After Fang Xuanling found out that this kind of oolong appeared, he immediately began to find a way to remedy it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Fang Xuanling and they realized that the privileges of this so-called scholar clan were not protected by the corresponding legal principles, which was also a huge loophole. Although the ancients did not attach importance to the law, even many powerful people believed that the law was a tool used to rule the people. But even if the law is just a piece of paper, it is a clear rule, and the clear rule is much more important than the underlying rule in many cases. Some potential rules may be repealed at any time as long as they are not written into law, and what is written into law is truly guaranteed.

"Your Majesty, the scholars are the cornerstone of the country's court, and if there is no scholars, the world will be in chaos. If there were no scholars, how could the world be stable? Shi Bufan's words about the scholar clan have not been recognized and protected by my Datang law, and this is indeed a loophole. However, I also ask the emperor to fill this loophole and write the rights and interests of the scholars into the law, which is an important means to stabilize the hearts of the scholars. Otherwise, the scholars will be uneasy, and they will not be able to rule the world for the court and serve the emperor! Fang Xuanling said.

Fang Xuanling must come forward this time, and he must find a way to protect the interests of the scholars. If Shi Bufan didn't say it, those scholars would not have realized that their status as a scholar was not recognized by the law, and it was just a conventional identity. But now, of course, they are not satisfied, and they hope that they can be protected by the law and recognized by the law. Although the effect of the law is relatively low, there is no doubt that it is better to have legal recognition than no legal recognition.

And Li Shimin's face was also dark, this Fang Xuanling was so excessive, and he still wanted the law to recognize the identity of their clan? This is simply a slap in the face of Li Shimin, if it is not recognized by law, then it can still be used to say things. But once the law recognizes privilege, isn't that deliberate death?

"Fang Xiang, what privileges do you say the scholars have? As far as I know, it seems that the privilege of the gentry is more prominent, right? As for the privilege of officials, didn't my Datang allow the door to enter the office? Shi Bufan said.

"This ......" Fang Xuanling also suddenly hesitated, as if the economic privileges of the scholar clan that are tax-free are more conspicuous, and other privileges are even less protected by law.

Although the system of selecting officials in the past was the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system was claimed to be a high-grade and low-grade non-scholarly family, but this was just a "common saying", and it was not publicly recognized by all dynasties. It's like cheating on exams, who will take the initiative to admit that they cheated? There are some things that cannot be said, although those central officials use the method of considering family background before talent when selecting officials. However, this is only an "internal standard", just a standard agreed among those nobles, and it has not been openly acknowledged.

Therefore, from the perspective of the local laws of all dynasties, the privilege of the scholar clan as an official is only conventional, and cannot be actively written into the law. What's more, any law stipulates that "meritocracy and ability" are stipulated, and there is absolutely no such thing as monopolizing official positions. The Tang Dynasty's door-shade entry system was already the limit, if Fang Xuanling still wanted to write the privilege of this scholar family into the law, then it was really challenging Li Shimin's bottom line.

"Fang Qiao, what do you mean by this?" Li Shimin asked again.

Fang Xuanling secretly called him bad, Li Shimin called him "Fang Qiao" so directly, and didn't call him "Xuanling", which was obviously very unhappy. Fang Xuanling knew that he would have to compromise a little. In terms of privileges in terms of entry, it cannot be written into the law. If he had to write political privileges into the law, Li Shimin would have killed him. Political privilege is the bottom line, and the group of gentry must not be legally recognized as having political privileges. Maybe the officials can let the descendants enter the government through the shade of the door, but it will not be expanded to the entire scholar class, otherwise the Tang Dynasty will really be finished.

"Your Majesty, what I mean is the right of the scholars to be exempt from taxes. The scholars are the cornerstone of the country, and if the court collects taxes on them, how can the scholars study and serve the court? Therefore, please also ask the emperor to grant the scholar the right to tax exemption and recognize it, so as to ensure that the scholar can work hard for the emperor, work hard for the court, and maintain the peace of the world! Fang Xuanling said.

