"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." After a while of bowing, Zhu Youxiao shouted flat, and the morning court began. Zhu Youxiao wanted to ask about the financial situation clearly, so the officials below began to fight.

Censor Jia Jichun submitted a memorial to impeach Donglin Party officials to interfere in the emperor's family affairs without authorization, and forced Li Xuanyi to move to the palace, so that Li Xuanyi held the eighth sister and wanted to jump into the well.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Chaorui from the Donglin Party jumped out to refute, and a fight broke out appeared in the court. Both sides were frantically squeezing the other party's head.

It turned out that before Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, a case of the palace was moved. When Zhu Changluo died, Li Xuanshi lived in the Ganqing Palace. Then a group of Donglin Party members snatched Zhu Youxiao from the Ganqing Palace and supported Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne. Li Xuanshi occupied the Ganqing Palace and refused to leave. Later, he was jointly driven out of the Ganqing Palace by Donglin Party and Wang An. On that day, Li Xuanshi walked into the cold palace and then suddenly caught fire. Although the person was rescued, there was a rumor that Li Xuanshi was going to jump into the well.

At this time, the focus of the debate between the two sides was whether Li Xuanshi was effective in imitating Wu Zetian's intention to rule the country from behind the curtain. The Donglin Party members insisted that Li Xuanshi's intention was to imitate Wu Zetian, while Jia Jichun accused the Donglin Party of exaggerating.

"Your Majesty, Jia Jichun is so partial to Li Xuanshi, and is afraid that Li Xuan's accomplice who is staying in the court. Please ask the emperor to imprison Jia Jichun to be punished." Yang Lian, a saint of the Donglin Party, jumped out and asked Zhu Youxiao.

Xibei Zhuyou didn't know much about the inside story, but I think the Donglin Party members supported him ascended the throne, and they were all loyal ministers!

"What I said is reasonable. Come and ask Jia Jichun to be imprisoned and asked for guilt." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet below, looked dark and sighed softly.

The debate on the case of the palace was temporarily concluded, and Zhu Youxiao began to ask about the national finance. Li Ruhua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, made a report and replied, "This year, the Ministry of Revenue's land tax revenue was 21 million stones. There was another salt tax of 2.3 million taels, and with gold, flowers, silver and other items included, Taicang warehouse invested a total of 3.8 million taels of silver. In addition, Jiangnan also owed the court's salt tax, and the tax of 2 million taels of gold, flowers, silver and other taxes were not paid."

"What about expenses?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"In terms of expenditure, land tax is basically used for the royal family, nobles' rice, and officials' rice. The silver invested in Taicang will be used for military pay in the nine borders and Liaodong. This year, the military pay in the nine borders and Liaodong will be spent in a total of 5.2 million taels, and there is still a deficit of 500,000 taels, and silver must be allocated from the treasury." Li Ruhua said.

"What? You have to allocate from the treasury. Now there is less than 30,000 taels of silver left in the treasury." Zhu Youxiao was stunned, and Li Ruhua remained silent. In the past, Emperor Wanli relied on eunuchs in the palace to collect mineral water, manage imperial villages, imperial shops, etc., and the annual income of the treasury was relatively high. A lot of military expenditures in the three major expropriations of Wanli were paid from the treasury.

As soon as Emperor Wanli passed away, the mining tax was naturally abolished. Huangdian also stopped levying tolls on past business trips, so it was inevitable that the treasury had no money.

Zhu Youxiao also wanted to get some money from Taicang warehouse to spend money, but he didn't expect that Taicang warehouse was poorer than the treasury and even had a deficit of 500,000 taels of silver.

This is so fucking yarn!

By the way, commercial tax was not levied in the Ming Dynasty. It seems that the problem lies here. Zhu Youxiao figured out the problem and said to all officials: "The court's finances are tight. In my opinion, some commercial tax should be levied, otherwise how can the country maintain it?"

"The emperor thinks twice, it is the law of our ancestors. The emperor must not compete with the people for profit." At this time, Yang Lian, Zhou Jiamo, **xing and other Donglin Party members jumped out one after another.

"How can one be said in the same way?" Zhu Youxiao argued, and at the same time he wondered, are these ministers having problems with their minds? Why are they so stupid? It is natural to collect commercial taxes, and it is also the best way to improve the central government's finances. Why should we oppose it?

"Report to the emperor, it is difficult for private merchants to operate, and there is no money to make. If the commercial tax is imposed, not only will the merchants not be able to survive, but it will also lead to price increases, and the people will inevitably suffer from poverty." The star of ** said. Other Donglin Party members knelt down and shouted: "The law of the ancestors cannot be changed, please think twice."

This scene seemed to have been trained. The Donglin Party members shouted in unanimously against the commercial tax, which almost made Zhu Youxiao faint on the spot. He felt a wailing in his heart, who are these people?

Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he trembled all over and held the armrest of the dragon chair tightly with his fingers.

It is not easy for businessmen to operate? Issuing commercial tax will make the people live in poverty? So why not levy commercial tax, and the people will live in poverty in the late Ming Dynasty?

