Immediately, Chen Lifu threw aside the files of other salt merchants, and then looked at the files of the Yang family, this salt merchant was not the top salt merchant in the pre-Ming Dynasty, but according to various sources, the Yang family became the largest private salt dealer in Yangzhou City and even the entire Jiangbei Province in just a few months after the Tang Dynasty captured Yangzhou!

But it's still the same sentence, Chen Lifu doesn't care about whether the Yang family is a smuggler or not, he only cares about the Yang family's tax evasion!

Regardless of whether your Yang family is in the private salt business, since you have to pay taxes when you do business, if necessary, the grain collection department of the Ministry of Taxation can send you a guide manual on how to file taxes for the income obtained from selling illegal salt, and correctly guide the illegal salt dealers to pay taxes!

In other words, the Department of Taxation doesn't care what you make money, but since you make money, you have to pay taxes!

At the beginning, the officials of the tax department shouted: 'Even if you want to rebel, you have to pay the tax first!'

As the largest illegal salt dealer at present, the Yang family has obtained a lot of money by selling illegal salt, and this tax evasion is naturally the most, in the file that Chen Lifu read, the tax investigators have not correctly estimated how much the Yang family has evaded taxes, but the estimate should not be less than 100,000 taels!

As a traditional landlord and gentry, although Chen Lifu has great sympathy for the ordinary gentry and landlord class, this sympathy does not include salt merchants!

These salt merchants, in the eyes of Chen Lifu, who has a strong official-oriented ideology and traditional Confucian thinking, should be killed, and it is only natural for the court to ask them for it when it has no money.

So he immediately ordered to go down, to investigate the Yang family, to investigate thoroughly, not only the Yang family, but also other famous and well-known salt merchants, all of them will be strictly investigated!

Immediately, the members of the tax inspection team were moving around, and their investigation methods were different from those of traditional patrol police, and the core of their attention was not all kinds of smuggling activities themselves, but money!

The first stop of the investigation was to directly investigate the accounts and capital changes of the above-mentioned salt merchants at the Royal Bank and several other private banks with offices in Yangzhou and Huai'an.

And I have to say that the Royal Bank is a good thing, even if the salt merchants or other businessmen and gentry of the Tang Dynasty don't like it, they all like the Royal Bank.

Because of the large number of offices and strong strength of the Royal Bank, it is more convenient for merchants to carry out various business activities, silver bills for cash transactions, checks for merchants, and even large cashier's checks, which are all needed by merchants.

And when these merchants deposit their money in the Royal Bank or other new private banks established and reformed in accordance with the new regulations, they are actually making their books public to the Department of Taxation and Grain Collection.

Even if they use fake accounts and use all kinds of accounting methods to evade investigation, it is still difficult to escape the investigation of the tax department, unless you directly use a large amount of gold and silver to trade.

And this investigation, the tax department quickly found the problem!

The problem is not big, strictly speaking, it is relatively small, and they found that the corporate account of a restaurant under the name of the Yang family has had frequent large capital flows in the past few months.

Although this restaurant has paid taxes in accordance with business standards, such a frequent flow of large amounts of funds naturally aroused the vigilance of tax investigators in an instant, because it is impossible for any ordinary restaurant to achieve frequent capital flows of tens of thousands of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Immediately, the tax officer first checked all the funds of this restaurant!

The next day, the members of the tax inspection team seized the restaurant, searched the account books, and then compared the account books of the restaurant with the bank's capital changes, and came to a fact: The restaurant concealed a large amount of income and evaded taxes amounting to more than 5,000 taels!

Five thousand taels, this number is not small for ordinary merchants, but for the Yang family, it is only a fraction!

But does Chen Lifu care about the size of the amount?

Not care!

On the day the restaurant was sealed, he personally issued an order to arrest the core members of the Yang family!

Therefore, when the people of the Yang clan in the Yang family's Qingzhu Garden were still discussing how to deal with the second inspection team sent by the patrol department, the tax inspection team was holding a sword, a musket, and even a shotgun to knock on the door of the Yang family's Qingzhu Garden, and then in a burst of surprise, they took away the head of the Yang family and several other core members on the charge of tax evasion.

At first, the Yang family thought it was nothing, because they found that the tax inspection team took them away just because of the tax evasion of 5,000 taels of silver, which was not a big deal, and they could make up for it on the same day, so there was no problem at all if they were to be fined.

However, after the head of the Yang family was taken away by the tax inspection team, he never came back!

After interrogation, the tax investigators quickly expanded the results, and dug up several bills for tax evasion, and finally counted, the Yang family concealed a large amount of income, well, these incomes are undoubtedly the income from the sale of illicit salt, but the tax investigators don't care whether this is the income from the sale of illicit salt, they only care about one thing: these incomes are not taxed!

