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Chapter 304 The battle is over, the case is locked
This big showdown.

It should be said that the opponents of tax collection won and completely gained the upper hand. The emperor’s attempt to collect taxes failed. As for the voluntary tax payment, it is purely the emperor’s own "playing house". Let’s have fun alone. , we will not accompany you, the court is over, the emperor is gone, and the opposition is triumphant.

The imperial party was a little downcast. Of course, they didn't have nothing to gain. Liu Yanyuan won 200 million taels of military expenses for himself.

Bi Ziyan felt very disappointed. Obviously, the Ming Dynasty urgently needs to use taxation to make up for the holes in the court. Unfortunately, the officials are still unwilling to let go, and tax collection is always in the foreseeable future. Bi Ziyan can only secretly say People sigh, the money bag of the Ming Dynasty is very deflated!It doesn't look like an empire's treasury at all. Even some big families are much richer than this country.

"Jinghui, why, it seems very low!" Sun Chengzong did not leave the scene, Sun Chengzong was waiting for the emperor to summon him, saw Bi Ziyan there alone, and asked intentionally or unintentionally.

"It's Mr. Sun! I have seen Mr. Sun." Bi Ziyan came back from the deep sense of powerlessness, and seeing that it was Sun Chengzong asking himself, he quickly replied and agreed.

"No need to be too polite, I see that you don't seem to be in a very high mood!" Sun Chengzong asked.

"Ah..., Lord Sun, your lord knows about the deficit of the Ming Dynasty. There is no other way except to increase the business tax and mining tax. Unfortunately, the officials are now very opposed to it. There is no other way. The possibility of collecting taxes! My lord has also seen what happened today. If His Majesty wants to collect taxes again, it will be the same as today! It will be dangerous if this continues. Now that I am Ming, I can rely entirely on your Majesty’s internal funds. Support! The money posted by His Majesty is probably not a small amount, but there are some small ten million taels..., alas... It's hard for Your Majesty..." When Bi Ziyan mentioned the finances of the Ming Dynasty, he had a headache , When I met the boss of the imperial party, I couldn't help complaining.

"Jinghui, there is no need to be so depressed. Your Majesty is talented and intelligent. He has an extraordinary talent for making money. Jinghui doesn't need to worry too much. Presumably, His Majesty has a countermeasure. Now, Jinghui only needs to do his job well. Just keep an eye on the Ministry of Households for His Majesty, don’t think too much about other things, let alone complain..." Seeing that Bi Ziyan of the imperial party was downcast, Sun Chengzong also came here to explain, some things, due to various reasons, cannot be let Everyone in the imperial party knew that Sun Chengzong could only remind Bi Ziyan not to be too frustrated and affect his work.

"Master Sun is right. Your majesty's sage is rare in the world, and he is blessed by a god. Presumably, it should be fine..." Speaking of the god, Bi Ziyan remembered the mystery of the emperor when he predicted the sky that day. Yes, the emperor's dream about the god-man suing the dream has been verified!But now those officials object to the emperor's tax collection, using the reason of punishment from heaven, and the theory of heaven and man induction. If the emperor really has a dream from a god, is it a punishment from heaven? Is it because of your majesty? Became the emperor and caused continuous natural disasters, isn't the emperor more clear than the ministers?However, the emperor didn't see how to refute, just blindly forbearing?Here...

Bi Ziyan seemed to have "seen" something. Thinking about it again, the emperor was rising like a comet!A year ago, from an inconspicuous king of faith, he became an emperor in a blink of an eye. In just half a year, he overthrew Wei Zhongxian, who was known as [-] years old. Not to mention the large-scale emigration and disaster relief with tens of millions of taels of silver, this is really an unheard of move!The emperor just made a decision while talking and laughing. For various other deeds, it can only be said that there is really a god to help, and the emperor really cannot be regarded as cowardly or incompetent.

"Thank you, Mr. Sun, for reminding me, I thank you! I understand, and I will try my best to do my job well." Bi Ziyan seemed to understand something, and thanked Sun Chengzong instead.

"No thanks, Your Majesty is very optimistic about Jing Hui, Jing Hui must not disappoint His Majesty's trust." Sun Chengzong said with a half-smile.

……

While the two were talking, the little eunuch came to invite Sun Chengzong.

