Fang Congzhe was a member of the gentry class and was very clear about his own class's tax evasion.

Therefore, driven by the reason why he was the chief minister of the empire and had to cooperate with the emperor's reforms and could not care too much about his own class interests, he pointed out incisively a major crux of the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, namely the tax evasion problem of the gentry and large gentry families.

In this era, tax evasion is called a tax.

What Fang Congzhe mentioned is tax evasion.

After hearing Fang Congzhe said this, Zhu Youxiao nodded: "It is urgent to recover this fu! In the opinion of Yuan Fu, how should he be recovered?"

Fang Congzhe had long guessed that Zhu Youxiao asked him these questions, so he had already done some writings and immediately replied: "Return to your Majesty, in the opinion of his ministers, to recover the tax, naturally, it is necessary to rely on officials to urge them to pay. If officials ask for payment, they must eliminate lazy government and strictly enforce the administration of officials!

In the world, corruption and laziness are the greatest harm. Lazy governance is the greatest harm. After all, those with corruption may not fail to do things, while those with lazy governance will definitely not do things. Even if lazy governance is honest, they will harm the country and the people!

Therefore, the minister believes that to clear the land and urge the tax arrears, we should first conduct strict inspections and implement the examination and the examination and the examination and the examination and the new policies taken by Zhang Wenzheng as a reference, and officials at all levels are required to be diligent in political affairs. This is also the reason why the examination and examination and examination should be carried out first before clearing the land and the temple.

"The examination method must be carried out simultaneously with the policy of clearing the land and burying the tax. The examination method must be implemented in the administration of the government, and the tax immediately clearing the land and burying the tax, and burying the tax, and taking two-pronged approaches."

Zhu Youxiao immediately replied.

"However, Your Majesty, what I am worried about is that some officials will blackmail the common people because they are afraid of wealthy families or deliberately favor wealthy families, and are forced to owe to taxes by the court, so they will extort the common people, making the common people even more unstable! At that time, they will be afraid that bigger problems will arise!

Therefore, from the perspective of ministers, you must also be accurate in the appointment of officials, especially the governors who have military and political power. You must use a group of capable ministers and officials who love the people and are capable of serving as governors. Otherwise, the court's original intention was to urge the tax arrears to the big households but instead abused the common people!"

Fang Congzhe had to remind Zhu Youlai that as a veteran official, he knew very well what the consequences would be if he just urged officials to make up for the tax deficit.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded. He admitted that Fang Congzhe was a mature country and thoughtfully thought about it. He said, "I also thought of this. Whether the new policy is good or bad policy depends on how the officials below implement it. Therefore, I did not intend to let the civil servants such as the governor to recover the tax."

Fang Congzhe glanced at Zhu Youxiao in surprise.

Don’t you plan to let the civil servants such as the governor and the governor recover the tax?

Should I still use tax supervision?

"It will only be a temporary effect to expect a few capable officials to complete the new policy. After all, there are not many capable officials, and it is impossible to keep working in the local area. There must be a new regulations and systems. I plan to set up a special yamen to be responsible for urging taxes, check whoever owes taxes, and give them a certain commission income in tax checks and tax collections. However, this yamen does not have the power to increase taxes, so if the yamen wants to not destroy their jobs, they must strictly investigate and pursue taxes!"

Zhu Youxiao started talking.

His idea was to establish an independent tax department in the Ming Dynasty, to collect taxes uniformly, and it was even better to set up the most sophisticated tax army, so as to force taxes by force without fear of wealthy families.

"A special yamen?"

After hearing this, Fang Congzhe asked, "Your Majesty, I dare to ask, how should this yamen be set up? Please tell me clearly?"

"The main body is the most elite and loyal court official army, but the yamen hall officials are composed of inner court officials, civil officials from the outside court and military officers, and supervise each other;

Select a civil servant as the governor, responsible for checking the tax burden of the national treasury, select a civil servant as the general manager, responsible for checking the tax burden of the treasury; select a military officer to lead the tax officer and soldiers to collect taxes;

When it is necessary, taxes are imposed by raiding the house and suppressing it. My plan is called Xichang, which has been used to have deterrent power to the government and the country, and is just used to urge taxes."

Zhu Youxiao replied.

Fang Congzhe was very shocked after hearing this. He had to admit that the emperor was more reliable than relying on civil servants alone, because this way of collecting taxes with civil servants, military generals and internal officials could supervise each other and have a clearer division of labor.

"In this case, the civil servants of the governors will not have to force the levy to the common people in order to make up for the deficit, and the Xichang cannot force the common people in order to complete the tax payment task, because they do not have the right to increase taxes, and the civil servants of the governors will only be responsible for clearing the land. If they cause large households, small households, large households, they will be dereliction of duty, either embezzle or inattention. Then, if the Western Factory finds that something wrong is wrong during the tax review and reports it, don't blame me for being rude to them!"