For time traveler Zhu Youxiao, this is simply the most bizarre remark he has ever heard in his life. From the perspective of modern people, the most terrible thing is not to impose commercial taxes. This often means that businessmen will seize a lot of wealth and form a serious social gap between the rich and the poor. This is the fundamental problem for the people to live in a miserable life! Why do these righteous Donglin Party members do not understand such a simple truth?

Are you pigs?

Zhu Youxiao saw that almost 80% of civil servants knelt on the ground to oppose the collection of commercial taxes. However, those officials who did not oppose did not dare to stand up and support him in collecting commercial taxes.

What is this happening?

Isn’t the emperor supreme? Is it like this? Why does it even have such a huge obstacle to collecting a commercial tax?

A lot of confusion made Zhu Youxiao feel that his brain was not enough. He was a science graduate student and did not know much about human nature. He couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.

Zhu Youxiao, who intends to collect commercial tax to improve the financial difficulties of the central government, did not expect such a situation to be like this, and he was in no mood to go early. After a while, he left angrily.

When the eunuch from the Supervisor and Supervisor saw it, he quickly shouted loudly: "Retreat!"

There was silence below, and no official shouted long live. Zhu Youxiao turned around and vaguely saw indifferent and cold eyes from the civil servants who stood up.

When he returned to the Yangxin Palace, the eunuch Wang An, the head seal, came in.

"Your Majesty, I heard you want to collect commercial tax?" Wang An asked straight to the point. Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked strangely: "What? You don't feel right either?"

"I forgiving my servants said frankly that commercial tax must not be collected. If Emperor Shenzong just collects mining tax, the world will soon be in chaos. If the emperor collects commercial tax, wouldn't the people in the world be in vain and rise up? Then my Ming Dynasty will be in danger!" Wang An said anxiously, and Zhu Youxiao was also drunk and asked back, "Will the people in vain increase their land tax to farmers, so that people will not be in vain?"

"My land tax is very low, so it is still not a big problem to increase the land tax a little." Wang An looked at him for granted, which made Zhu Youxiao suddenly realize something. His face turned aside and said to Wang An: "I am tired and I need to rest."

"Yes, the servant took his leave." Seeing that Zhu Youxiao was impatient, Wang An hurriedly retreated. Early in the morning, Zhu Youxiao was naturally not tired, but he was almost angry with the ministers' IQs.

At this moment, Li Jinzhong ran in.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you proposed to collect commercial taxes during the morning court?" Li Jinzhong asked Zhu Youxiao when he came in. Before Zhu Youxiao could answer, Li Jinzhong said anxiously: "Your Majesty, this commercial tax must not be collected~!"

"Li Jinzhong, are you all the same as the Donglin Party? You can't tell if you have such a simple and simple benefit?" Zhu Youxiao was really angry. He felt that if this continues, his IQ would definitely be forced to lower by these people.

"Your Majesty, the Donglin Party members are not stupid. Everyone knows the benefits of commercial tax. Now the Donglin Party members understand the financial problems of our Ming Dynasty." Li Jinzhong shook his head and said, Zhu Youxiao was stunned and asked in confusion: "Then why do they oppose the collection of commercial tax?"

"Because Donglin Academy was funded by Jiangnan merchants, Jiangnan merchants trained a large number of scholars who worked for them through Donglin Academy. Therefore, the Donglin Party members did not know the benefits of commercial tax to the country, but they first thought about the benefits of the country and the court, but the benefits of merchants." Li Jinzhong said, "So, if you want to collect commercial tax, the Donglin Party will naturally never agree."

"What is the Donglin Party like?" Zhu Youxiao was shocked. This was completely different from what was recorded in history books. He had no idea that the history of the Ming Dynasty was actually compiled by the Donglin Party members who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. However, Zhu Youxiao immediately calmed down and said, "So what if the Donglin Party members oppose it? I want to impose commercial taxes, can they still stop it?"

"Emperor, Emperor Wanli also wants to collect commercial taxes, but what in the end? He can only rely on the inner court (eunuch) to leave the palace to collect some mining taxes. There is no way to start with the comprehensive collection of commercial taxes. And, you forgot how the late emperor died?" Li Jinzhong said suddenly, which made Zhu Youxiao's look stunned. Li Jinzhong continued: "Although the late emperor withdrew the mining tax after ascending the throne, he agreed with the chief minister Fang Congzhe to collect commercial taxes. As a result, the late emperor died less than a month after he succeeded to the throne. Then the Donglin party members snatched the emperor from the Qianqing Palace to the Wenhua Palace, just to control the emperor. If you forcefully collect commercial taxes now, you might be assassinated!"

"What, what?" Zhu Youxiao was shocked and asked Li Jinzhong quickly: "Are you saying that the Donglin Party members assassinated the late emperor?"

Li Jinzhong nodded. This news was like a thunder to Zhu Youxiao.

"Am I just a puppet emperor?" This thought flashed through my mind, and Zhu Youxiao vaguely felt that his situation seemed to be really not good.
Chapter completed!