"Master Sun, I found you. Your Majesty invites you to Qianqing Palace." The little eunuch said happily to Sun Chengzong.

"Thank you, father-in-law, Sun will go now." Sun Chengzong "is off work" and will not leave, just waiting for the emperor to summon him.

"I'm taking my leave..." Bi Ziyan saw that the emperor summoned Sun Chengzong, saluted him, and then left.

Sun Chengzong cupped his hands as a return gift.

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Yang Reform was in the court hall today, and he pretended to be very hard. When he returned to the Qianqing Palace, he didn't need to pretend. He drove away the eunuchs and maids, and hid in the Qianqing Palace alone.

"Your Majesty, Master Sun has arrived." Wang Chengen reported.

"See." Yang Reform couldn't wait to share his joy with others.

Before the ceremony was over, Yang Reform said with a smile: "Master Sun, the great event has been accomplished, the great event has been accomplished! The fish has been hooked, and the trap is firmly locked."

Sun Chengzong was one of the few people who knew the emperor's secrets, and he participated in the emperor's various plans. This kind of big event, Sun Chengzong has experienced many storms and waves. When he heard these arrangements from the emperor's mouth, he was also frightened and scalp Ma, the emperor is not as smiling as he appears on the surface, easy to get along with, gentle, and not cowardly, people who think the emperor is easy to fool, one head hangs on the city wall of Fengyang Mansion, and another, the imperial envoy has already I went to borrow a head.

Now, the progress of the matter is carried out step by step according to the emperor's plan. Sun Chengzong wants to be happy, but he wants to cry, howl and slash people around with his sword.

Sun Chengzong's smile was bitter. If the emperor's plan continues, how many colleagues, how many same years, how many friends will be involved, and the Ming Dynasty will undergo earth-shaking changes.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Your Majesty has taken another step towards the goal." Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly, congratulating the emperor.

"Hey, if these thieves are not eradicated, my Ming Dynasty will never be able to gain a new life. Only by killing them all can I be revived... Hey, to say something unlucky, my Ming Dynasty has lasted for more than 200 years , counting, among many dynasties, he is considered old, and he has reached the late stage of a dynasty. Hehe, if I can't succeed in this contest, I'm afraid that my Ming Dynasty will die soon! Hehe , This is a life-and-death contest between you and me! Fortunately, I have won one step. Next, as long as the control in Shanxi is gradually tightened according to the plan, when the time is right, the traitors in Shanxi will be eliminated by the end of this year at the latest. , catch them all at once, hehe, with the evidence of their collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and then implicating them with other businessmen, hehe, at that time, I will see what those idiots can say. In the situation where taxes cannot be collected, whoever does not pay taxes is a traitor and an enemy of the world. I want to break all the current rules and regulations, and re-establish a new rule, a new rule, to find out for my Ming Dynasty. A way to survive will also save the people of my Ming Dynasty from the suffering of reincarnation in the last days..."

Yang Reform was quite excited, talking to Sun Chengzong about his grand plan and sharing his joy.

"The group of idiots who oppose tax collection in the main hall today, I am afraid they would never have imagined that in the future, when the Shanxi Shanxi merchant case breaks out, there will be countless evidences proving that the Shanxi merchants are traitors, secretly helping the Eastern captives, for the sake of helping the Eastern captives, and for the future. As the minister of the Dragon Conglong of the Eastern Captives, he purposely brought down our Ming Dynasty secretly. He not only sent supplies, food, and weapons to the Eastern Captives; he also colluded with big businessmen from other places to resist taxes, and even bought ministers to stop me from collecting taxes. Helping Donglu reduce the pressure, making my Ming Dynasty unable to encircle and suppress Donglu, so that Donglu can gradually grow stronger until the day when he enters the customs and sits on the throne... Hehehe, when the time comes, the evidence is convincing, I want Let's see what those fools will do, what kind of faces they will have... I want to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to knock all the officials to the ground in one fell swoop, and eliminate those bureaucrats and big businessmen who don't pay taxes and resist taxes in one fell swoop. , I want to make voluntary tax payment a self-consciousness of everyone, and I want to rewrite history..."

Yang Reform was so happy that he went crazy. With all kinds of plans, he finally saw the hope of success. In order to deal with the situation in the late Ming Dynasty and to make money, he thought of many ways, but they were all tinkering. Only this is the only way to completely and fundamentally solve the financial shortage of the Ming Dynasty.Once the Shanxi Shanxi business case broke out, who would dare not pay taxes?Immediately, a charge of collaborating with the enemy and harming the country will be deducted. Those who ransacked their homes ransacked their homes, and those who decapitated their heads.

