This acquaintance is none other than a backbone of the Heaven and Earth Society's Statistics Department.

is called Li Yuanzhong, and he is about the same qualification as Lin Wenbiao, director of the Statistics Bureau.

Li Yuanzhong also came out of the old Linzi Liuzi Gang, and he had already reached the level of stationmaster at that time.

Li Yuanzhong's entry into the palace was arranged by Wei Bao, but Wei Bao did not force anyone to do some cruel things.

For example, what is it to yourself, you have made yourself a man who is not complete.

Webel doesn't do this kind of thing, and it doesn't need to.

If there is a shortage of eunuchs, it is not difficult to get them.

Many poor people who make themselves not complete men, after getting them, there is still no way to enter the palace, because entering the palace is also related and has to be chosen.

If you need to send people to the palace, you can get a few such people.

At the beginning, Wei Bao sent a few people.

Li Yuanzhong and the other Bai Yougen all made themselves incomplete, and they were already incomplete when they were in the Liuzi Gang.

In addition, there was another eunuch by Wei Zhongxian's side, and the other Song Sangou was later arranged in the Xinwang Mansion through Li Chengneem, but no one knew that he had anything to do with Li Chengnei.

Therefore, the Heaven and Earth Society's Statistics Office was very successful in breaking into the secret faction in the palace and Zhu Youzhen's side.

As early as Wei Bao had not yet made a career, he did this.

Of course, Wei Bao himself also contributed to this, because Wei Bao has always attached great importance to intelligence.

As the strength of the Heaven and Earth Society Statistics Bureau becomes stronger and stronger, through resources, these people gradually come out, for example, Li Yuanzhong is now a eunuch who can follow the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao, which is very good, at least a medium eunuch, or the kind that is more valued and has a good relationship with Wei Zhongxian.

Otherwise, the eunuchs who could stay with the emperor were all very strictly selected.

Wei Gonggong is a native of Suning, Beizhili, and the backbone of the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu, Wei Guangwei, Feng Quan and others are also from Beizhili.

However, at this time, there was no political group of eunuchs at all, and Wei Gonggong did not have so much influence.

I am afraid that the reason why Zhuang Tian, who was a relative of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was mostly in Beizhili.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty pre-levy the next year's thirty percent of the additional faction.

In the 7th year of the Apocalypse, in addition to collecting 70% of this year, 30% of the next year was pre-levied.

This is equivalent to the imperial court temporarily collecting more than 1 million taels.

In addition, since the 3rd year of the Apocalypse, the Liao Salary Levy in the four provinces of Chu, Gui, Shu and Yunnan has been used to suppress the Extravagant Rebellion, so that the income of the Tian Fu Jia Pai in the Liao Salary Special Fund has been reduced by 820,000 taels.

The amount in the third year of the Apocalypse is 3.48 million taels.

Until the third year of Chongzhen, in order to cope with the new situation of increasing troops after the change of his own country, the Ming court increased the number of 0.003 taels per mu under the suggestion of Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department.

The so-called miscellaneous items are the general name of Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse, and Wang is the general name of a variety of names proposed by the Donglin Party to increase income.

Wang Yingjiao said in the recital that the annual increase in income could reach 2.96 million taels. It was implemented that year, but the specific quota of each province was not specified, and a total of 1.16 million taels were levied.

Apocalypse received only 650,000 taels in 2 years.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the specific share of each province was stipulated, of which the miscellaneous income of the four provinces of Chu, Gui, Shu, and Yunnan was also suppressed and used for the rebellion of Lu'an, and the other provinces had a total quota of 1.81 million taels.

According to the share of the 3-year Apocalypse, it is explained that the miscellaneous items include the "sub-grain" income of Weisuo Tuntian, which did not participate in the Liaotian endowment and distribution before, and now receives an additional 230,000 taels.

Preferential exemption of grain, Ming Dynasty officials, people with scientific names, Confucian scholars who served the government, officials and others respectively enjoy the privilege of exempting themselves from errand and exempting different amounts of land endowments, and now in addition to Xiucai, they will be charged as appropriate, a total of 444,000 taels.

This is clearly what is called "taxing the gentry".

In fact, the above two items will continue to increase the income from the field endowment.

