Guo didn't believe that the money he gave them was really enough for them to spend.

I won't be naïve enough to think that a high salary can really support you.

Gaining an inch is the essence of human beings, and insatiable greed is the normal phenomenon.

Although the salary he gives is indeed not low, there are indeed officials who live on a living on a sluggar now.

But only a few of these people have really good character or really low material needs, and most of the rest are relatively small in power and have no time or ability to develop downlines to run the industry to make money for themselves.

Then they can only rely on eating and running business, and they don't have the resources to do it.

According to Guo Peng's own statistics, in the current group of officials in the Wei Empire, there are definitely no less than half of the people who rely on commerce to give themselves blood transfusions, and definitely more than half.

There are a lot of generous things in front of him for him to see, and according to the iceberg principle, he can't see absolutely more.

This introduction of a commercial tax was against more than half of the imperial officials.

The more they are levied, the greater the blow to this group of officials, the more blood they suck, and the stronger their resistance will be.

Is there such a thing in the world?

In the past, everyone was lying on the empire to suck blood, but now it's better.

Times have changed, the empire has long tentacles, and the roundabout attack is inserted into the back of everyone's butt to suck blood.

Do I suck myself?

Is it me sucking blood or is the empire sucking blood?

The officials were a little confused.

After being stunned, they heard that this policy was mainly promoted by Wang Cang.

And now, that bastard Wang Cang is jumping up and down to encourage the Treasury officials to devise rather vicious tax policies aimed at them, to suck blood out of them.

Immediately, they were furious, and they couldn't wait to immediately go to the Ministry of Finance and eat Wang Cang alive.

It's infuriating.

This bastard is against us!

I can't make money myself, and I won't let us earn it?

They want to do it right away.

But looking at the direction of Miyagi, thinking of the fierce emperor sitting in Miyagi, the emperor who had just ruled the world, they couldn't help but feel afraid.

That's the emperor who rules the world, the emperor who holds the power, it's his will, can everyone really oppose it?

Can you really fight?

The things he supports, the things he decides, it seems that there is nothing that cannot be done at present.

The officials were worried and wanted to oppose it, but they did not dare to oppose it directly, for fear that the emperor would use them to cut them, and after thinking about it, they reached a consensus.

You can't attack, you can only outwit.

Playing the weak card, playing the emotional card, by telling the suffering of the merchants, describing the difficult life of the people, and indirectly extending to the injustice of the imposition of commercial taxes, in order to continuously convey everyone's will to the emperor.

And then by the way, attack Wang Cang, attack Cao Cao, and kill them through everyone's political means, which can also convey everyone's will.

Just like a year ago.

In a word.

Be sure to keep everyone's money bags.

We are the only ones who suck blood, and we are not sucked by blood!

So Guo Peng soon received a list from some officials, and some of the contents of this table could be called a confusing behavior in the world in Guo Peng's opinion.

Of course, most of them are all kinds of grievances to the wealthy businessmen, which is particularly interesting.

Among these acts of human confusion, the above table of Cui Qu, an official of the Ministry of Industry and a member of the Ministry of Yu, is particularly symbolic.

He is a member of the clan of Cui Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and it stands to reason that he should have some academic standards, and Cui Yan also recommended this person, saying that he was very talented, and tried to push him into the cabinet to become Guo Peng's close minister.

As a result, he actually called the money earned by those wealthy businessmen as hard-earned money.

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Hard-earned money?

Guo Peng didn't understand what this guy meant for a while.

Helping people whitewash won't be able to do this, right?

Do I really look that stupid?

Cui Qu said that they risked their lives and sweated hard to earn money, which was made by blood and sweat, and it was not easy to come by.

Many people have paid with their lives for this.

Exhausted, fallen, sick, starved, robbed to death, every trade route was full of the blood and tears of merchants.

They are generally miserable.

Some people leave home with still alive parents, but when they return home, their parents have died of illness and have not even seen each other for the last time.

Some wives who have left home are still expecting him to come back, only to find out when he comes back that his wife has remarried because he has not heard from him for too long and thinks he is dead.

Some people are even more miserable, when they leave home, their wives are not pregnant, and when they come home, the children are three years old, and he has not been able to catch up with the joy of the birth of the child.

In this way, separated from his family like this, and relying on the money earned by selling his life, does the emperor still have to increase the business tax?

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Guo was suddenly full of question marks.

After pondering for a long time, Guo realized that what he wanted to express should be that it takes a long time to take a long-distance business route, rather than a matter of the child's age, which is a figure of speech, an exaggerated metaphor, not reality.

Right?

Otherwise, this person is really a bit miserable.

At the end of the recital, Cui Qu made a summary-

"The matter of competing with the people for profit, the ancient sages are not yet done, Your Majesty is eloquent and strategic, and everything is based on the ancient sages as the benchmark, don't you understand the hearts of the ancient sages? Does Your Majesty also want to do this kind of thing to compete with the people? The minister privately thinks that this is undesirable, and please think twice. ”

Well, it sublimates the theme all of a sudden, and goes straight to the heart of the matter.

Guo nodded with satisfaction and took this person's name to heart.

Qinghe Cui Qu!

Cui Yan, you can!

Guo Peng smiled very happily.

This recital is one of the more representative of many recitals, and it is very interesting, which makes Guo very happy after reading it, so he has a deep memory.

There are also some recitals that are also very innovative, quoting scriptures and classics, pulling out the famous sayings of Confucius and distorting and explaining them, and then drawing their own conclusions that it is not right for Guo to levy commercial taxes.

This group of people relied on the power to interpret the classics in their hands, and acted recklessly, bullying Master Confucius.

It feels like Guo someone is doing reading comprehension in his previous life, and no one knows what the author himself means, and of course it doesn't matter, what matters is the standard answer.

These unscrupulous disciples and grandchildren.

Guo has already decided to clean them up on behalf of Old Master Kong, and he can't let Old Master Kong die blindly.

People are obviously Shandong men with a personality like fire, love and hate, and you are stunned to make the old gentleman look like a yin and yang!

But that's not the end of the story.

The officials' countermeasures are not over.

This first wave is obviously just a test to see if the emperor's will is resolute and whether Wang Cang and others are effective.

Six days later, the new commercial tax bill jointly formulated by the Ministry of Finance and the cabinet was put in front of Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Jin happened to enter the palace to greet Cao Lan, and by the way, he visited his brothers and sisters, and then came to Guo Peng's side to greet him, and Guo Peng asked Guo Jin to read the draft with him.

Look at it and drink, this guy!

Not to mention Guo Jin, Guo himself was a little surprised.

Cao Cao and Wang Cang are going to dig up the ancestral graves of those wealthy businessmen!

Guo Peng's initial goal was only to achieve the fact of toll booths, to set up toll booths on various traffic arteries, and to take a cut of these wealthy businessmen from the upper reaches of the commodity economy.

In this way, if the commercial tax is collected, it will not slaughter them so hard that it will damage the vitality of commerce, and a delicate balance between taxation and commercial vitality can be reached, which is acceptable to everyone and will not cause widespread resistance.

Guo still has some preparation and ideas, and he is basically satisfied with achieving this goal, and this stage is considered a success.

As a result, I didn't expect Wang Cang and Cao Cao to join forces to play so big.

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