Cao Yun nodded at Zheng Zhiyu's encouragement, but his eyes finally fell on Tian Fen: "Some day ago, Qin Feng successfully asked for rain in the west and solved the drought in the west. This matter was rumored even in our Great Qi. It is said that Qin Feng is the son of the God-selected. What do you think about this?"

"Your Majesty, this is just a move by the Ming people to attack the hearts. Those who spread rumors in Daqi were all subject to severe sanctions. After tracing the source, it did prove that this was intentionally created by the Ministry of State Security of the Ming Dynasty."

"But he did succeed in asking for rain. The scene when the ghost shadow was sent back would not be fake, right?" Cao Yun's eyes flashed with gloomy expression, and he turned his eyes to Cao Hui in the corner. Cao Yun was a military general and had never known killing Fanfan in his life. He always sniffed at the matter of ghosts and gods, but after seeing the information collected by the ghost shadow at that time, his mind was greatly stimulated.

Cao Hui stood up and bowed, "Your Majesty, long drought will lead to rain, long flood will lead to sunshine. This is a natural principle. We can only say that Qin Feng chose the best time to play this drama. The purpose is to curb the hearts of the people. The Ming Dynasty is rich, but the western region is extremely poor. The integration there has always been a heart-wrenching problem of the Ming Dynasty. The people in the western region are fierce and like to kill officials and rebel. Qin Feng's play greatly increased his prestige and consolidated the Ming people's rule in the western region. It was nothing more than confusing those foolish men and women. You don't have to take it to heart."

"It makes sense." Cao Yun nodded: "In the territory of Daqi, anyone with these fallacies must handle them strictly, re-operate them, and quickly."

"I know." Cao Hui bowed his command.

"The Chief Auxiliary, Master Zheng just said that the Ming people may have the potential to drag down the Ming Dynasty's finances. Do you think this is possible?" Cao Yun asked again.

Tian Fen shook his head: "Your Majesty, I think this is unlikely. Lord Zheng may not have collected information about the Ming Canal Corporation collected by the ghost. The Ming people are completely different from ours in doing these large-scale projects. Our Daqi is a unified investment by the state, collecting civil servants, and building them in the form of corvee. However, the Ming State has another system. Their national finances are for example to take out some start-up funds and then solicit capital from the private capital. After the construction is completed, it will be managed by a special yamen. These invested private capitals can be divided into dividends. Just like their track line system. The total investment amount is now much more than the money consumed in building the canal, but they are still building and are playing an increasingly important role."

"Search from the private sector?" Cao Yun snorted coldly: "Master Zheng, do you know how much private capital Mingguo has collected this time?"

Zheng Zhiyu's face turned slightly red, "Your Majesty, I have been busy with common affairs for this period of time and have not had time to pay attention to this matter."

"Your Majesty, as far as I know, the first phase of the construction of the Ming Dynasty canal was invested by the state to invest 10 million taels of capital, and the private sector has collected more than 30 million taels of capital. Now they are forming the Canal Corporation. Once the establishment is completed, they will issue canal stocks to the country. The specific data are unknown, but the current 40 million taels is enough for them to officially start this project." Cao Hui shouted in the corner.

"Why can Mingren always respond to it? Are those merchants not afraid of the unfinished project and let their money be wasted?" Cao Yun sighed: "A project that has not started yet can raise tens of millions of taels of silver. But it is even more difficult for us, if we want to raise some money?"

"Your Majesty, the reason why the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were willing to pay was because they felt that there would be great profits to pursue in the later stage. Their relationship with the court was not in vain for this project. But our recruitment was a levy, so the Chinese people naturally did not do it." Tian Fen whispered.

"Then why can't the debt volume issued by our Ministry of Revenue be sold? So it's necessary to be levied?" Cao Yun said angrily.

Tian Fen was silent for a while and said, "Your Majesty, the issuance of debt books is actually a process of building a country's credit. When the Ming people issued the first treasury bonds, they still couldn't sell them. At that time, they mobilized outsiders to strengthen the levy. Until the next year, they paid the principal and interest as scheduled, which happened later."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Zheng Zhiyu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and then said, "So, at this time next year, we must repay the first period of the government bonds as scheduled to establish the people's trust in the country. Only with this foundation can we successfully raise more money in the future."

Zheng Zhiyu laughed and said, "Don't worry, the chief assistant, this is like fishing. If you don't give those people some sweetness, how can you have a big income in the future? So I set the interest rate very high, and our second bond volume next year will definitely be sold crazy."

Tian Fen frowned and said, "Mr. Zheng, I still have to say that I don't agree with this matter in front of Your Majesty. This is not fishing, and the people of Daqi are not our fish. You also have to consider the country's repayment ability. This is not a one-time transaction. The quantity and interest rate you plan to issue next year must be considered in a comprehensive manner."

