"Your Majesty, I don't have the ability to make gold by making stones. I don't have any earth-shaking skills. What I do is just to follow the flow and the melons are ripe and fall."

Gu Zhenhua smiled carefully on his face and said with a loud voice: "In recent decades, maritime trade has become more and more prosperous. The silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty every year is no less than ten million taels of silver. The wealth of the southeast sea merchants is as rich as the country. As the saying goes, the way of heaven reduces the excess and makes up for the shortcomings, and taxes should be collected from them to fill the country's benefits. Forgive me, I bluntly said that the late emperor failed to do this, but instead sought fish from trees, increased the burden on farmers, forced the people to fight, and destroyed the people, and became bandits. The problem of the Ming Dynasty was the financial dilemma. The financial dilemma was in business, in the southeast, on the sea. If you put a mountain of gold and silver, you would not be able to blame others if you were bitten by a dog!"

The words were harsh, but Zhu Cilang listened with relish. He said that since he became emperor, he has been constantly reflecting on why the dignified Heavenly Kingdom had fallen to the point of a country destruction. Hearing Gu Zhenhua's words, Zhu Cilang seemed to have found some way.

"King Liao, is the profit of industry and commerce so great? But why do some ministers always say that business is the last business, and collecting taxes is worthy of them, and that they are raising these profit-oriented people."

Wu Kaijie said: "Your Majesty, is this more important? All the ministers and scholars in the world have businessmen behind them, so they simply say that they run workshops at their own homes."

Zhu Cilang also nodded sadly: "The court officials only have themselves in their hearts, no country, and ignore the kindness of the king. No wonder the father said they could all be killed."

"Your Majesty. The court officials are selfish, so there is no need to say much. I just want to say that industry and commerce are not the last business, and it contains unparalleled power. Please see this!"

Wu Kaijie took a book of the account that had just been cleared from the side and sent it to Zhu Cixuan.

"This is the production capacity statistics of the Nanyang Arsenal last month. It produces a total of 120 field bronze cannons, 1,700 self-produced muskets, 200 Minnie guns, 1 million kilograms of gunpowder, and countless other helmets, armor and helmets. It is enough to supply 5,000 elite soldiers."

Zhu Cilang frowned after looking through the account book, and as the prince, he received standard education from the crown prince and knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty. The production capacity of the Nanyang factory in one month was almost as good as the annual output of the Beijing workshop. Whether in terms of money, grain or weapons, Henan is still able to win with a corner of a country.

Wu Kaijie accompanied the young emperor all the way and also understood Zhu Cilang's personality. This person was quite easy to learn and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the Nanyang factory has this ability, mainly mobilizing the power of merchants and adopting new management. Various parts are outsourced to merchants, and those craftsmen will reward according to their performance. The more they do, the more they get."

Dai Ying, who was standing beside her, couldn't help asking: "Class Wu. Let the businessmen participate. What if these people are obsessed with greed and fool them with inferior things?"

"Hahaha, my father-in-law asked well, just supervise! The production products are set to set specifications and strictly inspected and checked during acquisition. Each part has a serial number, and any problems are investigated seriously. Although I dare not say there are no loopholes, all the products in the arsenal are more than several times better than previous workshops."

Seeing Zhu Cilang and Dai Ying fall into deep thought, Yan Yingyuan also said: "Your Majesty, the production capacity of the arsenal has soared, and the same is true for workshops that produce silk and porcelain. Driven by interests, merchants can work harder than anyone else. Growing grain only takes one season a year, and at most two seasons in the south, but textiles can be made every day, and there are taxes when there is a transaction. In this way, fiscal revenue will naturally increase ten times more!"

Zhu Cilang finally understood a little, but the questions in his heart were even more.

"King of Liao, I heard from gentlemen that there is one wealth in the world. If the court takes more, the people will be less. If you use it like this, I am afraid that all the people will suffer."

"Your Majesty is kind, but the reason may not be so. The world's wealth is actually growing in the long run. Take overseas for example. Is it only available for one year if so much money flows in every year? In the short term, wealth is indeed limited. But it is not only the court and the people who share the wealth, but also a gentry group in the middle. They rely on their own privileges to bully the court, suppress the people, and enjoy huge profits alone. Now that we have the taxes raised, it is not that there are warehouses that are gone. We need to purchase military supplies, build bridges and roads, and build schools. The money is given back to the people, and 80% of the finance and taxation are taken from the people and used for the people. Only one or two% is used for the army, but even one or two% is much more than before!"

As a person who has mastered hundreds of millions of wealth, Gu Zhenhua knows very well that wealth can only have real meaning when it flows, and control is more valuable than having it!

Wealth is a kind of power, and it is spent on it. This is the manifestation of the national power. However, there was a little tragic in the Ming Dynasty. Lao Zhu always managed the Ming Dynasty with the simple concept of farmers, just like managing the fields.

Lao Zhu believed that taxes were paid and distributed, which was simply taking off his pants and farting, so he simply let the local area stop enough and handing over the rest. This caused a congenital financial deficit, and the descendants were cowardly, so they never reversed.

