Seeing that Liu Zongzhou said it well, King Xin was no longer surprised, he smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that the imperial brother is really prescient to let the four of us enter the Prison Yuan, originally this is just a matter of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and now everyone seems to be inseparable from it. Since the imperial brother thinks that the words of Deng Yuhan, a Taixi man, are reasonable, and that equality and freedom are a trend in the future of Ming employment, and Lord Liu said that the Government Council has not achieved equality and freedom, then please ask Lord Liu to talk about it specifically. ”

The main task of the Supervisory Yuan is to supervise the process of handling government affairs, and to avoid hindering national affairs due to personal reasons such as people's personality, emotions, and state. Tianqi had considered the human factor before the establishment of the Supervisory Yuan, and King Xin of the Administrative Yuan and Gao Panlong of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were both introverted and calm people, and they were both able to listen to different opinions. Even if they have any opinions, they will not insist on forcing them to be enforced, which ensures that the supervisor will not overstep his position and become the ruler.

The Holy Academy and the Bo Academy are academic research institutions in their own right, and letting Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi enter the Supervision Yuan is mainly for them to assist rather than decide, and these two people themselves are not strong people. The four of them are all rational people, so they will be more reasonable and less troublesome, even if they point out each other's shortcomings, they will talk about things rather than blaming people, of course, it is difficult to say if they are in a hurry like Yang Lian.

Liu Zongzhou was not upset when he said that the government affairs council was wrong, so he said: "On the surface, these county adjutants feel unfair, saying that it is difficult to accept the trained people who are directly appointed to the rank of Congqipin, but this is actually an illusion. Think about it, even if there is no such thing, what position can they be promoted? It is estimated that at most they will be old in their current positions, and they will be lucky not to be cleared because of their ineffective work, how can they be dissatisfied with their unattainable positions? ”

King Shin thought for a while and said, "Yes, it's no good to make trouble for a while, there is indeed a problem here." ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "The problem is not only this, but also what the local county magistrate is doing. What are the governors of the provinces doing? No matter who reprimands it can be calmed down, why would it still come to Beijing? ”

Gao Panlong nodded when he heard this: "This shows that they are secretly conniving, that is to say, they have common interests and needs, but it is unfair to come out in the name of these small officials, and the court is embarrassed to take action against these unruly people." In the sense of Lord Liu, what is the real purpose of these people? What is it that allows them to stand together to put pressure on the DPRK? ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Sima Qian once said in the "Historical Records": 'The world is bustling, all for profit; The soil in the world is all for profit. The reason why these provincial and county officials are so secretive is that they have not benefited from the sale of the mining and construction qualifications of the Big Iron Company. Although the emperor allowed them to sell their titles for a share, and also took out a part of the fire consumption to subsidize them, this time the interest appeal was not for the individual but for the local collective. One is that they are not private to the public, and the other is because they know that the big iron company is the emperor, so they will vaguely express their demands and not be able to say it clearly. ”

King Xin said: "It turned out that it was because they wanted to gain benefits in it, and they thought that it was just a pretense for the court to directly appoint and train the people who had been trained to feel unfair from the seven products, but Lord Liu said that the government affairs yuan could not achieve equality and freedom, so how can we talk about it?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "In order to prevent the big businessmen from exploiting the people, the emperor deliberately imposed a 20 percent profit cap on their business operations, and in order to increase the tax source for the imperial court and give the people the opportunity to make money, there was no 20 percent profit cap on the operation of industrial operations such as mining and starting factories, but only stipulated the distribution of profits. For example, in the case of opening a mine, if an investor earns 10,000 taels, of which 2,000 taels are the remuneration of the workers, 2,000 taels are the taxes of the imperial court, 1,000 taels are purchased by the Great Iron Company, and the rest is owned by the investor, and the local government has nothing, there will naturally be opinions. ”

King Xin said: "They have opinions that they have no sense of equality with the Government Council or have nothing to do with it, and besides, the Government Council is subordinate to the provinces and counties, do they still want to sit on an equal footing with the Government Council?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "The so-called fairness or not is whether the power pointed out and the remuneration obtained are not equal, and the reward obtained by the large effort will feel unfair. And equality refers to something that is born without effort, such as saying that two people were born at the same time, one was born in a prince's family, so he was clothed and fed, and the other was born in a poor family, only struggling to survive, and not changing because of people's efforts. The imperial court did not contribute only because of jurisdictional reasons, and they were able to share 20% of the tax revenue, and the local government also did not contribute because it had jurisdiction, but did not get benefits. ”

