Chapter 542 The Great Court Meeting 3

"His Majesty."

In order to increase his persuasion, Zhang Juzheng reported the fiscal revenue of previous years in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng, who presided over the Wanli New Deal, was indeed outstanding. He could calculate every account clearly.

Even who is a big taxpayer, which sect is not active in paying taxes, and which family secretly makes false accounts, he will make it clear.

When Zhang Juzheng mentioned the largest taxpayer, Zhu Houzhao was stunned because that person was so unexpected.

The largest taxpayer in the Taiwu Dynasty—Huashan Yuebuqun!

"Wait a minute, who do you think that person is?"

Zhu Houzhao interrupted Zhang Juzheng's report and said with some disbelief.

Huashan Yue Buqun is an old friend. How did a second-rate sect leader become the largest taxpayer.

He did not know something. Ever since he helped Ren Piaomiao hold a Zhongzhou Famous Sword Tournament, Yue Buqun had found the password to wealth.

In this extraordinary world, strength is the most important thing, and the most profitable thing is the various resources for warriors.

After the Zhongzhou Famous Swords Conference, Yue Buqun started an intelligence business, creating dragon and phoenix rankings, weapons rankings, and sword immortal rankings. He made a lot of money by selling information.

Later, he cooperated with Baicao Valley, Shennong Gang, Mingjian Villa and other sects to hold various competitions, sell elixirs, weapons, and start selling goods.

To this day, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty is none other than Yue Buqun. The path of Huashan has also gone astray. Except for a small number of disciples who honestly practice martial arts and sword practice, most of them follow Yue Buqun and engage in various money-making activities.

Yue Buqun seized the opportunity of the times and quickly made a fortune, leading the trend of the times. Countless families and sects responded and began to imitate his example.

How much money can you make by enclosing land and hoarding rice? It's not enough to squeeze your teeth. It's better for warriors to make money. Hold an event, sell elixirs and weapons, and you're guaranteed to be full of food.

This resulted in the proliferation of martial arts competitions in various dynasties of the Ming Dynasty. Many martial arts sects and martial arts families made more money and paid more taxes.

Anyway, no matter what, Yue Buqun made a fortune over the years and became the leading taxpayer in the Taiwu Dynasty.

The tax he paid alone was equivalent to one-tenth of the overall tax revenue of the Taiwu Dynasty.

After making money, he could still actively pay taxes. Yue Buqun also wanted to make good friends with the court. As an old fox, Yue Buqun was more awake than 99% of the people in the world and understood who was the only master of this world.

"Talent"

After learning the truth from Zhang Juzheng, Zhu Houzhao suddenly looked strangely in his eyes, sighed, and at the same time felt dumbfounded.

"Miss Yue" stopped being a girl and switched to business. This style of painting is really strange, but then again, Yue Buqun seems to have never been normal.

Zhu Houzhao didn't want to care about what Yue Buqun liked to do, and he had no interest in taking care of it. As long as he paid taxes honestly, he could do it.

After getting rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind and returning to the topic, Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice: "Since there is no problem with finances, the development of new territories can be put on the agenda."

"The cabinet will discuss the specific development plan with the six ministries and then submit it to me."

Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe, Wang Hao, Fei Hong, Liang Chu, Liu Yu and other ministers from the six cabinet departments responded respectfully: "I obey the order."

There are no problems with official reserves, fiscal revenue, and other aspects. Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

At this time, Yang Yiqing spoke again, with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, new territories must be developed, but the population of our country is probably far from enough to fill the new territories."

It's okay if we don't mention the population issue. When it comes to population issues, Zhu Houzhao gets a headache.

Normally speaking, the Taiwu Dynasty already had a large population. The number of Ming people living in the country was about 3.5 billion. Adding in the surrendered extraterritorial races, the total population was close to the 10 billion mark.

With such a large population, just hearing about it makes people's scalp numb, but compared to the huge territory, this population is really nothing.

The Taiwu Dynasty's huge home continent, as well as the ancient stars of life controlled outside the territory, the total territory and territory combined, and the population of 10 billion are only a drop in the bucket, and they are useless.

The problem of territorial development and the problem of sparse population were two major problems that plagued the entire Ming Dynasty during the 16th dynasty.

However, the two problems are closely related. New territories need to be populated, and the population growth cannot keep up with the expansion of the territory. This has become an endless cycle that cannot be solved in a short time.

Zhu Houzhao deeply understood that the reason for this situation was that the old Zhu family was walking too fast, and the speed of Daming's car could not keep up, and the hidden danger broke out.

He didn't have any good solution to this problem. After all, he wasn't sending children to Guanyin, so he couldn't make the population increase in a short time. He could only say helplessly:

"Encourage the people of the world to have more children and raise more children. If you can't afford it, the court can support you on your behalf."

"In addition, starting from today, our dynasty will enter a state of recuperation. Within a hundred years, we will not expand externally for the time being. We will first digest the existing resources."

The population problem is already imminent. If we don't pay attention to it, it will lead to big chaos sooner or later. For this reason, Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate to postpone his progress.

It was great to be racing all the way and making rapid progress, but the consequences of going too far were something he couldn't bear.

"call"

After hearing with their own ears that the emperor was about to enter a state of recuperation, all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Ming Dynasty set out on the road to transcendence, it has been going all the way. Zhu Houzhao didn't feel tired, but they were also exhausted physically and mentally.

Territorial development issues, population shortage issues, and even financial issues are all matters between the Cabinet and the Sixth Ministries. Now that the discussions are over, it is the turn of the Military Ministry.

Looking at the British Duke Zhang Mao, Zhu Houzhao asked seriously: "Old Duke, how is the situation on the front line?"

He was referring to the battle conditions in the four great spiritual lands of the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Kunlun, and Mount Tai.

When the Ming Dynasty was promoted to the Middle Thousand Worlds, the spiritual energy tide gave birth to a large number of monsters, and more than 90% of them came from the four spiritual lands. Even after a year, the battle to clean up the monsters was still not over.

"Yesterday, a battle report came from the front line. The four spiritual monsters have been wiped out. The four generals are leading their troops to kill the remaining monsters. They will return to the court soon."

The British Duke Zhang Mao said with great solemnity that it was related to the battle on the front line, but he was paying attention to the development of the battle situation all the time.

"Very good."

Zhu Houzhao nodded happily. Hu Dakui, Qi Jiguang, Yue Fei, and Li Jing really did not disappoint him.

"On the day when the army is reorganized, I shall personally lead all the civil and military officials out of the city to greet them."

This was his courtesy to the soldiers who worked hard for him, and also paved the way for the canonization of the four great kings in the future.

"On behalf of the frontline soldiers, I would like to express my gratitude to Your Majesty for your kindness."

British Duke Zhang Mao was very excited. As the current number one person in the military, he values ​​the honor of the military the most.

"Old Duke, please rise."

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, looked at the civil and military ministers, and asked, "Do you still have something to discuss?"

The ministers were silent. The big things had already been discussed, and there was no need to waste time on small things, so it was okay.

"Since there is nothing to do, please retreat."

Zhu Houzhao waved his sleeves and announced that the court meeting was over.

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