Directly ask for tax exemption privileges, although no one collected the taxes of the scholars in the past, but it was not protected by law, but only a convention. This time, Fang Xuanling obviously wanted to protect the rights and interests of the scholars and write this tax-free privilege into the law. Since political privileges cannot be protected by legislation, economic privileges must be protected by legislation.

However, Shi Bufan hurriedly said: "Fang Xiang, I remember that the so-called tax exemption of the Shi clan in the past was only exempted from the tax of the population, as well as the tax on the agriculture of the land, right?" As for other taxes, there is no such rule, right? ”

Fang Xuanling thought about it, took the initiative to nod and said, "Yes!" ”

The privileges of the nobility were mainly concentrated in the taxes and fees related to agriculture and the people, and there were no conditions for exemption from taxes in other industries. In ancient times, agricultural taxes were the absolute majority of the state's fiscal revenue, and other commercial taxes were not the mainstream taxes, and the proportion of the country's revenue was not large.

In addition, although some of the scholars are in business, it is not the mainstream. And the people in charge of business are often the side branches of the side branches in the scholar clan, the kind that are looked down upon. Therefore, the scholars often do not take the initiative to do business, and the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is formulated by the scholars themselves, so they naturally will not do this kind of stupid thing of doing business by themselves. Even if a small number of dark stocks are adulterated, it is not something that can be openly admitted. Therefore, Fang Xuanling naturally thought that it was concentrated on agricultural taxes, and he would not think that there was anything wrong, so he admitted this, and the tax-free privileges of the scholars were in the people and agriculture, and did not extend to commerce.

"Okay, Your Majesty, since this is the case, then I suggest that the tax exemption of the nobles be written into the law accordingly. However, this is only the exemption from the tax on the people and the tax on the harvest of land, and other commercial taxes and all business-related taxes cannot be exempted. Your Majesty, what do you think? Shi Bufan took the initiative to say.

Shi Bufan's words immediately shocked the officials of the scholar clan in the court, what happened to Shi Bufan today? Got the wrong medicine? He actually took the initiative to help the Shi clan and support the Shi clan to exempt this so-called tax-free privilege and the tax of the population, so what is the wrong medicine? Who doesn't know that Shi Bufan is the vanguard of the anti-Shi clan, but why did Shi Bufan suddenly help the Shi clan speak today?

This made Fang Xuanling even stunned, and he couldn't believe this situation. Even if Shi Bufan said a lot of objections, Fang Xuanling would not be surprised. But now, Shi Bufan actually took the initiative to agree, which was simply incomprehensible to Fang Xuanling. With many years of life experience, he thinks he is good at planning, but he can't think of what Shi Bufan's thoughts are.

Even Li Shimin was shocked, he had actually been hinting just now, hinting that Shi Bufan took the initiative to oppose the tax-free privileges of the scholars, so that Li Shimin could collect the tax-exempt rights of those scholars. If the imperial court can take back the relative tax-free power for the scholars, it will be a huge blow to the scholars. But Shi Bufan actually "betrayed" at this time, which made Li Shimin not embarrassed.

Li Shimin didn't expect that Shi Bufan would "defect" at this time, and actually agreed to write the tax-free privileges of the scholars into the law. Once this is the case, it represents a legitimate recognition of the tax-exempt rights of the nobles, and does not this recognize their economic privileges? So now Li Shimin is not a human being inside and out, and as the emperor, it is impossible for him to directly say this kind of thing. He hoped that Shi Bufan would say the abolition of the tax-free privileges of the nobles, rather than himself. There are some things that the emperor is not suitable for himself to say, and he must borrow someone else's mouth to say them. But Shi Bufan was unreliable at a critical time, which made Li Shimin extremely waxy.

Although Fang Xuanling didn't know whether Shi Bufan had taken the wrong medicine or what was wrong, Fang Xuanling knew the truth of striking while the iron was hot.

"Your Majesty, please grant the nobles the privilege of exempting the population and land taxes, and in the future, all taxes on the population and land harvest will also be given the privilege of exempting the nobles, otherwise the nobles will not be able to serve the emperor with peace of mind!" Fang Xuanling said.

