Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 1687 Envy
Inside the Mingwei Hall, Mr. Pei Ge was a little anxious: "Your Majesty, the taxes in the past two years have been heavy enough. The anti-military tax was only added a few months ago, and now the taxes for shops in various places are going to be increased. I am afraid that there will be complaints from all over the country. It’s better to think twice about this matter.”

Emperor Jing Yuan was waiting for this sentence, looked at Pei Ge and asked: "Then what good strategy does Aiqing have to fill the treasury? Is it a few more noble families, or a few more gold and silver donations from your aristocratic family?"

This question can be said to be full of murderous intent. Old Pei Ge's legs were weak. After compulsively calming down, he said: "Your Majesty, the Shensun family brought the big Chu and everyone to donate silver to the court a few months ago. Don't be afraid to donate again." It's over."

boom!
Emperor Jing Yuan was so angry that he slapped the table, pointing at Mr. Pei Ge angrily: "It's over? When the bandits come and slaughter your whole family, it's not too much?!"

Pointing to the elders in the hall, he said: "I tell you, the battle has already started, and gold and silver must be used to support the war against the army. If you can't resist, everyone will die, and no one will fight." If you want to be alone, I will not allow anyone to have two minds at this time!"

This is a very serious statement, almost saying that they want to rebel if they don't give money.

Plop, plop, plop!
Everyone in the hall, including Ming Cong, knelt down: "Your Majesty, calm down, I have no second thoughts towards Your Majesty and Da Chu!"

Oh, never mind?

It's no wonder that Emperor Jing Yuan believed it.

The emperor's grandfather said back then that he was asked to beware of aristocratic families and to kill whenever he had the chance.

It is also because Da Chu needs ministers to rule the country, otherwise he really wants to slaughter all the noble families.

Mr. Pei Ge shook his body, and secretly glanced at Mr. Yingge... Old thief, your grandson-in-law is the emperor's confidant, hurry up and object, even if the emperor is furious, he will not cut you too hard for the sake of your grandson-in-law.

Mr. Ying Ge understood, but he didn't want to say more.

Ming Cong had told him long ago that if the battle between Da Chu and Da Rong continued, the treasury would be even more empty, and if the treasury had no money, the emperor would raise his sword to demand money from the nobles of the great families.The family must give, or die.

But he is a member of the family, so he can't say nothing for the family, but just as he was about to speak, the Minister of Rites said first: "Your Majesty, I think that at this time, the taxes for shops in various places will be increased, and money will be taken from the rich. It is more sensible than raising taxes on small farmers, I agree."

Ouyang Zhang!
Several elders and ministers secretly hated in their hearts, where does Ouyang Zhang belong?I wonder if Emperor Jing Yuan wanted to cut the flesh of their aristocratic family with this move?
But Ouyang Zhang ignored them at all, and just continued to say to Emperor Jing Yuan: "However, shops in various places also need to be operated. Some shops are opened by ordinary people. A small shop needs to support dozens of people, so the tax for this shop is higher." It is not advisable to collect too much. And at most once every three years, otherwise it may cause a long-term disaster in the Great Zhou Dynasty."

During the Great Zhou Dynasty, when there was no silver in the court, they liked to search for money from merchants. The most serious time was that the imperial court directly sent people into the merchants’ houses to open the treasury to seize silver. It's the other way around.

Buy soldiers with gold and silver, subsidize the generals everywhere, let those generals have money to support themselves, and in the end the trouble was divided into half of the Zhou Dynasty.The vitality of the Great Zhou Dynasty was severely injured, and after decades of support, it was finally replaced by the previous dynasty.

Also because of this lesson, the previous dynasty rarely collected taxes from shops, but Emperor Jingwu had seen the hardships of the people and knew that small businesses were not easy.

But now that the big Chu is in shambles, they can only reach out to shops everywhere... The farmers really can't scrape money, and if they scrape again, trouble will happen.

