The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Song Qingyue has no control over how the undercurrents are surging inside the palace.

By the end of July, the preparations for going to the Northwest were almost done, but the fourth brother Song Chenrui wanted to go together, and the reason was simple, he just wanted to go out and gain experience, after all, he had never been to the West.He made the fifth brother Song Chenfei and the sixth brother Song Chenxing feel itchy, but Aunt Qiu firmly disagreed with Song Chenfei's going. There were two reasons: first, Suzhou was too dangerous; It's the year of the exam, and I don't have time to go out and have fun.

In fact, Aunt He didn't want to ask her sixth elder brother Song Chenxing to go, but since he was a child, he was not interested in scientific examinations, and he didn't usually study hard. He liked to learn business from the He family. Master Song didn't object, and Aunt He also used him helpless.

As for Song Chenrui, the Liang family didn't bother to care about him. Anyway, the eldest son and the second son had already achieved great success, and the two youngest sons, the Liang family wanted to live a relaxed and happy life according to their wishes.

So Song Chenfei looked downcastly at the two brothers packing their luggage happily, and was so depressed that he didn't go to have dinner with Aunt Qiu for several days.In the past, he would go to Qiuyi Niang's house to have dinner together every day.

Song Qingyue went back to her natal home on July [-]th, and discussed with her eldest sister, fourth brother and sixth brother what to bring to Suzhou, and by the way, with the He family, Cao family and An family who were going to the northwest this time. Had a short meeting.

The He family, the Cao family, and the An family have already opened their businesses in the capital, mainly doing business in goods from the north and the south. To put it bluntly, they are buying and selling.Now that these families heard that the eldest girl and the third girl were going to the northwest, and that the imperial court might set up a barter office for the Western Regions in the northwest, they suddenly became excited, and all of them were gearing up for a big fight.

Of course, this time it was mainly to explore the road and conduct research in the past. After figuring out the market demand, we will slowly increase the quantity of goods in the future.

Concrete roads are everywhere now, and it is much more convenient to go anywhere than in the past. There are more people doing business, and the officials who manage and issue road signs are too busy.

There are also many voices of criticism in the imperial court. The censors still say that there are more people who resell and buy, and fewer people are farming.

However, Mr. Song Ge, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, directly slapped the face with statistical data: Has the grain production decreased in the past three years?The answer is, no.This is still in the case of severe drought in the north this year.In addition, the timely delivery of disaster relief food in the south has avoided a large number of population losses.

What about commercial tax?

Increased at a year-on-year growth rate of 11%.

What is the year-on-year growth rate?
I don't even know this, how can you still have the nerve to be an official?

Why are you an official?
For the livelihood of the people of the world?
You are for the livelihood of the people of the world, you don’t even know the food production, the increase and decrease of the population, and the tax revenue of the court, so you dare to claim that you are the livelihood of the people in the world?

Why don't you say that your family has 1000 mu of fertile land and hasn't paid a penny in taxes for more than ten years, and hasn't given a single millet to the court. When your son spent a lot of money on the top card of Yichun Tower, weren't you very proud?Your mother booked a meal for [-] taels at Cyclamen for her birthday last month. Are you very happy?
You said that you became an official for the sake of the people's livelihood, why are you so thick-skinned?

Wang Yushi, who strongly advocated the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, was sprayed all over his face by Mr. Song Shangshu.

Sitting behind the dragon table, the emperor was struggling to hold back his laughter.

That censor was flushed red by Mr. Song's spray, and he was so ashamed and angry that he babbled about how much business Mr. Song Ge had done in his own family, and scolded him for competing with the people for profit and being a treacherous villain.

Mr. Song was blocked by a sentence: "The [-] mu of fertile land in my family's family is taxed according to the amount every year. The property and shop under my name have also been paid according to the amount of business tax since I was in Lingnan more than ten years ago. May I ask Wang Yushi, and you?"

With one sentence, the hall was completely silent.

To be honest, this sentence is outrageous.In the Great Zhou Dynasty, after winning the Juren, they already belonged to the ruling class and enjoyed the privilege of not paying taxes or corvee.

However, Mr. Song has been diligent and honest in paying taxes for more than ten years.

What does this mean?
The Great Zhou Dynasty has been in the state for nearly a hundred years, land annexation has been quite serious, and there are many big landlords who do not pay taxes. This will cause the fire consumption to become higher and higher, the burden of self-cultivating farmers is getting heavier, and the household department is increasingly short of money. Phenomenon.

Even if the emperor had been dissatisfied for a long time, he didn't dare to say it easily.

But Mr. Song just said it, and said it so lightly, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.

The emperor sat on it as motionless as a mountain, watching everyone's expressions.

But soon, Master Song changed the topic and talked about the supply of food and grass for the northern war, as if he hadn't said anything about paying taxes or not paying taxes just now.

Everyone acted as if they hadn't heard, and the matter just passed in such a muddle-headed way.

In fact, Song Jianming himself did not know that this matter is the bottom line of the world's scholars, and it cannot be touched.

Today was just a small temptation, and he did not know the price to be paid for this temptation.

After that, hostility, spying, suppression, attacks, and even frame-ups from all directions will follow.

These have gone through a round when he rebuilt the account books of the account department, and there will only be more in the future.

But he doesn't regret it.

He knew what he was doing, and he also had the ambition of a literati who established his heart for the world and his life for the people. Even if he died for this, he would not regret it.

But there are two sides to everything, some people firmly oppose it, and some people want to make a fortune out of it.

According to the law, people who have raised more than one person can not pay taxes, but it doesn't say that they can't pay taxes.

Maybe it's because of this kind of thing that Song Ge got His Majesty's favor?Look, people with this brain started paying taxes more than ten years ago in Lingnan!

What's more, the tax rate of [-]% of the [-]th tax is not high. Who dares to count fire with him on the land of Ge's hometown?
Mr. Wu Ge always wore a pair of underpants with Mr. Song, and within a few days he paid his family's tax for this year quietly.

Not counting the food tax for fire consumption, it is not too much.

After learning from others, many local officials followed Mr. Song and began to pay taxes one after another.There are also a few particularly motivated people in the capital who also secretly paid their taxes.

The emperor expressed his satisfaction, and asked Wu Ge, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, to remember the names of these officials who secretly paid taxes, and give priority to evaluation and promotion in the future.

No matter what the original intention of these officials was, some Qingliu scribes even criticized this as a disguised bribery from officials to the emperor, but it was a beginning.

In this way, a revolution in the land tax law that should have been vigorous began secretly.