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However, the Luo family had been entangled with the civil officials since Luo Sigong. They had already lost their basic position as the Jinyiwei. Emperor Tianqi was about to deal with the civil officials. Naturally, he would not allow such a commander with an unclear position to exist.

Another person who was almost dealt with was Tian Ergeng.

He was originally the grandson of Tian Le, the Minister of War. He was appointed to the Imperial Guard by virtue of his grandfather's influence and rose to the position of Left Commander-in-Chief. He was cunning and vicious, and had a close relationship with Wei Liangqing and attached himself to Wei Zhongxian. In the fourth year of the Tianqi reign, Luo Sigong was in charge of the Imperial Guard.

He was considered a representative of the imperial guard faction, and was also seen as a symbol of the civil servants reaching into the imperial guard. The commander of the imperial guard was actually the grandson of the Minister of War. How ridiculous!

Therefore, this time his commander was replaced by a Tongzhi. If Emperor Tianqi had not been prepared and did not want to wake up the civil officials for the time being, Tian Ergeng would have been imprisoned.

In fact, Emperor Tianqi also knew that Tian Ergeng was a scapegoat pushed by the civil officials. No matter which side won, he would not escape death.

However, he himself may have known this, so he also killed the Donglin Party among the civil officials. Even so, he could not escape the fate of being sidelined.

Because Xu Xianchun, who replaced him, was also a representative of the Yinzhi faction.

Now he has been promoted from Jinyiwei Commander to Commander. The Yinzhi faction that originally followed Tian Ergeng will naturally follow him. Therefore, Tian Ergeng has no support from those behind him.

The other largest force within the Jinyiwei, the hereditary faction, would not pay any attention to him because of Li Ruolian's sudden rise. Therefore, Tian Ergeng was doomed to be sidelined.

Xu Xianchun? He was considered to be a relatively upright person. That was why he was appointed as the commander of the Jinyiwei.

These are the emperor's private army. Tianqi can decide everything at a glance.

What if the civil officials have any objections?

That would be courting death!

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao, who had completed the division of the factory and guards, also breathed a sigh of relief. As an emperor who had received basic royal education, he naturally understood the importance of balance.

In the past, I only focused on the outer court.

As for the internal affairs, there are also East Factory and Jinyiwei.

However, some responsibilities are not so easy to sort out.

After listening to Chen Yu's three-day introduction, the division in his mind became much clearer. This also led to the four divisions of the factory guards today.

Maybe it’s still not perfect.

It's still Mr. He's words. Only when it's there first can it be corrected. Moreover, these are the best arrangements he has made after thinking hard.

As for the results, we'll have to wait and see.

The 150,000 Jinyiwei will be assigned to the Dongchang with 50,000. This can also be considered as cleaning up the Jinyiwei's yellow book. I will notify Xu Xianchun and Wei Zhongxian tomorrow.

On the fourth day, Chen Yu finished his practice again and started chatting again. Today he talked about economy.

When Zhu Youjian heard that the annual tax of later generations exceeded 100 million taels of silver, he couldn't close his mouth. He even praised the so-called unified tax collection by officials, gods, monks and laymen. As for Zhu Youxiao, even though it was the second time he heard it, he was still envious.

Then comes the analysis of the taxes of this dynasty.

When Zhu Youjian heard about the so-called tribute, he jumped up and cursed: "The good policy of Taizu to take care of scholars has become a means for them to steal taxes from the court. How abominable!"

As for Zhu Youxiao, he had already learned some things from Jinyiwei. Although it was not too detailed, he had made a lot of preparations.

Chen Yu said leisurely: "I only know that when Emperor Chengzu was in power, the annual land tax alone exceeded 30 million dan. It is now at least more than 30 million liang."

"Your Majesty, how much is the annual tax revenue of our dynasty now?"

Tianqi sighed and said, "I have been in power for seven years. The highest tax revenue was in the third year of Tianqi, and it did not reach 10 million taels. It was only more than 8.9 million taels."

Chen Yu spread his hands and said, "From Emperor Chengzu to the present, the number of people must have increased, and the cultivated land must have increased. But why are the taxes decreasing? Where did all these taxes go?"

Zhu Youxiao said nothing.

Zhu Youjian said harshly: "Corrupt officials!"

Chen Yu did not express his opinion, but changed the subject and continued: "After talking about land tax, let's talk about business tax."

"Your Majesty knows about the tax composition of the later dynasty. At the highest point, commercial taxes accounted for more than 60% of the taxes. That is at least 60 million taels. In today's world, even if business is not so developed, there is no problem with 30 million taels of commercial taxes every year."

"As for the tax rate, the 30% tax rate set by Taizu is too low. Of course, this was due to the underdeveloped commerce during Taizu's time, and Taizu wanted to support commerce at the time, so he set a low tax rate. However, times are different now. This tax rate is indeed too low now."

"Ten percent tax is more suitable for today's era."

"Of course, not everyone will be taxed. We need to set a standard, for example, an annual income of 100 taels. If the income is below 100 taels, no tax will be collected, or only a very low tax will be collected. If the income is above 100 taels, a tax of 10% will be collected."

"Then there is the mining tax. Not to mention other things, just the salt tax alone, the court can collect at least several million taels every year. I think most of this is still embezzled by collusion between officials and businessmen."

At this point, Zhu Youjian suddenly asked: "Mr. He, what you said is correct, but what if the merchants don't pay? Most of them are in collusion with officials. They even encourage the people to beat the tax collector to death."

Chen Yu smiled and said, "Your Majesty knows this. Your Majesty, remember the armed tax troop we talked about the other day. If 30,000 tax troop troops are not enough to collect taxes by force, then we can use 100,000 or 200,000! Anyway, one tenth of the tax collected is more than enough to support them."

Zhu Youxiao just nodded without saying anything.

Chen Yu continued, "In addition to these, there are also tariffs. If we collect taxes on the smuggling merchant ships of our Ming Dynasty alone, it will not be less than 10 million taels per year!"

"It was decided by Taizu, how dare they?" Zhu Youjian said with a clenched fist.

Chen Yu said leisurely: "Taizu decided, but Chengzu had Zheng He's seven voyages to the West. With Chengzu's wisdom, if there was no benefit, how could he have made seven voyages to the West again and again?"

"Unfortunately, this huge benefit was discovered by the civil officials. First, they obstructed the royal family from participating. Later, there was even an incident in which Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, burned the ship's blueprints and routes."

"Liu Daxia said it was burned. However, after he retired, the Liu family became a maritime tycoon for a while."

“Without royal participation, the huge profits from maritime trade were divided up among the civil officials.”

"In order to maintain their huge profits, they bribed the court officials."

"Every time someone proposed opening the sea, they would try their best to stop it!"

Zhu Youjian angrily said: "Hateful, worthy of death!"

Zhu Youxiao was also furious.