Honglou, I became Jia Lian?Fortunately, there is a system!

Chapter 108 Discussion on going to the study room!
"Your Majesty, my mother is a lady of a scholarly family. She taught me that it is better to have no books than to have no books when I was a child. Therefore, I will habitually have some doubts about the contents of most books that record events. I read the history of the Ming Dynasty, and found the change of civil servants very interesting. Before that, the status of military officials and civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was roughly the same, and even the status of military officials was slightly higher than that of civil officials.

After the Tumu Fortress, the status of martial arts in the Ming Dynasty plummeted, and even the generals of the second and third ranks slowly bowed their knees in front of the civil servants and officials of the fifth and sixth ranks. Mergers are getting worse.

I have heard a saying: After an incident happens, whoever gets the most benefit is the one who is most suspected! "

In the study room, as Jia Lian's words fell to the ground, after a brief silence, Zhao Guogong Chen You, who had never spoken among the five elders in the cabinet, spoke.

"Although it seems crude, what General Jia said is not without reason, Your Majesty."

Although this one is also honorable, he does not belong to the four kings and eight princes who founded the country.Before that, he had been suppressed by Jia Daishan, until Jia Daishan left, this man was able to enter the cabinet and became the number one military leader on the surface. Jia Lian naturally understood that this man was not from the same line as him, so he just smiled and nodded hint.

"Where it's just crude, it's obviously a bunch of nonsense. Yu Shaobao was a Chinese hero who made a conclusion in the past. How can Huangkou children make random arrangements!"

"Hey~ Mr. Huang is really good at talking. I just talked about the comparison of the status of martial arts and civil servants before and after the Tumubao change. How did you insult Yu Qian?"

"..."

A five or sixty-year-old cabinet minister and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old Wu Xun just talked and became more and more excited in the study room until Emperor Baode interrupted them both.

"That's enough! Today, Jia Qing's assistance to the imperial court and the stabilization of food prices have already solved my serious problem. I wonder how long it will take for the next batch of food to arrive? Will the fleet be able to expand as soon as possible?"

"Your Majesty, it only takes six to eight days to sail from Guangdong to Tianjin with the wind, and about ten days with the wind. The round trip takes about seventeen or eight days. And as long as there are ships, the scale of grain transportation can be expanded almost infinitely." Even the Jia family did not plan to monopolize the waterway, as long as other ships can pay the Jia family and its allies the orca family a total of [-]% of the profits, anyone can go behind the Jia family fleet."

"Four percent?"

"Boy Jia, you are too dark!"

"Old Duke, what's wrong with the boy, the orca family wants [-]% of the profit, that's the condition of the covenant, my Jia family wants [-]% of the profit, this is in exchange for the waterway opened by my Jia family with countless hardships and tears!"

"Okay! Even if it's reasonable for your Jia family to collect waterway money, why does Laoshizi Killer Whale charge [-]% of the profit?"

"Hey~ just because the killer whales will send at least one escort team every time our fleet sails to drive away other sea beasts, find out the danger of the fleet's route ahead, and even in case of a storm at sea, the killer whales can save those People who fell into the water, these are the jobs of other killer whales, and they only earn [-]% of the work, which is the result of my Jia family's hard work and communication."

"Who will the [-]% of the profit go to? Why don't you give it to the Jia family? Don't be greedy, kid Jia."

"It's only [-]% of the profit, old man, you really underestimated this general. You know that there are tens of thousands of adult killer whales in the orca family allied with the Jia family, but they have to be scattered all over the endless ocean because of food. As a nomad, I will invest the profits of the killer whales in the future to build livestock breeding in various places in Daqing and buy the livestock of the barbarians on the grassland. As long as there is enough food in the future, the killer whales of more than tens of thousands of feet will be the capital for me to travel across the ocean in Daqing!
That endless ocean is the inexhaustible cornucopia of Daqing!This general doesn't bother to be a person who competes with the people for profit in the fields. "

"Okay, Mr. Jia is very ambitious. Since I am a senior, how can I not support it? The Chen family still has a small fleet in the south of the Yangtze River. From now on, I will follow you, Mr. Jia."

Jia Lian was a little tired of this old man's expression of "I am very optimistic about you, I am willing to invest in you, thank me soon", but in order to guide Daqing's great voyage, he still endured it.Turning his head, Jia Lian began to fool Emperor Baode again.

"Your Majesty can rest assured that all the profits of my fleet will be taxed according to the law. At the same time, I suggest that Your Majesty can set up a special office in Tianjin Port to be responsible for this matter, and the tax rate for sea trade can also be adjusted appropriately."

"Oh? This matter really needs to be discussed. Let the cabinet come up with a charter as soon as possible."

Emperor Baode was actually more interested in the tens of thousands of adult killer whales that Jia Lian mentioned, but at first he thought that the killer whales were giant beasts in the ocean and would not be of much help to his empire on land.Secondly, he really can't afford to support him, and Jia Lian just mentioned that Xungui's family borrowed money from the treasury, and now he is also having a headache.

So Huang Zhongyu criticized Jia Lian for saying that the government's business was a loss of national integrity, but Emperor Baode didn't say anything, because he didn't want to agree with this statement either!
Seeing that Emperor Baode seemed not very interested in overseas wealth, Jia Lian continued.

"Your Majesty, I also know that water transportation is a major policy, and it is not easy to change it. Therefore, my suggestion is to cut half of the Beijing-Hangzhou section of river transportation and transfer it to sea transportation. Other water transportation related to land transportation will not be changed for the time being. The abolished water transport manpower, ministers and others can be responsible for recruiting and turning into seagoing entourages, and these people will never be lost. A small amount of money and food was allocated to the people who were drafted into the corvee, but most of the people have never seen this, and almost all of them brought their own dry food to apply for the corvee, this move greatly hurts the hearts of the people!"

"There is such a thing? Why did I never know, Liu Yiping, what's going on?"

Uh, is this accidentally injuring a friendly army?This Mr. Liu is actually in charge of the household department?Jia Lian was secretly ashamed.

"Your Majesty, there are still 100 million taels of silver in the accounts of the Ministry of Finance, but officials of all sizes in Beijing and China have already borrowed more than 270 million taels. It is estimated that the salaries of the major military forces and officials at all levels will need 700 taels in preparation for winter this year." Ten thousand taels of silver, the household department now has less than 200 million taels of silver left, and I can only reduce all the expenses that can be reduced by all parties. Today, the subsidy silver for water transport corvee labor is indeed only 10 taels. After the fire is exhausted, I am afraid that it is indeed a drop in the bucket for millions of waterworkers..."

This Mr. Liu is worthy of being in charge of the household department, and he can memorize all the books upside down, but Zhao Guogong and Jia Lian are a little embarrassing for the nobles who owe money and don't pay back...

have to!What else can Emperor Baode say, it is a mistake to say anything at this time!
Jia Lian struck while the iron was hot.

"That's why, Your Majesty, Guochao has to open up more money. Set up a tax office in Tianjin Port. I will help you manage it. No matter what, you can guarantee an income of one or two million taels of silver!"

Before Emperor Baode had time to move, Master Liu Yiping jumped up excitedly and tightly grasped Jia Lian's hand.

"General Jia, are you serious?"

"Master Liu, what I said is that I have to take charge of the tax office. Others will take charge of it, so just pretend I didn't say that."

Liu Yiping immediately turned his head and looked at Emperor Baode expectantly.

"His Majesty……"

　The fourth update, I don’t know if it’s still possible…

　　
　
(End of this chapter)