Chapter 959: Going to Ciyun Temple on behalf of Wutai School
Now the annual income of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty's treasury is as high as 5 million Apocalypse silver dollars, which makes all the officials of the six ministries very jealous and wish they could snatch all the silver into the treasury.
Among them, the import and export tax of QZ Maritime Bureau accounts for one-third of the annual input of the treasury, and the royal business also accounts for nearly one-third. The rest are the original mining tax, royal village and other royals.
income.
There are also the benefits of coin making, but after the emperor took the dividends of coining in the first few years, the amount of silver that had not been minted into silver dollars in the Ming Dynasty in the following years was not large, and most of them were inflows from outside, so every year,
The newly minted silver coins are only about hundreds of thousands, and the returns are not so obvious.
This silver dollar worth five million taels is just the treasury rather than the national treasury. The annual income of the Ming Dynasty is close to 20 million silver dollars, which has reached the peak of the Wanli Dynasty. Most of these are real silver.
, not the conversion of various grain cloths and other things like that in the past.
This is enough to prove that the emperor's reform of the Ming Dynasty's economy has begun to show results.
In terms of cracking down on salt merchants and stolen Shanxi merchants, the emperor waited patiently for several years, and did not start to take action until the moment the new army was built.
Because the protection umbrella of the salt merchants in Lianghuai, Jiangnan and the civil servants of the Jin area were also implicated and hit, the salt tax, which was originally difficult for the emperor to move, has also been scrapped out of the salt merchants after a small reform.
Part of the benefits can be increased by two million silver coins every year for the Ming Dynasty treasury on the original salt tax basis.
Zhu Youxiao took the opportunity to firmly determine the commercial tax on trade with the northern grasslands, and could also impose an additional commercial tax of about one million silver coins for the court every year.
After a batch of pests that sold the country were cleaned up, the Shanxi merchants left a lot of business vacancies for them to compete for. In addition, although the emperor increased the business tax, the smuggling business became a clear price tag, and the quantity increased.
However, it increased instead of falling, so it quickly obeyed the government's management and did not cause any more trouble.
Seeing that the Ming Dynasty is now clear and peaceful, even if some areas suffer natural disasters, the court can go to provide disaster relief.
Because the strength of the factory guards is growing and some modern intelligence ideas provided by Gao Jingfei, the imperial court has become increasingly secretive and strict in corruption supervision. Officials from all over the world always hang a sword of Damocles above their heads, and most of them dare not in the disaster relief process.
With the help of the middle and the upper hand, the disaster relief effect will naturally be better, and the people are also grateful to the court and the emperor.
In addition, Gao Jingfei proposed to the emperor in the eighth year of the Tianqi period that he wanted to control propaganda among the people, so now most people in the world know about the Jinyiwei. The East Factory is only targeting the yamen that serves as officials, not the ordinary people, so the factory guards are among the people.
His reputation soared, and the emperor who had the right to speak was no longer afraid of the public opinion offensive of the scholars and officials.
The situation in Ming Dynasty is not very good, but it can also be said to be positive, so Gao Jingfei did not worry about the secular aspects, but just took the time to understand. After all, it was just his idle chess. He was honest in studying and studying in Huashan at other times.
Cultivation.
Until a letter from Chengdu sent a flying sword to break his peaceful time.
When he was called into the cave by the Fire Master, and after learning who the letter was, he did not read the content, Gao Jingfei knew that the content in his heart was probably to let him, a great disciple of Huashan, fulfill his promise in the past, instead of the temporary
Presided over the overall situation of the Wutai faction.
This letter was written by Master Tuotuo, the host of Ciyun Temple in Chengdu. It seems that Master Tuotuo is about to come and will pass away at Ciyun Temple, which has been several years longer than in the original work.
When he took the letter from the ancestor of Liehuo, he saw that it was indeed as expected. Gao Jingfei thought to himself:
"Finally come!"
According to Gao Jingfei's understanding, the impact of Master Tuotuo's death is very far-reaching.
First of all, Zhitong's operation after inheriting Ciyun Temple brought about the cause of destruction in the future. After Master Tuotuo's death, monk Zhitong inherited the Ciyun Temple's law and began to let his subordinates do whatever they wanted, causing distantness to his fellow disciples, contempt and recruited them.
