I have to find a way to make money.

Who is the richest in the world?

In the Ming Dynasty, except for the Lao Zhu family, there were the merchants, landlords and gentry behind Donglin.

The big landlord can no longer move for the time being, so he can only move the group of fat "pigs".

In fact, the old Zhu family is very rich, but the only one does not include the emperor, where has the money gone? They are all held in the hands of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was founding the country, he enfeoffed descendants in various places, "at first he was granted the title of princes, and only 49 generals." These princes were like seeds. After a hundred or two years, the number of reproduced in various places was very amazing.

In Shanxi alone, there was only one King of Jin during the Hongwu period, but by the Jiajing period, the number of descendants of the royal family who had titles had increased to 1,851.

During the Hongwu period, Henan originally had only one Zhou king, but by the Wanli period, there were more than 5,000 descendants of the royal family...

According to Xu Guangqi's rough calculations at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of members of the Ming Dynasty doubled every 30 years. The result of contemporary population historians' calculations is that the population growth rate of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty was 10 times the national average population growth rate. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had reproduced to nearly one million people.

Think about how many people in the Ming Dynasty are, the royal family alone has already accounted for nearly one percent.

Moreover, the royal policy of the Ming Dynasty was a pig farming policy, and all vassal kings could not participate in the local military power and financial power. This meant that they could not interfere with the local military power and financial power. Moreover, all vassal kings were not allowed to participate in political affairs and serve as officials. All the expenses of the royal children were paid by the court. In this way, the royal children had nothing to do all day, and after drinking and eating every day, they could only increase their descendants for the Ming Dynasty.

With the increase of the prince, it will inevitably lead to the increase of the royal palace and the expansion of land enclosure. The best land in the world is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the royal family. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the per capita land in the country continued to decline, but at the same time, the land occupied by the royal family quickly expanded. Many royal palaces owned tens of thousands of hectares of land: King Jing and King Lu in Huguang and other places had as many as 40,000 hectares of land, 20,000 hectares of land in King Gui, King Hui and King Rui. King Ji was in Changsha, with 700,000 mu of land, and 40% of the land in Changsha and Shanhua counties also belonged to King Ji. Half of the land in Henan Province belonged to the royal palaces.

The salaries of the royal family came directly from all over the country. With the explosive growth of the royal family's population, it meant that fiscal expenditure increased dozens of times or hundreds of times. The Jin Palace in Shanxi had only an annual salary of 10,000 shi in the early Ming Dynasty, but it increased to 870,000 shi during the Jiajing period. The Zhou Palace in Henan increased from 10,000 shi to 690,000 shi. The Chu Palace in Huguang increased from 10,000 shi to 250,000 shi...

Even if such people have endless desires, these vassal kings use their special identities and influence to extend their tentacles to all areas with good fortune, taking whatever they want, and doing everything.

These people use their own royal family to monopolize all the most profitable industries in the local area, such as land, forests and mines. As long as it is proved profitable, the royal family will seize their hands by begging the emperor or taking advantage of the robbery.

Princes from all over the country often cried to the emperor for poverty and demanded various privileges. The tax collection rights in many places were successively transferred to the palaces of various places: the King of Zhou had the tax authority in Kaifeng, and the King of Lu occupied 26 river houses. The commercial tax in Lucheng County was given to the King of Qingyuan, and the King of Tunliu County was owned by the King of Liaoshan. King Pingyao said that he had too many families and had a poor life. The emperor ordered him to transfer the commercial tax in Licheng County for one year...

Through all kinds of tricks and robberies, the royal families of the Ming Dynasty have accumulated the most wealth in the world.

Raising pigs and pigs. Since these pigs are already fat, you can sharpen your knife and turn them toward the pigs and sheep.

Zhu Youxiao licked his lips and showed a fierce look on his face. He was a person who came from later generations. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty regarded those people as relatives, but he only thought they were fat sheep.

Half of the land in the world is exciting just thinking about it.

The fat pigs of the Ming Dynasty are here, are you ready?

"Do you all have good plans for the emptiness of the national treasury?" Zhu Youxiao thought to test these ministers first before making a decision.

After all, it was from later generations, and I still have some understanding of the administrative methods in later generations. As the saying goes, Zhu Youxiao himself came up with the principle of "dish-cooking centralization".

What is "dish-cooking"? It means that everyone expresses their opinions together and leaders actively listen to the principle of "dish-cooking".

So what is centralized system? You can express your opinions at will, but I can ignore them. I will do whatever I want.

"this........"

The ministers in the audience began to feel in trouble. No one dared to say that they were doing money. Perhaps this is the most difficult thing in the world.

What's more, it's not a small amount. The money you want is going to fill the treasury.

The ministers below couldn't help but start whispering.

Zhu Youxiao observed carefully on the dragon throne. At this time, it was obvious that the faction that the ministers below belonged to were there. For example, the Donglin Party members would not discuss with the eunuch party, but instead looked at them with disdain, as if they were so noble that the other party was such a lowly person.

However, the most unified thing is the unanimous rejection of military officers by civil servants. Neither the eunuch party nor Donglin looked at those military officers with a direct look.

Fortunately, these military officers are also self-aware and stand in place to see their noses and mouths. We are rough people, and we are only responsible for spending money. As for making money, it is the civil servant on the right, so what does it have to do with us?

So the old gods counted the cracks of bricks under their feet.

Looking at the minister who was head-to-head, Zhu Youxiao felt a little annoyed, so he reached out to pat the imperial case.

"quiet!"

It would be great if there was a gavel. It hurts with your hands, Zhu Youxiao thought.

With Zhu Youxiao's reminder, the buzzing sound in the hall was finished.

"Can you all come up with a result?" Zhu Youxiao looked down with a blank expression.

"Report to Your Majesty, I think that only the method of increasing taxes can solve the problem for a while." Shen Zizhang, the young minister of Taichang Temple, came out and spoke.

"How to increase taxes?" Zhu Youxiao sneered recently. As expected, he thought, taxes and taxes are raised. You can have other ways besides increasing taxes!

"Then my dear, tell me how to increase the tax?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Shen Zizhang.

"I think the agricultural tax should be increased, and another 10% can be added."

Before Shen Zizhang finished speaking, he was interrupted by someone.

I saw Guo Yunhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, step out and look at him with a bad face: "Mr. Shen's words are inappropriate. The taxes of farmers are already very high, and the people are suffering. How will they be charged if they add them!"

"Mr. Guo's words are bad. If the country is difficult, it is a responsibility. Just how difficult it is to increase tax by 10%. Is it because Master Guo is not good at doing things and is unwilling to be lazy and unwilling to collect this tax?" Shen Zizhang glanced at Guo Yunhou with a sarcastic look.

"You!" Guo Yunhou's fingers were anxious and calmed down. OK, but a young minister from Taichang Temple should have spoken to me like this.
Chapter completed!