Judging from the situation in the capital, it seems that it is just a slap in the face, in the final analysis, that is, Guo Dan has made a lot of money, which is limited to money, but if you look at it from various places, it is really a torture killing, it can be said to be an all-round hanging, various postures, and various props.

It just so happens that the timing is too right, and now it is spring, which is the season of sowing, and it is also the season of starting to pay taxes.

Before the whip law, most of the taxes were collected by the squires, but the imperial power was not under the county, and the local officials did not care much about this matter, in fact, they couldn't manage it, which led to the efficiency becoming very slow.

Since the whip law, all taxes were collected for silver taels, and the local government expanded the government to take the initiative to collect taxes in the county seat, of course, they also had to cooperate with the squire, and did not break the system.

The efficiency is faster, but the specifics still depend on the person, and if the officials have the ability and power, the efficiency will be fast, and vice versa, it will be slow.

Because there is also a problem of tax evasion, the big landlords are proud of not paying taxes, and their consensus is that they are all stupid people who pay taxes.

This is especially true of the Daimyo's Mansion, after all, it is not far from the capital, there are many powerful people, and the big landlords here are very powerful.

When the governor of the Daimyo Prefecture returned to collect taxes, he had a headache, and he always wanted to collect a little more, but he always couldn't collect them, not for the treasury, but for the local finances.

There are not many officials in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the number of officials is not very much, and the Song Dynasty is not comparable at all, but there are many officials in the Ming Dynasty, these people are not in the establishment, usually hired by the local government, there are not enough officials, this power will get out of control, there are enough officials, you need a lot of money to support these officials, this pressure is on the shoulders of the prefect.

Cheng Gui planned to cheer up this year, get some taxes from the big landlords, and replenish the blood of the local finances, if he had no money in his hands, what could he do with just two or three kittens.

Slippery County.

"Pay taxes?"

Zheng Jin, the big landlord, looked at the knife and pen officer sent by Cheng Guishi with a surprised face, as if to say, you are crazy, come to me to collect taxes, do you know who the uncle is, my brother has no habit of paying taxes.

The knife and pen officer said: "Don't worry, our lord has no choice, in order to build the Luwang Mansion, our Daimyo Mansion has also paid a lot of money, and it has not been slowed down so far." ”

Zheng Jin snorted, "What does this have to do with me. ”

Is paying taxes an obligation?

Yes, definitely.

But that's just for ordinary people.

The knife and pen official seemed to have expected it, and said unhurriedly: "In the past half a year, Zhangde Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion have cut off contact with Weihui Mansion, and the reason for this should also be known to outsiders, and our lord originally planned to do this, but our lord saw that many people benefited from this, so he didn't do it, but our lord is under a lot of pressure because of this!" ”

Zheng Jin just glanced at him, groaned for a while, and said, "Okay, I'll let people calculate how much tax they should pay first." ”

"Thank you, thank you." The knife and pen clerk gave up their hands again and again.

After the knife and pen officer left, the big butler beside Zheng Jin was curious: "Master, why did you agree to him?" ”

Zheng Jin snorted, "Didn't you hear the sound outside the strings? If we don't pay a little tax, we will use a little means to get the road to Weihui Mansion when we return, how much money will we have to lose. ”

In the past, Cheng Gui was helpless to take these big landlords, but now it is different, the reason is that the big landlords of the Daimyo Mansion, because the rise of Weihui Mansion is deeply benefited from it, and they have made a lot of money from it, and the reason for the benefit lies in the road, but this road, but in the hands of the government, as long as Cheng Gui casually stuck a river, their investment will have to be wasted.

Cheng Guishi made such a move, asking the big landlords and wealthy merchants of the Daimyo Mansion to pay some taxes, otherwise, Lao Tzu would close the road, if this tax does not increase, the road will not be closed, it will have no impact on him, he doesn't care.

And he also has a point, I bear all the pressure, you get rich, how can there be such a good thing, this cake has to be shared by everyone.

Although the big landlords verbally agreed, they immediately gathered together to discuss whether to pay or not, and if so, how much to pay.

In the end, they decided to appoint a squire to negotiate with Cheng Guishi, and they promised to pay the full tax, but they paid it once a quarter, and at the same time let Cheng Guishi promise that the road must be smooth, especially the contact with Weihui Mansion, if you break your promise, then we will not give you a penny.

In just a few months, the Weihui Mansion brought huge profits to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the flow of people doubled, and these large landowners had a monopoly on the food supply, and they also harvested many cheap goods.

The market is booming like never before.

In comparison, that tax is nothing, they have now begun to spend money to hire people, no longer oppression and exploitation, there is no way, the market is too hot, and labor has become valuable.

