Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 125 Oil and salt do not enter Taikang Hou

At the beginning, Chao Baiguan did not notice Zhang Guoji and Zhu Youjian's involvement in the summer tax work, and the subsequent negative impact it might have on their money-making plan.

On the one hand, it is no longer the Ministry of Households who is responsible for collecting taxes, but has been changed to the taxation department directly under the emperor, and there are many Jinyiwei in this taxation department, so Zhang Guoji and Zhu Youjian are now surrounded by people everywhere. It's not surprising that the tax department's yamen is going around, they are all the emperor's cronies, and the emperor will definitely send them to supervise the tax collection situation of the tax department.

The second aspect is that now they have no way to achieve the purpose of making money through taxation fraud. If they want to make a fortune, they can only make a fortune in the way Zhu Tianqi and Xu Guangqi had imagined before. Taking advantage of the fact that the people had no money in their hands but needed to use it to pay taxes, they lowered the price of food to exploit the people. They bought it at a low price and then sold it at a high price to earn the difference. Therefore, the officials at the top and bottom of the court were also very busy at this time. Busy raising money, manpower, and organizing grain collection.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that Zhang Guoji and Zhu Youjian were given sufficient time to prepare. When the tax was first levied and the people came to exchange grain for money to pay taxes, they discovered that their There was no one selling grain in front of the grain collection stall, but there was already a miles-long queue next to the taxation department office.

Although most of the time, officials from the various parties in North Korea and China seem to be very united, but at times like this, they no longer care about the friendship between the same parties. Now is the time to grab money and food. Who can You can still take care of those things, so every time this time comes, various companies will engage in price wars with each other, and even friction and bloody conflicts are common.

However, even if everyone engages in a price war, no one will raise the price too high. It is just a few cents or a few cents higher than that of its peers. The purpose is still to collect more grain. Therefore, such a subtle price difference is It would not have caused the current situation, where every grain merchant's door would be empty, and all the people would go to one store to sell grain.

Because the situation was so bizarre, at first the grain merchants thought that the imperial court had changed its policy to pay grain directly. After all, the common people were queuing up next to the tax department office. However, they only sent people over to ask. You know, the imperial court changed the tax collection method to pay grain directly, but people from Taikang Marquis Zhang Guoji collected grain here!

Zhang Guoji, the Marquis of Taikang, is responsible for helping the imperial court to raise food and grass. Now there is a drought in the Shaanxi chief envoy, and the imperial court urgently needs food to support the disaster relief. Everyone knows these things, so in order to complete his errands, Zhang Guoji uses this Everyone understands the opportunity to purchase grain.

Everyone buys grain to make a fortune. Zhang Guoji collects grain to complete his errands, or to please the emperor. In the end, everyone is doing it for their own interests, but you can't just feed yourself and ask everyone. They all starve to death!
The following people who came to collect the grain were naturally young people, and the people Zhang Guoji sent to collect the grain were all Jin Yiwei, so no one dared to go to make trouble and offend them, so they had to report the matter to the people above him, so Someone came to see Zhang Guoji and hinted at him.

"Now is the time for the imperial court to collect taxes. The imperial court only wants money but not grain, but the people have no money. If they want to pay taxes, they have to exchange grain for silver. Tax payments are time-limited, so no matter how low the price of grain is, the people In order to pay the tax within the time limit, we have to sell the grain in the end, there is no need to collect the grain at a fair price!"

However, Zhang Guoji completely ignored this issue and refused to accept any gifts from visitors. Anyway, when he took this job, he had already thought that this was an offending job, and it was a difficult job. It’s his job to risk offending his son, so now, he’s still afraid of offending others?So after several private contacts, I found that Zhang Guoji was completely incompetent, so they simply stopped talking to him. Zhang Guoji is now in the limelight. He has been granted a title and has Shang Fang's sword. He is very majestic. When faced with such a tough situation, everyone would simply admit defeat and give him a bite of fat!

These people thought simply, thinking that Zhang Guoji would stop after collecting enough food for himself, and then they would come back to collect food. Unexpectedly, Zhang Guoji seemed to be hungry and had no intention of stopping at all, and everyone was busy. After a while, I found that the situation was like this everywhere. Next to every tax department yamen, there were people from Zhang Guoji collecting grain.

Everyone thought that Zhang Guoji would always be full one day. Even if he had a big appetite and couldn't eat enough for a while, the money in his hands would eventually be spent. He was not like others who collected grain at a low price. How much money is enough for him to spend when collecting grain at a low price?

Even if he was running errands for the imperial court and had the imperial court's support behind him, the imperial court did not have so much money. Everyone knew how much money the Ministry of Revenue had, so how could that little money be enough for him to go through such trouble!Of course, the officials in the court did not expect that the emperor was using money from his internal funds to support Zhang Guoji, but they did not think that the emperor was so rich. Even if the emperor was rich, he might not be willing to spend it like this!

But I have to say that these ministers underestimated Zhu Tianqi. Although Zhu Tianqi was indeed very strict with money, he did not hesitate at all to use money as long as it was used for business.

What's more, the money he took out of his internal funds this time was just for spinning around, not really spent, let alone reluctant to part with it.

Zhu Tianqi first handed the money to Zhang Guoji, who distributed the money to the Jin Yiwei who went to various places to buy grain. Then they spent money to buy the people's grain. The people then handed the money to the Taxation Department, which registered it in the treasury. , and then sent the silver back to Zhu Tianqi's hands, and Zhu Tianqi once again sent the silver to Zhang Guoji when he needed it. With such repeated use, how could the silver in Zhang Guoji's hands be spent one day? ?
Seeing that more and more grains were taken away by Zhang Guoji, but they did not receive even a grain of grain, these people finally lost their temper. The Grain Procurement Department launched an "attack".

At the beginning, local rogues were gathered to make trouble. They did not dare to offend the officials, so they harassed the people, drove away the people who came to sell food, and prevented the people from selling food here.

Regarding this, Zhang Guoji and Zhu Youjian had very unified opinions. Naturally, they directly killed these scum of society. Not only did they block people in the street, but they also posted notices to calm the people, explaining to the people that this place was the Marquis of Taikang. Zhang Guoji set up a grain purchasing office under the orders of the imperial court. Anyone who dares to interfere or hinder grain collection will be killed!

(End of this chapter)