In the upper study, the prince commanded the eunuchs to pick up the candlestick, and when the room was much brighter, he waved his hand to let everyone retreat. Turning to look at the emperor on the throne, he saw that he was still in a daze in front of the newspaper in his seat, and he didn't dare to speak, and slowly retreated to the side. Waiting to be heard.

The time has passed, and the letter sent to the palace two hours ago has allowed Li Yuan to keep this time for a long time. Li Yuan looked at the report for a while, and then looked at the exquisite glass bottle on the table. Picked up the wine glass on the table and looked at it carefully. When the wine is put into the mouth, the wine is a good wine, the entrance is mellow and soft, and it is indeed much stronger than many tribute wines. Putting down the wine glass, Li Yuan closed his eyes and thought for a while: "Wang Wei, do you say that there is any wine in this world that is rare?" ”

Wang thought for a moment and said carefully: "I'm afraid that there is only the wine given by the Holy Lord." ”

"Heh, I tell you, someone in the capital today spent 7,000 taels to buy three bottles of wine." Li Yuan said leisurely.

After listening to the emperor's words, Wang Wei really didn't know what to say, so he bowed his head and was silent. Li Yuan sighed, three bottles of wine cost 10,000 taels, you know, at the moment, one tael of silver can make an ordinary family of three eat for half a month. For the first time, Li Yuan felt the wealth of the people outside of taxation.

"Pass the decree and summon the Yasukuni Gong tomorrow." Li Yuan got up and walked towards the inner hall. Wang Wei bowed down to receive the order, and during this time, the emperor talked about the most was the Duke of Yasukuni.

Early the next morning, the eunuch who sent the decree in the palace came to the Yasukuni Mansion, and Lin Guangyuan woke Lin Yuan from his sleep. Lin Yuan, whose head was still down, really couldn't think clearly, how he was summoned to the palace again after only a few days of meeting. In desperation, he entered the palace with the eunuch Xuanzhi.

The place is different from the previous few times, this time after entering the palace was directly taken to the upper study, as soon as I entered the house, I saw several people in official uniforms were also in the house, and after thinking carefully about the official service of the Great Zhou, I knew that the three people in front of me were all cabinet members. The oldest in the grade, Lin Yuan also has some images.

"Wechen greets the saint. Long live my emperor, long live, long live. As soon as Lin Yuan's words fell, several people in the room looked at Lin Yuan in disbelief. The tea that the emperor had just drunk squirted out. Only then did Lin Yuan realize that he had made a mistake in saluting, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed, and the sleepiness just now was gone.

"Yasukuni Gong, get up." Li Yuan waved his hand.

"The Yasukuni official salute is a thorough courtesy." Xia Lindao said with a smile, and the monarchs and ministers also laughed, and Lin Yuan sat awkwardly and didn't speak.

Xu saw that the face of the Duke of Yasukuni was flushed, and these people stopped laughing. Li Yuan looked at Lin Yuan: "I heard that there was a strange thing in the capital yesterday, and there were a lot of treasures at that time. ”

Lin Yuan blinked and looked at the emperor with big eyes, without words, seeing Lin Yuan's expression, Li Yuan continued: "Someone bought three bottles of wine for ten thousand taels. ”

Lin Yuan knew that the people present in this matter were afraid that they knew a lot of details, otherwise they would not find him, Lin Yuan got up and said, "Holy Lord, my lords." This thing was indeed done by Weichen and the Marquis of Huaiyin. ”

"Yasukuni Gong is very capable, and three bottles of wine are sold at a sky-high price. You won't be afraid to smash it in your hands. "The person who opened his mouth was Ma Yi, the head of the household.

"The world is good and famous, and his father just gave him what he wanted. Money and goods are paid, and customers can be satisfied. Lin Yuan said.

"Is that really a very low yield?" Xia Lindao asked again. A few days ago, the saint rewarded himself with a bottle, as the first assistant of the holy family, Xia Lindao received a lot of gifts.

Li Yuan coughed lightly, there was still a lot of wine in the inner library, and it was all taken from Lin Yuan's mansion. Lin Yuan looked at the emperor with some resentment: "Lord Shoufu, the yield of that wine is indeed extremely low. ”

"Yasukuni Gong, taking advantage of the people, this method is not clever." Lin Yuan frowned and looked at Ma Yi, he didn't know why this adult scolded him repeatedly, he hadn't bullied him.

Ma Yi stared at Lin Yuan, the atmosphere was a little strange, Lin Yuan paused before he spoke: "Master Ma is the secretary of the household department, and he doesn't care about the world's taxes, but keeps a close eye on the small business of the country's public." ”

Ma Yi was choked up, but he didn't intend to let Lin Yuan go: "Since the Yasukuni Gong knows that this official is in charge of the world's taxes, I don't know that the Yasukuni Gong made a lot of money yesterday, can he pay taxes?" ”

"I don't have an auction of the commercial tax, I'm afraid Master Ma has forgotten it, right?" Everyone present frowned, the Great Zhou commercial tax was not perfect, and this kind of business like Yasukuni Gong was not a commercial act in the Zhou Law, so there was no need to pay taxes. Ma Yi is angry, this is the first naked exploit of the loophole of the Great Zhou Law, and he has no place to reason.

