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"Excuse me?"

Yue Yang was surprised.

"Didn't I meet with Governor Zheng this morning? Why are you going to invite me over again after a while, could it be that something is going on? ”

Thinking of this, Yue Yang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed to the prefect's yamen with more than a dozen guards, only after he came to the study to see Zheng Kui, it was only when he realized that things might be more troublesome than he imagined, because Yue Yang saw Zheng Kui here, and also saw Xu Dingchen's master Tang Xueying.

Seeing Yue Yang's arrival, Tang Xueying took the lead in standing up and said to him with a smile: "Lord Yue, I didn't expect to meet you and me a few months ago, but when I saw Tang today, I wanted to call you an adult, this is really unpredictable." ”

Facing the ridicule of the governor's henchmen, Yue Yang didn't dare to hold it up, and said with a wry smile: "Master Tang, don't laugh at me." If it was possible, Yue really wanted to exchange with you, I didn't know it before, but now I understand that this ethics officer is really not so easy to be. ”

"Hahaha......" Tang Xueying couldn't help laughing, pointed at Yue Yang and laughed: "Lord Yue, you are such a bad ethics officer in front of Governor Zheng, aren't you afraid that he will give you little shoes to wear?" ”

Yue Yang looked at Zheng Kui, and now the parent official of Yingzhou Mansion was just drinking tea with a teacup at the moment, as if he didn't pay attention to the conversation between him and Tang Xueying, and then Yue Yang nodded and said, "Uh...... That relationship is good, it is best to cut Yue to the people, then I can go home and farm! ”

"You guys......" Zheng Kui put down the teacup, helplessly pointed at Yue Yang and Tang Xueying and scolded with a smile: "You haven't spit out a word of truth from your mouth!" ”

"Hehe......" Yue Yang and Tang Xueying laughed at the same time, and the atmosphere in the study seemed particularly harmonious for a while.

After a while, Yue Yang stopped laughing, raised his head and looked at Tang Xueying and said, "Master Tang, let's get down to business, shouldn't you come to Yingzhou this time just to drink the official wine ten days later?" It's just that the official really doesn't know what it is worth a trip to you, the red man in front of the governor. ”

Seeing that Yue Yang directly picked out the topic, Tang Xueying stopped going around in circles. He pondered for a moment before looking at Zheng Kui and said softly, "Lord Zheng, it's up to you." ”

"This ...... All right! Zheng Kui hesitated for a moment, then looked at Yue Yang and said: "Yue Ethics, there are some things that the official should not say, but now that the emperor has made a will, we as courtiers should naturally follow it, so the official still has to tell you." ”

"Adults have something to say, but it's okay to speak!" Seeing Zheng Kui's hesitant appearance, Yue Yang became a little impatient, and this guy became more and more unhappy.

Seeing the impatient look in Yue Yang's eyes. Zheng Kui sighed secretly and said to Yue Yang: "Yue Ethics, the imperial court has just issued a decree to count the salt sold in various places and make up the tax for payment, so ......"

With Zheng Kui's words, Yue Yang realized that his feelings were to pay his own taxes, and this matter had to start from the beginning.

As mentioned earlier, one of the biggest drawbacks of the Ariake dynasty was his tax system. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is estimated to be due to the relationship between the shadows of his childhood. For the special hatred of merchants, he not only redefined the four classes of "Shinong and Merchants", but also imposed heavy restrictions on the merchants at the bottom of the line. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered: "Order the peasants to wear silk, yarn, silk, and cloth." Merchants stop clothes, silk, cloth. If one of the peasants is a merchant, he shall not be clothed in silk or yarn." ”

This order is actually very interesting, Zhu Yuanzhang intended to improve the status of the peasants, and ordered the peasants to wear silk, gauze and other precious fabrics and satin. Merchants could only wear clothes made of cloth and silk. Zhu Yuanzhang's point is good, but this order is very ridiculous and contradictory.

Wealthy merchants were not eligible to wear silk satin, and peasants who were eligible to wear silk were not able to buy it. I have to say that the idea of this Ming ruler is very strange. What's even more strange is that the tax rate set by Zhu Yuanzhang is so low that it has reached 30 to 1, and this tax rate is enough to make all businessmen laugh until they wake up from their dreams if they put it in modern times. Therefore, most of the tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty was actually maintained by the monopoly of salt and iron, but in the late Ming Dynasty, with the increasing population, the salt tax became less and less, and it was no longer enough to describe the financial predicament of the imperial court.

In April of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen let him count the salt tax owed by various places, and now the provinces have accumulated a loss of salt and silver as high as more than 3.2 million taels.

As soon as this decree came out, the bigwigs everywhere panicked. The topic of salt tax deficit has always been a taboo in various places, and there are too many interests involved, and the water in this pool is too muddy.

As the governor of Shanxi, Xu Dingchen also felt that his head began to grow after receiving the will from Chongzhen, although Shanxi is not a big salt tax province, but the salt tax of a province is nearly 200,000 taels a year, and there are 160,000 taels of salt tax to be paid this year.