Sun Chengzong was half happy and half sad.It goes without saying that he is happy, but the painful thing is that he is also a member of the Donglin Party, and he is a kind of anti-target figure. However, the current emperor's layout is obviously aimed at Shanxi Shanxi merchants, but the deep-seated Yes, it is aimed at the big businessmen across the country, especially the big businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The big businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the main force against tax collection. When the ancestors killed the tax supervisor, the most fierce tax resistance was If they are not cut off, the emperor will never be able to collect taxes, and once the emperor wins, he does not know how many colleagues will be involved.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, from now on the court will no longer be short of money..." Sun Chengzong put his troubles aside and congratulated the emperor.

"Hehe, yes! I'm Ming, everything is good, but the fact that I can't collect taxes is really nothing to say. It is the Achilles heel of my dynasty. Hehe, I can collect taxes, no matter how severe the disaster is. , I don’t believe that disasters can’t be quelled when I use a huge amount of money to spread it. When there is a foreign invasion, I don’t believe it. If I don’t win, who dares to say no to me? Thousands of miles away, he must be punished and killed." Yang Reform was overjoyed, and pointed out Jiangshan impassionedly.

"Yes! Your Majesty, my dynasty's tax revenue is indeed quite low, which is incomparable with many dynasties. Even if the Song Dynasty only has half of the country, it is several times the income of our dynasty. This is indeed a big problem. Because the court does not have enough money to rely on, once If there is a big problem, there is nothing to do! This is indeed the crux of our dynasty, but there is still a reason for the national policy of hiding wealth for the people set by the Taizu back then..." Sun Chengzong had a lot of contact with the emperor, and now After reading it, the word "money" is getting more and more important.

"Hehe... So, this time, this matter must be successful, and the current rules must be smashed in one fell swoop, and it must not fail... The rule of hiding wealth for the people set by my great ancestor did not say that if you are rich, you don't have to pay for it." Taxes, the more you pay, the more it means that our policy is better, otherwise, how can he be rich? Master Sun, don’t you think so?” Yang Reform explained with a smile.

"This...Your Majesty does have some truth in what he said. Hehe, I can't say that Your Majesty...I would like to ask, can Liulizhai really pay 20 taels of tax a year?" Sun Chengzong faced the emperor's various " Heresy", I don't want to refute it, the emperor can always find all kinds of novel reasons to convince himself.Sun Chengzong has always been concerned about the fact that a merchant in the court can pay 20 taels of tax. 20 taels are the income of two middle-level governments.The Ming Dynasty only had two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there were only 140 prefectures in total. If the tax paid by one merchant could offset two medium-sized prefectures, then, that is to say, seventy such merchants would be equivalent to making the Ming Dynasty This method of increasing national strength without increasing land taxes gave Sun Chengzong hope and a future, so he specifically asked the emperor to verify the authenticity of this matter.

"Hehe, this matter is true. Liulizhai estimates that it is not a problem to earn me 10 taels this year. I also invested a lot of money in it. Master Sun asked about this matter?" Yang Reform I'm also curious, why did Sun Chengzong ask this?Instead of being happy that you locked up those idiots?
"Your Majesty, I thought, if one merchant can be worth two middle-level mansions, then, if I go to 140 mansions, wouldn't it be possible for me to double my income by seventy such merchants? Well, what I mean is just To use a metaphor, of course there are nearly [-] states in my dynasty, what I mean is..." Sun Chengzong quickly explained.

"Hehe, Master Sun really underestimates those who do business. If you don't talk about anything else, let's talk about Shibosi. If you can collect all of them, it will be several million taels a year, tens of millions of taels. It's not difficult. The problem. I can’t collect it now, and I can’t collect it; the salt tax can’t be collected either. I don’t know who did it. The salt tax that should have been nearly ten million taels of silver, now I can receive a million dollars every year. Two, these two items alone can be worth the land tax of our dynasty, and we can end the situation of our dynasty completely relying on land tax to live. This is the only way. These statements are only reliable for the common people, after all, the vast majority of our dynasty are still farmers who make a living by farming, and it is the right way not to raise taxes on them and make the court rich." Yang Reform happily explained to Sun Chengzong.

