The reform of the taxation system is not that simple. At present, the central government has begun to collect local taxation rights, but in fact this is just a statement. Although the central government has assigned the taxation departments that originally belonged to the local department to the Ministry of Revenue, in actual operations, local rights are particularly high. Moreover, those departments have changed their brand and their personnel structure is still the same.

In later generations, the country implemented tax separation and established national taxes and local taxes separately. The reason was that the local power was too strong, and the central government had no choice but to adopt such policies in order to ensure local stability and balance. What Zhu Yicheng wanted was not this so-called balance. What he needed was to take all the national taxation in the hands of the central government and completely deprive local governments of the right to free taxation.

This will inevitably lead to local rebound. In addition, once all taxation is included in the central government, local finance will have to look at the central government's face in the future. For local officials, their rights will be greatly restricted, which is a result that local officials are unwilling to see.

However, now Zhu Yicheng has to completely break the original system. The revival of the Ming Dynasty was established by Zhu Yicheng. His status and prestige are equal to Liu Xiu, who founded the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhu Yicheng knew very well that when he was in power, if this problem could not be solved, the Ming Dynasty would never be able to solve this problem in the future.

As time goes by, national taxation cannot be controlled by the central government, which will inevitably lead to the weak and strong results. The longer the time, the worse the situation will become, and eventually the central government cannot control the local area, resulting in a situation similar to the previous Ming Dynasty.

The State Taxation Department was established to solve this problem, and Zhu Yicheng also had high hopes for Li Wei. The Chen written by Li Wei made Zhu Yicheng satisfied. Although there are still shortcomings in some aspects, judging from the current content, Li Wei has done a good job.

However, the content mentioned in Li Wei's last article not only made Zeng Yishu unable to make a decision, but even Zhu Yicheng couldn't help but sigh at his boldness.

Li Wei mentioned that since taxation is all subject to the central government, local taxation departments must not allow local governments to continue to control it. Although the Ming Dynasty has nominally separated the taxation departments, the actual structure is still the original model, and this practice of changing soups and not changing medicines has great hidden dangers.

So Li Wei decided to completely eliminate this hidden danger and rebuild the local taxation department. Of course, Li Wei is not a fool. He knew clearly how great this intensity would be, and it would affect the whole body. It would be impossible for the entire Ming Dynasty taxation department to be adjusted. Once something goes wrong, let alone complete the original intention of establishing the National Taxation Department, it may directly affect the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Li Wei proposed to focus on the capital and Nanjing, and start to adjust the taxation departments of these two places. It is expected to take one to two years to complete. After completion, the capital and Nanjing can be extended to Zhili and Jiangnan, and the local taxation will be solved step by step, which will take four to five years or more.

After completing these two steps, the National Taxation Department will rely on the actual implementation of the two places to cultivate talents and prepare to continue to promote the country. Then it will take ten years or more to complete the national tax reform.

This is a long-term and arduous task, and it will inevitably encounter many obstacles in the process. These include local forces, nobles, landlords and emerging business groups, so the State Taxation Department needs to be guaranteed by force during the process. Li Wei suggested that from local governments, it is specially designed to be a national violent department to assist the State Taxation Department to ensure the implementation of policies. Otherwise, once the local rebound, the State Taxation Department, the Ministry of Revenue Department, cannot be suppressed at all, and it will even cause local turmoil and civil unrest.

After staying in Luzon for so long, Li Wei knew very well that there must be force guarantees when attacking the local area. He was very brave. If it were someone else, even if he knew this in his heart, he would never directly raise it. But Li Wei was Li Wei, who was just outspoken and stated in the note that this was necessary.

Zeng Yishu naturally has the right to deal with other contents, but he did not have this one. Although he admired Li Wei, he was shocked when he saw this one. The Ministry of Revenue actually asked the court for cooperation from the violent department. In clear terms, the Ministry of Revenue required the support of the military, and even could directly command the military under specific circumstances. This was simply bold.

Zeng Yishu, who dared not be proficient in this way, came to see Zhu Yicheng. This kind of thing is not a trivial matter. He must let Zhu Yicheng know and ask the emperor for his opinion. Once it is spread, God knows what it will be like. If someone is interested in it adds fuel to the fire, he will put Li Wei on a treason.

"This guy is very brave." Zhu Yicheng sneered after reading it.

"Emperor, Li Wei is bold and reckless, so I must punish him severely, but I think he is willing to serve the country. In addition, he was far away from overseas before and did not understand many local situations. I also asked the emperor to give him a favor." Zeng Yishu explained with a tough bullet, and at the same time sighed that Li Wei was too bold and did not know if he could pass this time. If he could not save him, he would not be able to save him.

"What? Are you planning to plead for him?" Zhu Yicheng looked at Zeng Yishu coldly, without any emotion in his words, which made Zeng Yishu sweat profusely.

"I don't dare. I just talk about the matter. I think there is something wrong with Li Wei's move, but his intention is from public interest rather than personal gain. Emperor, when you chose Li Wei to join the State Taxation Department, wasn't it just to see this person dare to act? Li Wei is a capable official and a capable minister who is responsible. I think he may give him another chance and ask the emperor to be kind."

Zhu Yicheng looked at Zeng Yishu who kept saluting him, and his eyes were on him. Zeng Yishu was nervous, not knowing how Zhu Yicheng would deal with Li Wei, or even how he would deal with him. However, as the Minister of Military Affairs and the Left Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Zeng Yishu had to say these words, which was his support.

"Hahaha!" Suddenly, Zhu Yicheng laughed loudly, Zeng Yishu was confused for a moment, not knowing what Zhu Yicheng was laughing at.

"What? Do you think I am a fool?"

"I...I dare not..." Zeng Yishu's heart moved and he quickly replied.

"Okay, I'm not an unreasonable person. Although Li Wei has done this a little too much, his starting point is good. You can fine him three months of salary later."

"The emperor is wise, I thank the emperor for his kindness for Li Wei." Zeng Yishu was relieved and relaxed a lot, and he quickly replied.

Zhu Yicheng reached out to him and joked: "I am wise to do this. If I remove Li Wei from his post and investigate him, I'm probably going to be foolish."

"I dare not, the emperor..." Zeng Yishu was startled and hurriedly asked to explain.

Zhu Yicheng waved his hand and said, "Okay, that's it. But if you think about it carefully, I feel that the last one of the State Taxation Department proposed by Li Wei is not unreasonable. If the central government wants to recover the tax rights, local obstacles will inevitably be huge. It may be difficult for the Ministry of Revenue to compete with the local government alone. Li Wei proposed this to ensure the implementation of the central government's policies, but he took it for granted. This is what I was dissatisfied with."
Chapter completed!