? Especially those heads of the six ministries who used to argue with him every day about how to spend the treasury's silver and tax revenue... Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had lost face.

And he rolled his eyes.

This made Lu Wei feel baffled: "Doesn't this ancestor usually like to hear this kind of talk? What's wrong with him today? He's so two-faced? He really is a difficult person to please..."

Lu Wei naturally couldn't quite understand the old man's mentality as he kept jumping between "doting his eldest grandson" and "saving face".

He secretly groaned inwardly, then tremblingly clasped his fists and admitted his mistake: "Your Majesty, I...I was wrong?"

Zhu Yuanzhang had to admit that he really wanted to lose his temper at this time.

But at the same time he had to admit another thing.

——Lu Wei was indeed right.

He knew it.

Last year, we were able to collect an additional 5.59 million shi of taxes.

One reason was that the little wolf had spread the word widely, letting all officials in the Ming Dynasty know that he possessed such powerful methods of checking accounts.

The second reason is the good show of skinning and stuffing with straw that took place before the New Year.

Unknown mysterious abilities, ruthless methods, and all kinds of perfectly timed deterrence... Under the double deterrence, the people below were trembling with fear when calculating and clarifying tax revenue, and they were always trying to make the data look good, and that's how the money and grain came in.

If only he were still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

I'm afraid that the taxes collected will not change much compared to the 24th year of Hongwu.

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang could only take a deep breath and look at Lu Wei, who was bewildered and admitting his mistakes sincerely. He gritted his teeth and said, "No, you are not wrong. Our eldest grandson did a good job."