Asking for a monthly pass, Da Luo Luo hugged Xiao Lori and put a small bowl to ask for a monthly pass

Zhu Jishi coughed, and the hall suddenly fell silent.

"Taishi Gong once said: The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for the benefit of the ......"

Just now, Zhu Jishi had been listening to the debate of his ministers, and now he has a bottom in his heart.

"You scholars who read the books of the sages are good at everything, but you are ashamed of your words, if you put it in a peaceful and prosperous world, it doesn't hurt if you don't talk about profit, you don't fight for profit, at most the court is a little poorer. But what is the world now? China was divided into three, and the four sides rose together, which was really a troubled time for the Warring States. The great powers in the world are rampant, the poor and weak countries have perished, and they have become colonies of rich and powerful countries, and they are practicing the law of the jungle. In such a world, can we not speak of profit? Can we not fight for profit? And the benefits of industry and commerce are greater than the benefits of farming is obvious to all, and I can rise to this point, relying on the silver of industry and commerce, and the foreign guns and cannons made by industry and commerce. Even the implementation of the 'show talent for officials' in various places is also thanks to industry and commerce, if there is no businessmen from all over the country to take out so much silver every year, where will the lonely king have the silver to support you so many scholars and officials? ”

Zhu Jishi held up a document that stated the amount of commercial taxes that the chambers of commerce in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the foreigners chamber of commerce in Shanghai should bear in the first year of the restoration.

"The chambers of commerce in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have agreed to pay 8 million commercial taxes in the first year of recovery and 16 million in the second year of recovery. In addition, the foreign businessmen in Shanghai also promised to bear 4 million commercial taxes in the second year of the liberation, which alone is 28 million yuan! It does not include the proceeds from the issuance of banknotes and coinage by HSBC, nor does it include the salt tax of the two Huai banks and the customs duties of the Jiang Customs. Tell me, can our country be separated from industry and commerce? The Lone King has decided. In the future, the court and the local government will divide the tax. Agricultural tax and real estate tax are all under the local government. It is collected by the local government itself. Industrial and commercial taxes, customs duties, salt taxes, mining taxes, and stamp duties on private contracts and loan certificates are all central taxes, which are apportioned to the localities after consultation between the Guwang, the cabinet and the Constituent Assembly, and are jointly collected by the tax departments established by the local public bureaus and government offices, and the agricultural tax and real estate tax will also be collected by the tax department. ”

Everyone was stunned, the public bureau still has the power to participate in the management of the tax department? That's a little bit more powerful, isn't it?

Zuo Zongtang has been in the countryside for many years and has taken care of the family business of the Zhou family (Zuo Zongtang is a son-in-law). Knowing that it was not easy to collect taxes, he once again raised an objection at this time: "Your Majesty, if the local public bureau and profiteers collude to evade taxes, what can they do? ”

"No taxes, no representation. If the amount of tax collected after consultation with the Constituent Assembly is not completed, the representation of the province in the Constituent Assembly will be reduced or even abolished altogether, and if a province loses its representation in the Constituent Assembly, the gentry and merchants of the province will lose the right to discuss politics, and the provincial tax department will be taken over by the imperial court. ”

According to the relevant provisions of the "King James Constitution" to be promulgated. Members of the Constituent Assembly have considerable powers. The king can be seen at any time to submit an opinion, and all officials, including the prime minister, can be impeached. During his tenure as a member of the Constituent Assembly, he also had judicial immunity. Once he became a constituent member, even the king could not casually issue a holy decree to take people and raid their homes. Members of local public councils also have many privileges to impeach magistrates, and they also have judicial immunity during their tenure as councillors. This level of parliamentarianism is the best umbrella for those wealthy businessmen. Who would want to throw away such an umbrella for a few small bucks? If there is such a fool, he will definitely not be a wealthy businessman.

Luo Zenan shook his head and said: "The business power is too heavy, I am afraid that it will bully the market and oppress the small people." I'm afraid that the wind of revolution in various European countries has started from this, right? ”

This Luo Zenan is really developing on the path of learning from China and the West, and actually knows the reasons for the European revolution.

Pan Zengshou also thought thoughtfully: "If you are afraid, you are afraid of the collusion of gentry and businessmen, the gentry and wealthy businessmen have always been you and me, and I have you, and business power is equal to gentry power, if the power of gentry and businessmen is too strong, I am afraid of bullying the king and harming the people...... The reason why Emperor Sizong died was that the collusion between the gentry and businessmen was probably the culprit. ”

Pan Zengshou is a great Confucian, his father is Pan Shien, the chief Hanchen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Pan family is also a first-class wealthy family in Suzhou, so he naturally knows the collusion between officials and gentry. Unlike those "red-topped businessmen" of the 13 Banks in Guangdong, the wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan and Lianghuai colluded more closely with the Liangjiang bureaucracy. For example, Cao Zhenyong, who had served as the foreman and minister of military aircraft for a long time, was the son of a salt merchant in Lianghuai. He Rulin, who served as the secretary of the Ministry of War and the minister of military aircraft, was also the representative of the two Huai salt merchants in the court. The Pan family had close contacts with several large cloth merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and they themselves were also engaged in cloth trading.