Pingliang warehouse is a reserve warehouse of local prefectures and counties, which usually stores a certain amount of grain and silver every year, and is used for relief in times of famine. Half of the income is now handed over to the central government. A total of 146,000 taels.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the manpower required by the local government was forcibly transferred from the private sector in the form of "service", and later the compulsory was gradually abolished, and the local government increased the salary, that is, "labor and food silver", and hired from the private sector.

A part of the "food and industry silver" was handed over to the central government. A total of 679,000 taels.

Mafu Hou: Similar to the food and service bank, it is a part of the salary expenses of the groom and others who serve the magistrate and other people to the central government. Nearly 100,000 taels.

The governors and governors of the provinces go to the local government as central officials to run errands, and there is no direct local financial revenue to support, and the local government must allocate office funds according to the rules, and the governors have the right to fine the case, which can also be used as funds.

A part of these funds is now handed over to the central government, totaling 198,000 taels.

The central government competes for revenue from local finances.

The real estate transaction tax rate is 2%, and the amount is levied at nearly 290,000 taels.

The pawn shops in each province are divided into 5 classes according to their assets, and the annual taxes range from 10 to 50 taels, with a levy of 195,000 taels.

The above two items are taxes levied on the two major profiteering industries of finance and real estate, and they do not affect the "industry".

The public was allowed to donate 130 taels of silver to buy the identity of the student, but there was no fixed amount. The student can not pay the silver, which is actually selling a tax-free privilege.

The prescribed tax amount is very detailed, but the local financial capacity is limited, and it can only pay more than 600,000 taels a year.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the household department began to make a budget and re-set the miscellaneous items to 970,000 taels, which was obviously a helpless move in the face of reality.

This budget subtracted the "superintendent's military salary and patrol public expenses" that could not be levied before, but Chongzhen's four-year budget reappeared in this item, and began to levy more than 40 taels of "preferential exemption for students", starting with the students who were still exempted from military service before.

The additional levy of the salt class was proposed by Yang Sichang, the official in charge of the Liao salary in the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse.

At that time, the Ming court issued the "Outline Law", stipulating that a group of fixed merchants would subscribe to salt quotations every year.

Originally, the businessman had to pay the "surplus salt silver" when subscribing to the salt introduction, in fact, the government lost part of the control of the stove households and salt fields, but passed the money on to the businessman, and now the subscription of the salt introduction has to pay additional Liaoyu, and there are 320,000 taels of "salt Yin" in the Liaoyu data in the 3rd year of the Apocalypse, which may be the amount set in the first year of the Apocalypse.

In May of the 4th year of the Apocalypse, 547,000 taels of salt were levied, but the duration of this levy is unknown, and the later narrators of Liao did not mention this levy, which is likely to be under other names, such as the construction of the three major halls and the repair of the emperor's mausoleum.

Since then, there have been some successive levies, the actual amount of which is unknown.

In the third year of Chongzhen, the previous salt tax was included in Liaoyu, and the amount was increased to 940,000 taels.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a banknote customs in the waterway transportation distribution center, and passing ships were taxed according to the amount of cargo. Some banknotes also collect the "commercial tax" levied on the goods of merchants at the same time.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, 65,000 taels were added on the basis of the original amount of 345,000 taels, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, 2 banknotes were added, and 135,000 taels were levied.

This was the only increase in taxes in the last three years of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

As for the industrial and commercial tax collected by the Duke of Wei, except for the 135,000 taels, there is really no trace to be found.

Wei Gonggong instructed people to falsely accuse Hui merchants of confiscating family property for "sitting on stolen goods", but unfortunately it was for the purpose of repairing the three major halls, which was originally another unnecessary expense.

In about 2 years of Chongzhen, another 50,000 taels were added. Chongzhen increased the total amount to 336,000 taels in 3 years. In the following 13 years, an additional 200,000 taels were levied.

On the whole, the Tianfu levy was a policy set in the last years of the Wanli Dynasty, and it was not Donglin who was in power at that time.

Miscellaneous, salt taxes, and tariffs were all set during the reign of Donglin in the early years of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

As for the Chongzhen period, miscellaneous housing transaction taxes, pawnshop patriotic donations, salt taxes, customs duties, etc. not only continued to be collected, but also increased.

