I am both disgusted and owed a favor, so what if I can be forgiven and lose face?"

"I agree, Your Majesty, the specific functions of the Department of Industry and Commerce are still unclear. Moreover, the flow of local businessmen has not been supervised in the past. If the number increases, it will also increase the burden on the Ministry of Household Affairs. Please think twice, Your Majesty."

Fang Yuegong was speechless after listening to Ni Yuanlu's words. You, the Minister of Rites, need Sun Chuanting to tell you. How can I know?

"This matter is not a big one. The tribute from Goryeo was 15,000 horses, 5,000 cattle, and hundreds of century-old mountain ginseng.

"My lord, please be patient."

"Whatever Kuroda-san said, we are all royal ministers of the higher kingdom, and we are brothers behind closed doors. Your Majesty has already cleared up the previous misunderstandings, and there is no need to mention them again."

"Be bold!"

The white and greasy belly was extremely conspicuous. Standing next to him was Gao Li Cao Bangshu, holding two processed thorns in his hands, a little hesitant.

Li Daiwen was a little bitter. Although the Ming Dynasty seemed to be bustling with people providing disaster relief everywhere, in fact, it was Chongzhen who was providing the money.

"Of course I can't guess it, but Boya must have known it when he came back with the King of Korea. He also talked to Ruyu, thinking that there must be something good, and asked Boya to clarify his doubts. What kind of tribute will Korea have to offer this time?

thing?"

Now Ryukyu has returned to its original state, and after Kuroda Shuren met with Sun Chuanting, a series of operations won the appreciation of the Ming Dynasty.

A group of ministers looked at Chongzhen in confusion, somewhat confused as to why an extra department should be set up.

However, Li Daiwen is still full of hope for the future. The reason is that the border troubles will be lifted, the military expenditure of the garrison will begin to decrease, the clan will be abolished, the salary will be reduced, and the tax revenue of various places will be at least doubled.

After the conversation, a eunuch came over at the palace gate.

"It's just a misunderstanding! The King of Ryukyu let me know a sentence, calling a person's name, the shadow of a tree. The King of Ryukyu is wise and full of virtue. I think you will definitely receive a generous reward from His Majesty.

At this time, in the Goryeo Residence, the carriage had already set off from the mansion and rushed along East Chang'an Street towards Chengtian Gate. The Goryeo King Li Jie was sitting in the carriage, taking off his robes with a serious look on his face.

"Well, then tell me, how much income do the various shops in the capital have in a year? Also, I remember that there are many people in the capital with a fortune of more than one million taels, right? They have so much property, and they have to pay taxes.

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My dear friends, during the Zhao and Song Dynasties, even if only half of the country was defeated, there would still be hundreds of millions of copper coins in commercial taxes a year!

Did you hear that? Hundreds of millions of guan, how come I am now satisfied with four million taels a year, equivalent to less than 4 million guan? Do you think this is normal? Where is the money?

I don’t know that the rich people in the capital paid taxes, but the rich people in the Song Dynasty also had commercial taxes, but they still supported the commercial taxes. You tell me, this is the tax that the court should have received.

Outside Chengtian Gate, Kuroda Shuren is not the king, but based on the purpose of calling him here this time, he knows without even thinking that Chongzhen has already appointed him.

"I have sacrificed everything for the sake of Great Korea. Okay, let's get started!"

And because of the disasters in the past two years, the people did not have much food storage, let alone clothing. It is expected that many people will freeze to death and starve to death due to the cold winter.

It would be unwise for him not to deal with Kuroda Shuren now. He would lose Ming's goodwill and he would not want to do business in the future.

In the Fengtian Hall of the palace, all the ministers stood neatly. In the main hall, there were hundreds of officials gathered together.

However, these routes are still in the stage of training sailors. At the same time, as the first batch of shipping representatives, those who came today are Kuroda Shuto, the representative of the Kyushu Kingdom, Li Jie, the representative of the Koryo Kingdom, and Sangxian, the representative of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Chongzhen exempted agricultural taxes and continued to engage in war, so he needed to get money from other places.

If Li Zhu could really sincerely plead guilty to the thorns, Li Cao's judge would probably praise him as a good man, but this guy actually had the thorns sharpened on the side facing his back.

"I request your Majesty to reshape the tax laws and strictly impose low taxes to collect commercial taxes."

"So, the revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs is only agricultural tax? In just half a year, Royal Merchant Company has paid two million taels of tax to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

How many businesses are there in the world? Do those tea merchants, salt merchants, and maritime merchants pay commercial taxes when they operate?

On the other end, a few hundred meters away from the palace, in a neighborhood above East Chang'an Street, stands an archway. The name of the archway above is exactly the three characters "Huitongguan".

After Chongzhen explained the commercial tax and company system to a certain extent, this matter became a foregone conclusion. Of course, there will definitely be many businesses in the early stage, and people from all over the country will wait and see.

"Well, Xuan!"

If His Majesty hadn't been using internal funds to support it, and if some clans had taken the initiative to reduce salaries and punish some clans with bad behavior, leaving the local area with a surplus of food in the second half of the year, I'm afraid even the plague and drought would not have been able to be controlled.

"King of Ryukyu, we have to take more care of you from now on. Our Kuroda family has never bullied Ryukyu."

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"...Back to Your Majesty, the total commercial tax last year was 4.27 million taels. Part of it was for local needs but was not paid. The Ministry of Household Affairs collected a total of 1.9 million taels."

"Call the second team, call the second team, you can come over. Over."

Wait until next year, when everyone has land to farm and can save some extra money, they will be able to live on their own."

"My lords! There are only two minutes left. You can enter the palace."

Since His Majesty is exempt from taxes this year and official fields in various places have been severely affected, the grain tax sent to the Ministry of Household Affairs this year is only more than one million taels sent from the south.

Even though the sharp corners were polished off, the knot was still very uncomfortable when tied firmly. Li Zhu endured it, hoping to reach Chengtianmen as soon as possible.

Kuroda Shuren's words made Shang Xian laugh happily. Among the three small countries, Ryukyu had really never betrayed the Ming Dynasty.

The remaining Japanese countries defeated the Ming Dynasty and attacked the tributary countries of Goryeo and Ryukyu. Even if the shogunate wanted to get away with it, Kyushu Island had no explanation.

As for Goryeo, he was a slave in the past and was beaten later. Not only did he owe a favor, but he also owed an apology to make Ming Dynasty appease his anger.

Thinking of this, the two of them looked at the King of Korea who was getting out of the car. Kuroda Shuren was a little embarrassed, and Shangxian was about to say hello. When he looked at the thorns he was carrying, his teeth clenched.
Chapter completed!