Zhu Youxiao said it and showed a ruthless look.

"Your Majesty is wise! The Ming Dynasty should indeed set tax collection as a special yamen to manage."

Fang Congzhe replied.

"Then let's draw an order. The Xichang Factory has three officials, including the Governor, General Manager and Admiral, all of which are second-rank officials, and they are not in charge of each other. They can impeach each other and inspect each other;

The first governor first asked Wang Yingjiao, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to serve as the Minister of Revenue. He was the Minister of Revenue and knew best how much taxes the Ming Dynasty owed;

The first general manager asked Li Yongzhen, the eunuch in the hall of the Silijian, to be the one who was in charge of the investigation, and he had just searched for illegal Shanxi merchants;

The first admiral used Qi Jin, who was loyal and reliable, and had just killed the Donglu in Liaodong. He was full of murderous aura, which was suitable for intimidating those who were honest and paid taxes."

Zhu Youxiao ordered.

"yes!"

As Fang Congzhe said, he asked again: "Your Majesty, Qi Jin is a powerful general. Is it a bit inappropriate to allow him to be the admiral of the Western Factory? After all, this is taxation rather than war?"

"Taxation is more important and more difficult than war. This taxation requires strong soldiers. Not only should I let the Xichang Admiral be the strong generals, but all the people in the Xichang use the elite of the imperial army. Moreover, when there is no war, the court cannot support these border soldiers for vain. They must let them collect taxes for the imperial court while fighting for the imperial court. After all, they are collecting their own military rations;

You have planned an order, in addition to urgently transferring Qi Jin to lead 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers back to Beijing, Zhao Ruijiao, who was promoted to Ji Liao sect general, led 2,000 border troops and Shanhaiguan sect general Man Gui, led 2,000 border troops to Beijing to listen to it. Then Qin Minping, who was recuperating in the capital, 1,000 white-rod soldiers who accompanied the Guards to train and the Jinyiwei, selected 2,000 lieutenants, and temporarily formed the Western Factory, all of whom were called tax supervisors."

Zhu Youxiao said.

Fang Congzhe was stunned for a moment after hearing this. He didn't expect that His Majesty would directly use the most capable army in the Ming Dynasty to form the Western Factory to collect taxes?

Is it going to collect taxes or fight?

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in this scale, one Qi Jin and three generals, who dares to resist taxes?

Fang Congzhe was a little worried that levying taxes like this would probably destroy countless people and kill countless people.

"It just so happened that these border soldiers knew that it was difficult for the imperial court to pay them military salaries, so that they could personally experience how difficult it is to collect personal income tax."

Zhu Youxiao said this at this time, and then said: "Immediately draft an order, and the will of the Western Factory should be dispatched without the need to be issued to the Tongzhengsi. It will appear in the Dibao and Huangmingbao. It will be kept confidential first, and then secretly dispatched troops to the capital."

"yes!"

Fang Congzhe and Liu Ruoyu immediately replied.

Next, Fang Congzhe began to write the purpose of setting up the Western Factory and mobilizing troops to form the Western Factory.

...

Wang Yingjiao, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, did not know that he had been appointed as the governor of the West Factory by the emperor. He was in a hurry to come to the palace and was anxious to see Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao met Wang Yingjiao in the Political Affairs Hall.

As soon as Wang Yingjiao came to the Political Affairs Hall, he immediately reported: "Your Majesty, I just learned about the report from Xiao Jingao, the governor of Nanzhili, and Sun Chengzong, the governor of Su Song, that the tax and grain tax in Nanzhili this year has reached about 80% of the tax paid last year! In other words, there is almost no tax and grain in Nanzhili Province this year that can be entered into Beijing! This year's grain will obviously be cut off from transportation!"

At this time, Wei Zhongxian also arrived.

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked Wei Zhongxian: "What's the matter? Tell me directly!"

"When I return to the emperor, I come to report on the routine. The person in charge of investigating prices in the East Factory reported that the price of grain in the capital has risen sharply for fifteen consecutive days, all because the grain has not arrived in time."

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Zhu Youxiao did ask the Dongchang to routinely report on the price situation, especially the grain price, so Wei Zhongxian would report it every day.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's face darkened and thought to himself: "What happened that the grain was out of transportation!"

After saying that, Zhu Youxiao looked at Fang Congzhe and Wang Yingjiao in the Political Affairs Hall, and asked first: "Do you two beloved ministers have any good ideas for this?"

Fang Congzhe also sighed in his heart and said to himself: "It happened indeed. When His Majesty ascended the throne, he would govern the country with strict discipline and be too strict with the Donglin Party supported by civil servants, especially the gentry in Jiangnan. He killed thousands of people just by colluding with internal officials and greedy military pay. It would be no surprise that the grain transportation would be cut off."
Chapter completed!