However, a few people still reminded their disciples appropriately not to talk nonsense.
By the time Chongzhen entered the Fengtian Hall, the ministers had already silenced their voices.
"What are you Aiqing discussing? I heard it just now outside the palace. Chen Aiqing, I heard you were the loudest. Please tell me."
"Your Majesty, I was just saying that a very interesting business opened on the street of Huichang, named Daming Royal Company. I don't know the details, so I'm asking."
Wang Daozhi secretly wanted to slap himself twice. He was so excited about the discussion just now that he didn't know to keep his voice down. It was really unwise for him to fire the first shot.
"What? Your Majesty, please investigate this matter thoroughly. Someone must be using the royal name to deceive others."
Lin Yuji, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and held up his hands and said that the clan government has been unified under the Ministry of Rites, so now that there are such businesses that use the royal name, he will also have jurisdiction over them.
"I didn't explain this matter clearly to you dear friends in advance.
This Ming Dynasty royal business name was actually opened by a descendant of a sage, who found me through Wang Banban's relationship.
He promised that as long as he opened a business in Daming, he would submit 10% of the profits to me as business tax. After receiving the money, I planned to hand it over to the Account Department, and at the same time hand over the account books to me and him for joint custody.
Nowadays, there are many ways to use money for state affairs. If there is such a considerate person who is willing to take the initiative to submit business taxes, why don’t I want to? So I specially gave him a plaque of the Ming Dynasty Royal Company."
Listening to Chongzhen's narration, everyone in the audience had different expressions. The Minister of Hubu looked excited, with a kind of anxiety in his excitement.
The chief ministers of the cabinet watched their ears and nose, and their nose and heart, without saying a word. Fan Fucui's throat was stirring, ready to speak.
Some ministers did not react except when they heard the new news, but the expressions of the remaining half of the ministers changed. The ministers who had not been making trouble for a long time suddenly began to speak out on a large scale.
"Your Majesty, you can't. How can you reveal your royal name to others at will? Moreover, the behavior of such a businessman damages the majesty of your Majesty's family. The origin of this businessman is unknown. Telling the prince must have brought a lot of benefits. Your Majesty, please investigate this businessman thoroughly.
"
"I second the motion! Your Majesty, if we focus on business, we will inevitably suppress agriculture. Now that the world has been hit by disasters everywhere, if we let these businessmen who don't know where they come from continue to make money wantonly, the country will be in danger."
"Your Majesty, was it because the eunuchs and eunuchs bewitched you that you fell into this unethical plan? Huichang Street, isn't Huichang Street just next door to Dongchang? Wang Cheng'en and Gao Yushun both work in Dongchang. Your Majesty, what's the matter?
Please punish these eunuchs!"
In the court, Gao Yushun, who was watching a play, his eyelids twitched for a moment, and he looked at the rude talk of the Ministry of Rites, Gui Shizhong, secretly, and was thinking about how to send him to jail for a while.
"Why do you, dear friends, react like this? He is just a businessman, and he is willing to give me 10% of his profits as tax. The money can be used for disaster relief and to subsidize the household department."
After Chongzhen finished speaking, the courtiers below became even more excited when they heard this. It was because of the 10% tax that they were so excited!
What if the emperor tastes the sweetness of tax collection and wants to collect commercial taxes?
With so many Beijing officials present, there is no one in the old family who does not rely on their official status to do business. This is a wealth that cannot be ignored at all.
"Your Majesty, I will die to remonstrate with you. Please take back your order and close this shop. Your Majesty, I will die to clear the name of the royal family!"
"He Yushi, no!"
"Peng!"
"Ouch! Ouch! Help!"
Chongzhen looked at the farce below with cold eyes. What he did today was to establish a reputation for the establishment of commercial tax in the future. The ministers also saw it, so this was a struggle to force each other.
In fact, even if Chongzhen asked for payment, these ministers could still find ways to reduce it, or even make money through new taxes.
But this was proposed by the emperor and must be pushed back. The emperor is not honest as a mascot, but you actually want to make money?
"General Han, drag him out."
"yes!"
"Today is a happy day for me, but I have a dear friend who wants me to be unhappy? Some people want to give me money to relieve my internal treasury, which is not well-off, but some dear friend thinks that I shouldn't accept it?"
Chongzhen stood up slowly, his voice was cold, the eunuchs and maids in the palace were all cleaned up, and the royal guards shouted "long live your majesty" every day, holding his full amount of monthly silver and photos.
The Beijing camp was suppressed by Sun Chuanting and others, and was divided into four people to lead. The elites were selected to become independent. Chen Ye was responsible for the logistics. Raising millions of people was just a matter of fun, so he was very confident now.
So much so that he actually felt murderous.
The ministers in a mess below looked at Chongzhen who stood up, and their throats seemed to be blocked, and they could not speak.
"Jinyiwei!"
Beep beep beep!
Bang! Bang!
"Long live your Majesty!"
Outside the door, hundreds of Jin Yiwei troops on duty rushed into the palace as instructed, formed a circle, and greeted Chongzhen in unison.
"My dear friends, do you still think that I have been bewitched?"
A group of ministers made a fuss, then turned red in the face, and the emperor threatened the ministers with force. Is the world about to change?
"I congratulate Your Majesty. Your Majesty has increased revenue and reduced expenditure. It is indeed a blessing to receive donations from patriotic businessmen. On behalf of the people of the world, I would like to thank the businessman who donated."
Fan Fucui observed for a while and realized that if he kept quiet, he might have to drag a few people away from the palace today, so he stepped out to help Chongzhen.
"I congratulate Your Majesty!"
"I congratulate Your Majesty!"
The four ministers who were on duty at court today all came forward to congratulate them, which made the ministers who were feeling forced to the top feel like they were betrayed.
The outsiders who were still waiting for the academics and ministers to speak out and set the tone were also confused. The tone was set, but why was it reversed?
Chongzhen sat down again, Gao Yushun bowed his hands, the royal guards filed out, and calm returned to the palace.
"The items sold in that shop include soaps, shampoos, mirrors, lighters, bicycles, and all kinds of clothing that have been out of stock in Beijing for a long time. These items are highly profitable wherever they are sold.
And he told me that he wanted to find some people to cooperate in setting up factories to produce things that had never been done in the Ming Dynasty, and to share the profits with the people of the Ming Dynasty. If you have money, everyone can make money.
That's why he handed over 10% of his profits and asked me to choose some suitable partners for him to cooperate with. However, your dear friends are so opposed to it and don't want him to set up a factory. I can only regret it and hurt others' feelings of wanting to be close to you.
ah."
After hitting him with a stick, he was given a candy. Chongzhen saw that the effect of the suppression was almost done, so he appropriately gave some benefits, which instantly caused the expressions on the faces of the people below to change.
Everyone who just felt that the emperor was disobedient now wished they could hug Chongzhen and kiss him.
"I have wrongly blamed this businessman. How can such a chivalrous and courageous person confuse His Majesty? I have recently had a harvest in my family and am willing to donate it to the Ministry of Household Affairs to relieve the emptiness of the national treasury."
"I made a mistake, Your Majesty. Please punish me. I wrongly accused such a loving person. I really shouldn't."
Chongzhen smiled slightly. The purpose of today's beating was achieved. If these ministers want to attack him harshly in the future, they won't have the energy to do so.