Chapter 44 This Time It's a Real Illness

Li Yuanchen saw that Yue Su didn't say anything, but said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, in fact, the imperial court wants to make money, and there is a way to collect all the thirty taxes, even if it is the boss's business." At least tens of millions of taels can be levied a year. ”

"You're right, it's good to be able to collect all these taxes. In your visit, is there any way to accumulate more silver for the court in the shortest possible time? Yue Su asked again.

Regarding the tax system of the imperial court, Yue Su served as the prefect and prefect, and of course he also knew the situation. Thirty taxes on commercial tax one can be said to be the lowest in Chinese history, Zhu Hongwu decreed that 'all commercial taxes, thirty and take one, and those who pass will be judged as violating the order'. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has always maintained this system. However, although the tax rate is low, such as one-thirtieth of the tax, it is not a number of daily levies. However, in order not to compete with the people for profit, the royal family gradually had a fixed amount of salt tax of 2.5 million taels, tea tax of more than 100,000 taels, city tax of 40,000 taels, passage tax of 600,000 taels, and business tax of 200,000 taels, with a total of only 3.4 million taels. When he was a magistrate, his superiors also apportioned a fixed amount, twelve months a year, and it only took three months to complete, and this comparison became one hundred and twenty taxes.

"Start with the field tax, now is not in tune with the time, the commercial tax is all together, and the field tax can only choose one. It can only be implemented when the commercial tax is completed, but at most, it is to pick up a whip law formulated by Zhang Juzheng in the year. Brother-in-law, you think, at that time, Zhang Juzheng was in power all over the world, and he didn't dare to collect taxes on scholars, brother-in-law, if you dared to do this, what would be the result, it was really not. Moreover, the scholars were not all wealthy, and some of them had only a few acres of thin fields at home, and they studied hard by themselves and gave the fields to the tenants. If you tax all the grains, how can you live? Even if it is a levy, you have to find some big families who are not benevolent. Brother-in-law, you often kill corrupt officials and punish bullies, if you want the treasury to be full, kill him twenty or thirty a year, and the money will come. Just a Huaiqing Mansion, my brother-in-law walked around casually, and copied out a million taels of silver, so many prefectures and counties in the imperial court, he did two or three a year, and the gold and silver wealth copied was confiscated, and the family's fields were changed to farms, and the people were recruited to farm, which was not better than anything else. ”

Li Yuanchen's understatement, but Yue Su nodded again and again when he heard it.

"I went to various places to monitor the work of officials, although Dongchang did it, but he never told the emperor about the corruption of officials. Just like the affairs of Huaiqing Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, what happened, whether Dongchang really didn't know or pretended not to know, these are not important, the important thing is that they did not report to the emperor, which is incompetent. The brother-in-law used this as an excuse to ask the emperor to open a west factory to monitor the officials in the world. First, he won the hearts of the people, second, he made the court rich, and third, he consolidated his own power, so why not do it. In addition, the imperial court can also take back all the mining rights and open the mine itself. Li Yuanchen talked eloquently, in his eyes, it seemed that it was easy to make money.

Yue Su thought that what the court lacked now was silver, as long as he could earn another 10 million taels a year, it seemed that anything could be done. And the dozen or so officials who are running at the moment, their family assets are together, and they can reach this number, and they are all catching up with the current tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yuanchen came to the conclusion that Yue Su accepted his suggestion from his heart, he got up and said, "Brother-in-law, you still have official business, my brother will not delay, so I will leave." Brother-in-law doesn't have to send each other. "Finished, and walked towards the Mén entrance.

"Yuanchen goes, I'll not be far away." Yue Su got up, waited until Li Yuanchen came out of the mén, took the room mén, and then walked to the coffee table and took the sachet.

Untied the sachet and there was a note inside, Yue Su looked over the words on it, not only laughed, "It's really amazing, he can even think of such an idea." ”

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Yue Su left the Shangshu Mansion and did not return to the Criminal Department, but returned directly to the Shuntian Mansion. He didn't go back to the palace first as usual, and went to Mu Tianjiao's courtyard alone.

In the previous back house, several people were in the same courtyard, but since the wedding, everything has changed, only Du Siniang still has a courtyard with Ruan Aoyue, and Li Qiongying and Mu Tianjiao are in other courtyards.

When she came to Mu Tianjiao's bedroom and her husband during the day, Mu Tianjiao was very puzzled and surprised. Unexpectedly, Yue Su's first words after entering the room were, "Prepare water for me, and take a bath now." ”

In addition to taking a bath, Yue Su's requirements are also very high, and he is not allowed to let outsiders know about preparing two buckets of water, one bucket of hot water and one bucket of cold water.

Marrying a husband and following her husband, although Mu Tianjiao didn't know what her husband meant, she didn't ask much, she just did what she was told. It is normal to ask a cronie to prepare water, and it is normal for a couple of people to take a mandarin duck bath in the same room.

But who would have thought that where Yue Su was taking a bath, he would simply toss himself to death, soaking in cold water and hot water for a while. Mu Tianjiao was so tidy to Yue Su, but she was a little anxious, and asked, "Husband...... What are you going to do...... ...... who will get sick"

Yue Su looked at Mu Tianjiao's concerned appearance and said with a smile: "I just want to make myself sick, don't mention this matter to anyone, even with Aoyue and them." If someone asks me how I am sick, you will say that I have a cold. ”

"This ......" Mu Tianjiao looked at her husband in a daze, really confused. Husband, are you in trouble, what's the matter, you and me. ”

"It's a bit troublesome, but it doesn't matter, after getting through these few days, it's fine." After Yue Su finished, he began to toss in the bucket again.

