"Wang Chengen, what has the Taishi been doing lately?"
With a yawn, the emperor asked a little discouraged, "I heard that the Taishi transferred a lot of troops to Luzon."
Yesterday, the emperor thought about it for a long time and stayed awake all night.
He asked himself if he couldn't be a dead emperor, and he didn't want to hand over everything to the cabinet and the secretaries of the Hanlin Academy.
While they are indeed capable, he also has ambitions, and he wants to take control of the empire himself.
It's just that in his heart, he is still full of jealousy of a person.
Even if he is not in Jingshi now, it is still a hurdle that he can't get around.
He is not afraid of others, but Zhang Chao.
The more I know about Zhang Chao, the more people are full of awe of him.
Cheng Qian has been on the throne for a year and a half, and at the daily court meeting, he puts on the imperial robe, wears the ornaments that the emperor can bring, and sits on the dragon chair of the Golden Palace, high and high-sounding.
Then, he knew that he was not the true ruler of the empire.
This empire, and a pair of hands, is behind the scenes.
"The Taishi has recently been busy conquering the natives of the Luzon Islands, capturing the unyielding natives back to the port of Luzon and building a port and a royal capital for him.
At present, Luzon has 8,000 soldiers, including 3,000 naval divisions, divided into three detachments, with more than 100 large and small ships, and 5,000 army troops, divided into three regiments and nine battalions, and another cavalry battalion directly under it. ” Wang Chengen seriously told the emperor the news of Luzon.
"Eight thousand soldiers and horses," the emperor could not see joy or anger on his face, "no matter where the Taishi goes, he can always raise his hand and wave it, and he will gather thousands of troops and horses." ” Wang Chengen said in a respectful tone carefully figured out, "Your Majesty, the eight thousand soldiers of the Zhen Navy are quite ordinary.
And they were now mainly busy conquering the natives, with the navy fishing and the army building cities. ” Cheng Qian frowned slightly.
The slight frown revealed the emperor's dissatisfaction.
"Don't despise Taishi, every seemingly ordinary act of his often contains deep meaning."
"How many people are gathered in Luzon now" "Back to Your Majesty, it is said that there are now 100,000 people in Luzon Port."
Cheng Qian was surprised.
"One hundred thousand" Didn't you say that the wild island of Luzon gathered a population of 100,000 at once.
It's only been a long time, and it won't take more than three months to get full.
"There are 8,000 soldiers transferred from Liuqiu and other places, more than 30,000 Shanyi transferred from Liuqiu, thousands of gold diggers attracted by the Central Plains, and thousands of craftsmen and immigrants who were recruited.
The largest number were the local conquered Daoyi, with about 50,000 slaves, and many others were attached to the Yi, who were conscripted by the Taishi to serve in labor. ” Cheng Qian's fingers tapped lightly on the table, 100,000 people, he knew the power of the population.
There is Tusi and wealth, and there are people who become powerful.
Zhang Chao has money, soldiers, and now that he has territory and population, it seems that Luzon will soon become the next Liuqiu.
However, he was a little puzzled that he heard some news that Zhang Chao did not plan to return to Beijing this year.
Seeing that it was the end of the year, Zhang Chao did not enter the Beijing Dynasty.
What was he planning?
Is Luzon really that important?
A desert island, just leave it to the Zhang family's steward to operate, there is no need for him to be in charge personally.
"Do you confirm that Taishi will not return to Beijing this year?"
"Some of the news I heard, Taishi seems to have revealed to Dean Ma that he has no intention of returning to the capital.
He planned to stay in Luzon and develop his fiefdom with peace of mind. ” Cheng Qian sneered.
"Do you believe it, Wang Chengen" "It's hard for the minister to be sure."
"Anyway, I don't believe it."
Cheng Qian didn't believe that Zhang Chao could let go of this affairs of the DPRK and China at all.
He always believed that Zhang Chao was a person with a great desire for power, otherwise, he would not have gone to that step with the Emperor Taishang in the first place.
If he can really let go, then let it go as soon as possible, don't train any private soldiers, don't make friends with so many important ministers and nobles, then how can the emperor always be worried about him.
Zhang Chao always said that he didn't love power, but at every critical time, he clung to power.
