Some people choose to continue to die, and Zhu Youzhen naturally has no patience to consume with them. Leave everyone in the East Warm Pavilion and tell the eunuchs to eat and drink well, but no one is allowed to leave the East Warm Pavilion. Dongnuan Pavilion also became noisy after the emperor Zhu Youzhen left, some people scolded Tian Hongyu and Liu Yuliang, and some people blamed those guys who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Of course, many more have generously expressed their desire to work together to resist the new tax rate.

Of course, the most explosive thing is that Tian Hongyu, Liu Yuliang and others took the lead in writing to the imperial court to support Yang Hongzhang's initiative, reform the tax rate, and take the lead in stating that they must pay taxes according to the new tax rate. What's even more excessive is that in order to show their hearts, the two actually indicated their own properties and land properties and their income in the past year in the recital!

Immediately afterwards, more and more nobles wrote to the imperial court, expressing their support for the new tax rate, and their willingness to share the worries of the imperial court and pay taxes according to the rules and regulations like ordinary people.

If it is just these news, those civil and military officials and nobles who have a wait-and-see attitude can still hold on, and the next news will not be so harmonious. It is said that in addition to Uncle Yuan and Xue Guoguan, there are also people who have been imprisoned for bullying the king. Among them, the most eye-catching is Chen Guogong, who was taken away from Dongnuan Pavilion by the Criminal Department for questioning, and the dignity of the dignified Guogong Mansion was gone. It is said that in the past five years, he has evaded the tax burden of the imperial court with a total of six or seven wine shops, teahouses, and 20,000 acres of fertile land that do not actually belong to him or his relatives and friends, totaling 170,000 taels. The emperor was very angry when he heard about it, and in the end, there were still royal family members who pleaded, and the emperor spoke, either Chen Guogong paid five times the tax out of his own pocket or cut the knight for the people and then dispose of it separately! At the same time, the emperor also said that in the future, it will not be easy to find that the nobles and officials are embarrassed to be here!

Everyone is very sympathetic to Chen Guogong, after all, everyone is doing this kind of thing, only he was taken out by the emperor alone, it is indeed a big thing in terms of numbers, this money should have been paid to the imperial court, and it is estimated that Chen Guogong should have made a lot of money from it. But if you don't pay the fine, you will have to cut the knight to the people, and it is estimated that you will have to pay money later, so Chen Guogong actually has only one way left, that is, to pay a tax of 850,000 yuan to the imperial court!

Most officials and nobles don't care about how much fine Chen Guogong should pay, they care about the emperor's attitude, which means that Chen Guogong can not be an example because he is a national prince who pays the fine. But if others are caught by the imperial court, they will not be treated so well, and in addition to a fine, they will be cut off and dismissed!

The shocking power of this move is no less than when Yuan Dewang and Xue Guoguan were raided! And the target is not only those who participate in the auction of royal goods, but also those who are responsible for those landlords to cover up, so that those merchants will attach the property to their names, this kind of thing is too wide-ranging, although I always felt that the law was not responsible for the public, but now even Chen Guogong has to pay a fine, or five times, what qualifications do they have to bargain with the court and the emperor.

Sure enough, news soon came out that after Chen Guogong, at least a dozen nobles expressed their intention to ask the emperor for a reward with a double transaction price, and wrote to the imperial court to resolutely support the imperial court's tax rate reform, and set an example to pay taxes according to the regulations.

Now those who are not firm in their position can no longer sit still, and begin to visit each other, some even immediately write a chapter at home, ready to hand it over as soon as there is a wind and grass, the content of the chapter is naturally to vigorously support the reform of the imperial court tax rate, and they are willing to practice it, and even began to learn from Tian Hongyu and Liu Yuliang began to take stock of their family property in case they need it.

They didn't wait too long, and there was even more exciting news, this time except for those nobles who had privately participated in the auction to buy the royal treasures, who paid double the price and began to support the tax reform. Jinyiwei has found out that at least two officials of Zhengsipin have been dismissed and imprisoned for tax evasion on behalf of others. Even includes Xue Guoguan, whose home has been raided, and he has added another charge of tax evasion for others, which of course also involves accepting bribes.

It is said that now the emperor is also ruthless, and strictly ordered Jinyiwei to investigate the property of officials and nobles inside and outside the capital and the situation of tax evasion on behalf of others, so in just a few days, a large number of nobles and officials wrote to support the reform of the imperial court tax rate, and expressed their willingness to share the worries of the imperial court and pay taxes like ordinary people.

Although such people are still a minority in the entire team of honors and officials, they are no longer the soloists of Yang Hongzhang's family, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, there is a news that I don't know whether it is good news or bad news, that is, on the seventh day after Yang Hongzhang first put forward the proposal to increase the number of court officials, the emperor officially issued a holy decree, and from now on, the number of civil and military officials will increase by 50%. Although it is not a double of Yang Hongzhang's proposal, this is also a signal that the emperor still supports Yang Hongzhang and which honest officials to support in such a difficult situation for the treasury. So what reason do the vast number of honest and honest officials have to work hard for the imperial court, and what reason do they have to block the implementation of the new tax law in the court?