King Xin thought for a while and said, "What does Lord Liu mean is that if they are allowed to collect taxes like the imperial court, will they feel equal and free?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "That's for sure, it's one thing to collect more and collect less, and it's another thing to receive it, as long as the local government is allowed to collect taxes, they will feel treated equally." As for freedom, it goes without saying, with money there is freedom, the ancients said: 'Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou.' What a free life it is, but if you don't have money, you don't have freedom. ”

Gao Panlong said: "The two-percent tax limit is also stipulated by the emperor, and the imperial court collects two percent, and then the local government collects it step by step, isn't it a tyrannical expropriation?" The emperor will not agree not to say it, and logically speaking, they must not be allowed to do so. ”

Xu Guangqi said at this time: "According to what Master Liu said at the beginning, whether investors open mines or start construction, except for one percent to buy qualification permits from the big iron company, two percent of the transaction tax and two percent to pay workers, investors can get fifty percent, this is too much, can you ask them to let some out?" ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Twenty percent of their fifty percent must be deposited in the money bank of the big iron company as the aftermath of special circumstances, which is equivalent to insurance money." In this way, those big investors still have a lot of complaints, and I am afraid that they will not agree to let them sell their benefits. The remuneration of the workers must not be less than 20 percent, which was also set by the emperor himself, and to satisfy the appetite of the officials of the provinces and prefectures, I am afraid that the only way to make a decision is to pay taxes and licensing fees. ”

Gao Panlong said: "The license fee is only one percent, which is the compensation given to the original shareholders by the imperial court after all the commercial taxes are occupied, and the emperor also said that the money will be used to repair the road, which also involves the interests of all aspects of the court, including the palace, and no one is embarrassed to use their brains on this." After all, the only way to do this is to give them some of the 20% of the court's taxes. ”

King Xin listened and said indignantly: "It is said that in the Wanli Dynasty, Emperor Wanli directly sent mine supervisors and tax supervisors to collect taxes everywhere, and he didn't see these people say a word, but tried his best to help. Now that the imperial brother has given these taxes to the public use of the imperial court instead of the private use of the palace, this includes the preparation of local expenses, not only are they not grateful, but they also think of the law to reach out, which is really unreasonable! If it really doesn't work, the Government Council can reprimand them, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can also warn them that if they can't, they will change their positions. ”

Gao Panlong smiled bitterly: "If it is the officials of the provinces or prefectures and counties who make trouble directly, of course they can do this, but their recitals all say that this is caused by the injustice of the officials. The initial analysis is just our speculation, even if the guess is correct, we have no reason to use the speculation to accuse and reprimand the prefectures and counties, if the imperial court directly reprimands those small officials, it will be a little out of reach, it will be a big fuss. ”

King Xin was originally a calm person, but when he was only sixteen years old, he was easily impulsive, and he was a little angry by a few people. However, at the end of last year, according to the situation, Tianqi invited three masters to teach him all aspects of knowledge, among which Qian Qianyi was specially pointed out, which was helpful to the formation of the character of the king of Xin. Although King Xin had only studied with Qian Qianyi for less than half a year, he was more or less affected.

At first, because he felt that he was being calculated everywhere and had nowhere to exert his strength, King Xin was a little uncomfortable and looked very angry, but he didn't learn from the master in vain, and immediately calmed down, thought about it and said to Liu Zongzhou: "Lord Liu is in charge of the Holy Academy, and he should be the main force in finding a way to solve the problem, now that he has found out the problem, does Lord Liu have any solution to solve the problem?" ”

Liu Zongzhou saw that King Xin had adjusted his emotions so quickly, nodded secretly in his heart, and said: "The meaning of the lower officials is to pretend not to know first, but only to reprimand the county orders for the private discussion of the county officials in the counties on the rule of the court officials, and order them to pacify and suppress the ‖, and slightly revealed that the imperial court is relatively comfortable after the introduction of mining taxes, and is ready to take proper care of the financial situation of various places, and ask them to fully cooperate with the affairs of the trained people, if anyone thinks that it is not good to appease and suppress, let him say the specific reasons to facilitate the coordination of the imperial court." ”

Gao Panlong said: "Lord Liu's suggestion is good, they don't tell the truth, we also hide half of the truth and reveal half of it, everyone just tacitly agrees." But if you really want to give them some taxes, how should they divide them? This matter must be thought out in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by any strange things. ”

The arrangement of taxes belongs to the affairs of the Government Council, and everyone looked at King Xin and did not speak, which means that it is time for you to make up your mind and say a charter. I thought that King Xin would be very embarrassed, but who knew that King Xin smiled slightly and said: "This thing is easy to do, Lord Liu began to say that they only want equal treatment, so give them this treatment." ”