"Li Qiyuan!"

Zhu Youxiao is naturally familiar with this name. In fact, Zhu Youxiao has always believed that Li Qiyuan, the former Minister of Revenue, was unqualified.

No... Zhu Youxiao believes that he can be described as a corpse-position or even dereliction of duty. The reason why the situation in the Ministry of Revenue is so bad is Li Qiyuan at least half of the responsibility.

Two years ago, Yang Feng got 20 million taels of silver when he was thoroughly investigating the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou. It was Li Qiyuan and Gao Panlong who scolded him the most. However, when Yang Feng brought the silver to the capital, he quickly jumped out and advocated that the silver be transferred to the Ministry of Revenue. In the end, Zhu Youxiao transferred five million taels of silver to the Ministry of Revenue for balance.

However, after getting the five hundred taels of silver, Li Qiyuan spent only half a year to spend the five million taels of silver. There was only more than 200,000 taels of silver left in the treasury, but the other party was confident that the money spent was necessary. Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he found a reason to dismiss him as an official.

Logically speaking, Beijing officials usually choose to return to their hometowns after being dismissed from office. After all, as the emperor's feet, the cost of living in the capital is not low, and there are always people in the officialdom that tea is cold. Beijing officials also lose their income after being dismissed from office, and it is difficult to live in the capital.

What people unexpectedly thought was that after being dismissed from office, Li Qiyuan did not leave the capital, but stayed in the capital to try to regain the restoration. Zhu Youxiao knew about these, but what he did not expect was that Li Qiyuan used such disgusting means to regain his restoration.

The disgusting thing about this method is that although the Ming Dynasty did not explicitly stipulate that officials were not allowed to marry alien women, officials generally abide by this tacit understanding. This is not surprising. Even in a modern society that claims to be democratic hundreds of years later, no Chinese government official dared to marry foreign women as his wife. Those who dared to do this are just joking about their own political lives.

As Zhu Youxiao's most staunch supporter, countless people were watching every move. The reason why no one broke this incident before was because everyone knew that if anyone dared to do this, it would be a mortal enemy with Yang Feng, and it would not be too lethal to Yang Feng, so everyone pretended not to know, but now Li Qiyuan suddenly broke this incident without warning. What is this for?

"No... Although Li Qiyuan is incompetent, he is definitely not a fool. He will not do this for no reason." Zhu Youxiao murmured and said in a low voice, then asked Wei Zhongxian: "Are all the memorials that impeached Jiang Ning Hou these days because of his forcibly robbing Huang Taiji's concubine? Is there anything else that is impeached?"

Wei Zhongxian thought for a while and shook his head first, then nodded: "Your Majesty's words, you really forgot that I didn't ask me. There is such a memorial that it impeached the Marquis of Jiangning who was respectful in Fujian and had a bad intention."

"Is there any more?"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand impatiently, impeaching Yang Feng to be respectful of his troops in recent years, and Zhu Youxiao was tired of it.

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao had also been worried about this. After all, as an emperor, his sensitivity to military power was born, but Yang Feng also considered this. He thoughtfully rebuilt the Beijing camp for Zhu Youxiao and handed it over to Zhu Youxiao. Now this Beijing camp, which was completely obedient to Zhu Youxiao, has become his biggest reliance on force.

That's not all. Zhu Youxiao plans to expand the 30,000 Beijing camp to 100,000. This plan is currently underway. At that time, with 100,000 elite Beijing camps in hand, Zhu Youxiao asked himself that no one could threaten him. Moreover, Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, had great justice, and anyone who wanted to rebel had to consider it.

Another thing is Zhu Youchao’s trust in Yang Feng. In Zhu Youchao’s opinion, since he met Yang Feng, Yang Feng has helped him so much. Moreover, this man is capable and has no ambitions. He is definitely the monarch’s favorite subject, so he doesn’t believe these rumors at all.

Wei Zhongxian secretly glanced at Zhu Youxiao and found that there was no emotional fluctuation on his face. If he was familiar with Zhu Youxiao, he knew that his boss did not take these things in his heart. He continued: "There is another memorable memorial. This memorial was sent by the imperial court to Fujian by Zeng Peixin. In the memorial, he impeached Yang Feng in the memorial to use the pretext of opening a customs, and took the opportunity to make money to harm the local area, and asked the court to send officials to remanage the customs."

Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but feel trembling in his heart, and he immediately blurted out with a sentence: "So that's it, I understand!"

"Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is in Pei Gong!" Zhu Youxiao also sneered: "It turns out that their real purpose is here."

When the matter came here, they all understood that the rumor against Yang Feng suddenly appeared in the capital was to disrupt Zhu Youxiao and Yang Feng's side and make them busy with this matter. Finally, they took advantage of Yang Feng's time to take advantage of the opportunity to grab the customs in their hands.

"It seems that these people are not stupid, and they also know that this customs is a money-making thing." Zhu Youxiao murmured.

Wei Zhongxian, who was a little puzzled, asked Wen, "I saw the memorial last time I saw the memorial sent by Jiangning Hou. He estimated that Fujian Customs would have a tax of millions of taels of silver in the first year. Except for the 30% of the local entrust, the remaining 70% will be escorted to Beijing. What I don't understand is that they are so determined and just for these silver? Seven hundred thousand taels of silver seems to be a lot, but it seems that it is not worth their risk of offending His Majesty and Jiangning Hou doing this, right?"

"What do you know?"

Zhu Youxiao also figured it out at this time. He gritted his teeth and said, "Before going to Fujian, Yang Aiqing told me that customs is not conspicuous, but it is actually a national weapon. If it is done, the future income will definitely be no less than land tax. Although the customs cannot get too much silver at the beginning, as the customs ban is lifted, it will become a place that will make more and more money. In five years, the customs tax will reach at least five million taels of silver!"

"What... there are so many?" Wei Zhongxian should not be shocked when he heard this. Five million taels of silver is equivalent to all the annual land tax income of the Ming Dynasty today. This is just the customs of Fujian Province. If the more prosperous Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places can also handle the customs, how much money will there be in the Ming Dynasty? Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian felt that his heartbeat began to rise.
Chapter completed!