On the contrary, in the three years after the apocalypse, except for a temporary increase in land endowment and an increase in tariffs, it seems that no taxes have been raised.

In recent years, Gonggong Wei has increased the salt tax, salt is a monopoly product, which will only be passed on to the people, promote private salt, mint inferior copper coins for profit, wantonly make false accusations of sitting on stolen goods, sell the privilege of riding horses in the Forbidden City, and collect the treasury silver in various places.

Miscellaneous items are to pinch the neck of the local government, and this is to directly dig out the local government's family fund, all under the banner of "helping the great work", just to build the three major halls for the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

This temple was suspended in the early years of the Apocalypse, reopened in February of 5 years, and was completed in August of 7 years, and then Xizong died, and it was completed in two and a half years, which can not be described as unpleasant, consuming 5.95 million taels of silver, and the total expenditure of Liao salary for nearly a year.

The cadres of the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu and Sun Jie, did the work of "inspector work" in the last years of the Apocalypse.

Wei Gonggong also had a trick of "donation", at the beginning he called on the royal palaces to donate, which was not enough, after all, he had a fixed income, and later assigned the task to the incumbent officials, so he made many "private factions".

Originally, it was not possible for officials to raise taxes in their jurisdictions without authorization, but now that they have this reputation, they can at least prevaricate within the organization.

In addition to recognizing Li Yuanzhong, Wei Bao didn't recognize the other people around Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse.

There was actually an official among them.

This is unusual in Wei Bao's opinion.

Because Zhu Youxiao didn't even bother to meet with cabinet ministers, let alone ordinary ministers.

This minister is wearing a five-grade court uniform, which is obviously of a very low grade, and it stands to reason that he is not qualified to discuss matters in this kind of platform place.

"Xiaobao, you're here." Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse said very enthusiastically: "Come here." ”