"Please ask the emperor to grant the nobles the privilege of exempting the population from the tax on land!" "Please ask the emperor to give the nobles the privilege of exempting the population from land tax!" ……

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty asked Li Shimin to grant the corresponding tax-free privileges to the scholars, which made Li Shimin very embarrassed. At this time, if Li Shimin does not agree, it will really be troublesome. This is for everyone to "force the palace" together, if Li Shimin does not agree, then it will be difficult to carry out the next work. Even, Li Shimin felt that if he didn't agree, then the scholars would probably not agree in the future, and maybe he wouldn't even mind changing the emperor. Li Shimin is still inseparable from the support of the scholars, so now Li Shimin is also very embarrassed.

"Damn, Shi Bufan, what the hell are you doing? Isn't this an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot and try to recover the tax-free privileges of the nobles? Why are you fooling around at this time, but instead agree with the tax-free privileges of the scholars? You should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue, but you actually turned against you? Well, now, it's left me with such a big pressure. Li Shimin scolded in his heart.

Li Shimin looked at Shi Bufan, and anger flashed in his eyes. However, Shi Bufan didn't seem to see Li Shimin's anger, because he had long known that this would definitely make Li Shimin angry, but he had to naturally have his statement. The reason why Shi Bufan agreed with the tax-free privileges of the Shi clan was that he actually had his own ideas, not to defect to the Shi clan.

Li Shimin looked at the courtiers who asked for tax exemption privileges for the scholars together, and even included Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other cronies, which made Li Shimin's heart feel sad. His subordinates are all mainly scholars, and there are few poor families at all. Li Shimin even thinks in his heart that he must support the poor family, even if it is Fang Du and the others, they can only use it, and they can't really be regarded as cronies. At the strategic level, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui are actually opponents, they are just allies at the campaign and tactical level.

Now Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui have joined forces to coerce him to agree to write the tax-free privilege of the scholar clan into the law, so Li Shimin knows that he has to agree.

"In this case, the Nashi clan is the cornerstone of the country, and naturally they should have more rights and interests! Agree to grant the nobles the privilege of exempting the population and agriculture from taxes! Li Shimin said.

Fang Xuanling took the lead and said: "The emperor is wise! ”

Everyone hurriedly praised the emperor's wisdom, this time they wrote the tax-free privilege of this scholar into the law, so that the tax-free privilege of their scholar clan is "law-based". What used to be a latent rule, not a rule written into the law, has now become a rule with a law to follow, making them feel like they have won.

Once it is written into the law later, it means that their economic privilege has been recognized by the law, and they can obtain this economic tax exemption privilege almost permanently. Of course they were satisfied, and this was a great victory for them, and although they did not necessarily value the tax, it represented a privilege. An important privilege of a class. In the past, only officials had the right to tax exemption, but now, including the scholars, a class has the right to be exempt from taxes, so the scope of tax exemption has been expanded many times, which can be regarded as a victory for a class.

Shi Bufan looked at these scholar officials smiling one by one, thinking that he had won the victory, Shi Bufan immediately thought in his heart: "Do you really think it is a victory?" Hmph, after a few years, you will definitely know that you have lost to your grandmother's house. Although you are exempt from agricultural taxes, you do not have the privilege of exempting from commercial taxes. And once a few years have passed, you will know how much you have lost. When the time comes, how much you have eaten, we can still find it again by other means. When the time comes, as much as you eat, you will spit it out with interest. ”

Everyone was so happy that they opened, but Li Shimin's face was still extremely dark, and then he looked at Shi Bufan and was still very angry. However, Shi Bufan is very calm and does not look afraid.

"Shi Bufan, you come in, I have something to tell you!" Li Shimin said.

Shi Bufan followed Li Shimin and walked into the harem. Just hearing that Li Shimin's footsteps were so heavy, it was obvious that Li Shimin was very angry, and the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids were also scared, obviously thinking that Shi Bufan was probably going to lose his head this time.

"Shi Bufan, if you don't tell me about the matter today, I will definitely not let you go! Okay, Shi Bufan, do you want to defect to the nobles and betray me? Li Shimin said angrily. (To be continued.) )