Everything Gu Zhenhua showed Zhu Cixuan is to put it bluntly, the comparison of two civilizations, industry and agriculture!

With the power of Henan Province, it is not a dream to be comparable to the entire Ming Dynasty. Take Britain and the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War for example. In 1840, the annual fiscal revenue of the British Empire was close to 90 million pounds, which was converted into China's Kuping silver at that time, about 240-270 million taels. The fiscal revenue of the Qing Empire at that time was 45 million taels of silver. The fiscal revenue of the UK was about 6 times that of the Qing Dynasty. Its annual military budget was exactly the same as the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Britain was just the size of a province equivalent to the Qing Dynasty.

As for what the Qing Dynasty said about the world's number one in the Qing Dynasty, it was even more sarcastic. The so-called first is estimated based on purchasing power parity, which is not very meaningful when comparing national strength. Moreover, the agricultural "chicken fart" and the industrial "chicken fart" are completely two different things. One is potatoes just dug out of the field, and the other is tall potato chips. That's about it!

In addition to the much higher output value of the industrial society than agriculture, there is another more powerful point, that is, it operates faster.

In the Ming Dynasty, which mainly focuses on agricultural taxes, the two taxes in summer and autumn are measured in an annual cycle. However, industry and commerce are not interrupted almost every day, and taxes are paid at any time and are issued at any time, which improves efficiency by dozens of times. Therefore, the construction project can be built on a large scale, and the work is so big that it is simply amazing!

Zhu Cixuan silently flipped through several books of account books, and his heart was under a strong impact. He looked up at the sky, finally calmed down his mind, and then asked: "King of Liao, from my perspective, if you want to manage such a complex business, you may be very shocking. This may have some impact on light taxes and low taxes?"

"Your Majesty, I dare to say, what does a good court look like? It's like a waiter in a restaurant!"

Zhu Cixuan had never heard of this metaphor, and he immediately smiled and said, "King Liao, what do you mean by this?"

"Sitting in the restaurant, the most comfortable waiter is to appear in front of you when you need it. You can't yell no matter how you call, and you can't sway back and forth by your side without calling, which is disgusting!"

Dai Ying thought about it and couldn't help but smile and said, "Your Highness of the King of Liao is so incisive. The little slave thought that what the court should take care of is just a matter of duty. We must take care of the matters that the court should take care of. We cannot shift the responsibility just because of light taxes and low taxes!"

"The gentry group has stolen too much power from the court, which has led to a gap between the court and the people of the world. The people in the court are gentry and scholars. And the other people are almost like slaves, and they can ask for it. How can such bandits not be rampant!"

Zhu Cilang sighed: "As the saying goes, officials force the people to rebel. It seems that the Zhu family has really lost their morality, which has forced the people to rebel. It is not unforgivable to think that the thieves and the thieves in this way are not unforgivable. The King of Liao left all the corpses for the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves in the thieves

"Thank you for your understanding!"

Gu Zhenhua accompanied Zhu Cixuan to walk around the Government Affairs Council, and then went to the General Staff opposite to take a look.

The entire operating system of An** is like a precise Western clock. Various materials are sent in and processed layer by layer. The staff think tank formulates corresponding strategies, and the supervisors consult and evaluate, make choices, report them, and after implementation, they will also evaluate the pros and cons, and further decide how to adjust.

After seeing this, Zhu Cilang finally understood. No wonder Gu Zhenhua dared to give the military power to him in one word!

In fact, Gu Zhenhua has long been confident that such a perfect system can operate independently. Compared with the six cabinet departments of the imperial court, it is more perfect and more effective. The management system has always been advanced, mergers and backwards. How can you retake the advanced if you lag behind? Even if you grab it yourself, you can't play it!

After walking around, Zhu Cilang realized what the way to play in the industrial era was, and completely received a baptism from the bottom of his heart.

"King of Liao, I still have questions. The gentry and bureaucrats also run business and pursue profits. Why are they the disaster? If the merchants rise up, they will also take action, so what should they do?"

"Your Majesty, take the salt law of the court as an example. The salt merchants rely on the inheritance of generations to make profits, which is just a privilege. Such merchants spend all their energy on bribing officials to protect them. How can they have the intention to manage well and make the world profit? As for merchants, they are like the water of the Yellow River. If the embankments on both sides are controlled, they can allow the people to benefit from irrigation. If they cannot control them, they will be flooded with countless losses and suffer heavy losses. In the end, it is still a test of the ability of the court. Because of this, the humble ministers advocate that the admission of officials should be examined and have real skills. A single brain, the Four Books and Five Classics cannot fight wits and courage with the tyrant merchants. The two Jinshis in our imperial examinations were somewhat fooled and deceived by the minor officials under their command. Hanlin Ci ministers, the Taoist censors, and the so-called clear streams are nothing but good ministers and good ministers!"

Words are deviant, but the truth is profound. Zhu Cilang gradually lowered his head and thought about every word!
Chapter completed!