Every day I just want to hold the fourth master's thigh tightly

Chapter 1983 Fraud

Your waist is twisted and you are still so angry, you should be allowed to lie on the bed for a few days...

Su Peisheng complained silently in his heart, and quickly waved the whisk with one hand, signaling to the little eunuch waiting outside to pass on to the imperial physician.

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Gu Youran, who was in Yikun Palace, also received Li Wei's letter, and secretly sighed that the job of returning the fire to the public was not an easy job, and it was lucky that the person who dealt with it was a scoundrel like Li Wei.

In the face of so many scoundrels, he has to be the top scoundrel!

Nowadays, the salaries paid by the government to officials are very low. What if officials want to make money?

Especially not too obviously greedy for ink.

So someone took advantage of the fire loss.

For example, this year the government said that your family has to pay 20 taels of land tax. In fact, when it comes time to pay money, you can’t pay that much.

As for how much you need to pay, the governments of different places are different. Some pay 22 taels, some pay 25 taels, and the extra part goes to the official who collects the tax.

The so-called "fire consumption of silver" refers to the fact that local officials collect taxes and fees from the people, and they will receive a large amount of scattered silver. When these silver are melted and cast into large ingots, some losses will occur, which is called fire consumption.

For this part of the loss, the officials asked the common people to make up for it.

At the beginning, the addition of fire consumption was still covert. Later, in the middle of Ming Dynasty, that is, before the era when Wu Chengen lived, the imperial court clearly stipulated that fire consumption should be collected in addition to taxes to make it legal.

As for how much to charge, the regulations of the imperial court have never been seriously implemented. Officials even dare to add some to the standard blatantly, and this is almost always open. my own.

The folk sung "Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver" refers to this kind of income that does not violate the rules.

This is the benefit of the foreign officials, so the Beijing officials want to get a share of the pie, so the Beijing officials use their power to reach out to the foreign officials, and the foreign officials bribe the Beijing officials for the convenience of doing things, giving carbon gifts in winter and ice in summer Respect, if things go on like this, it has become a routine.

And "return the fire consumption to the public" means to return these ill-gotten gains - the surcharges privately collected by officials and the small private treasury set up by officials.

When Li Wei carried out this task, he did it very well.

The letter mentioned that he met a prince who was a few ranks higher than him and refused to cooperate with Li Wei.

Li Wei was very helpless towards him at first, because the prince directly turned against him, and it was useless to say anything.

Later, Li Wei wandered around the street, and then he figured it out!

Let the fortune teller on the street write him a sentence in thick and large fonts, and write the prince's fire consumption silver.

Then put this piece of paper on the silver that the prince wanted to take away, put a seal on it, and put it in full view.

This is all right, everyone knows how much money is spent on fire!
With so much money, if the prince wants to take it away again, he won't be so cheeky!

Later, not only did he not take it, but he also apologized to Li Wei in front of everyone because of his old face.

Even the most difficult things have been taken care of, so that Li Wei's implementation of the following policies will be very smooth.

Gu Youran smiled in relief.

Well, fourth master did not train Li Wei in vain!

Since nothing related to politics was written on it, he showed the letter to Du Juan, let her see the feat of her husband-to-be, and joked: "How about it, when do you plan to marry him?"

(End of this chapter)