Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 708 Methods of tax evasion

"Then you go!"

Zhu Xuan waved his hand and said, "If you want to leave, you can leave now."

Hearing this, the man really wanted to leave.

But when he turned around, he saw the imperial guards standing upright behind him. He swallowed and did not dare to move his legs.

He is also very scared.

Especially when he didn't know who these people were and what their identities were, he didn't dare to move any further.

He said he wanted to leave, but when it was time to leave, he gave up.

"What? You're not leaving?"

Zhu Xuan asked: "Are you still afraid and don't dare to leave?"

The man gritted his teeth, lowered his head, bowed and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"

Seeing the aura on Zhu Xuan's body, he was sure that he was definitely not an ordinary person.

I am also very scared!
  However, before Zhu Xuan could respond to who he was, a group of people came towards Zhu Xuan with hoes and other weapons.

They are all evil slaves.

They followed the man here to supervise the farmers' farming. When they saw the man being taken away, they felt something was wrong and gathered to support the man.

When the Jin Yiwei saw so many people coming, they immediately raised their rifles, opened the safety, and pulled the bolt. Some people also drew their sabers, ready to take action at any time.

Hou Xian and Lei Gang saw him and stood in front of Zhu Xuan, looking at them with unfriendly eyes and murderous intent.

"What are you going to do? Stop, everyone, stop!"

The man still has some discernment and knows that these people cannot be offended, otherwise they may die.

Those who came to support the scene had to stop and look at the man blankly.

Zhu Xuan smiled and said: "You are quite sensible, but...whose family owns the fields here? You don't have to tell me, I can check at any time."

"Yes...it is the property of Dingyuan Qianye Temple."

The man finally couldn't bear the pressure and told what he knew.

"The property of Chibaji Temple?"

Zhu Xuan was surprised. He raised his head and looked outside and said calmly: "How can a Buddhist temple own so much land? You think I'm a fool, right?"

"Don't dare!"

The man quickly said: "It's just...it's just that Buddhist temple property cannot help but pay taxes, so..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Xuan understood the reason.

Zhu Yuanzhang had been a monk. Although he knew that monks were actually incompetent, he did not forget his roots and was very tolerant of Buddhist temples. Under the policy of sharing one's land with one's own family, all princes, nobles, and wealthy landlords had to pay taxes. .

But there are exceptions.

Buddhist temples are among the exceptions.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not need to pay taxes in Buddhist temples around the world, and even set up monk officials, which was a kind of reminiscence of his past.

Based on the man's words, it is not difficult to judge that the landowners or officials who were unwilling to pay taxes had all the annexed fields under Buddhist temples to evade taxes.

They colluded with the monks in the Buddhist temple and formed a conspiracy, which led to the present.

That large piece of land actually belongs to officials or landlords.

Those farmers are probably really serfs.

Although the value of food today is not as high as it was at the beginning, people's desire for land is still very high due to the small farmer mentality accumulated over the years.

Not to mention now, even hundreds of years from now, ordinary people's enthusiasm for a piece of land will still be very high.

It can be merged, and in fact it will continue to merge.

They don't want to pay taxes, so they find ways not to pay them.

"The temples here are all very good at playing."

Zhu Xuan smiled.

But his laughter was a bit cold, so cold that it made the man shiver all over.

Afraid for sure.

"May I ask who your noble lord is?"

the man asked cautiously.

Zhu Xuan's identity has not yet been determined, and he doesn't know how to deal with it.

Zhu Xuan did not say who he was, but said: "Take them with you and go to the city to see the magistrate here."     To say this, there were no local officials involved. Zhu Xuan would not believe it even to death. In addition, he followed the emperor to conquer the world. Among the Huaixi generals, many of them were from Dingyuan among the twenty-four achievements of the founding of the country.

There should be many of those fields in front of me that belong to those who have made meritorious deeds.

It seems that it is not easy to get down.

"What are you taking us to?"

the man asked in confusion.

"Inform Yan Guan and take them all away."

Zhu Xuan said calmly.

The Jin Yiwei beside him heard this and fired a shot into the air.

When they heard the sound of gunshots coming back, Yan Guan and the others' expressions changed drastically. Usually when there was gunshots, there was a high probability that something was going to happen, so they hurried over with Jinyiwei and Yulinwei.

As for Zhu Xuan's former Personal Guard Battalion and Shenji Battalion, he had already merged them into the new army.

With his current status, those personal guards are no longer needed.

Let them shine in the new army and familiarize the new recruits with the hot weapons of the future.

"Your Highness, are you alright?"

Yan Guan asked nervously as soon as he arrived.

If something happens to Zhu Xuan here, I'm afraid there will be another killing spree.

Zhu Xuan shook his head and said, "It's okay. Take them all away and bring them to the city to find the magistrate of Dingyuan."

"Yes!"

Yan Guan shouted.

The man heard the word "Your Highness" and looked at the man who had just arrived. He was wearing a flying fish robe or the uniform of the Forbidden Army, and had rifles and weapons in his hands.

This is appropriate, the imperial guards and imperial guards in the palace.

So who might this His Highness be? The man had already thought of the answer and knelt down directly.

Zhu Xuan has gone back.

Yan Guan glanced at the man, waved his hand and said, "Take him away!"

Those people were all taken away quickly.

The people who had picked up their hoes and came to help, all dropped their hoes at this time, and followed behind them tremblingly, fearing that it was certain, and not knowing what their next fate would be.

As for the farmers who were farming, when they saw this scene, they all raised their heads in confusion, wondering whether they should continue farming.

"Your Highness."

When Mu Yuanjun and the others saw it, they came over worriedly and said, "What's wrong?"

They were scared when they heard gunshots.

In particular, Mu Yuanjun, Xu Miaojin and Cen Hua had close contact with gunshots in Suzhou. Usually, something happened.

Zhu Xuan shook his head and said, "It's okay, I just asked them to notify Yan Guan to come over and take a few people away. If there's no other problem, let's go into the city!"

Seeing that everything was fine and no one in the Jinyiwei was injured, they felt relieved for the time being.

Next, it’s time to enter the city.

When he arrived in the city, Zhu Xuan directly asked Jin Yiwei to inform the local magistrate Yu Chengchun.

After a while, Yu Chengchun led a group of people from Dingyuan County Government out to greet him.

"I am in Chengchun, the magistrate of Yuan County, to pay homage to His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun."

After Yu Chengchun bowed, a group of people around him knelt down to salute.

Zhu Xuan nodded and said, "Okay, get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yu Chengchun bowed again and led everyone to get up.

Zhu Xuan added: "I met a very interesting person outside the city. Mr. Yu should know him."

Yu Chengchun asked inexplicably: "Who is it?"

"Bring it up!"

The man was quickly brought over.

Yu Chengchun felt shocked all over after just one glance.

This person, whom he really knew, was still a shady person, and he actually fell into the hands of His Highness the Emperor Taisun!
  (End of this chapter)