Thinking of His Majesty the Emperor who pierced the thoughts of his entire family with one sentence, Sima Yi was very puzzled.

He couldn't figure out why His Majesty the Emperor would levy a commercial tax at this time.

At this time when taxes are raised, the world has just stabilized, and the people's hearts have just stabilized, so His Majesty the Emperor is not worried about making waves again?

Isn't peace and prosperity the best option?

Why is that?

But this has nothing to do with Sima Yi.

Since the chaos in the world, his family has long changed to the mode of farming and reading heirlooms, and now he is working officialdom, and his children are all studying at home under the pressure of Sima Fang, and then looking for people to marry everywhere to try to rebuild the network of contacts belonging to the Sima family, and he has no intention of running business at all.

The reward given by the emperor was enough for his family's expenses, and Cao Cao also had friendship and patronage, and his own family also had land, so Sima didn't worry about the money at all, he just wanted to climb up to power.

Power is the most important thing.

The same is true of the Zhuge Liang family.

Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin are both officials, Zhuge is studying, waiting to become an adult, the family lives in Luoyang on Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin's two jobs, and their lives are rich, there is no shortage of food or clothing, so Zhuge Liang's clan has nothing to do with business.

They just want to be serious officials, make breakthroughs in their careers, become high-ranking officials, grasp power, and realize their ideals and ambitions.

This turmoil will not affect the Zhuge clan and the Sima clan, but it will affect many other people, including the cabinet officials.

So Cao Cao could see that some of the cabinet officials had worried expressions on their faces, their brows furrowed, as if they were worried about something.

But I have to say that in this matter, Cao Cao is happy to see it.

He is very willing, even willing to vigorously promote this matter, do his best to fight against the anti-commercial tax group, and help Guo Peng promote the adoption of this policy no matter what, so that this policy can be implemented.

Previously, Guo Peng took the initiative to summon Cao Cao, Zao Yi and Wang Cang, and explained his thoughts to them.

In order to carry out larger-scale wars and construction in the future, he had to increase the commercial tax, save an unnecessary expenditure, save money, and accumulate funds in the treasury.

The previous commercial tax turmoil was because he didn't have the energy to take care of it, so he put it on hold for the time being, and now that he has the energy to take care of this matter, he has to complete it.

Guo Peng decided to use Cao Cao, Wang Cang, Zao Yi and others as the main force to defeat the anti-commercial tax group, promote the new commercial tax policy, and successfully achieve his goal.

Cao Cao and the other three were overjoyed, and they were immediately summoned to start acting according to Guo Peng's orders.

Cao Cao moved quickly, and he was eager to see the decree of the increase in commercial taxes implemented.

Of course, this is not without reason.

Cao Cao has always regarded himself as a close confidant of the emperor, but this kind of thing needs to offend many people, how can he be easily involved?

The biggest reason lies in Cao Hong and the Cao caravan.

The main person in charge of the Cao clan's caravan was Cao Hong's clan.

And the nature of the Cao family's caravan has long been no longer the Cao family's private caravan, and the actual controller of the Cao family's caravan has long been changed, becoming Guo himself and no longer belonging to Cao Hong.

Cao Hong is now serving in the Wei Army, and there are not many things, sometimes he will personally arrange the affairs of the Cao family's caravan, and sometimes he will hand it over to those clansmen who are good at management of his team.

The entire Cao clan basically has a stake in it, and Cao Cao's side also participates in it.

Guo's side and Xiahou's side also participated in Guo Peng's arrangement, so although the Cao family's caravan was led by Cao Hong, it was actually a joint caravan jointly organized by the emperor's relatives and relatives, and Guo was the controller behind the scenes.

The funds are abundant, the industry is rich, and the business involved is very wide, and more importantly, Guo Peng can directly intervene in the issuance of administrative orders, and the Cao caravan must be completed, and Cao Hong will not dare to stop it.

Therefore, according to Guo Peng's requirements, the profitable Cao caravan had to pay a relatively heavy tax in addition to dividends and profits, which was directly handed over to the treasury.

In addition, the part of the profits in which the Guo family participates will be filled into the inner treasury and will be at the disposal of Guo himself.

Cao Hong didn't dare to say or do anything, he honestly cooperated with him according to Guo Peng's orders and paid the money honestly.