Wei Gonggong collects commercial taxes and speaks according to the historical data, don't use your ass brain to make up for the fifth year of the Apocalypse, in October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Li Qiyuan, the secretary of the household department, to collect public opinion: 1. Temporarily resume taxation, discuss the direct management of the provinces according to the investigation of the customs and Tianjin in the territory, and rush on water and land, according to the example of the 27th and 8th years of Wanli, levy tithes in the merchants, and the matter will be stopped, and the officials will still be carefully selected, and harassment is strictly prohibited; 1. Temporarily accept and attach, and order the children of the folk handsome to pay one hundred and thirty taels of silver, and Huai Chong is attached to the school, and after each student receives silver, the state and county apply for detailed learning, and send them to school according to the drum music. 1. Widen the tuntian, order the closure of all the anointed land inside and outside the door, try to plant, and it is in the province, and the road is ready to check the original amount of the tun land, see that there is a number of grain levied today, and the mu is not enough to cover the original amount, see who occupies the seed, and check the old land on the acre, and there is no insinuation that the new reclamation department will be made, and the work will be made within three months. 1. Applying for tea horses, ordering hoarders to sell tea and tea merchants to sell tea and sell goods and other items, and to comply with the regulations, check and approve them one by one, and there must be no entrainment, and Fang Huai will be released. seized private tea and boats, cars, animals and other things, and entered the official with a hammer; First, the affirmation of the salt law, recently there is a rape Wu Weishun to discuss the new law to sell the nest to refer to the business, for a while the businessman was scattered, fortunately the Ministry of the article of 300,000 consultation, and the business heart is a little fixed, but there are also difficult people within 300,000, today the amount will be 1, 200,000 to sit on the shipping division, as the annual casting, every year will be cast interest quarterly dissolution, thought to be the accumulation, will still be Wu Weishun pay the salt minister punishment. However, when it is heard that there are those who have not been levied in the provinces and are still in the treasury, and there are those who are still in the treasury despite the imperial court, and those who are still levied by the prefectures and counties of the prefectures, and borrowed them for other expenses or to offset the public expenses, they will be begged to be checked according to the number of officials to relieve the ministers. Purpose: The funds are chiseled and feasible, the tax is levied as usual, and the commission is honest and can be managed by the officials. Neither abusing the poor, nor is it a road, and the provincial direct promotion of the school officials is to comply with the agreement, and the examination is one. The actual number of grains in Tuntian, according to the management of the tun try to check, according to the limit of the department. Their levy, requisition, sowing, and distribution of money and grain have been exempted, and there is no need to levy them. Tea horses, salt laws are held in accordance with the proposal, there is a false text to the story of the story, your department will participate in the re-treatment. In October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Li Qiyuan, the secretary of the household department, proposed to temporarily resume the tax according to the story of the 27th and 8th years of Wanli, which was agreed by Xizong, which was the so-called eunuch party of some spiritual eunuchs YY. However, after that, because of the earlier February of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the three major halls resumed work, and a large number of palace workers urgently needed materials to enter Beijing through various means, and Ming Xizong exempted this part of the goods from taxation in November of the fifth year of the Apocalypse. From there, he still ordered the household department to carry out all internal and external access control, and all palace materials were tax-exempt as usual. In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Wushen uploaded to the household department: The tax is temporarily restored, and the money is urgently needed, when the merchants gather at the Guanjin ferry, the Lugou Bridge and the people who sell firewood and rice everywhere are exempted from it, and there is no need to be a nuisance. In April of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Bingshen uploaded to Shuntianfu: There has been a clear decree that coal and rice in Beijing are responsible for exchanges with merchants, and taxes are not allowed. Today, when it is heard that Tongzhou is still collecting levies, the government will immediately prohibit it, and it must not be hazy and disturb the businessmen. If the above is only Ming Xizong's ban on taxation of some places and items for special reasons, then a month later, Cui Chengxiu, a backbone member of the eunuch party, threatened Ming Xizong with his resignation to abolish the new resumption tax that was restored half a year ago, and obtained the consent of Ming Xizong. Purpose: The work is urgent, why should you go because of your words, it is advisable to go out of service immediately, and do not resign. In the section of taxation, the household department is at a loss because of the army, the peasants are poor, and it is difficult to increase the acres of land. If the materials are in arrears, they will be instructed to strictly urge them to be relieved, and there is no need to send officials. Donate to help workers, the canon can be based, below the Beijing Shangshu, in the county officials above the state, all donate salaries for one year, and the rest are exempted. A month later, Ming Xizong officially issued a decree to all places, and the new resumption of business tax in October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse was not levied in the sixth year of the Apocalypse. However, the righteous supply is not self-sufficient, and the salary of the Liao can not be slowed down, and the people's strength is limited to this number, which is enough to increase the distribution will be due to the positive amount, and the situation is also a sign, and the bones are exhausted and the marrow is not clear. Instead of dividing the people's efforts in the long distance and losing the positive amount of this year's new salary, how can the people be combined with the positive amount of the new salary, and