People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

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Although Jin Yiwei no longer checks the privacy of himself and others.

But checking taxes is even more terrible.

They are well aware of the fact that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below, and they are already secretly thinking about how to evade taxes even though they have a small family.

And His Majesty the Emperor seemed to know their tricks and actually asked the Jin Yiwei to check the taxes.

That must be the end.

According to the abilities of those perverts, it's okay to pay taxes properly.

If anyone in the family is not discerning and wants to engage in tax evasion, they will definitely be found out and lose their pants.

Now that they heard His Majesty the Emperor say this, they all felt their faces twitching.

Now it is estimated that His Majesty only said this verbally, and did not really give Jin Yiwei the power to investigate taxes.

But His Majesty the Emperor will never waste such a useful army.

I didn’t listen to His Majesty’s gentle words, but was every word a threat?
They feel relatively lucky now that this year's summer taxes haven't started to be paid yet, and they still have a chance to correct their evil ways.

Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor's approach is not to kill first and then report later. It seems that he will remind the officials all over the world that Jinyiwei is now the tax investigation office. You can judge for yourself whether you have any chance of tax evasion.

The Minister of Industry's face twitched the most.

Because his family has a lot of land, and the family has a big business, the land tax and labor and corvee money to pay are a lot of money.

He planned to hide it a little bit.

But now that he heard that Jinyiwei would become a tax inspection department, he immediately gave up the idea.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the officials who had been summoned standing in the study, all swaying and turning pale. He knew that the shock effect was achieved, and he felt a little complacent in his heart.

Unexpectedly, this was a mistake. The Jinyiwei had scared the officials so much before. Unexpectedly, if used in the right place, it would also have such a deterrent effect. This is a good thing.

Seeing the officials like this, Zhu Yuanzhang even deliberately said to Jiang Zhen and Zhan Hui, the Minister of Civil Affairs next to him: "Jiang Zhen, Zhan Shangshu, you two take advantage of the opportunity before August to recruit talents in accounting and improve taxation." The construction of the audit department’s Yamen.”

Jiang Wei and Zhan Hui hurriedly sang and took over the task.

Jiang Wei was very happy after getting this task.

There was no other reason than that he had seriously felt that he was about to lose his job.

But I didn't expect that after Chen Han came, he would transform and become the head of a more important organization.

Good guy, I have to bring something to reward Chen Han next time.

Zhu Yuanzhang may not have thought that these ideas of his were not told to him by Chen Han.

But he discovered the benefits of Jin Yiwei.

Jinyiwei is indeed a very useful department. He feels that he can spy on the privacy of officials and the taxes of officials.

Especially now that all taxes are collected together after the people are divided into acres, we can even see what kind of tricks the officials will do.

Chen Han was indeed not as thoughtful as Zhu Yuanzhang.

It seems that Chen Han's choice was right. Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was too smart.

As long as you guide him, he will be able to draw inferences immediately.

Chen Han never thought of letting Jinyiwei become the tax inspection department.

He also did not expect that after the people were divided into acres, officials would be able to embezzle a lot if they practiced favoritism when collecting taxes.

But with an agency like Jinyiwei to check taxes, it is estimated that even if officials are corrupt, they will feel like there is a pair of eyes staring at them from behind every day.

The pressure is enormous.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang really knew what these officials were thinking.

He may not know that there is a department in the United States that makes all Americans very fearful and fearful in later generations.

This department is not the Department of Defense, FBI, or CIA, but the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, referred to as the IRS.

This department can be said to be the devil in the eyes of every American.

During the tax filing season from January to April every year, Americans will honestly report their income, including illegal income.

No one has ever dared to challenge the authority of the IRS.

And unknowingly, Zhu Yuanzhang actually transformed Jinyiwei into a department like the IRS. It can be said that it was fate.

If Chen Kang knew this, he would probably be very surprised.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhao Mian and the others could only admire His Majesty the Emperor's ingenious arrangement.

The result of this meeting was an obvious conclusion.

Under the current situation, as long as you work hard, nothing will happen.

