"In my opinion, since this failed, we need to have a comprehensive strategy to customize this matter so that future generations can have a precedent to follow..." Zhu Su said. "Can this be considered the first tax evasion case since the Ming Dynasty?
There is a tax evasion case. How to deal with it cannot be ignored."
He thought about it and felt that he didn't have any good strategies for the time being, so he suggested: "...How about asking Uncle Cheng to come and discuss it?"
Liu Bowen had previously proposed a plan to establish a tax department. At that time, he and Lao Zhu agreed that it was difficult to prepare a tax department at the moment, so it would be better for Zhai Mule to collect taxes once and then establish it later. But he did not want the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect taxes, so he levied it.
A very insulting one hundred thousand taels...
It can be seen from this that Liu Bowen had long expected that tax collection by the Ministry of Household Affairs would not work. Maybe he also had a way to deal with the mistake in his mind.
"It makes sense. But I don't know if that old man is willing to come." Lao Zhu's eyes lit up. He turned around and saw Yan Xizhe kneeling there stupidly. He couldn't help but cursed: "What are you doing staying there? Get away!"
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"Go and ask Mr. Bowen to come over. I will also go and check whether there are any errors or omissions in the tax accounts of the Ministry of Revenue."
"If there is indeed something wrong with the accounts, I'm the only one asking!"
"No, no..." Yan Xizhe said nonchalantly. Even if he said no, he still knew that he would definitely be involved in the fight between the courtiers and the emperor. He couldn't help but feel resentful in his heart: Those old guys, they have wronged me.
When he paid more tribute and refused to obey, we actually wanted to push him out to be the scapegoat.
If there is no bright moon in the east of the five halls, I am afraid that someone in his face will be peeled off from day lilies...
Holding back my energy, I went back to the accounts department to settle the accounts.
After a while, Liu Bowen came just as the palace officials invited him. Seeing him coming so quickly, Lao Zhu couldn't help but grunted and said: "We had invitations the day before, and sir, they all refused. How did he come that time?"
That fast?"
"Your Majesty, I didn't know how to do business before, but I only knew how to be lazy and idle." Facing the sarcasm, Liu Bowen looked as usual, and he knelt down to Lao Zhu. "I hope your Majesty will forgive you for being rude!"
I am willing to devote my whole life to his future peace and prosperity in the Ming Dynasty, and I will go to pieces!"
Lao Zhu was startled, but he didn't expect Liu Bowen to be uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. He almost ignored the heart-wrenching rebuke and admitted the matter so openly. He and Zhu Su looked at each other wrongly. They had not done anything wrong before.
Make more entanglements and ask the left and right to give Liu Bowen a seat as before, and then ask for advice on the wrong collection of business taxes.
"Your Majesty, don't you think someone has tampered with this?" Liu Bowen had just heard the figure of one hundred thousand taels, and he made a categorical conclusion. "We must not allow the Ministry of Household Affairs to tamper with tax collection."
"The top priority is to immediately find out what was concealed and prosecute the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Then we can take advantage of the opportunity to dismantle the boat department and use the newly established tax department to calculate the amount."
"What we want is for Jin Yiwei to investigate. Lao Wu doesn't think it's appropriate." Lao Zhu said.
"Is it reasonable to worry about the east of the fifth palace?" Liu Bowen nodded to Zhu Su who was standing beside him. Then he turned to old Zhu and said: "However, this matter involves officials. Except for the Jin Yiwei, I am afraid that no one can interfere with it.
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"I think we should send Jin Yiwei?" Lao Zhu was a little surprised. Liu Bowen always offered upright and peaceful suggestions, so why would he come up with such a plan to offend the officials of the imperial court?
Do you really want to be a lonely minister and help us achieve the great cause of the Ming Dynasty?
"No. Jinyiwei can assist the supervisor, and the Yushitai will take charge of the case." Liu Bowen said.
"The Yushitai's duty is to report on the news and inspect all officials. It is run by him, which is justifiable."
"And the Jin Yiwei is so famous that it can be used as a deterrent. It can also make the censors know that they are always in the east of the eyes and ears of your Majesty, and they dare not show favoritism." Liu Bowen smiled when he said that. "Furthermore, the east and fourth halls of the second hall
The east of the palace, no doubt, happened to be assigned the official positions of Yushitai and Jinyiwei..."