Even, will not hesitate to raise troops.
He said that he was defending the new law, and Cheng Qian believed it in the past, but now he doesn't believe it very much.
"By the way, about the shadows, how many have been found in the six doors" Cheng Qian knew that Zhang Chao had such an organization, but he didn't know the name, let alone the specific situation.
He only knew that Ke Qing, the head of the sect, was not only the leader of Zhang Chao's guards, but also the leader of this secret organization.
And Ke Qing's daughter, Ke Qing, seems to be also a high-level member of this organization.
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But the rest, I don't know anything, I only know that it is very mysterious, and it is very powerful.
The name of the shadow was told to Cheng Qian by Wang Chengen.
And Wang Chengen can know, and Ke Qing said it to him personally.
Wang Chengen lowered his head and said with some shame, "The shadow is quite mysterious, and the minister can feel it, he seems to be everywhere, but there is no trace at all.
Also, the minister suspected that the six doors had already infiltrated their people. ” Cheng Qian's eyes narrowed dissatisfiedly.
"There are shadow people around me" "The minister is incompetent, and the minister does not know."
The Emperor sighed, "Wang Chengen, the six doors are no longer reliable.
I want you to assemble another team, more secretive, more faithful, and more reliable.
There is no need for many people, but they must be loyal and capable.
This group of people and horses is called flying horses."
Now that the six doors have been infiltrated, let's just start the stove again.
In any case, he needs a more reliable centaur.
"Is there still a regular gathering in the princess's mansion?"
asked Cheng Qian.
"Well, once a week, sometimes twice."
Wang Chengen replied that Zhang Chao was not in Beijing, and Zhang Dang now met weekly through the gathering of the princess of Zhenguo.
On the surface, it was a banquet between nobles, but the emperor knew that it was a secret meeting of the Zhang party.
Chu Suiliang, Cen Wenwen, Yang Shidu, Yu Zhining of the cabinet, Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Kong Yingda, Yu Shinan, Li Shousu of the Hanlin Academy, as well as Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Guo Xiaoke, Li Junxian and other generals.
Every week, not everyone gets together, but at least seven or eight are there.
Now there is even a rumor that the Princess of Zhenguo Mansion is a shadow cabinet.
Many of the matters decided by the imperial court seem to have been decided by the cabinet, the Hanlin Academy, the Parliament, etc., but in fact, they have been privately discussed and decided in advance at the weekend banquet of the princess of Zhenguo.
Especially when it comes to some important matters related to the Zhang Party, such as his previous edict on coinage, which was finally rejected by the Academy of Sciences after they discussed it in the Zhenguo Princess's Mansion.
"There is no ruler in sight, and the party is selfish."
Cheng Qian scolded in his heart.
When the Emperor Taishang was on the throne, who dared to do this.
But now, they are becoming more and more blatant.
"Wang Chengen, I have given you a task to secretly collect evidence of the crimes of important members of the Zhang Party, such as Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen, as well as any evidence of illegal crimes."
Wang Chengen was surprised, "Your Majesty is going to attack them."
Cheng Qian shook his head.
"Not yet, but I can't do nothing, remember to do it secretly."
After breakfast, Cheng Qian changed into a dress and went to the morning court.
At the end of the early dynasty, he summoned the eldest grandson Wuji to speak.
"I have thought that the right to mint money and the right to issue paper money will be returned to the imperial court, and in addition, in addition to salt and tea, wine, sugar, porcelain, and raw silk will be monopolized by the imperial court.
After the raw silk of sugar wine porcelain is produced, it must be purchased by the imperial court. ” "Sugar processors and sugar sellers need to buy sugar from the imperial court and pay sugar taxes in advance.
The same goes for porcelain, raw silk, and wine. ” If you want to do it, make a big one.
The imperial court can sell 40 million yuan of salt a year, and tea can also sell a lot of tea a year.
Now Chengqian is ready to sell the most profitable commodities by the imperial court.
"Your Majesty, this is a bit too big."
In a certain respect, it is not wrong for the emperor to engage in monopoly.
In the past, salt and iron were monopolized, and later tea and wine were also monopolized, because these things made money, and the imperial court monopoly was actually equivalent to a monopoly.
