This confidential meeting was basically Guo Dan's personal performance. For example, Wang Xijue and Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers only raised their own doubts at most, and that's all, and they did not give any comments.

The reason is very simple, because they don’t understand at all and don’t know the specific situation overseas.

But it requires their ability to implement it specifically.

Building a government, governing the local government, and managing the people is not what Guo Dan is good at. If he was asked to manage Luzon, it would definitely make a mess.

But this meeting is crucial because it will determine the upper limit of the Ming Dynasty.

This is actually the first time the Central Plains dynasty has entered the world. It has not been counted before. It is all private trade, and ordinary people and state machinery have not participated.

This will usher in a new era, and the entire Chinese nation will start from here for the next century.

But there is another problem involved, that is, the issue of the vassal kings.

Because according to Guo Dan's plan, he wanted to use overseas plans to transfer all the financial problems brought to the country by the vassal kings. Although he is rich and his productivity can catch up with their reproductive ability, this seriously hinders economic development, and the royal family has long realized this burden. Moreover, they are all royal relatives after all. If they want to go to the local area, it can prove that those territories belong to the Ming Dynasty.

This has great political significance.

In recent years, the salary of the vassal kings has been reduced instead of increasing.

Because of the arrival of the new system, the vassal kings also had to start paying taxes, and there was no tax exemption privilege.

At the same time, there is no new salary increase. Nowadays, tens of thousands of royal families enter the clan academies to study and train, because the clan members of the vassal kings in the country have reached 150,000. After years of training, these parasites can finally be released.

The fat man set an example and finally issued an order to go to Luzon to take advantage of the vassal.

The Tianjin Weilu Prince's Mansion will be renamed Royal Port, which will be used for future entry of vassal kings from overseas. It is a dedicated channel. In other words, it will be confiscated by Wanli and become the emperor's private property.

When a fat man does this kind of thing, he really doesn't blink.

At the same time, 10,000 royal families will be sent overseas, and they are also the first group of people to migrate overseas. Of course, they are given fiefs and official positions based on their estrangement from Wanli. Among them, more than 50 royal relatives will be named overseas governors, who have administrative power and some military power.

At the same time, there are three hundred royal families who will manage some small islands and some areas.

That is to say, they will directly seal an island, and the property on the island belongs to them, but there will be three courts in the local area, and the law must still abide by the Ming Dynasty.

The rest will also have some fiefs.

In fact, it is to let them go into business, give you some capital, let you manage it yourself, and bear the profits and losses yourself.

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Of course, they also gain freedom.

Ministry of Revenue.

"This...this is incredible."

Li Sancai shook his head and exclaimed while flipping through the account book.

Wang Xijue, who was sitting on it and writing the official document, asked, "What's incredible?"

Li Sancai said: "If you want to go back to the emperor, please allow someone to count the expenditure of the vassal kings before you get a job. It is expected that the treasury will save two million taels of royal family expenses next year."

Speaking of this, he suddenly swallowed and said, "This is more than just that. If the tax revenue predicted by Xinxing before was correct, then... then with this money, the tax revenue of the treasury next year may reach one...12 million taels."

Click!

The brush in Wang Xijue's hand suddenly fell on the paper, "One...one thousand two million taels?"

Li Sancai nodded.

Thinking about Zhang Juzheng forgot to eat and work hard, the highest income of the treasury was only 4 million taels. Now the court seems to have done nothing, so he is just trying to oppose Guo Dan, and the treasury tax revenue will be tripled.

This really made Wang Xijue really doubt his life, and the outbreak was so terrifying.

"How come there are so many?"

"According to the accounts, it mainly comes from two aspects. First, the land and people paying taxes have increased, and second, the commercial tax, which is mainly deed tax, is also increasing rapidly. In terms of expenditure, it is actually the same. Although the vassal kings saved a lot of expenses overseas, the expenditure in other aspects is increasing, but..."

"It's just that these expenses can bring rewards to the treasury." Wang Xijue said directly.

"Yes, sir."

Li Sancai nodded and said, "Based on the situation of these prefectures, the annual tax revenue of Weihui Prefecture may be very amazing."

Wang Xijue smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry about this, don't let Guo Dan contract other prefectures, that's the victory of the court."

In this era of business rampant, they are actually on the defensive side, and being able to defend is victory.

However, as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Li Sancai's pattern is still a little smaller. From a point of view, it can be seen that the fat man doesn't like to check accounts at the Ministry of Revenue. Basically, the Ministry of Revenue takes the initiative to inform him. He never asks. Just the treasury money is enough for you. He prefers to sit in Yinuoya Store to check accounts at the Yakuan. In comparison, it is really a witch.

And the gap is getting bigger because their investment in overseas programs in the past few years is now paying off.

Profits are jumping growth.

Yinuoyaxing.

"Puff! Cough cough cough!"

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, are you okay?"