the responsibility should be light. The book says: The people are the state, the state is solid, and the ministers do not precede this. Decree: The suspension of taxes is decreed, and it is advisable to issue a thoroughfare as soon as possible, so that merchants can look at Guanjin as a happy place. To bring money and food, the people's power is limited, before the first year of the Apocalypse, all the exemptions, those who have been levied in the official will be deducted and returned to the people, and those who invade the scribes are not allowed to sprinkle the flowers again. This year's positive quotas must be completed as soon as possible, and the list will still be published, so that the people can see and hear together, and know the intention of the court and the people to rest. On the 17th day of the sixth month of the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong officially abolished the newly opened business tax that was restored in October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse at the suggestion of Li Qiyuan, the secretary of the household department, which was less than a year in total. On September 7, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the governor of Fujian, Zhu Qin, the right capital of Fujian, said: Recently, the decree was made to stop the tax, and the courtiers dared not to look up. However, the tax in Fujian is divided into the old and new Haicheng foreign tax, and the Fuzhou tax department has never levied to pay the soldiers, and Penghu Xiang is the Hongyi stealing base, now building a city to increase the army, the far sea is long, like a heavy town, the army can not be withdrawn, then the foreign tax is not out, and the corresponding still follows the previous order, in order to help the urgent need. If Min'an, Zhuqi and other passes, then the new tax in the Wanli period has also stopped, and there is no room for discussion, but before the order has been collected more than 4,000 gold in Min'an and other taxes, Fu Meng retained the new salary, and fixed out the special grace. If you are troubled by great work, you should still be relieved, and you will not dare to covet it. Purpose: Haicheng foreign tax and Fuzhou tax department have always levied to pay soldiers, Huai will continue to do the same, and shall not be exempted from the new tax. He has received more than 4,000 taels of silver from Min'an and other taxes, and he is still working on solving it to help the great work. Fujian Province received a total of only 4,000 taels of new commercial taxes, and it was used to build three major halls. After that, the Ming court successively dismissed other commercial taxes in October of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Wushen Town, guarding the mountains and seas, and Tao Wenyan, the eunuch who guarded the mountains and seas: the annual wood tax and other silver in Panjiakou, Taolinjie, Linglengkou and other places outside the Guanhai were more than 4,000 yuan. Purpose: The trade of the merchants at the border is good, and the tax and silver at each mouth are not properly supplied, so as to show the court's compassion for the merchants. In the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Xin Mao exempted Tongguan and Xianyang from commercial taxes, and Zhuang Qian was invited from Shaanxi to patrol it. In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Weng Yuan, a businessman in Zhezhi and other places, exempted the business tax of the Yaowang Temple in Juzhou, and asked for donations to build a workshop, so as to make a name for Zhangren, Xu Zhifang, and show virtue and beauty. From the above historical data, it can be seen that during the Apocalypse, there was no Wei Gonggong who specifically oppressed merchants and plucked the feathers on merchants, on the contrary, Wei eunuchs and their accomplices were exempted from a lot of commercial taxes. As for the Wei eunuch's collection of mining taxes, it is even more nonsense, everyone knows that the topic of mining is almost a forbidden topic in the Apocalypse Dynasty, whoever mentions mining will be severely reprimanded by Ming Xizong, please see the historical materials on October 9, the first year of the Apocalypse, the right guard of the government army, the hundred households Chen Youji, please open the mine, and order to pay the edict to govern it. There is a succession to behead, and conspire with the Imperial Horse Prison Nei Liang Yun Nanjing Pure Army. This junior wants to learn from his predecessors to instigate Wanli to open a mine in general to instigate Ming Xizong to also open a mine, he probably does not know that Mingshenzong before his death edict to abolish the mining tax, Xizong and his father before the succession to the throne with the prince's decree to clearly remove, Xizong after the succession to the throne has repeatedly ordered the mining tax has been abolished, but the result hit the muzzle of the gun, was beheaded by Zhu Youxiao. Some people will say that this is the early period of the Apocalypse Dynasty, so let's see how the period of Gonggong Wei was in the fifth year of the Apocalypse on September 14, the imperial history of Yang Xin, and the new period was sparsely opened. Yang Xinqi is not familiar with things, so he will not be investigated. It seems that Ming Xizong is the real eunuch party, and his heart is in the first three months of the seventh year of Donglin Tianqi, Li Chengzuo, the marquis of Fengcheng, Shu Chen Sanyi: first, the three prefectures of Jiangxi and Ganji still eat Huai salt; 1. Mining pearl ponds and opening copper mines to fund drum casting. Purpose: The pearl pond and copper mine have been banned for a long time, how to discuss mining to disturb the place. Whether the salt of the three prefectures such as Nan'an in Jiangxi should all belong to Huai, the ministry has discussed and played a proper role. The rear part of the reply to Ji'an to eat Huai salt, from it. If you see it, whoever dares to mention mining, Ming Xizong will reprimand him. On May 17, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Li Yongzhen, the official eunuch in charge, asked: After the mouth of the silver mine cave was sealed, begging was strictly forbidden to keep it for a long time. Decree: According to the performance, the mine cave has been sealed, and the mountain grass and trees have been burned, and the thieves have collected traces, and they have seen that they abide by the laws and regulations of the factory ministers, and they are diligent and respectful, that is, they will be permanently closed to the two roads of Bayi, and the Zhuozhou generals and the officials of the prefectures and counties will be divided into prevention and prohibition, and the patrol police will be strictly enforced. Therefore, Gonggong Wei also followed his master and simply sealed all the mines in.