At this time, Lin Yuan was heard to speak: "Master Ma, do you know what is the most important thing right now?" Seeing that Ma Yi was glaring at him but didn't speak, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Master Ma, now it's time to improve the business tax." ”

"Alright, alright." Li Yuan, who had not spoken before, saw that the atmosphere was awkward, and finally stood up. "In the past, even if I had to spend some silver, I was also sad to pass Ma Aiqing's pass, but today I let Yasukuni take advantage of the loophole." Everyone laughed.

Who knew that Ma Yi suddenly got up: "The minister has a negative emperor, Weichen starts today, my Great Zhou tax law inherits the previous dynasty, and there has been no change in a hundred years." The minister implored that the tax law be improved as soon as possible to prevent the Great Zhou tax from flowing elsewhere. ”

Looking at Ma Yi who was kneeling on the ground in a daze, Lin Yuan felt that this person's reaction was really fast, but the tax was already complex and huge, and it could be done by saying it.

Li Yuan's fingers tapped lightly on the armrest, and everyone in the Shangshu room waited for the emperor to speak, and the people present, except for Lin Yuan, were the first group of people in the court to find the defects of the tax law. However, the current situation does not allow them to worry too much.

The sudden flood in Jiangnan Province has led to the halving of taxes in Jiangnan next year, and I am afraid that today's treasury silver will be pasted into some of it, and the disadvantages of the single tax payment in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the excessive reliance on Jiangnan Province have finally been exposed.

"I don't know if the business tax is on this list?" Lin Yuan looked at Ma Yi, and everyone in the house was paying attention to the conversation between Ma Yi and Lin Yuan at this time.

Ma Yi shook his head: "It's just to benefit the people who work in agriculture, although the commercial tax is not exempt, but my Dazhou tax has never relied on commercial tax." I understand what the Yasukuni Gong means, you are saying that the commercial tax can make up for the loss, but at the moment, how can the people of Dazhou buy some luxury things like those people yesterday. ”

"I have never thought of making money from the poor people, it seems that Master Ma already knows about yesterday's auction, so I want to ask, Lord Ma has heard that there is a poor man who went?" Lin Yuan said with a smile.

Seeing Ma Yi shaking his head, Lin Yuan continued: "Lord Ma should know that merchants can't afford to be early, my lord has heard such a sentence in the nine years in the north, horse thieves will sell as long as they have a tael of silver, if it is a hundred taels, they don't mind losing a few people, if it is thousands or ten thousand taels, they will do whatever it takes." The same is true of horse thieves. Dare to ask my lord, is it that the Jinju businessmen have their brains in water, and they are willing to go north to do business if they are powerless? ”

Seeing that everyone was silent, Lin Yuan spoke again: "Then it shows a problem, the profits of the northbound merchants are enough to tempt them to take their lives." In the history of our dynasty, there were many droughts in Jinju, but there were few starvation deaths and turmoil, all because there were many businessmen in Jinju, even when I was in Jinju, I also saw many extremely rich people, and this ten thousand taels of silver is not much in their opinion. ”

Li Yuan and others were silent, they didn't know that the people who were extremely rich in private businessmen could be regarded as the richest man in the Great Zhou Dynasty. But they always thought it was just a minority.

"The national government just wants to tell Ma that money is called money when it is spent, and only when it flows out, my big Zhou business tax will be endless, if we all hold this kind of thought, not to mention whether my treasury will be less and less, and it is difficult to say that the situation that the people are rich and the country is poor will not appear."

"Money is called money when it is spent." Xia Lindao thought about this sentence and felt that it made some sense. At this time, Lin Yuan said again: "Master Ma, you must know that my business tax is too low. ”

"Then please go to the household department today and hand over the commercial tax to be paid yesterday." Ma Yi said suddenly, Lin Yuan was stunned, and took himself into the ditch.

Li Yuan chuckled, although Lin Yuan said a lot just now, he really didn't say much, and at this moment, he was choked by Ma Yi, which also suppressed his arrogance just now.

"Okay, Aiqing don't scare him." Li Yuan said with a smile. Then he looked at Lin Yuan: "What you just said seems to be thought-provoking, but in fact there is not much truth. I'm asking you now, are the business taxes you talking about really low? ”

Lin Yuan really didn't know how to explain this problem, and the Great Zhou Dynasty relied heavily on agriculture and forced labor. The commercial tax is outrageously simple, taking only 10% of the merchandise transaction, which seems to be a lot, but in fact it is simple and crude, and a lot of tax can be avoided with a little effort. After thinking about it, he could only say: "This matter is more complicated to explain, and Weichen can only say that I have missed a lot of business taxes." The taxes collected are very small for the merchants. ”

Li Yuan frowned, and Ma Yi looked at Lin Yuan: "In the opinion of the national government, is it asking me to impose heavy taxes on business?" "Their monarchs and ministers had discussed this matter before, and the auction held by Lin Yuan had a big impact on them. Now that the treasury is stretched, Jiangnan, the land of taxation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, will now see that the tax revenue will be halved in the coming year. For the first time, the group of businessmen has entered their eyes.

"No, the level of taxation affects the development of an industry, reasonable planning will make an industry more prosperous, and an unwarranted increase in unreasonable taxes will lead to the consequences of killing chickens and eggs." Lin Yuan denied Ma Yi's opinion.

"If according to Guogong's idea, how much can my tax increase in Dazhou?" Xia Lindao asked the question that Junchen wanted to know the most. At present, when it comes to taxation, the Yasukuni Gong still has quite a lot of insights.