It was rare for Li Shimin to look at him pleasing to the eye and wanted to recall him back to Chang'an. Li Tian smiled slightly and said: "The ministers are already for Your Majesty, and the ministers are serving my Tang Dynasty no matter where they are, and all the ministers recruited by Your Majesty should gladly obey their orders." ”

"That's right, what's the matter with Xu Jingzong letting you enter Beijing?"

"Back to the saint, Lord Assassin Shi ordered the ministers to enter Beijing to pay the taxes of Qingshan Shanxi Province for three years."

"Huh? What is the three-year tax payment in Duanlunshan West Road? I remember that there was no shortage of taxes in Shanxi Province every year. ”

Li Shimin's eyes immediately changed when it came to taxes, and the eyes of the knife were on Duan Lun's body, and Duan Lun knelt on the ground with a puff and said, "Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed no shortcoming, and it is fully stored every year." The ministers also wondered what taxes they had to pay. ”

"Since there is no shortage, what is Li Tian here for? It can't be that he Shanxi Province paid out of his own pocket to buy political achievements, right? ”

Li Shimin said angrily, in his opinion, this was Duan Lun's serious dereliction of duty.

"Your Majesty, this really has nothing to do with Lord Duan, it's Shanxi Province that has undercounted taxes in the past three years." Li Tian hurriedly said, he didn't dare to let Duan Lun hold a grudge against him because of this.

"What's going on?" Li Shimin said angrily, there is a shortage of taxes, and the officials of Shanxi Province simply don't know whether they are alive or dead.

"Back to Your Majesty, in fact, the tax underpaid in Shanxi Province is a commercial tax, and a total of 4063,481,257 Wen needs to be paid in three years. Now the money has been transported to Chang'an, and it can be put into the warehouse after the household department has counted it. ”

"What did you say?" Li Shimin stood up in surprise and looked at Li Tian, not counting Lingnan and Fusang, Datang only paid more than 3 million taels of taxes in a year, and the commercial tax was only 900,000, how could Shanxi Road get 4 million commercial taxes in three years?

The rest of the officials are also like hell, they pay more than one million less a year, doesn't it mean that the commercial tax of Shanxi Province in a year is more than half of the total in a year in the whole of Datang?

"That's right, in the past three years, the commercial tax has been less than one valuables tax, this tax is thirty and fifteen, because the first two years of this tax belong to the tax holiday, so the tax began to be collected last year, and it is precisely because of this that this tax is so small, but only four million taels."

"Nonsense, thirty and fifteen, who gave you the right to fool around like this? Aren't you afraid of forcing the people of the world to rebel? ”

Wei Zheng's eyes were about to crack, and he quickly stepped forward and slapped Li Tian to the ground. For the sake of political achievements, he actually resorted to such means, and he seemed to have seen the scene of the people of Shanxi struggling to make a living.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to get this slap back from the lower official, it hurts me to death. Your Majesty's tax on valuables will never make the people resentful, usually buy and sell thirty and one tax, only those shops that specialize in buying and selling valuables will collect a tax of fifteen, this tax after two years of subtle development, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Shanxi Province down to the common people to the dignitaries and dignitaries think that it should be. Otherwise, we wouldn't dare to risk the world's condemnation! ”

"It's all about buying and selling, why should we treat it differently? Isn't that unfair? ”

Wei Zheng didn't speak, and those family officials came out one after another to question, they were undoubtedly the largest consumer group of valuables in this era, and this way of collecting taxes was too unfair to them.

If you don't stand up at this time, do you have to wait until the whole world implements this tax on precious goods before refuting it? At that time, there will be no other way but to give money obediently.

"This is a valuable item, so the preciousness lies in the non-reproducible, perhaps slow-growing items, these items are used a little less, and the trader naturally needs to pay more price, this is a fair thing, even children can understand this truth in Shanxi Road, presumably there is no need to explain it to adults, right?"

Li Tian said neither humbly nor arrogantly, and the family officials couldn't say a word when they were choked one by one, so they could only pinch their noses and not speak.

Li Shimin doesn't care so much, as long as he doesn't exploit the people, it's good to collect as much as he can, not to mention that he can collect so much money in a year, he will never object.

"Okay, the tax made up by Shanxi Province can be said to have solved the urgent need of the imperial court, and it should be rewarded. Duan Lun, you immediately take someone to count and put it into the warehouse, with such a large sum of money, it is enough to support it until the end of the next year, right? ”

Li Shimin said happily, not to mention the millions of dollars at the end of next year, even in the middle of the year after that, it will be more than wrong.

"The minister obeys the order, such a huge amount of money is more than wrong, and the minister can have a relaxed year this year. The minister retired first. Duan Lun said with a comfortable face, he didn't panic when he had food in his hand!

"Good! Let's go first! Li Tian, you also go down to rest, and you will arrive as soon as you are rewarded. Auxiliary, Xuan Ling! Xu Jingzong did a good job this time! Let's see how we should be rewarded this time. ”

"Back to Your Majesty, in the past few years, Xu Jingzong has been excellent in the assessment of the officials every year, and the minister and Wuji Gong were also discussing how to arrange it yesterday, so that his ability can be better played."

Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile, although Xu Jingzong does not have a title, but his power and status are the first, and now no one in Shanxi Dao can suppress him except for Li Ji, who can suppress him.

It is because of this that Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji have such a headache, and they want to transfer him to Chang'an, but there is no suitable vacancy in Chang'an!

Li Shimin naturally knew what they were having a headache, thought about it and said, "Shanxi Dao can't leave him yet, so don't transfer it around." The decree crowned Xu Jingzong as the viscount of Xincheng, with 500 households, and allowed his son Xu Jing to study in Huanshan Academy. ”

Everyone said yes, but they didn't think so, aren't you too happy today, Lao Li, you are a little carried away! By the time the decree is rejected by the Academy, you should know that you will lose face.

That year, Fang Xuanling couldn't get the academy to open the back door for his baby with 20,000 runs, and it was even more impossible according to the current style of the academy.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of Tubo has paid tribute many times, and this time he even brought a request from Songtsen Gampo, and this great man on the plateau hopes to marry the princess of our Tang Dynasty, but now he doesn't dare to make a big fuss."

Fu Yi said happily, Tubo was scared once, and there was no previous arrogance, and the words on the national letter brought by the envoy were all careful and respectful.

Li Shimin was both happy and uncomfortable when he heard this, it is not easy to make such a strong country soft, but since others are soft, should he let him marry? The palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, and he is really reluctant to let his daughter go so far!

As for his sisters' marriages, there is no suitable candidate.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty is as powerful as the abyss, and as strong as Tubo, I have to bow down to the courtiers."

Everyone congratulated in unison, Li Shimin's eyes were full of smiles, he straightened his waist and waved his hand casually, and said with a headache: "It's just that there is some embarrassment at the moment, and Tubo can't turn a blind eye to repeated requests, but my princess is not suitable at all, and I am afraid that Tubo will rebel against me if I repeatedly shirk it." ”

(End of chapter)