Chapter 526: Tax Superintendent

The courtiers changed their opinions, and it took a lot of time, and since the emperor had already decided on the policy of taxation, the arguments of the people who were still arguing about whether to collect or not to collect quickly became unanimous, and everyone said that the danger on the steppe was imminent, so it was the right thing to gather military funds to rectify the soldiers first.

When the tax is in the civil government, it is the biggest errand of oil and water, and there are many opportunities to get up and down, since it is decided to collect taxes and raise taxes, then who will be responsible for this, several Shangshu in the study exchanged glances with each other, and no one spoke, but they all saw the salivation in each other's eyes.

No matter how these people were suppressed by the East Party officials in the past, and how the agriculture of the four provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi was infringed upon by the industry and commerce in the east, after they came to power, what they thought of was not to revitalize their hometowns, or to let the industry and commerce in their hometowns rise and support the agricultural products in their hometowns.

Thinking about things is very straightforward - making money, with the opportunity to make money, everyone is ready to do it, this is not the time to be polite. Moreover, when the civil officials controlled the government, the power to collect taxes was firmly grasped by the household department, and they really controlled the world's money and grain.

Hubu Shangshu was so happy in his heart that he was in the sky, thinking that it had only been a few days since he took office, and such a mountain of gold had fallen from the sky, and he had already begun to think about how to make money in his heart, and the ministers around him were thinking in their hearts about how to get a share of this big fat meat.

In this study, you can almost hear the sound of swallowing saliva, and the expressions and eyes of these ministers sitting on the seats are all in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing.

The emperor's heart can't help but be disgusted very, but to govern the country, obviously can not just rely on eunuchs and military attachés, the existence of these civil officials is also necessary, the state machine must have these people in order to run smoothly, the officials in the court themselves are mostly in the three northern provinces and the south, most of the targets of this purge are the officials of the Eastern Party, because they have too much proportion in the official ranks, and now there is a shortage of various yamen, and the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has always been superficial and bloated. At this time, there is a shortage of people, which is really a miracle in the world.

Disgust is disgust, since they are still needed, the emperor will not turn his face at this time, Jiajing smiled and said:

"All the ministers are newly appointed, and there are a lot of things in hand, and I have my own arrangements for taxes."

The ministers here are all puzzled in their hearts, but it is not easy to ask clearly, but the current emperor is not a few months ago, and the ministers can use what "the prince of the arch, the king and the scholar rule the world together" and other words to set up the emperor, if there is doubt, the former bosses and colleagues who stayed in the prison are living examples.

"Rui Xiaosan!"

The emperor snorted lightly, and Gonggong Rui, who was standing on the side, hurriedly took a step forward, and Emperor Jiajing said with a smile on his face:

"The reconstruction of the East Factory is exactly where people need to be employed, you choose trustworthy people, go to various places to picket taxes, and Lu Bing's yamen will also be assigned to assist!"

was named by the emperor, Grandpa Rui and Lu Bing were both hurriedly giving gifts to receive the order, Grandpa Rui was not a person with a city government, when he received the decree, his face was already full of joy, and anyone could see that he was happy. It is not unusual for eunuchs to go to various places to collect taxes.

The reputation of the tax supervisor in the Zhengde years has been stinky, the eunuchs sent by the East Factory to the rich prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty to monitor the collection of taxes, these eunuchs are ruthless, mean very, officials and merchants around the country are miserable, the former ceremonial supervisor Bingbi when the eunuch was still Huang Jin, the system of tax supervisors is still maintained, but at that time the real industries that can collect taxes are basically related to the Jingshi business group, so they gradually weakened, and began to recall the tax supervisors from all over the country.

After the land prosecution case, the civil officials who controlled the government directly meddled in the business of various places, and tried their best to evade taxes, and these eunuchs who collected taxes were even more unpopular.

Dongchang was weakened, the power of the tax supervisor was deprived, there was no eyes and ears, no money, the power of the eunuch Bingbi of the master of ceremonies plummeted, and the use of the palace was also nervous.

