"Your Majesty, Cui Li, please punish Liang Zan severely."
At the court meeting, Zhu Youde had just sat down when an old man stood up, knelt down and shouted.
As Cui Li stood up, a dozen officials followed and stood up from the team. They first paid homage to the emperor and then knelt down in one breath.
These are people from aristocratic families.
When they served as officials in the Daliang court, they represented the interests of the aristocratic families.
Zhu Youde smiled slightly, he was so annoyed!
Before he could do anything, these people jumped out.
Does it look like dealing with Liang Zan?
In fact, it was for him, the emperor!
"Liang Zan has been jailed!" Zhu Youde stopped talking after he finished speaking.
Cui Li said: "Your Majesty, Liang Zan beat Marquis Boling, and even spoke arrogantly and rudely. If this person is not killed, the people will not be angry. Your Majesty, Liang Zan is a dog thief, Xue Lin, and hates him."
Kill Liang Zan! Not only will Zhu Youde know the power of the family, but it will also warn others that this is the fate of offending the family!
All major aristocratic families in Daliang have representatives in Jinling, and Cui Li is the leader among the representatives of major aristocratic families in Daliang.
The family will never allow anyone to challenge the family's status.
Zhu Youde smiled and said: "Liang Zan's matter is trivial, so why bring it to the court for discussion? Let's talk about tax increases today!"
Foolish king!
Liang Zan trampled the family's face to the ground, and Zhu Youde still wanted to fool him, but needless to say he had already made his attitude clear.
Increase taxes?
Without the support of the noble family, even if the court passes it, the emperor will not receive the money!
Cui Li sneered and knelt on the ground with his head bowed. Zhu Youde could not see his expression. "Your Majesty is opposed to increasing taxes. I have never heard of this since ancient times. In the previous dynasty, the people did not increase taxes. Your Majesty's behavior is really dangerous!"
"Your Majesty, think twice!"
Zhu Youde cursed in his heart, dog thieves are all dog thieves!
The imperial court's tax policy has never been implemented, and it's all the fault of these thieves.
No tax increase?
Where did all those tax dollars go!
Daliang's taxation is very funny. When the People's Republic of China was founded, just after the war, the tax revenue for a year could still receive 7 million plus other supplies, which was about 10 million taels of silver!
When he became emperor, the national tax revenue was only more than 4 million taels. Adding other in-kind taxes, the total was less than 6 million taels!
Where did the more than four million in tax money go?
Was it eaten by a dog?
Zhu Youde said calmly: "I have looked at the tax records of the imperial court over the years. In the first year of Emperor Gaozu, the war had just ended and the people's livelihood was in decline. There were still tens of millions of taxes. But now, only sixty years after the first year of Emperor Gaozu, the tax revenue in one year is actually
It’s less than six million taels, and when the Ministry of Revenue’s treasury is short of money and food, it still needs to borrow money from wealthy private businessmen!”
"Why?" Zhu Youde patted Hu's table: "I want to ask you, why is my income getting less and less? If so, in a few years, will I no longer be able to collect taxes? Where have all the tax dollars gone?"
He Qingfeng stood up from the crowd of ministers and bowed to Zhu Youde: "Your Majesty, I know where all the taxes and taxes have gone. They have all gone into the pockets of the famous families in the world."
"Master He, what do you mean!"
"Master He, you are slandering me. You are trying to sow discord between His Majesty and the aristocratic family!"
"He Qingfeng, you are guilty of death!"
As soon as He Qingfeng finished speaking, Cui Li and the others immediately went crazy and attacked He Qingfeng one after another!
He Qingfeng said: "Why, don't you believe that a certain person is in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs? The Ministry of Household Affairs has documents on local tax payments over the years, one by one, clearly."
"A local aristocratic family controls the imperial taxes and owes a debt of over 30 million!"
Zhu Youde was frightened by this number: "He Qing..."
Damn it!
thirty million!
The local government owes the central court 30 million in taxes?
According to the current annual income of the Daliang court, this is equivalent to five or even six years of accumulation!
The numbers He Qingfeng grasps will only be less, not more.
The places below concealed, cheated, and made false reports. This kind of thing is not strange. It is inevitable in modern times, let alone ancient times!
The tax collection in Daliang is a fixed tax based on local levels. For example, if a place is recognized by the court as a superior county, that year it will have to turn over to the court 30,000 silver, 100,000 shi of grain, silk, linen, leather, etc. After conversion, it is
The taxes paid by the county were converted into about 200,000 taels of silver.
But in fact, this is the calculation, but the tax collected by the court is not enough, usually only a few percent. It is considered good if a county can pay 30,000 yuan in taxes to the Daliang court!
A county magistrate who completes the tax collection task of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a year is considered a qualified official!
This is Daliang’s current tax system!
Zhu Youde was dumbfounded when He Qingfeng explained the tax collection situation in Daliang!
All this is my own money!
If you don’t pay taxes, you’re robbing yourself of your own money. If you don’t pay enough taxes, you’re robbing yourself of your own money!
Snap!
Zhu Youde slapped the dragon throne hard twice and said in a clear voice: "The world belongs to me. If you don't pay taxes, the country will use it for what it uses. Taxes must be increased. There is no need to talk about it. I found that the increase before was even less!"
Feng Yuyue and Feng Bogong looked at each other and immediately smiled bitterly!
The two of them looked back at He Qingfeng, who looked indifferent!
He lit a fire and felt happy!
Everyone else knew about the tax matters, they just hid it from Zhu Youde. After all, Zhu Youde didn't pay much attention to taxes before!
Anyway, it is the treasury that is poor, and its expenses are all the responsibility of the royal treasury, the Shaofu, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other agencies.
"I am willing to be kind to the people of the world, but the country's tax relations will be peaceful in the world!" Zhu Youde began to perform, his eyes turned red, and he squeezed out a few tears: "My heart aches, doesn't it hurt to wait for you!"
All you are robbing is my money!
Millions of dollars a year are gone!
"I decided to reorganize the taxation."
My money must be returned to me!
Zhu Youde said harshly: "Wearing royal guards, we will inspect four, two factories in the east and west to check the world's tax revenue!"
Cui Li and other representatives of the aristocratic family almost fainted and felt dizzy!
Weren't we talking about Liang Zan? Why did it suddenly turn to tax?
Check taxes?
Then wouldn't these aristocratic families be in big trouble!
"Your Majesty, you can't do that. If your Majesty is like this, the people of the world will definitely live in dire straits. When the time comes, the world will be in chaos. Your Majesty, please think twice!"
The other officials looked at Cui Li with a look on their face, "What you said is so good."
If the people don’t have a hard time, it’s because the aristocratic families don’t have a hard time!
Because it is these wealthy families who have the most tax arrears!
But this time the emperor used factory guards to inspect taxes and could arrest people directly and send them to prison.
Zhu Youde was furious: "Cui Li, what kind of people are you talking about when the people are living in poverty? Do you think I'm a fool? How much can ordinary people owe in tax arrears? It's just a few coins. You and other aristocratic families are the big ones. This time
If we collect taxes, we’ll investigate you aristocratic families!”
"You can bring back whatever you have taken in the past to me this time!" Zhu Youde said angrily, but his voice changed: "But I am not a stingy person, you only need to pay the tax, and everything can be forgotten!