"Lord Zhao, since Liu Zhang's heart is lucky, then my father will convince her, lest she frame us and protect each other!" Liu Zhang was not sentenced, and when the servants brought sticks to put them on her fingers, Li Yuntian opened his mouth to stop the punishment.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, the current situation is already under his control, so there is no need to punish Liu Zhang, and today's court trial is very noisy, which has aroused the attention of all walks of life, so he wants to completely defeat Liu Zhang's in front of everyone, so that Liu Zhang's argument is irrefutable, and he has achieved an undeniable victory, and it is also a strong response to the main messenger behind the scenes.

"Lord Guogong has a point." When Zhao Muyu heard this, a trace of embarrassment suddenly appeared on his face, and he waved his hand at the messenger standing beside Liu Zhang's side and motioned for them to retreat.

The reason why Zhao Muyu felt embarrassed was because Li Yuntian's trial method was completely different from his, not to use punishment to force the criminal to admit guilt, but to use detailed and conclusive evidence to make the criminal confess, and the two were judged with a higher ability to try the case.

Although Zhao Muyu was overwhelmed by Li Yuntian in the trial, Zhao Muyu did not feel annoyed, after all, Li Yuntian served as the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at a young age and became the official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and successfully tried the Jingtongcang case and the Lianghuai Yandao corruption case and other major cases that shocked the whole country, and his talent has been recognized by the government and the opposition, so it is normal for him to lose in the hands of Li Yuntian.

Although Li Yuntian's qualifications in the officialdom are not as deep as Zhao Muyu's, his status in the officialdom, especially his civil official position, is higher than Zhao Muyu's, and he can be said to be the leader of the Daming scholar and doctor class, which makes Zhao Muyu able to accept the scene in front of him calmly.

Different from other prefects of the Ming Dynasty, because it is the official yamen where the two capitals are located, the Shuntianfu Yin and Yingtianfu Yin have prominent positions, and the grade is the third grade, which is two levels higher than the general four-grade prefect.

Among them, Shuntianfu is because it is the location of the Jingshi, so it has a more transcendent status, according to the Ming custom, the yamen of the three products is sealed with copper, and Shuntianfu is sealed with silver to highlight its special status.

Although the Ming Dynasty later established the Governor of Zhili, the territory of the Shuntian Mansion appeared in the jurisdiction of the Governor of Zhili, but the Shuntian Mansion Yin and the Governor of Zhili did not have a subordinate relationship, and the area outside the city wall of the capital was jointly controlled by the Governor of Zhili and the Governor of Shuntianfu.

Among the civil officials of Zhengsanpin, although Zhao Muyu's Shuntian Mansion Yin is at the same level as the right deputy capital of the Imperial Palace that Li Yuntian once served, according to the ranking rules of the Ming Dynasty, the Shuntian Mansion Yin must be located behind the right deputy capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

According to the ranking law of the Ming Dynasty, if you do not consider the rank, from high to low, it is the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple and the Department of General Administration.

Therefore, Li Yuntian can make Zhao Muyu, who is the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, bow down, which shows that his position in the Ming Dynasty has been quite stable.

"Dong Youcai, you just said that the prince was tyrannical and tyrannical in Jiaozhi according to the Jiaozhi tax rate, but did you forget it or didn't want to mention it, or did you not know about Jiaozhi's 'three exemptions and two halves'?"

To everyone's surprise, Li Yuntian didn't pay attention to Liu Zhang, who was already panicked, but turned to Dong Youcai, who was kneeling beside him with a pale face, and asked in a deep voice quietly.

"Three frees and two halves?" Dong Youcai was slightly stunned when he heard this, and his eyes showed a dazed look, obviously he didn't know what Li Yuntian was talking about.

Zhao Muyu and the officials of the Three Law Divisions who heard the trial also heard about the "three exemptions and two halves" for the first time, so they all looked at Li Yuntian curiously, wondering what it was.

As for the people outside the hall, they don't know the meaning of "three exemptions and two halves", and they whisper in private, and it is impossible to know what it means literally.

"Have you ever heard of 'three frees and two halves'?" Li Yuntian saw that everyone at the scene looked puzzled, so he turned to the dozen or so businessmen standing in front of the crowd outside the hall, and asked in a deep voice.

"Grandpa Yuguo, the villain used to hear from the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce that if you go to Jiaozhi to do business, you will be exempted from taxes for the first three years, and the taxes will be halved in the next two years, I don't know if that's what it means."

More than a dozen businessmen couldn't help but glance at each other when they heard this, and a blank look appeared in their eyes, and the middle-aged businessman with a big belly who was standing at the front hesitated for a moment and replied tentatively.

"Three years of tax exemption?" Hearing this, everyone at the scene couldn't help but be taken aback, there seems to be no place in the Ming Dynasty in the two capitals and thirteen provinces that dares to exempt the tax for three years at once like Jiaozhi, and the tax will be halved for the next two years.

In fact, at the beginning, it was "two exemptions and three halves", that is to say, the first two years were exempted from commercial tax, half of the commercial tax was collected from the third to the fifth year, and the full amount was collected in the sixth year, so as to support the businessmen to concentrate funds to open the local market in Jiaozhi.

