Theoretically, if the commercial tax for two months is 100,000 taels and multiply it by six, the commercial tax for one year is 600,000 taels, which can account for about one-h86% of the entire Ming Dynasty commercial tax. If the border city expands its scale, the proportion of commercial tax can be higher.

Of course, this is just theoretically speaking, because cattle and sheep on the grassland also take time to grow. This thing is not a balloon, and it can grow up in the blink of an eye and then be sold.

Moreover, the commercial tax in border cities cannot be simply multiplied by six. There are so many things that need to be calculated here. Just Yang Shaofeng, an online writer born in a programmer, cannot figure it out.

However, it doesn't matter if Yang Shaofeng can't figure it out. The boss of his family is Xia Yuanji. It would be great if he asked him to send a few coolies to work.

In this situation, Yang Shaofeng is equivalent to Party A. Don’t worry about how many coolies Xia Laos sent over, even if they were fourth-grade and fifth-grade coolies, they would be Party B.

Even if Party A proposes to have colorful black people, wouldn’t Party B’s coolies be honestly implemented?

Then Yang Shaofeng began to miss the idiot Zhu Zhanji. If Zhu Zhanji had not yet gone back to Shuntian Mansion, he would not have to write the memorials hard. He could have dictated them all and then handed them over to Zhu Zhanji to write. Now, it would be better, and he had to rely on himself.

Bad life...

What made Yang Shaofeng even more troubled was the border city.

There are too many destruction in the border city. With the mutual attack between the Tatars and the Oirat, this labor war that almost made people's brains become dogs' brains intensified. More and more ordinary herders are tired of this day when they will be arrested as laborers one day, so they simply think about coming to the border city to live.

The problem is that from the beginning, the border city was not a residential city, but a trade-oriented small city, which was mainly used to handle border city trade. The entire city was not large. Even if Yang Shaofeng planned to expand some area later, the area that could be used for living was not large.

The sudden increase in population brought great pressure to the entire urban system of the border city. Not to mention other things, water sources alone are enough to make Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang lose their hair.

However, the food aspect is the best solution. There are not many other things in the border city, but there is enough cattle, sheep and food. Even if there are more herders coming to join, there is no problem.

Of course, the surge in the number of people is not without benefits.

In addition to the more labor force, some small vendors have also begun to appear, especially those who shaking rattles and selling needles and threads on the streets and alleys, and even the business of the newly opened Zuixianlou, Lin Yu, is better than usual.

In short, all the signs indicate something, and the Bianshi City is about to undergo a secondary expansion.

But some people once said that there are 1,000 Hamlets in a thousand people. Although Yang Shaofeng, Liang Jinglun and others all believed that it should be expanded, there were differences in Yang Shaofeng, Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang on how to expand.

Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang agreed that basically the expansion is about to be expanded, but it is best to be completely divided into internal and external cities. The new outer city that is being expanded is divided into the original inner city, and is used for trade and residence in border cities. The newly expanded outer city is for the newly-expanded Tatars and Oirats to live in.

Yang Shaofeng's meaning is to do it in one step and directly expand the border city outward. The expansion that is underway is simply suspended and the coolies from the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue are in place before re-planning.

It is best to refer to the huge cities in the Central Plains that are enough to accommodate millions of people, such as Chang'an, Luoyang, etc., and then divide the entire city into different blocks, such as dividing the Xicheng in schools and places of residence, the Eastcheng into places of trade in border cities, and the Southcheng and the Northcheng are used for other things.

Cheng Han chose to stand on Yang Shaofeng's side.

Theoretically speaking, officials like Cheng Han who are from the ninth rank actually have no say in the expansion of such cities. They only have the right to honestly execute after Shangguan makes a decision.

However, Yang Shaofeng believed that he often became a salted fish, and most of Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang focused on trading and tax collection. His grasp of the entire border city was not as good as Cheng Han, a ninth-rank official, so he must ask Cheng Han to express his opinions.

Then Cheng Han supported Yang Shaofeng's theory.

The reason is very simple. If Yang Shaofeng is more like a boss, Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang are the second bosses who are in charge of each other, then Cheng Han is the boss who is in charge of the entire copycat. His understanding of all the affairs and needs of the copycat even exceeds Yang Shaofeng, Jingjinglun and Qi Mutang.

So Cheng Han’s meaning is very simple. On the surface, Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang’s plan is very reliable, but in fact, in the current situation where new herdsmen are pouring in every day, it is better to directly follow the plan proposed by Yang Shaofeng and directly upgrade this small border city to a super-large city.

Because after the upgrade, the border city will no longer be just a small city, and it should also be raised to the scale of the state or prefecture according to the scale. No matter whether you can successfully upgrade it, at least there are a bunch of people who can help you share some of it, so that you will not be so busy as you are now that you can't even raise your mind to look for flowers and willows...