Therefore, Pan Zengshou saw at a glance the drawbacks of the mercantile element in the "King James Ming Constitution" - the mercantile nature of this dynasty may be a blow to the scholars of the Xianghu faction. But for the gentry in Guangdong, Jiangnan, and Fujian, who had long been in collusion with merchants, they simply couldn't ask for it!

And the collusion of gentlemen and businessmen will inevitably bring disaster to the country and the people!

This is the first reaction of most people, even if they themselves have the dual identities of gentlemen and businessmen, they do not think that the collusion of gentlemen and businessmen is a good thing. This brainwashing of Confucianism is still quite in place...... Therefore, they all think that they are good gentlemen and honest businessmen, and everyone else is bad gentry and profiteers!

Zhu Jishi disagreed: "Emperor Yizong was not defeated by the collusion of the gentry and businessmen, but by being deceived by the gentry and businessmen. He was born in the palace and grew up in the hands of a woman eunuch, and he didn't know much about things outside the palace. can't be a Ming monarch at all, it's almost the same as Emperor Daoguang, and he thinks he's smart, how can he not lose the country? ”

How can you say that about Emperor Yizong?

Everyone slandered for a while, but no one dared to refute it on their faces. After all, Zhu Jishi is a member of King Gui's line, not a direct descendant of Emperor Chongzhen......

Zhu Jishi looked at everyone speechless, and then said: "The lonely king is not Emperor Yizong, the lonely king is a wealthy Western businessman, and the merchant's trick of tax evasion is very clear, how the gentry and businessmen colluded, and the lonely king is also clear." There is also the matter of party disputes in the imperial court, and King Lone has seen it in the West. This kind of thing cannot be eradicated in the East and the West, and instead of colluding under the stage and fighting viciously in private, it is better to collude on the table and go to the Constituent Assembly to fight the law. ”

King Zhu made the final decision, and everyone had nothing to say. It turns out that this Constituent Assembly will still be a place for friends such as the Cantonese Party, the Hunan Party, and the Fujian Party to fight for the law...... The more vigorous the fight below, the more reassuring it will be to be a king? This is the Emperor's Mental Technique!

Zhu Jishi smacked his lips: "In this round of Western revolution, all that stood tall were the courts that were closely colluded with the gentlemen, businessmen and nobles, and those that fell were the courts that were not tightly colluded with the gentlemen, merchants and nobles. Therefore, the collusion between gentlemen and businessmen is not a problem, the problem is that there must be rules, how to collude, how to fight, there must be rules and abide by the rules. If there is no rule, sooner or later everyone will have to dismantle the Daming platform! Now the lone king has made a constitution and a parliament, in order to set a rule for you and future generations, and then give them a place for party contention. The lonely king is a referee, let the people of the world be an audience, and see how you engage in party strife and collusion between officials and businessmen! ”

This is a bit of a weight, at least to the officials in the lobby. However, Zhu Jishi is the founding monarch of the country, and he is authoritative, and everyone regards him as Zhu Yuanzhang's second. Now I thought he had a liver fire, and he closed his mouth and didn't speak.

In fact, Zhu Jishi didn't mean to be angry, what he just said was the truth. In his understanding, isn't the bourgeois revolution a collusion between officials and businessmen, and a combination of officials and businessmen? In the Parliament of the British Empire, there was hardly anyone in the Parliament who spoke for the working people, except for the aristocratic members who were merchants or politicians who represented the interests of the merchants—and the working people did not have the right to vote or to be elected, because they did not pay taxes or paid too little to be represented in Parliament!

And in today's China, who is not in collusion with the government for any businessman who can make his business bigger? Who hasn't spent money on an official? Who doesn't want a child in the family to become a righteous official through the imperial examination and become a protective umbrella for family business? In fact, this is also a kind of collusion between officials and businessmen, but there is a fundamental difference between the collusion between officials and businessmen in the British Empire. Because the collusion between officials and businessmen in the bourgeois state is carried out blatantly! Politicians can even openly accept money from businessmen and buy and sell public office. And businessmen also dare to lobby the parliament and pass various bills and bills that suit their interests. The Opium Wars were, in a way, the result of lobbying by British opium traders! As far as Zhu Jishi knows, the political donations are no less than hundreds of thousands of pounds! That Jardine was elected to the council in person! And Zhu Jishi's own Jishi Bank spends no less than 100,000 pounds on political lobbying every year!

Therefore, what Zhu Jishi opposes is private and sneaky collusion, and what he promotes is collusion on the table...... (To be continued......)