Although the tax investigators are not omnipotent, they still found out that the Yang family evaded taxes by at least more than 50,000 taels, and such a large amount is enough for the tax inspection team to raid the Yang family!

Therefore, there is no doubt that the tax inspection team raided the Yang family at the first time and arrested all the men!

Immediately afterwards, the tax directly transferred the case to the Inspectorate, and the Yangzhou Inspectorate directly prosecuted in the name of 'concealing income, tax evasion, and the amount is huge, and the circumstances are serious', and the Yangzhou Prefecture Court ruled that the head of the Yang family and 16 core members were sentenced to be executed, and the remaining accomplices were sentenced to several years in prison and exiled.

The Yang family's case shook almost the entire Jiangbei Province, and even Jiangnan, and almost no one thought that even the local officials and even the patrol police department were helpless to do anything about the Yang family, and they did not end up with the extermination of their families because of selling illicit salt, but because they missed the tax of 5,000 taels of silver!

Mom, even at the time of the public prosecution, the imperial history of the Inspectorate didn't even use the word private salt, and the whole article was about tax evasion by the Yang family!

When the Yang family evaded taxes because of tax evasion, Chen Lifu did not stop the butcher knife in his hand!

In just a few days, the tax inspection team attacked everywhere in Yangzhou City, and even asked for the assistance of the regular army stationed in Yangzhou, and raided more than 30 salt merchants, killing more than 300 tax resistants, arresting more than 100 principal criminals, and arresting more than 500 accomplices.

And if you don't check a family, you can find out the tax problem, which is nothing more than a problem of tax evasion and tax evasion.

One of the most unlucky ones, just because there were more than 100 taels of silver did not take the initiative to file taxes, and then it attracted tax investigators, and then after being arrested, the hidden problem was exposed.

The officials of the second salt industry inspection team of the patrol police department who led the team to Yangzhou found that they had just arrived, and they had not started to do anything, and the problem of illegal salt had almost been completely swept away.

Because the Ministry of Taxation directly served the salt merchants in Yangzhou Mansion with thunderous means, and the charges used were all concealment of income, tax evasion, and all of them were the end of raiding the family and exterminating the family, without exception!

These salt merchants left a warning to the later smugglers: Don't evade taxes!

After the officials of the patrol police department came to Yangzhou for a few days, they found that Chen Lifu of the tax department did not leave them with anything, because the illegal salt in Yangzhou had completely disappeared.

Then they just returned to Jinling in disgrace, and they were depressed about it!

What's even more interesting is that after hearing about this, Shang Shu of the patrol police department who drove north almost vomited blood, and scolded a group of officials of the patrol department, saying that they were incompetent and lost the face of the patrol department.

Because this matter even reached Li Xuan's ears!

Although the Ancient Sage Monarch didn't say anything, looking at him in the eyes of the Shangshu of the Patrol Police Department, it was a question: Your Patrol Police Department dealt with a few smuggler salt dealers, and you still need the help of the Tax Department to do it?

Chen Lifu's thunderous means of rectifying taxation in Jiangbei Province have achieved great results, and the tax department of Jiangbei Province has recovered about 300,000 taels of silver in taxes and obtained a fine of nearly 2 million!

And this is not a big head!

In fact, the real big head comes from the income from the house!

The Ministry of Taxation directly took the salt merchants in Jiangbei Province, but not only in Yangzhou to confiscate the salt merchants, but also in Huai'an Mansion, similar to the raid of more than 50 companies, in addition to the recovered taxes and fines, but also confiscated all kinds of assets worth more than 40 million taels of silver!

When this number was reported to Li Xuan, it almost startled Li Xuan!

These salt merchants are rich enough, these more than 40 million can be compared to the financial revenue of the Tang Dynasty in Xuanping for six years, and even twice the annual tax revenue of Nanzhili, you must know that after the rectification of Nanzhili Sidao, the estimated tax revenue of the Ministry of Taxation in Xuanping's six-year revenue budget is also 20 million.

And the entire Tang Dynasty's fiscal revenue budget in the six years of Xuanping, its tax revenue is only more than 40 million taels, these salt merchants are really rich and rival the country!

It's a pity that a considerable part of the confiscated more than 40 million taels of silver assets are fixed assets, such as real estate, shops, fields, and then all kinds of treasures, these things occupy most of the department, and in cash, it is more than 10 million.

And then these properties, many of them are still those luxurious private gardens, all kinds of treasures, although the value is expensive, but if you want to sell it to recoup the funds, it is more difficult.

However, those shops are okay, and the bits and pieces can be sold directly, and as for the land, they will all be collected as official fields!

However, even if it is only more than 13 million taels of silver, this is a huge amount!

Li Xuan just received the news and was sighing, when many civil and military ministers under him ran to Li Xuan one by one, for no other reason, to ask for money!