If you don't give money, I'll go to another house to do it, but it really can't work, I can still go to Weihui Mansion.

Cheng Guishi almost didn't laugh when he heard this request, he originally thought to himself, these people can pay fifty percent of the tax is already very good, they used to not pay taxes, and now they also took the initiative to ask to pay the full tax, and nodded busily to agree.

This is actually the collusion between capital and power, I will give you money, let your political achievements go up, you give us convenience, and everyone will benefit each other.

At the beginning, Guo Dan also thought about lobbying, but he didn't dare, he was afraid that he would not be able to control it and affect the national system.

But then again, they are all big landlords, with status, status, and Cheng Guishi is a class, if it is a businessman, then Cheng Guishi will not take care of them, pure businessmen are leeks, Lao Tzu asked you for money, do you dare not give it?

Cheng Guishi borrowed this trick, not only collected the money, but also held the power tighter, he had no way to take these people before, but now, he has a weakness in holding these people, and the weight of his words is naturally very sufficient.

He also began to prepare to show his talents, what can he do if he has power, if everyone doesn't want to do anything about him, then he can't do anything.

The Daimyo's Mansion benefited a lot from top to bottom.

According to the law of conservation of interests, if someone gains, someone will naturally get hurt.

Zhangde Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion are really evil.

Tax revenues have plummeted.

The reason is that the leeks have all run away.

They only found out today that the leek still had two legs.

Especially Kaifeng Mansion, because Kaifeng Mansion is the mansion of the vassal king, there are seven or eight big princes here, almost half of the country, a lot of land is allocated to the vassal king, but not to them, in that case, the vassal king can rebel, according to the system, the court is only a part of the tax of these lands to the vassal king, these land owners are very bitter, not only to be exploited by officials, but also to honor those vassal kings.

Many people choose not to want this land, they go to Weihui Mansion to work, 10% of it is their own, farming here, their own land, most of the income is from others.

As soon as they were gone, the fertile land would be wasted.

The government is completely dizzy, this tax can't come up, and it has to raise so many vassal kings.

At this time, those big landlords went to discuss with those officials, this land is no longer planted, it is better to let us plant, we will honor you a little bit every year.

The officials thought about it, it was the emperor who contracted Weihui Mansion to Guo Dan, which led to today's situation, and now it hurts his own family, it really deserves it, it's our, Lao Tzu is tired like a dog, and it's not pleasing yet, anyway, that's what happened, you can't be bitter about yourself, just collect the money, and then turn a blind eye. Euro eBook

A large amount of land in Kaifeng Province was annexed by large landowners or privileged people.

Because smuggling grain to Weihui Mansion is very profitable nowadays, even if they specialize in growing vegetables, they can make a lot of money, even if they hire people to farm the land, they don't have to pay taxes for this smuggling.

And the local prefect is crazy, this is related to their political achievements, and it was this group of landlords who shouted the most fiercely, but they colluded with Weihui Mansion instead.

They want to negotiate peace with Weihui Mansion now, because they see that the Daimyo's Mansion is very nourishing, but this is all because they have closed the road, since they can't be contained, it is better to open up, but the local scholars don't agree, we can't give in and resolutely resist.

But they just shouted, there was no solution.

This is very embarrassing, whether it is Kaifeng Mansion or Zhangde Mansion, it is difficult to ride a tiger.

When they were thinking about this tax, the tax bills of Weihui Mansion had already been sent to the capital, and Weihui Mansion collected all the taxes a year ago, and they were only responsible for the points, as for whether it was more or less, they didn't care.

And today's Weihui Mansion has no air traffic management of these things at all, and there is no New Year's Festival in the entire Weihui Mansion, because too much capital has entered Weihui Mansion, and too many people have entered Weihui Mansion, and everyone is so busy that they forget about the New Year.

From the end of the year to the beginning of the year, the workshop grew like spring shoots, and it was all made of bricks and tiles.

Because the tax on farmland conversion is too high, this has led to a very deserted place where it used to flourish, and if you see a large area of arable land, you can basically only see hired farmers working there.

In the past, the barren land, the barren land, was very lively, and a large number of craftsmen built workshops there, and those lands were too cheap, and many counties sent them directly, so you just threw money at them.

Chen Ping's construction team directly started the developer, and now they are not waiting to cooperate with others, but directly take the land, and then build a workshop, build it and then sell it, all because the land price is too cheap, and they are not afraid that they will not be able to sell it.

Of course, they have also done research to know what kind of workshop to build, and it is easy to sell.