Mu Tianjiao didn't dare to stop it, so she could only see it with her own eyes, and Yue Su tossed herself down. However, Mu Tianjiao understood that something must have happened to her, otherwise, her husband would never be like this. At least I pretended to be sick last time, but this time I was playing with my life, and I was really sick.

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The news that Yue Su suffered from the cold and high fever did not go away spread that night, and several ladies were busy looking for Lang Zhong to come for diagnosis and treatment, and Lang Zhong replied that it would take at least half a month. If you are still in the day, no one will believe this kind of thing, even Ruan Aoyue doesn't believe it, and she is waiting for her husband to pretend to be sick. After all, Yue Su had a history of pretending to be sick.

But when she arrived at Yue Su and was indeed sick and lying in Chuáng, she really didn't say a word. I can't open my mouth to plead with my father.

The next morning, Yue Su reluctantly asked Yang Yishan to ghostwrite, wrote an excerpt and presented it to the emperor, the content of which was probably as follows: The minister accidentally suffered from the wind and cold, and his condition was more serious, so he took a leave of absence from the emperor, and he couldn't go to work in the next few days, and asked His Majesty not to worry, Lang Zhong, he will be cured in ten days and half a month. But the case of the emperor Jiāo coming down can't be delayed, and the minister thinks that the trial of the three law divisions is not a matter of the criminal department's family, and if there is one less minister, it will not affect, so it is better to call the criminal department shìlang instead of the minister, and try it together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple. Moreover, this case involves the minister's father-in-law, and it is natural for the minister to avoid suspicion.

As soon as this fold was presented, it set off an uproar at that time***, Father-in-law Wei was still waiting for Yue Su to send out his father-in-law, if you don't judge, what else will I do. The other members of the eunuch party immediately began to preach that Yue Su was faking illness. Gonggong Wei was polite, and once again asked the emperor to send someone to treat Yue Su, and even proposed that he replace the emperor and visit Lord Yue.

Carpenter Zhu did not suspect Yue Su's illness, he believed that Yue Su should not lie to him, and did not let Wei Zhongxian go on his behalf, but personally led Wei Zhongxian and the imperial doctor to visit.

This is a real disease, and once the doctor goes, he doesn't need to diagnose the pulse, and he can get it with a smooth "sè". immediately gave the emperor an accurate answer, Lord Yue is really sick, suffering from the wind and cold is one of them, and the second is to get on fire.

Carpenter Zhu is not confused, why is he on fire, it must be that it is inconvenient to try the old man, and he is in a dilemma. Okay, why embarrass your Aiqing, it's not impossible for this case to be tried by others, according to the scheduled date, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple will start the trial this afternoon.

In the homes of the convicts, so much gold and silver were found, and it was impossible to earn money by pointing out that it was impossible to make money, and it was inevitable that they would fall into corruption and take bribes. Wei Zhongxian hoped that Yue Su would come to trial, but Wei Guangwei and Feng Quan didn't plan to be tried by Yue Su, after all, letting others try it was a bit of a turnaround. The onlookers have the excitement of Xinyuesu, and the people involved still put their lives first.

Today is the first session, and the trial of the three legal divisions will be held in the lobby of the Criminal Department. There were many officials present, and in addition to Zuo Shilang, there were also Lang Zhong and Wai Lang from the Criminal Department. The officials above the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also came. Marble is the arrival of officials above the Shaoqing level.

Regardless of the government, there are officials of the three parties, officials of the eunuch party, and officials of neutrality. These people have their own thoughts, the neutral officials pay attention to the wisdom and self-protection, and neither of them can be offended, and the eunuch party officials plan to put Ruan Zhenmei to death, and try to protect Wei Guangwei, Feng Quan and others. On the contrary, the three parties want to shoot Wei Guangwei and his gang to death and try to protect Ruan Zhenmei. Who called it Lord Yue's father-in-law?

As a result, the court was extremely lively, and it was a little like a prisoner was being tried, as if two groups of people were fighting.

For example, when Wei Guangwei arrived in the hall, shìlang, who was a neutral person, asked casually, where did the money in your house come from?

Wei Guangwei immediately replied that it was his relatives who earned it from trading and gave him some profits.

After that, there was nothing to do with neutral officials. The officials belonging to the three parties immediately opened their mouths to question, what did they mean to make so much money, and if they were not honest, they would be punished.

There is no need for Wei Guangwei to quibble, the officials of the eunuch party began to help, what punishment is not a doctor, Wei Cifu is only temporarily suspended, how can he be punished. Why can't you make so much money, the relatives of the British public are doing it, all year round, do you still earn money. I heard that the relatives of Master Li of Dali Temple are also doing business, and I don't know how much silver I can earn in a year.

The officials of the two factions said a word to me, and there was a war of words in the lobby, and the case was not asked, and the day almost passed. Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, Zuo Shilang, the representative of the neutral faction, announced that he would "retire from the court" and that the trial would resume tomorrow.

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