A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 437: House ransacking with dignity
Wang Xin asked the craftsman to cast a large number of "imperial silver coins", and then flowed to the market in batches. No matter they were noble officials or powerful people, they were all happy to accept the imperial silver coins.

Basically, every time imperial silver coins are issued, they will be redeemed by those powerful, distinguished, and businessmen in the shortest possible time.

Seeing this situation, some ministers in the court wrote to Wang Xin to advise them to limit the amount of exchange to prevent ordinary people from being unable to exchange imperial silver coins.

As a result, all these petitions were suppressed by Wang Xin without explanation or objection.

What do ordinary people exchange for silver coins? Can’t they spend copper coins?How much property do ordinary people have, and how much money can they exchange for it?

Naturally, these money must first be harvested from a wave of nobles and powerful people.

If those nobles and powerful men knew that this imperial silver coin would become commonplace in the future, would they regret today's operation?

Kuaiji County has vigorously developed on this land since the Huai Kingdom destroyed Wu and Yue. Now the land of Wu and Yue has become a land of plenty.

Wu Zixu opened canals and built canals, acquiring millions of acres of fertile land. Coupled with the sericulture that was vigorously promoted during the Huai Kingdom, Kuaiji County produced a large amount of cloth, silk, and grain every year.

Naturally, these things cannot be digested locally, so they are basically sold. In addition, the place is connected to the canal, and business is very prosperous.

Although Gusu, the county seat of Kuaiji County, is not one of the five capitals, its prosperity can be said to be no less prosperous than the five capitals. Even except for Jinling and Huai'an, the other capitals are not as prosperous as Gusu.

Wang Xin asked the Shang government to check commercial taxes. The most important places to check commercial taxes are naturally the cities with prosperous commerce. Chang'an has prosperous commerce because of the Silk Road, Jinling and Gusu. These cities must be checked immediately. of.

Of course, there is also the divine capital Luoyang, but the divine capital Luoyang is full of nobles and nobles, and most people really don’t dare to investigate. Wang Xin directly asked the fourth prince He to go and investigate.

The Shang government order decided to start the investigation from Gusu.

The fourth prince's investigation of Luoyang's commercial taxes is basically no problem. You dare to evade taxes under the emperor's feet, so don't blame the emperor for taking a heavy blow.

More people paid attention to the Shang government order, and the imperial envoys came all the way to Gusu, thousands of miles away. Although Gusu was not an old capital like Jinling, it was also the old place of the Huai Kingdom.There are many honorable people. If the commercial tax problem in Suzhou can be solved, then the commercial tax problem in other places will be solved easily.

After learning that the imperial envoys were coming directly, many people in Gusu immediately panicked. Basically all the businessmen began to look for their bosses, hoping to pass this inspection smoothly. Unfortunately, even their bosses There is not much certainty this time either.

After the Shang government officials came to Gusu, they moved directly into the post house in Gusu City.The imperial envoys basically lived in the posthouse to prevent the imperial envoys and local officials from colluding with each other.

After all, there are embroidered clothes envoys and secret guards. If these envoys really dare to collude, they will definitely face death.

The composition of Gusu City is relatively complex. Among them are the royal family and the princes. Of course, these princes are now a little far away. There are also some remnants of the Six Kingdoms who migrated here after the Six Kingdoms were conquered and destroyed. There are also people from the Wu clan, and Descendants of Wu Junqingji.

Some of these people hold high positions in the court, while others have declined.After the Shang government ordered him to come here, he immediately started to check the business taxes and trade volume here without any delay.

Although these merchants evade taxes and there are no records in their accounts, the trade volume of Gusu City can be roughly estimated based on the annual import and export volume of goods in cities such as Luoyang. In addition, the canal governors in various places also keep customs clearance records, as well as Gusu's From various records, business taxes can still be roughly estimated.After complicated calculations, a rough figure was obtained. After seeing this figure and comparing it with the current tax figure, the Shangfu Ling's expression changed. In Gusu City, the amount of tax evasion by these businessmen was It's huge, the number of people is simply insane.

"With so much tax evasion, how dare these people? How dare they?" Shang Fu Ling said with an ugly face.

At that time, Wang Jing turned a blind eye to the nobles and officials, allowing these people to gain more profits from doing business and at the same time prospering the economy. However, he did not expect that these people became more and more courageous and evaded taxes more and more. Unscrupulous.

The Shangfu Ling stayed at the inn for half a month, and after figuring out the situation, he began to conduct an inventory of the merchants.As for being secretly assassinated by these people in Gusu City, if he really did this, the Shangfu Ling would laugh to death immediately.

If the imperial envoy is killed, it won't be about clearing the business tax. As long as there are nobles and powerful men involved in Gusu City, none of them will be able to escape.The main offenders are the Yi tribe, and all the others will be exiled to the Western Regions and Liaodong.

And if he dies, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely compensate his family. His son will definitely be awarded an important job and will serve as three ministers and nine ministers, and the family will also receive a lot of benefits.

He is over fifty years old this year and will not live for a few more years. His own abilities are limited and he cannot be promoted. If it can be exchanged for family wealth, he is still very willing.

"Shangguan, the Chen family controls a large amount of silk, and the taxes it pays are less than one-tenth. Many officials in the city are colluding with them. The nobles behind them are the Xu family. If they are touched,"

The subordinates quickly found those who evaded the most taxes, but they were hesitant about these people. After hearing this, the Shang government official said directly: "Don't worry, your Majesty has issued a death order this time, so there is no need to have any scruples."

"Wait for one more day. If they don't come tomorrow, we will lead people to ransack the house!"

"If these people want dignity, then give them dignity and let them pay the taxes themselves. But if they don't want dignity, then let's help them with dignity!"

After hearing the words of Shang Mansion, everyone immediately felt relieved.

"Go and send someone to sort out a few warehouses and prepare them to be used to store property!"

"only!"

The next day, after seeing no reaction from the Chen family, the Shang government ordered people to search the Chen family directly. All the direct descendants of the Chen family were arrested, and the entire Chen family property was also investigated.

After seeing this situation, the entire Gusu City was trembling, and many people began to take the initiative to hand over business taxes. After failing to arrest the Chen family, the Shang government order did not show any politeness and directly arrested the Xu family.

You must know that the Xu family in Gusu and the Xu family in Luoyang are from the same family. Although they are far apart, they can still be regarded as royal offices.As a result, his house was confiscated by the Shang government, and the entire Gusu City was shocked.

Next, the Shang government ordered a killing attack and arrested a large number of merchants and nobles in the city. Several warehouses prepared in a short period of time were full.

(End of this chapter)