"This time, Your Majesty asked your uncle to lead Yu Lin here, not only to escort me back to my hometown!"

The so-called wise disciple Mo Ruoshi picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea. Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Bing with a smile and asked.

"Well, Mr. Zhang Mingjian, your Majesty does have some small things that he would like to discuss with you."

Seeing Zhang Juzheng's faint smile, Wang Bing was stunned for a moment, and then without hiding it, he told Zhang Juzheng about the little fat man's plan to expand Yulin.

"Although there is a slight surplus in the national treasury at the moment, a large country must prepare some emergency funds!"

Hearing that the young emperor was planning to expand Yulin, Zhang Juzheng did not directly object, but only talked about the profit and loss of the treasury.

"My lord, must I have forgotten that the late general made an agreement with your lord at the beginning that this Yulin Guard will only need the imperial court to pay half a year's military expenses. After half a year, all expenses of the Yulin Guard will be paid by His Majesty's inner treasury!"

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng, the actual head of the Ming Dynasty, looked pained when he mentioned money, Wang Bing couldn't help but smile.

"Haha, if calculated according to the current standards of the Yulin Guards, even if it is only expanded to 5,000 people, it will cost almost 250,000 taels of silver a year. How long can His Majesty's inner treasury support it? By then

..." When he heard Wang Bing replying to himself with what he had said as a joke, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but shook his head and said with a bitter smile.

You must know that the inner treasury is responsible for the expenses of the entire inner court. In Zhang Juzheng's view, it was not a big deal if there were few people in Yulin before. But once the Yulin Guards expand, the expenses of hundreds of thousands of taels a year will not be enough.

The little emperor's internal treasury can afford it. But once the internal treasury cannot afford it, the money will still fall on the national treasury.

"You don't have to worry about money. Your Majesty has prepared two years of military expenses for 5,000 Yulin. Besides, I have forgotten that Your Majesty is also a member of the Royal Commercial Bank. Even if the Yulin Guards expand to 10,000 people, then Your Majesty's

The internal treasury is also sufficient to support it!”

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng was just worried that the little fat man's internal treasury would not be able to support the military expenditure, so he turned to the national treasury for money, Wang Bing immediately felt relieved.

"Your Majesty just got married, where did you get such a large amount of spare money?"

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help being surprised when he heard Wang Bing say that the young emperor had prepared two years of military expenses for five thousand Yulin Guards.

You know, although most of the expenses for the emperor's wedding were paid by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the expenses in the internal treasury were definitely not small. But the little emperor was able to come up with such a large sum of money just after his wedding.

How could it not be unexpected?

"Well, my sister sold all the gifts and dowry she received for the wedding to the Royal Merchant Company."

"The queen is wise!"

When he heard that in order to raise military expenses for the little emperor, the queen even sold the dowry purchased by the inner court and the wedding gifts, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help stroking his beard in admiration.

"I don't know, sir..."

"Just now, Uncle Guo said that Your Majesty has members in the Royal Trading Company and relies on money from members of a mere trading company. Can Your Majesty really be able to support the future expenses of the Habayashi Guards?"

Although the money raised by the queen from the dowry gift money could support Yulin Wei for two years, Zhang Juzheng couldn't believe that Yulin Wei could be supported by money from a member of a trading company.

"Master Zhang, this Royal Trading Company specializes in tea, silk and porcelain business with overseas merchants. As expected, in one year, the business tax paid by the Royal Trading Company to the court alone is at least four to five million taels.

Bar!"

"Has His Majesty agreed to the Royal Commercial Bank paying taxes?"

Zhang Juzheng didn't pay too much attention to Wang Bing's estimate of the tax amount for the royal business. Instead, he was surprised that the young emperor could agree to the royal business paying taxes. You know, since ancient times, when has the royal business paid taxes?

Not to mention the royal business, even the businesses of many bureaucrats and gentry, who has ever paid taxes? Therefore, Zhang Juzheng, who has been racking his brains on how to increase national income, heard that the royal trading houses also had to pay taxes.

Immediately, my eyes lit up and I realized that this was a very rare opportunity.

Everyone in the world only knows that Zhang Juzheng only knows how to "eliminate excess but not make money, cut off expenses but not expand profits", but they don't know that there is nothing he can do about it. Just the reform of land taxation, what he has to face

The pressure is already huge. If he continues to use commercial tax as a 'source of profit', then he will not even think about the reform in front of him.

Therefore, under the choice, as the most fundamental land tax reform in a country, he naturally put it first. But now the little emperor took the initiative to ask the royal merchants to pay taxes, but it gave him a very good opportunity. The emperor paid

After the business tax, no matter how special the rest of you are, can you be as special as the emperor?

"Is there any objection to this? Since you are doing business in the Ming Dynasty, of course you have to pay taxes. The royal trading house is also a commercial house, so it is no exception! What's more, throughout the dynasties, the commercial tax of thirty to one tax has been levied.

Which dynasty is lower than Ming Dynasty?"

Just when Zhang Juzheng was secretly thinking about using the royal commercial bank to pay taxes to open up a new source of profit from commercial taxes, Wang Bing said it as a matter of course.

As everyone knows, Wang Bing wasted no time in trying to get the little fat man to agree to the Royal Commercial Bank paying taxes according to regulations.

"Your Majesty has really, really grown up!"

After confirming that the Royal Commercial Bank would indeed take the initiative to pay taxes, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but sigh again!

"In that case, let me tell the others about His Majesty's expansion of the Yulin!"

Looking at Wang Bing with an expectant look on his face, Zhang Juzheng finally said what he wanted to hear most.

"Haha, thank you Master Zhang!"

"Thank you, Mr. Chief Assistant!"

…

Not only Wang Bing, but all the Yulin guards were also excited when they heard Zhang Juzheng's words.

You know, if nothing else, as long as the Habayashi Guards expand, guys like them who were previously trained as officers can be promoted to several levels in a blink of an eye, and they can manage at least dozens of people under their command.

"But Uncle Guo, although I say I don't understand military matters, I very much agree with what Uncle Guo said if you want to train a truly strong army, you must go to the battlefield. Therefore, I would like to suggest

Uncle Guo will take the Yulin Guards to Jiubian for a walk first, and then expand Yulin!"

Amidst the cheers of the Yulin crowd, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help stroking his beard and looked at Wang Bing and said slowly.

"Haha, Mr. Zhang is absolutely right. The general has this plan. If we don't take advantage of the current opportunity to cultivate these 'seeds', how can we make them grow into 'strong' seedlings!"

Upon hearing what Zhang Juzheng said, Wang Bing couldn't help but feel delighted.

"Then I wonder where Uncle Guo wants to go?"

Seeing Wang Bing's expression of joy that didn't seem to be fake, Zhang Juzheng once again gave him a chance to make his own choice.

"I would like to visit General Qi in Jizhou!"
Chapter completed!