Chapter 223 Flying Pieces of Paper

Qian Longxi and the others are not stupid, it can be seen that the matter in Shanxi is acquiesced by Chongzhen. Nowadays, public opinion is one-sided, and the streets and alleys of the capital are all talking about this matter after tea and dinner.

It is said that the increase in commercial tax is a good thing, businessmen have money, and more taxes should be levied, compared to others, the thirty taxes of businessmen are really very little. But only adding Jin Shang and not Jiangnan is a bit nondescript no matter how you look at it. And this kind of policy actually came from the center of the Ming Dynasty, what does the imperial court want to do? Even if it is biased towards Jiangnan, is it too obvious?

At this juncture, it suddenly rained in the capital. Not real rain, but a pile of flying paper. The content on the paper is interesting, especially one thing that makes everyone talk about it non-stop.

Last year's Shaanxi disaster, Jin merchants organized a million taels of silver to relieve Shaanxi, in contrast, the group of good officials in the court who loved the people in the center donated pitifully. More than one hundred taels, less than a dozen taels, Emperor Chongzhen counted it, and finally made up a donation of two thousand three hundred taels. Two thousand three hundred taels, this is what those officials want about Shaanxi.

Zhang Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, donated 50 taels of silver, but his grandson was full moon, and he invited a full moon wine, and he actually held a banquet, spending more than 5,000 taels of silver.

The list goes on and on. The people of the capital don't know much about the outside world, but Zhang Fengxiang's affairs are still very clear, Zhang Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was happy with Lin Sun two months ago, invited guests, and invited several chefs from several restaurants in the west of the city, and everyone in the capital knew about it. On that occasion, the flowing water mat was definitely more than five thousand taels.

At this time, the people of the capital were a little dissatisfied. This is the righteous gentleman in the mouth? Is this the so-called honest and good official?

Shaanxi is such a big mess, reluctant to donate, grandson's full moon wine, thousands of taels of flowers out without blinking. The question is, how much does the Ministry of Industry pay a month? Moreover, I haven't heard that Zhang Fengxiang has any big family business in his hometown, a full moon wine of several thousand taels of silver, where does this money come from?

Because of the appearance of these papers, a three-level earthquake immediately came to the court. The content on the paper is half-true and half-false, but this is the most terrifying, especially the matter of Zhang Fengxiang and others, not long after it has passed, the people of the capital have not been so forgetful that they can't remember the things for a few months. In the market, some people have already expressed their dissatisfaction with this, if it was just like this, but some ignorant students from Guozijian also ran out to get involved.

Dozens of Guozijian students spontaneously organized themselves and sat in meditation outside the Daming Gate, demanding that the imperial court investigate hundreds of officials, punish corruption, and return the Ming Dynasty to a bright future.

Punishing corruption? Find a few small fish and shrimp, kill chickens and monkeys, it's okay to make a show, you really have to investigate thoroughly, how many can there be left in the Manchu Dynasty? These are still secondary, Guozijian's students, those are the pillars of the Donglin Party in the future, how can they attack their own families? Young people are not sensible, and those in charge of the national prison are also ignorant?

The matter is getting bigger and bigger, and the cabinet is a little overwhelmed. Everyone knows who is doing the matter, and it must be something sent by the Jin merchants. These Jin merchants are also ruthless enough, the cabinet fed poison to the Jin merchants, and the Jin merchants turned their faces and sent a piece of to the imperial court.

Li Biao, Qian Qianyi, and others had to order all departments in the capital to post official documents explaining the matter of the pieces of paper, saying that the contents of the paper were all fabricated by some people. In order to increase the persuasiveness, a few ruffians were deliberately arrested, saying that these people were people who forged the contents of the paper.

However, the effect is very small, because such paper continues to appear in the streets and alleys of the capital.

Li Biao also understood that if the policy of increasing the tax of Jin merchants was not withdrawn, this matter would be over. But the policy is headed by the cabinet and agreed by the six ministries, and now it is withdrawn, isn't that a slap in the face? Li Biao and others are really a little embarrassed, this kind of thing of slapping themselves in the face has never been done.

Li Biao and others looked for Chongzhen, Chongzhen on time, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor could be a peacemaker, and persuaded the people on the Xuanfu side to stop quickly. But Chongzhen's attitude is very resolute, and he is too lazy to take care of this.

Think about it, Chongzhen didn't agree before, and the six cabinets still had to draft a resolution, but now it's hard to ride a tiger, and I think of His Majesty the Emperor. Yes, Chongzhen didn't care, Li Biao could only write a letter and send it to Sun Chengzong in Zhangbei.

Li Biao can only count on Sun Chengzong now, hoping that Sun Lao can take into account the overall situation and persuade those Jin merchants to accept it when they see it, of course, the imperial court will also suppress the matter of increasing commercial taxes in a timely manner. However, the decision to increase the commercial tax cannot be exempted, after all, the imperial court also needs to be faced.

The letter was quickly delivered to Sun Chengzong, and Sun Chengzong also shook his head with a wry smile at the content of the letter. These people cherish their feathers too much, and at this time, they still have to save face. Hmph, when you did these bad things before, why didn't you think about the face of the court?

In the court, Sun Chengzong can be said to be an alternative, he is praised as the leader of the Donglin Party, mostly because his prestige is too high. But in fact, Sun Chengzong is a very pragmatic person, who used to govern Liaodong and communicated with Wei Zhongxian. In Sun Chengzong's opinion, as long as it is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, you can try it. On the contrary, it is very undesirable for the party to fight against different parties and treat people and things differently.

Sometimes, Sun Chengzong thinks that if he hadn't been in the name of two generations of emperors, he would probably have been dug up by those people and beaten to the eunuch faction.

In principle, Sun Chengzong agreed to this taxation. Merchants are rich, especially Jin merchants and Jiangnan merchants, who are very generous under their hands, but the thirty taxes and one of the commercial taxes customized by the imperial court are very small, and it is no problem to temporarily change the ten taxes to one. can only accept Jin merchants, not Jiangnan, this partiality is too obvious. The imperial court did things so excessively, even if the Jin merchants could bear it, they couldn't swallow this evil breath.

It is also thanks to the iron ink pressure on the Jin merchants, if there is no iron ink, Sun Chengzong can hardly imagine how far the Jin Chamber of Commerce broke with the imperial court.

Sun Chengzong was disgusted with the actions of some people in the court, but he didn't want Shanxi to be too chaotic, after all, Shaanxi was still waiting for money and food reinforcements. It's just that Sun Chengzong is a little difficult to speak.

Although he is Tiemo's teacher, if he tells him to go down, Tiemo will most likely listen. But Sun Chengzong had to think about some more things, and he had been in Yunfu for a while, and Sun Chengzong knew a lot more about the affairs of Yunfu, especially the affairs of Jin Shang.

Tiemo can now be regarded as the leader of the Jin merchants, and the Jin merchants obey him, this kind of trust can be punished from interests. At this time, with a word, let Tiemo take back the order and prevent the Jin merchants from making trouble, what should be done about the previous losses?

Because the situation in Shanxi was very serious, Taiyuan Mansion relied on soldiers and horses to copy a few Jin merchants very toughly.

In short, if you don't give a satisfactory answer to this matter, even if Tiemo comes forward, I'm afraid the Jin merchants will be dissatisfied.

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