Hong Chengchou cursed Haoge in his heart, but he looked humble and did not explain.

Dorgon did not miss this opportunity to attack Haoge. He looked at Haoge and sneered: "Are you really stupid or fake? Now we will move the capital back to the outside of the pass. How can the soldiers inside the pass fight with the Ming army with all their heart?

What is the difference between giving up directly in the pass?”

Haoge's face turned red when he was said, and he slapped the armrest of the chair and said, "Then go back directly to the outside of the pass!"

Haoge was obviously annoying.

If the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty really wanted to go back outside the customs, how could this meeting be held? They would have acted long ago.

For example, Daishan and Jirgalang are better at age fifty, and they feel that it is nothing to go back outside the pass.

But a little younger, there are a few flower worlds in Shede Pass now? Although the northern Zhili, Shanxi and Shandong have become deserted due to natural disasters and wars, no matter how it is, the living environment in Northeast China is good.

After another silence, Prince Zheng Jiergalang, who had not spoken, said: "If we don't dare to fight the Ming army, we will be scared to retreat outside the pass. The hearts of the Qing Dynasty may have dispersed and destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.

It's just a matter of time. So, this battle after the autumn harvest still has to be fought."

Even Haoge has led the army to fight for many years. He does not understand people's hearts and knows the morale of the army. Although he groaned when he heard this, he did not refute it again.

Dai Shan also sighed, "Then let's fight. If you lose this battle again, no one will be unwilling to go back outside the pass."

Dorgon obviously supported Hong Chengchou's strategy.

Seeing this, Bumubutai made a decision for Fulin: "Then according to what Grand Secretary Hong said, the Ai family doesn't understand the war, so they all rely on the kings."

After this high-level meeting, Dorgon ordered the front-line troops to make some preparations for the "new weapons" of the Ming army.

The first priority is of course how to deal with the powerful firepower of the Ming army.

The solution discussed by Dorgon, Hong Chengchou and others was: to equip the army with more artillery, especially to build more red artillery that can be used for field battles, and try to suppress the Ming army's artillery.

On the other side, there are mostly chariots - although chariots are not as useful as Nurhaci and Huang Taiji at that time when facing the new artillery of the Ming army, it is somewhat effective according to the reactions of the soldiers who fled back from Yangzhou.

Especially when approaching the Ming army's positions and facing the huge increase in the number of musketeers in the Ming army.

As for how to deal with magic weapons such as "walk talkies", "flashlights", and "drone", we can only remind the frontline generals to be careful.

Because this matter must not be informed to the entire army, otherwise the morale of the army would have fallen before the battle started.

In fact, although the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty were preparing to fight this battle, they did not have much confidence, so they had already distributed a considerable amount of manpower and material resources behind their backs to return to the outside world...

Time flies September of the first year of Zhaowu.

For several consecutive days, Zhu Mai held a cabinet meeting in Wuying Hall to summarize the new policies implemented in Yingtian Prefecture.

"I'll tell you that the financial statistics of Yingtian Prefecture from June to August have come out." Ma Shiying said with a smile.

Zhu Ma actually knew the result from Ma Shiying in advance. Today, it was mainly for other cabinet ministers and officials to know about it, so he smiled and said, "Ma Qing, let's talk about it."

Ma Shiying said: "The Ministry of Finance currently levies tariffs and municipal taxes in Yingtian Prefecture, because they are only a place for one government. Taking April and May this year as an example, the tariffs of Yingtian Prefecture are 8,500 taels and 10,000 respectively.

More than two thousand three hundred taels.

Since June, a new policy has been implemented in the eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture - abolishing all kinds of illegal tax customs (formerly known as Chaoguan), and a few places have private tax customs, severely cracking down on corruption and abuse of law by tax officials, and harming public and private.

The many unreasonable miscellaneous taxes previously added by the imperial court were also cancelled, and the tax rate for some goods was increased.