So this time, since he was going to send someone out to collect taxes, Emperor Jiajing was the first to choose his henchmen to be responsible, and Father-in-law Rui was naturally very happy, which was also the emperor's reward for Rui Xiaosan and Lu Bing's merits in this mutiny.

Although the personnel who collect taxes are served by eunuchs and military attaches of the internal guards, the amount of tax collected needs to be discussed by the six scholars, and the leader is naturally the household department, because there is no cabinet scholar now, and there is no one to judge.

These ministers in the study watched this fat shortage fly out, and they were extremely disappointed in their hearts, but they couldn't express it clearly, and they all endured it very hard.

Since it is talking about the quota, and there is no benefit in this quota, the minds of these scholars and servants have returned to the previous track.

In the past, when the Western Party and the Eastern Party were fighting each other in the DPRK and China, one of the differences between the two sides was the tax, and the Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yungui and Guizhou of the Western Party did not have any industry and commerce, and the officials were all landlords and squires, so the opinion in the court was to reduce the land tax and increase the commercial tax, and their basis was that agriculture and mulberry were the foundation of the country, and industry and commerce were small roads, which were harmful to the country.

Although when the Eastern Party entered the imperial court, the background was also first-class landlords, but in recent years, the income from land rent was far less than the money earned by their family business operations, and their position in the imperial court was naturally completely opposite to that of the Western Party.

The disputes between the two sides in the court continued, when the Jiajing Emperor did not launch a mutiny, the Western Party was completely inferior in the court, so the quota of agricultural taxes and fields in the world was very high, and the landlords could play tricks to transfer it to their own hired farmers and tenants, but this tax was actually received to the point that even they had to spend money to pay, although the Western Party was at a disadvantage at that time, but these officials would rather be dismissed and reprimanded, but also to refute the dispute. Because this is the industry of their hometown fathers, their own means of making money, they can't fight for it.

Since Emperor Jiajing has already said that he will set a quota for the six ministries, it is very obvious how these people will arrange it.

The original high land tax has been reduced, but the tax on factories and shops has been set at a very high level, and it doesn't matter if the price is high, anyway, you don't have to collect it yourself, and the emperor will not know how much tax is appropriate for industry and commerce.

If there is anything hard and difficult, let the eunuch and the brocade guard worry about it! Anyway, when the money arrives from the treasury, the six ministries will also have a chance to make money, and when the time comes, they will make less money, and their faces will not be ugly. Since there were no opinions, the agreed amount was reported.

Since Emperor Jiajing regained power, small-scale gatherings have been held regularly and irregularly in the study, and the six Shangshu Shilang and the personnel of the various big yamen are all looking at this greedy death, Lu Bing, Rui Gonggong and Zhou Lin, or the military attache of his cronies or the eunuchs of the inner palace, these people have such and such relationships with Jiajing, but these newly promoted people can participate.

Slowly, it became an unwritten rule of the imperial court to discuss state affairs in the study, and the leaders of the celebrant eunuch, Jinyiwei, and Jingwei were all qualified to discuss matters, and occasionally the ministers would be summoned to discuss and consult, and only a few little eunuchs could not complete more paperwork in it.

At the suggestion of Rui Xiaosan, the fourth and fifth eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi began to come to the study on duty, and the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites each had several five-grade officials to handle official documents here. The civil and military officials, the nobles of the capital are all staring at the errands on duty in this study, which is quite similar to the meaning of the Inner Dynasty and the Hanlin Academy in the heyday, so there was this rule later, looking at a person's career prospects. Just look at whether there are three words "worth study" in front of his official title.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang Yamen, which have been dilapidated for a long time, quickly began to recover, everyone knows that the emperor is now very favored by these two yamen, and it is in front of them to return to the prestige of the year, and I heard that the imperial court is going to send tax inspectors everywhere, which has become a place with rich oil and water, and those people who ran out of it in the past are now squeezing their heads to go back.

However, at noon on this day, the Dongchang Yamen was closed at the gate, blocking those who drilled the camp back, if you stand by the door and have a sensitive ear, you can still hear the sharp voice of Grandpa Rui:

"This errand is the face of our family, you all do it for our family, and give the world a look......"