"Don't worry, the Ministry of Revenue has special talents to deal with this matter, so there will never be any mistakes." Zheng Zhiyu bowed and said perfunctorily.

Tian Fen sighed and turned to look at Cao Yun: "Your Majesty, there is another thing to attract our attention. One of my disciples, who is now a county magistrate in the south, wrote me a few days ago to talk about his local administration. In addition to growing a small amount of grain, the people in their places are more likely to plant sweet poles and other things to make sugar. It is one of the most important sugar-producing places in our Daqi. But now, the sugar from the Ming people pours into our Qi country, and theirs can no longer be sold. Many sugar workshops are either closed down or lowering the price of purchasing syrup, making it a loss for the people to make syrup. The local area has already started, and he is worried about it."

Zheng Zhiyu said disapprovingly: "Sir, this is nothing. They don't do this anymore. They can just grow food. Food is the foundation of a country. Sugar is not listed here. Since the sugar of Ming people is cheap, we will buy their sugar, and the money saved can be used for other things."

"It's not just sugar, but also dyes and paints as far as I know." Tian Fen said with a worry: "After I received these news, I asked my family to buy some of the things made in our Daqi and those made in the Ming people. The result was frustrating. The quality of the goods of the Ming people was better. The strangest thing was that they came from thousands of miles away, but the selling price was even cheaper than our own country. Your Majesty, this is not as good as Master Zheng said that it's enough not to grow this kind of food. These places have been doing this for generations and growing food, but it's not good at growing food. Moreover, these places are not suitable for growing food. The influx of goods from the Ming people has brought about the loss of the foundation on which we people rely on for survival!"

"What does the chief minister mean?"

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that we must control the influx of Ming people's goods."

"Your Majesty, you must not." Zheng Zhiyu shouted: "The reason why our treasury in Daqi began to improve in the last six months is because of the income from taxation on merchants. Once the trade between the two sides is controlled, it is not clear whether people will take revenge measures. Our own income alone will be greatly affected. If this happens, where will the salary of the Ministry of War come from? Where will the funds for the road come from when the Ministry of Industry builds water conservancy?"

He turned his eyes to Feng Ke, Ministry of War and Lin Chun, Ministry of Works.

The two looked at each other, stood up at the same time, bowed to Cao Yun, "Your Majesty think twice."

Cao Hui was shocked when he heard Tian Fen's words, and involuntarily remembered the letter Qin Li had to himself. The question was also mentioned in the letter. However, he did not expect that this matter had already responded accordingly in China and wanted to speak, but look at the Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of War, and Ministry of Works obviously had the intention of alliance in this incident. He and Tian Fen were originally father-in-law and son-in-law, and had an awkward identity. When speaking at this time, he was afraid that it would backfire. He could only lower his head silently. Or after Qin Li's investigation report came back, it would be better to find an opportunity to report this to the emperor.

Cao Yun obviously prefers the opinions of Zheng Zhiyu, Feng Ke and others. In his opinion, the people in a small place have encountered a little insignificant difficulties and do not need to pay much attention to it. The military system reform of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works is now spread across the country, and the road projects are more important than the national economy and people's livelihood and future security of the entire Daqi. It is obvious at a glance. In the current situation, of course, you can only sacrifice the interests of a small number of people in exchange for greater benefits. As Zheng Zhiyu said, if you can't do this, you can do that? People are living, and can you still suffocate your urine to death?

"Then let's do it first. Didn't your disciple write to you? If you reply to him, you will say that I know, let him be more diligent, appease the people well, and find some new ways for the people. In short, the country is difficult, and now is the time to overcome difficulties together. Whether officials or the people, they must understand the difficulty of the court. After this period, everything will be fine. Haven't they encountered difficulties? Then let's do it, and they will exempt them from this year's taxes." Cao Yun smiled and said to Tian Fen, "That is, you, Shougong Tian, ​​have this face. Since you are your disciple, I will give him some benefits and make him better serve as an official in the local area, hahaha."

Tian Fen smiled bitterly and bowed: "Thank you for your kindness." How could this be your great kindness? This is clearly putting him on fire. Your Majesty is already a little eager for quick success in order to urgently complete military reform and domestic infrastructure. The trip to the Ming Kingdom has had a great impact on Your Majesty. He always wants to complete the pursuit of Ming Kingdom in these aspects in a short period of time. However, the Ming people have been implementing this set for more than ten years, and Da Qi has just begun. More importantly, the national conditions of the two countries are also very different!

But now, he is no longer the chief minister who holds great power, but at best he is a counselor of Your Majesty. If he agrees with Your Majesty, he will naturally be happy. If he doesn't like it, his Majesty can ignore it.
Chapter completed!