Chapter 83: Snow Junfa’s hatred

Jiajing never took this set.

I agree with Zhou Mengchen's point of view. As for what Zhou Mengchen said later, Jiajing never believed it or was unwilling to believe it. After all, the tax collection alone was too small, and the commercial tax of thirty taxes was too low.

He didn't care about anything or not. As long as he could get money, it would be fine. Even Yan Song's methods of making money, Jiajing tacitly agreed. Zhou Mengchen's methods were much better than Yan Song.

Jiajing is not without a bottom line. Jiajing, who is the only one, doesn’t think that sacrificing some common people for His Majesty the Ming Emperor is not a big deal. But if you don’t have to do this, it will be better. After all, he is the kind father of the people and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

He summarized two things at this moment, and Zhou Mengchen said so much. Most of the things were not abandoned by Jiajing.

These two points are that Zhou Mengchen had the ability to make money in the first place.

The second week Mengchen made money and had his own private goods.

For the first article, the second article is not a problem at all, as if the Ming ministers did not have their own private goods. Jiajing was used to it.

Jiajing gathered the topic together and said, "After talking for a long time, you don't seem to want to go to the Ministry of Revenue?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "It's not that I don't want to, but in the Ministry of Revenue, it cannot solve the problem for Your Majesty. Instead, I can explore a complete set of details on the levy of commercial tax on the ground so that I can truly solve the problems for Your Majesty."

Zhou Mengchen was a little excited at this moment.

Zhou Mengchen mixed his entire set of political reform ideas into a small commercial tax.

This matter seems very simple, and it was a small measure for the Ming Dynasty to improve its finances. But if you really want to do what Zhou Mengchen said, it is a big change, not to mention anything else. Now, there are a lot of people required to impose commercial taxes nationwide.

Nowadays, yamen runners cannot adapt at all. Letting these yamen runners do these math problems is mostly unqualified.

In addition, is there any position on commercial tax within the Ministry of Revenue system?

No.

Therefore, the central government needs to re-establish the corresponding commercial tax institutions, and it requires a large number of officials who understand the economy and even understand the formulation of economic policies.

Moreover, in order to collect more taxes, it is estimated that the officials below are likely to manually pile up some so-called large enterprises. But the problem is that there are regulations on merchants in the Ming Dynasty, but there is no corresponding method for large enterprises that do not know how many people do this.

So the target changes are also required here.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know if his series of reforms were so-called capitalist reforms. He had no mind or thoughts. After all, Zhou Mengchen did all this not for capital, but for the industrial revolution. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was a good banner.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen also knew that as long as Jiajing could bring money, Jiajing didn't care too much about how many private goods Zhou Mengchen had in it.

But Jiajing didn't understand. Zhou Mengchen's private goods were clearly a system that could subvert the Ming Dynasty.

Jiajing said in a calm tone, "After all, do you don't want to leave Datong. Can you tell me what's good about Datong? Is it a military expenditure of two million taels or a army of more than one hundred thousand?"

If Zhou Mengchen went to Beijing to be the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Jiajing would not ask about some things. After all, Zhou Mengchen, who had stepped down as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, could not mobilize one army or another in power. The so-called old Zhou Mengchen in the border area. Some of Jiajing's skills were divided and separated. Even if it could not be completely separated, there was nothing? The old subordinates in the army were not Zhou Mengchen's family.

Zhou Mengchen was not the first and the last one.

However, although Zhou Mengchen said it conclusively, he could not hide Zhou Mengchen's thoughts, that is, he did not want to leave Datong.

In this case, Jiajing must not ignore it.

He has more than 100,000 troops, but now he has money, but only a little shortage of food. Now the Xishan Canal has been built, and the distance from Datong to the city of Beijing has been greatly reduced. It is not a matter of coming to the morning and night, but it has also reduced the role of the three inner gates. The Ministry of War is now preparing to build a checkpoint on the Xishan Canal, with more than 10,000 troops stationed.

Jiajing has already agreed.

The reason for this is not necessarily to be entirely guarding against the Tartars.

