Although Li Hongfei is not an old fritter in officialdom, he has been influenced by later generations of TV and movies, and has already figured out the routines of officialdom. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although he is now, even if he is covered by Zhu Youzhen, he does not dare to confront all the officials in the world, but it does not mean that he can't catch a weakness and bite hard.

This problem of commercial taxation is the weakness of those officials.

As long as Li Hongfei can control the situation within the scope of businessmen and does not affect the status of those officials in the DPRK and China, those officials will definitely abandon these businessmen who have no status in order to save their lives.

Li Hongfei understands this truth, and Zhou Furen also understands it, so these businessmen can only choose to compromise in order to protect themselves.

Li Hongfei saw that the coercion policy was working, and he did not continue to persecute, but signaled Guo Sheng to put away his saber, and then said slowly: "This Ming commercial tax problem has been going on for a long time, and this official will not talk about it in detail. One of the reasons why the issue of commercial taxes was mentioned this time was because the imperial court was now facing a war and needed a lot of military spending. The other is that the saint intends to rectify the business, and when the time comes, he will definitely issue an order to thoroughly investigate the problem of tax evasion, and the official is the prefect of Suzhou, so he naturally does not want the bosses to be implicated, so making up the business tax is the only way for you at present. Once the commercial tax is paid up, and your donation is meritorious, I believe that with the emperor's sage, he will definitely not continue to pursue your previous responsibility. ”

Beat a stick and give a sweet date, Li Hongfei's routine is very simple, but he relies on the deterrent power of Shang Fang's sword, so that many businessmen can't refuse.

To put it bluntly, these merchants were at fault in the first place, no matter how much money they had paid for filial piety before, it was just a protection agreement they had reached with the local court, and the central court did not get a penny of benefits.

Li Hongfei is now just asking them to make up for the previous taxes, and does not intend to investigate the guilt, which is already an extremely benevolent move.

"What Lord Li said is reasonable, the little one will find a way to make up for the silver taels owed, and ask the adult to return the account book to the villain." Before the others could speak, the boss of Juwei Zhai couldn't wait to agree and asked to redeem the account book.

"Lord Li, it's not that the concubine is unwilling to make up this tax, but the concubine is in charge of Lichun Courtyard for fifteen years from Chongzhen, and if the previous tax is also responsible for the concubine, wouldn't it be to force the concubine to death?" The old bustard of Lichun Courtyard said with a look of grievance.

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly, among you, some businesses have been in business for decades, and the bosses may have changed for several generations, and the official can't let you make up all the taxes for those decades." Li Hongfei only wants money, not human life.

"As the saying goes, there are no more than three things, and the official doesn't need much, only the taxes of the previous three years will be collected."

"But this official is busy with official business, and he doesn't have time to check the account books one by one, so I will roughly set a number for you here."

"As for the brothel, you also know the accounts of Lichunyuan before, the net profit is nearly 60,000 taels of silver a year, Lichunyuan is a medium brothel, and the official will give you a net profit of 50,000 taels per year, a tax rate of one-thirtieth, and you should pay 5,000 taels of silver in three years."

"On the gambling house, I also have account books, including usury, the average annual profit of each is nearly 100,000 taels, the profit margin of the gambling house is larger, I will not go into details, everyone calculates according to the net profit of 100,000 taels, and one-thirtieth of 100,000 taels, you should pay 10,000 taels of silver in three years."

"On the restaurant side, according to the standard of Juwei Zhai, the tax will be paid for a total of 1,000 taels in three years."

"If you don't have any objections, you can go to Lord Wu to sign and draw the pledge now, and within three days, together with the previous fundraising, the official will not be responsible for the past."

"In addition, let me tell you a little news, the Holy Lord is already starting to adjust the commercial tax, if you haven't made up the previous tax before the commercial tax is raised, then the money you need to pay may be more than one-thirtieth of this." Li Hongfei pretended to be mysterious and said.

