The snow in the mountains slowly melted, a clear stream flowed, and everything was quietly awakening.

Shortly after the Lantern Festival, officials from the capital returned to the yamen, and their days had returned to their previous years.

The affairs of the Ministry of Revenue have always been the most arduous one of the six departments. They have to directly handle the financial affairs of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and are also responsible for the most important tax work of grain and salt tax.

Drawing on the successful experience of Lianghuai Salt Tax, the salt method has also been promoted to Liangzhe, Changlu and Hedong, thus increasing the salt tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to the Chongwenmen Taxation Customs, which was in charge of Hai Rui, who has obtained a good debt of more than 100,000 taels per year, the experience here has whipped other tax officials, and the Ministry of Revenue has also set an example for the "door god" Hai Rui.

The Ministry of Revenue, under the leadership of Lin Weiran, has undoubtedly achieved excellent results in revenue generation, but the increase in salt tax and tariffs cannot effectively solve the financial problems, and cannot even offset the losses of the continued decline in grain tax, the largest tax.

The vassal states, military expenditure and engineering expenses were like three mountains, pressing heavily on the Ming Dynasty, making the Ministry of Revenue worry about money.

After receiving the order from the cabinet, the Ministry of Revenue also began to raise money, and Lin Weiran also assigned the bank financing matter to the Thirteen Divisions under his jurisdiction.

When Huang Youwei, the Yunnan Secretary, was calculating the accounts in Yunnan, he couldn't help but complain: "Last year, the emperor built Yude Palace, Lecheng Palace and Tengxi Palace, and this year, he will build Wufu Palace and Xuanji Bao Temple.

, When will this end?"

At present, the project expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, although the two major projects of the reconstruction of the outer city of Beijing and the three major halls have come to an end, in addition to the Lingen Hall in Xianling, there is the expansion project of the Xian Palace of Chengtian Hall.

In the 18th year of Jiajing, Jiajing's southern tour also kicked off the expansion of the Xian Palace.

Chengtian Prefecture is not only ranked alongside Chengtian Prefecture and Shuntian Prefecture in its administrative status, but the palace of Prince Xian Prefecture is also on the agenda, and the expansion project has continued to this day.

According to this construction trend, we resolutely wanted to create a new Forbidden City, but the two chief ministers Yan Song and Xu Jie both had an indulgent attitude towards the emperor.

However, the current Ming Dynasty finance is far from comparable to the Zhu Di period. Once a new Forbidden City is really built, not to mention whether there will be major problems in the Ming Dynasty finance, the Ming Dynasty will also fall into turmoil.

"What else can we do as ministers? The dignified Lord Yuan Fu didn't say anything. Our Ministry of Revenue naturally had to hand over the last copper plate in Taicang to the Ministry of Works!" Yang Futian also had complaints in his heart and said sarcastically.

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Huang Youwei, the Yunnan Secretary, sighed again: "It is also fortunate that Master Zhengtang has the right to manage his finances. Otherwise, according to this practice, I am afraid that all localities would have to collect and withdraw the silver for the editing again!"

Over the years, the reason why the court's finances have not had major problems is that every expenditure has been transferred to ordinary people through miscellaneous taxes and other means.

When Lin Weiran was in charge of Shuntian Prefecture in the past, he found that the people's essays were higher than the regular taxes, and this kind of miscellaneous taxes other than the regular taxes quietly became the people's life-seeking rope.

Jiajing's practice of Taoism and palace cultivation seemed to spend "his own" money, but in fact, the people in the world still paid for him, and it was already shared by adding silver.

It is no wonder that when we learned that Yan Song and his son "the court is as rich as me", it is no wonder that the people in the world are so angry that they gritted their teeth for Yan Song and his son. This is their hard-earned money.

Hai Rui was busy in the Ministry of Revenue today, but he listened to the conversation between the two Shangguans and clearly saw the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, but his eyebrows couldn't help but frown tightly.

The troubles of the Ministry of Revenue have long been the norm, but they will not be able to make a fuss just because they complain a few more times. Life will return to normal, as if nothing has changed everything.

Jiajing's condition still did not improve, and his cough often came from the room of Wanshou Palace.

Xu Jie was always with the emperor, and was also handling the memorials of the thirteen provinces of the two capitals and the power in his hands was almost the same as Yan Song in the past.

The three cabinet ministers, Wu Shan, Yan Ne and Li Chunfang, were still excluded from the vote and proposed power, and honestly revised the "Xingdu Dazhi" to redefine the name of the Jiajing King Xian's lineage.

Just three days after the yamen was opened, Zhang Dashan's case was sentenced.

Although Zhang Dashan is Zhang Shouzhi's nephew and the relationship between the two is very close, Zhang Shouzhi finally did not dare to insert his hand into the case.

Zhang Dashan was sentenced to death, and the crime was neither serious nor light, but he was sentenced to imprisonment. Under Lin Pingchang's close attention, Zhang Dashan also accepted the ruling of "one credit, one profit" and honestly handed over it. I paid the old IOU and paid Li Gouzi's medical expenses.

Although the evil man received the punishment he deserved, Lin Weiran was always depressed.

Because he knew very well that although Zhang Dashan was punished by evil and Li Gouzi was also freed from the shackles of usury, there were thousands of Zhang Dashan in the world, and countless Li Gouzi.

On the last night of the first lunar month, there was no trace of light in the night sky.

After seeing Yang Futian and other years away, Lin Weiran returned to the study alone, stood at the desk and hesitated for a long time, and finally found a blank memorial from the shelf.

"On the rectification of money house memorials!"

Lin Weiran had an idea a while ago, so he wrote down the title directly on paper with a brush in his hand, and he still chose to point the finger at the usury bank.

He now hopes that the court can crack down on usury money houses, support some money houses that can be low interest rates, and then stabilize the precarious court, and give some people in danger more avenues.

"My minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Lin Qingran, said: In recent times, people's hearts have not been ancient, and they often do not follow the city rules. We should rectify them urgently to prevent the corruption... Taizu cares for the people with one advantage and one book. Now there are more than ten times more people, and people's legs are broken. Those who are not the only ones... I beg the emperor to rectify the money house, so that those who follow the Taizu order can be granted the money house business... If there is a money house business, they can be investigated and dealt with!"

Lin Weiran picked up the pen and wrote it down, but as if he had the help of God, he wrote down the content that had been planned in his mind, and hundreds of words were vividly displayed on the paper.

Without changing a word or revising a single sentence, this "Commentary on the Remediation of Money Houses" has been completed in one go.

A healthy financial industry is actually beneficial to social gain, which is also one of the reasons why later generations have allowed Internet finance. It is just that we must always guard against excessive interest rates. After all, capital is greedy after all, and they will absorb the last copper coins of the weak people. Will be willing.

Lin Weiran looked at the written memorial, and a bitter look appeared on his face.

He pushed the troublemakers so hard last year that he had already cut off the financial path of corrupt officials like Xu Jie, and the pressure he faced was probably even greater.
Chapter completed!