"What's this?" Zheng Yongji's originally smiling face suddenly turned grim, and he said: "As long as you can continue to serve the Great Zhou and be loyal to Your Majesty, what if the old man gives up?!" ”

"Humph! Airs! "Some ministers are very dissatisfied with Zheng Yongji.

"Zheng Ge Lao Gao Feng Liang Festival, it is really a model for us to follow!" There are also ministers who compliment Cheng Yongji.

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In the compliment or cynicism, the six departments and Jiuqing and other high-ranking officials of the court came to Donghua Pavilion one after another.

"Elder Zheng Ge, I don't know why you called me and the others here?" As soon as he entered the gate of Donghua Pavilion, Gao Pei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, asked loudly.

Everyone else looked at Zheng Yongji, wanting to get an answer from him.

Hearing Gao Pei's shout, Zheng Yongji subconsciously frowned, and became more and more dissatisfied with Gao Pei in his heart.

I remember when Gao Pei first entered Beijing, he was still very low-key.

After his daughter Gao Pei gave birth to the second prince Zhao Han, Gao Pei became more and more arrogant and domineering, and even ignored himself, the head of the cabinet.

If Xiaofuzi was lukewarm before, Zheng Yongji couldn't do anything about him, but for Gao Pei, Zheng Yongji had 10,000 ways to target him.

Xiaofuzi was under the jurisdiction of the inner court and was a royal domestic slave. It depends on the owner to beat the dog, and Zheng Yongji naturally will not target Xiaofuzi for no reason.

But Gao Pei is different.

Gao Pei, as the secretary of the criminal department in the six ministries and nine secretaries, is Zheng Yongji's direct subordinate, unless Gao Pei does not make the slightest mistake in his official duties, otherwise......

Besides, although Gao Guifei, the daughter of Gao Pei, and Zheng Guifei, the daughter of Zheng Yongji, are both concubines of the Son of Heaven, they are also in competition.

There is only one throne in the Great Zhou, and Zheng Yongji naturally hopes that the prince born to his daughter can inherit the throne.

Although it is said that Zheng Guifei's stomach does not move at all now.

Once Concubine Zheng gave birth to a prince, as a relative, the contradiction between Zheng Yongji and Gao Pei was completely irreconcilable.

After all, the ass decides the head.

Regarding Gao Pei's current style of acting, not only Zheng Yongji is dissatisfied, but also Li Guangtai, the imperial history of the left capital, Chen Yiming, the secretary of the ministry, Zhu Kaishan, the secretary of the household department, and Cao Rui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, are also extremely dissatisfied.

The reasons for Zhu Kaishan and Cao Rui's dissatisfaction are the same as Zheng Yongji's, they are also relatives, so they naturally have irreconcilable contradictions.

Chen Yiming is faintly biased towards Zheng Yongji's line.

Chen Yiming and Zheng Yongji have been officials in the same dynasty for many years, and their friendship is naturally not comparable to Gao Pei, a person who has just entered Beijing for less than two years.

As for Li Guangtai?

Li Guangtai is a square person, and although he can be accommodating on some government and political issues, he is a bit rigid in other aspects.

Otherwise, Li Guangtai would not have held on to Zheng Yongji's problematic son before.

Regarding the dissatisfaction in everyone's hearts, Gao Pei didn't seem to be aware of it, and came to the hall and intuitively sat down on the top of the left.

This move caused even more dissatisfaction among everyone.

Among the six ministries and nine qing, I want to respect the officials and households, and in the seat, Da Zhou has always respected the left, and Gao Pei is the secretary of the criminal department, how can He De be able to sit in the position of the head?

Seeing that everyone had arrived, he glanced at Gao Pei lightly, and Zheng Yongji said: "The old man called you over today, because he has something important to discuss with you......

Zheng Yongji informed everyone present of Zhang Lingyang's intention to collect commercial tax and mining tax one by one, "...... His Majesty ordered the Cabinet and the Household Department to sort out the old papers, but I was afraid that they would have to consult soon. ”

"Levy commercial tax, mining tax?" At first glance, when he heard the information from Zheng Yongji's mouth, he was the happiest person than Li Guangtai, the imperial history of the left capital.

Li Guangtai clapped his hands and said: "It is said that scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, merchants have the lowest status, but since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they have never levied a penny of taxes on merchants, and the court should have done this a long time ago." ”

Compared with Li Guangtai's applause, the most unhappy person in the hall is Gao Pei.

Previously, Gao Pei used some means to install several cronies in several state capitals in Jiangnan.

A few days ago, these cronies wrote back to Gao Pei saying that some Zhejiang and Huizhou businessmen wanted to visit their portals and asked Gao Pei to make up their minds.

The dependence of merchants on the gentry was a tradition in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Besides, what does a merchant represent?

The merchant represents the silver of the white flowers!

How could Gao Pei refuse?

Under Gao Pei's instructions, several protégés and former officials in the south of the Yangtze River successively accepted many businessmen into the company.

In fact, the merchants have to pay them a certain amount of gold and silver every year to ensure that they can trade safely in the future.

Among them, the one who took the most silver was naturally Gao Pei, the head of the household.

In just a few months, Gao Pei has received more than one million taels of silver, and there are countless other granges, shops, beauties, cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings, and rare and exotic products.

So after listening to Zheng Yongji's words, he didn't think about it, Gao Pei spoke: "When Emperor Taizu was in power, he had already decreed that merchants would never be taxed, and now he suddenly wants to tax merchants, is it possible that Emperor Taizu will not listen to his words?" Is the rule of the ancestors gone?

Although Your Majesty is wise and powerful, there are some things that will inevitably be omitted in dealing with them. As important ministers of the imperial court, we naturally want to remind and advise Your Majesty......"

Gao Pei Balabala has a lot of words, and the words are all to persuade everyone present to persuade Zhang Lingyang to take back his fate.

"You want Your Majesty to take back your order, but the old man will persuade Your Majesty to collect commercial taxes and mining taxes." Originally, Zheng Yongji didn't want to see the imperial court collect commercial and mining taxes, after all, Zheng Yongji himself had a lot of shops. But now seeing Gao Pei jumping out to oppose it so impatiently, he secretly made up his mind in his heart.

As Zheng Yongji thought, Cao Rui, Zhu Kaishan, Chen Yiming and others did not want to see Gao Pei feel better, and they also made up their minds to support the imperial court in collecting commercial taxes and mining taxes.

In doing so, they will undoubtedly injure 1,000 enemies and 800 themselves, and they may see Gao Pei deflated, and they are willing.

Purely opposition for the sake of opposition.

After Gao Pei finished speaking, Zhu Kaishan opened his mouth to retort: "Gao Shangshu's words are wrong! At the time of Emperor Taizu, how much cultivated land was cultivated in the Great Zhou Dynasty? How many people are there? What is the geometry of commercial tax?

It is necessary to know that time has changed, and the national policy set by Emperor Taizu was indeed very suitable at that time, but now two hundred years have passed, if you still hold the old concept before, the old man has to say that you are 'conservative'. ”

"What Zhu Shangshu said is extremely true!" Cao Rui echoed: "Although the old man has never served in the household department, when he was the governor of Liangjiang a few years ago, the old man knew that those merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were all rich and rival the country. If they are left unasked and just raise taxes to the people, I'm afraid it won't be justified, right? ”

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