The speaker is innocent!
This was something that had never happened in the Ming Empire since Emperor Taizu.
However, they were very touched when they heard this.
The young emperor was clearly telling them that he completely trusted the three of them.
"Your Majesty, I am grateful…"
The new Minister of Revenue, Zhang Ju, was right before this.
He was Zhu Zaihou's Youchun Square Youyu De, also known as Prince Yu's teacher…
Zhang Juzheng was also very shocked by the huge changes before and after Zhu Zaihou ascended the throne.
Zhang Juzheng tidied up his court clothes and was the first to speak.
"This humble subject suggests that we punish corrupt officials with thunderous methods and crack down on all kinds of unhealthy practices…to correct the government!”
After Zhang Juzheng finished his political views.
Zhu Houxi did not respond immediately. Instead, he looked at Chief Assistant Yan Song and said slowly,"
"Chief Yan, I want a comprehensive reform. What do you think?
"A reform?" Yan Song was stunned.
Change what method?
He was familiar with the history books and knew that there was a reform by Wang Anshi more than 400 years ago. Could it be that the little emperor wanted that kind of reform?
Not only Yan Song, Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng, the two of them were also extremely stunned for a moment.
The little emperor had only ascended the throne for less than half a month, and he was going to reform the empire?
Zhu Zaihou knew that the word " reform " was not a good word in this era.
"This is Zhen's reply to your memorials.”
Zhu Zaihou ordered the eunuch to hand them the memorial on the Dragon's desk.
Yan Song took it and saw a few words written on his memorial:
"The reform is the top priority. The land, the scholars, the farmers, the businessmen, and the merchants must all change."
"You should know first. The cabinet will discuss it before reporting to me!”
Yan Song raised his head and looked at Zhu Zaihou. Was the little Emperor going to take drastic measures against him?
Could it be that he was already a fish on the chopping board?
How should he break it?
Just as Yan Song was thinking, Zhang Ju Zheng bowed and said,
'Your Majesty, I support the reform with both hands!”
"The Empire must reform now, and the first thing to do is to reform the land!”
"Continue." Zhu Zaihou encouraged Zhang Juzheng.
"This humble subject suggests that we no longer use the head tax, but change it to land tax.”
After listening to Zhang Juzheng's words, Zhu Zaihou nodded slightly and did not comment. Instead, he asked,
"Zhang Juzheng, do you know how big the land reform is? How long would it take to complete it?
Your Majesty, I have calculated that it will take about a year to see the results and three years to complete.”
Zhu Zaihou suddenly stood up from his dragon throne.
The young emperor left the Dragon Book table.
"How much silver is in the national treasury now? Do you know what to do?"
"Your Majesty, the treasury still has silver…one million taels of silver.”
Yan Song answered first.
"What is it? Only one million taels?"
Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie were shocked.
It was normal for Zhang Juzheng, who had just become the Minister of Revenue, to not know.
Xu Jie naturally knew that the national treasury was empty.
However, he never expected that the national treasury would be so empty.
The Great Ming Empire only had one million taels in the national treasury.
Where's the silver?
Where did he go?
Zhang Juzheng also frowned. The national treasury was empty.
However, those aristocrats and landowners were extremely rich, and they did not have to pay many taxes.
Zhu Zaihou looked at Zhang Juzheng and said,"
"If you want to start the reform and complete it, you'll need more than ten million taels of silver.”
"Now that the national treasury is empty, Minister Zhang, you are the Minister of Revenue. Do you have any good ideas?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Jie immediately expressed his complete agreement with Zhang Juzheng's report.
It was very simple. Most of the people in the imperial court were Yan Song's students and old officials.
Since the national treasury did not have any silver, they could start by looting the houses of these corrupt officials. Naturally, they would target the Yan Party!
"I want to see your results tomorrow. I hope that the national treasury will reach 30 million taels of silver within five days!
Thirty million taels?
This…was really a long way to go.
Yan Song was about to push him away, but Zhu Zaihou had already said with his hands behind his back,
"This small matter is nothing in Minister Yan's eyes, right?”
Zhu Zaihou's words directly blocked Yan Song's words.
Today, the little Emperor had completely toyed with the three ministers in the palm of his hand.
"The current emperor is so terrifying…"
"It seems that the current emperor does have his own ideas in governing Great Ming!”
When they came, the three of them had their own ulterior motives.
At this moment, the three of them had already been 'squeezed' into a ball by the little Emperor.
They had a common mission, which was to fight corruption.
Within five days, the silver in the national treasury would increase from one million to thirty million.
Thirty times!
It was simply as difficult as ascending to the heavens…
"Dear ministers, please go back. I hope that you can enter the palace more often in the future to talk about state affairs with me…"
Before Zhu Zaihou could finish his sentence, the three of them were already sweating…
They thought that they would never enter the palace unless something big happened.
Otherwise, they would not be able to take it if the little Emperor placed a burden on their shoulders.
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