But if you mess with the court at this juncture, you will definitely be severely punished.

After they went out, they immediately began to count the gold and silver inventory.

As well as everything that took over the Baochao Printing Bureau in the Ministry of Accounts.

What Zhao Mian and the others did not expect was that after taking over the Banknote Printing Bureau from the palace, they discovered why the imperial court was able to print so many treasure banknotes so quickly.

First of all, the printing and issuance tools of the Bureau of Printing and Printing are very advanced, much more advanced than the printing tools on the market.

The printing ink is very good and the tools are very complete.

In addition, the craftsmen who print money are very skilled.

You must know that these craftsmen have been serving conscientiously for more than ten years from the eighth year of Hongwu to the current 24th year of Hongwu.

They were basically printing treasure banknotes every day and night, and they never stopped until Chen Han arrived.

So their technology is quite sophisticated.

It has to be said that Zhu Yuanzhang invested a lot of money in this matter.

Because of this, these people have been trained in their crafts.

Another thing is that the amount of raw materials shocked both Zhao Mian and Xia Yuanji.

That whole warehouse of mulberry linen paper, and that whole warehouse of raw materials.

Ink printing tools and even printing machine accessories are quite complete.

It took Hu Bu a full six days to move these things to Hu Bu's warehouse.

Then Xia Yuanji cooperated with Zhao Mian and all the officials from the Ministry of Revenue, and they also spent seven or eight days counting the gold and silver in the imperial treasury and took a breath of cold air.

Logically speaking, the imperial court has been strongly demanding over the years that all gold and silver from the private sector should be collected into the treasury and not allowed to circulate in the market. There should be a lot of it.

However, after seven or eight days of counting hundreds of people, Xia Yuanji discovered that it was not that simple at all.

There is indeed a lot of gold and silver in the imperial treasury for individuals, but it is too little for a unified dynasty.

There is only a mere 300 million taels of silver; there is even less gold, only more than 100 million taels.

Compared with the indiscriminate distribution of treasure notes over the past decade or so, such a disparity made Xia Yuanji take a breath.

It seems that the idea of ​​having all gold and silver returned to the national treasury is simply ridiculous.

It seems that even with such strict orders from the court, the amount of gold and silver scattered among the people is still quite large.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty·Shihuo Zhi", in the 13th year of Hongwu (1380), the total number of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty's treasury was approximately 200 million taels.This number may only be a rough estimate, and the actual number may be higher, but not by much.

The reason why there are more than 1000 million taels of silver and more than 100 million taels of gold now is because they were captured from the Northern Yuan Dynasty during the repeated Northern Expeditions.

Only a mere one thousand taels of silver and one million taels of gold are the entire treasury savings of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, it was impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to actually use gold and silver as reserves for treasure banknotes.

It can be seen from this that Zhu Yuanzhang may not have deliberately used no reserves at all.

It may be because at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the really rich guys had already hid gold and silver, plus those who were evacuated and taken away by the Yuan Dynasty.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the country was completely impoverished.

If these gold and silver really have to cope with the situation where the whole world is in ruins and awaiting development, they will not be able to cope with it at all.

After seeing this little gold and silver, Xia Yuanji finally understood why it was so difficult for Zhao Mian to be a minister.

I also know why these officials do not block the issuance of treasure banknotes at all.

Because if you don’t print and issue treasure money, probably nothing will be accomplished.

Xia Yuanji did not expect that Daming's current situation would be so urgent.

Nor did I expect that there was only such a little gold and silver in the vast land of the Ming Dynasty.

No wonder the annual tax is only a measly [-] yuan.

No wonder the price of silver has remained high over the years.

Isn't that the reason?

If the treasure banknotes were not issued in excess, there would be no way to stop Bei Yuan from going south, and he would not be able to recuperate and recuperate like now.

Xia Yuanji had ridiculed Zhu Yuanzhang's policies at first. He felt that all the emperor had done in recent years was to plunder the people, which was a waste of people and money.

But when he inspected the gold and silver in the warehouse, he finally understood Zhu Yuanzhang's painstaking efforts.

Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang was not a particularly perfect emperor.

Or maybe Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have such a good economic mind.

But Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that in that difficult environment, he had no choice.

Xia Yuanji even understood at this time why Zhu Yuanzhang had to set his capital in Yingtian instead of going directly to Peiping. After all, that was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty.

It makes sense now that I think about it.

Because when the Yuan Dynasty evacuated, everything that could be scraped away had already been scraped away.

Take away all the gold and silver savings in the entire Central Plains.

What was left to the Ming Dynasty after that was just such a mess.

After Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, it is not easy for them, the emperor and his ministers, to sustain this mess until now.

After they couldn't get more gold and silver, they had no choice but to print and issue treasure banknotes.

Xia Yuanji couldn't understand it at first, but now, when they came to the warehouse, they understood.

It's not that the imperial court was unwilling to exchange gold and silver for the people.

It's not that the imperial court must take away all the gold and silver from the hands of the people.

But because of necessity.

Xia Yuanji was silent, while Zhao Mian, the Minister of Household Affairs, was very calm at this time.

These old officials have been around Zhu Yuanzhang for so many years.

Seeing so little gold and silver, I actually understood at that time that the only way to do things was to make the same mistake again and again.

Seeing Xia Yuanji sitting on the steps of the warehouse, a little depressed, and the high-spirited look on the young man's face had calmed down a lot at this time, Zhao Mian smiled and walked out.

"Lock the warehouse!" Zhao Mian said to the officers and soldiers guarding the warehouse.

After instructing the officers and soldiers guarding the warehouse to lock the door, Zhao Mian walked to Xia Yuanji and patted him on the shoulder.

Xia Yuanji turned back to look at Zhao Mian.

There was no sarcasm on Zhao Mian's face, but an expression that said, "Now you finally know why we have to be cautious in doing things."

Zhao Mian was relieved now.

When he worked with Xia Yuanji before, he was always humiliated by Xia Yuanji.

But Xia Yuanji didn't understand how much pressure a minister like Zhao Mian was under.

The Guo Huan case happened before, and now there are so many people in the world who are crying for food. All kinds of places that need money are like funnels, and no money can be retained.

Why should he compete with the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works for those corvées and errands?

If you really have money, why bother?

Just because there are too many things to do, but the court has no money, what should we do?Can things be done without fighting or grabbing?
Zhao Mian sat next to Xia Yuanji, and the two of them just looked at the wall beside the huge warehouse.

It was like two caged birds, obviously seeing the bright world outside.

But, he couldn't fly out.

The plight of having no money was like a cage, trapping both of them.

Seeing that Xia Yuanji had not spoken for a long time, Zhao Mian finally smiled and said: "Young man, now you know why our generation has become a philistine in your eyes.

Can you not be a philistine?
You have seen for yourself how much gold and silver there is in this warehouse.

This is the family background of our Ming Dynasty.

Do you think His Majesty doesn’t want the people to live a better life?

Do you think His Majesty is willing to use paper to exchange all the hard-earned money of the people?
Do you think His Majesty doesn’t understand at all?

Young people, you are still a little immature. "

Zhao Mian is almost 50 years old. After so many years of experience in officialdom, he is relatively thorough.

At first, he didn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang did, and he didn't understand why the war was still going on when the country was already in dire need.
He also didn't understand why the imperial court's printing and printing bureau didn't stop all day long and was printing money every day.

It wasn't until he became the Minister of the Ministry of Finance that he understood why.

Just because of poverty.

nothing else.

The whole world is impoverished.

After experiencing various plunders during the Yuan Dynasty, the people hid any valuable gold and silver.

The imperial court wanted to collect it, but it was impossible.

Even though tough measures have been used over the past decade or so, how much gold and silver has been collected?

Why were these things hidden in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty?In order to cope with the difficulties that will arise in the future.

Why do you insist on using Baochao?
Why insist on printing?
It’s a problem that everyone can see, so why not fix it?
Don’t you want to change it?
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(End of this chapter)