"Tariffs of the Municipal Bureau of Shipping? This..." Sun Chengzong thought for a while, and felt that he didn't have much research on this aspect, so he couldn't say anything. The bureaucrats shouted not to collect tariffs, and not to engage in sea patrols. This is a waste of people's fat. Searching for people's fat and people's anointing, on the other hand, doing a lot of smuggling by yourself, what else can you say?
"This salt class..., in fact... this..." Sun Chengzong was very clear about the salt tax. Why did the emperor's salt class directly drop to 100 million taels?There is also a reason for this, but it is not too much to talk about. Now that the emperor's game of chess is played out, not to mention tariffs and salt taxes, I am afraid that even mining taxes will be uprooted, and all taxes will be paid in the future. Not even one child.

"Hehe...Master Sun, you don't have to doubt it. There is no problem at all in doubling my government's finances by just relying on commercial taxes. Taxes are taken from the people and used for the people! If I just want to get some expenses for myself, hehe, I really don’t need to think about collecting taxes. I can live a good life every year by relying on Liulizhai, don’t you think? Speaking of the Song Dynasty, that is half of the country, the army fought against the enemy all the year round, but the income was several times that of my Ming Dynasty, hehe, from this point of view, Master Sun has no doubts about the industrial and commercial tax saving the country." Yang Reform once again popularized science The matter of tax recovery is to Sun Chengzong.

"Ah... I know about this matter, but, alas... Seeing so many colleagues fall down because of such disgraceful things in the future,... I really have mixed feelings in my heart!..." Sun Chengzong also agreed. Anxiety, this kind of thing, you can't tell others, and you can only vomit bitterness to the emperor.

"Hehe, Master Sun, what can't be broken can't be built. Only by breaking and smashing all the original things can we build new and better things on this basis, isn't it? Some people are completely inferior to the country for their own interests, regardless of my Ming Dynasty. Safety is at stake, the building is about to collapse, and these people are still digging up the pillars of the building, such people are not worthy of sympathy!" Yang Reformed.

"What your majesty said is really... But, there is one thing that your majesty must be prepared for, otherwise, this matter will not be pushed forward!" Sun Chengzong remembered something and reminded the emperor.

"Master Sun is talking about public opinion? Hehe, I have already prepared for this matter. This is the new residence newspaper that just came out today. Master Sun, take a look at it." Yang Reform said with a smile. , The newspapers are also published, in the future, once the case of Shanxi merchants is fired, and the overwhelming navy is launched, those people in the Ming Dynasty will not stop cooking?
Sun Chengzong curiously took the mansion newspaper handed over by the emperor, looking through it, he was very interested in this kind of paper mansion newspaper.The handwriting on it is quite clear. The content on it is divided into many sections, including the introduction of the government, the emperor's order, the personnel affairs of the central government, etc., which are no different from the traditional mansion newspaper. There are also some officials' advice, etc. Wait, there are strange people and strange things in various places, customs and so on. It seems that there is not much difference from the content of the old mansion newspaper.

"Master Sun, this thing is the new mansion newspaper I made. Each mansion newspaper sells for ten cents. It uses movable type printing. Today's court discussion will become like this in the morning tomorrow. Everywhere in the capital, hehe, with this testimony, in the future, those idiots will have a hundred mouths, and they will not even try to overturn the case." Yang Reform said bitterly.

"Ten cents? So cheap? Your Majesty, is this true?" Sun Chengzong asked in disbelief.

"It's true. In the past, books were expensive. That's because engraving took a lot of time and effort. The paper was better, and the number of sales was limited, so the price was more expensive. But my new newspaper is different. It uses Movable type printing, the quality of the paper is not so good, it is only for reading, and the quantity is quite large, so the price is so cheap..."

"However, I see that your Majesty's residence newspaper is made into a single piece of paper? It's not like the previous residence newspaper, which is made one by one?" Sun Chengzong asked puzzled.

"Hehe, actually, it's simple, as I said just now, make it into a piece of paper, and print everything on it. In the future, I won't let those idiots complain about it. Hehe, I'm still afraid of them for binding the expensive mansion newspaper." It is said that I secretly subscribed the content, and now it is made into a piece of paper, once it is published, there is no room for change, hehe, I will crucify them..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)