"No problem, the villain will ask Lord Wu to sign and draw a pledge, and within three days, the money will definitely be paid." Everyone else was still thinking about it, but the boss of this Juwei Zhai agreed without thinking.

The businessmen didn't feel anything wrong, after all, the other party's account book was in the hands of the prefect, and it was natural to be eager, and even many weak-hearted bosses followed behind to express their attitudes.

The others didn't see the problem, which didn't mean that Zhou Furen didn't find anything abnormal, but he wasn't sure at the moment, so he didn't say it on the spot, but resumed the posture of a spectator, slowly observing the businessman and Li Hongfei on the side.

"Master Li, is it possible that as long as we sign this contract, we will be able to leave the prefect's yamen?" Lu Bin asked.

With the lessons of the past, he was worried that after signing this contract, Li Hongfei would come up with a new moth.

"That's right, this official said before, there are only two things to talk about today, so everyone can leave after signing the contract, as long as the money can be made up within three days, the tax evasion will be written off, as long as you don't commit any crimes in the future, then the next time we meet, it may be necessary to wait until the end of the year to collect taxes." Li Hongfei made a rare joke.

"That's okay, I'll sign it!" Lu Bin said.

Since Shang Fang's sword appeared, he no longer had hope for his cousin, not to mention that it had been a long time since he entered the door, and he had not seen any trace of his cousin, and even those previous officials had not appeared, Lu Bin understood that this prefect was extremely not simple.

Because there are not many taxes that need to be paid, even the gambling house with the most money only needs to tattoo 10,000 taels of silver, which is the same as the silver money raised before, so everyone no longer expressed dissatisfaction.

"By the way, by the way, I would like to remind you that today's matter, it is best not to disclose it to the owners of other shops, and the official will wait for the tax to rise, and then find these shops to make up the tax." After everyone signed the contract, Li Hongfei pretended to be serious and said.

All of them here are businessmen, and they soon understood that most of them, businessmen who can open brothels, gambling houses, and restaurants, are related to the family, and to put it bluntly, the background is hard, so Li Hongfei was unwilling to tear his face, so he "notified them in advance" to make up the tax arrears.

The ones who really want to use the knife are those small businessmen who don't have much power, and when the Holy Lord really decrees the adjustment of taxes, those who evaded taxes before will definitely have to pay several times more taxes.

The businessmen who wanted to understand this found that although they were now paying for it, they were a little reluctant in their hearts.

But thinking that soon, others will have to pay more money, these people have become inexplicably happy, people's comparison is sometimes like this, it doesn't matter if you are unlucky, as long as others are more unlucky than yourself.

So the businessmen all tacitly promised to keep it a secret.

Even they have already thought in their hearts that they will quickly make up the arrears after they go back, and they will have a lot of long nights and dreams.

"Master Li, are you really planning to do something to those small businesses?" After the businessmen left, Zhou Furen couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not, but to make up the taxes, that's a must." After Li Hongfei explained, he said to Wu Hao: "In the past two days, he sent people to spread the news in Suzhou City, saying that the prefect is now vigorously rectifying the tax, and the business owners who were invited to go before have paid the tax for three years, if they fail to make up the tax within three days, and then the holy decree will be issued, and the tax will be raised, but all the merchants who evade the tax will have to pay the tax in accordance with the newly promulgated tax decree, otherwise once the investigation is thorough, all property will be confiscated." ”

"Haha! Master Li is very strategic, so it is estimated that all these merchants will come to the yamen to pay taxes within these three days, with their own account books! Zhou Furen instantly understood what Li Hongfei meant by doing this.

"Boss Zhou smiled, I just think that Suzhou City is too big and there are too many businesses, so I can't convene it for a while." Li Hongfei said modestly.

If you release the news again, people who don't understand the inside story naturally want to get to the bottom of it, plus these people who have entered the prefect's yamen deliberately conceal the news, those merchants who have not been invited will naturally believe it, and will naturally take the initiative to come to the door and spend money to eliminate the disaster.