Not only that, the education industry in Weihui Mansion has also begun to rise, most of which is because of the arrival of those Jiangxi businessmen, and I don't know why, this Jiangxi businessmen pay more attention to education than businessmen in other places, after they came here, they gave a lot of donations to those temples, and at the same time quietly said to those monks, if there are good seedlings, they will be sent to me.

Other businessmen are not stupid, now everyone is short of literate talents, because the economy of Weihui Mansion is different from anywhere, it is completely a production base, which must get in touch with the outside, then this needs to send people outside, and it must be literate and literate, and the wealthy businessmen also began to reach an agreement with the temple.

Those abbots saw that it was really Amitabha, this can make money, and this money is earned, and Guo Dan has nothing to do with half a dime, Guo Dan is also one of the donors, then you have to work hard, if they cultivate better talents, the more this donation, they began to recruit talents to teach, they are now afraid that they will not be able to make a good hand, the pressure has increased sharply, and they only recruit lay disciples in order to attract talents.

In other words, if you come here to be a monk, you don't have to shave your face, you can eat meat and drink wine, you can marry and have children.

Many poor scholars went to the temple to teach, where they could teach, and they could read themselves, and the key thing was to earn money.

This is where the education industry begins to expand.

Anyway, as long as there is capital coming in, everything is fast.

And all this, through a book of accounts, will slowly be reflected in the capital.

Qianqing Palace.

Wanli rubbed his eyes, then stared at the ledger in his hand, rubbed his eyes again, and looked again, repeating this action repeatedly.

After a long time, Wanli slowly put down the account book, and then asked Guo Dan, who was standing in front of him, "Two hundred thousand taels?" ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, yes, this is the net profit after deducting the expenses of Wei Hui Mansion." ”

Wanli blinked and said, "Didn't you say that I earned as much as 90,000 taels?" ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Wanli only felt incredible, and said: "But didn't you say before that it was only sixty or seventy thousand taels?" ”

When did your tone become only sixty or seventy thousand taels, but I don't carry this pot. Guo Dan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, it was not a lowly position at that time, it was counted by the household department, and the lowly position was said at the time, and it was not much worse, and the specific situation had to wait for Weihui Mansion to come out." ”

When Wanli heard this, he couldn't help frowning and said: "This household department is really getting more and more useless, the tax system of Weihui Mansion is so simple, they can all estimate wrong, it is really unreasonable, I really want to contract the household department to you." ”

This is definitely a sincere sentence, the household department will be contracted to Guo Dan, and the treasury is completely controlled by him.

Contractor Department? Guo Dan was frightened, he didn't want to contract the household department, and he couldn't do this work, so he hurriedly explained: "The humble officials looked at the accounts carefully, in fact, the household department did not make a mistake, but it also included the deed tax that they didn't know, some rented out post stations, mansions, including coal, iron, bricks and tiles, and the savings of fire consumption and transportation, so it was tens of thousands of taels more." ”

They didn't know that the household department estimated that it was only 50,000 taels, but in order to show that Guo Dan made a lot of money, he asked for renegotiation, so he threw 10,000 taels higher.

Wanli nodded slightly, and suddenly asked, "By the way, have you shown this account to others?" ”

Guo said lightly: "I've seen it in the inner son." ”

Wanli frowned and said, "Even if it's okay this time, she won't be able to watch it in the future, she can only show it to me." ”

"Obedience."

Having said that, Guo Dan expressed doubts in his heart, can this be hidden?

You know, this is just the beginning, and it will be even more exaggerated in the future.

Wanli said again: "Guo Dan, you have done a good job in Weihui Mansion, I plan to let you contract another state capital, what do you think?" ”

Although Zhang Cheng had already hinted to him that it was difficult, Wanli didn't care, he had to continue to make money like this, and he must not stop there.

"Huh?"

Guo Dan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I can't be busy with my humble duties now, where can I still have the energy to contract another state capital." ”

"This capable person works hard!" Wanli said.

You're going to exhaust me! Guo Dan wanted to cry without tears and said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to contract, you have to slow down, now everyone goes to Weihui Mansion, if you want to contract another state capital, this will affect Weihui Mansion."

He believes that even if he wants to contract the state capital again, he has to wait until Weihui Mansion is completely saturated, and look at the supply and demand side, if the demand is greater than the supply, then he can contract another state capital, but if the supply and demand are already saturated, then there is no need, and he will not make much money by contracting again, which may be counterproductive. ”

Wanli said seriously: "I have a vast territory in the Ming Dynasty, and Weihui Mansion is only the smallest Texas Mansion in Henan Province, how can it be satisfied...... But I know you're busy, so I'll wait, but you'll have to be prepared. ”

The implication is that as long as there is an opportunity, we will contract.

"Yes, I know."

Guo Dan wiped his sweat, it's really bad, this fat house is even better than me.