After a simple greeting between ancestors and grandchildren, Wanli asked the eunuch in the palace to bring a small chair, covered it with soft cushions, and let Zhu Youdong sit next to it and play. After all, the king of a country must effectively control

As a country, there are still many things to do every day.

"Let's get started."

"Yes, Your Majesty. There are a total of one hundred and eighty-five memorials and documents sent from the court today."

"Well, when you read it later, you don't need to read it anymore if you ask me to stop the mining tax."

"This... Your Majesty, I scanned these things this morning. Well... it seems that more than half of them are for suspension of mining tax."

"Hmph! These guys either have ulterior motives or are incredibly stupid! Hmm...Prince, you are the crown prince, what do you think of the ministers' memorial requesting the suspension of mining taxes?"

Zhu Changluo, who was sitting at the bottom, was asked this question and was stunned for a moment. However, he immediately remembered the teachings of Mr. Guo and many other ministers, so he hesitated and said: "Father, I heard that the mines sent by the palace

When the prisoner arrived at the place, he did not do any social media work at all, nor did he look for mineral veins. Instead, he recruited local scoundrels. Just to see who was the richest in the area, he would insist that there was a mine under his ancestral home, so as to extort money.

Public dissatisfaction boils... Therefore, Erchen believes that of course the mining tax should be collected, but the management of the mine supervisors should be strengthened. It is best, uh, it is best to replace the mine supervisors from the palace with ministers with moral integrity from outside.

"

Why did I give birth to a stupid son like you!

"Zhu Youdong!"

"ah?"

"Tell me, should the mining tax be collected?"

Wanli was really anxious now. Originally, he asked the four-year-old Zhu Youdong to sit here just to let the child feel the atmosphere. This child is a genius, but he should not be able to participate in national affairs at the age of four.

It's just that Zhu Changluo's answer just now really disappointed him. However, the prince has suffered from neurasthenia due to the disputes over the past ten years and is as timid as a mouse. If he scolds him directly now, I guess this guy will

He is even less confident. Therefore, when Wan Li asked Zhu Youdong now, he was just changing the subject, and did not expect to really get a good answer from the four-year-old child.

"Grandpa Huang, before answering Grandpa Huang's question, my grandson would like to ask, how much will my regular tax be for next year?"

"Chen Ju, answer Taisun's question."

"Yes, Your Highness Taisun, my Ming Dynasty's annual income has changed every year. Specifically, last year, which was the 31st year of Wanli, the total tax collection for rice and wheat was 26,707,000 shi.

Silk cloth: 3.17 million taels of silk floss, 11,000 jins of raw silk, 240,000 jins of cotton, 1,800 jins of ramie, 230,000 pieces of silk, 4,500 pieces of linen, and cotton cloth

One hundred and thirty thousand horses.

Types of military field: 2.17 million shi of rice, 2.16 million shi of wheat, 2.6 million bundles of grass, and 93,000 taels of silver.

Horse administration: Guanglu Temple, Royal Horse Prison, Taipu Temple and other places received 24 million bunches of fodder, of which 10.6 million bunches were converted into 350,000 taels of silver for transportation, and the pastures were converted into cultivated land and 14 silvers were collected.

Sixteen thousand taels, 14,000 troops and horses, and 264,000 taels of silver.

Men's labor: The two capitals annually produce 2,519,000 jins of firewood, 22,000,000 jins of charcoal, and 310,000 taels of silver.

Oh, by the way, there is also the income of Huangzhuang. Last year, the income of Huangzhuang was worth fifty thousand taels of silver.

In addition, there are sesame and beans from the north, tea, honey and other special products from the south...

The above is the agricultural tax. Next is the commercial tax. Your Highness, the commercial tax in our Ming Dynasty is mainly divided into salt tax, tea tax, metallurgy (metallurgy, porcelain), shipping and merchant tax, etc. Last year, the salt tax was 130

170,000 taels, 26,000 taels for tea classes, 165,000 taels for metallurgy classes, 457,000 taels for shipping and merchant tax...

To sum up, in the 31st year of Wanli, our annual tax revenue for the Ming Dynasty was 5,387,000 taels of silver, 26 million stones of various grains, more than 14 million bundles of various fodders, and

Other miscellaneous items.”

"Haha, Mr. Ju, is this money enough for the country every year?"

"The old slave is not worthy of the title of Duke Ju, His Highness. To report back to the grandson, the old slave is not the Minister of Household Affairs, and I don't know where the expenditures go every year. However, I think that if the country has nothing to do, various expenses can be saved on weekdays.

Some, it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

What a cunning old guy!

This Chen Ju was a "famous eunuch" praised by many civil servants in the Wanli Dynasty. He was not famous in history, but he was widely praised. This alone is enough to show that this person cannot be trusted!

What is a eunuch? He is a domestic slave of the royal family! What is a civil servant? He is a wage earner of the royal family! The slave often speaks for the slave from the position of the slave. The slave always says that this slave is very good and has high moral character.

What does it mean?

Of course, this does not mean that Chen Ju wanted to harm Wanli from the bottom of his heart. It is that there was a problem with the education of eunuchs in the royal family.

In order to allow eunuchs to participate in politics, the royal family set up an inner library in the palace for eunuchs to study. But who are the eunuchs’ teachers? Civil servants!

The civil servants themselves did not believe in the loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness written in the book, but they desperately advocated loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness to the eunuchs. As a result, many eunuchs became stupid in reading!

However, as far as Chen Ju is concerned, a person who can climb to the top among tens of thousands of eunuchs in the imperial court is definitely not a nerd. But if he is not a nerd and is still praised by ministers from other dynasties, it can only be said that this person is deeply proud of himself.

He thinks more about himself and less about the emperor... In short, this Chen Ju is not trustworthy.

But now, Zhu Youdong has not yet cultivated his own power, so he cannot publicly express his position: he does not want to travel through time and die at a young age.

However, Wanli's question had to be answered, and his cheap father had to guide him. Therefore, he had to go around in a big circle.

"Mr. Ju, how many troops does our Ming Dynasty have now?"

"Uh... Taisun Rong, Lao Nu, checked it out. Well, the total number of military households in our Ming Dynasty is more than 3.1 million, and there are actually more than 800,000 regular soldiers."

"Mr. Ju, how many officials do we have in Ming Dynasty now?"

"...Reporting to Grand Sun, during the Hongwu period of our dynasty, there were more than 27,000 officials of ninth rank and above in the country, and the number increased year by year. During the Jiajing period, there was a purge, and now the number is basically maintained at more than 80,000."

"Haha... Mr. Ju, how many maids, eunuchs, and servants are there in our palace?"

"Uh..." After all, it was the old man who had been with Wanli for many years. At this time, Chen Ju already knew what Zhu Youdong wanted to ask. At this time, large beads of sweat continued to appear on his forehead, and he answered tremblingly: "

There are approximately more than 12,000 people directly under the palace. There are various industries under the twenty-four yamen, with more than 100,000 related personnel."

"Huh~~~ Mr. Ju, let me ask you again, how much money did Ming Dynasty spend on each of the three wars in Bozhou, Ningxia and Korea?"

"...Back to...His Highness, Bozhou, two million and three hundred thousand. Ning...Ningxia, two million...North Korea, North Korea, uh...North Korea, seven million!"

"I'll ask you again!" Although the four-year-old body was young, when Zhu Youdong jumped off the stool, Chen Ju seemed to really feel a dragon staring at him fiercely: "Now on the southwest border, Burmese thieves

Meng Mi, who has invaded my Ming Dynasty for twenty consecutive years. How much does it cost there every year?"
Chapter completed!