Xiao Chuan didn't know what was going on outside the city, under the faint candlelight, Yamato carefully helped him sort out the cyan robes, some Hanfu robes were very difficult to wear anyway, Xiao Chuan has not been used to wearing them, especially the kind of clothes with hems that need someone to help tie them in the back, between the mouth and nose is the fragrance of Yamato's body, Xiao Chuan said strangely: "Don't be so troublesome, I'll just wear armor to the banquet."

"How can this be, Ogawa-kun, the banquet is a very important occasion, you have to wear this kind of formal attire" Yamato said, nodding again, Ogawa has no choice but to wear an official uniform, but he doesn't seem to have an official uniform? Yes, because I think it is uncomfortable to wear it.

"Okay, no" Ogawa was a little impatient, it took nearly half an hour for Yamato to dress up by himself, and now it is almost half an hour to dress himself, Yamato wrinkled his beauty, and said with sadness in his big eyes: "Okay, since Ogawa-kun, if you don't want to dress up, that's it" Yamato said that he was wearing a white kimono embroidered with white lilies.

Xiao Chuan saw her appearance, she was a woman who would not show her sadness, and said, "You are so beautiful today, Yamato" Yamato raised his head with a different smile on his face.

Yamato showed a knowing smile and said, "Then Xiaochuan-kun, let's go, Mr. Wang has been waiting outside for a long time."

Wait a long time for you to be so slow, walk out of the antechamber

Outside, it was already Wang Heng and others, he looked indifferently at a map on the table, on which was the whole map of Shandong, he saw Xiao Chuan come with a sad face, raised his head and followed Xiao Chuan out, and said: "Lord, how do we collect the commercial tax?"

"Naturally, it is tariffs, and city taxes" Xiaochuan said, the tax in the last years of the Ming Dynasty has reached a ridiculous point, all taxes other than agricultural taxes in the court will be resolutely suppressed and resisted by the Donglin Party, especially the tax where the southern parties are located has become a joke, for example, the commercially developed Zhejiang Jinhua has a tax of only seven taels of silver a year, and various tax evasion and tax avoidance methods emerge in an endless stream to make people dazzled, such as when the merchant ship evades tariffs, it is to let it deal with it when it encounters tariffs, Or hang a fake sign on the ship to flush the façade, which is equivalent to hanging a sign of the government, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty are also taxing in the way, but there are these talented people at the bottom who really can't collect taxes.

Therefore, as long as the scholars of the Ming Dynasty can be admitted to Xiucai, they are quite wealthy, and when the time comes, they can help the merchant ships to be exempted from paying tolls and withdraw the commission, or they can pretend to occupy the land to evade agricultural taxes.

"Childe, we implement the policy of commercial taxation, this is not within our scope" Wang Heng said, he considered it more comprehensively, after such a implementation, wouldn't it really become the enemy of those scholars all over the world, just say that those talents in Shandong who rely on helping Caoyun evade taxes are going to be criticized and written. "When the time comes, the population will be you, and their verbal and written criticisms"

"What about the verbal criticism in their mouths" Xiao Chuan took out a superstitious and said: "This is His Majesty's letter, and it will be enough to stay in the middle of the court when the time comes" Xiao Chuan said, his plan is to re-impose tariffs, as well as local health offices, at this moment the land of other health centers in Shandong is still occupied by local families, enclosing fertile land, hiring tenants to farm the land, and strange: "By the way, how would those merchants know that we want to collect business taxes?" "Xiao Chuan is strange, obviously this matter should be very secret

"Is it a spy?" Wang Heng said, but after thinking about it, there were Beidou spies everywhere, and this kind of thing couldn't be spread at all, and said: "Maybe they are worried that we will promote Qingzhou's tax collection method to all parts of Shandong?" ”

Xiaochuan was stunned and shook his head, there is no need for this, the commercial tax is secondary, and the main thing is to recover the land of the local health centers.

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The two of them came to the palace in the city under the escort of a group of witches, and it is also the residence of Wang Yan, the place where the prefect of Shandong is located, the vermilion gate has just been painted with a layer of paint, and the stench of the slums outside is full of mouth and nose standing outside the door, and the smell of fresh paint in this gate is mixed with a different feeling.

A group of witches followed, with a different kind of fragrance in the air, and then walked inside, the rockery pond built in the inner courtyard was luxurious, and it was like splitting the mountain with a layer of white light in the moonlight, which was even more beautiful.

Walking to it, there was already a table of banquets on both sides of the inner lobby, and the few people in the main seat were Liu Zeqing, Wang Yan, and Zou Yuan, and there were many businessmen sitting around, as well as officials from various health centers, many of whom were Xiaochuan's former comrades-in-arms. It was to follow them one by one and say hello

A smile flashed on Liu Zeqing's face, without a guard, the explosives were not needed, and there was a good house left, and when the time came, he would send someone to pretend to be a thief on the road to intercept and kill.