After hearing Jiajing's words, Zhou Mengchen's face remained unchanged and said, "Your Majesty is wise. The reason why I don't want to leave Datong is because I am concerned about Your Majesty. I have been in Datong for three years and many things have only started. For example, what Your Majesty just told Your Majesty that I was worried that after I left, Datong would inflict bad things on Datong. My honor and disgrace were small, and it was important for the court."

Zhou Mengchen made countless previews about seeing Jiajing in his heart. He was naturally prepared for this issue.

Jiajing didn't care about Zhou Mengchen's other words at all. He asked him, "Didn't you want to reconcile?"

Zhou Mengchen thought about it several times and suddenly remembered Lu Bing. He thought to himself: "Any secret in the world has timely effect. Now it is the same. With Lu Bing here, I can't hide many things in Datong. Jiajing asked this, it is very likely that he already knew it."

"The situation is likely to leave Datong. Since that's the case, why not bet on it?"

Zhou Mengchen bowed and said, "Yes, the Lord is humiliating and died. In the 29th year of Jiajing, when the army was at the city, I dare not perish for a day. The hatred of the king and father, the hatred of the ministers, the Tumote tribe will not be destroyed for a day, and the hatred of the ministers will not be eliminated for a day. If I serve in another place, it would be fine. Since I am adjacent to Datong, how can I not make such preparations? It goes against Your Majesty's will and I will be punished for death. Please punish Your Majesty."

Then Zhou Mengchen knelt on the golden bricks, not daring to look up, waiting for Jiajing's hair to fall.

Zhou Mengchen couldn't guess what Jiajing would do for a moment. He just listened to his heart beating "plop, plop".

Jiajing looked at Zhou Mengchen with a complicated look for a moment.

Jiajing was actually the most conscientious. How could he not want to take revenge on what Altan did? It was just that he could not take revenge. The current situation of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be internal and external difficulties. The Jiangnan city was in chaos and the imperial court had a huge gap in money and food. At this time, if you have a little rationality, you will know that it is not a time for a big fight.

In the cabinet, no matter how many conflicts Yan Song and Xu Jie have, they have common opinions on this matter.

Jiajing also agreed with this.

But agreeing is the same thing, and there may not be no complaints in my heart. I feel that the people in the cabinet put the overall situation first and do not care about his reputation behind Emperor Jiajing. As Zhou Mengchen said, if the Tumote tribe is destroyed, the humiliation of the army at the city will be carried for the rest of their lives. Even after his death, there will be a lot in history.

Only Zhou Mengchen remembers this thing.

In Jiajing, I really couldn't think of what was Zhou Mengchen's purpose of beating this?

Not to mention the risks of this matter, is it possible that Zhou Mengchen himself has no profit in this matter? Zhou Mengchen is already the number one general of the Ming Dynasty. Can Xin Ai be destroyed? Can another number one be the first before the first place? As for where to seek a position in the center with military merits, I don’t even think about it.

This is the Ming Dynasty, not the Han Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty, a war to destroy the country may lead to a military merit group. However, in the Ming Dynasty, even if there is too much military merit, it will cause many civil officials and masters of the court to join forces to attack. Even Xu Jie would reject Zhou Mengchen and go to the capital. It is nothing more than changing the place to be a governor or governor.

Now Zhou Mengchen's military merits and status are nothing more than that.

In addition, there are basically rewards of giving wives and children, giving land and gold and silver, which are of no use.

It was precisely because Jiajing couldn't think of why Zhou Mengchen was determined to do this that forced him to believe that perhaps Zhou Mengchen really wanted to serve the country and avenge his shame for the king and father.

It's ridiculous. Everyone shouts slogans in the officialdom, but no one believes them.

Jiajing was silent for a long time and said, "Datong Mansion does not need so much silver. It is handed over to the Ministry of Revenue. For specific matters, you can go to the Minister of Revenue to discuss them. By the way, tell Fang Du what you think. That's what I said."

Zhou Mengchen breathed a sigh of relief and was overjoyed. Nothing else, Jiajing did not deal with it, which means that he had passed the imperial examination. And the implication was that he proposed a complete set of things to Zhou Mengchen, which also entered the court's deliberation process, although it was informal.

This is really good news for Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen immediately said, "I thank Your Majesty for your kindness. I will leave."

Then he slowly withdrew from the palace.
Chapter completed!