Of course, Yang Hongzhang's proposal to increase the income for officials is not to ask those officials to thank themselves, for example, no one who can participate in the court meeting in the capital cares about that money, but the low-level officials below care, and the new tax rate will be implemented in the future, these people are the key to implementation! This is the reason why Yang Hongzhang said that he moved the emperor.

Ten days have passed since Yang Hongzhang's house was burned, and when Yang Hongzhang stood in the court again, many officials no longer dared to treat him as a child. Because of what has happened continuously in the past few days, there is the shadow of Yang Hongzhang everywhere, and Emperor Zhu Youzhen seems to have completely changed a person. According to the grapevine, today is the day when Yang Hongzhang put forward the main proposition of the new tax rate to the emperor and the imperial court, and everyone will wait and see.

Yang Hongzhang has not been idle during this time, although he came from the harmonious era, there is a complete set of mature tax rates, but in order to be more reasonable, he insisted on taking Jinyi Wei to almost the entire city of Beijing, from wine shops, teahouses to rice shops, cloth shops and even morning shops, singing and dancing brothels and so on. Observe the footfall, calculate the operating income, estimate the profit......

"Your Majesty, my lords, Hongzhang thinks that the commercial tax rate of my Ming Dynasty is too low, and the tax rate of farmers is too high, and the tax rate of farmers has been increasing for 50 years, and now there is more Liaoyu and so on has been miserable, but the commercial tax has not changed, the commercial tax in the Zhao and Song dynasties is one of ten taxes, which is five times that of my Ming Dynasty, which is why half of the Zhao and Song dynasties are very rich. However, the Zhao and Song dynasties did not cause business to wither because of the excessively high tax rate, and I have never heard of any dynasty or generation that caused businessmen to rebel because of excessive commercial taxes. For the sake of fairness and for the sake of the imperial court to better protect the living environment of peasants, merchants, and individual strata, and for the imperial court to have the money to train a strong army to deal with the construction slaves and pacify the thieves, it is recommended that a new tax rate be implemented as soon as possible, and the specific tax rate is that the tax burden of the peasants shall be appropriately reduced or reduced by the household department in conjunction with the local situation according to the local situation, and the minimum tax rate shall be reduced by more than 30%. The commercial tax rate is appropriately increased, the original tax rate is 50 tax one, taking into account the different profits of the industry and the different scale of operation, the scale of the industry can be taxed separately. Among them, shops and merchants with an annual income of less than 100 taels are still subject to 30 taxes and 1, and those with an annual income of more than 100 taels are not allowed to be divided into profiteering industries according to the industry, ordinary industries and low-profit industries, such as gambling houses, brothels and other profiteering industries are subject to 10 taxes and 1 to operating income, ordinary industries such as liquor shops and teahouses are subject to 20 taxes and 1, and low-profit industries such as grain and oil stores are implemented according to 30 taxes and 1. In addition, merchants with an income of between 10,000 taels and 100,000 taels will be given a preferential treatment of 10% of the final tax, and an annual income of more than 100,000 taels of silver will be given a discount of 10000 taels and 500000 taels, and the profiteering industry will not be included in the preferential list. The specific division of the industry also needs to be sorted out in detail by the household department and all of you......"

Yang Hongzhang's new tax rate has a lot of content and is also very detailed, and everyone listens carefully because it is related to their own vital interests. After reading it, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, was the first to stand up: "Lord Yang has taken great pains to reform the tax rate, and the tax rate is indeed very close to the merchants, especially the classified taxation is really refreshing, but it also takes care of the survival of some low-profit industries." It's just that Yuanlu doesn't agree with one thing, why can those who earn more annual income enjoy greater tax incentives? ”

Yang Hongzhang looked at the God of Wealth in the Ming Dynasty, and then looked at the emperor Zhu Youzhen who seemed to be a little dissatisfied, obviously distressed about the silver that had been dropped, and other officials also looked at Yang Hongzhang with strange eyes. Obviously, they thought that Yang Hongzhang's move was to please the princes in the court and the nobles who were offended to death by him.

Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to explain: "Lord Ni, the imperial court needs to pay taxes for business, but it can't kill chickens for heating, we give those merchants whose annual income does not exceed one hundred taels in any industry is thirty taxes, one is to ensure that they can survive and encourage more people to develop business, so that more merchants can provide taxes for the imperial court." In the same way, our tax incentives for those merchants with higher annual income are also to encourage them to continue to expand their business scale, develop better, and provide more tax revenue for the imperial court. These incentives are a signal, a weather vane, that the imperial court's reform of the tax rate is not to hinder the development of commerce, not to cut off the financial means of merchants, on the contrary, the imperial court is to encourage them to operate, encourage them to continue to expand the scale. Especially those small and medium-sized merchants, in order to enjoy the preferential tax rate and strive to expand the scale of business, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty will be motivated, and business will be more prosperous, so that the result is that although the imperial court gives preferential treatment, it can receive more taxes. ”

Although Ni Yuanlu was not very satisfied with Yang Hongzhang's explanation, considering that he was his direct subordinate, he was not too embarrassed, so he reluctantly accepted it and stopped talking. Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not speak immediately under Yang Hongzhang's repeated hints. The ministers of civil and military affairs in the court were keenly aware of Yang Hongzhang's tax rate reform plan, except for the profiteering industry, did not mention the issue of taxation of nobles and officials raised for the first time, so they chose to wait and see for the time being.