After some vigorous integration, the customs customs of Yingtianfu has been cleared, and the tariffs imposed have not only not decreased, but have increased month by month.

In June, the tariff is 13,000 taels, in July, the tariff is 25,000 taels, and in August, the tariff is 31,900 taels!"

Speaking of this, Ma Shiying, who was holding a small notebook and reading data, said excitedly: "According to this trend, Yingtianfu tariffs should continue to grow in September!"

The officials and officials couldn't help but look surprised when they heard this.

Whether it is a cabinet minister or a minister of various departments, many of them have the experience of serving in the local area and have learned about local tariffs. Because according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, only part of the tariffs will be released to the court, and part of them will be left for local use.

Although Yingtian Prefecture is now the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is not a top transportation hub in the country, so the tariff revenue should not be large.

This is compared with the tariffs in April and May.

Historically, the Wanli period was the best fiscal revenue in the late Ming Dynasty. However, in the 25th year of Wanli, as the Yellow River and the canal passed through the palace, it was actually a key place for water and land transportation, and it brought tariffs to the court.

It was only more than 20,000 taels in half a year.

From this we can see how much tariff income in Yingtianfu is now.

Zhu Mai was quite satisfied with this data. Although the tax revenue in three months was less than 100,000 taels, the tariffs have indeed increased significantly compared to previous years.

She said: "It is a good thing to increase the tariff significantly, but we still have to know why it has increased so that we can learn useful experience from it and promote it to other places in the future.

Ma Qing, as the Minister of Finance, you should have some understanding of this, right? Let’s talk about it again.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Youyu, He Tengjiao and a few other ministers couldn't help but look envious when they looked at Ma Shiying.

The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty court meeting is no longer as before. Being able to get His Majesty to speak is regarded as a manifestation of being trusted by His Majesty and is a kind of honor.

Ma Shiying's expression was indeed even more excited.

He turned the small notebook in his hand one page and said, "According to my understanding, there are four main reasons for the significant increase in tariffs.

First, in the process of implementing the new policy, not only severely cracked down on corrupt officials in the original cash system, but also made officials no longer have the same corruption environment as before, and made officials and businessmen colluded with tax evasion and tax evasion for a while.

It can be seen that the collusion between small officials and merchants in the cash gates and damaged the public and benefited private people was the main reason for the small tariff income in the past.

Secondly, since His Majesty took over Nanjing and ascended the throne, the social environment of Yingtian Prefecture and even the entire Nanzhili and several surrounding provinces has been greatly stable, and there have naturally been more business affairs.

Among them, the number of people who go to Yingtianfu to do business has increased by several times more than before. This is another major reason for the increase in tariffs for several consecutive months."

Ma Shiying's words include many words that are biased against later generations, but none of the ministers present are strange.

These people can see Zhu Mai almost every day, and the meeting will be held every two or three days. Naturally, they have learned a lot of later vocabulary from Zhu Mai.

Even those who like to please the monarch like Ma Shiying deliberately changed his previous style of speaking and writing, making his words and sentences more inclined to the style of later generations.

"The third is the reasonable adjustment of the tax rate by our Ministry of Finance." Ma Shiying continued, "In the past, our collection of tariffs was both rough and unreasonable.

After the implementation of the new policy, the tariff collection is more detailed and reasonable, such as some luxury goods, which are subject to heavy taxes; and some goods that are necessary for people's livelihood, such as grain, cloth, salt, etc., are tax-free or only extremely low taxes are charged.

It can be said that the detailed and reasonable tax rate is also one of the reasons for the increase in Yingtianfu tariffs."

Hearing this, an upright minister like Huang Daozhou and Jie Xuelong couldn't help but frown slightly, thinking: Why does Ma Shiying's words sound like he is flattering His Majesty?

But they have to admit that Ma Shiying said everything is true.

The sharp increase in Yingtianfu tariffs is indeed related to Zhu Ma and the new policy.
Chapter completed!