Cao Cao worked hard to promote the business tax, and Wang Cang and Zao Yi were also pleasantly surprised.

Zao Yi immediately went to count the details of the financial expenditures required by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wang Cang immediately began to vigorously promote the details of the increase in commercial taxes within the Ministry of Finance.

Wang Cang, of course, was the most excited.

To be honest, what he tried to promote the commercial tax reform a year ago was not what Guo Peng asked him to do, but what he wanted to do.

He took the initiative to ask Guo Peng if he could do this, and Guo Peng gave him an ambiguous response.

Wang Cang understood what Guo Peng meant, so he went to give it a try.

As a result, the opposition was very large, and there were even people who were ready to attack him, and they would fiercely participate in him and try to bring him down.

At that time, there were frequent wars, and Guo Peng had no energy, so he did not give any response to this matter, and treated it coldly, so the matter was closed.

Wang Cang thought that Guo Peng would not do this.

As a result, a year has passed, and as soon as this side is reunified, Guo Peng over there has begun to do it, and the speed is very fast.

Obviously, Guo Peng had long wanted to attack the wealthy businessmen, but he didn't have the energy at that time.

Wang Cang was very excited, jumping up and down to encourage the members of the department to work at a high speed and work according to the spirit of Guo Peng's instructions.

Not only did he have to do what Guo Peng requested, but he also added extra oil and vinegar, tossed a lot of details, and wanted to do it in one go, make a little more tax increase clauses, and tear off a piece of meat from those wealthy businessmen.

Not only must they eat their flesh, but they must also drink their blood, and they must give him a whole half!

Otherwise, it will not be enough to vent the anger in my heart!

Last year, Wang Cang was very uncomfortable by a group of officials, and he couldn't get the emperor's help and lost face, so he couldn't hold his head up in front of his subordinates for a long time.

This time, he's here for revenge.

He considers himself a member of the group of Guo's former officials, and is deeply appreciated by Guo Peng, as long as Guo Peng asks him to do something, he must do it, not only to do it, but also to do it more simply and thoroughly.

If Guo Peng wants to raise taxes, he will increase taxes in the middle of the tax!

Wang Cang became restless.

Anyway, he governed the family strictly, requiring the entire family not to do business, honestly cultivating and reading heirlooms, and living on the land and generous benefits rewarded by Guo Peng.

Of course, Wang Cang is not the only one who is restless, and many other people are also restless, but the reasons and goals of their restlessness are different from Wang Can.

Wang Cang is a wealthy businessman sharpening his knife, and this group of people gathered together in a panic and began to find ways to prevent the passage of the tax increase policy.

Last year, Wang Cang and others took the lead in raising the business tax, which made this group of people feel uneasy.

At that time, Guo Peng did not express his position, and it was not taken seriously, so the matter was closed, and there was no follow-up development.

But this time, Guo Peng personally issued an order, directly bypassed the part of discussing with the ministers, and directly issued this matter as a decree, which caught everyone off guard and made them unable to adapt for a while.

This is a very serious matter, and Guo Peng's tone is also quite serious.

"I was enthroned by Chan, cleared the world, unified the country, when the world was stabilized, and the people rested, but since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the former Han Dynasty, 20 years ago, the warlords have been divided, the war is connected, the land is deserted, all industries are waiting to be developed, and now the treasury is empty, and the use is tight, not a long-term plan, so the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance were ordered to formulate regulations and levy additional commercial taxes to fund the country, and there must be no mistake."

The holy decree has been given, the king's heart has been determined, what can I do?

A considerable part of this group of people is still thinking about how to spend the rest of their lives easily and happily, how to enjoy themselves, and how to live happily, but they never expected that the situation would take a turn for the worse.

Isn't it obvious that such a thing as a commercial tax is picking up their wool?

When the emperor set up the salt and iron official camp, it was precisely because the emperor did not increase the business tax and facilitated their business, so they did not block it and acquiesced in the fact of the salt and iron official camp.

But I didn't expect the emperor to have to inch in, and after the salt and iron official camp over there, he would have to levy commercial taxes here.

Isn't it enough for so many Tuntian people to squeeze you?

Salt and iron are all in the official camp, we have ceded this part of the benefits to you, you have made a lot of money, not to mention the treasury, you don't know how much money you have in your own inner treasury?

Are you still not satisfied?

You're still going to mess with us?

If we back down this time, will you just attack our manor next time?

No, no, absolutely not!

A group of people gathered together worriedly and discussed the matter in groups.

The composition of this group is not all the same, but one thing is clear.

Whether it is a scholar family or a Haoqiang family, as long as they are officials, there is no head of the family who personally does business.

No official would run a business himself.

To put it bluntly, money is a slave of power, money cannot dominate power, it was, and still is, it has always been the practice of valuing agriculture and suppressing business in Chinese history, and suppressing businessmen is an unchanging criterion.

Power is the most important thing, so fighting for power is the first priority of the imperial officials, who disdain to make money.

The tradition of light commerce since ancient times is in front of us, and no matter how much money you earn, it will be suppressed by power, but no one will destroy their future to run a business.

But as the saying goes, you can't do it without money.

If the money is used well, it will make steady progress on the road to gaining power, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Truly smart people will use money to gain power, and falsely smart people will use money to make money.

Of course, some people have no way to gain power at all, so they can only retreat to the next best thing and make money.

So in order to eat well in officialdom and go far, money cannot be less.

Up and down, give some gifts during the New Year's holidays, meaning, it is very good for the career.

Power necessarily leads to money.

Although it is not necessarily that you have money.

Some celebrities who cherish feathers, their own poor jingles, often "have no money to spare" after death, and even the coffin board has to be bought for him by friends, and then let his son carry the coffin back to his hometown miserably.

But on closer inspection, he himself is poor, but the important relatives in other people's families are different.

At that time, the society was a clan society, and there was definitely a family behind an official, of course he could be poor by his family, but was his clan poor?

If you don't understand this, you really think that those hermits are like Tao Yuanming, picking chrysanthemums and seeing Nanshan leisurely under the east fence.

At that time, the suffering of the Chinese peasants, these hermits from superior backgrounds could really stand it?

Seclusion is seclusion, but wine and meat are indispensable.

Where does the meat and wine come from?

Falling from the sky?

Naive!

This kind of thing is the traditional skill of people.

As far as Guo Peng knows, these talents under his command will not earn money personally, and they will not even allow their immediate family members to earn money in person.

The direct descendants are busy studying, learning, and traveling all over the world, and then marrying and becoming famous, engaging in nepotism, waiting to inherit Lao Tzu's power and continue to dominate.

If this kind of thing breaks out in someone's house, it will be a big scandal, it will be a social death, and it will be spurned by everyone.

Bah! Lose face! Actually run a business!

Otherwise, how come so many years have passed, and the Mi family's political power is still not ranked.

There are many Xuzhou officials who don't look down on the Mi family and don't take refuge in the Mi family, like Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin, as well as Lusu Zhang Zhao, who would rather have seniority under Guo Peng's hands than take the shortcut of the Mi family.

If you want to check the family background of these people, don't check themselves, but expand the scope to check their wives, or brothers, close friends, students, disciples, and even domestic slaves.

There are countless people who go out to do things in the name of a person, and then run a business after bleaching their identity.

Guo has grown up in such an environment since he was a child, how can he not understand the twists and turns in it?

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