Dongjiang has been basically settled, and after the Liao people entered the Guards, the number of Guards increased greatly.
After watching the training of the Liao soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng felt that if the Liao soldiers trained for another two or three months, they could go to Liao with the veterans.
South.
Because the basic training has been completed and the quality of the Liao soldiers is very good, within two months, all of them have received the first-level assassination medal, and half of the Liao soldiers have received the second-level assassination medal.
This is much better than the results of the original soldiers in the Beijing camp.
Zhu Youxiao planned to wait for the Southwest Guards to return to Beijing, reorganize the Guards, and then send the Guards to southern Liaoning to cooperate with western Liaoning and Dongjiang to first recover the four prefectures of Jinfu and Haihai, and then nail down a target in Liaodong.
A hard nail.
On the one hand, he can respond to the Liao people fleeing south, and on the other hand, he can use southern Liaoning as a battlefield to train troops.
He still has a lot to do, but first he must build a strong army that can fight in a hundred battles.
At this time, Bi Ziyan came to report that this year's commercial tax payment situation was not optimistic.
From October of the first year of Tianqi, commercial taxes were collected to June of the second year.
In eight months, the total tax collected was 2.2 million yuan, equivalent to 1.1 million taels of silver.
This situation seems to be very good, because even in the 31st year of Wanli, which collected the most taxes, the mine supervisor and tax supervisor who were transferred to the capital only collected 1.09 million taels of silver.
But the accounts are not calculated like this.
It is true that only so much silver was put into the treasury during the Wanli period, but it is absolutely impossible for the eunuchs to receive only this amount of silver.
According to Bi Ziyan and Xu Guangqi's estimates, the eunuchs would only hand over 10 to 20% at most.
Therefore, the amount of commercial tax collected now is far from enough.
According to Bi Ziyan, the most important problems are two aspects, one is the issue of mining tax, and the other is the issue of tax exemption and tax evasion by high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
Mining tax was the most criticized policy during the Wanli period.
It was abolished when Guangzong ascended the throne.
Therefore, there is no special mining tax now.
It is collected according to the rules of merchants.
However, after mining, mine owners generally do not transport it to other places.
Instead, it is refined on site and then transported to other places.
In this way, only the trade tax is collected, and the mining tax is not collected at all.
In the Ming Dynasty, high-ranking officials and dignitaries did not collect taxes when passing through the currency customs in cars and ships.
Later, it developed to the point where no tax could be collected on cars and ships with their flags flying.
In this way, a large number of merchants anchored their cars and ships with them. name, pay some money in exchange for a flag, and get tax exemption.
In fact, the last time Wei Zhongxian went to investigate the source of Li Sancai's wealth, he had already reported it to Zhu Youxiao.
One of the ways for Li Sancai to make money was through affiliation with other businesses.
When he was the governor of river transportation, he recruited a large number of merchants.
His boats were in front, and the merchants' boats were behind, and they were all said to be the Li family's boats.
In this way, a large amount of tax revenue was lost, and Li Sancai paid according to the customs regulations.
Protection fees account for 40% to 50% of the tax paid, so they can earn a lot of money and accumulate huge wealth.
Zhu Youxiao made a lot of money by inspecting Shanxi merchants and a small amount by selling mirrors.
Although the construction of the university town cost some money, he could make it back quickly by selling houses, so the internal funds were still sufficient.
The Ministry of Household Affairs can collect more than 2 million yuan in eight months, and more than 3 million yuan in a year.
This is already a huge increase compared with the original.
If these two problems are solved, the commercial tax should increase significantly.
Then Zhu Youxiao's idea of reducing agricultural taxes and fundamentally solving the problem of peasant uprisings can be realized.
So at the Xiaochao meeting the next day, Zhu Youxiao decided to put the problems encountered by the Ministry of Household Affairs in collecting commercial taxes in front of the ministers, and let everyone discuss how to solve them.
However, after everyone met at the court meeting, before Zhu Youxiao asked Bi Ziyan to go out, Sun Shenxing went out to write a letter demanding severe punishment for Li Kezhuo and Fang Congzhe, the culprits of the "Red Pill Case".
He believed that Li Kezhuo should be executed and Fang Congzhe should be dismissed. , while Wang Ji, the Minister of Punishment, and Yang Dongming, the Minister of Justice, also suggested arresting Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng, and demoting Fang Zheguan and ordering them to return home.
Zhu Youxiao was furious.
Sun Shenxing had tried every means to obstruct the establishment of the school last time.
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Wang Ji's obvious partiality behavior when interrogating Xiong Tingbi also made him very unhappy.
Moreover, he had already said that there was no need to mention the previous cases.
I just wanted to get into trouble, so I said angrily: "The Hongwan case has been concluded long ago, and Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng have been punished long ago.
Why do the ministers always care about this?"
Sun Shenxing was not afraid: "Your Majesty, Li and Cui have indeed been punished, but they were too lenient.
Fang Congzhe is the chief culprit, but he has always stood in the court and continues to be the chief minister.
This is not accepted by the world."
Zhu Youxiao was very angry and laughed: "Are you from the world?
You said that the world is not convinced, then I want to see who is not convinced.
Dear ministers, there are some who think that Fang Congzhe should be dismissed from office."
Han Xu, Zuo Guangdou, Zhao Nanxing, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, Zhou Chaorui, and Gu Dazhang all stood up and said in unison: "I think Fang Congzhe should be dismissed from office."
Those who stood up were all Donglin Party members, but strangely, Zhongye Xianggao, who was the second assistant, and Yang Lian, who had always been the vanguard of Donglin, did not say anything.
This was embarrassing.
The cabinet ministers, the official secretary, the censor of Zuodu, and the rites department all came forward and thought that Fang Congzhe should resign.
Zhu Youxiao panicked for a moment and was speechless.
Xu Guangqi stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that Fang Shoufu was not guilty in the Hongwan case and should not be dismissed from office."
Only then did Zhu Youxiao react and said: "Since all ministers and ministers have different opinions on this matter, why not discuss it together at the Great Court meeting tomorrow."
So the matter was no longer discussed for the time being, and Zhu Youxiao lost interest and hastily ended the court meeting.
He felt very unhappy, so he called his cabinet ministers and ministers to Yuntai for questioning.
He spoke first: "I said last time that Fang Shoufu deeply cares about me and cares about me.
I don't know why I want to drive Shoufu out again today."
At this time, there were four people in Yuntai who attacked Fang Congzhe who believed that he should be dismissed from office: Han Xu, the cabinet minister, Zhao Nanxing, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Wang Ji, the minister of the Ministry of Punishments, Sun Shenxing, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the remaining ones were Ye Xianggao and Sun Chengzong.
Yao Siren, a member of the Donglin Party and Minister of the Ministry of Industry, favored the Donglin Party.
Apart from Fang Congzhe himself, only Huang Kezuan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Xu Guangqi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had nothing to do with the Donglin Party.
After the emperor's question came out, Fang, Xu and Huang naturally remained silent, but Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, I dare not say anything to dissuade the chief assistant.
I think the chief assistant handled the Hongwan case properly.
It’s just that the punishment for Li and Cui is too light.
Please judge by your majesty.”
It can be seen from these words that Ye Xianggao actually disagrees with Wang Ji, Sun Shenxing and others.
Sun Chengzong also expressed the same meaning, which made Wang Ji and others furious.
They stared at Sun Chengzong and others as if they were about to spit out fire.
Xu Guangqi and Huang Kezuan also agreed with Ye Xianggao's words
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