Now the monopoly proposed by the emperor is the same as salt tea.
The common people are responsible for the production, and then the imperial court uniformly purchases, and private purchases are prohibited.
If a merchant wants to sell wine, sugar, porcelain, and silk, he must first come to the imperial court to buy it.
The imperial court has all the sugar and wine in its hands, so it can have the pricing power and can raise the price.
Even like salt, heavy taxes are levied, and the merchants who buy them have to pay not only for the goods, but also for the taxes.
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Merchants bought sugar, wine, etc., and when they went back, they wanted to reprocess it or sell it directly, and the court didn't care.
Anyway, the money was collected, and the taxes were collected.
"The people grow mulberry and raise silkworms, spin silk and weave silk, and if the court wants to control raw silk, I am afraid that it will not be good.
You can't sell raw silk to the imperial court, and then buy it back to the imperial court at a high price to weave silk."
Cheng Qian thought for a while, "You can add a piece, set a quantity, how much raw silk can the people keep for their own use, and if it exceeds this amount, it will be considered commercial, and it needs to be sold to the imperial court, and those silk factories will buy silk from the imperial court." ” "It's better to collect silkworm cocoons directly, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that silk production, many of which are handmade by ordinary people's families.
If silk is also monopolized, the impact will be too great. ” "Uncle Guo said that there is some truth, but now more than half of the raw silk is purchased by those silk factories to reel silk.
Those silks that were exported, including many of the silks in the Central Plains market, were spun by those big silk mills.
If the imperial court directly buys and sells silkworm cocoons, as long as a certain amount of cocoons are reserved for the people, then I think it is feasible. ” The liquor tax, cocoon tax, sugar tax, and porcelain tax were intended to be purchased by the imperial court and then sold to merchants, just like tea, and the producers were forbidden to buy and sell on their own.
As for the tax rate, it is intended to be two out of ten.
Of course, it is much cheaper than the increase in the salt tax by ten times.
Originally, tea was ten taxes and one, but now ten taxes and two are doubled.
The imperial court now produces a huge amount of tea, with large domestic sales and large foreign sales every year, with an annual output of tens of millions of catties of tea.
The tea tax was doubled, and the imperial court could increase the tax revenue by tens of millions of dollars just for the tea tax.
Not to mention, the original monopoly of liquor was later abolished, and now it is monopolized, and a heavy tax of 20 is levied.
Because the liquor is relatively special, the imperial court cannot directly buy the liquor and sell it, so Cheng Qian proposed to strengthen the supervision of the liquor brewing workshops, and they must register with the imperial court to obtain a liquor license before they can brew liquor.
The wine they brewed, the imperial court ten taxes two.
The same is true for porcelain, porcelain produced in porcelain kilns, ten taxes two.
"Your Majesty, tea, sugar, porcelain, the Zhang family occupies the largest market share, and even silk, their Zhang family is also the largest silk merchant, with countless machines and workers in silk mills and weaving factories all over the country.
His Majesty added these things to the monopoly and imposed heavy taxes, but I was afraid that Zhang Chao would not agree. ” "Taishi once said to me that it is natural for workshops and vendors to operate and pay taxes according to the rules.
I also know that in addition to the salt and iron tea that has been monopolized, the profits of sugar, silk, and porcelain are very large, and big nobles and businessmen like Zhang Chao almost monopolize the market with their abundant capital and monopolize huge profits.
But the imperial court is not profitable, I want to collect taxes, it is also justified, for the country and the people, this tax will not go into my Li Chengqian's inner treasury, but into the national treasury, take it from the people, and use it for the people in the future. ” The right to mint coins and issue banknotes, and now they have to levy a special heavy tax of 20% on sugar, tea, wine, silk, and porcelain, and the emperor is very ruthless.
"I'm afraid that the Parliamentary Academy will not pass it at all."
The eldest grandson Wuji said.
These things are not only done by the Zhang family, but even his eldest grandson Wuji is also being operated, and countless aristocratic businessmen are also doing it, after all, these things almost account for the vast majority of export products.
"If it can't be passed, the councillors will be dismissed, and if it can't be passed, the parliament will be dissolved."
Cheng Qian's eyes were firm, and this time, he was full of fighting spirit. t1706231537: