For a moment, the officials below were controversial.

At the same time, the cabinet members did not talk about the taxes of wealthy families, and seemed to have forgotten that the current efforts of Emperor Aoki to collect commercial taxes and mining taxes are just progressing slowly.

Zhu Zilong looked coldly, watching the cabinet officials and officials fighting each other. Whether they talked about each other or attacked each other, they could not come up with a key and effective solution.

Of course, it is said that he refused to let the landlords and merchants in Jiangnan pay money and contributed to the masters behind them.

Which of these cabinet members and officials is not a big landlord or a big merchant family? How can they lose their privileges and pay taxes for the country?

No wonder the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty said that all officials in the world can be killed?

That's true.

The Bohou and the military generals next to him were also disappointed. These literati cursed and fought over and over again. They just couldn't get out their money and food. Do they have to find a way to train the new army?

Zhu Zilong sighed, the late Ming Dynasty was dead, with great officials, businessmen, and great officials, and great military generals occupying up to 90% of the resources of society. They do not want to contribute. Can rely on those common people to save the decline? It will only make things worse.

From the middle period, Emperor Ming Dynasty defined it as governing the world with scholars and officials.

Nowadays, all the literati and officials are representatives of merchants and landlords. This is a deadlock. The emperor's appearance will make the government unrest.

It seems that it can only be made by the original body or the Jinyiwei.

When he was young, Zhu Zilong's emperor clone asked again: "What are your tricks for recklessness?"

The Minister of Revenue knew that his performance just now did not satisfy the emperor, so he was the first to answer: "Return to Your Majesty, I have several strategies for saving money. All the border funds are all submissive. I ask to change the major military service and order the Qing stern army to be submissive. Those who are incompetent will be sent to replace them. The equal funds can be obtained."

Zhu Zilong nodded after hearing this.

Therefore, the Minister of Revenue continued to work: "I asked the ministers of Zhongke from the court to supervise the leasing taxes in all directions. Since the army was launched, there are border pay, new pay, and training pay, and there are many payments. The cunning officials are prone to being traitors. I ask them to combine them into one."

Zhu Zilong nodded again, and the rest of the officials were also pondering.

The two things the Minister of Revenue just said, the first one can reduce the problems of military generals eating empty wages and drinking blood from soldiers.

The latter one, if it is done, will benefit both the military and the civilians. It is just that local tyrants and officials are afraid that they will not agree with it and will deceive their subordinates and hide them from them.

When the Minister of Revenue saw that the emperor Long Yan was very happy, he couldn't help but jealous, and said: "About increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, I also think of a plan. Your Majesty can order a large-scale layoff of the post station, which can save dozens of millions of taels of silver every year."

Hearing this, Zhu Zilong, who was already very satisfied, had his eyebrows twitched on the spot.

Why does this sound so familiar?

Oh, tm, I remembered it. Li Zicheng started to rebel after he sacked the post station and lost his job.

I'll go, this Minister of Revenue is cheating!

In the original history, in the early years of Chongzhen, in order to save expenses, the emperor ordered the large-scale layoffs of post stations. The result of the layoffs was that a large number of insurvival post station soldiers joined the peasant army, including Li Zicheng.

Speaking of Li Zicheng, Zhu Zilong was very entangled with him.

As a modern time traveler, I heard that he was a great hero in elementary school, and when I was in high school, I heard that he was a sinful person of the Han people.

In fact, Li Zicheng is definitely a pitiful person.

On September 22, 1606, Li Zicheng was reborn in a wealthy family in Mizhi, Shaanxi. He was probably brothers in the underworld, and the family he chose was really good, rich, servants and beautiful little maids. Just when he got older, he could become a rich second generation every day.

However, natural disasters have come.

The fields in his house were all eaten by the insects. After eating them for a year, the locusts came again the next year.

The third year the locusts did not come, and the drought came.

In this way, Li Zicheng's family finally joined the proletarian revolutionary team gloriously, and Li Zicheng's fate also took a sharp turn, from a rich second generation to a poor second generation.

He was sent to the temple by his family as a food delivery monk, which was similar to Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, he was sent to herding horses outside a woman's house!

Soon, Li Zicheng's mother passed away, but his family's economic situation shone brightly, and began to rebound, and life began to get better again. So Li Zicheng ran to Yan'an Mansion and worshiped a martial arts master named Luo Junyan to learn martial arts and military tactics.

In this way, he studied for five years, got married at the age of 18, married Han and became a post station worker!

However, his wife Han is a very scheming bitch.

Not only did he transfer all the money from his family, but he also made Li Zicheng's father angry. In the end, he also hooked up with a yamen runner from Mizhi County, named Gai Junlu, also known as Gai Huer.

After learning that his wife had a cuckold, Li Zixing went home to catch the adulterer.

However, Gai Hu'er ran away from the bed with her bare butt. According to the "Ming Law": Catch the evildoer and catch the two!

As long as the adulterer and wife were caught and killed on the spot, Li Zicheng would be just a reason for the incident, and it was understandable. He would criticize and educate him, and he would not be an example. But if Gai Hu'er ran away, the nature would be different!

If he rushed out to hunt down Gai Junlu, it would be a serious crime of assaulting the police, and his wife would take the opportunity to escape. At that time, no matter which court he was taken, there would be a vicious criminal case.

As a result, he chose the latter one. Li Zicheng caught the offender and said that his wife had stolen people, but the evidence was insufficient and he refused to accept it. So he became a murderer gloriously.

Things in China have always been that county officials are better off being in charge. After a friend gave the money, the jailer pretended not to investigate and let him run out of the prison.

Since then, Li Zicheng embarked on the road of rebellion and became bigger and bigger.

In later generations, some people said that Li Zicheng rebelled because of the inn's speculation of employees. Obviously, it was not like that!

He is a big man, with his hands and feet, and not only rebels for one job. This is caused by various reasons!

However, the Minister of Revenue said that the post station should be abolished.

Zhu Zilong still instinctively wanted to object, even though he was not the real reason for Li Zicheng's rebellion.

Because, as long as the station is adapted, it will have a great effect.

The post station was a place for people who conveyed official documents and intelligence in ancient China, or for officials who came and went to and changed their horses. Without this, it would be like a new China abolished the post office. Isn’t it too bad? Could it be that if you rely on the tailwind express delivery to deliver warmth and open the door to check the water meter?

Just modify the regulations and the children of officials and officials cannot use them for free without official documents.

There is no need to lay off the station!

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong controlled the emperor's clone and opposed the proposal of the Minister of Revenue to abolish the post station, but instead adapted to it.

In the future, officials cannot use it at will!

After the meeting ended, in the palace, Zhu Zilong, the cross-city emperor, sat in the study and called the commander of the Jinyiwei, Luo Sigong.

Touching the temples, Zhu Zilong sighed and gave Luo Sigong a new order. He asked him to go to Mizhi County, Shaanxi to find a man named Li Zicheng.

If possible, bring him back to the palace. If the situation is special and inconvenient, you can kill him on the spot!

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Chapter completed!