Time passes day by day, the end of autumn passes, and the beginning of winter approaches.
Chu Qing's heart has already flown to the East China Sea, but he still hasn't set off because he still has concerns about the law.
The decree on improving the treatment of soldiers and various guarantees was finally issued and spread to various places. Zhai Xiu, the Minister of Punishment, sent many officials to Beijing to supervise the implementation of the decree.
The imperial court couldn't allocate much money at all, but Lao Si waved his hand and deducted it from various taxes, silenced everyone, and then asked officials from the Ministry of Revenue to go to various places to supervise.
This method was thought up by Mr. Qiu.
Mr. Qiu is usually reluctant to use his brain, but once he does, he can at least kill two birds with one stone. Many times he starts with three birds.
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue not only supervise the use of tax money in various camps, but also inspect taxes.
Isn't it tax evasion? Isn't it embezzlement of government money? No problem, then let the officials of the Ministry of Revenue provoke conflicts.
From then on, officials and wealthy families in various places were no longer greedy for money from the court, but instead were greedy for money from military camps and troops in various places.
This means that officials and wealthy families from all over the country can no longer bribe and collude with the military as much as before. They can at most bribe some generals, but the military below will definitely not be happy. Over time, these grassroots troops will have to kill their superiors.
If the Shangguan wanted to keep his official position, or was afraid of a mutiny in the army, he could only cooperate with the officials from the Ministry of Revenue, and even fall out with the local aristocratic families. On the contrary, these soldiers were the first to be unhappy with anyone who embezzled official money.
The imperial court could not estimate the tax revenue of various places, but how could the local military not know that it was easy for local officials and wealthy families to conceal the tax from the imperial court, but it was even more difficult to conceal it from the military.
Mr. Qiu's move is actually a transfer of conflict.
In this way, you can not only monitor whether the government is in good hands and people, but also check the accounts. Not only can you check the accounts, but you can also "sow discord". As always, the three birds start.
It is worth mentioning that Mr. Qiu, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is now almost as good as a minister. He is as tired as a dog when he handles big and small things. Wei Changfeng, the minister, has completely delegated power and sometimes does not even go to the morning court.
, lived a retired life happily ahead of schedule.
When he got old, Uncle Wei realized a truth: good people cannot be officials. The better people are, the more they will suffer as officials, especially the household department, which always offends people. If you want to handle official duties well,
, a big bad guy like Qiu Wanshan has to be in charge. If he wants to corrupt officials, defeating magic with magic is the only solution.
Facts have proved that after Mr. Qiu let go, not only the aristocratic family was unlucky, but also the increasingly swollen businessmen in Beijing.
After several visits to Ma Rui, the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture, the merchants in Beijing began to have bad luck.
To control prices, no matter how much people earn, we must control prices. They can only be low but not high. Moreover, commercial taxes are becoming more and more stringent and refined.
Mr. Qiu was the first person from the Ministry of Household Affairs to realize the problem, regarding commercial tax.
At first, Chu Qing asked Nangong Ping to perfect the business tax laws once, and the merchants were indeed allowed to pay taxes on time, and more and more were paid, and the national treasury also gained some money.
But then Mr. Qiu discovered a problem, about the problem of wool coming from sheep.
The imperial court asked merchants to pay taxes, but did not ask the people to pay taxes. On the surface, it was beneficial to the people.
But in fact this is not the case. The taxes paid by merchants are actually equal to the taxes paid by the common people.
Because of the Chamber of Commerce, merchants have begun to form a group. It cannot be regarded as a monopoly, but they can share resources and work together to trick the people.
Just like a person who sells ready-made clothes, a piece of ready-made clothing costs sixty cents. A merchant sells it for sixty cents and pays the court about ten cents in tax.
There is nothing wrong with this, but after the merchants paid the tax, the price of ready-made clothes increased. The original sixty cents became seventy cents, or even one hundred cents.
Then the problem arises. The imperial court is not collecting taxes from merchants at all. It is collecting taxes from the people, because the people have to pay for these taxes.
The court does not collect taxes and merchants do not increase prices. The more the court collects, the more merchants increase prices. So who will pay for these taxes?
So after all is said and done, it is the common people who are being slaughtered.
After Mr. Qiu discovered this problem, he began to spare no effort to crack down on merchants, and sent more officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs to the Beijing Chamber of Commerce to supervise, allowing merchants to choose for themselves, either earn less and the court would get more, or the court would take a lump sum
I'll give you all the family property, and you won't be able to earn any more in the future.