Wang Yan first got up and said with a smile: "General Qin, I have heard a long time ago that you fought the Tatars with the land of Hebei and repelled the elite of the Manchu Dynasty, you are really my minister of the Ming Dynasty."

A group of people stood up and began to congratulate, Xiao Chuan was a little fluttering after hearing it, but there was a group of young women wearing gauze clothes walking outside, petite and delicate, with snow-white and purple skin, and began to dance, and all the guests who sat down began to comment or looked at the orchestra sound with fiery eyes.

"This is how General Qin, the dancing girl in the old man's mansion, thinks" Wang Yan said with a smile, Xiaochuan looked naturally hot, thinking that this old man really raised such a group of beauties, and he was not afraid of hollowing himself out, and said: "Naturally good!" ”

"Since General Qin has taken a fancy to it, then I will give it to General Qin," Wang Yan said on the side, Liu Zeqing had jealousy on his face, this is a group of beauties that he has been begging for a long time, so he naturally didn't want to give it to Xiaochuan, but he just wanted to speak, but he thought for a while, he first sent someone to assassinate him, and there was a noise tomorrow, whether he could live until the day after tomorrow was not necessarily that he didn't speak.

Looking at this dancing beauty, as well as the fragrance in the air, he naturally wanted to agree immediately, this is a man's instinctive reaction, but he suddenly thought that if he agreed, who knows what is in it, he wants to refuse, but Wang Heng said: "Childe, you can accept such a beauty."

Suddenly, suddenly there was a cold breath in the air, Xiao Chuan felt the murderous aura on Yamato's body, her face was still that light and breezy appearance, and said, "That's it, general, you will be under it."

Women like to talk back, especially when what Yamato says is not the same as what she thinks in her heart, especially when the other party is still a gentle and black-bellied woman, Xiaochuan doesn't want the dish he eats tomorrow to suddenly become extremely salty, or the horse suddenly falls to the ground when he travels on horseback. Wang Yan, who just wanted to refuse, said, "Haha, since General Qin is interested, I will send them to your mansion in a while!" ”

Ogawa made one backwards, look at it, I didn't agree, this is the Yamato who he forced into the back of me, but Ogawa read the meaning of tomorrow You cook by yourself from her face.

Seeing that Xiaochuan had received the gift, Zou Yuan on the side suddenly said: "General, the old man is Zou Yuan, a businessman in Jinan Mansion, Shandong."

"It turned out to be Mr. Zou, I have heard Mr. Zou's name for a long time, and when I saw it, it really deserved its name" Xiaochuan said, in fact, he didn't even know what the other party's name was, but he came up and said nonsense.

Zou Yuan touched his beard, and looked at a few people who were also businessmen next to him, and said, "I heard that the adults are going to increase the business tax."

This is very wonderful, the Ming Dynasty itself exists, but the use of scholars to evade taxes is equivalent to no general, Xiaochuan said: "It's not to add, but to garrison troops at various checkpoints to defend against pirate attacks!" As the commander-in-chief of Shandong, I naturally can't sit back and watch all kinds of merchant ships being attacked by pirates, and it is my Shandong army's bounden duty to protect you," Ogawa said.

"Pirates?" Everyone laughed as if they had heard some funny joke, Liu Zeqing said: "The general is joking, this pirate from here?" The pirates have been beaten away, and even bandits are rare in Shandong, so how can there be pirates! ”

After Xiao Chuan smiled, you will know where there are pirates, and said: "I heard that there is a group of pirates on the sea who are preparing to sack various checkpoints, and I am going to set up an army at the checkpoints to protect the merchant ships, caravans, and families from all over the world."

"General Gao Yi, I admire it, but the general's army is used to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty, not our family, my Zou family was robbed to death by pirates, and I will never mobilize the Ming Dynasty!" Zou Yuan said, his words were very upright, as if he was such a great person, he didn't know that his words would really come true in the future.

"Mr. Zou is high-minded, and so is we."

"That's right, General, we don't need the protection of adults for the caravan, General, you said that the soldiers are distributed to the surrounding villages to protect the people, and our merchants are willing to be ransacked by pirates, and the people are not worried, and when the pirates loot us, we will naturally not rob the people nearby" Several other people also said, saying that they were very great.

They all thought that this was just a joke by Ogawa, but they just wanted to find a high-sounding excuse for collecting taxes for the passing caravans, and they all said, and began to say that they were very great.

Xiao Chuan was holding his stomach and wanted to laugh very much, wait a few days to see if you are still not so great, a meal in a family patriarch, and officials swore to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty from pirate attacks and were willing to be robbed in an atmosphere full of positive energy. They didn't know that in a few days they would actually be attacked by pirates.

Liu Ze on the side cleared the beginning of a few words and stopped talking, but he was worried that Xiaochuan would accept his army, and he prepared several sets of excuses for not handing over military power, but the other party did not talk about this matter at all, which also made him break out in a cold sweat, watching the other party leave, and secretly called his subordinates on the side to arrange any attack on the road.