He was afraid that Guo Peng would be scared to death, so he didn't dare to make a mistake at all, he made a lot of money, but he paid a lot of taxes, and Cao Cao would tremble for a while when he learned about the amount of taxes.

But Cao Hong himself is still quite satisfied, at least he will not be punished, he will not be beaten, and he still has a luxurious life to live.

It's just a little distressing.

Coincidentally, the same is true of the Mi caravan.

The Mi caravan supported Guo Peng earlier than the Cao caravan, so it developed earlier, and was supported by Guo Peng earlier, injecting huge amounts of money into them and arranging trade routes and trade directions.

Therefore, the business engaged in by the Mi caravan can compete with the Cao caravan, and the taxes paid are naturally a lot.

However, as far as Cao Cao knows, the Mi caravan also has Guo's shares, which are very large, and the Tian family under the leadership of Guo Peng, but the actual controller is Guo himself.

Therefore, a part of the profits will also enter Guo Peng's inner treasury and be at his disposal.

It is equivalent to Guo Peng taking matters into his own hands, uniting the royal relatives and families around him, using their funds to inject into the caravan, taking himself as the core, using Cao Hong and Mi Zhu, mastering the two major caravans of the Cao family and the Mi family, and doing the business of bulk goods trading.

For example, grain, vegetables and fruits, salt, iron and wine.

The footprints have long been all over the country.

In addition to dividends, the taxes of the caravan were included in the treasury, and Guo's part was included in the emperor's treasury.

The big man behind the huge Mi caravan and the Cao caravan is actually Guo himself, he is the real controller of these two large caravans, can lead the business activities of these two caravans, and is also the biggest profiteer.

However, Guo Peng's behavior did have the effect of stabilizing prices.

Especially the most important grain, it is almost impossible for those powerful clans to rely on hoarding to raise the price of food, and it is also difficult to coax many other daily necessities, because the Cao clan caravan and the Mi clan caravan are strong.

With someone Guo as the backing, it is difficult to think that the strength is not strong.

As for what Guo Peng's inner treasury got so much money for, Cao Cao didn't know everything, he knew a little, it seemed to be for the development of the Linzi camp.

The Linzi camp is a secret agent organization that specializes in probing intelligence and collecting military information, which requires a lot of money, and Guo Peng specializes in using it to collect military intelligence and engage in counter-espionage operations.

The Linzi camp made great contributions to Guo Peng's sweeping of the world's warlords.

This is basically the consensus of all the civil and military generals who know the existence of the Linzi camp.

As for the rest, Cao Cao didn't know very well, and vaguely understood that the Linzi camp seemed to have other responsibilities.

But specifically, he had no way of knowing, and he was not a member of the staff station, because it was said that the staff station cooperated more with the Linzi battalion, and the high-ranking generals of the army also cooperated with the Linzi battalion.

However, he knew exactly how much tax the Cao and Mi caravans had to pay.

Therefore, whenever Cao Hong complained to him that he paid so many taxes while the large caravans of other wealthy families did not have to pay taxes, Cao Cao would also feel jealous and resentful.

Can these bastards not pay taxes by virtue of their background?

Why do we pay so much and you don't?

The two of them didn't dare to oppose Guo Peng, so they could only sprinkle their anger on those wealthy businessmen.

Coupled with the identity discrimination that has always been made, so when Wang Cang and Zao Yi were in trouble with commercial taxes, Cao Cao also followed in their footsteps and used his power to create momentum and fuel the flames.

Cao Cao also wanted to kill these bastards who picked up the bowl to eat and put down the bowl to scold his mother.

It's just that Guo Peng didn't say anything, and Cao Cao couldn't do anything.

Originally, he even complained a little bit about Guo Peng, but now that Guo Peng suddenly became difficult, Cao Cao suddenly felt refreshed.

Emotional Guo Peng is also in preparation!

Hahaha!

Comfortable!

When Cao Cao learned the news, he felt extremely happy, and immediately led the order to the cabinet to start arranging this matter, thinking that he would ruthlessly clean up these bastards no matter what.

Ruthlessly let them get some blood and cut a piece of flesh, so that they can feel psychologically balanced.

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