Liu Zhenghui then sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, I'll make it up, I'll make it up!" I won't miss a penny! ”

Immediately afterwards, Liu Zhenghui told how much money he had evaded taxes.

It's 20,000 gold.

Li Chengfeng felt terrible when he heard it.

I didn't expect these ministers to leak so much money just by tax evasion?

But it is also true, because these ministers are the founding heroes of the Tang Empire.

Therefore, when Li Shimin rewarded the heroes of the Twenty-four Lingyan Pavilion, he gave them pastures, iron mines, copper mines, gold mines, and so on.

At that time, these so-called pastures were just a meadow, and the so-called iron ore and copper mines were just a broken mountain.

So it's not worth a few bucks.

Now, more than ten years have passed.

The pastures, iron mines, copper mines, and abandoned factories have been developed by these ministers in good order, and the annual income is basically more than 10,000 gold.

So some of them are actually very rich and very rich.

And in order to prevent Li Shimin from knowing that he was rich, they also lied about their annual income and paid less taxes.

Moreover, I don't know when this trend of tax evasion began to become so serious.

If it weren't for the severe drought this year, the state treasury would have spent too much money to relieve the victims, and Li Shimin would not even bother to care about tax evasion by these ministers.

However, today is different from the past, when the people are in a great drought and the people are affected, these ministers are sitting on tens of thousands of gold and enjoying glory and wealth?

This is not what Li Shimin wants to see!

That's why Li Shimin sent the eighth prince Li Chengfeng to rectify this atmosphere.

Although it is said that Li Chengfeng can take forty percent of the tax money recovered.

But Li Shimin didn't feel distressed at all, because Li Shimin just wanted to rectify this trend.

……

Soon, Liu Zhenghui also instructed his subordinates to carry two large boxes, which were full of gold!

It's amazing, these ministers, just tax evasion and tax evasion are so much gold? How rich would they be?

"Xing Guogong, send someone to my mansion!"

"Yes, Eighth Prince!"

Liu Zhenghui nodded and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Li Chengfeng turned his head to look at Wei Zheng and said, "Zheng Guogong, take notes!" ”

"Okay, Eighth Prince, the old minister will write it down! Xing Guogong Liu Zhenghui, 15,000 gold in taxes! ”

Wei Zheng was memorizing the record, and his mouth was broken and broken.

"Okay, let's go, who is better to go to next?"

Just when Li Chengfeng was thinking about going to that house to collect taxes, Liu Zhenghui suddenly ran over and said, "Eighth prince, the old minister also has to report!" ”

"Oh?" Li Chengfeng's eyes lit up and said, "Okay, welcome Xing Guogong to join our tax collection team!" ”

"Okay, Eighth Prince, the old minister has decided to report, Chen Guogong is waiting for Junji! That old thief has the official salt and private taxes of the entire Chang'an City in his hands, and his tax evasion is even more serious! ”

Liu Zhenghui was furious.

Because Liu Zhenghui himself was reported by Cheng Yanjin, he thought, why didn't he report others? What about winning the favor of the Eight Princes?

In this way, maybe the emperor will blame himself!

Li Chengfengle's face bloomed with a smile, and said, "Okay, let's go, then let's go to Houjunji's mansion now!" ”

Li Chengfeng walked forward with his hands on his back, like a little adult.

Several ministers followed behind Li Chengfeng honestly.

Especially Cheng Yanjin and Liu Zhenghui, the two of them stared at each other, as if they wanted to fight on the spot!

……

In the blink of an eye, the day passed.

During this day, Li Chengfeng worked from morning to evening, and went to the homes of a total of 8 ministers of the state to find them all to pay taxes.

Basically, every country has tax evasion.

The more ones are as high as 20,000 gold, such as Hou Junji and others, and the few ones are about 1,000 gold in tax evasion, such as Qin Qiong and them.

Relatively speaking, Qin Qiong can be said to be a fair and honest minister, and the 1,000 gold money is still the tax he forgot to make up last year, and he plans to make up it this year.

However, since Li Chengfeng came to collect taxes in advance, Qin Qiong also made up for the taxes that he missed last year.

Because this is in Datang, it is not like the 21st century, where every tax will be accurate to a penny.

In Datang, it is basically manual calculation, and if you are not careful, there will be mistakes.

In addition, Li Shimin's handling of government affairs is enough for him to have a headache, where is there so much attention to the taxes paid by the ministers?

So Li Shimin just turned a blind eye, so be it.

However, as soon as Li Chengfeng came out, all the ministers suddenly showed their broken appearance.

So much so that later, many ministers even joined Li Chengfeng's tax-collecting army.

Li Chengfeng didn't even need to take out his own small notebook to read, he could let these ministers report each other, and then they obediently made up for all the previous tax evasion!

……

After a busy day of work and a day's journey, Li Chengfeng was also very tired.

When he returned to the Zhenwang Mansion, Li Chengfeng said goodbye to Wei Zheng, gasped, and walked back!

"Grandpa Wu, water, I want to drink water!"

"Yes, Eighth Prince, slave will fetch water for you!"

When Gonggong Wu saw that Li Chengfeng was back, he instantly went out to greet him with joy.

After pouring a bowl of tea for Li Chengfeng, Li Chengfeng drank it all after a few clicks.

"Eighth Prince, it's been a good day, have you eaten?"

Gonggong Wu asked with a smile.

Li Chengfeng nodded his little head and said, "I have eaten at Zheng Guogong's house!" The food was ok! ”

"By the way, Gonggong Wu, when I went to collect taxes today, did some people come to our town palace with a lot of money?"

"Yes, yes, the slaves have been arranged for you to be placed in the backyard of the Zhenwang Mansion!"

"Okay, take me to see it!"

"Okay Eighth Prince!"

Subsequently, Li Chengfeng and Gonggong Wu came to the backyard of the Zhenwang Mansion.

Li Chengfeng saw that in the corridor of the backyard, more than a dozen huge boxes were neatly placed.

Some of these chests contained 10,000 gold, while others contained several thousand gold.

Added up, there are at least 100,000 gold.

Li Chengfeng opened one of the boxes and looked at it, and suddenly a burst of golden light appeared.

"Good fellow, there are so many gold coins?"

"It's a pity that these gold are just golden beans, not similar to that kind of large gold bricks, otherwise there is so much gold, it would be really a little scary!"

Because, the alchemy industry in the Tang Dynasty was not very developed, and the gold they practiced was dark gold, and there must be many trace metal elements in it.

Otherwise, and one hundred thousand gold is not equal to one hundred thousand taels of gold.

At least, the Tang Dynasty did not have such a developed alchemy industry.