The old emperor Zhao Zhen, listening to the little eunuch Li Xianyitong, shook his head and sighed again, why is it so difficult to be an emperor?

A bunch of old guys in the court are annoying, and there are a bunch of little guys outside the court, and they are also starting to be annoying.

Zhao Zhen opened his mouth and asked, "What are they going to ask for?" ”

Li Xian replied: "The slaves and maids heard outside the Donghua Gate that they were not satisfied with Gan Daojian's ranking, saying that Gan Daojian didn't even get the palace test right, why could he be the top of the list?" ”

"Alas......" Zhao Zhen sighed, he didn't expect that he could make such a fuss without asking Gan Qi in the palace test, raised his hand and looked for it on the imperial case, found a test paper, and said: "Take it and teach people to copy it, send it out to show them, especially that Cheng Yi, and tell him to take a good look." It's normal for young people to have a little dispute, why should they be so unforgiving, thinking that they have a deep hatred and hatred, I don't know what to say! ”

Zhao Zhen is afraid that he knows something, otherwise he would not have said such a word, how can the emperor of decades be really deaf and blind?

Li Xian didn't bother about it, he took the exam paper and sent it to someone to copy.

After copying it, Li Xian took the article and rushed to Donghua Gate, he knew who Cheng Yi was, he had come here just now and asked the reason for asking for his life.

came out again, Li Xian went straight to Cheng Yi.

Cheng Yi saw Li Xian and saluted respectfully: "I've seen the internal official." ”

At this time, Li Xian was different from the appearance of bowing his eyebrows in front of the emperor, his chin was raised high, his eyes were white and turned up, he sent the article and said: "Your Majesty is busy, I don't have time to see you, Your Majesty gave you an article, take it back and read it yourself." ”

Cheng Yi hurriedly took the emperor's gift with both hands, and said: "Thank you to the internal official." ”

Li Xian rolled his eyes, turned his head and left. What he thought in his heart, cats and dogs, he has to see the emperor if he has nothing to do, and the emperor can't live anymore?

Li Xian had left, and Cheng Yi hurriedly took out the article to read it.

Tiered taxation method?

Invoice?

What is an invoice?

Why is it taxed?

This...... What the hell is written? Why did you get the business tax in hand?

Cheng Yi, he didn't understand.

So, he watched it again. People from the left and right also came up to watch.

Then, they all looked at each other.

I just didn't understand how this so-called invoice was collected for business tax.

"Brother Cheng, this is Gan Qice's article!"

Cheng Yi raised his finger to the side of the article and said, "Isn't this a name?" ”

"Oh, Brother Cheng, what does the invoice in this article say?"

Cheng Yi frowned: "Uh...... It is a certificate of tax collection. ”

"So how do you collect it?"

"It's just to take the invoice and collect it." Cheng Yi watched it twice, and seemed to understand it.

"Is this possible?"

This asked Cheng Yi and said that it was feasible, so what did he ask for his life just now become a joke. said that it was not feasible, so why did Emperor Renzong of Shengming send this article out? And why did Ganqi get the first place?

Cheng Yi thought for a while and replied, "It doesn't matter if it's feasible or not. This is the law of commercial taxation, commercial taxation has not been the wealth relied on by the imperial court since ancient times, it has been the case in all dynasties, have you ever heard of which dynasty and which generation of the imperial court relied on commercial taxation? No matter how clever Gan Qi's method is, the commercial tax is just a small amount of money, how can it solve the difficulty of the imperial court? Gan Qi won the championship in one fell swoop with this article, which is really difficult to convince the public. ”

"Yes, even if the commercial tax is spent, it is just a drop in the bucket, and this article will win the championship and cannot convince the public. What's more, Gan Qi is still the one who has no king and no father, and he is not worthy of virtue. ”

Fortunately, these people didn't hear Gan Qi's boast in front of the emperor, and he had to collect five million yuan of commercial taxes in Bianliang City a year. If they hear this cowhide, these people are afraid that it will explode. How can people believe this? In their cognition, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, they have never heard of the proportion of commercial taxes in the imperial court's annual revenue.