"Let the second child host it?" Lao Zhu frowned, remembering Zhu Pingyue's careless appearance. "If you ask him to investigate, how can he find out?"
"It doesn't matter whether we find out or not," Liu Bowen said.
"The officials in the court have many legs to make money. Even if a few can be found, they are still not the tip of the iceberg."
"In this case, it is better to shock the enemy and let them leak the truth on their own. I infer that it has been more than a month since the new tax law was promulgated by Dong. Even if the family wealth is not directly dissipated, there must be some leverage to keep Dong."
"Think about it, maybe they wanted to spend some time and money first so that they could take care of Cheng Dong's legs."
"Let the Second Hall and the Fourth Hall go east, just to increase their prestige. Once the prestige is great, they will panic and take no choice but to deal with the flaw in their legs as soon as possible."
"Hurry leads to mistakes. Only in this way can we follow the clues and defeat all the monsters and monsters."
"That makes sense!" That plan took care of all aspects. After thinking about it for a while, Lao Zhu was overjoyed.
"Someone is coming!"
"Pass our message! There is a discrepancy in the amount of commercial tax in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Let the second person be in charge of checking the commercial tax case in the Ministry of Household Affairs!"
"The Fourth Lao is the assistant to the Fusi of Dongjinyiwei Town. In half a month's time, we will make sure that this business tax matter comes to light!"
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"Prime Minister Li, what should we do if we are like Ming? Ask Prime Minister Li to save him and wait!" In the secret room of Li Shanchang's house, several court officials who were the masterminds gathered here in civilian clothes. When they saw Li Shanchang appeared, they rushed to greet him.
An anxious man grabbed Li Shanchang's sleeve.
"We...we!" Li Shan's beard and hair were all red, and there was anger in his brows. Seeing the group of high-ranking officials pulling and pulling shamelessly and crying like women, he couldn't help but give him a fierce slap.
He shook his sleeves and shouted: "That's enough!"
"I have already said that I am asking you to come up with a few hundred thousand taels first. Your Majesty is not familiar with economics. When you see the figures that are not too much or too little, even if you are suspicious, you will think that it is because of this time.
The property of the children of bureaucrats in the capital was confiscated, but not all properties were confiscated."
"In this case, you can take advantage of that time to transfer the property to the servants as soon as possible. You don't need to have a name. It's called 'real but no name'. It's enough to make Bidong think that the tax policy has failed and discuss it again.
The matter of treasure money."
"But I didn't expect that we, who are obsessed with money, and saw money, actually collected one hundred thousand taels and gave it to Bidong... Do we think Bidong is a fool? Or are we all fools? Even if Bidong doesn't understand the economics,
How come you can’t see such a big gap?”
"A rat's eyesight is short-sighted. It can't eat because of choking. It's hard to carve rotten wood. It's not enough for planning!"
Lao Li blurted out a bunch of insulting idioms in one breath, and then, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he leaned on crutches and began to gasp for air. Behind him, the filial son Li Qi, although he was happy that he went bankrupt because of the plan of the group, but
Seeing his father like this, he had no choice but to welcome him and gently stroked Li Shanchang's back to make his father feel better.
Does Li Shanchang really understand Lao Zhu very well? If not, the tax could be worth hundreds of thousands. I think Lao Zhu would not doubt it, and he would think that the business tax is really not profitable. After all, Lao Zhu's family is always in the third place.
Have you been digging in the land for generations, and have you ever done any business? Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, you were still bent on getting more acres of food, and you were completely unaware that business could produce benefits like gold and silver.
Wrong business has always been poorly regulated.
Because of this, in the Ming Dynasty, the merchants in Jiangnan could not lose their tail, but the prosperity of the trade was still sucking blood from the foundation of the country. Shanxi merchants even dared to betray the country and helped the Qing Tatars to stab the Ming Dynasty with a fatal blow.
Li Shanchang also missed one point, which was the greed of human nature. He fully thought that those officials were all human beings, so they would naturally know what was important and what was important, and paid enough taxes to confuse Lao Zhu's sight... but he unexpectedly let those officials
It is simply more difficult for people to pay than to cut meat.
A group of people with big families and big businesses have been amassing wealth since the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. Which family does not have nearly one million? They scraped everything together, and they were willing to give out one hundred thousand taels!
It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen's helplessness and indignation when he collected money from the courtiers were experienced by Ru Ming and Li Shanchang more than three hundred years in advance.
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