"No...it's okay!"

Wan Li waved his hand and asked Guo Dan in shock without using a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, "How many...? How many did you say?"

Guo Tan said: "Fifty million taels and one million taels of gold."

"Hiss!"

Wanli took a deep breath of air conditioning, spit out, then took another breath, and said, "Where are so many?"

Guo Dan explained: "At present, we have 15 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold in the vault of Luwang Mansion, and the other 35 million taels are deposited by landlords from all over the country and gentry in the money house to exchange for currency."

Wanli was disbelief and said, "How long have you been minting coins? The people have deposited 35 million taels of silver. I, the people in the Ming Dynasty, have such rich people, why don't I know?"

Guo Tan said: "Your Majesty, it may have just begun. It is estimated that within three years, the folk coins can exceed 10 million taels."

"Where did this money come from?" Wanli asked with wide eyes.

He didn't understand where the money came out. At present, overseas trade was controlled by them, so the money obviously did not come from overseas trade.

Guo Dan said: "This is all from those powerful, landlords and gentry. They have always obtained a lot of silver through food, trade, and various channels, but they usually don't need money at all. At the beginning of the establishment of the money house, the estimated silver circulating in the whole country was only 30 million taels. This is still the Weihui Mansion has gradually developed. However, according to the subsequent budget, the silver stock at that time should have reached about 150 million taels, which means that 120 million taels were placed in the landlord's treasury at that time."

Wanli's expression gradually became gloomy when he heard it.

Guo Dan explained again: "Due to the current prosperity of business, the profits of traditional landlords can no longer catch up with the profits of merchants. If you want to trade, you must own currency. Therefore, in the past two years, a large number of people have taken out silver to exchange for currency."

Since the Longqing switch, a large amount of silver has entered the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, inflation should occur. However, it is not only not expanding, but also tightening. The reason is that all the people who make money are people within the system, and they do not need to spend money or pay taxes. The money is all in the warehouse.

The currency on the market is getting smaller and smaller, resulting in deflation.

This is why the prices in the Ming Dynasty were very cheap, but the people lived very poor, because the income of the people in ancient times mainly came from food. The problem was that the prices of grain were also cheap, which means that the people had no money at all. If you were to be more expensive, they could not afford it.

The country has no money because rich people do not pay taxes, and the people can only pay taxes with food.

In fact, deflation is more fatal than inflation. The defeat of the Ming Dynasty was due to this deflation.

Wanli clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "So I am that poor man."

Guo Tan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you are not poor. Now our annual income has reached tens of millions of taels."

"You don't understand this."

Wanli waved his hand and said, "Do you have a way to make these people poor?"

"ah?"

Guo Dan looked at Wanli in surprise.

Wanli said: "You answer me first."

"this...!"

Guo Dan thought for a while and said, "Of course there is a way to do this, but doing so will only hurt one thousand enemies, and will damage eight hundred of them, and it will be meaningless."

"Then let it go."

Wanli sighed heavily.

The reason why he hated so much was because when he was ascended the throne, the treasury was almost in debt. It was a pity that Zhang Juzheng's reforms resolute the country's life. However, many people were crying and asking the court for it. He had known that these guys were rich before, but he did not expect to be so rich.

The lowest record of the national treasury was 240,000 taels, but they had 10,000 taels in their hands.

As a wealthy man, he really couldn't accept this fact.

Wanli glanced at Guo Dan and said, "You keep talking."

"Yes." Guo Dan continued: "The current currency circulation on the market has reached 120 million taels, and the wealth of my Ming Dynasty has increased by four times in the accounts. However, according to the statistics of the money bank, it is estimated that the Beizhi should have increased by five times, that is, 150 million taels."

Wanli's expression changed and he said, "So many?"

Guo Dan said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, for me, the Ming Dynasty, this value may not even be considered passing."

"Is it possible to pass the exam...?"

Wanli immediately asked, "Then how much do you think you should reach to be considered passing the exam?"

Guo Dan pondered for a little, and said, "In terms of the land and productivity of the Ming Dynasty, it must reach at least 30,000 taels to be considered a passing level."

Even if the Ming Dynasty broke his legs, it was impossible for the currency to be only 30 million taels. This value was too low. Of course, it was caused by the system, that is, man-made disasters. Some people always said that it was caused by natural disasters. In fact, since ancient times, no dynasty had died from natural disasters, but it was caused by man-made disasters. So as long as you correct a little, it would explode immediately. When Guo Dan brought advanced production methods, it rebounded immediately.

Wanli couldn't help but turn red when he heard this. He couldn't help but recall the darkness.

What kind of life is that?

Fortunately, Wang Xijue, Li Sancai and others did not hear this fact, otherwise they would have to hang themselves.

They worked so hard and worked so hard, but the amount they talked about was still at the level of 10 million taels, but the number of talks here was more than ten times the gap.
Chapter completed!