Lord Shangshufang of the Household Department also said: "Your Majesty, I agree with this policy. However, what Ouyang Lord said is very true. How and how much taxes are collected by shops in various places must be discussed in a long-term way so that there will be no trouble."

Elder Ying Ge glanced at Mr. Fang, and finally said: "I also agree."

Mr. Fang agreed, and if they objected, they might cause trouble.

The elder Shangguange was not stupid, he stood up and said: "The minister seconded the proposal."

After hearing this, Emperor Jing Yuan was overjoyed, and sank half of his body into the couch, looked at Old Pei Ge and said, "Old Pei Ge, since everyone agrees, let me tell you, how much tax is appropriate for shops in various places? "

This?
Pei Ge always wanted to die, didn't he hand the knife to him on purpose, and asked him to cut the flesh of the aristocratic family!

But he was aware of Emperor Jing Yuan's temper, and if he didn't stab the aristocratic family now, Emperor Jing Yuan would not let him go.

After thinking twice, Mr. Pei Ge said: "Your Majesty, I feel that it is best to collect [-]% of the tax every three years."

"Tax [-]% for three years, you really feel sorry for those shops!" Emperor Jing Yuan was not happy.

But Ouyang Zhang thought: "Your Majesty, I feel that it is appropriate to collect the shop tax every three years, and this is the first time to collect it. Stability is the priority."

Ming Cong also said: "Your Majesty, Lord Ouyang is very right, you must first seek stability, and you can charge more if the treasury is insufficient in the future."

But if someone made trouble at the beginning, then the business of collecting taxes from shops would not be able to continue.

After listening to Mr. Pei Ge, he smiled inwardly.

Heh, he's not an idiot. He expected that other adults would agree, so he said that he would charge [-]% of the tax for three years.

"What do you think, Mr. Fang? With such a collection method, can the money be used in the war against the army?" Emperor Jing Yuan still trusted Mr. Fang, and asked.

Mr. Fang was also unambiguous, and directly asked for pens, inks, papers and inkstones, made a rough calculation, and replied to Emperor Jing Yuan in a quarter of an hour: "Your Majesty, if the soldiers can withstand the attack of the bandits and defend the Long'an Mansion, and Da Chu has no big ones Natural disasters, the tax money of these shops is enough to support the war of resistance against the army in the next two years."

Add another sentence: "The south is rich and has many shops."

This is the reason why Emperor Jing Yuan put Mr. Fang in the position of minister of the household department. It is still very useful for Mr. Fang to get money and save money.

"Very good!" Emperor Jing Yuan was very happy, he let go of his heart, as long as he has enough money, he can raise soldiers, let the soldiers resist the army, and even step into the Rong territory and destroy the entire Da Rong.

but……

Ouyang Zhangdao: "Your Majesty, when localities collect taxes from shops, they should send supervisory censors to accompany them, so as to prevent tax collectors and local officials from using the public to do evil and harm the people everywhere."

Ouyang Zhang was talking about the common people, not about those shops whose owners were wealthy families.

He also said: "After checking the accounts of the store for the last year, we can only collect taxes according to the income of the store, lest someone understates the accounts and wants to pay less taxes; someone falsely accuses others that the store earns too much and intentionally harms others. shop."

Emperor Jing Yuan nodded his head: "What Ai Qing said is true, so let's do it."

Emperor Jing Yuan negotiated with all the ministers until it was dark before they settled the matter of collecting [-]% of the tax from shops in various places. They asked Zhongshusheren to write the imperial decree, which was urgently sent to each government for promulgation within [-] miles.

Along with the imperial decree, there are also prescriptions for attracting insects.

Emperor Jing Yuan said: "Poisonous insect diseases have appeared in the capital, and there must be hidden patients in various places. We must send the insect-attracting medicine prescriptions to various places as soon as possible, and speed up the preparation."

(End of this chapter)