Helping the thieves in the Yangtze River and the Green Forest bandits is the inducement of conflict between good and evil in the sword.
The second is that he lost the host of Tuotuo, a great disciple of Hunyuan. The Wutai Sect further lost its final cohesion. In the past, Tuotuo was still there, and Ciyun Temple could naturally serve as the direct sect of Wutai Sect, representing the Dharma system of Hunyuan. Those Wu
The second-generation elders of Taiwan will also give them some thinness, which is not only a constraint brought by law but also a deterrent brought by strength.
Among the group of disciples of Taiyi Hunyuan Patriarch, although there are many who have achieved true immortals, only Tuotuo is closest to the celestial immortal and possesses the title of the great disciple, so he can naturally suppress those brothers to a certain extent.
If it were the stronger fairy girl Xu Feiniang, who was the more powerful, it would not work. Although Xu Feiniang was also in the book, she was already catching up with the Hunyuan at the time. However, the so-called "not just the right name will be unpleasant, and Xu Feiniang is a disciple.
His wife's identity is quite embarrassing, which also makes a group of second-generation elders of Wutai very unwilling to accept it.
Therefore, it is inevitable that the Wutai Sect will completely fall apart after Hunyuan’s death. How can we lead the team without the hearts of the people?
Tuotuo's death further accelerated the process.
The Fire Master on the Cloud Bed saw that his disciple had read the letter and asked:
"Xiao Qi, what do you think?"
Gao Jingfei bowed and said:
"Teacher, I think it's urgent to improve my cultivation level. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to suppress the elders of the fifth platform whom I should call my uncle and uncle!"
Liehuo nodded, not caring about these questions. His disciple's relationship with the Wutai Sect was endless. After all, this beloved disciple was forced to come from Fayuan, and it was considered his own fault at the beginning.
He and Hunyuan are in close relationship, and the two factions have a close relationship with each other, and there is no problem with their own opinions.
This is also the reason why Tutuohui invited Qin Lang, a major disciple of Huashan, to temporarily preside over Ciyun Temple on his behalf. Because he had foreseeed that his disciple Zhitong could not suppress the situation, whether in practice or in skills, and he saw that
Qin Lang has excellent abilities and character, and his identity is special enough. Although his cultivation is a little worse, the great god behind him is suppressed by the fire. He can probably temporarily suppress his proud and even rebellious brothers.
For him, it is only a moment to delay, at least he must maintain the cohesion of the sect. When confronting the righteous paths such as Emei, he will not be defeated by a piece of loose sand.
The Taoist Liehuo and Master Gao Jingfei also understood Tuotuo's plan, and knew that this arrangement was beneficial and harmless to Huashan and the entire side camp, so Liehuo tacitly agreed to Tuotuo's proposal.
Now that the deadline is approaching, it is time to fulfill your promise.
After the changes of his disciples, Liehuo has surpassed the original work at this time. With the realm of a celestial immortal, he has become the Golden Light Fire Sword. The reason why he did not break through the last layer of window paper is nothing more than the lack of merit and the pressure given by the righteous path.
etc.
But his combat power is a real master of immortals, and he can overcome tribulation at any time to become a real immortal body.
With such eyesight, we can naturally see that our great disciple's foundation is extremely solid and even provoked. When we returned from the last time we experienced it, we could see that Qin Lang had merits. If we wanted to break through to the true immortal, we could do it at any time, but we were always
Suppressed.
Therefore, Master Liehuo did not think that his disciples were talking wildly, but asked for it naturally:
"Then are you planning to break through and go to Chengdu again, or..."
Gao Jingfei replied with a smile:
"Since Master Tuotuo temporarily entrusted the Five Platforms to me, my disciples naturally have to make some noise and live up to their trust. How can there be a breakthrough in advance be more shocking?"
When Master Liehuo heard this, he laughed and nodded.
"That's true, don't worry, this ghostly blue flame shuttle will be borrowed from you temporarily. The master knows that with your strength and many magic weapons in hand, it's still enough to suppress those disciples of Hunyuan.
, but it is better not to be exposed for the time being if your treasures are not exposed!"
As he said that, a faint green light flew to Gao Jingfei.