Cheng Yi nodded: "I can't convince the public!" ”

As soon as Cheng Yi said a word, someone turned his head and went straight to Donghua Gate, shouting: "Gan Qiqiwen is not worthy of the champion, Gan Qiqi is not worthy of the champion, and Gan Qiqi is not worthy of the champion." Please also ask Your Majesty to take back your order! ”

When one shouts, the crowd shouts.

It's just that the little eunuch Li Xian suffered, and he had to run back and forth.

Zhao Zhen held his forehead, felt a sense of powerlessness, waved his hand and said, "No see, no see, nonsense!" ”

Li Xian is happy to see it happen, but he doesn't see the best. It's amazing, a landed scholar, can't turn the sky upside down?

Fortunately, it is Zhao Zhen, if he changes to an emperor and says "fight the general", Cheng Yi will not suffer from the flesh and skin of a soldier.

But I heard Zhao Zhen say again: "You go out for a walk, look for Bao Zheng, and invite him to the palace to see me." The important position of the third division has been vacant for a long time, and he has been hiding for so long, and it is time for him to take office. If he can't find it in his house, he will go to the hot spring hotel outside the city to find it. ”

Huangcheng Division, it's really not a dry meal, even Bao Zheng knows it in the hot spring hotel outside the city.

Li Xian got the order and took a few eunuchs out of the palace from Zuoye Gate to find Bao Zheng.

It's just that when Li Xian came back, he cried and said in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, Bao Xianggong is hiding, and the slaves and maids are found outside the city from his mansion, but no one is seen." I don't know if it's deliberately missing, or if it really happens to be not there. ”

Zhao Zhen raised his forehead again, the emperor should be in this position, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, the only one!

Zhao Zhen wants to get Bao Zheng back, just to let him take up the post of the third envoy, the invoice thing, is really to be done, poor and miserable haha, life really can't go on, dead horses have to be live horse doctors, not to mention that Gan Qi is really a good money-maker. So when Bao Zheng comes back, he can send Wang Anshi to collect business taxes.

This time, Bao Zheng is still hiding. Renzong was reluctant to give Bao Zheng, the third envoy, and there was no reason to take Bao Zheng's official position, and another point is that Renzong trusted Bao Zheng very much, and after Zhang Fangping's incident, the important position of financial director was none other than Bao Zheng. was already poor, and the money of the court could not be handed over to the most trustworthy people to keep it, and it would be even more difficult to live that day.

Zhao Zhen is so worried, his white hair is falling to the ground.

Li Xian waited on the side, also frowning.

Zhao Zhen thought about it a few times, and finally spoke: "Go, go and find Gan Daojian." ”

Li Xian got the order and rushed out again. Fortunately, Li Xian is a young man, if he is replaced by an old eunuch, he will run before and after running so much, and half his life will be gone. Perhaps this is also the reason why Renzong relies on Li Xian, a young man, and runs everything by himself. This little eunuch, after entering the palace for more than two years, was promoted to the inner servant Huangmen, and now he is already a worship official in the west.

Donghua Gate, the imperial list is still posted there, and the crowd slowly recedes. The palace door suddenly made a loud "bang" and closed tightly.

No matter how the people at the gate shouted, there was not even a single soldier on the city gate, and no one came out to answer.

"How can this be true? Even if you die here today, you have to speak up! ”

Cheng Yi was filled with righteous indignation and raised his arms high: "Such a court, a miasma, a traitor, I, Cheng Yi, will never take the test again in this life!" ”

"Brother Cheng is a gentleman, admirable!"

No matter how much you shout outside the door, no matter how much trouble you make, the door still won't open, and no one will come out to answer.

"Humph!" Cheng Yi threw down Gan Qi's strategy and turned away.

Gan Qi, who was preparing an invitation to the Luming banquet, was entering the city at this time and hurried to see the emperor.

returned to the Northern Song Dynasty to be a big man

returned to the Northern Song Dynasty to be a big man