When Emperor Gengyuan heard that it was beneficial to his own cultivation, he did not hesitate at all, and soon asked the eunuch to write, wrote an edict, and personally covered the jade seal.

Chen Shou carried the edict in his sleeve, and walked out of the Chunhe Hall slowly, and immediately quickened his pace, with a trace of excitement on his face.

Sure enough, as the godfather expected, the emperor agreed more happily than anyone else, and he also gave him an eye medicine and a black slap to the people of the Armed Forces Division.

However, looking at Emperor Gengyuan's obsession with cultivation, he probably didn't listen to it at all.

I have mastered an edict to collect the taxes of Hu merchants, that is, I have a cornucopia, you must know that there is a steady stream of merchants in the Western Regions, and there are Goryeo and Dongying in the East.

Even in Hebei, there are many Khitan merchants who have gone south, and the Khitan has been sinicized very much over the years, and they have slowly prided themselves on civilized etiquette.

Great Qi needs to guard against foreign races in the northwest, and also beware of the Tang Dynasty in the south. The Khitans were also overwhelmed by the rising Mongols, so the relationship between the two countries has always been good, and they carefully maintain the relationship between the two countries.

Once the Khitan and the Great Qi go to war, then the entire north is bound to be in chaos, and the Mongols, who have long been eyeing each other, are likely to take advantage of the situation to rise and become bigger.

The biggest beneficiary of the peace between the two countries is the businessmen of the two countries, especially the merchants of Daqi, who go to the Khitan to buy mountain ginseng, leather goods, animal tendons, tiger bones... Everything to bring back is sky-high. And they only need to bring some wine, porcelain and silk tea from the Central Plains to make another big profit.

Although there were often frictions and even small-scale wars in Hebei, it did not affect the exchanges of merchants. These big merchants bought off the armies on both sides, and thus monopolized the north-south trade routes, making them more profitable.

The carriage squeaked, and instead of avoiding the Summer Palace, it came to Chen Shou's courtyard.

This is a newly bought courtyard, and next to it is Wei Ning's mansion, which can be said to be very safe.

Tomorrow is the day of Chen Shou's concubine, the early lanterns in the house, the inner courtyard is from the courtyard, the two new houses in the courtyard on the right are separated by a small house to store things, and the left and right are the new houses where the red children and green children live in, and the rooms are decorated with joy.

The embroidery bed of the two people was neatly decorated, and the bed was spotless, even they themselves were reluctant to sit down, so naturally they would not let the maids help, which was all arranged by themselves for most of the day.

The boudoir of the two little girls is not big, but it is very exquisite, and the two rooms inside and outside have been carefully cleaned up by them. The embroidery bed is full of crimson in the room, and there is a bunch of flowers on the dressing table.

The two sisters sat in the courtyard holding hands, not knowing what they were talking about, covering their mouths and snickering from time to time.

Chen Shou returned to the courtyard and saw the two concubines who were about to pass through the door, so harmonious, and his mood was even better. Peach and willow green, apricot blossoms and rain, Chen Shou suddenly remembered a poem: Falling flowers are independent, and micro swifts are flying...

This grape trellis full of courtyards, if you have a hearty one-on-two...

Wonderful!

When the two of them saw him, they became shy, especially Lu'er, who was eager to hang on Chen Shou on weekdays, but now he lowered his head and was shy.

After all, it was tomorrow, Chen Shou smiled and whistled at them, making the two girls blush even more.

Chen Shou walked to the study with satisfaction and sorted out the things to be done tomorrow.

First of all, they must have a strong team of tax supervisors, otherwise even if they dare not directly resist taxes, it is still very simple to collude with the yamen to give themselves a tax evasion.

It's time to accept people again, and the team still needs to grow...

Chen Shou held his forehead and sighed deeply.

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Chen Shou was worried about receiving people, and in the council hall under the Zhongshu Gate, someone was angry.

"No! Absolutely not! Wei Yunse patted a few cases angrily, "Taxation is the foundation of my Great Qi, and I will never allow this minister and fortunate minister to get involved." ”

There were a bunch of tall documents on several cases, and they were almost knocked down by Wei Yunse, the prime minister of Great Qi.

The prime minister was furious, and of course the people below were also the same enemy, and they expressed their resolute opposition.

However, they were against it, and with the edict of Emperor Gengyuan, no one dared to openly resist the decree and disrespect.

You must know that although the old emperor is old and dizzy, he is not ambiguous in killing people.

As Emperor Gengyuan got older, there were more and more officials who were killed by him and robbed their homes, and if they wanted to rebel against the edict, no one would be frightened.

Wei Yunse looked around, looked at the faces of the people under his hands, and saw their lust at a glance.

In several confrontations, Chen Shou won, although he won very scoundrelly, but the result was there, and no one could compare with him the emperor's trust.

Since ancient times, there have been two kinds of people who have been trusted and close to the emperor, one is a eunuch and the other is a courtier.

Chen Shou's guy is precisely the donor of the four great eunuch godfathers, who can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented, a pure fortunate minister with red roots.

"What do you guys have in mind?" Wei Yunse asked in a deep voice.

The meeting hall, which was still a little chaotic, suddenly quieted down, and after a period of awkward silence, Liu Qin coughed lightly, "Enxiang, there is no good way to do it now, only to continue to use the yamen to kill him." ”

Wei Yunse was a little dissatisfied, but for a while, he couldn't think of any ideas that would work faster, so he had to nod.

"Alas, the official was negligent for a while, and after all, this kid was able to develop a climate. Although he is not very old, he is very slippery, and every time he wins, he scores a little bit and then stops. If this person has not been greedy, it will be difficult to seize the opportunity to beat him to death with a stick. Wei Yunse actually had the opportunity to completely press Chen Shou to death, but unfortunately no one took this little minister seriously at the beginning.

Now he has moved to taxes, which are the lifeblood of the bureaucracy.

Thousands of miles to be an official, why did you come?

Wei Yunse's group of officials are all children of wealthy families from all over the world, and almost all of them have a powerful family behind them.

These families controlled the taxis, farmers, merchants, etc.

Who can study, who can participate in the imperial examination, and who will take the examination are all decided by the squire. In this way, they monopolized most of the scholars, and then used the children of officials to wantonly enclose land, monopolize trade routes, suppress ordinary merchants, and control agriculture and commerce.

Chen Shou began to touch the commercial tax, that is, he touched their basic plate, which is why the council hall had such a big reaction.

Otherwise, he is clever and bewitches the emperor, what is there to be afraid of? Everyone present knew that the old emperor had run out of oil and died, and the first thing the new emperor wanted to kill was Chen Shou.

This edict suddenly put the relationship between the two sides on the opposite side of great tension, and this big war without gunpowder has already started in Bianliang.