However, Li Yuntian soon adjusted this preferential policy and made further concessions, changing the "two exemptions and three halves" to "three exemptions and two halves", that is, businessmen are exempt from commercial tax for the first three years of investment in Jiaozhi business, half of the commercial tax will be collected in the fourth and fifth years, and the full amount will be levied again in the sixth year.

After a five-year grace period, the business of those merchants in Jiaozhi will be on the right track, and on the surface, it seems that the local yamen in Jiaozhi has suffered a loss, and has lost five years of taxes, but in the long run it is an important measure to promote the economic development of Jiaozhi.

After all, Jiaozhi is a poor and backward remote area for the Ming Dynasty, and in Li Yuntian's view, the government's financial resources are limited, and it is difficult to promote the development of the local economy by relying on the government alone, so it is necessary to attract foreign funds.

Compared with the two capitals and thirteen provinces, Jiaozhi is not attractive to businessmen, so Li Yuntian can only start from the business policy to arouse the interest of those businessmen, and tax reduction and exemption is one of the most important measures.

As a matter of fact, Li Yuntian not only gave huge preferential treatment to those businessmen who went to Jiaozhi to invest in terms of taxes, but also improved the status of businessmen, and established business associations in various state capitals of Jiaozhi, which had the right to raise and complain to the Department of Commerce of Jiaozhi, and the Department of Commerce of Jiaozhi would provide them with shelter.

It is precisely by relying on the various preferential policies provided by Li Yuntian that more and more businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River have been attracted to Jiaozhi, which has played an important role in promoting the economic development of Jiaozhi, while the businessmen in the north have gone to Jiaozhi to do business because they are too far away from Jiaozhi.

In Li Yuntian's view, his case involving Liu Ren this time was actually a good advertising opportunity, so he publicized Jiaozhi's excellent business environment with great fanfare at the court trial to attract more businessmen to invest in Jiaozhi.

Because the tax policy of "three exemptions and two halves" in Jiaozhi is different from the tax policy of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian adopted a low-key approach in order to avoid attracting the criticism of the yamen of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, otherwise he will definitely be regarded by the outside world as a hypocrite who is happy to achieve great success, sell his reputation and reputation, and curry favor with businessmen at the expense of the imperial court's taxes, and there will be a lot of trouble, which will be very unfavorable to the development of Jiaozhi.

Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, this truth Li Yuntian deeply believes, so he will not publicize the preferential tax policy of Jiaozhi with great fanfare.

Moreover, Li Yuntian was worried that once the preferential tax policy of Jiaozhi was officially announced, the local yamen of the two capitals and thirteen provinces would boycott it in the name of stabilizing the local business order, and Emperor Xuande would abolish the preferential policies such as "three exemptions and two halves" in Jiaozhi.

Besides, after the Jiaozhi rebellion was pacified, there were many holes and all kinds of waste, only those big businessmen with a lot of money had the ability to come to invest, and those small and medium-sized businessmen did not have this strength even if they wanted to do business in Jiaozhi, so the businessmen who came to Jiaozhi to do business nine years ago in Xuande were mainly big businessmen, and basically they were introduced by friends to try their luck in Jiaozhi.

However, after more than six years of development, the economy of Cochin is on the right track, and the demand for business is growing rapidly, which provides opportunities for small and medium-sized businessmen to do business.

Although Li Yuntian could not take the initiative to reveal the preferential tax policy of Jiaozhi to the outside world, he could passively release the news, so that the local governments of the two capitals and thirteen provinces would not be able to say anything, but would sympathize with Li Yuntian because of the poor economic environment in Jiaozhi and the high tax rate he was forced to charge, which is commonly known as "taking advantage of the situation".

Li Yuntian took advantage of the momentum of Liu Ren's case to take the opportunity to publicize Jiaozhi's economic policies to the outside world, which would surely attract a large number of businessmen to take risks in Jiaozhi.

It is worth mentioning that the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has set up a silver account, and Li Yuntian is ready to let it issue low-interest loans to businessmen who need funds to solve the problem of insufficient funds for those businessmen, which is unprecedented in the business world of Daming.

Even Ah Qiu and Fang Liang would never have thought that the two of them had tried their best to design a bureau for Li Yuntian this time, but instead gave Li Yuntian an excellent opportunity to promote the preferential tax policies of Jiaozhi.

"Dong Youcai, you sue my father, you have only been in Jiaozhi for three years, and you are still in the period of tax exemption, where do your tax seals come from?"

Under the surprised gaze of everyone at the scene, Li Yuntian looked coldly at Dong Youcai, whose forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and asked in a deep voice with a cold expression, this mistake is undoubtedly fatal for Dong Youcai.

To be exact, it was Ah Qiu and Fang Liang who made this mistake, but it is no wonder that the two of them, because of the remote location of Jiaozhi and the great economic situation, the businessmen who went to Jiaozhi to do business were busy expanding their business, and basically no one returned to their hometowns.

In this way, few people in the thirteen provinces of Jiaozhi know about the implementation of preferential tax policies, and Ah Qiu and Fang Liang are busy with official business on weekdays, so it is naturally impossible to notice this.

Facing Li Yuntian's questioning, Dong Youcai was speechless for a while and didn't know how to answer, because he didn't know that Jiaozhi would have such a bizarre tax policy, and cold sweat rolled down his cheeks.