"What's wrong?" Zhu Su and Queen Ma were both shocked. Lao Zhu actually called himself "I", which showed the depth of his anger. Queen Ma quickly comforted Zhu Xiongying in her arms and asked Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu still had an angry look on his face, pointed at Erhu and said: "Go, bring us Yan Xizhe, the Minister of Household Affairs, and go quickly!"
The two tigers did not dare to neglect and immediately retreated to the east. Old Zhu was still indignant. Queen Ma asked warmly: "What's the matter? Are you so angry? What happened?"
"The Ministry of Revenue bullies people too much, bullies people too much!" It's okay not to ask, but when asked, Lao Zhu became even more furious. "The entire property of Yingtianfu officials in Beijing, the current commercial tax paid is less than 100,000 taels... Those thieves
Hey, are they sending beggars?"
"When Chongzhen was about to lose his country, he asked hundreds of officials to raise money, and he raised two hundred thousand taels... What, do those thieves think that we are the king of the country's subjugation, and can they also give us a sign of the country's subjugation?"
It turns out that because of that, Zhu Su was dumbfounded when he heard it. A whole month has passed since the imperial court tried out the tiered commercial tax system among court officials, and it actually only collected a hundred thousand taels...
Don't look at the figure of 100,000 yuan in commercial tax. In Tiandong, where everything is in ruins and business is not prosperous, Dangdong seems to be quite acceptable. Could you please tell me if the location for trialing the tiered commercial tax system is suitable for the situation!
I want to know whether Yingtian Mansion is the most prosperous place in Tiandong and where the imperial capital is located. Even during the plundering of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, whether the other Jiangnan prefectures outside Yingtian Mansion were prosperous in commerce, with all kinds of wealthy merchants emerging one after another.
But most of those who were successful in business in the east of that day were people in the court. Previously, even though the Shen family was the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, they were trembling because no one in the court was in the sky. In other words, the sky is as bright as the sky.
Most restaurants and shops are actually the property of court officials or nobles.
With Yingtian's business scale, even if the property of the court official's relatives was expropriated in the first step, how could Keke only have one hundred thousand taels? Did the people in the court really think that the butcher's knife in Lao Zhu's leg was not sharp?
Zhu Su shook his head speechlessly.
Following Empress Ma's instructions, Zhu Su followed Lao Zhu to the Jinshen Hall. Not long after waiting, he saw a rather young official trotting into the hall tremblingly. When he reached the steps, his head was shaking.
He didn't dare to lift it up, so he hurriedly knelt to the east in fear: "Your Majesty, Yan Xizhe, greetings..."
"Yan Xizhe, can the memorial of one hundred thousand taels be played by my household?" Lao Zhu was furious. Before Yan Xizhe could finish his words, he threw the memorial directly at his feet. "Our household
It’s a good plan, why don’t you treat me like a beggar and put everything together to frustrate me?”
"Your Majesty, I don't dare! I don't dare!" Yan Xizhe kowtowed one after another, already scolding those old colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue in his heart.
As mentioned before, he was just a minister who was trying to catch a duck, and all the power of the household department fell into the hands of the old ministers of Yuanting. Those old people bullied him when he was young, so they didn't take care of him much in ordinary months.
The young new minister was so excited that he went straight to the office with a meal and a glance, not to mention that he also isolated Yan Xizhe from him and did not let him know about it.
Therefore, Yan Xizhe believed that the so-called increase in commercial taxes this time was just a normal policy change. Although he was not a minister of the Yuan Dynasty, he had previously served as a small county magistrate in the remote Fujian area, messing around.
How could he understand the twists and turns of the big bosses in the court and the government when he was still in confinement? He didn't feel good until those old fritters came to him with the summarized figures and begged him to use the seal. Yingtianfu's business was prosperous, and all his colleagues
They all have a lot of wealth, so they levy an additional business tax. No matter what, they have to impose an additional one hundred thousand taels.
The kind of glass Buddha statues produced by Wudiandong that are priced in the tens of thousands of dollars can hardly be built in the houses of those colleagues!
"My lord, Shangshu, I don't know whether that number was calculated by various officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs. It is indeed the case. If you don't believe it, how about you do the calculation yourself?"
"No, your Majesty, Donglai, is in a hurry to ask for that number. If the palace blames Donglai, Dongguan will not bear the responsibility." The old minister who reported the original report to him said in a strange tone.
Yan Xizhe was helpless at that time. He was promoted by Lao Zhu to be the Minister of Household Affairs. Of course he had experience in arithmetic, and he also knew how much calculation was required. If only he could do the arithmetic.
By next year, we may not be able to calculate the exact figures.
What's more, he was just an airborne minister, and the entire household department had long been managed as a monolith by those old people, except that it was not under the control of his minister.
Even if the people of Didong are allowed to do the accounting again, those people will definitely do what they want and do what they want.
It can be said that bullying in the workplace has occurred both in ancient times and in Ming Dynasty.
However, although Yan Xizhe knew some arithmetic, he did not know the way of Yudong. He only obeyed when things happened, which became a shield for other colleagues. Although Yan Xizhe had some doubts in his heart, he did not dare to do so.
If you have no choice but to postpone it, you can follow the wishes of your colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue and report the memorial.
Sure enough, if such a figure could satisfy Bidong, then a violent storm swept over.
Bitter!
"Your Majesty, I also feel that this number is wrong. However, I have asked my colleagues in the ministry several times, and they all swore that there is no mistake." Yan Xizhe kowtowed and reported loudly. "Your Majesty, I understand clearly.
If you were favored by Your Majesty, you would never dare to deceive your Majesty!"
Lao Zhu wanted to scold him again, but when Zhu Su saw Yan Xizhe's forehead turning red, he thought for a while and stopped him, saying, "Father, why bother Yan Xizhe?"
"I think this matter has nothing to do with Shangshu Yan. Even if those people want to deceive the emperor, I'm afraid they won't be stupid enough to mess with the numbers directly."
"As the saying goes, where there are policies, there are always wrong ones. Those people's months as officials are much longer than yours as emperor, so they are definitely not so superficial. Their wrong policies are definitely beyond the calculation of figures."
"...Hmph!" Lao Zhu snorted coldly. "I said no. Those thieves thought that we were the foolish kings of Dayuan!"
"Erhu, go find Mao Xiang. We have something to ask him to investigate!"
As expected, he ignored Yan Xizhe and instead gave orders to Erhu. Yan Xizhe looked at Zhu Su with tears of gratitude as if he had been pardoned.
What a good man! How benevolent that palace master is!
Zhu Sucuo, the scorned minister with a bit of a nerdy air, was not interested, so he discussed it with Lao Zhu: "Do you want to use the Jin Yiwei to conduct a direct search?"
"Since that group of people dare to do this, are they afraid of the exposed conspiracy, such as transferring assets to slaves, wives, etc. If the Jin Yiwei is used, they will no longer be taxed according to the law, but will be confiscated.
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"In that case, I'm afraid that the tax increase policy will only exist in name only."