...

The same problem made Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Wu Zhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Works, feel a headache.

Xia Yuanji felt that it would be better to let Mai Duo kill Yang Dianmai. It is true that this bastard can make money, but this bastard can really make trouble and can also spend money more!

Build a giant city like Luoyang or Chang'an?

Fortunately, Yang Dianmai dared to think that the national treasury is so empty that the rats can run away. Where can I get money to build such a big city?

Wu Zhong and Xia Yuanji have similar ideas. The difference is that Xia Yuanji feels sorry for the treasury. Wu Zhong feels that the treasury cannot allocate so much money to the Ministry of Industry.

So it would be better to let him go crazy to death.

Zhu Laosi, who also had a headache, was more worry-free. Even if he threw the memorial handed over by Yang Shaofeng to Zhu Gaochi, it would be better to see how his son had a headache first.

That person once said that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Zhu Laosi threw Yang Shaofeng's memorial to Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Gaochi called Zhu Zhanji to the front, asked Zhu Zhanji to read the memorial and said, "What do you think should you do?"

Zhu Zhanji took the memorial and thought for a while, then bowed and said, "You are stupid, why not ask Xiabutang and Wubutang, and Master Li Ge?"

Then, Xia Yuanji and Wu Zhong were called to the Prince's East Palace...

After paying tribute to the prince and grandson, Wu Zhong, who had already thought about it all the way, spoke in front of Xia Yuanji: "I think that according to the current situation, the border city should be built into a large city as Yang Tiju said in the memorial."

After being taken first by Wuzhong, Xia Yuanji glared at Wuzhong with hatred, and then bowed and said, "I think it is a good idea to build a large city, but now the national treasury is empty, so why not build a smaller one first?"

Wu Zhong shouted, "Xiabutang, your warehouse where the Ministry of Revenue deposits is not enough, or was it built by my Ministry of Works for you? Now you say that the Ministry of Revenue has no money?"

Xia Yuanji drooped his eyelids and said, "The expenditure budget of your Ministry of Works last year was 10 million taels, and the actual expenditure was 12 million taels. Yongle's 14-year budget was 15 million taels, but who knows how long this 15 million is enough for you? If it is not enough by the end of the year, and the treasury will pay, where will I go to get it for you?"

After being so irritated by Xia Yuanji, Wu Zhong was immediately unhappy and said with a gloomy face: "You Xiabutang should be conscientious? The Ministry of Works' expenses are large, but you also have to know, which one does not cost money in the world's river bridge?"

Xia Yuanji spat hatefully and said, "Why don't I behave like a conscience? But you are not conscience when you say this! Think about the amount you have spent in the Ministry of Works over the years, which one of the funds you have not allocated in full force? How come you have lost a penny?

I also know the benefits of building a giant city outside the Great Wall, but the city over there is so close to Xuanfu, so why is it necessary to build it like Chang'an?

Besides, if you build such a huge city, you don’t need to collect corvee labor? You don’t need to plan the Ministry of Works? You don’t need to provide employees in the Ministry of Works? What’s more, such a large city can be completed in a short while? It affects spring planting and autumn harvest, can you afford it?"

Seeing that he and his father had not spoken yet, the two old men were in a quarrel. Zhu Zhanji, who was afraid that Xia Yuanji would make a decision again, hurriedly comforted him: "Xiabutang, Wubutang, you both should calm down. This matter of building a city will not be available for a while, right?"

Seeing that Xia Yuanji was still angry, Zhu Zhanji had to say helplessly: "If you really want to build a new city, you don't have to collect corvee except for some necessary craftsmen. After all, there are laborers in the border towns, and now there are a large number of laborers coming here continuously."

Xia Yuanji rolled his eyes and said, "What about the materials? Even if Yang Dianmai can send those workers to build the city, there must be materials used to build the city, right? These can't be changed out of thin air!"

Zhu Zhanji rubbed his forehead that was vaguely painful and said carefully: "No need for three-fold soil, no need for glutinous rice juice or other things, let him find a way to solve the bricks and stones by himself. How about it?"

Xia Yuanji suddenly became open-eyed and smiled: "According to what Your Highness said, the treasury does not need to spend any money?"

Zhu Zhanji carefully said: "It is impossible to say nothing, but apart from the most expensive materials and labor, there is basically nothing left, right?"

Xia Yuanji patted his chest and said, "If this is true, I support Yang Zhuangyuan. This big city must be built, and it must be built with a grand style. Otherwise, how to accommodate many people and how to demonstrate the majesty of my country in the heavenly kingdom! My Ministry of Revenue is willing to bear the expenses required!"
Chapter completed!