It was unreasonable and against the law, but that's what Mr. Qiu did, directly threatening the merchant representatives in a loud voice.
As more and more new laws are introduced, Chu Qing is paying attention anytime and anywhere, asking about the progress and response, and also judging from the feedback information from the inspectors in various states and governments, which families are still dissatisfied and willing to take
Youth bets on tomorrow, and the lives of the whole family bet on whether Qianqiying is a vegetarian.
There are many dissatisfied families, and they are all trying to find loopholes in these new laws. Chu Qing keeps these in his heart and writes them down in his notebook. After returning from the East China Sea, if he can destroy the Ying thieves, he will
He will bring back countless wealth, and by then, he will completely sweep the family into the trash!
Who can compete with the aristocratic family, only money and food!
Chu Qing knows this truth better than anyone else.
When his wealth, the wealth of the imperial court, is so great that it can engulf the family anytime and anywhere, that is the so-called death of the family.
The first snow of early winter finally came. Chu Wensheng rode on his horse and said goodbye to Chu Qing in tears.
No one came to see him off, only Chu Qing and Fu San.
According to the court's arrangements, Chu Wensheng was to leave Beijing two days later.
Both Lao Chu and Xiao Chu have this temperament and don't like to say goodbye.
Chu Wensheng was very anxious. After going to the border, he still needed to reorganize his army. He was deeply afraid that the Golden Wolf King would die of old age on the grassland, so he wanted to chop off the old guy's head and send it back to him before the Golden Wolf King Khan died of old age.
To Beijing.
Chu Wensheng, who was riding on the horse, got off the horse again, hugged Chu Qing tightly, and patted the big boy's back gently.
Lao Chu didn't say anything. He had already said what he needed to say. This was the third time he got off his horse and hugged Chu Qing.
The rest of Chu Wensheng's life really lived on Chu Qing. His son was his only spiritual support and everything in the rest of his life.
"Dad, don't worry. Chen Yan and the Hu Girl tribe are in the East China Sea. When I go this time, I will also take the veterans of the wolf-catching army, plus Tao Ruolin and the others, Shang Yundao and the local snake Tao family. The most important thing is
What’s more, if I don’t understand what I’m doing and there’s danger, I’ll run back right away.”
Chu Qing also said this three times, but Chu Wensheng still got on the horse, dismounted, hugged him for a while, and then got on the horse again, three times.
"Okay, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Qing'er is a gentleman, a good gentleman among the people. If he fails, he must come back."
"Don't worry, the first priority is to find your mother, the second is to destroy the Japanese thieves, and the aristocratic family is the second."
Chu Qing said this just to comfort his father. The sequence was just finished. If the family is not destroyed, how to destroy the Japanese thieves.
Brushing the white snow off Chu Qing's shoulders, Chu Wensheng suddenly sighed: "I know Chang Chengyou treats you well, and you are willing to go to hell for him, but life is the most important thing, and you still have a father.
And mother, your father and mother are the most important people to you and the people who care about you the most. For your father and your mother, you must live, you must live."
"Don't worry, I know."
How could Chu Wensheng be relieved? He said rather dissatisfied: "They say they are relatives, but you are asked to do all this dangerous work, damn Chang Chengyou!"
"Oh, I am the emperor, what else can I do?"
"Emperor?" Lao Chu said carelessly: "What's wrong with the emperor? If you are willing, Qing'er, dad will take you to Nanguan, to the mountains and forests, to swallow up those Ban barbarians and unify those Ban barbarian tribes. We will also build an empire."
If the country is not powerful, let’s call it Dachu. No, no, no. If Dachu is not majestic, let’s call it Tianchu. How about that?”
Chu Qing couldn't laugh or cry.
He believed that his father could really conquer so many barbarian tribes, and he also believed that with his strength, he could build a country. The question was who would govern it after it was built. The father and son would have to ruin the country after just a few years of playing.
, and according to Lao Chu's temperament, he just built it and played with it for two years. Finally, he got a boat and continued to look for his mother all over the world.
"Okay, okay, don't make such jokes. After the child arrives in the East China Sea, I will send you a letter every ten days."
"Okay, that's good."
Chu Wensheng got on the horse again and was satisfied.
Just when he was about to raise his riding crop, Lao Chu raised a finger and said pitifully: "I will hug you again for my father. For the last time, I will keep my word, okay?"