In desperation, Xu Dingchen had no choice but to find Tang Xueying to discuss countermeasures, and the two discussed for several days, and finally could only come up with a solution that was not a solution, that is, to find salt merchants from all over the country and let them pay for the money. There are a lot of threats in the words, you caused this thing, and you have to wipe your ass, otherwise I will be sad and you will not think about it.

At this point, the salt merchants also knew the severity of the problem. However, some people also said that the salt business in Shanxi has been almost robbed by the guy named Yueyang recently, and it is okay to give out the silver, and the guy has to get a big head, otherwise the brothers will not come out.

Get...... What else is there to say when things come to this point, so Xu Dingchen directly sent Tang Xueying to do Yueyang's ideological work.

When the matter got here, Yue Yang understood that the emotional buddy still owed so much salt tax to the imperial court before.

After thinking about it, Yue Yang asked, "Master Tang, how much salt tax should I pay?" ”

Tang Xueying stretched out a finger very directly, "One hundred thousand taels of silver!" ”

"!"

Rao is Yue Yang had already prepared in his heart, and he also felt a pain in his flesh. "100,000 taels of silver, converted into RMB, there are more than 10 million! By the way, does Lao Tzu have so much silver? ”

Looking at Yue Yang's painful face, Tang Xueying was also quite worried, don't look at Tang Xueying's calm appearance today, but he is also very nervous in his heart, he has seen too many of those businessmen's faces these days, and everything else is easy to say, but if you want to take money from their hands, it will be like cutting meat from him, this Yue Yang will not be as stingy as those businessmen, right?

But fortunately, Tang Xueying's worries didn't come to fruition, and I saw Yue Yang slowly nod and said: "Okay, since that's the case, let's pay it, tomorrow I will send someone to send the silver to the prefect's yamen, and I will never embarrass Lord Xu and Master Tang." ”

"Good!"

As soon as Yue Yang's words fell, the stone hanging in Tang Xueying's heart finally fell to the ground. Just now he was afraid that Yue Yang would find a lot of excuses for refusing to pay taxes, if that was the case, he would be on the line. After all, he is now a real power officer with thousands of elite soldiers, and he doesn't dare to annoy the other party too much, otherwise it will be bad once the other party turns his face.

"Lord Yue is worthy of being the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, and there is nothing to say about the emperor's loyalty to the court, don't worry, when I go back, I will persuade Lord Xu, please ask Lord Xu to ask for credit to the court for you!" Tang Xueying, who was overjoyed, immediately buckled a high hat that didn't want money at Yue Yang.

However, Yue Yang's surprise to him was not over, only to hear Yue Yang continue: "Also, this official also knows that Lord Xu works hard for the country day and night, and he is also very nervous about all kinds of uses. So be it...... The official gave an additional 30,000 taels of silver, of which 20,000 taels were given to the governor's yamen, and 10,000 taels were handed over to the Zheng governor's mansion for disposal, as a measure in the yamen, I don't know what Lord Zheng and Master Tang think? ”

"Ah......h

As soon as Yue Yang's words fell, a rush of sound came, and it turned out that Zheng Kui on the side was so stimulated that he knocked over the teacup on the side.

"Lord Yue, you ...... Are you serious? At this time, Zheng Kui's voice trembled a little.

Facing the excited Zheng Kui, Yue Yang Zhengse said: "Of course, Xia Guan will never joke about silver. ”

"Good...... Good put! Zheng Kui turned his head and glanced at Tang Xueying, and said with some excitement: "Lord Yue is worthy of being a model of public loyalty to the country, this official must play the court and ask for credit for Lord Yue!" ”

"Don't ...... Don't ...... Don't. Yue Yang's hand swung like a wheel, "Lord Zheng, the lower official has no enmity with you, you can't hurt the lower official like this!" ”

Seeing Yue Yang's anxious appearance, Zheng Kui remembered that if this matter was reported to the imperial court, it would be a blessing in disguise for Yue Yang. Oh, everyone is desperately shouting about poverty and tax evasion, but only you have not only paid the taxes in full, but even have spare money to support the local government, isn't this a clear statement to the emperor and those ministers in the court, people here are stupid and have more money? This kind of thing is originally meant to "do good deeds without leaving a name", do you think you don't die fast enough with such fanfare?

Thinking of this, Zheng Kui patted his head with some annoyance, and said with some embarrassment: "Alas...... At this time, it was indeed the official who was not thoughtful for a while, and Meng Lang was too much. It's still thoughtful! ”

Zheng Kui, who got a sum of money out of thin air, looked at Yue Yang more and more pleasing at this time, it seems that the integrity officer under his command will not only earn money, but also has a lot of style, but it is worth making deep friends.

Seeing the satisfied looks on Zheng Kui and Tang Xueying's faces, Yue Yang also nodded secretly. No wonder others say that no matter what you do, it is the most effective way to open the way with silver, and this is indeed the case today...... (To be continued!)